Good luck with all that.
Does that about sum it up?
I wonder how South-Korea, Vietnam, Japan and some eastern European countries recovered so quickly from devastating wars to at least have positive economic growth and stable social environments, but in Africa it has been over 20 years in most places, and still nothing. Yep, still slavery, colonialism and whatever other evils which befell them from the West.
For there to be an African renaissance they need a healthy, educated population. Education and health are investments they need to make starting now. Outright revolt to displace the dictators who exploit them would be a good starting point.
Side bet. He won't read them or understand them and within ten years there will be millions of dead Africans who died from famine and preventable disease being buried amidst the weeds on fallow government-owned farmland
The struggle, the masses, where have I hear this before?
There, that's better.
I knew I'd find it somewhere in the article...
We are the victims and you're going pay for it sucka.
Doesn't there have to be a "naissance" before there can be a "renaissance"? Guess Mbeki considers primitive tribal barbarism as Africa's Golden Age.
Hey Mbeeky....All's you have to do is set the people of Africa free...get rid of all the wild-eyed, fat, slobbering thugs that now run Africa, and walah...Africa would stop being known as the "dark continent" in a few years. Start with the thuggiest of them all...... mugabe of Zim....
He's the president of Africa?
They really shouldnt bitch about colonialism, it gave them the only things in Africa that are worth a sh!t.
Kind of lost me with that one.
I think I need a new dictionary.
The way to improve the situation is to hang the dictators, establish private property and individual rights and get free enterprise rolling. None of the stupid socialist/Marxist schemes will work. These scams only enrich the scum. BTW, throwing out the UN and their fascist NGOs will also help.
If you need more advice feel free to call.
When he mentioned the debilitating effects of slavery, I thought he was referring to the only slavery still remaining in the world today -- slavery practiced by Africans, notably Muslim/Arabic Africans. Silly me. I should have known that the only time slavery is BAD is when it is (was) practised by white people.
Sadly, the only consistency over the years is the African masses ability to transform a marginal situation into something much worse.
As was noted previously, phases like 'patriotic forces' and 'masses of the people' can only point toward some kind of dictatorship of the proletariet. And it sounds like he is thinking about one large 'People's Republic of Africa'.
Also, 'mobilise the masses of the people to act as their own liberators' can only mean 'create a police state and take all valuable property away from those who have it now'.
It's not entirely clear if he thinks this unity and mobilization can be done by the organizations he mentions or whether he is considering unifying Africa by force...And people think Africa is in bad shape now.
This is the prologue to intensified demands for worldwide reparations payments to Africa, probably through UN agencies and these pan-African syndicates.
Expect a bill for several trillion dollars to come due shortly.
Mbeki is insane and has been slowly slipping into insanity over the past ten years. ANything he spouts should be considers the ranting of a lunatic.
And Mbeki is going to do his part to help blacks... by backing Robert Mugabe?