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WhErE dO wE gO fRoM hErE?
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It’s early in the morning in a small village that prides itself as producing the best Coffee in the world to quench the thirst of sophisticated executives at Wall Street and Main Street, adrenaline filled corporate lawyers and everyone else in between.
A young woman who looks 15 years older wakes up at the crack of dawn to prepare breakfast for her 7 children; the breakfast consists of thin black tea taken with yesterday’s night leftovers.

As I watch the event unfolding many questions crosses my mind:-
Where is the Top Quality coffee that she toils everyday to produce?
Can a nation export crops when it people are starving?
Can a nation’s natural resources become a curse?
Can slavery still be existing in the 21st century?

The woman quickly prepares breakfast and wakes up her children to start another day under the bright African sun. The children have to travel more than 2km to reach the nearest government school. As the children leave for school she hurries’s up to go and till her farm which does not even produce enough to feed her 7 children.

Why is this so?
How comes no one seems to care for the millions of poor subsistence farmers who toil in unproductive farms all day?
Where are all the young people with brilliant ideas, energy and enthusiasm for bringing economic change to the wretched of the world?
Where are the scholars who will come up with academic models for economic empowerment to lift people out of poverty?

The young people are all too busy trying to outdo each other to care about the young woman, they have their issues too; Unemployment, lack of skills, lack of opportunities blah blah
The Dons are busy regurgitating 18th century theories to young minds to come up with new knowledge.
The politicians are too busy tearing each other and organising goons to attack the opponent’s supporters to think about the right policy mix to help the poor.
I am too busy lamenting what others are not doing …………………………………….

These are some of the challenges that developed nations face each and every day but we the young people but decide to change the status quo. We must rise above the greed, the fierce urge to achieve economic success at the expense of others, the get rich quick mentality, the politics of exclusion and govt knows it all, the lack of self confidence to build institution, the begging mentality since no one else will great a future for our continent.

We must learn how the international economic game is played and become better than even the current players, we must engrained in our people a passion that is infectious because we only have blood, toil, sweat and cheers to give.

I do not know why natural resources are a curse in Africa from DRC Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Angola, Sudan to Papua New Guinea.
We can blame the MNC, the mercenary, the greedy politicians but the buck stops with us he young people of Africa we watch as our natural resources are raped, we are paid peanuts to exploit our mothers, sisters and brothers.

Finally this is not a lecture but a call towards more candid and serious discussion on how to lift people out of poverty. Prof Sachs (et al) is doing his part through the millennium villages yet he has never experienced extreme poverty 1st hand, what about WE THE PEOPLE WHO SEE EXTREME POVERTY EVERDAY OF OUR LIVES.
JOIN ME TO CHANGE THIS SITUATION ONE DAY AT A TIME

JOIN THE GROUP youngpatriots@takingitglobalgroups.org and let’s share our ideas, thoughts, plans and start ACTING NOW




May 21, 2008 | 1:16 PM Comments  0 comments

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THE NEVER ENDING TRAGIC AFRICAN COMEDY
Related to country: Kenya

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As i write this i am a very disturbed man by the environment that surrounds me, it's so poisoned by vices:been Greedy, Corrupt, Murderous, nepotism, tribalism, cringing on to power has become the norm. But ain't this an exaggeration you ask? No society can have all those bad people, Human beings are generally good? Yes i agree with you but i want to take on a journey thats so tragically comical that it can only exist in peoples imagination; but this is not imagination its real its what THE AFRICAN LEADERS have reduced our proud heritage to.

Lets start with my own beautiful homeland KENYA, A leader is elected with more than 60% of the vote with the clear mandate to clean up our messed up institution and lead us to Canaan.What does he do he undergoes a metamorphosis and turns into a dictator five years down the line surrounding himself with men of no character at all who advise him that some people should never rule based entirely on their ethnic extraction. A campaign of fear is waged to no avail and when all else fails he decides to Rig the election in the most cynical,silly,contemptuous manner thus giving rigging a bad name .

This plunges the country into a wave of violence like has never been witnessed before, luckily for us we seam to have the goodwill of the international community and most importantly the peace lovers far outnumber the warmongers. Now that we have a deal some wannabes think they are as so clean and they should vet who will be in that cabinet.

Moving to Zimbabwe and a story of much greater misery and suffering in the hands of the so called liberator has decided he will make sure all his fellow countrymen die..........

April 3, 2008 | 11:00 AM Comments  0 comments

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KINDS OF PEOPLE,KNOW YOURSELF

A lot of people are like whellbarrows, no good unless pushed.
Some are like canoes,they need to be peddled.
Some are like kits,if you do not keep a string on them they will fly away.
some are like footballs .you cannot tell where hey will bounce next.
Some are like balloons,full of air and ready to blow up.
some are like trailers .they have to be pulled.
some are like a good watch ,open faced,queitly busy of good looks and faithful until misused.
And
some are like tortoises ,pretentiuos by keeping queit,don't appreciate or rewards others for good work,only cheerful when they are the ones benefiting .
so what kind of a person are you did i miss your category let me know!!!!!

YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE WORLD BE GREAT WHOEVER YOU ARE FOR YOU ARE THE WORLD

November 9, 2006 | 11:35 AM Comments  0 comments

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YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN SME'S

hallo good people the above topic is my final year project and would really appreciate any help from anyone or organization that are involved in helping young people set up or run sme's.if anyone has past literature on the above topic it would be much appreciated. will be posting more details in the comin days

September 27, 2006 | 7:37 PM Comments  0 comments

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