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No one is still holding the "victim mentality". Africa can learn from its history though it can't change it and this is not a "victim mentality". I'm also afraid that you haven't read thoroughly about Lee Kuan's decolonization strategy. Why do you think Lee Kuan Yew had to "sweat blood" learning his own ethnic language at age 38?
And this is the opposite: Most Africans are still mentally colonized, imitating the West in all spheres of life, from languages, to foods, to music, even on skin color. That's why we have a lot of people bleaching their skin color. They have been told it's "ugly" to be black and ranks lowly in social status. And this doesn't mean that I disrespect Western culture. Here I mean, African cultures are also uniquely different from the West, worth living and learning. They're not inferior. They may be complex, but it doesn't mean they're chaotic.
How are you going to transform lost identities, when you don't assess the root causes first? Africans are not refusing to take individual responsibility — most of them are trying. The citizens (the majority) are doing their part day and night. The patterns of sweat, fighting to make ends meet run not only from bricklayers, boda-boda riders, barbers, vendors, etc., but also among the middle class and wealthy business people.
Yes, those people are not direct decision makers, but they're key actors whose input we can't ignore. I now come to leaders who are responsible for social planning. Some have tried to prioritize the needs of their countries with very brutal odds. Some have died because of their own national ideologies and diplomatic patriotism, and some have been turned into "human puppets" kneeling down every time they're in Paris, London, Washington DC and Brussels. This arrangement is not accidental, they just don't have the cards in the present day rivalry.
Most African leaders have very strong manifestos at the start of their terms— the reality shocks them later, on what is feasible and what's not feasible or even stringent advice on how to use development resources and who to trade and partner with.
Without mentally decolonizing our people, we won't reach our desired paths. We were divided, and this disunity is still celebrated. In the recent xenophobic attacks, no white person was sent out of South Africa. This doesn't mean all white people are documented. A good number of them are also illegal migrants living in the main cities: Capetown, Durban, and Johannesburg. The social engineering game eased it for blacks to be against blacks and rewarded this effort.
Here are excerpts from Lee Kuan Yew's speech of 22 April 1966 at a gathering of Singapore and Malaysian students at the International Student House in London that we may reflect on.
1. "What was more important, my mind went back to Singapore and I searched very hard to find whether it even existed as an independent, separate nation. It never did, you know. The indivisible has been divided. The Malaysian Government so ordained it; we acquiesced in it not because we thought this was an inevitable process of history, but because we thought since they wanted it this way, this was a better chance of a more satisfactory conclusion in the future. "
2. "I would choose to believe that the past was never thus, and that the future it will never be like the past; and we have it now, in our hands, to help to determine the shape of the future. Because it is not altogether in our hands. There are bigger forces."
3. "The definition of "people". Legally, they are divided now into two groups: citizens of Malaysia; citizens of Singapore. One whole is now divided into two unequal halves, of two different proportions; and each side of the two unequal halves will now attempt their
solutions to the problems of a multi-racial society. And the attempt that each does on his own half must, in turn, affect the situation in the other half."
Full speech: https://t.co/6PjNOQlLVt
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