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Uganda: Why Black People Have Remained Backward
http://allafrica.com/stories/200702061131.html
The Monitor (Kampala)
COLUMN
February 7, 2007
Posted to the web February 6, 2007
Elias Biryabarema
Mr. Yoweri Museveni has a background of good education. A calm and
well exposed man. Straight thinking and intelligent. His grasp of
contemporary world affairs, including some quite complex stuff, is
commendably firm.
For years he burned his young energies battling vile governments.
Narrowly escaping death on occasions, he showed resolve, sacrifice,
devotion to his people and a deep abhorrence for oppressive
leadership. Sure. This man had no shortage of good qualities.
And yet, to the astonishment of history, Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has
still failed us. 20 years at nation building have produced
incompetence so shocking that some think a psychopathic illiterate,
Idi Amin, did better work.
Uganda has been fairly stable long enough. The conditions for an
economic takeoff have been there for 20 years. Mr. Museveni has
enjoyed generous goodwill from nearly all the world's rich
governments. Their largesse has poured in ceaselessly and in hefty
amounts.
Uganda should have taken off. We haven't. We're stuck. And so is
Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Eritrea,
Malawi, Congo Republic and pretty much all of Black Africa, excluding
the region's sole economic power, South Africa. This led me to pose a
question to myself: can Black people build prosperous societies?
Just about every reason-from slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism to
inequitable world trade rules-cited for the backwardness of Black
African nations has been so debunked by time that it has now become
necessary to look beyond the realm of such contemporary explanations.
The maddening inertia of Black people and the mystical forces that
keep tamping down our nations, in fact, seem to have their roots deep
within us, not from without as has been argued for decades.
Just about everywhere you look, evidence abounds. Vietnam suffered a
war of colonial conquest and it was eventually subdued by France in
1884. For almost a decade, it again fought a devastating independence
war until France was vanquished in 1954. And then came the epic battle
of 1965 to 1973 with US military and its allies, seeking to squelch
the North Vietnamese communists.
When the guns fell silent with the withdrawal of US troops in 1973 and
the eventual fall of Saigon in 1975, the Vietnamese toll stood at a
horrifying three to four million. Diplomatically isolated, its economy
shredded and its population maimed and traumatised on a scale
unparalleled in any Black African nation (except DR Congo), Vietnam
would seem to have no chance at success.
But just two and a half decades later, Vietnam is storming the world
stage as an economic powerhouse. Its exports are flooding western
nations; heavy and advanced manufacturing is thriving at a rapid pace.
Its GDP, $258 billion, is having an average growth rate of 8%, the
second highest in Asia after China. Europe had to put curbs on the
country's shoe exports after they nearly sunk much of the continent's
manufacturers.
According to a news report in New York Times on October 25, 2006,
Vietnam now sells "nine times as much to Americans as it buys from
there." Since 1990, a space of 15 short years, Vietnam has pulled off
one of the most stunning economic feats: reducing absolute poverty-
World Bank standard: subsisting on $1 a day-from 51 to 8% of its
population.
Vietnam
Back home here, the sort of wars and the scale of devastation that
Uganda has suffered since independence can hardly be said to be as
crippling as the cataclysm that struck Vietnam.
This is true for many of the Black African nations. But the difference
is staggering. Vietnam's economy is roaring. Sub Saharan Africa is
dead stuck known more for: constant disease outbreaks, emergency food
relief appeals, civil strive, genocide, chronic corruption, flimsy or
nonexistent infrastructure, constitution breaches, state failure than
anything else. This disgusting state of affairs after, according to an
estimate by South Africa's Brenthurst Foundation, a colossal $580
billion worth of donor money has been poured into the region since
independence. Why have the Vietnamese overcome their historical
setbacks and prospered while Black Africans stagnated or regressed?
Or if we may ask another question: why is it that White people prosper
wherever they settle while Black people head for the opposite
direction. The British crown started asserting its colonial rule over
small territories on the continent of Australia in 1788, taking
several decades before it brought all the areas into a unified
Australian colony.
Throngs of Europeans emigrated en masse and settled there throughout
the 1800s. These émigrés went ahead, starting from really little or
nothing, and established one of the world's economic and military
powers that is Australia today. The history of New Zealand, the other
White country in the Southern Hemisphere, is pretty much the same.
Now contrast these nations with Haiti, the only black nation outside
of Africa. It gained independence in 1804. It's near the US, the
richest market on earth and Haiti has a coastline unlike other African
nations whose landlocked status is blamed for their underdevelopment.
And fine, it has had a fairly brutal past but nowhere near Vietnam's
horrors. But what have our Haitian brothers made of these generous
natural advantages: it remains the most backward country in the
Western hemisphere, bound up by privation, cyclical coups, spasms of
mayhem and blood-thirsty gangs. At home and away, that's your Black
people!
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Uganda
In fact Haiti is perhaps just about the best that we can achieve in
nation building. Ethiopia never had colonialism. It registered
impressively high levels of literacy as early as 1970, a fact a friend
of mine brought to my attention recently. It has a rich and widely
shared cultural heritage, a common ancestry. This should have
propelled Ethiopia but see the shameful portrait of hunger and disease
that this country projects to the world.
And so, to go back to that question that I have been chewing over and
over again of late: can Black People build prosperous societies; I
firmly believe the answer is a sad NO.
The dumbfounding incompetence of President Museveni thus is not a
failure of an individual. It's a failure of a people: Black People.
Museveni only rose and touched our low ceiling. The shamefully limited
achievement of his "fundamental change" regime thus should be
interpreted in this cruel context.
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| Re: Vir Hessie en die ander lib's [boodskap #113379 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #113340] |
Ma, 05 Maart 2007 11:56  |
Torreke
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"Vuur" < wrote
> And so, to go back to that question that I have been chewing over and
> over again of late: can Black People build prosperous societies; I
> firmly believe the answer is a sad NO.
Die belangrikste sleutel om die mislukking van Swartes te verstaan, lê in
die woorde "I firmly believe the answer is a sad NO".
Dit gaan oor selfbeeld! Wittes EN Swartes het so lank vir mekaar gesê dat
Wittes suksesvol is en Swartes 'n mislukking dat daar gewoon bitter min
swartes is wat op gebalanseerde wyse glo dat hulle 'n sukses kan maak.
Swartes lei aan 'n kollektiewe minderwaardigheidskompleks - 'n kollektiewe
swak selfbeeld. Met so 'n selfbeeld kan geen mens slaag nie - ook nie die
briljantste witmens nie!!!
Die kollektiewe minderwaarheidskompleks manifesteer homself op een van twee
maniere: (1) Soos in hierdie artikel deur gewoon negatief tot die slotsom te
kom "Swartes kan nie!", of (2) 'n hardkoppigheid wat ten alle koste wil
bewys swartes kan (dan is daar geen waardering vir wittes en hul bydrae nie,
plekname moet verander word, geskoolde wittes word met ongeskoolde swartes
vervang, ens.)
Albei manifestasies is ewe katastrofies!
In plaas daarvan om die skouers moedeloos op te haal... ( soos in hierdie
artikel)
of soos 'n drie-jarige kind te skree "ek kan ...." (wanneer die nodige
vaardighede nog nie ontwikkel is nie)
moet Swartes eerder aan hulle kollektiewe selfbeeld werk,
leer om gebalanseerd oor hulleself te dink,
d.i. glo hulle kan, as hulle eers die kennis en vaardighede aangeleer het,
waardering vir hulle "vyande" en "onderdrukkers" se prestasies kry,
en bereid word om van hulle "vyande" te leer - selfs van die gehate
Afrikaner wittes!!!
Dan is daar natuurlik ook die kwessie van skuldverplasing. Dis iemand
anders se skuld dat dit met hulle sleg gaan. So lank as iemand - ook die
briljantste witte! - vassteek by wat ander aan hom verkeerd gedoen het, het
hy geen hoop om 'n susksesvolle bestaan te voer nie. Dis wanneer iemand
bereid is om die sleg wat met hom gebeur het, agter hom te sit, en
verantwoordelikheid vir sy eie lewe en toekoms te aanvaar, wat hy 'n sukses
maak.
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| Re: Vir Hessie en die ander lib's [boodskap #113419 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #113379] |
Di, 06 Maart 2007 17:05 |
Waaierstertmuis
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"Torreke" skryf:
> Die belangrikste sleutel om die mislukking van Swartes te verstaan, lê in
> die woorde "I firmly believe the answer is a sad NO".
>
> Dit gaan oor selfbeeld! Wittes EN Swartes het so lank vir mekaar gesê dat
> Wittes suksesvol is en Swartes 'n mislukking dat daar gewoon bitter min
> swartes is wat op gebalanseerde wyse glo dat hulle 'n sukses kan maak.
Spot on, Torreke! Ek stem heeltemal saam met jou.
Dis mos ook wat Bill Cosby hier vir die swart Amerikaanse jeug probeer
sê het, toe sy woorde erg verdraai was deur die media.
Ek reken ook dieselfde geld vir 'n sekere faksie Afrikaners. Hulle
het altyd "onderdruk" en minderwaardig gevoel teenoor die Engelse, en
mens sien dit vandag nog in hulle lae selfbeeld en ander fasette van
hulle kultuur. Dit was onlangs weer bevestig met die De La Rey saga -
ons kan niks vir onsself doen nie, iemand moet ons kom lei.
'n Meer ernstige manifestasie van hulle selfbejammering en lae
selfbeeld kan gesien word in die xenofobiese gesprekke op die forum en
sekerlik meer in hulle privaat lewens.
Intelligensie en ander genetiese faktore, speel natuurlik ook 'n groot
rol, maar ek reken hierdie "selfbeeld" en "kollektiewe
minderwaardigheidskompleks" konsep van jou is van die grootste
struikelblokke vir enige groep om te oorkom.
En "skuldverplasing" - kolskoot weereens. Alles aan die einde van die
dag weens daardie lae selfbeeld en minderwaardigheidsgevoel.
Tragies...tragies, maar mens kan darem seker daaraan begin werk as
meer mense net die kern van die probleem kan erken en raaksien?
Mooi saamgevat - dankie!
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