African Development Forum

In the year 1976 in Soweto South Africa, thousands of black school children flocked in streets to demonstrate for more than half a kilometer to protest against poor education and to demand to be taught in their own language.

Some says, experience matters but some says: experience is a teacher for fools.
I don’t know who is right and who is perfect but I think the one who says that it’s for fools is very correct in some ways.
We are used to some certain types of foods claiming that they are our cultural foods, but when there is an outbreak of hunger, we eat whatever comes in front of us, we don’t necessarily care about our previous eating experience, even roots or raw foods, we drink water in front of us carelessly of safety.

So this can prove on how experience is not highly needed and hence become a teacher for fools. In other words, whatever comes in front of us, we have to receive and deal with it according to the environment it has came in. if you meet a lion yawning, you don’t have to use experience of asking your father or neighbor on how to deal with it.

Hello speak Africa, its quite sometime I haven’t posted any thing on our valuable site, is due to some normal activities.

In my country Tanzania, many of our fellow youths and citizens at large, are in a day dream of better life. Our current president Jakaya Kikwete who is also a chairman of the African union (AU), promised to bring the blessing of better life to Tanzanians when he was a presidential candidate and so many Tanzanian especially youths, gave vote by expecting better life.

But now, more than two years in power, nothing like a far smell of better life rather than a bitter one. Our president is said to have played a major role in solving Kenya’s election results disputes but in our country we are facing almost the same problem of the Zanzibar’s 200 and 2005 election results.

After the replacement of African religion by the foreign ones as a result of introduction of colonial culture in Tanzania, religious leaders are ultimately using corruption scandals as capital for their presence and care to the suffocating followers.

When it comes to religious “big days” like Christmas, Easter, or any Muslim’s day, there is selected one belief building in a certain region where the “big day’s” service is conducted nationally where the bishops, muftis and sheikhs are presenting, giving special speech in form of preaches by giving calls for the government to take care of corruption habits.

For some years now, people are going to church, some political readers are being called to be guests of honor, the great speech is given through preaches by a preaching person, usually a person with big power in a selected religious group. But guess what? They always remain calling for the government to free itself from corruption scandals.

Time to go Mzee Bob Mugabe
Adam Lusekelo
Daily News; Tuesday,April 08, 2008

WHEN he came to power back in 1980, he was my hero. When I heard that he had earned seven university degrees while in jail I could not believe it. Mzee Bob did ten years in the lam fighting for Zimbabwe 's independence.

That was all very cool. He found Southern Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) in pretty good shape economically. It was the breadbasket of Africa . It remained that for 20 years. One would think that Mzee Bob would stay for awhile, make his adieu and bow out gracefully.

That was not the case. Mzee Bob slowly started to think that the job of president was his for life. Unlike Mzee Nelson Mandela the Great who stayed for a single five-year term, Mzee Bob decided that the job was his forever.

THE EAST AFRICAN

A World Bank report has named Kenya and Uganda among sub-Sahara Africa’s top 10 recipients of migrant remittances for the second year running.

The report, titled Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008, says Kenya was the second highest recipient of remittances in 2007 with $1.3 billion, up from the $1.1 billion that the country received in 2006.

Nigeria was the highest recipient, with $3.3 billion. Other recipients in the top 10 were Sudan with $1.2 billion, Senegal and Uganda with $0.9 billion each, South Africa $0.7 billion, Lesotho $0.4 billion, Mauritius $0.2 billion, Togo $0.2 billion and Mali $0.2 billion.

The report provides snapshots of statistics on migration, recorded remittances flows, and skilled emigration for 194 countries and 13 regional income groups.

Tanzania ruling party in danger over $133million EPA scandal
Monday, 07 April 2008
By Daniel Said

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA — Suspicion that the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) was one of beneficiaries in the US$133 million External Payments Arrears (EPA) account of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), have placed the Presidential investigating team into a dilemma.

Recent reports have it that in its efforts to investigate and take “appropriate measures” as ordered by President Jakaya Kikwete, the team which comprises the Attorney General, Johnson Mwanyika, Inspector General of Police Said Mwema and the Director of Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau Edward Hosea has met a hitch.

“Our investigations is like opening up a Pandora Box because all the 22 companies involved in the EPA scandal have issued written statements that implicate the ruling CCM,” said a source close to the committee, who spoke on condition of annonimity.

Hello everyone,
Recently I have had an interest discussion with my Tanzania counterpart on the contribution of African Leaders precisely the Freedom fighters. Our discussion was mainly focus on the ideaology that existed in their minds and if it was of any value/assistance to today African welfare (econimically, politically and socio-cultural). My learner's coleague (Kamala) centred in not appreciating their efforts and he even went further by accussing them for being the main cause for failure of Africa development. As I have pointed out earlier, it is not my desire to change his perspective and infact I am in support of his ideas since he wishes to see the YOUTH OF TODAY liberited from old minds evenif their still workable.

Therefore, today I will present you the interview between the late Mwl. Nyerere and CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT (a journalist who based on finding Origin of Crisis): During this interview, one of the question she asked to Mwalimu Nyerere was on our discusssions;

Have you ever asked yourself on why the free Africa is still doing bad in development? Why does she not change this bitter situation with high speed needed? Where is the main problem and blunders?

When coming to reshaping our continent and solving our problems, I always believe we must start by first tracing where is the root course of the said problem so as to start solving it with successful results. Otherwise we shall remain complaining and doing the same thing all the time since the root cause is still un-uprooted.

Or beloved Africa started freedom movement in early 50s and now some nations have witnessed fifty years of their independence or so with little democracy, limping growth but with enough disease, corruption cases not to mention violence, ethnicity differences of all forms.

Corruption, fraud and bribery are now familiar terms in this world of capitalism. Term corruption is mainly used to describe fraud, bribery etc. at the end of the day, one wonders on the real meaning of the word corruption.

The rise of corruption behaviours has led to various definitions. It can be described as the use of public office for private gain. It is an outcome or consequences of weak or bad leadership.
Mathematical formula for corruption is: (nepotism + selfishness) – (accountability + transparency) = corruption.

Who is clean enough to fight corruption? Are you clean enough to fight corruption? Imagine you are in a car garage, in church or pub, you come across a bunch of money laying on the floor, no one saw you therefore there is no evidence that you’re the one picked bunch un easy to count amount of money.
What could you do? Could you report the money to the police and try to search the owner? Possibly you will mute and keep the money?