In the 1980’s or even
perhaps before I was born; a young rebel leader once upon a time said, quote,
that the problem with Africa was African Leadership that stayed in power for a
long time, end quote.
This rebel leader fought his
way into power and thirty years later. He’s still head of state in this one
African country.
The so-called “Ebola
outbreak” is nothing else but yet another symbol of how weak African leadership
across the continent is; and how much more African leaders and Africans depend
on western support but yet in denial of the fact.
And in fact without help from the United
States and other developed countries Africa will probably be a more failed Union/stated
as a whole. Hear me out now!
If these countries did not
help “Our Great Leaders” stay in power, by war or Ebola, many of them would be
taken out. I can just see groups and groups of different tribes just murdering
each other kinda like what happened in Rwanda/Congo/Sudan/ Northern Uganda and
or Liberia and such back in the day.
Let’s not mention, that in
most parts, the Health Care Systems are beyond third world standard, next to
nothing if anything else.
These are a bunch of “Great
Leaders” who cannot control any communicable sickness like “Ebola”.
I was a child in the 1990’s
and if you geographically grew up where I grew up around that time. My friend,
you wouldn’t need a search engine to remind of the horrors of those days.
For as long as I have been
alive, Africa has been ruled by Africans; but I can only name a few great
things that have come out of this continent.
For as long as I have been
alive; it has been Africans committing “genocides” against each other and
blaming it on the west. It had been Africans committing “corruptions” against
each other and blaming it on the west.
You have a search engine
that you know how to use pretty well; find out how many mothers die giving birth
everyday. Find out how many rebels groups are kidnapping little schoolgirls and
turning them into housewives.
Find out how many dictators
won’t leave government posts peacefully. They have basically made a personal
business out of being in government. Find those things out before you can bitch
about how Ebola is the worst thing to come out of Africa, because maybe it is….
maybe it is not.
This generation of African
leadership/media has this double standard on aide from western countries. When
it is to their convince; it is good and needed and indeed a good and noble
thing. This whole “African Union” swindle.
When it is not to their
convince it is then the west sticking something up Africa’s mailbox; the
outgoing part.
Nothing else can drive this
point home than what’s going on lately; where are the plans of the “Africa
Union” to stop the communicable infections like Ebola.
Recently a dumbass told me
that the purpose of the “African Union” was apparently only to maintain peace
and that I had my understanding twisted. To which I said, “really, just to keep
peace.” That makes no sense to me, but then again…I don’t know.
But here is what I have seen
lately. African Leaders/media houses crying for more help and African Leaders
just folding their hands for Obama to send help and trust me; this time they
need the help. The same people (leaders and media) that tell us that we should
not welcome western ways and that we should not embrace western intervention in
Africa cannot run the damn continent without western aide. Double standards or
just the African way, I may ask. I don’t know!
This Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, oh
this Ebola, it is a good example of what I am talking about above; it is 2014
and we as a continent don’t have the healthcare infrastructures to control such
an infection. Sad thing however is that it is going to kill many more people even
with help from our friends from the west this time.
And still, it wouldn’t be
the worst thing to come out of Africa, no it wouldn’t. It wouldn’t be worse than
all the massive corruptions, all of the political genocides, it wouldn’t be
worse than AIDS for sure and it is not going to be the worst last thing to come
out of the Motherland. The worst thing to come out of this place, is
this generation of leaderships who cannot provide a complex healthcare system
for the population.
For God,
For the Motherland,
I am Jeremy Jjemba.
