Wakanyugi wrote:Someone needs to explain to me why all this is important. All the countries in the EAC have more problems than they can solve in a life time.
If you think Uhuru visiting China or an American president coming to Tanzania will solve these problems, you know nothing about geopolitics.
As for Tanzania against Malawi against Rwanda against DRC, Kenya against Uganda against Sudan etc etc - these petty pissing games are mere distractions. That is all.
I hope the leaders who are engaging in them will wake up soon and do the work they were hired to do. Serving the people of this region.
+1 this. Kenya, Tz, Ug,Rw,Burundi, infact all African countries are all artificial entities created 100 years ago by colonists. Before they landed here, these countries did not exist. Pissing contests between Dar and Nbi, Dar and Kigali, Nbi and Kampala or whoever do not add any value to anyone. It is like these two kids I remember in primary school who would always be competing to see who would be the second-last in class. They would work hard just enough to beat each other and not be the in the last position. Looking at the bigger picture, they both lost out. The real thing we should all be focusing on is getting rid of ignorance amongst ourselves and focusing on the pursuit of economic opportunities within Africa and the wider world. How can we be indulging in such nonsense while the sizes and productivity of our economies are smaller and less efficient than SME companies in the developed world? We still sell to the world tea, coffee, horticultural products, mainly agricultural stuff that is not even processed to increase value, and we buy everything else including the clothes, shoes, phones, even the coffee and tea we put in our cups every morning has been bought from us, processed abroad and resold to us at a profit to the foreign food company. These are the issues we should be facing, not small time races to nowhere among brothers.