What can Africa learn from the Ferguson Protests.

Nilofer Merchant, a contributor to the hbr.org, offers an interesting perspective, on the recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri, US, in which a black teenager was reportedly shot by a white police officer. While showing that that race relations in the US are still a delicate issue, Merchant views the Chief of Police of Ferguson, Missouri, not as a cop, but as a failed leader.
“To start, Chief Thomas Jackson no longer has jurisdiction over his city’s security; the Governor of Missouri has asked his state Highway Patrol captain Ronald S. Johnson to take over. This comes after a national outcry against the police response to protests in the aftermath of the shooting on Saturday of 18-year-old