Has Africa been bound to failure and suffering? [Last Part]
However if we continue to ignore the facts of life, we shall never worry about being wrong at all. Many of my elite friends have already drawn swords at me and attacked me for being an African pessimist. This gave me the opportunity to understand why countries like Uganda that has one of the highest number of professors in the cabinet continues to fail in basic management skills like strategic management approaches that could otherwise help us have a knowledge based plan that is holistic and meaningful to all her people.
In Africa we always have to wait for ‘get togethers’ like CHOGM to improve the security systems, to fill the potholes, to ‘hoodwink arrests’ in the name of fighting corruption, to displace a 50 year old school with thousands of school children in the name of constructing a hotel that never will be, to remember that health insurance is not a luxury, to remember that road side business has been life to the poor and to remember that the orphans, street kids and beggars also play apart in the image of any given society. In painting a rosy picture such times become harder for the poor. Conferences like this tell you of the consequences of being poor, the consequences of having not gone to school, the consequences of engaging in road side business, the consequences of supporting the ‘wrong’ political party and the consequences of not being within the right political or family circles.
Many questions such as why mustn’t the poor man own a piece of land and yet the rich man constructs on a wetland? Why must a big shot demolish a school and yet the illiteracy levels are so high? Why must one single man receive a billion to boost his business and yet some others are being evicted from markets? Why must someone receive a token after stealing billions from the national coffers and yet it takes a poor man his whole life time to access his social fund? Why must health officials spend millions to go to Sydney for an AIDs conference yet they have failed to simply handle cases of expired ARVs in national drug stores yet the poor have for so long died because they cannot access these drugs? have for long been unaswered.
Issues in Africa are like a true fallacy, probably a tale of an imagination, say of this monkey that yearns to marry a donkey.
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