Mwenye ufahamu wa hii speech tafadhali....when Am looking at Africaa

Mwenye ufahamu wa hii speech tafadhali....when Am looking at Africaa

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kinya said:
Tungekuwa na maprof kama lumumba wawili tunge kuwa mbali sanaa
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hawa maprof. waliopo wamekuwa corrupted na rushwa na mfumo wa ccm kina bana,bashiru ally,na yule mwenye asili ya kihindi alieendesha darasa la katiba mpya itv. Mwisho akajulikana anataka kutushawishi serikali mbili (jina nimelisahau)
 
kikonyoro said:
hawa maprof. waliopo wamekuwa corrupted na rushwa na mfumo wa ccm kina bana,bashiru ally,na yule mwenye asili ya kihindi alieendesha darasa la katiba mpya itv. Mwisho akajulikana anataka kutushawishi serikali mbili (jina nimelisahau)
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prof. isa shivji
 
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hii iko katika maandishi nimeifuma mahali. ila sio tamu kama ya sauti.
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The Vice Chancellor of
the University of Dar es
Salaam, Prof. Rwekaza
Mukandala, the
MwalimuNyerere distinguished
Professor,
Penina Mlama, fellow
academics, ladies and
gentlemen. I am happy to join
with you today on the occasion
of the commemoration of
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage
Nyerere.
At the very outset, we
must commence these
proceedings by remembering
the immortal words of
Mwalimu Nyerere, spoken on
the 25 th day of May, 1963 in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where
he said:
“…We did not come here
to discover whether we
all want a free Africa.
Even the greatest
enemies of African unity
know that the one thing
on which there can be
no doubt that the whole
of Africa speaks with
one sincere voice, it is
our desire to see an
Africa completely freed
from foreign domination
and racialism. We came
here to find out what we
should all do now in
order to bring about the
final liberation of
Africa.
We did not come here to
discover whether we
want Africa unity.
Again, even our enemies
know that we sincerely
desire unity. It is their
fear of the consequences
to them of complete
African unity, which
makes them emphasize
our differences and
hope-wishfully- that
these differences will
make it impossible for
Africa to unite. No, we
did not come here to
find out whether we
desire unity. We came
here to find out our
common denominator in
our approach to African
unity…” [1]
Mwalimu and his
contemporaries such as Kwame
Nkrumah of Ghana, Modibo
Keita of Mali, Ahmed Sekou
Toure of Guinea, Patrice
Lumumba of Congo, Milton
Obote of Uganda, Jomo
Kenyatta of Kenya,
SamNujoma of Namibia,
Nelson Mandela and many
others may be gone and it is
equally true that their vision
may have been blurred by the
passage of time, but the truth
is that Africa must remember
them and go back to the basics
which they had identified so
ably, but which we have
ignored so blatantly.
Fifty (50) years since
most African countries
attained political
independence, Africa still
remains ravaged by poverty,
disease, famine, violence and
death.
These issues have been
taken as the reflection of
Africa’s identity and pickled
into the conscious and sub-
conscious minds of her people
over the centuries. She has
been diagnosed as suffering
from what has been described
as the African crises [2] , which
term in the political lexicon,
refers to any of the problems
faced by the African continent.
They call the Third
World the lazy man’s
purview; the sluggishly
slothful and languorous
prefecture. In this realm
people are sleepy,
dreamy, torpid,
lethargic, and therefore
indigent—totally
penniless, needy,
destitute, poverty-
stricken, disfavored, and
impoverished. In this
demesne, as they call it,
there are hardly any
discoveries, inventions,
and innovations. Africa
is the trailblazer. Some
still call it “the dark
continent” for the light
that flickers under the
tunnel is not that of
hope, but an
approaching train. And
because countless keep
waiting in the way of the
train, millions die and
many more remain
decapitated by the day.
[3]
All these definitions of
Africa have eroded her true
identity to this day and even as
Africa celebrates 50 years of
the creation of the
Organization of African Union
(now the African Union), we
must contend with this painful
question about our identity. In
the words of one of the great
Ghanaians, Dr. JE Kwegyir
Aggrey said:
My people of Africa, we
are created in the image
of God but men have
made us think we are
chickens, and we still
think we are, but we are
eagles.
In both the political and
academic press, the so called
‘African crisis/problems’ are
usually defined in the
economic terms, ignoring the
core problem from which all
other problems stem; mind-
set.
The role of the mindset
in spurring or deterring
Africa’s economic, social and
cultural advancement has been
ignored, despite the fact that it
has been, and continues to be
at the heart of Africa’s past,
present and future
experiences, particularly Pan-
Africanism.
History of Africa and Early
Shaping of the African mind
Against common belief,
the history of Africa did not
begin in slavery and despite
the peculiarity, horror and
duration of enslavement of
Africans, slavery occupies a
minor time-frame in the over
120,000 years of Africa’s
history. The slave mentality
therefore was a strategy used
to psychologically conquer and
subdue Africans.
Many people have this
view of Africa sitting still and
being imposed up from
outside. They forget that Africa
was an active trade partner
with Arabia, and China. They
forget because the forces that
plotted against Africa knew
that the only way to keep
Africans subdued was by
overcoming them in the mind.
Indeed, in the words of Steve
Biko, “the most potent
weapon of the oppressor is
the mind of the oppressed.”
This age-old weapon
has been used on Africa to
drain her of her rich history
and strip her of her identity,
heritage and pride. The
Eurocentric habit of
"tribalizing" Africa and
portraying it as a dark, pagan,
licentious, unorganized
continent that is basically
emotive and the legacy of
washing out Africa's historical
record can be summed up by
the racist words of the Scottish
philosopher David Hume:
I am apt to suspect the
Negroes to be naturally
inferior to the Whites.
There scarcely ever was
a civilized nation of that
complexion, nor even
any individual, eminent
either in action or in
speculation. No
ingenious manufacture
among them, no arts, no
sciences.
The western superiority
complex was further captured
in the words of the former
South African president P.W.
Botha who in a secret speech
delivered in 1985 to his
Cabinet said in part:
…[So] brothers and
sisters, let us join hands
to fight against this
black devil. I appeal to
all Afrikaners to come
out with any creative
means of fighting this
war. Surely God cannot
forsake his own people
whom we are. By now
everyone of us has seen
it practically that the
Blacks cannot rule
themselves. Give them
guns and they will kill
each other. They are
good in nothing else but
making noise, dancing,
marrying many wives
and indulging in sex. Let
us all accept that the
Black man is the symbol
of poverty, mental
inferiority, laziness and
emotional
incompetence…
This mentality was
imposed on Africans as slavery
and colonialism set in and
pain became the continent’s
default position. From the 7 th
Century, Arab trade
within sub-Saharan Africa led
to a gradual colonization
of East Africa,
around Zanzibar and other
bases while early European
expeditions concentrated on
colonizing previously
uninhabited islands such as
the Cape Verde Islands and
São Tomé Island, or
establishing coastal forts as a
base for trade. [4]
Established empires,
notably Britain, Portugal and
France, had already claimed
for themselves vast areas of
Africa and Asia, and emerging
imperial powers like Italy and
Germany had done likewise on
a smaller scale.
With the dismissal of
the aging Chancellor
Bismarck by Kaiser Wilhelm II,
the relatively orderly
colonization became a frantic
scramble. The 1885 Berlin
Conference, initiated by
Bismarck to establish
international guidelines for the
acquisition of African
territory, formalized this "New
Imperialism".
To this day, Africa
remains the only continent
whose Sovereign States are still
referred to as Anglophone,
Francophone, Lusophone or
Arabophone, in an effort to
define her continued
subservience to former
colonial powers and other
post-colonization powers like
USA, Russia and China.
Inferiority complex and
low self esteem were the
products of these systems of
definition, and Africans were
made and indeed forced to
believe that they would
amount to nothing and could
do nothing on their own. They
were even denied the right to
dream and were taught to hate
themselves, no wonder
negative ethnicity is the fastest
growing ideology in Africa.
Negative ethnicity has
been a mental weapon the
colonizers used to divide and
subdue Africans. Kenya’s
KoigiwaWamwere captures
this well in his book, ‘ Towards
Genocide in Kenya’ as follows:
To each community
negative ethnicity is
glorified as savior and
destroyer of enemies.
But because it promises
the destruction of all
communities, negative
ethnicity is the divider
of all and a savior of
none. Once all
communities are
isolated from one
another, the
propagators of negative
ethnicity are free to
promise each salvation-
through the destruction
of others.
As a result of
colonialism and imperialism,
Africa lost not only its
sovereignty, but also control of
its natural resources like gold
and rubber. Europeans
justified this using the concept
of the White Man's Burden, an
obligation to "civilize" the
peoples of Africa , a mentality
they gladly held and
perpetuated.
Press for Freedom and Rise
of Pan-Africanism
Africans
however,begun to realize that
the state of slavery and
colonization was not a natural
state as they had been brought
to believe. The period after
World War II in the 19 th
Century saw the rise of
Africans against colonialism
andthe press for freedom
begun with growing
independence movements,
indigenous political parties
and trade unions.
By the 1930s, a small
elite of leaders educated in
Western universities and
familiar with ideas such as self-
determination, arose. These
leaders, including
leading nationalists such
as Jomo
Kenyatta (Kenya), Kwame
Nkrumah (Ghana), Léopold
Sédar Senghor (Senegal),
and Félix Houphouët-
Boigny (Côte d'Ivoire), and
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere who
we celebrate today, came to
lead the struggles for
independence.
The mindset and
posture of these trail-blazers
was the reason why the
colonialists could no longer
hold fort in Africa. These
nationalists were clear about
the future of Africa and with
them came the rise of Pan-
Africanism, whose core stress
was the need for ‘ collective
self-reliance ’. The hegemony
of these leaders is reflected in
the words of Ghana’s Kwame
Nkrumah who in calling for
urgent change said:
“We cannot afford to
pace our needs, our
development, our
security, to the gait of
camels and donkeys. We
cannot afford not to cut
down the overgrown
bush of outmoded
attitudes that obstruct
our path to the modern
open road of the widest
and earliest
achievement of economic
independence and the
raising up of the lives of
our people to the highest
level.” [5]
Even in the absence of
modern day communication
technology like social media,
there was connectivity of
purpose with one message-
freedom, from Ghana with
Kwame Nkrumah to Mali with
Modibo Keita and South Africa
with Nelson Mandela, from
Guinea with Ahmed
SekouToure to Congo with
Patrice Lumumba and Namibia
with Sam Nujoma, and from
Kenya with Jomo Kenyatta to
Tanzania with Mwalimu Julius
Nyerere.
Aware of the long term
post-independence
colonization plan, he (Kwame
Nkrumah) in May 24, 1963 in
Addis Ababa continued to say:
…on this continent, it
has taken us long to
discover that the
struggle against
colonialism does not end
with the attainment of
national independence.
Independence is the
prelude to a new and
more informed struggle
for the right to conduct
our own economic and
social affairs;to
construct our society
according to our
aspirations unhampered
by crushing and
humiliating neo-
colonialist controls and
interferences…
He called Africans to
unite or perish but his
contemporaries did not listen
to him and because of that,
today Somalia is struggling to
regain its status as a sovereign
state, Ethiopia is still emerging
from the Dergue regime, South
Sudan is again up in arms on
ethnic lines as neo-colonialists
siphon the oil away while
Congo, Central African
Republic and Libya and others
are unstable.
Today, to avoid pain,
our young Africans have died
in the Mediterranean Sea
while others camp in western
embassies begging, wailing
and kicking as they are
thrown out in pursuit of the
“almighty Green Card”, which
in actual fact is nothing but
uncertainty and neo-slavery.
This is in exact contrast
to what happened a century
ago when our young African
men and women at a place
called ‘ the point of no return ’,
gave spirited fights, refusing to
go to the west too be used as
tools of labour to convert
Europe and America to new
industrial giants. This reflects
how much the west have
subdued Africa in the mind.
We ignored the Pan-
African vision and now we are
neo-colonized under the guise
of education and trade but as
usual we appear not to see
because of the posture we have
chosen to take is that of the
proverbial ostrich.
In education, while
many African countries have
built many universities, there
is no care given to what our
markets need and to the future
of the world and even the elite
and African intelligentsia have
no faith in their education
system, preferring to send
their children “oversees”,
depending on who colonized
them. This is what Carter G
Woodson referred to as the
‘ Mis-education of the Negro’.
In the national
universities, the young
Africans have adopted a cargo-
cult mentality described by
Chinua Achebe as:“The belief
by backward people that the
things they desire will come to
their port of hope without any
effort on their part”.
The young people
spend time on frivolities of
social media, preferring to
take the short cuts and cheat
in exams, leading to a
generation of professionals
without professionalism and
skill.
Contrary to the desire
of the Pan-African founding
fathers for self determination
and right to construct our
society according to our
aspirations, the youth have
been mentally subdued and
there is no more emphasis on
African aspirations and values
being cultured in them while
in school.
Instead they have
become the zombies of the
west through modern
telecommunication and
technology, incapable of
managing real issues in their
contexts.
In health, we have built
hospitals but when we are sick
those who can afford seek
treatment in the land of the
erstwhile colonizers, sending a
clear message that we still
consider them superior.
In sports, we still
marvel and Europe and
America and celebrate foreign
victories while the potential in
our young men and women
lies fallow and eventually
wastes away in parties and
drug addiction.
In agriculture and
industrialization, the words of
the renown scholar Prof Ali
Mazrui best captures Africa’s
status. He says that: “Africa
produces that which it does not
consume and consumes that
which it does not produce”.
Instead of subduing the
land, the land has subdued us
and as we complain of drought
and famine in our arid
regions, nations like Israel
have turned their deserts into
oases of food production.
Despite having the best
climate and natural(soil)
resource, Africa cannot even
feed herself. We have become
perennial beggars who in the
words of the former Prime
Minister of the United
Kingdom, are “ a scar on the
conscience of the world ”. We
blindly consume what other
civilizations have discarded
and in the process kill our
capacity to produce and our
industries.
Africa is the richest
continent in terms of natural
resources with gold, uranium,
cobalt, oil and with
universities offering
engineering courses but due to
the “chicken mentality” we
cannot exploit our resources.
Instead, it is Tullow and
British Petroleum and Shell, Elf
and Shell, Exon, Chevron,
Total and the Johny-come-
lately Chinese companies that
exploit the resources for us
and pay themselves with more
than half of the same.
In arts and literature
and matters as mundane as
fashion, we do not recognize
our own, and it is not until the
west recognizes us that we feel
worthy. Our heroes are Tom
Cruise instead of Olu Jacobs;
Angelina Jolie instead of Ugezu
J Ugezu and Kenya’s Lupita
Nyong’o only acquires value
when the American film
industry recognizes her talent.
Until the Nobel Peace Prize
recognizes our Africans of
repute, they remain
uncelebrated.
In a world where
information technology rules
lives, Africa is denied the right
to tell its own stories as the air
is filled with western media
and philosophies. Africa
cannot even tell its stories
except infantile gibberish of
the political class. It used to be
said that until the lions have
their own historians, it is the
exploits of the hunters that will
forever be talked about and not
the bravery of the lion.
We can go on and on
wailing but there is no point in
so doing as one thing is crystal
clear, that Africans must have
a monumental mental shift,
failing which she will remain
where she is-an underdog of
the world.
It is this generation that must
ask, “For how long will we
behave like children of a lesser
God?”
Now is the time to
introspect, to go back to the
drawing board from where
our minds were corrupted and
twisted. There is a sense of
great urgency for us to act and
change the way we think. In
the words of Martin Luther
King Jnr,
“…this is no time to
engage in the luxury of cooling
off or to take the tranquilizing
drug of gradualism but a time
to act with the fierce urgency of
the now.”
Renewing the African Mind
The way to renewing the
African mind is first by
embracing our identity as
exhorted by Charles Brandon
Boynton who said:
My advice then to the
black man would be, be
not ashamed of your
race or colour. Dare to
be a black man, and
accept the position that
God has assigned you
and do not believe that
it is an inferior or
degrading one. Be a
black man. It is
honourable to be a black
man as it is a white one.
Aim to make yourself
not a white man, but a
perfect black man, have
faith in your race, in its
capability and in its
future. Give your
presence, your influence,
your support to our own
race and colour.
Once we internally
reconcile with who we are
come to a place of inner
confluence, we are able to
effect change on our external
environment in terms of
spurring Africa’s economic,
social and cultural
advancement.
We must then re-
awaken the eagle nature that
was buried in the “chicken
mentality”, look up take a leap
of faith and fly, never looking
back as advised by Dr. Aggrey
in his analogy.
We must adopt the
same posture of mind as that
of Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini
Zuma, the President of the
African Union Commission
who sees a new Africa or
rather has a new lense through
which she sees Africa, not in
the Eurocentric definition but
as the next utopia.
Speaking in Addis Ababa
in January 30, 2014 Dr. Zuma
in her imaginary letter to
Kwame Nkrumah written in
2063 (African Union vision
2063), she foresees an Africa
whose economy has grown to
be the third largest in the
world, whose politics has
stabilized, whose
infrastructure has greatly
improved with high speed
trains and electricity, Pan-
African companies and
industries and whose people
are happy and have self-belief,
having liberated themselves
from the perpetual complaint
mode.
However, while I
embrace Dr. Zuma’s vision and
enthusiasm, I am of the view
that lofty declarations in and
of themselves will not liberate
Africa. She is allowed to dream
but as I remember, even from
Martin Luther King Jnr, after
you dream you must wake up,
otherwise the dream remains
just that, a dream.
Effecting change in our
education system to embrace,
inculcate and reflect our
African ambitions and values
would ensure mentality change
in our posterity and ensure no
more poison of low self-esteem
flows in the veins of our
children.
The critical role of
values-based education right
from pre-school to post-
graduate studies cannot be
gainsaid. This encompasses the
informal education at home
where there must be a return
of values back into the African
households and homesteads.
Parents must find time to
breathe life into their children
and children must find time to
lend their ears to wisdom from
their elders.
A change in mind and
fortification of identity at this
stage would cause massive
national and ultimately the
continent. As is said, if
everyone sweeps their front
porch, the street remains
clean. Similarly if our children
are taught to value themselves,
and not take in and regurgitate
all the western media feeds
them, there will emerge a new
Africa, one that the founders
of Pan-Africanism saw from
afar and proclaimed.
Change in our world
view, strongly informed by a
fortified internal confluence
and confidence would
automatically impact our
economies as we would
become more conscious in the
kinds of agreements we enter
into with neo-colonizers,
questioning the reason and
long term impact behind every
deal.
An appreciation of our
human resource and
particularly the intelligentsia
so that our government
officials are chosen on the
basis of merit and
professionalism would go a
long way in transforming
Africa.
Further, our leaders
should surround themselves
with voices of reason that can
analyze the heart of things and
give the governments in Africa
sound advice.
The highbrows of
Africa, the stewards of
intellectualism and
progressiveness must no
longer be satisfied with lofty
cheques and frivolous quaffing
in pubs at the end of every
working day but reserve the
evenings for brainstorming, as
advised by Field Ruwe, a US-
based Zambian media
practitioner and author in his
article, ‘ You Lazy (Intellectual)
African Scum! If You Consider
Yourself Smart, Please Read
This ’.
Conclusion
Today, as we sit here
under the symbolic shadow of
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage
Nyerere, we must remember
the issues that he stood for.
I remember on the
occasion of Mwalimu’s 75 th
Birthday, under the editorial
guidance of Haroub Othman,
essays were published in
honour of Mwalimu under the
title, ‘Reflections on Leadership
in Africa Forty Years After
Independence’.
The issues that emerged
at that time included some of
the following: Critical elements
of a new democratic consensus
in Africa, leadership and the
dynamics of reform in Africa,
Vision of Leaders in the 21 st
Century: The Nyerere Legacy,
Leadership, Nationalism and
Forty Years of Ethnic Conflicts
in Africa, Presidential Oratory
for the Pan-African Cause: The
Nyerere Harangues among
others.
Today, the issues that
pre-occupied the writers then,
remain valid. Africa continues
to bleed in South Sudan,
Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Egypt
and many others and sadly, a
new specter perhaps more
pernicious has emerged. This
is the specter of terrorism,
whose executors kill and maim
indiscriminately.
Corruption has
assumed cancerous
proportions and its
debilitating impact can be seen
in many African countries.
I remember in 1995
when Mwalimu was asked by
the ruling Chama Cha
Mapinduzi to speak at the
delegates’ conference and to
elect a presidential candidate,
he said in Kiswahili to
underline his disgust at
corruption that:
“… Ikulu ni mahali
patakatifu,
sikuchaguliwa na
watanzania kuligeuza
pango la walanguzi… ”
Those words of Mwalimu have
even greater meaning today in
Africa where we celebrate
thieves and elect them into
public offices.
During his lifetime,
Mwalimu fought against
ethnicity and was recognized
the world over as the architect
of a country where the cancer
of ethnicity had been
conquered, a legacy that has
transcended his time and is
alive among the people of
Tanzania today.
He used to say and we
must remember this fondly
that,
“…umuhimu wa kabila katika
karne ya ishirini na moja ni
tambiko…”
Today, Africa is being torn
apart by ethnicity and we are
succumbing to it.
In the areas of
education, health and
agriculture, the great Mwalimu
was equally eloquent and
honest in his prescriptions. He
recognized that early that the
long term health of Africans
not only required but
demanded that Africa must be
self-sufficient.
As we speak, Africa
cannot feed herself, the quality
of education in Africa is
suspect and there is a sense in
which Africa is in a crisis that
demands urgent attention.
That is why we are
gathered here at Dar es Salaam
University at which Mwalimu
held many a debate, not to
philosophize, moralize and
intellectualize but to seek
solutions to the African plight.
I have no doubt in my
mind that if Mwalimu were
here today he would exhort us
to remember that the mind is
the standard of the man, that
Africans must change their
attitude; that Africans must
recognize that they are not
children of a lesser god, and
know that self-esteem is the
only avenue to self-realization
and I have no doubt that he
would have reminded us in
Kiswahili that, “ Mtaka cha
mvunguni, sharti ainame. ”
He would have
continued in Kiswahili, if only
to emphasize that, “ Jishinde
ushinde ” and would not have
stopped there, but would have
gone on, half warning us half
exhorting us with the Swahili
proverb, “ Mlilala handingwa
handingwa muwe macho
haambiwi tule. ”
If I was speaking in
Kenya, Uganda or Burundi,
there would have been wisdom
in translating the Swahili
proverb but not here, the
home of Kiswahili.
So as I conclude, permit
me to say that Africa will only
know her potential when her
sons and daughters undergo a
mental revolution that will
make them realize that the
battle today is the battle of the
mind and that René Descartes
was right, when he said; cogito
ergo sum - I think therefore
am I.
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS
 
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