Corruption is not only an African thing so we have to stop giving excuses. If our football was entraining, the government won't have any excuses to help out the sport.
Corruption is not the only thing, but it is the major thing. It is not just the government who are corrupt or can be corrupt, the governing body of the sport in some African countries have some corrupt officials who do not care about making the sporting environment in the country attractive enough to attract government interest to invest more.
Let me take the entertainment industry as an example, you can see ours are better than some other part of the world and that's because those in charge are delivering when it comes to quality production so they draw in fans and more revenue gets generated which is then use to make the sector up to standards.
The entertainment industry is more of an individual effort and effort of your own team which is you, your producers, manager, marketers and promoters etc. If there was a governing body controlling all entertainers and the content they can put out, it will not be as successful as it is today.
The Government are not doing more to make the various league to be competitive, corruption and favoritism wont let the leagues to grow. They hire coaches and call players based on connection and not on merit, and that's the corruption we are talking about here, other nations are corrupt too but they limit it when it comes to national interest, but in Africa we play with everything. that's why the football is not developing to ful potential