An interesting read....
“Africa had such great promise when the white man left in
the 1960s,when most of the African countries gained their independence-or
rather,were granted their independence..
More than 40 years after our so called independence,do you
know what our rewards have been? We have had incalculable numbers of coups
d’état by military idiots,who were once supposed to protect our lives and our
borders but who have instead found the procurement of worthless second world
war weapons as their passport to leadership. We have been rewarded with all
kinds of wars because everybody wants to be the leader so that they could lay
their hands on the treasuries of their respective countries…today we still have
a lot of military airheads masquerading as democratic leaders..the Europeans
decided to let these buffoons be perceived as having taken over,and they
exercise,and continue to exercise ,power over these puppets in major decision
making. Unfortunately for the African elite,the buffoonery called the African
Military had their own ideas of personal enrichment..the elite were the first
to congratulate any military idiot who seized power and protested how their
predecessors had corrupted and looted its treasury.
Today Africa is worse off than when it gained independence
from the former colonial masters. The standard of living of the masses has
decreased steadily since independence,to the extent that now,there is more
malnutrition,more disease,less provision of essential services such as good
roads,clean drinking water and good healthcare,and less freedom to express
one’s views. Africa has incurred more debt,yet has nothing to show for it.
Africa continues to be a beggar continent…the African
Elite,as a mirror image of the larger black society,is a consumer group rather
than a productive group. A people that regards itself as independent should be
able to produce independent thought. Yet, Africans still depend on the
Europeans 40 years after ‘’gaining’’their independence from their former
colonial masters and at the dawn of new millennium,to furnish us with books on
any subject. Our so called elites cannot devote enough time to duplicate the
same research already conducted and to
articulate it in a language Africans can understand. Is it any wonder then that
we go to school,and still come out illiterate? It is no wonder that,despite our
years of schooling,if we need roads built,we contract them out to European
engineering firms to build for us,if we need power stations,we get Caucasians
or the Japanese to build them for us;if we need drinking water,we have to
import European or American experts to do it for us. We are “highly educated”
,yet we cannot even assemble a bicycle-we have to import it. We cannot assemble
a radio-we have to import it. We cannot assemble a television-we have to import
it...it might not be politically correct for me to say this,but i am not known
as politically correct most of the time. I hated apartheid with a passion,and i
still loathe racism. The white people in this country committed atrocities far
beyond anyone’s imagination. But the truth must be told,and i have warned you
before,this is the 21st century;it is time that we started telling ourselves
the truth,no matter how bitter the truth may be.”
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