Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has said African countries are still passing down poverty from one generation to another.
While delivering a lecture to military officers from Botswana in Uganda at State House on Saturday, Museveni said it is time Africa undergoes a change.
He said there needs to be a social economic transformation to have a new society.
"I emphasize the need for a new society (principle three is social-economic transformation). We cannot have a peasant producing another peasant, and you think you are doing a good job," he said.
Museveni said to achieve this, African countries should join the money economy.
The Uganda President added that social-economic change can be achieved through four sectors of wealth creation.
These are commercial agriculture, manufacturing, services (like hotels, and transport) and ICT.
He said the fight against sectarianism and the focus is on the four principles of Patriotism, Pan-Africanism, Socio-economic Transformation and Democracy.
Museveni said by focusing on the four principles, Uganda built a strong army.
"The stability we enjoy is due to Uganda's ideological and philosophical shift. We rejected politics of identity and started advising our people about the politics of interest," he added.
The President said the crisis holding back African countries is loss of money and loss of jobs.
"When you export unprocessed coffee, you get two and a half dollars but if the coffee is processed outside for what you got two and a half dollars somebody will get 40 dollars, so you can see where the crisis in Africa is. We are struggling with that, adding value," he said.
