{UAH} Kagame is the only President in Africa doing the right thing
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By Oweyegha Afunaduula
Paul Kagame of Rwanda is the only President in Africa doing the right thing: Making sure that his government is dominated by the young people most of whom were born and have grown up during the cyber-age. He believes that we the old people cannot solve the problems of young people but the young people can and must solve the problems of old people.
Unfortunately, in most countries of Africa old people are concentrating on building armies to contain and exclude young people from power. They have ensured that they kill intellectual debates where in the past young people used to develop their capacity to think, reason and see things through diverse dimensions. However, Kenya seems to be doing things differently if we go by their budget for 2021/22. Despite the real threat of Al Shabbab, the country is determined to spend more money in the social sector, including combating Covid 19, than in security.
Unfortunately, young people all over Africa are unlike the young people of the 1960s and 1970s, according to Allan Kasujja of BBC. Many prefer to get jobs and work to get money, even if they are underpaid, rather than take active part in leadership of their countries.
In the past many leaders, who used to challenge the status quo, came from our university campuses. Not these days. Many academics and academic intellectuals have chosen academicism and scholasticism, and now hardly serve as a pool from which society sources leaders. Instead university leaders are being used to silence any knowledge workers who show signs of breaking out as leaders Governments prefer to use universities as sources of people who will simply serve as cheer leaders rather than challengers of the political choices and practices that do not benefit the people and their countries.
It is unlikely that Africa will catch up with other Continents in this cyberage, if we continue to exclude young people from the governance of the countries.
It is wrong for us old people to think and believe that we are perennial and can go on denying the internet-influenced young people their right to lead, and instead be quick to push them into modern slavery. By the time all of us the old leave permanently, we shall not have internet-relevant people to lead our countries.
If I were an adviser to the rulers of African countries I would tell them that we the elderly of today belong more to the 20th Century than the 21st Century. We act as roadblocks to progress if we continue to insist that we should be the leaders in the 21st Century, leading internet- influenced, internet-relevant young people, who should be the ones leading us.
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-- Paul Kagame of Rwanda is the only President in Africa doing the right thing: Making sure that his government is dominated by the young people most of whom were born and have grown up during the cyber-age. He believes that we the old people cannot solve the problems of young people but the young people can and must solve the problems of old people.
Unfortunately, in most countries of Africa old people are concentrating on building armies to contain and exclude young people from power. They have ensured that they kill intellectual debates where in the past young people used to develop their capacity to think, reason and see things through diverse dimensions. However, Kenya seems to be doing things differently if we go by their budget for 2021/22. Despite the real threat of Al Shabbab, the country is determined to spend more money in the social sector, including combating Covid 19, than in security.
Unfortunately, young people all over Africa are unlike the young people of the 1960s and 1970s, according to Allan Kasujja of BBC. Many prefer to get jobs and work to get money, even if they are underpaid, rather than take active part in leadership of their countries.
In the past many leaders, who used to challenge the status quo, came from our university campuses. Not these days. Many academics and academic intellectuals have chosen academicism and scholasticism, and now hardly serve as a pool from which society sources leaders. Instead university leaders are being used to silence any knowledge workers who show signs of breaking out as leaders Governments prefer to use universities as sources of people who will simply serve as cheer leaders rather than challengers of the political choices and practices that do not benefit the people and their countries.
It is unlikely that Africa will catch up with other Continents in this cyberage, if we continue to exclude young people from the governance of the countries.
It is wrong for us old people to think and believe that we are perennial and can go on denying the internet-influenced young people their right to lead, and instead be quick to push them into modern slavery. By the time all of us the old leave permanently, we shall not have internet-relevant people to lead our countries.
If I were an adviser to the rulers of African countries I would tell them that we the elderly of today belong more to the 20th Century than the 21st Century. We act as roadblocks to progress if we continue to insist that we should be the leaders in the 21st Century, leading internet- influenced, internet-relevant young people, who should be the ones leading us.
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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"
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