Ugandan Economist and Author: Elly Twineyo-Kamigusha couldn’t have said it better!
When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount, bury the horse and get a living horse. However, in Africa more advanced strategies are often employed, such as;
- Buying a stronger whip
- Appointing a committee to study the horse
- Changing riders
- Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses
- Lowering the standards so that the dead horse can be included
- Re-classifying the dead horse as “living impaired”
- Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse
- Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed
- Providing additional funding to increase dead horse’s performance
- Rewriting the expected performance requirement for all horses
- Promoting the dead horse to supervisory position