President Obama is calling for a USA-Africa summit in August to
discuss America’s way forward in Africa. Hopefully to kick-start President
Obama’s almost none existent African legacy.
A White House statement said the trip would "advance the
administration's focus on trade and investment in Africa, and highlight
America's commitment to Africa's security, its democratic development, and its
people."
Mugabe and a few other tyrants are not invited to the party! It
would be even better if America were to show its great displeasure with the
Zimbabwe regime’s blatant vote rigging of the 2013 elections by widening the
sanctions net and laser focusing it on the tyrant and his thugs!
Well, let us that President Obama will come out of this
meeting with concrete decisions and policies to make a real difference in
Africa. So far, President Obama has precious little to show for all his years
in office. Of course the people of Africa had hoped that he was going to make a
real difference in their lives.
Africa
was looking for more than just how much the USA dropped in the begging bow but decisive
action to end the continent the endemic corruption and political repression by
the ruling elite. President Obama had many opportunities to make a
difference but wasted them all.
Africa
have a right to expect more from President Obama; he, unlike all the other
American Presidents before him, was the only one who could tell Africa’s
tyrants some home truths without being accused of white racism! President Obama
has black African blood in his veins; he is one of us!
8 comments:
@ Chimbwido
You can witter all you like about the financial sector's problems behind the West's 2008 economic down turn being the cause of Zimbabwe's economic melt-down but people know better. The people of Zimbabwe know the cause of the country's economic melt-down is years of gross mismanagement, rampant corruption and the all-out looting by Mugabe and his cronies.
Tsvangirai is a blundering idiot; I have said it a thousand times and will say it a thousand times again. Still, there is no doubt that his presence in the GNU did bring some economic stability. The day he was kicked out of office following the rigged vote the country’s economy nose-dived and six months down the line it has gather alarming speed already.
So Tsvangirai, even the blundering idiot Tsvangirai with very little real power in the GNU, was seen as a significant improvement to Mugabe. That goes to show just how far the economy had sunk and how irredeemably corrupt Mugabe is.
Mugabe’s reckless spending to finance the vote rigging operation has tipped the economy over the edge. As long as Mugabe stays in office, it is pointless to talk of economic recovery; every-one is standing back fearful of the consequences of the almighty crash!
Even your wife is staying away from Zimbabwe, hence her refusal to go back with you. If she married you - she cannot be one of the cleverest woman on the block that much is clear. She can see the coming economic crash because even a half-wit like her can see it!
I will bet you than even your half-shilling wife does not believe your nonsense about the West's 2008 financial crash is the cause of Zimbabwe's economic melt-down. She is stupid but she cannot be that stupid.
@ Chimbwido
In Iraq Chemical Ali continued to deny Saddam had been roundly bitten and on the run even when the West was outside the gates of Baghdad! Zimbabwe's economy is in serious trouble and you still pretend not to see it!
@ John West
When the historians finally put pen to paper and write about President Obama, America's first Afro-American president, they will agree that he served America well but the rest of the world, especially Africa, badly!
He has done a lot better than Kofi Annan, the first UN Secretary General from sub-Sahara Africa. Annan was a total waste of space, and all Africa's tyrant loved him, naturally!
@ Nyakasikana
Nyakasikana like so many other Zanu PF thugs have the blood of so many innocent Zimbabweans and thy will fight to the bitter end to ensure they will never have to face justice. Sadly for them the bitter end is upon them already brought on by none other than Mugabe himself. The idiot has been spending money to finance his vote rigging operations as if there was no tomorrow. The country is broke, so in a way his wish has come true; there is no tomorrow for his regime at least.
Wen Mugabe look at his sister being buried a few days ago he started mumbling about God having given him a long life He should have mentioned the expert and very expensive medical attention he has been getting in Singapore at $ 3 million a trip and he has made as many as eight trips a year sometimes. He is saying something that has occupied most people's minds for them it is when is the tyrant gong to finally kick the bucket. It is costing the nation billions of dollars directly in those Singapore trips and indirectly in the continued mismanagement, corruption and looting! Still tis clear that the tyrant is on his last das; no amount of expensive drugs can delay the day he will have to meet his maker account for all the innocent blood he has shed!
As for idiots like Nyakasikana, they will have to account for the blood on their hands to us the living first before the hangman send them in meet their maker!
Nyakasikana, the wheels of justice urn slowly but they turn. You and your fellow Zanu PF thugs are trying to stop the wheel now that it has finally caught up with you; it is as futile as trying to stop the wind which you know not where it is coming or its going!
You should leave Farai alone and start praying for your lost soul and that of Mugabe! You both need it; wandering the deepest horrors of hell for an eternity awaits!
@ John West
You have to admit that the US economy was not exactly booming when President Obama came into office. He was a steady hand when the country needed a leader with a steady hand.
What Africa wanted from him was for him to tell the continent's tyrants some home truths and not go along with blundering idiots like Tsvangirai make him feel so big headed he thought he could do no wrong. Or handle tyrants like Mubaraki and Mugabe with kid gloves they carried on as usual!
@ Mashiri
I agree with Clifford Mashiri that the EU was itching to re-engage with Zimbabwe, especially Belgium the spackle of Zimbabwe's diamonds has been irresistible. But the speed of Zimbabwe's economic collapse is forcing even the Belgians to reconsider.
Mugabe has spent so much money in the vote rigging he has literally bankrupted the nation. Zimbabwe is broke.
When the regime should be backing over backwards to restore confidence and help the economic recovery; Mugabe has been doing the exact opposite. He has continued to promote his indigenisation policy - everyone knows it is looting by another name. And as if that was no bad enough the tyrant spending a lion's share of the nation's dwindling wealth building a Spy University, internet and mobile phone monitoring equipment, gun and tear-gas. The tyrant has gone potty!
In any other country one would be looking to parliament to rein in the wayward president; sadly not so in our case. Zimbabwe's parliamentarians are renowned for being lackeys to the Zanu PF tyrant but this current crop takes the biscuit. They all know that the elections were rigged and they owe their place in the house to Mugabe and so naturally they will never ever dream of standing up to him even on a life and death issue!
The EU will be stupid to re-engage with a regime that is imploding - the lure of Marange diamonds is not strong enough to make even the Belgians lose their head!
The joke is that these MDC MPs are talking as if parliament has ever achieved anything of note. Even when MDC had the majority of MPs in the house what did they achieve? Nothing! What more of this present crop who know that they owe their presence there to Mugabe's vote rigging because the people never voted for them.
Zimbabweans have to move on and stop paying attention to these MDC idiots who let the whole nation down by failing to implement the democratic reforms. All MDC want now is attention whilst they once again waste time talking nonsense!
So MDC MP Munengami is asking whether is ‘government policy that when MPs want to ask questions, there are no ministers to answer them in the House of Assembly"? Are you asking the questions for the sake of asking questions or do you serious expect any meaningful reply?
Now that the ministers did not even bother to turn up what are you going to do about it? In other words if you cannot do anything to force these ministers to attend what makes you think you can force them to give you a meaningful reply.
MDC waste five years in the GNU because they were concerned about appearance when it was substance they should have been concerned about. We need to move on if we are ever going to get out of this mess! Idiots like Munengami are but a distraction, an empty drum making a lot of noise we cannot hear ourselves think! .
@ Mudhara Pfende
The trouble with corruption is that if those at the top are corrupt it is open season for all. Mugabe cannot do anything to stop corruption because he is corrupt himself! Corruption is like the Pandora's box, once opened there is no closing it!
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