Lost dreams of african graduates (letter)

[Analogia Malenga]

AFRICAN GRADUATES (TZ CAMPUS)
P.O.BOX 0000
JOBLESS
IN THE STREETS
Years after graduation, ​

TO WHOEVER CONCERN

REF: LOST DREAMS OF AFRICAN GRADUATES​

Dear whoever!
A good number of African Graduates lost their dreams after having done the graduation ceremony. It has to be kept in mind that, those who are in universities are not after graduation ceremony but they have found themselves in universities as the means to have their dreams achievable.

We are now in the streets, good number of us tend to forget our dreams and start to look for whatever that is available and attainable although it has never existed in our minds as a dream before. Sometimes, we think of getting back to sleep hoping that we may dream another dream which can be easily achieved.

We, African graduates start to think that maybe we had no dreams but illusions. For the life which we pictured when we were in our studies are nowhere found in the streets among most graduates. We dreamed to be a good supporter of our families, behold! Most of us are still dependent to our poor families with our Bachelor degrees. And those who have taken a decision to leave their home places, live in the single room and sometimes live in ghettos.

The only good thing about us is, we still keep our status, for the only thing that maintains status of African Graduate is couture, dressing code. With that small amount of penny that we get after engaging in different activities we afford to buy some first class types of second hand clothes, and sometimes new clothes which make us seem we have the good life we have been dreaming of, but we know the reality. We tend to go with the fashions but we fail to sometimes fail to pay house rents, and we are accompanied with so much debts in every corner of the streets forget about that of HESLB.

It is not like we are not creative or we do not have the guts to start-up a business, no! Most of us do not have the capital to start up the businesses of our dreams. So we start small business which we can afford but we get troubles from the government officials as they take most of small businesses as illegal or improperly allocated. So our small businesses die at their early stages as long as the government official do not understand our economic status, we, who own those small businesses, African Graduates.

We have lost our dreams, who is there to help us get them back? If we are left to remain in the status which we have, the works of Kiyosaki and others who discourage education system, will find justification and most people will stop wasting time in education system that has no plan for the educated, after graduation. They (Kiyosaki et al) give us examples of successful people who have not completed their university studies, should that happen to us as well?

We do not hold that government should employ all of the graduates, for we all know that, it is impossible. But at least we should be given good opportunities and chances so as to see the highway to our dreams, currently we see no way to our dreams, thus we think maybe we had nightmares not dreams.

The bad thing about graduates who do not find the way to our dreams is, we will lose hope. If we reach that point of losing hope then we will find other ways of having ourselves in comfort zone, most of us turn into drug addicts. We turn into drug addicts from two reasons, first reason is, not achieving the dream, and so we become drug addicts to fool ourselves that we achieved our dreams emotionally, the comfort zone is reached when drug addict is high. And the second reason is when the dream become achievable after all passions for the dream have perished and/or patience for the dream has expired. Are we going to allow the nation of graduates who are drug addicts, boozers and corn artists?

From this small letter that comes from graduates who are in the streets, we bet that whoever reads this will find the way for making good environment for existing and coming graduates to find their ways to their dreams.

With all thanks!
Signed!
African Graduates (Tz Campus)​

 

[enjai ya kyasha]

So sad

 

[Al-Watan]

It is hard for any entrepreneur, forget a graduate, to survive, let alone survive, in an environment that is as business unfriendly as the one we have.

The government is killing innovation and creativity by some rigid, outdated and frankly greedy policies.

On the other hands, as a society, we have a culture of complacency.

I would expect graduates in areas like law to start suing the government and organizations where there is lack of accountability. Even if just to make a name.I don't see enough of that. Maybe there is a pecking order to climb to get to that, but I don't even see a social media presence of these young lawyers geared towards giving them exposure.

Are lawyers not part of this unemployment?

I don't see microeconomics proposals and groups to show what Economics graduate are doing.

Are they not part of this unemployment?

Are people not teaching youngsters in the so called "tuitions"? I remember there was a young fellow who started to teach Maths right after graduating secondary school, he had quite a following. He is currently somewhere in Texas USA.

Is there no need for this tutoring?

Or are graduates doing these things and they are simply not enough to absorb the numbers of new graduates?

I understand that getting work that employs ones talent is a human right, but, are graduates being creative and aggressive enough?

 

[Analogia Malenga]

I would expect graduates in areas like law to start suing the government and organizations where there is lack of accountability. Even if just to make a name.I don't see enough of that. Maybe there is a pecking order to climb to get to that, but I don't even see a social media presence of these young lawyers geared towards giving them exposure.Are people not teaching youngsters in the so called "tuitions"? I remember there was a young fellow who started to teach Maths right after graduating secondary school, he had quite a following. He is currently somewhere in Texas USA

If you have read the whole letter I hope you've read this paragraph

It is not like we are not creative or we do not have the guts to start-up a business, no! Most of us do not have the capital to start up the businesses of our dreams. So we start small business which we can afford but we get troubles from the government officials as they take most of small businesses as illegal or improperly allocated. So our small businesses die at their early stages as long as the government official do not understand our economic status, we, who own those small businesses, African Graduates.

 

[jombi95]

So sad ..
I have to share it with my collegemate hope the will get something as I do.

 

[Al-Watan]

If you have read the whole letter I hope you've read this paragraph

It is not like we are not creative or we do not have the guts to start-up a business, no! Most of us do not have the capital to start up the businesses of our dreams. So we start small business which we can afford but we get troubles from the government officials as they take most of small businesses as illegal or improperly allocated. So our small businesses die at their early stages as long as the government official do not understand our economic status, we, who own those small businesses, African Graduates.

I read that. I am challenging that, with Hegelian dialectic deconstruction that are passive aggressive enough to be attractively open to misconception. Even providing possible reasons for my possible myopia.

Even while I cite examples of young people who escaped this predicament without even a degree!

I despise a simple single narrative.

There is almost always more.

I totally understand the governments shitty attitude towards business, especially small business. I lambasted it for that.

But how many graduates are educating the masses on these things? Where are the grassroots organizations (I am not even talking political parties).

I went to Mlimani City a few years ago while on holiday back home. The chicanery and false advertising I saw there, cellphone companies alone, was astounding.

Why isn't there any major corporate lawsuit?

Where are graduates in consumer protection groups? In fact, where are consumer protection groups in a country with so many jobless graduates?

 

[Castr]

Mfano, kuna ajira mwanafunzi wa USA anafanya kama part time ili kuziba gape la muda wa likizo, kuna zile za supermarket, gas station, na cafeteria.
Ila Tanzania hiyo ni kazi full time ambayo graduate anaifukuzia na bado anaikosa.

 

[HAJI NAMPUNGILA]

I under stand your point of view. Now let's wake up and work