Nimetumiwa hii na rafiki yangu na kwa kweli nimeipenda japo ukweli unauma. Sasa tumlaumu nani na tufanye nini ili tujinasue?
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I found your cover story, "Carving up Africa" (NA Feb), interesting and thought provoking. While it's a shame that several African countries will be celebrating their golden jubilees this year with not much to show for it, a lot of issues need to be put into perspective to understand the continent's problems.
At the time of independence, many African governments inherited working systems – from constitutions to physical infrastructure. How many countries today can boast of having invested and improved their existing infrastructure?
The often-touted idea of a borderless Africa will continue to be a pipe dream unless Africans deliberately decide to free themselves from the burden of colonialisation.
of raw materials for others.
African unity can only be achieved through trade. The current arrangement where, for example, Sudan is exporting its oil to China and the neighbouring East African countries are importing their oil from the Middle East, is ridiculous.
But every country must strive to produce something, that is the only way they could sit at a table and negotiate an equitable trade arrangement with others and among themselves. Without this, we will just be creating loopholes for smuggling and the dumping of goods imported from elsewhere.
We can complain and apportion blame but we can't change history; however our destiny is in our own hands. There is never going to be another colonialisation to correct all the wrongs done. We should pick up the pieces and move on.
by Moses O. Oremo. Dakar, Senegal
Infrastructures: They are not our infrastructures! we have not built them by our own currencies, all infrastrures that are built based on aids or funds from WB/AIMF they are likely to suffer the same. Hall 2 and 5 at UDSM they are good example, Apart that these buildings are very important but they are also situated where the heart of 'brainy people are' what about bridges and other structures that are existing in Rukwa, Matombo village! Mali ya urithi siku zote haidumu
I think we refused to be free. Ni kama mtumwa aliekuja kukombolewa na ndugu zake hata mfalme alipompa ruksa ya kuondoka alikataa ili aendelee kula vonono kwa Mfalme. Matokeo yake mfalme alipokufa yeye ndie alichaguliwa kuzikwa na mfalme akiwa hai. Kwani hao wakorea na Wachina n.k uhuru wao ulikuaje. They rejected their ex-master once and for all and started to work out the road map for true freedom at their own. Sisi mawazo yetu yalibakia kutawaliwa hata tukasahau sababu ya kupigania uhuru.Colonisation: There was never freedom! they went away still they continued to rule us through their policies and world market is a good example of that. If they came to seek raw material, where are they getting now? did Britain experienced second divine creation?
This is very true Mkuu. Hii black colonisation ni wabaya kuliko wakoloni halisi ambao waliweza hata kutujengea reli, barabara na mashule japo kwa wachache. Watawala wengi wa kiafrica baada ya uhuru walikuja kufanya replacement tu ya wakoloni walioondoka na unyonyaji wao kwa waafrica wenzao ni mkubwa na mbaya zaidi kuliko wazungu. Ndio maana kumekua na backward development tokea uhuru. Hali ya mtumishi wa serikali ya sasa ni mbaya mara nyingi tu ukilinganisha na hali ya mtumishi wa serikali wakati wa ukoloni. Hata mkulima huwezi kumlinganisha - achana na porojo za ccm kuwa ''tumejenga shule number..... kwa muda gani na hela ya nani?The worse is that ,when the direct regimes of whites was over; we invited another regimes of black colonisation! CCM will always be a good example of black settlers who claim to lead the country while their actions are denying their claim.offcourse we have never ever experienced independence than having flags and nations athem
I think we refused to be free. Ni kama mtumwa aliekuja kukombolewa na ndugu zake hata mfalme alipompa ruksa ya kuondoka alikataa ili aendelee kula vonono kwa Mfalme. Matokeo yake mfalme alipokufa yeye ndie alichaguliwa kuzikwa na mfalme akiwa hai. Kwani hao wakorea na Wachina n.k uhuru wao ulikuaje. They rejected their ex-master once and for all and started to work out the road map for true freedom at their own. Sisi mawazo yetu yalibakia kutawaliwa hata tukasahau sababu ya kupigania uhuru.
Yes we can say we have refused, but it takes free person to know people who are not free! we have been celebrating poverty as part of our daily life! na tunaona sawa tu. We need leaders who will make us free from our mind first, through education system, the way we think and from there we will be proud of our countries. Nchi chache sana za Afrika zenye raia wazalendo.
We feel inferior, kuwa wazungu wana akili, wanajua kila kitu, we can not do innovations na kuona we are not qualified for. Ukisoma literatire zao wanasema wasomi wa Africa hawana uwezo wa kufikiri kesho!!!!!!!! huwa tunafikiri tuntukanwa lakini ukiangalia ni kweli kabisa.
Leo tunasema mzungu aondoke, baada ya miaka 20 tunawapigia magoti warudi, tena tunajua fika wana udhaifu wa kutokuwa na malighafi! yet we dont want to use very opportunity ya asili tuliyonayo. Africa haina natural disasters za kutisha kama Asia au America, yet we are underdeveloped , kuna tatizo sehemu. mchango mkubwa sana wa wasomi ni kuwaza dual citizenship! ili tuendelee!
Kama kuomba basi inabidi kufunga kwa mwaka mzima! siyo siku arobaini!
Yes we have refused to be free!
Africans (or us black people for that matter) no how to blame every one else but ourselves. Once a person has that mentality then they can never reach anywhere. That's when you see a person is being abusive to his wife with the excuse that his father was abusive to his mother. That's when we see a person is lazy because he thinks it's someone else's fault he is poor. Yes we were colonized and that was/is mostly to blame. But f we keep using that as an excuse we will not get anywhere. It is time to sit down and admit we have a problem. No excuses as to why we have that problem but just admitting we have a problem. After we do that then we sit to think of the solution. What follows then is implementation of our short, medium and long term goals. The longer we sit down to blame the more time we are wasting. It will reach a point every country that was ever colonized will be developed expect for those in Africa. It is then that we will look foolish amongst the nations of the world.
Mchili said:African unity can only be achieved through trade. The current arrangement where, for example, Sudan is exporting its oil to China and the neighbouring East African countries are importing their oil from the Middle East, is ridiculous.
But every country must strive to produce something, that is the only way they could sit at a table and negotiate an equitable trade arrangement with others and among themselves. Without this, we will just be creating loopholes for smuggling and the dumping of goods imported from elsewhere.