Waungwana, when shall we get our priorities right as Africans? when shall we learn to make good out of adversity? when shall we stop complaining and get to business? in this world we live in, "no one is his/her brothers/sisters keeper". JK ameenda US mara ngapi tangia apate urais? mbona hatujawahi kuandamana? Juzi JK categorically denied any possibility of AFRICOM being stationed in Tanzania. Alitudanganya au? we ought to believe I guess! Because we havent seen the opposite! US president being in our country in four days, for smart people, its enough adverts for our limping tourism sector! Its the reality wajameni. It will depend on how we utilize this oppotunity. Tutafute mazuri ya kutusaidia katika hii ziara, mabaya tuachane nayo!
Yes, Bush has his own shortcomings and problems, but is it our priority-really?? Why cant we strategize how to make this trip beneficial to our people?, why cant our professors, advice the govt (in any form..) what kind of agendas our govt should set with GWB? That Darfurians, Somalis, Congolese people are dying, is an open secret, but why blame Bush yet people who are killing each other are Sudanese et al? tumeshawahi kuandamana ku-condemn sera za serikali ya Khartoum dhidi ya watu wake? au China inayosupply silaha kwa Sudan?
Professor kupinga hiyo ziara ni haki yake ya kikatiba, na mimi kutokubaliana naye Professor ni haki yangu ya msingi. But what Iam against ni double standards za wasomi wetu na hao wanaojifanya wanajua na kumpenda Mungu kuliko wengine. Mfano Israel inawanyanyasa Wapalestine, hakuna ubishi any peace loving person must know that and do something, but what Bashir did/doing to Southerners in Sudan for decades and decades and now in Darfur sijawahi kuona mtu akiandamana especially hapa kwetu Africa!
Sorry guys, I might have gone out of topic, lakini ukweli huu unafiki wetu (perhaps ujinga) wetu sisi Waafrika umezidi!
We move on!