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GOVERNANCE – AFRICAN CONTINENT

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WHAT WENT WRONG ???

Today, in most African countries the citizens are way ahead, hate and fear the Presidents for Life. The corruption, lack of health, education, jobs. The dreams have turned to dust.

WHY?

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Absolute power is the cancer of absolute corruption. Government by the power clique, for the clique. Forget the people. Subjugate the poor.

Cameroon, Uganda, Ruanda… presidents change the constitution in order to stay in power. To stay alive and avoid prosecution for corruption, killing, suppressing…

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Madiba said: « Africans don’t lack in ability, they lack opportunity ».

Yeah, like 70%+ unemployment, unless Daddy knows a Big Man.

WHAT TO DO?

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GOOD GOVERNMENT CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT GOOD OPPOSITION

Winston Churchill said to an adversary: « I detest your opinions, but I will fight for your right to express them ».

African Presidents, don’t arrest, silence, kill your political adversaries. Protect and treasure them. It is they that make you think harder, think better. Serve the people.

GOOD GOVERNANCE NEEDS GOOD OPPOSITION!

 

 

 

10 REASONS WHY COLONIALISM WAS BAD, BAD, BAD!

AFRICAN CONTINENT, Apartheid, Britain, COLO, COLONIALISM, Non classé

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EUROPEAN COUNTRIES INVADED, SETTLED & FINALLY COLONISED THE ENTIRE AFRICAN CONTINENT. 

South Africa was among the first territories to be settled, by the Dutch in 1562, unseated shortly after by the British.

Formal colonial rule was, for the most part, imposed in the latter part of the 19th Century, principally by Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany…

To ‘justify’ the scramble for Africa and its wealth, a Platonic Founding Myth had to be found:

“to civilise the barbarian natives of darkest Africa.”

The so-called mission of civilisation was uniformly carried out in the following manner:

1)      Seizure and confiscation of all land.

2)      Pillaging and theft of all natural assets. 

3)      Systematic murder, (ethnic cleansing), of dissident tribes  – Bushmen & Hottentots. 

4)      The creation of the Slave Trade.

5)      Introduction of Race Laws to suppress and de-humanise.

6)      The imposition of Christianity. In name but NOT in practice.

7)      Limitation of freedom of movement and education – a.k.a. Apartheid.

8)      The pretence that the indigenous population was inferior – unter-mensch.

9)      Institutionalisation of a Baas culture, with the superiority of the White man.

10)    The lasting impoverishment, to this day, of the entire population of the Continent.

Apologists for Colonialisation argue that Europe brought to Africa: roads, transport, skyscrapers, gold mines … Yes for the white settlers, but NO for the disenfranchised.

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TIME4JAZZ

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M U S I C  &  C U L T U R E  O F 20th C E N T U R Y

The music of 20th century culture was Jazz and Blues. Rooted in Africa, perhaps especially Cameroon, and transported by slavery to the New World.

My personal faves: Basie, Bessie Smith, Bird, Coltrane, Lester Young & wife Billie Holiday, Miles, Mingus, Monk, Roach, Rollins… BB King, Big Mama Thornton, Nina Simone and the great Buddy Guy. I can listen day and night to Yusef Lateef’s flute.
This musical genius equals Bach, Beethoven, Mozart. Just listen to Bach and Monk which bridges and unites centuries.


Brit Rock of the 50s/60s could not have existed without these giants. Clapton, Beck, Keith Richards . . . listen and learn every mother loving day.


If I were forced to choose one only musician to take to my desert isle I would hesitate between ‘Trane and Duke for their sheer genius.


Finally I would choose Duke who I had the privilege of meeting, when I was 18, at a full rehearsal in Coventry Cathedral, my country’s symbol of « no more war. » But I would smuggle in the entire oeuvre of John Coltrane, ‘cos every time I hear it, it’s like for the first time around.


J A Z Z   L I V E S – L I S T E N  I N. https://youtu.be/PYgow060zOg

MUGABE – 37 YEARS IN POWER

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th-4SAINT OR SINNER Robert Mugabe, a highly educated man, became PM then President of Zimbabwe from 1980 and is still there at the ripe old age of 93 this February, predicting that he will continue unt…

Source : MUGABE – 37 YEARS IN POWER

MUGABE – 37 YEARS IN POWER

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SAINT OR SINNER Robert Mugabe, a highly educated man, became PM then President of Zimbabwe from 1980 and is still there at the ripe old age of 93 this February, predicting that he will continue unt…

Source : MUGABE – 37 YEARS IN POWER

DYING PRIEST BEGS POLITICIAN AND POLICE CHIEF TO ACCOMPANY HIM

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FLATTERED THEY ASK « WHY THIS HONOUR? » The priest on his deathbed replied with simplicity: JESUS DIED BETWEEN 2 THIEVES

Source : DYING PRIEST BEGS POLITICIAN AND POLICE CHIEF TO ACCOMPANY HIM

THE POST MORTEM

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THE DEATH OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY REASONS WHY –  DEADLY SINS Know your target voter – the pissed-off blue-collar American who can no longer make ends meet, and blames the Washington Estab…

Source : THE POST MORTEM

THE POST MORTEM

America, Brexit, BREXIT, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Non classé, Obama, Presidential Election

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THE DEATH OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

REASONS WHY – 7 DEADLY SINS

Know your target voter – the pissed-off blue-collar American who can no longer make ends meet, and blames the Washington Establishment Elite – the Democrats, except Joe Biden, didn’t have a clue. The line-up of gazillionaire celebs made bad worse.

Press the flesh – be the people’s candidate. He did, She didn’t. Her ridiculous rictus – so unnatural, so false.

Never under-estimate your adversary – the Democrats sneered, even Obama made like Trump is a clown. Result cognitive dissonance.

Anticipate bad surprises – Hillary left herself wide open to the email slur, instead of fessing-up in advance. Mea culpa is the best defence to ward off attacks.

Know your weaknesses – He chose a respectful running mate, she chose a nonentity, instead of a rough-house, « one of us » guys.

Learn from others’ errors – this was an exact replay of Brexit, where the toffee-nosed insiders talked down to the same silent, forgotten majority. Predictably with the same catastrophic result.

Understand message sent ain’t message received – like 30 years experience to the dis-enchanted reads « all bad ». She made a sitting duck of herself.

K.I.S.S. – keep it simple stupid! « The buck stops here », « Good Morning America », « It’s the Economy stupid », « Yes we can ». « Make America Great ».What did we get from Hillary: gobbeldy-gook, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb…

Hillary seized defeat from the jaws of victory, from the most abominable showman ever to disgrace his Nation.

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 IT WAS HER’S TO WIN!

AUTOPSY – I fear that historians will look back on BREXIT and November 9, 2016 as the first day of WW3.