George Smiley
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- Oct 24, 2011
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Nasoma gazeti la Financial Times la leo onaonekana kuwa balozi wetu ameamua kuchukua reconciliatory tone baada ya Mtanzania mwenzetu kupigwa na wahindi huko Bangalore. Mwanzoni serikali ya Tanzania ilitoa tamko kali dhidi ya huu ubaguzi na vurugu wanaofanyiwa ndugu zetu lakini nashangaa Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje, Ndugu Mahiga hakumwita balozi wa India, Tanzania kujieleza na kuhusu haya madhila yanayotokea.
If anything ubalozi wa India ulipeleka a mere low ranking official pale foreign, hii inamaana serikali ya Tanzania haikulipa uzito hili suala na mbaya zaidi sitoshangaa kuona kuwa hata huyu balozi Kijazi kubadili statement na na ku tone down condemnation ya awali as if bosi wake ni mama Shushma Swaraja (waziri wa mambo ya nje wa India) na instructuions za nini cha kufanya zinatolewa zinatolea from Palatiala House, New Delhi na sio Kivukoni Front, Dar es Salaam
Sasa huyu balozi flip flop anafanya kazi kwa interests za nchi gani? Kwani ni dhahiri hana interests za Tanzania wala wananchi wa Tanzania. Na inaonekana ni stooge wa Wizara ya Mmabo ya Nje ya India na PR machine yao
Kwa habari zaidi soma hii article ya FT:
New Delhi’s courtship of Africa tested by violence
Modi’s hopes of ‘partnership for prosperity’ suffers blow after attack on Tanzanians in Bangalore
Global Insight
Apple should not be too excited over India[/paste:font]12 HOURS AGO
Anatomy of Arrogance: Balozi Kijazi aliyekaa kimadharau huku akiongea na waziri Angela Kairuki
6 HOURS AGO by: Amy Kazmin in New Delhi
Not long ago, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi hosted more than 40 African leaders for a glitzy jamboree to reinvigorate New Delhi’s drifting relations with Africa.
Historically, the two continents had strong commercial and cultural links, forged by Indian Ocean traders. Now, India wants access to Africa’s vast energy reserves and its expanding middle-class markets. But it is struggling to counter China’s clout on the continent.
Admitting India had not been “as attentive” to Africa as it should, Mr Modi called for a new “partnership for prosperity”. To strengthen frayed ties, he promised $10bn of concessional credit to Africa, and 50,000 scholarships for Africans to study in India, over the next five years.
But India’s courtship of Africa still faces formidable obstacles. Not least is the deep ambivalence of ordinary Indians towards Africans — especially the African students living in ever-greater numbers in their midst.
That stark reality was highlighted last week by a vicious mob attack on four Tanzanians — including a 21-year-old female student — in Bangalore, India’s high-tech capital.
The assault followed a fatal car accident in which a 35-year-old Indian pedestrian was killed in an incident involving a Sudanese driver. An angry mob set his car ablaze.
When the uninvolved Tanzanians drove past half an hour later, the mob attacked and their car was set ablaze. The woman’s shirt was ripped off and she and her friends were badly beaten.
As images of the bloodied students and charred car spread, John Kijazi, Tanzania’s high commissioner to India, was quick to call it a racist attack and demand tough action.
“She was attacked because she was black, just like the person who was driving the vehicle that caused the accident,” the diplomat told the Indian Express. “There is an element of mob justice to this, but there is also an element of racism.”
For its part, New Delhi swung into frenzied damage-limitation mode. Sushma Swaraj, the foreign minister, tweeted that she was “deeply pained over the shameful incident”.
Indian diplomats escorted Mr Kijazi to Bangalore to press for action and greater security for African students. Eventually, six Bangalore police officers were suspended, and arrests were made.
But New Delhi is adamant the attack was not racist, rather an “isolated case” of mistaken identity, fuelled by the fatal accident. It warned local media to “refrain from being judgmental”, lest they harm the country’s image.
Mr Kijazi softened his tone, too, later calling the violence “a case of friction” between two communities.
Yet few Africans – and thoughtful Indians – are convinced. “In the eyes of the mob, one dark-skinned African is as good as another,” wrote Indian novelist Sandip Roy.
Tanzanian parliament member Augustine Olle, who studied in Bangalore for four years himself, complained his compatriots in India are subject to “serious abuse”.
Indian treatment of visiting Africans has ruffled relations between the continents before. In 2013, Indian politicians in Goa publicly called Nigerians “wild animals” and “a cancer”, after Nigerians protesting against a compatriot’s death clashed with local police.
Goan villagers imposed a social boycott, refusing to rent them rooms or motorcycles, prompting official Nigerian warnings of repercussions for “one million Indians” living in their country.
There is an element of mob justice to this, but there is also an element of racism
In 2014, African diplomats protested after a Delhi politician led a midnight mob raid on the apartment of Ugandan women, who locals suspected of running a drugs and prostitution racket.
The women were manhandled by the mob, and forced to submit to urine tests, but no evidence of drugs or criminal activity was found.
Indians are highly colour-conscious among themselves, fuelling a big business in “fairness creams”. But discomfort with Africans runs deeper, rooted in old, colonial-era stereotypes of African society as barbaric and licentious.
China wrestled with this in the late 1980s, when there were huge clashes between Chinese and African students. But India can ill-afford such a conflagration in today’s connected world.
New Delhi’s courtship of Africa tested by violence - FT.com
If anything ubalozi wa India ulipeleka a mere low ranking official pale foreign, hii inamaana serikali ya Tanzania haikulipa uzito hili suala na mbaya zaidi sitoshangaa kuona kuwa hata huyu balozi Kijazi kubadili statement na na ku tone down condemnation ya awali as if bosi wake ni mama Shushma Swaraja (waziri wa mambo ya nje wa India) na instructuions za nini cha kufanya zinatolewa zinatolea from Palatiala House, New Delhi na sio Kivukoni Front, Dar es Salaam
Sasa huyu balozi flip flop anafanya kazi kwa interests za nchi gani? Kwani ni dhahiri hana interests za Tanzania wala wananchi wa Tanzania. Na inaonekana ni stooge wa Wizara ya Mmabo ya Nje ya India na PR machine yao
Kwa habari zaidi soma hii article ya FT:
New Delhi’s courtship of Africa tested by violence
Modi’s hopes of ‘partnership for prosperity’ suffers blow after attack on Tanzanians in Bangalore
Global Insight
Apple should not be too excited over India[/paste:font]12 HOURS AGO
Anatomy of Arrogance: Balozi Kijazi aliyekaa kimadharau huku akiongea na waziri Angela Kairuki
6 HOURS AGO by: Amy Kazmin in New Delhi
Not long ago, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi hosted more than 40 African leaders for a glitzy jamboree to reinvigorate New Delhi’s drifting relations with Africa.
Historically, the two continents had strong commercial and cultural links, forged by Indian Ocean traders. Now, India wants access to Africa’s vast energy reserves and its expanding middle-class markets. But it is struggling to counter China’s clout on the continent.
Admitting India had not been “as attentive” to Africa as it should, Mr Modi called for a new “partnership for prosperity”. To strengthen frayed ties, he promised $10bn of concessional credit to Africa, and 50,000 scholarships for Africans to study in India, over the next five years.
But India’s courtship of Africa still faces formidable obstacles. Not least is the deep ambivalence of ordinary Indians towards Africans — especially the African students living in ever-greater numbers in their midst.
That stark reality was highlighted last week by a vicious mob attack on four Tanzanians — including a 21-year-old female student — in Bangalore, India’s high-tech capital.
The assault followed a fatal car accident in which a 35-year-old Indian pedestrian was killed in an incident involving a Sudanese driver. An angry mob set his car ablaze.
When the uninvolved Tanzanians drove past half an hour later, the mob attacked and their car was set ablaze. The woman’s shirt was ripped off and she and her friends were badly beaten.
As images of the bloodied students and charred car spread, John Kijazi, Tanzania’s high commissioner to India, was quick to call it a racist attack and demand tough action.
“She was attacked because she was black, just like the person who was driving the vehicle that caused the accident,” the diplomat told the Indian Express. “There is an element of mob justice to this, but there is also an element of racism.”
For its part, New Delhi swung into frenzied damage-limitation mode. Sushma Swaraj, the foreign minister, tweeted that she was “deeply pained over the shameful incident”.
Indian diplomats escorted Mr Kijazi to Bangalore to press for action and greater security for African students. Eventually, six Bangalore police officers were suspended, and arrests were made.
But New Delhi is adamant the attack was not racist, rather an “isolated case” of mistaken identity, fuelled by the fatal accident. It warned local media to “refrain from being judgmental”, lest they harm the country’s image.
Mr Kijazi softened his tone, too, later calling the violence “a case of friction” between two communities.
Yet few Africans – and thoughtful Indians – are convinced. “In the eyes of the mob, one dark-skinned African is as good as another,” wrote Indian novelist Sandip Roy.
Tanzanian parliament member Augustine Olle, who studied in Bangalore for four years himself, complained his compatriots in India are subject to “serious abuse”.
Indian treatment of visiting Africans has ruffled relations between the continents before. In 2013, Indian politicians in Goa publicly called Nigerians “wild animals” and “a cancer”, after Nigerians protesting against a compatriot’s death clashed with local police.
Goan villagers imposed a social boycott, refusing to rent them rooms or motorcycles, prompting official Nigerian warnings of repercussions for “one million Indians” living in their country.
There is an element of mob justice to this, but there is also an element of racism
In 2014, African diplomats protested after a Delhi politician led a midnight mob raid on the apartment of Ugandan women, who locals suspected of running a drugs and prostitution racket.
The women were manhandled by the mob, and forced to submit to urine tests, but no evidence of drugs or criminal activity was found.
Indians are highly colour-conscious among themselves, fuelling a big business in “fairness creams”. But discomfort with Africans runs deeper, rooted in old, colonial-era stereotypes of African society as barbaric and licentious.
China wrestled with this in the late 1980s, when there were huge clashes between Chinese and African students. But India can ill-afford such a conflagration in today’s connected world.
New Delhi’s courtship of Africa tested by violence - FT.com
