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HALAFU HAPO HAPO UNAOMBA WENGINE WAKUPE MSAADA ILI UFANYE ANASA!!!!!!!!!
BILA AIBU!
Six million US dollars for a one day extravaganza!
From a very poor country nevertheless. And my fellow Tanzanians are extra jubilant over this.
Tanzania, a poor African country with GDP Per Capita hovering around $ 500, half of the hospital beds taken by AIDS patients, with a good number of other patients either sleeping on the floor or sharing beds and therefore sharing communicable diseases, a good percent of primary school students sitting on dirt/ floor due to lack of desks in school, less than 29% percent with access to clean water (Ministry of Water figures, so you know the true figure is half of that, if that) … I can go on and on to paint the picture of abject poverty afflicting my country, but I believe you get the picture.
The bottom line is that Tanzania is a very poor country, and bringing Brazil at this cost is irresponsible.
The $ 6m could have funded 90,000 new school desks or 90,000 hospital beds, clean water projects for a good number of villages in rural Tanzania.
Just to put this into perspective, at the official GDP Per Capita of $ 500 (which is buoyed by a few industrialist multimillionaires and thieves in the government) it will take 12,000 Tanzanians to work a full year to cover this cost.
To put this in perspective, if you take the GDP Per Capita (nominal) of the USA to be 50,000 for simplicity's sake (it is around 46,000) and use it in equivalent manhours used to import this irresponsible extravaganza, it will cost the USA around 600 million dollars to play one match. Now even with the relative affluence of the USA compared to Tanzania I doubt people would be enthusiastic to this type of a rip off.
I am Tanzanian, but when I look at our poverty, lack of priority and the gleeful nonchalance that my countrymen adopt, sometimes I am tempted to diss nationalism.