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Gerald .M Magembe said:
Why do we say a fish rots from the head down. I reiterate here – that no state, or civilisation in history has ever achieved greatness without a great elite. This includes global hegemonies like the United States, China, France, or the United Kingdom.
In contrast, the artificially invented – and imposed – Eurocentric African post-colonial state is a disaster. These humpty-dumpties yoyo between sterility and collapse. Tanzania has retarded to the “African norm.” Blame no one, but our putrid and bankrupt elite.
It gives no pleasure – in fact I am deeply pained – to pen this column. I say so because the collective failure, the malignancy, is our shared shame. It’s true that the white man gave us a poisoned chalice. He mutilated our souls and fed them to the proverbial devil. He planted culturally demonic chips in us. Every time we try to right the ship, the demon punches the self-destruct button, and puts us in reverse.
Despair hangs in the air as our elites devour and eat their young.
At the dawn of flag independence, the white man said that we couldn’t govern ourselves. We loudly protested and pulled out the race card. Then one by one African state after African state atrophied, or collapsed. The white man was right – and so were we. That’s because he had booby-trapped the state he gave us. Pick up a timed bomb and it will blow in your face. Our problem is that we didn’t detonate the bomb before picking it up. That’s what they’ve done in Singapore and Malaysia and are attempting to do in India, Brazil, and other emerging post-colonial states. In Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere tried it, but with arguably mixed results.
Under CCM, our national cancer if unchecked shall metastasize. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. Corruption indicates will infest our bone marrow. The national debt has exploded. Common decency has evaporated. Our school system is in the toilet. More than half our people are in a constant state of malnourishment. We are dying.
The state that’s supposed to take care of us – and our property – shouldn’t go rogue. The rich have gotten obscenely rich. The poor and destitute have ceased to elicit even pity from their compatriots. But the elite troops go to church and mosque every week and bows their heads – and raise their palms upwards – like faithful penitents. We must ask this – what devils are they praying to? Even more chilling, what are they beseeching the lord to give them?
I’ve watched many an African states go over the cliff. But I’ve always held out the hope that Tanzania is simply not nonsense on stilts. We can stop our country from collapsing into a heap. But this doesn’t happen by osmosis, or happenstance. Inter-elite calumny and moral bankruptcy aren’t a natural state.
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For a state to collapse, it weakens and weakens until it disintegrates.
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Gerald .M Magembe said:
Why do we say a fish rots from the head down. I reiterate here – that no state, or civilisation in history has ever achieved greatness without a great elite. This includes global hegemonies like the United States, China, France, or the United Kingdom.
In contrast, the artificially invented – and imposed – Eurocentric African post-colonial state is a disaster. These humpty-dumpties yoyo between sterility and collapse. Tanzania has retarded to the “African norm.” Blame no one, but our putrid and bankrupt elite.
It gives no pleasure – in fact I am deeply pained – to pen this column. I say so because the collective failure, the malignancy, is our shared shame. It’s true that the white man gave us a poisoned chalice. He mutilated our souls and fed them to the proverbial devil. He planted culturally demonic chips in us. Every time we try to right the ship, the demon punches the self-destruct button, and puts us in reverse.
Despair hangs in the air as our elites devour and eat their young.
At the dawn of flag independence, the white man said that we couldn’t govern ourselves. We loudly protested and pulled out the race card. Then one by one African state after African state atrophied, or collapsed. The white man was right – and so were we. That’s because he had booby-trapped the state he gave us. Pick up a timed bomb and it will blow in your face. Our problem is that we didn’t detonate the bomb before picking it up. That’s what they’ve done in Singapore and Malaysia and are attempting to do in India, Brazil, and other emerging post-colonial states. In Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere tried it, but with arguably mixed results.
Under CCM, our national cancer if unchecked shall metastasize. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. Corruption indicates will infest our bone marrow. The national debt has exploded. Common decency has evaporated. Our school system is in the toilet. More than half our people are in a constant state of malnourishment. We are dying.
The state that’s supposed to take care of us – and our property – shouldn’t go rogue. The rich have gotten obscenely rich. The poor and destitute have ceased to elicit even pity from their compatriots. But the elite troops go to church and mosque every week and bows their heads – and raise their palms upwards – like faithful penitents. We must ask this – what devils are they praying to? Even more chilling, what are they beseeching the lord to give them?
I’ve watched many an African states go over the cliff. But I’ve always held out the hope that Tanzania is simply not nonsense on stilts. We can stop our country from collapsing into a heap. But this doesn’t happen by osmosis, or happenstance. Inter-elite calumny and moral bankruptcy aren’t a natural state.
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Professorial presentation on Intellectual Capital and the contemporary African leadership? It seems a square peg in around hole under the JF environment.
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Charles Mandela said:
For a state to collapse, it weakens and weakens until it disintegrates.
A state with almost 90% people with common mind, with only 10% middle class but with peasantly attitude and behaviour cant disintegrate bz it has got no force to encourage disintergretion. But it will live in perpetual vicious cycle of poverty for years, until we will have afore sighted leader who sees beyond his political party his ego Region and tribe thats when Tz we move forward.
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mulwanaka said:
A state with almost 90% people with common mind, with only 10% middle class but with peasantly attitude and behaviour cant disintegrate bz it has got no force to encourage disintergretion. But it will live in perpetual vicious cycle of poverty for years, until we will have afore sighted leader who sees beyond his political party is ego Region and tribe that when Tz we move forward.
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I wholeheartedly do agree with you.
But the first step to solve a problem is to acknowledge that problem exists. You don't need to adore misdeeds.
It's factual that some inmates had plans to disorganized this country during and after the general election.
And one shocking thing is how we have made the abnormal to be normal.
How have we come to normalize situations like grand corruption, kidnappings people, torturing and killing politicians, repression and falsification of pupils and students academic results? How?
What we see and doing is to cry to our own, saying that even though Pro-Government Officials may have wronged, the correct process must be used to punish them. Isn't it? Of course yes, it is!
Now, this country needs structural change. You cannot do it by tinkering a few things.
Kenya's politics was an attempt to perfect Tanzania's politics. The only difference between them and us is implementation.
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Charles Mandela said:
Yes! He passed away just one year after the general election.
Again, I send my deepest condolences to the People of Tanzania, Magufuli's family and the People of East Africa at large.
We have lost a great leader. Though when he came into power, he created a different dynamic around leadership.
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A great leader this guy who killed innocent ben saanane ,aliacha binti yake mdogo nasubiri akue aje asome hizi comment zake juu ya muuaji wa baba yake aliekuwa hana hatia yoyote
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I extend my heartfelt condolences to the People of Tanzania for losing our President just at the start of his new term.
Transfer your condolences to the people of Chad. Leave us alone for we are happy to be this way
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Kwa nini tunasema samaki huoza kutoka kichwa kwenda chini. Ninasisitiza hapa - kwamba hakuna jimbo, au ustaarabu katika historia ambao umewahi kupata ukuu bila wasomi wakuu. Hii ni pamoja na nchi kubwa za ulimwengu kama Merika, Uchina, Ufaransa, au Uingereza.
Kwa upande mwingine, serikali bandia iliyobuniwa - na tuliyopewa - Serikaliza Kiafrika baada ya ukoloni ni janga. Hizi Serikali zinayoyoma kati ya utasa na kuanguka. Tanzania tumerudi nyuma mpaka kufikia "kawaida ya Kiafrika." (Tulivyokuwa kabla ya ukoloni). Hatumlaumu mtu yeyote, Ila wasomi wetu walioharibika na waliofilisika.
Haitoi raha - kwa kweli nina uchungu sana - kuandika safu hii. Nasema hivyo kwa sababu kushindwa kwetu kwa pamoja, ni uovu, ni aibu yetu ya pamoja. Ni kweli kwamba mzungu alitupa kikombe cha sumu. Alikata roho zetu na kuwalisha shetani wa methali. Alipanda chips za kitamaduni ndani yetu. Kila wakati tunapojaribu kurekebisha meli, pepo hupiga kitufe cha kujiharibu, na kutuweka katika njia inayotupelikr nyuma.
Kukata tamaa kunaning'inia angani wakati wasomi wetu wakila na kula watoto wao.
Mwanzoni mwa uhuru wa bendera, mzungu huyo alisema kwamba hatuwezi kujitawala. Tulipinga kwa sauti kubwa na tukasema huo ni y aguzi wa rangi..
Halafu moja baada ya nyingine nchi za Kiafrika baada ya kupata serikali ya Kiafrika zilianza kutetemeka, au kuanguka.
Mzungu alikuwa sahihi - na sisi pia tulikuwa hivyo. Hiyo ni kwa sababu alikuwa amenasa,ametega,hali aliyotupatia. Chukua bomu lililotegwa kwa wakati na litakulipukia usoni. Shida yetu ni kwamba hatutegua bomu kabla ya kulchukua. Hiyo ndiyo wamefanya huko Singapore na Malaysia na wanajaribu kufanya nchini India, Brazil, na mataifa mengine yanayoibuka baada ya ukoloni. Nchini Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alijaribu, lakinimafanikio hayakuwa mazuri Sana.
Chini ya CCM, saratani yetu ya kitaifa ikiwa haitadhibitiwa itasababisha tuangie.. Huna haja ya kuwa mwanasayansi wa roketi kugundua hili. Rushwa inaathiri uboho wetu. Deni la kitaifa limelipuka. Heshima ya kawaida imevukizwa. Mfumo wetu wa shule uko chooni. Zaidi ya nusu ya watu wetu wako katika hali ya utapiamlo mara kwa mara. Tunakufa.
Taifa ambalo linatakiwa kututunza - na mali zetu - viongozi wake hawapaswi kutuibia. Matajiri wamepata utajiri kufuru. Siku maskini hawahurumiwi Tena.[HP:Maskini asihurumiwe mbeie yake. Maskini mpe matumaini Huruma kazionyeshe katika mabaraza] Lakini vikosi vya wasomi huenda kanisani na msikitini kila wiki na huinamisha vichwa vyao - na kuinua mitende yao juu - kama watubu waaminifu. Lazima tuulize hili - ni mashetani gani wanaomba? Inatisha zaidi, wanamsihi bwana awape nini?
Nimeangalia mataifa mengi ya Kiafrika yakipita juu ya mwamba. Lakini nimekuwa nikitoa tumaini kwamba Tanzania sio nguvu ya soda.. Tunaweza kuzuia nchi yetu kuanguka kwenye chungu. Lakini hii haifanyiki kwa osmosis, au tukio. Utaftaji wa wasomi wa kati na kufilisika kwa maadili sio hali ya asili.
Umaskini wa roho siyo lazima. Kwa hiyo Watanzania tuishi kwa roho nzuri,tuondoe umaskini wa roho na pia wa vitu.
Shukrani Nukuu Jibu