Africans want education, health
care and honest government – in
that order, according to the MyWorld
2015 survey by the United Nations.
Better transport and roads also
feature among the top ten priorities.
The findings are supported by the
2014/2015 Afrobarometer survey
which found that the three most
important problems that Africans in
general wanted their governments to
address were unemployment (32.4%),
health (29.8%) and education (24%).
Rural Africans see better electricity
and roads as a first priority.
Respondents in 13 countries now
cite infrastructure as their most
pressing problem.
The two exceptions, according
to the African Development Bank’s
African Economic Outlook 2016,
are “Nigeria, which is facing the
Boko Haram insurgency, and South
Africa, which has a high urban crime
rate. Nearly one third of respondents
cited insecurity as a major national
problem”.
Affordable access to housing was
at the top of the list of concerns in the
Afrobarometer survey in three of the
wealthier African countries: Algeria,
Egypt and South Africa.
