[UAH] Theory of Tired Ugandans uprising:
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My Theory is that not until Uganda[as a country] achieves a life expectancy of about 75 years would we have the kind of protests in Algeria, Libya,Syria,Egypt and Turkey. These countries unsurprisingly have better standards of living than Uganda.In Turkey life expectancy is 73.9 years,Libya 77.88,Syria 75.84,Egypt 73.20 Algeria 73.0 Causes cited by the protestors in Algeria include unemployment, the lack of housing, food-price inflation, corruption, restrictions on freedom of speech and poor living conditions. We have all these and more in Uganda where life expectancy is a mere 48 plus years or there about. No Uganda leader would love to be unseated by popular revolt and so what our leaders would do is keep life expectancy to a minimum and to keep majority of the population poor and uneducated. That's my theory
A bad leader will invariably want to stifle his people of the "excessive freedom" and use force to repress it. A bad leader will set up units to monitor what people say on social medial and will also control the media in the country.The psychological impact of it is that you can repress the freedom of the people for a limited period of time. It cannot be repressed forever.
As Jean Paul Sartre says, "Man is freedom" and there seems not to be limit to this freedom. Without freedom there cannot be knowledge. It is from freedom of expression that we become knowledgeable about ourselves and the environment we live in. Take that natural gift from humans then they are not homo sapiens any more. What defines us as humans is fundamentally this freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom to make choices etc.
The mechanism through which it works is by creating the environment whereby people can say what they want. If you fail to do this, the day they have the slightest opportunity to protest, it will be like wild fire. And that is precisely what happened in North Africa which we called Arab Spring.
Arab political leaders thought that by giving their people the basic essentials of life there would be no reason for anyone to criticize them. They were wrong. See what is happening in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen etc where their people are denied the right to exercise their freedom. It is conflict and war all over the places.
Education plays a vital role in this. You cannot silence intellectuals, academics, political elites from exercising their right to free speech or freedom of expression. Women are coming out in droves to say no to men domination. They can voice out today than ever before because of their access to western education.
President M7 may succeed in having his son as the next president of Uganda but he will be temporarily suspending a future rebellion in our country. If he loves Uganda, let him drop that so called 'Muhoozi' project and at least build a similarity of independent state institutions before he is called by his creator. Yes, he will die one day and this is the best he can do for Uganda before this happens.
Freedom! Freedom!! Freedom!!!
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Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa:UMBS is a registered organization devoted to matters of interest to Muslims in Uganda.Muslims from other countries are welcome to join us too. Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/UMBSFORUM. To donate to UMBS activities, click on: http://um-bs.com/donate/ or just deposit money on UMBS Bank A/C at Bank of Africa:07074320002 .
A bad leader will invariably want to stifle his people of the "excessive freedom" and use force to repress it. A bad leader will set up units to monitor what people say on social medial and will also control the media in the country.The psychological impact of it is that you can repress the freedom of the people for a limited period of time. It cannot be repressed forever.
As Jean Paul Sartre says, "Man is freedom" and there seems not to be limit to this freedom. Without freedom there cannot be knowledge. It is from freedom of expression that we become knowledgeable about ourselves and the environment we live in. Take that natural gift from humans then they are not homo sapiens any more. What defines us as humans is fundamentally this freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom to make choices etc.
The mechanism through which it works is by creating the environment whereby people can say what they want. If you fail to do this, the day they have the slightest opportunity to protest, it will be like wild fire. And that is precisely what happened in North Africa which we called Arab Spring.
Arab political leaders thought that by giving their people the basic essentials of life there would be no reason for anyone to criticize them. They were wrong. See what is happening in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen etc where their people are denied the right to exercise their freedom. It is conflict and war all over the places.
Education plays a vital role in this. You cannot silence intellectuals, academics, political elites from exercising their right to free speech or freedom of expression. Women are coming out in droves to say no to men domination. They can voice out today than ever before because of their access to western education.
President M7 may succeed in having his son as the next president of Uganda but he will be temporarily suspending a future rebellion in our country. If he loves Uganda, let him drop that so called 'Muhoozi' project and at least build a similarity of independent state institutions before he is called by his creator. Yes, he will die one day and this is the best he can do for Uganda before this happens.
Freedom! Freedom!! Freedom!!!
--
Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa:UMBS is a registered organization devoted to matters of interest to Muslims in Uganda.Muslims from other countries are welcome to join us too. Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/UMBSFORUM. To donate to UMBS activities, click on: http://um-bs.com/donate/ or just deposit money on UMBS Bank A/C at Bank of Africa:07074320002 .
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