Guys,

I do not want to distruct your attention on what we luos are trying to do in Luo Nyanza or Kenya. But my point is this. Let us not be shallow in our thinking about all these problems Africa is facing. I do know that it is not right to blame the colonist for all our problems. Looking at the present global financial crisis I tend to think that Africans made the worst choices in choosing their leaders and we are here on earth to pay very dearly for this.

1.) The rainbow country(south Africa) is supposed to host the 2010 world football championship, that is very good and infact anice thing to do. This is a country full with Gold, Diamonds, uranium, a lot of wild animals tourist always come to see. Just sit and look at the Drakensberg mountains, see the wonders of our Lord, the beauty of our continent, the music our traditions do bring. Some body said that African music is danceble even if it is singing a sad story, infact we have almost everything. Money is flowing in South Africa just as the waters of river Zambezi is constantly making it`s way to the ocean, dwindling but finally reaches it`s target. But to WHOM does this money flows to?. Now we hear that the so called world financers are not very keen in financing the south African world championship dreams. Reason, NO MONEY, Oho! world financial crisis. As an African this completely beats me up, because I do see our continent riches, the continent is just smelling GOLD, Butter, Diamonds, Oil, but who actually benefits from all these?. Do we need another dictator in South Africa to extract all those mines from whites or from Europeans and USA billioneers?. Where do our Africanism generousity starts and where does it ends?: To the educated Africans I personally do think that we can not and should not continue like this forever. There comes a time when we have to say enough is enough.

2.) The continent is now experiencing the worst food starvation on earth. We are talking of a continent having the sun almost in all 12 months of the year. Ladies and Gents, do we remember photosynthesis?. and what it really means for human survival?. Africa is now importing more food than any other continent on earth here, but do you know at what price?. At a very expensive price. Infact even the Finnish economist have calculated it and found that during this hunger time in Africa, the continent has used a very large some of money for importing food alone to feed it is population, the continent has already passed its GP . But is that food enough, NO. They expect that this will increase constantly since there are not enough strategic remedies being implimented to avoid this in future. So where is the leadership?, where on earth here do we Africans benefit from all these technologies if we can not make our own food?.

3.) As Mr. Onyango has said, lack of proper management has made a lot of us to run away from that continent, and that is why most of us are outside here. Now Africa is facing the worst brain draining on Earth. A lot of highly educated Africans are running away from the continent. Infact not only the highly educated, but even the uneducated especially from West Africa through the sea to Europe. Look at fields in Spain, Italy or France, grape pickers or Olive pickers are almost all from Africa. Whatever they get, no matter how small it is, is send back to sustain brothers, parents , relatives and sisters back home and infact even the African government that money goes to. It looks that African leaders have got no alternatives.

4.) Empty debes have many times blamed the Somalian pirates operating in the east coast of our continent, but have they really sat down and thought deeply why the pirates are doing what they are doing today?. The indian ocean is full with western fishing trollies. These big vessels extract almost all the fishes in that ocean. Infact some permit were given to them by African leaders. This has put a lot of somalian fishermen out of business and the somalians now do hardly get fishes in those waters. So the African man has started pirates squads for survival. The reaction is almost impossible to believe. The Indian ocean is now having more army, infact almost from all nations than even DARFUR or Congo, Or Guinea conflict, why? because it threatens the white man`s survival, not a black man`s. come on guys let us open our eyes. Why is almost all great power nation have sent their navy into Indian ocean, are we Africans really safe any more. Do we remember slave trade days?.

Financing luo nyanza development with foreign money will be almost impossible, it is us who should do something, just as somebody has said, bit by bit, small by small, buy land in luoland for development. There are no foreingers who are now ready to commit in these financial crisis, even those who are willing are afraid that they will be followed and asked where the hell have they got that money to invest now. Remember there is an investigation going on to find out who are really responsible for this global financial criss.

Paul Nyandoto.

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:23:50 +0200 [12:23:50 AM CST]
From: Paul Nyandoto
Subject: As we Walk in fields of GOLD, Africa is more poorer than any other continent