Home My problem with Africans using Lee Kuan Yew as a stick to beat “African leaders” with is your lack of consistency. You hold him up as an example of a leader who did the things African leaders don’t do, but you forget that to get Singapore to the point t he left it, he ran it as a laser-focused 1-party state with a ruthless focus on a single developmental strategy that nobody was allowed to oppose or deviate from.
27 August 2026
My problem with Africans using Lee Kuan Yew as a stick to beat “African leaders” with is your lack of consistency. You hold him up as an example of a leader who did the things African leaders don’t do, but you forget that to get Singapore to the point t he left it, he ran it as a laser-focused 1-party state with a ruthless focus on a single developmental strategy that nobody was allowed to oppose or deviate from.
