Although history tends to highlight individuals as causes or reasons for something great, or something worse that might have taken place, the truth is; it takes more than a single leader or person in order to affect change. The emancipation proclamation might be credited to President Abraham Lincoln, but when one digs deep and discovers the many realities as well as reasons behind that particular decision, that is when one starts realizing it was not just him, but a whole lot of events and brains behind them. He might have signed it, authored it, but there sure were many brains’ additions behind it.
The same thing can be said about what is going on with the healthcare debate today. This debate did not start yesterday; it is something that’s been brought up over and over again, yet for some reasons, it has failed all these years. The point is not to focus on its failures though; my point is to show just how many times it’s been brought up, by not one, not two, but several presidents who have tried so hard and failed. Just imagine how many administrations, senators, House of Representatives, advisors and the list goes on, who have changed, mixed, played around with the healthcare issue! Yet, if this thing passes today, it will be credited to President Barack Obama right? Why credited to him? Because he will be the current President under whose administration the bill would have passed.
The greatest country in the world (The United States of America) has had more than forty Presidents and counting! Forty plus Presidents in order to get to where it is today! Each one of them had his own people; there were different Senators, House of Representatives, advisers, secretaries, ambassadors and so on and so forth. All those brains together, designed an economy so humungous, the entire planet depends on it today. You don’t believe me? Try to search and find out what happened the last time we had the housing bubble; the world economy went into crisis! That’s both amazing and unbelievably genius. Kudos to these guys.
So where am I going with this? Well I am trying to show that it takes not one, not two, not ten, not even a thousand brains, but more to make change for the better. To Africa’s current leaders, as well as those who aspire to be leaders, you cannot do it alone. Mobutu tried, but all he left was a country in misery and one of the poorest in the world. The former Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo is a country which by its natural resources should be the most industrialized and advanced in all of Africa, if not the world. Mugabe tried and the only thing he’s been left with is a political as well as an economic disaster. But even worse, he’s turned a once known as an “African food basket” into the hungriest nation in the world, where people eat rats to survive! And then there are people dying of hunger, abuses, intimidation, oppression, slavery and so on, for the sake of some wanting to hold onto power eternally. It does not work! Remember all those dictators who either ended up in failure and disgrace, or killed?
I am not going to go through a list of these fools who thought they were gods, or geniuses when all they were, was a bunch of useless, power hungry idiots who cared less about the masses, and more about their own pockets and families. Unfortunately, there are some among those who have seen the mess these miserable souls have created and left behind, who still choose to follow the same path that leads to destruction and disaster. It is time for change to take place! It is time for real change to take place in African politics, economics and mindsets.
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