Monday 18 June 2012

Mama Africa; It's our time

I just finished reading Dambisa Moyo's "Dead Aid". It  is just after reading this book you realize the mess Africa we have put ourselves into. Yesternight, I happened to watch sneak view of the Gacaca courts in Rwanda. 


You just could not fail to appreciate the number of offenders , 2 million and above, and more so the involvement of the whole community in the process. With this I can start to see that we Africans are waking up to take charge of our motherland.We really cannot be running to the west whenever we have a problem. Operation "Black hawk" miserably failed in Somalia, they shamelessly turned a blind eye when Rwandans slaughtered each other. They are now holding press conferences in Nairobi complaining that they are being alienated by president Kibaki. They really have not woken up to the fact that we are capable of making our own decisions.


I am not advocating that we "demonize" the west or alienate them for that matter, but what am saying is that they should bring what they have on the table and we bring what we have on the table and when the deal is not so good, we have the God-given right of choice. The days they would dictate what is good for us are long gone. 


After-all; gold, diamonds and oil still rule the world, and as long they do, we Africans should be calling the tunes. For sure Koni and other rebels have counted days but not as long as we continue running to the west. Africa, It's our time.



2 comments:

  1. There seems to be a new found belief in Africa's capabilities, a revolution of sorts. Just look around and you'll notice everyone talking about 'African-Pride'. Lets hope its going to spur us to the next step of socio-economic development.

    PS: I might have to borrow 'Dead Aid' one of these days.

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  2. As Michael Joseph puts it in Sunny Bindra's book "The Peculiar Kenyan", We stand together as one nation against interfering foreigners and then stand divided against our neighbours because their forefathers come from another part of our country. That's how peculiar our 'African-pride' is.

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