Africa is burning once again and like before, no one seems to mind about this precious piece of land with variety of both human and animals species that are uniquely divided in this vast green all year round motherland.
As usual we are once again pitted against each other through tribal sentiments caused by people who are supposedly obliged to protect and help the continent to go forward. These children of this motherland, who inherited power from our colonial master, are actually turning out to be a million times worse than the people we deemed as colonialists who even up to today, we still criticize for our poor life conditions in Africa. I always say to myself that Africans we have ourselves to blame for the poor state of the continent and lives. Yes true there are western conspiracies to dent this continent but again; it comes down to who is collaborating with some of these ill hearted western people to destabilize the continent. The recent arrests of some French nationals trying to smuggle Chadian children to Europe is one of such evils. It may have been for a good cause, but the method of execution was indeed not fair.Its a curse to say that ones parents died in our African tradition, if indeed those people are alive. So labeling these children orphans yet as told by the reporters, some of them have their parents.
But anyway to drive my point home, it’s a pity to see countries like Kenya, going up in frames because of two people. Why can’t one of them swallow the pride and give in to the other for the sake of the people? How many does Mr. Odinga or Kibaki want dead for them to take a positive stand? These two are very rich people who don’t need anything but a name in politics. Kenya has been known to be a beacon of peace and hope in this so unstable great lakes region. Having lived in Nairobi for close to two years, I have always told my peers here in Kampala, that Kenya is more like a Europe in this region. But what is happening there, is bad enough and evidence as well to prove that in Africa things need to be improved more.
It’s just a matter of time that even great nations like South Africa go down the same line. I mean the Zulus see Zuma’s prosecution as something against them by the Kosa tribe of Mr. Mbeki. In my own country, tensions are building up because of a land bill seen as controversial by the central Buganda region. And now it’s slowly turning tribal as the concerned tribes see it as a conspiracy to grab their land. Up the mountains on the eastern side of Uganda, the so called renegade soldier Mr. Laurent Nkunda is claiming to be protecting Tutsi s against other tribes there. So where is Africa heading to. How long will we have other people to solve our problems, yet they are the same people we chased away and called colonialists???Its is a shaming of us Africans to continue looking on as a few people (politicians without will and hope) destroy both our homeland and lives.
But like I always do, I will give a solution to this insanity eating up our motherland and disturbing the peace and development that was mostly left behind by former colonialists and true founding statesmen, like Mzee Nelson Mandela,Nkrumah to mention but a few.
The solution still lies with the international community. The United Nations is mandated to protect and give peace to its members. To which many of the suffering African countries like, Zimbabwe, Somalia, DR Congo and others are members. So I call upon the United Nations to insert/introduce or amend its so many laws, so that all African presidents are only given a maximum of 5 years in office or a fairly agreeable period, say 8 years. These statements like country’s sovereignty, are not welcome to the many locals who are living in abject poverty due to these leaders who don’t want to live power and end up messing even the little which they might have archived in that long period of stay in power.
Africa needs a strong and UNIQUE law from the United Nations, to control these elitists politicians of this continent.
Chris in Kampala