@Starlink why is Starlink Zambia more expensive than starlink Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe $30 gets you the lite package while in Zambia it’s $42 for the same package can we know why it’s so expensive in Zambia?@elonmusk
What’s holding Africans back? President Kagame asked.
Prof. Murigande told Kagame that the main reason is that African leaders don’t care about their people. They seek to enrich themselves — to eat, and to eat alone. The president agreed with him, but he pressed further, asking why this problem seems peculiar to Africa.
Kagame doesn’t ask rhetorical questions. He has identified a problem and is involving Rwandans in finding a solution.
Here’s my take:
To overcome challenges like those faced by postcolonial societies, a people must rediscover a sense of collective self-worth. Usually, this comes from the memory of their past achievements— who they were as a people informs who they are and who they aspire to be.
While Africa was not the only region to experience colonization, it is one of the few where colonialism either erased the memory of past greatness or created new countries with no shared memory of such greatness.
Colonisation captured African minds. In that sense, although Africa was colonised last, it was colonised the worst.
Colonial education deepened this alienation, distorting African aspirations, turning them from collective to individual.
In the 1950s, the small group of “educated” African elites aspired to join the white world : the colonial administration. Today, with colonial education still intact and keeping African minds in chains, the elites it creates do not aspire to uplift their people; they aspire to join the global elite. They don’t seek to improve their own societies; they seek to escape from them.
Accordingly, these elites measure their self-worth by:
•how fluently they speak foreign languages,
•which foreign schools they send their children to,
•which foreign hospitals they can afford,
•how many houses they build, and how much money they invest abroad.
At the heart of this lies a quiet acceptance that Africans are somehow defective as a people, and that the only way to succeed is individually. Even those who once believed they could change things often abandon the quest for collective improvement once they grasp the scale of the effort it demands.
The kind of heavy lifting required for real transformation breeds a sense of hopelessness, one that pushes people from collective ambition toward individual greed.
So, the individual’s aspiration becomes to join the global bourgeoisie. But these are strategies of self-evacuation. They are attempts to flee backwardness by moving from the rural village to the capital, then on to the enlightened colonial metropolis, and ultimately to disappear into cosmopolitan anonymity - a form of self erasure rather than a search for self restoration.
This journey became the measure of progress. Those who remain in Africa do so with one foot already out (through dual citizenship or close connections to the representatives of their desired metropoles) for themselves, and especially for their children.
Although Kagame brings up this topic, it has been a theme he turns to whenever he notices that some ethic is creeping in amongst the leaders, only that this time he is more specific.
For example, while he has been teaching agaciro as a form of mental decolonization, most people over the years understood agaciro merely as a material pursuit.
Yet agaciro is, at its core, about retracing and reclaiming the memory of self-worth and therefore the basis for collective pursuit.
Billionaire Mo Ibrahim criticizes “inappropriate and unacceptable” Tanzanian election as President Samia Suluhu Hassan is sworn in.
He calls out autocratic traits that many African leaders would never admit to publicly
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They thought vamukanda mumoto but he pulled back with this line of thought. VP Chiwenga's remarks on Tanzania. Uyu muhombe murume uyu @LynneStactia@daddyhope
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Viva Tanzania brothers and sisters who are relentless and dedicated to fight on ! Long Live the fighting spirit of our brothers and sisters in Tanzania 🇹🇿! May the fallen HEROES of the struggle continue to rest in power! May their blood water the soil of Tanzania and bring peace and prosperity! Abasha DICTATORSHIP! Abasha Mana Samia and her handlers! Aluta continua!
🟤ZIMBABWE has been rated as the least attractive country for investment in Africa by South African investment bank Rand Merchant Bank (RMB).
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The EFF’s Statement Condemning the Escalating Conflict and Massacres in Sudan
- This war, unfortunately goes beyond the internal; it is sustained and complicated by foreign interests. The United States, Europe, and Middle Eastern states continue to pursue their own economic and geopolitical agendas, supplying weapons, financing proxies, and influencing negotiations while ordinary Sudanese people suffer. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have deep stakes in Sudan’s gold and agricultural land, while Western powers eye its strategic position along the Red Sea and its resources.
These forces treat Sudan as a pawn in their imperial games, with little regard for the suffering of its people. Therefore, the silence of the so-called international community in the face of mass killings and starvation highlights their complicity and lack of care and empathy for black people.