{UAH} Power struggle is not the best option

All human beings desire change for the better. This is an impulse inherent in man since the time of creation. The first couple on earth had it but lost the blissful Garden of Eden by heeding to the wrong counsel. How could a serpent know better about humans than humans themselves? Ideas that ruin families, marriages or even nations sometimes come from failures. Careers of many students are blighted in company of those with no hope of success.

You must believe that you have something unique to contribute to the human society. Without this self-belief you will end up playing the copy-cat and struggle for positions that don't suit you. There are scenarios where keeping a lower profile is the best option. Yet nobody really knows when to do so.

Julius Nyerere was persecuted for turning Tanzania into a socialist one-party-state and setting up collective village farms called Ujaama. His country faced a severe economic slump after helping Ugandan exiles to oust Idi Amin. In brief, Nyerere and his country became losers. However, Tanzania is the only African country where power transitions have taken place peacefully without cries of election rigging, coups or armed rebellions. Tribalism, nepotism and corruption are also minimal.

About two years ago, Libyans rose against their leader Col Muammar Gaddaffi. The flame of Arab Spring that had been lit in Tunisia was carried by wind to Egypt, ravaged Hosni Mubarak's office and ejected him. According to analysts, it was picked by adolescent vandals in the Libyan town of Benghazi who held an aimless, disorderly gathering and tore down Gaddaffi's poster. Soon the whole town rallied behind them and a revolution followed. Gaddaffi sent troops to subdue the rebels. With the whole world at tenterhooks about the probable genocide, NATO intervened and intercepted his forces.

Unrelenting, he refused to talk to the rebels even in the face of a deadlock. The result was his overthrow and his death. Had he humbled himself to seek asylum elsewhere, the Libyans would be mourning their mad folly and begging him to return.

The war in South Sudan is a consequence of power struggle amidst rivers of oil (black gold) but no physical and administrative infrastructures. One party should just settle down and work to improve the livelihood in the country rather than struggle for power.

After decades of struggle and breaking free from the north, veterans are dying in battle on the brink of the Promised Land. A perpetual reproach to black Africans who appear before other races as inferior, greedy, lazy barbaric primates who ignore hard work and seek for free things.

Charles Okecha
St. Paul's College, Mbale

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