I wanted to write here about Mugabe, but for the Devil's sake, let me give theme Mugabe a break. Hey, and don't think I will either write about Obama here, even though he was born at the time Mugabe was the start of Africa, a model president in the dark continent...and now Obama is touted as the greatest, model, presummably next U.S. first black president, when maybe one of his teenage role-models is now christened a beast!
Someone talks about Democracy here and there. On what context is that topic or theme? If it is in Africa, shsow me a perfect democray that has been there for the last 10 years. If climate of a place is named after about 30 consistent years, had climate be synonymous with Democracy, would you or anyone rank any African state as democratic? If democracy is existent in Africa, then it has over 52 definitions in thousands of indegineous dialects...in Shona, Ndebele, Swahili, Luganda, Itesoit, Luo, Luhya, Zulu, Akwi, Sudanese, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, etc.!
Despite all the variations and conflicting ideologies and principles of democracy available in Africa, am glad that we have one thing in common, that we gladly agree on and share equally on thoughts, words and deeds. If we, the Africans shared this aspect and let it spread amongs cutting across borders and ages, then, trust ye me, for thou I saith unto thee, Africa could be in the modern China's place or we could be very much so at par with our same race Brazillian denizens' economy!
Hey, this aint funy. But am talking about HIV/Aids here! Imagine we Africans, from French speaking regions to the English based communities, all academics and economies, all shared the same knowledge we have about Democracy the same way we are doing in HIV/Aids, what could be the continental song? Or instead of peddling or buying guns and ammonution secretly and expensively, we just go to the shops or clinics and buy cheaply or simply pick condoms to readily and efficiently and decisively use. Or take condom for a democratic ballot paper, and sex a democratic right you proudly possess and boast of, so that instead of AIDS, you use it to eliminate Africa's second largest mass killer- bad governance that leads to greed, wars, famine?
Look at all the violence rocking Africa now. I never heard of high school students having a nationwide impact bearing strikes or riots as it is happening in Kenya. I thought that was the right of university students only when exams approached. These high schol kids in Kenya want schol buses with modern HDF, HiFi SciFi friendly TV and DVDs in them, hydraulic air suspension, with Air Conditioners, when they have left their parents languishing in the grips of inflation! Atleast they should have complained for a change in the backfiring system of education! Just as violence begets violence or brutality, ignorance begets ignorance, and Kenyan youths are on that path- future jobless, ignorant, and democracy fighters.
The demands of Kenya's high school students is what I will wish to end this childish article of mine. We are Africans, we want the luxuries of the West without much concern of how to create ours now or in the near future. Our youths want a liffe they watch on Tv or movies about the high school life in the US or UK and immediately dessire and cry for it. The same way our fathers wanted independence, which was very right, but got it and like the Israelites, wanted to go away with their captors' way of life too -idolatry, ornaments, etc. Instead of getting our independence or waiting for it, we immediately contunued with the colonialists' lifestyle and administrative system. It is like a baby who starts taking guavas immediately at the time of weaning. Or you must have heard of this kid, a baby boy who was born with an erect penis! You see, it is weird and dangerous for a newly born girl to start menses after a week of birth. She will self-destroy. And that ius typically what Africa tried, took and is now struggling about.
Atleast South Africa, if that name hasn't been changed- Africanised I mean,- got the chance to be weaned out of colonial dependency. So even if they are fighting over the guava xenophobically, they understand why and I believe they are not to blame. But those in Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, North Uganda, Kenya, etc. are products typical of babies who were gifted with cycles even before they perfected crawling. Now that they have grown, they are breaking down the bicycle parts and usisng the spokes/ wires as weapons against each other, or the guavas they realised was hard on biting, they launch them on each other!
This is stupid of me to write, but you have read it, na? So try this out, attach an anti-coruption label next to every public box or poster of USE A CONDOM, SAVE A LIFE...
Someone talks about Democracy here and there. On what context is that topic or theme? If it is in Africa, shsow me a perfect democray that has been there for the last 10 years. If climate of a place is named after about 30 consistent years, had climate be synonymous with Democracy, would you or anyone rank any African state as democratic? If democracy is existent in Africa, then it has over 52 definitions in thousands of indegineous dialects...in Shona, Ndebele, Swahili, Luganda, Itesoit, Luo, Luhya, Zulu, Akwi, Sudanese, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, etc.!
Despite all the variations and conflicting ideologies and principles of democracy available in Africa, am glad that we have one thing in common, that we gladly agree on and share equally on thoughts, words and deeds. If we, the Africans shared this aspect and let it spread amongs cutting across borders and ages, then, trust ye me, for thou I saith unto thee, Africa could be in the modern China's place or we could be very much so at par with our same race Brazillian denizens' economy!
Hey, this aint funy. But am talking about HIV/Aids here! Imagine we Africans, from French speaking regions to the English based communities, all academics and economies, all shared the same knowledge we have about Democracy the same way we are doing in HIV/Aids, what could be the continental song? Or instead of peddling or buying guns and ammonution secretly and expensively, we just go to the shops or clinics and buy cheaply or simply pick condoms to readily and efficiently and decisively use. Or take condom for a democratic ballot paper, and sex a democratic right you proudly possess and boast of, so that instead of AIDS, you use it to eliminate Africa's second largest mass killer- bad governance that leads to greed, wars, famine?
Look at all the violence rocking Africa now. I never heard of high school students having a nationwide impact bearing strikes or riots as it is happening in Kenya. I thought that was the right of university students only when exams approached. These high schol kids in Kenya want schol buses with modern HDF, HiFi SciFi friendly TV and DVDs in them, hydraulic air suspension, with Air Conditioners, when they have left their parents languishing in the grips of inflation! Atleast they should have complained for a change in the backfiring system of education! Just as violence begets violence or brutality, ignorance begets ignorance, and Kenyan youths are on that path- future jobless, ignorant, and democracy fighters.
The demands of Kenya's high school students is what I will wish to end this childish article of mine. We are Africans, we want the luxuries of the West without much concern of how to create ours now or in the near future. Our youths want a liffe they watch on Tv or movies about the high school life in the US or UK and immediately dessire and cry for it. The same way our fathers wanted independence, which was very right, but got it and like the Israelites, wanted to go away with their captors' way of life too -idolatry, ornaments, etc. Instead of getting our independence or waiting for it, we immediately contunued with the colonialists' lifestyle and administrative system. It is like a baby who starts taking guavas immediately at the time of weaning. Or you must have heard of this kid, a baby boy who was born with an erect penis! You see, it is weird and dangerous for a newly born girl to start menses after a week of birth. She will self-destroy. And that ius typically what Africa tried, took and is now struggling about.
Atleast South Africa, if that name hasn't been changed- Africanised I mean,- got the chance to be weaned out of colonial dependency. So even if they are fighting over the guava xenophobically, they understand why and I believe they are not to blame. But those in Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, North Uganda, Kenya, etc. are products typical of babies who were gifted with cycles even before they perfected crawling. Now that they have grown, they are breaking down the bicycle parts and usisng the spokes/ wires as weapons against each other, or the guavas they realised was hard on biting, they launch them on each other!
This is stupid of me to write, but you have read it, na? So try this out, attach an anti-coruption label next to every public box or poster of USE A CONDOM, SAVE A LIFE...
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