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Momodou
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 Posted - 10 May 2010 : 14:22:25
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You read this Toubab We should be optimistic.
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The Point Editorial: The African renaissance
Monday, May 10, 2010
So much has been written about how to move Africa forward along the path of peace, progress and prosperity. Experts have identified challenges that are endemic to the continent. They include poverty, disease, hunger, destitution, war, corruption and leadership crisis. According to the experts, all of these challenges bog down the continent.
The challenges are like a hydra-headed monster, as one challenge is tackled another one springs up, leaving experts rather bewildered as to how to go about tackling the African Question. The upshot is that most people have already given up on the continent as a lost cause.
This explains why there is so much brain-drain and why illegal migration continues to be the norm among African youths. But Africans must never despair.
Surely, the first step is to have faith in ourselves, in our products and in our values. In some parlance, this is termed as mental emancipation. If we believe that we are inferior, we will act inferior. If we think positively, then we can turn the continent around.
We should as a matter of necessity and urgency clear our minds of defeatist sentiments like "nothing works in Africa". Everything and anything can work on the continent, if we put our minds to it, and exert ourselves to put our positive and constructive thoughts into action.
A prime example of what Africans can do, when they are determined, is the hosting of this year's World Cup in South Africa. The African continent and South Africa, in particular, took the world by storm by its ability to bring the whole world under one roof. The instructive thing about South Africa hosting the World Cup is that it would show to the whole world that Africa too has all that it takes to host the World Cup.
It is our common belief that with Africanness, the 2010 World Cup would be successfully implemented entirely by African talent.
Through trial and error, South Africa has to get it right, because this would heighten the profile of South Africa and, by extension, that of Africa. There is no part of the world today where the forthcoming World Cup is not discussed.
So, if Africans can achieve such a feat, that had previously been assumed to be the exclusive preserve of others, then they can also accomplish engineering feats that can transform the continent, and make it prosperous.
This shows that Africans have the latent talent and ability to change the continent for good. But what is lacking is the will to unlock their potential.
We have to begin somehow, and learn from our mistakes as we progress. If we keep relying on others, or wishing for others to do for us what we can get up and do for ourselves, we will always remain behind, plagued all the time by misery and despair.
"Africa is our home, our world and all we have. Let us help to make it a better place for all."
Bernard
Source: The point Online
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toubab1020
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Posted - 10 May 2010 : 15:25:32
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I have read this piece,quite true,only one thing is missing and want to be grasped in order to make the optomistic rose tinted glasses vision become a reality:
ATTITUDINAL CHANGE  |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 10 May 2010 : 15:35:34
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| Yes, attitudes has to change in order for us to reach there but I am optimistic. |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 10 May 2010 : 16:08:06
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We should all be,but I am afraid that I see no signs within the Gambian people in general of that happening,please if you are able to give me some indication that such chnges are taking please tell me,I can point to the Banjul Clean and maintain the gutters in Banjul campaign,what happened there a small bit of cleaning and nice new signs,result rubbish is still deposited as it was, I know I have seen very recently.
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
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Posted - 10 May 2010 : 16:33:47
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I am still optimistic about Africa in general. Remember industrialization started gradually in Europe, there was a time when you had to get a Marshal help to help boost up the economies after the war. Things will gradually change in Africa too when there are no conflicts and there is lasting peace.
Gambia too has a lot of human capital both within and outside and things will change for the better when there is no more dictatorship.
Well, regarding the gutters in Banjul, I have seen on the TV that a feasibility report regarding those gutters has been submitted to the city council a few days ago. Let’s see if there is any funding.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 10 May 2010 : 16:45:29
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OK Momodou, as you say, let's wait and see  |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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