Let Us Learn

Let us learn from our past...
Learn from the great people who made our history...
Learn from Kwame N'Krumah in Ghana, the father of Africanism
Learn from Sekou Toure in Guinea, who stood against the colonial French
Learn from Robert Mugabe the hero from Zimbabwe
Learn from Francois Tombalbaye in Chad
Learn from the Malian panafricanist Modibo Keita
And learn from many more of these great people

Learn how they fought for their people
Learn from their courage to stand against adversity
Learn from their vision of Africa

But...

Let us learn from our past...
Learn from N'Krumah who toward the end fall from grace
Let us learn from Toure who became a tyrant
Let us learn from Mugabe who does not want to let go
Let us learn from Tombalbaye who died a dictator
Learn from Keita who died disgraced in a jail
And learn from many more of these great people who did not finish that great

Learn why they did not finish as good as they started
Learn from their mistakes
Learn from what went wrong

They remain the great heroes of our history

But...

In order to build a better future...
Let us learn from our past.

Ayemi L.

Andrew Mwenda: Let's take a new look at African aid

Along the same line with what I have previously written about foreign aid in Africa, I would like to share this video with my readers.
Andrew Mwenda is a journalist from Uganda. He talks about Africa's development and the role foreign aid is playing.
In this provocative presentation made during a TED conference, Andrew Mwenda invites his listeners to take a new look at Africa. I won't comment on it, just watch the video...And if you still have some minutes, go back and read, if you haven't read it yet, my previous post "Book Review: The White man's Burden"



Hey! Also...HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY READERS!!!

Ayemi L. @ http:www.ayemil.blogspot.com