{UAH} Monkeys Never Say Thank You, Humans Should.

Picture (attached): The freindship flag between Uganda and China. The panda is the Chinese national emblem while the Crested crane is Ugandan. Though the two might need to wear facemasks and gloves at this deadly juncture, what does this or any friendship really mean at the personal or political level?

We Africans should stop our selfish behaviour. Especially when it comes to helping the countries that have been helping us for decades.

As a continent or as individual nation's, why can't we organize support for China in it's fight against the deadly Corona virus that is now crippling their country, killing their citizens and dismantling their entire economy?

Oh I forgot! I know the most probable two excuses already.

One is that "the Chinese government is mistreating the Uighur people. So let them suffer this God-sent punishment".

Why should we say something like that when even Muslim countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia have just sent humanitarian assistance to China to help them in their fight against the epidemic.

Therefore let us leave Gods issues to God, and instead do what we humans can do best to help fellow human beings and ordinary people who are the ones actually dying in China.

In fact helping China and it's people against the virus is a better gesture that might open the gates of freedom at the internment camps.

While surely we must continue to ask the Chinese government to calm down on the issue of the Uighurs, trust me when I realistically say that nobody can get a positive response from the Chinese government on any issue by being confrontational. There is no record of that with the Chinese Communist party, and clearly nobody seems to be able to do anything hands-on for the Uighurs. Not even the most powerful countries in the world. That is fact.

However, the current epidemic presents a good diplomacy opportunity for people of genuine good will, but also an opportunity to make better relations with the second biggest economy in the world.

Surely they might one day ask themselves who was with them in their time of need. And as Africans, let us remember that despite what we say today, China, Cuba and Russia are the three countries that stood with Africans most in our countless liberation movements and struggles for independence across the continent back in the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 80's.

So if the Corona virus is the work of God, then it might be our own test as well to see if ingratitude is our permanent dwelling.

You see, we generally seem to not like sharing whatever we have in our own pockets. And we seem to quickly forget those who ever helped us before. So when others need help and someone in our midst brings up the idea that we should contribute some assistance, suddenly everyone disappears.

Or as some people believe, the poorer country should be the one which is assisted and not the other way round. As if poverty is our permanent duty, and we should not even have the humanity to recognize the suffering of others in return, especially in their time of need.

While we might not have much, what kind of selfish mentality are we wallowing in generally in todays African societies?

Yet isn't it unsocial behaviour in our own African traditions and cultures where we are expected to contribute when there is a real problem with our true closest friends and partners who were the only ones there for us when nobody else was?

So let us embrace the spirit of humanity. This is what is always preached to us in our Churches and Mosques and cultures.

Africa's ideological problem seems to be that our constantly deceiving selves always have our hands begging. We are also busy stealing government money every day, engaging in corruption and bribery every single hour, and squandering all our funds every single minute of our lives in some of the most pointless activities, including squandering all the money given to us by friends, family, tax payers and those who try to help us into development and out of poverty.

Clearly something is wrong with us. And we therefore might have to start changing from this poor beggar mentality which is the one actually keeping us in the gutters of poverty, unemployment, handouts, unproductiveness, dependence, constant theft and general ignorance.

If God were to eliminate all our thieves, sell-outs and back-stabbers, only children under ten might remain.

So while we might not be able to help the whole of China's population, we can possibly contribute to help for example the sickl and dying at the newly built Wuhan Corona virus epicenter hospital for example.

Let us load our sole cargo plane with good quality high protein dry ration foodstuffs from Uganda and offer it to the Corona victims at Wuhan hospital.

We can fill the plane with bags of maize flour, Ugandan powdered milk, sorghum flour, sugar, salt, honey, soya (with nkejje), dry peas, groundnut paste, mineral water from our mountains, any simple but healthy items, and send it to the lonely isolated patients.

Health practitioners might be best positioned to determine which readily available products are the appropriate diet for the sick in this particular case. And remember we have some of the best professional expertize in the world for treating live epidemics following several ebola outbreaks in neighbouring countries and our border districts. There is knowledge we can freely share with China (with some facilitation). As discussed previously, we also have a world health Organization approved fast virus detection innovation created recently in Uganda, by a Ugandan. This is the time to talk to the Chinese government about production and deployment of this innovation in hard-hit areas.

We as a country should come together to organize a simple but meaningful humanitarian contribution to the people of China from the people of Uganda.

We should all get out of the insulting monkeyism ideology where we are only known for constantly begging, stealing, lying, fleeing, "eating" other people's money, fighting amongst ouselves, and cheating at every opportunity whenever nobody is watching, and instead start being known for better ideals towards humanity.

Meanwhile congratulations to yet another Ugandan marathon runner Juliet Chekwel who won the ladies title at the Zurich marathon yesterday and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Signed: Mr. Hussein Lumumba Amin

24th February, 2020

Kampala, Uganda.

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