Tanzania must have programmes designed to foster high-minded Economic agendas

[emperor]

I cannot go more public than I have so far. We can exchange more on many issues including the role of Elites through my Inbox.

But your english doesn't sound good... are you really in World Bank payroll? [emoji2]

 

[Warue]

First, I believe Tanzania lacks a purposeful elite. I don’t mean that the Tanzanian elite doesn’t have a purpose for its existence. Like elites everywhere, Tanzania’s top dogs are interested in their own self-preservation. Nothing wrong with that. Except self-preservation isn’t a national interest, or a noble purpose.

No people, state, country, or civilisation has ever become great without a great and purposeful elite. A purposeful elite defines the national interest and then forges the people’s zeitgeist to that end. There has to be convergence between the interests of the elite and those of the nation. Dissonance and divergence between the two creates infertility in all aspects of national life.

National elites study and understand the history of great civilisations. It’s through such study and reflection that elites create consensus on the purpose for the existence of the state. This requires deliberate investment in think-tanks, universities, and secret government programmes designed to foster high-minded agendas. It may even involve the creation of national syndicates beyond the visible eye.

Take China, for example. The People’s Republic didn’t just spring from nowhere to become a global behemoth. Another example is Israel. How a tiny country surrounded by states seeking its annihilation has dominated the Middle East is an object lesson about a purposeful elite.

And of course, I can’t forget strongman Lee Kwan Yew’s Singapore.
Do our elites care to study the history of great powers?
the most purposeful elites try to know everything about their people.

This knowledge has a purpose. It’s to digest and categorise a nation’s — a people’s — strengths and weaknesses. Especially important to understand is a nation’s weaknesses.

That’s because a state can’t become great unless it eliminates, or cuts down, on its weaknesses. Here, one must study the cultural attributes of the people.
Do they have a work ethic? Are they competitive? Do they like organisation? What types of authority and order do they respond to?

What are the nation’s weaknesses — bad weather, tough topography, small population, or an unschooled population?

You then build national projects to exploit your strengths and limit the weaknesses. Add the former and subtract the latter.

We are dumb copies of the European. My view is that cultural mental slavery has uprooted Tanzanians and suspended them into an unethical orbit.

We are moral dwarfs. We have been engineered by others for their benefits. That’s why we do not know how to act in our national interest. That’s why we cannibalise each other because we only know how to act in the personal interest.

This phenomenon isn’t dissimilar from the pedagogy of the oppressed.

The Elites must wake up, our Nation needs us more today than before.

If you are given a chance, what priorities would you take to reshape the country's direction?

 

[nankumene]

They first created a firm platform for human freedom, justice, and democracy; as a leverage for economic development.

that model does not work for third word countries,

 

[Gerald .M Magembe]

If you are given a chance, what priorities would you take to reshape the country's direction?

Its a good question but shall somehow conflict with the Government I advise from time to time when I am requested.

1) We need to put more efforts on Infrastructure development /improvement.

2) We need to be liberal in our public business and financial inclusion.

3) The Government is the capilist no one, we need to be deeply involved in big commercial projects including financing them.

4) The Government must be ready to take more international loans to finance public and private commercial projects, must be prudently.

5) The Government must take more responsibility and all attending risks on commercial crops marketing and post harvest industrial processes, then to privatise the activities after strong and irreversibly stability.

6) To take lead in low cost housing.

7) To take lead in NHIF funding and provision of public health.

And another 15 Nos economic action plan to follow..

 

[nankumene]

Mkapa said many african leaders are selfish, selfishness is what failing Africans,

 

[Tindo]

I cannot go more public than I have so far. We can exchange more on many issues including the role of Elites through my Inbox.

Mmhhh, do you know the meaning of not hiding yourself? You are a big liar.

 

[eliakeem]

But your english doesn't sound good... are you really in World Bank payroll? [emoji2]

Duuu
English vs WBG payroll!!

The myth of English vs knowledge.

 

[Chum Kane]

Congratulations Dr. I enjoyed reading your thread. The fools in here will attack you just because it gives them a thrill of being 'somebody'. Ignore them.

 

[An Entrepreneur]

Thanks a lot Brothers Gerald .M Magembe and Freddie Matuja for this brain food for us. This thread is thread of the year for me 🙏🙏

 

[Smart911]

Hakika, ngoja tuone...




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