What Is Wrong with Us? Why is it always somebody else’s fault?

The culture of blame has become our national pastimeThere is perhaps no continent where blame travels faster than responsibility.

Professor Douglas Boateng Chartered Director (UK) • Chartered Engineer (UK) • Fellow Institute of Directors (UK) • Fellow Ghana Institution of EngineeringFloods, filth, failing infrastructure, wasteful expenditure, and dangerous partisanship all expose one uncomfortable truth: Africa cannot solve problems that everyone believes belong to someone else.

As Africa’s first appointed Professor Extraordinaire in Supply Chain Management, he has consistently championed the integration of procurement, value chain, industrialisation strategy, and governance into national and continental development agendas, aligning practice with purpose and long-term impact.