Bitter Africans Cannot Save Africa
History has
it that there is a group of Africans who have over time thronged western
universities for "quality" education only to return home very bitter
women and men. All they do is attack the all-time wicked westernization of the
world. It is fine to stand against western ideologies that have sacked the rest
of the world especially Africa dry in service of the western good. But again
can't these people pose a moment and ask one question. Why should the west
continue giving scholarships to
people, some of whom have demonstrated a history of returning home only to
attack the same west from whose system they have benefited? Are the masterminds
so dumb? No. There is another school of thought. Their conspiracy is working;
very well actually.
The purposes of scholarships for western education targeting
Africans are varied and include but not limited to the following: (a) convert
some and make them western agents and puppets of teh west in Africa upon their return; (b) retain some to
stay and work in the west, especially the best ones; (c) make some acquire a don't
care approach to life especially by luring them into a false belief that westerners
are no better than Africans in terms of social welfare and that both suffer from similar or related
challenges of life forgetting that the west has better access to basic things
like healthcare that remain distant to many Africans; and (d) anger some such
that when they return they do nothing productive for and in Africa but spend their entire adult life
attacking the west instead of working to develop Africa.
I am worried this last
one is becoming rampant these days. I am saddened that brilliant people that I
have known very well are returning from the west, not only with post-graduate
and doctoral degrees but also with a lot of anger and bitterness which I doubt
is going to help Africa in any way. For Africa to emancipate herself from slavery she needs sons and daughters with cool heads. Just as angry women are never good champions of gender
equality, bitter Africans are not going to be better champions of #blacklivesmatter
Bitter Africans Cannot Save Africa
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
November 24, 2016
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