The Volksvagen beetle holds a special place in the history of Ethiopia. A beetle was the very car that the former Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, was taken away in immediately following his dethronement. He is no more, but the beetle lives on. They are still here, trundling around the city.
It is an exciting time at home in Africa. Life is good, and I am indeed blessed. If you are reading this, and planning to move home to Ghana, may you also be as blessed.
Former security guard, Philip Onyancha, is a serial killer. He has confessed to the murder of 17 people in various parts of Kenya and has taken police to the places where he hid the bodies of his victims, including several prostitutes that he killed after having sex with them.
South Africa has spent 800 million pounds in preparations for the World Cup in 2010, but most people around the world wonder whether the money would not have been better spent enhancing security in that country given RSA’s increased crime rate. But is it not the way of African culture to host a guest better than ourselves?
There is a square just opposite the Kencom Bus Terminus, where Kenyans sit idly from 6am to 7pm and they discuss how awful their parliamentarians are. The leaders they have voted into power are selfish, stupid and corrupt; and how they wish they could be like America and practice democracy; like China and be technological giants; how better off South Africa is for hosting the 2010 World cup, and so on. It is all talk, all wishes, but none of them work on it. And these idlers go back home and sleep hungry.
I wish Swahili was our mother tongue. It makes no sense to me which tribe is superior. For while the world battles with wars and racism, Africa battles with tribalism. It seems so juvenile.
Africans have taken a lot of time in playing the victims of colonization and as a result have failed in numerous accounts to develop economically, socially and technologically.
In the country where I live, we have a passion for nation building. We struggle as a people to contribute to our nation as much as we possibly can, but sometimes, it all seems to go to waste. Kenya’s food stocks will run out in April 2010, resulting in increased inter-ethnic conflict over land and water and more people going hungry, warns the Kenya Food Security in a recent study.
Let’s face it – in a great many countries, people with different abilities still find it tricky getting up steps, crossing the road and clambering onto buses. But sometimes, unexpectedly, delight falls into our lives.
While private investment booms in Khartoum, turning the largely uninteresting city into a predicted “Dubai of North Africa,” public investment is sadly lacking in Darfur. Everyone from the UN Secretary-General to the President of the United States to actors George Clooney and Mia Farrow have been calling a stop to the conflict in Darfur. And nothing changes.
