STRUGGLE HEROES, FOR WHAT? FOR WHO? AND WHY?

I'll only speak looking at my current domicile country and continent, that is. South Africa and Africa. For many years Africa was just one large mass of land not explored except only by the man who lived in it his whole life, the man who when was first seen, had no name, category or even class. He was studied for a number of years and he was found unique, well, only useful to work in the garden, underground the mines, in the agricultural fields, industrial areas and other places of hard labor. The African man could withstand many and harsh weather conditions, making him a great tool of work for the non-African who took him away from Africa.

A lot happened to the African man, cruel and worse, but, the African man conquered it all. Making it back home, some where publicly courageous in confronting what was their "enemy", and for that, other fellow Africans honored by placing them as leaders to speak out our lamentations on our behalf, then the generations coming later saw them as heroes who fought for us and liberated us from the non-African man's oppression and ill-treatment. But the African man had one weakness, ''being in possession of a high position'', he started wanting more than he could contain, biting pieces larger than can be chewed, simply, greed crawled in the heart of the African man.
Today Africa has some the world's longest serving presidents if not the world's oldest, it is very rare now to find a president in Africa who is younger than 40 years of age, if there is, then he'll be soon killed by power hungry old men or he is just an interim president. Our parliaments, worse! it almost looks like a hall from some retirement village or old age home.

So, I don't see why we have 'struggle heroes' because in so saying, this means our current generation is not capable of leadership and prospering our country, our continent.