Dear Editor,

Baldeo Persaud boldly advances the argument that the problems of Africa, generally, are due to corrupt leadership. While no one can and should dispute that corruption in several African nations is endemic as it is elsewhere, Mr Persaud’s broad statement is similar to many that are made in a local rag masquerading as a newspaper. They are unable or unwilling to separate bad or deficient parts from the whole in their inverse proportional compulsion to label and stereotype……