WHO WILL SAVE AFRICA

[merkeju]

[OtishOtish]

Merkeju:

That is a good question, but  I don't know the answer. Reading Kenyan (and some other African) papers, I see a lot of calls for the "international community" to step in and "do something" in South Sudan. What that  "international community" might be is not clear, but I imagine it excludes, say, the West, which over the last year or so  has been thoroughly lambasted by African "leaders": racists! no neo-colonialism! no imperialism! we can solve our own problems! Etc.

Uhuru, for example, really let them have it in Addis Ababa:

www.statehousekenya.go.ke/speeches/uhuru/october2013/2013121001.htm

"The arrogant world police is crippled by shambolic domestic dysfunction. As our strength multiplies, and our unity gets deeper, those who want to control and exploit us become more desperate. These are the spectacles of Western decline we are witnessing today."

Perhaps African "leaders", with their multiplying strength and deepening unity, will save Africa? After all, as His Excellency*** President Uhuru Kenyatta put it, in the same speech:

"The African Union is not an illusion. The philosophy of divide-and rule, which worked against us all those years before, cannot shackle us to the ground in our Season of Renaissance. Our individual and collective sovereignty requires us to take charge of our destiny, and fashion African solutions to African problems."

[The speech was wildly cheered by his peers.]

There certainly seems to be no shortage of "African problems" that could do with "African solutions", and I don't see how shambolic spectacles of decline can possibly be of much help.

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*** TRADE MARK of Government of Kenya. Misuse will be punished. Severely.

[podp]

Apr 24, 2014 19:10:47 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Merkeju:

That is a good question, but  I don't know the answer. Reading Kenyan (and some other African) papers, I see a lot of calls for the "international community" to step in and "do something" in South Sudan. What that  "international community" might be is not clear, but I imagine it excludes, say, the West, which over the last year or so  has been thoroughly lambasted by African "leaders": racists! no neo-colonialism! no imperialism! we can solve our own problems! Etc.

Uhuru, for example, really let them have it in Addis Ababa:

"The arrogant world police is crippled by shambolic domestic dysfunction. As our strength multiplies, and our unity gets deeper, those who want to control and exploit us become more desperate. These are the spectacles of Western decline we are witnessing today."

Perhaps African "leaders", with their multiplying strength and deepening unity, will save Africa? I certainly don't see how shambolic spectacles of decline can possibly be of much help.

we are on our own.

that is why it still tastes bad that Kofi Annan was sent to make the 'stubborn old man' aka Kibaki as Condoleeza Rice notes in her memoirs www.amazon.com/No-Higher-Honor-Memoir-Washington/dp/0307986780 share power with RAO after he stole in broad daylight and we have not mustered the courage to punish the thief. we should have been left on our own to sort each other out so as to avoid the catastrophic duo of ICC indictees we have as PORK and deputy PORK who are more keen to hunt down any witness within and without and would care less what is happenning outside their ethnicity lands. see how they thank the Somalis for supporting them against the westerners aka Luo, Luhya, Kisii etc and the eaterners aka Kambas, Coastals etc.

a coming soon memoir www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-hard-choices-memoir-releases-june-10-article-1.1761748 notes that although USA is retreating from the world stage no emerging nation including our 'proud' BRICS is ready to take any responsibility of what happens beyond its borders. The Chinese would care less if we all killed each other so that they came for the resources their country salivates for. so too Brazil with its own race issues, Russia with its backyard of USSR days still fresh and of course our own South Africa still apartheid wounds not healed. there is no international community other than vultures led by China waiting to share the carcasses with hounds. and the Arabs have their own fears after the Arab Spring still unfolding in Syria.

we are on our own and we should save ourselves after all we are grown ups.

[OtishOtish]

Podp:

I was going to suggest that now might be a good time to shout again that "We Will Just Turn East!". But perhaps not. Kung Fu Man likes to stay clear of such unpleasantness. He prefers quiet, with his only question being "where the natural resources at?" Still, there will be tenders for rebuilding, and the money will have to be borrowed, ...

[podp]

Apr 24, 2014 19:37:32 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Podp:

I was going to suggest that now might be a good time to shout again that "We Will Just Turn East!". But perhaps not. Kung Fu Man likes to stay clear of such unpleasantness. He prefers quiet, with his only question being "where the natural resources at?" Still, there will be tenders for rebuilding, and the money will have to be borrowed, ...

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Kithure Kindiki moved a Motion for the House to approve the deployment of KDF soldiers in South Sudan for the purposes of regional peace support operations. Senate sanctioned the placement of 310 soldiers in South Sudan to reinforce the 690 soldiers already there to restore peace. Kindiki’s counterpart at the National Assembly Aden Duale also moved the Motion to have members approve deployment of soldiers. Muturi spoke when outgoing Rwanda High Commissioner to Kenya, Yamina Karitanyi paid him a courtesy call at his office.

“This is a very unfortunate situation unfolding in South Sudan, as a country we have always been ready and willing to help and as a member of the International community,” said Muturi. “It is in this result that the House is debating the request from the United Nations to deploy Kenya Defence Forces to the war-torn region as peace keepers,” he continued. Muturi welcomed the government’s decision, saying it is a move in the right direction as it will be unfair for Kenya to sit pretty, when we can see the unfolding human catastrophe in the young republic. “As neighbours, it is important that we be available to our brothers in South Sudan,” he said.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000110201&story_title=muturi-decries-south-sudan-crisis


so we are on our own as a UN resolution that enables all 5 Permanent members of the Security Council agree with usually requires a sponser then intense lobbying for consensus to be arrived. Most motions are started by the West we love vilifying and rarely by Russia and/or China so at the UN level our BRICS newbee on the international front will be AWOL.

but come hosting any head of state so that backroom deals are done without involving the public you can count on China to lead the way as the Standard Gauge Railway, Lap Top Project for primamry school children etc. we will continue witnessing. poor South Sudan will be paid for its oil with armaments so that they slaughter each other to oblivion with mad men Salva Kiir and Riek Machar employing young boys to finish each other off so that they can get the spoils of war and immitate old Jomo as being the largest land owner, businessman and other firsts that our founding fathers ensured they would be for total control of the rest of the population.

we need to rope in the NGOs better called the evil society to help in crying out and calling for attention to the atrocities happening daily. the bogey man ICC is good too.