My opinion

I have always thought what we can do to uplift our African people from the clutches of poverty hunger and malnutrition. As of now fellow Africans in the horn of Africa are facing starvation of untold magnitude which is threatening to tear the northern part of Africa apart. But what is the problem? Why is it that many African countries seem so vulnerable even to minor shocks? Africa is a continent well endowed with natural resources and by its sheer size it should be able to feed itself without any reliance on the outside world. The sheer sight of what is happening in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia is too grim to behold. Where is the leadership in Africa? What are they saying or doing about this. The leadership in many African countries is always thinking of how to twist their constitutions so that they are elected into office in the next elections or so that they stay long in power and even those leaders that seem to have a degree of conscience cannot speak to their friends because they would need support from them against their own people in one way or anoter. Where is the New Economic Policy for African Development today with its proposed peer review mechanism? It is somewhere gathering dust because corrupt African brutes like Mugabe would not accept such a document. But it is time for African masses to rise up make demands from their leaders and fight for their own destinies. Life has only two choices-it is either you fight or you die and only cowards choose the latter.