Whether we like or not, 50 years of freedom and independence have found significant majority of Tanzanians wamepigika na kukata tamaa na maisha. You know what? About 41 percent of Tanzanians miss at least one meal every day. The situation is popularly known pasi ndefu among SAUT students. Apart from food intake, many of our children are stunted because of malnutrition. Health and life expectancy is generally lower. In cities, housing and basic services are worse. Education system produces many job seekers and not creators because students memorize without understanding and those few who are professionally talented are migrating out of the country. Decrease in investment by nationals in the country remains unrealized.
Fifty years of independence finds our Agriculture commonly known as backbone of the country in intensive care unit because people go hungry while we have every sort kind of fertile land. We are surrounded with water bodies but our agriculture remains a rain-fed. Turning on the personal security one finds a lot to be desired. Do you know what? Personal security is low and violent crimes are increasing: police seem unable to control it. Albino wanachinjwa kama kuku siku ya kipaimara, ndoa, krismasi na idd el fit.
Fifty years of independence some natural resources have become a curse to most of Tanzanians. People are raped, killed and others are infected with contaminated water from gold mining plants. Leaders don’t see anything wrong to sign crazy contracts for their personal benefits. The Whiteman thing is nobody’s business.
Fifty Years of independence the majority of Tanzanians suffer from Economy of Affection syndrome. Do you know why? Because of Economy of Affection we have so many leaders who are the results of kitu kidogo, kinywaji and t-shirts.
Fifty years of independence, where did we go wrong? Should we keep on arguing, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa?” No. Should we crucify Nyerere who defined development in the context of land, good politics and people? I don’t know. But do you know the faults of baba wa Taifa? He ignored information and communication. Remember an adage information is power? Nobody can develop if he has no effective communication. Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) once said: A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. This shows that information is the food of our minds and through it one gets knowledge for strong decision making. One of the US presidents, Jefferson once said: …were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.
Today US is the world prefect in democracy, economic, technology etc because communication and information were made very potential players in building their nation. In Tanzania Nyerere didn’t allow freedom of communication although he used media for independent struggle. Zidumu fikra za mwenyekiti wa chama na zawengine zidumae reigned the media of Nyerere Kingdom and reinforced the culture of fear among Tanzanians. Mkubwa akiongea hutakiwi kupinga.
Effective communication would allow people to make vibrant decisions through achieving sustainable development. Amartya Seni in his various studies regarding development contended that no famine has ever occurred in a country that has among others things, free media. This reflects the adage that communication is power.
3 comments:
Nice Article:
The problem is during ujamaa era our leaders were told that Capitalism is theft, so after Capitalism being oficialized as our system nowadays under the same leaders who leaned that Capitalism is theft they are now practicing it.
Mwanahapa.
with refference to achebes things fall apart discuss the colonial notion that africa has no historical interest
I'm proud of such spirit. the spirit of kigoma people does not necessarily require school knowledge to have a critical thinking because these people eat MIGEBUKA which is one of rare types of fish containing OMEGA3 that activates brain. Unabisho kafanye marudio ya somo lako la biology, kemia au muone dactari wako wa vichocheo na vichokoo vya mwili wako. However when such people get to school, Jesus! they become NOMA!Haya sasa Denis ishia sifa hizo wewe na wenzako wengi turudi kwenye point.
When we talk of independence while our mind is psychologically in captive as in communication (see how we boast to speak this slavery and grand-colonial language) when we sold or is it that we abandoned our God (Love) and chose to pray to that foreign god of whites (selfishness) then how independent are we? someone might be independent physically but enslaved internally. thank you for your good analysis for the 50years of deception not (INDEPENDENCE)
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