G8 and G Beggars from Africa.

G8 and G Beggars from Africa. The season of reaping where nobody has sown has come. Super rich countries-G8 converged in Toyako, Hokkaido Japan. Along with this summit, African rulers in their expensive suits gate crushed the conference to foster their desire and hoo-ha.The G8 talks participants included leaders of Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. Shamelessly, Africa sent her master beggars to go and convince the high and mighty that this time around they’ll make changes that have never arrived. Why should African rulers go to G8 meeting whilst they have nothing substantial even for their countries and region? Topspins were shrewdly at work appointing sweet words for pleasing and convincing donors. Their briefcases were full of pamphlets on development, economic revival, structural adjustments and what not. "I said that sanctions... wouldn't change the regime," Senegal's leader Abdoulaye Wade told AFP news agency. What then should change this illegal regime in Zimbabwe? Hear president Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania speak: “The only area that we may differ is on the way forward. You see differently but for us in Africa we see differently, but I think again there is still room for us for discussion.” What does this really mean? No definition or elaboration of this different point of view and why! As Africa’s coffers are drained to finance trips to Japan and night allowances for those tourists that went there to enjoy all yum-yum and do some shopping, one mind boggling question is still looming: for how long shall Africa depend on cup-in-hand missions deprived of vision? Last meeting in Germany, many resolutions were reached at. Important of all was the drive to stamp out corruption and poverty as the means of reviving Africa’s economy. Ask our rulers. What did they attain since then? What did Africa achieve? Japanese Foreign Ministry press spokesman Kazuo Kodama acknowledged that Africa was well behind target on health, but added: “G8 leaders will certainly deliver a strong and concrete message to help African countries to achieve MDGs.” If I were G8 leaders, I would oblige African mumbo jumbos to make sure that they put their house in order before speaking whatever ballyhoos and hoo-ha they have. Ask African rulers: How much did they attain with respects to those they agreed upon in Germany? There is nothing but politics and blah blah. Kikwete, who is also head of the African Union, said: “I want to assure you that the concerns that you have expressed are indeed the concerns of many of us in the African continent.” “I believe the G8 should send a strong message so as to ensure that democracy in Zimbabwe will be protected,” Brown was quoted in a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. Let me surmise by telling our beggars that they are bringing shame on us all. Stop begging and start thinking right. Invest in your people in lieu of begging and self degrading. By Nkwazi Mhango The African Exectutive http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=3320&magazine=185 Mhango is a Tanzanian living in Canada. He is a Journalist, Teacher, Human Rights activist and member of the Writers' Association of New Foundland and Labrador (WANL)

Could it be by some strange coindence this insiteful commentary by Nkwazi Mhango, comes at a time that this year's G8 conference is taken place in a country that historically has placed such a high premium on personal honor? Those of us who have a little mileage under the hood, as in a reference to age, can remember when the leadership class of Japanese society would carry out hari-kari, a Japanese ritural of honor in which in the final stage, one takes one's own life when one failed to accomplish a very important task or participated in something that brought dishonor to one's own house and or nation. This ritural or honor may seem to be a drastic measure to many but the fact remains that this is the clearest indicator that a people can have in place for a society who places honor so high that it is willing to excercise it when the conditions present themselves.

But in order for a people to have this level of honor for themselves and too revere it too the degree that if would be unthinkable too live any other way, they must first know about what it is too be with shame and, to find that state of being too be so horrendous that they would never think of considering life that way. These "so called African leaders" do not know the meaning of the word honor and they have none. And because they have no honor they have no shame. Their only concern is the continued amassing of personal wealth and power over their own "little hoods" . These "so called" African leader are of the material world and they worship at the alter of the golden calf. They are mentally lazy, have no grand vision of a people and a countinent that is truly free and independent and so conviced of their own inferiority that the notion of doing for self never enters their tiny minds. These African leaders pay lip service to true Pan-Africanism. For them to reach across the pond(s) to the black diaspora of highly qualified Africans would make their slave masters angry and also upset the control that they exercise over their indiviual "hoods". Just like the "thug gangsters that inhabit many of America's inner cities, these African leaders are, in reality the same, but only with more "turf" too terrorize and with more deadly weapons.

In closing I feel that at least one of the member states of the G8 should tell those "so called" African leaders about themselves in no uncertain terms ,but, that's not going to happen because it would not be diplomatically appropriate or in the interest of those members who seek to continue to have their individual and collective turn at screwing the whore that African has become in the eyes of the world.

Mel Wade

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Talib Muhammad July 17, 2008 at 7:59pm

Akwaaba

I find it ironic that several of the countries that belong to this "exclusive" economic club are primarily responsible for the current predicament the continent finds itself in. Namely the U.S. and the U.K.! I think it reflects poorly on those of us in the diaspora that we would allow Africa to assume the role of "beggar"! I think it's time for those of us who claim to be "conscious" to organize and reconnect with those on the continent to reclaim Africa from those who seek to re-colonize!

Abibifahodie
NYMetro

Mel Wade July 17, 2008 at 1:37pm

Could it be by some strange coindence this insiteful commentary by Nkwazi Mhango, comes at a time that this year's G8 conference is taken place in a country that historically has placed such a high premium on personal honor? Those of us who have a little mileage under the hood, as in a reference to age, can remember when the leadership class of Japanese society would carry out hari-kari, a Japanese ritural of honor in which in the final stage, one takes one's own life when one failed to accomplish a very important task or participated in something that brought dishonor to one's own house and or nation. This ritural or honor may seem to be a drastic measure to many but the fact remains that this is the clearest indicator that a people can have in place for a society who places honor so high that it is willing to excercise it when the conditions present themselves.

But in order for a people to have this level of honor for themselves and too revere it too the degree that if would be unthinkable too live any other way, they must first know about what it is too be with shame and, to find that state of being too be so horrendous that they would never think of considering life that way. These "so called African leaders" do not know the meaning of the word honor and they have none. And because they have no honor they have no shame. Their only concern is the continued amassing of personal wealth and power over their own "little hoods" . These "so called" African leader are of the material world and they worship at the alter of the golden calf. They are mentally lazy, have no grand vision of a people and a countinent that is truly free and independent and so conviced of their own inferiority that the notion of doing for self never enters their tiny minds. These African leaders pay lip service to true Pan-Africanism. For them to reach across the pond(s) to the black diaspora of highly qualified Africans would make their slave masters angry and also upset the control that they exercise over their indiviual "hoods". Just like the "thug gangsters that inhabit many of America's inner cities, these African leaders are, in reality the same, but only with more "turf" too terrorize and with more deadly weapons.

In closing I feel that at least one of the member states of the G8 should tell those "so called" African leaders about themselves in no uncertain terms ,but, that's not going to happen because it would not be diplomatically appropriate or in the interest of those members who seek to continue to have their individual and collective turn at screwing the whore that African has become in the eyes of the world.

Mel Wade

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