You have heard of the Black Tax. But have you heard about the DYSFUNCTION TAX?If you do business in Africa at this point, you are unwittingly paying it big-time! On account of our lopsided, unreliable infrastructure and systems, the cost of doing business in Africa totters on being punitive. And especially so if you are involved in international business where your customer or partners are benchmarking against functional systems.By virtue of being situated in Africa, you have to realize your default position has set you up to look bad. Really bad. The delivery promises you make will most likely fail not because you or your company are incompetent but they will fall flat because the system you operate in is broken. I cannot count how many times I have turned away business when the stakes were high – and I knew better than to count on the third parties in my value chain to deliver. And I cannot count how many times I have been colored bad because I could not deliver on time (or at all) not because of a fault of mine or the company but a system that spits at its own and crushes dreams to smithereens.So much for the present hard truth. And my lament. TODAY IS AFRICA DAY. What’s your one wish (and prayer) for Africa?My one wish for Africa is that we will witness tangible change in my generation. That we will bequeath the generation after us a fully functional system that effectively competes on the global stage. Not mere talk that leads to penury.My prayer for Africa is that God would give my generation hope, opportunity and resolve enough to turn the tide. That we will not be labeled sell-outs. That God would stem the continued looting of Africa’s wealth by the continent’s “big-small” men and their cronies (local and foreign) who have turned entire countries into their personal fiefdoms, and their fellow citizens into beggars beholden to them.Let’s decree and prophesy to Africa. It starts with our proclamations.What’s your one wish and prayer for Africa?