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Africa: Bobi Wine - 2019 - Jamaica Jan 24, 2019

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Mr. Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine thrilled the crowed at Rebel Salute Festival on January 18 and 19, 2019, at Grizzly's Plantation Cove located in St Ann Parish, Jamaica. The event, considered one of the biggest music festivals in Jamaica, is organized by Jamaican Reggae and Dancehall songs, Tony Rebel and its focus is on Reggae roots and deliberate music.

Because of his educational music and the lyrical speech, during his performance one of the unspoken rebel salute pioneers had come to come and congratulated on how the music was performed and for what he is doing for Africa and Uganda in particular.

Tuko pamoja: be confident of our fellowship .........

Africa: The Voice of President Museveni - another rap Jan 23, 2019

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M7 a true african legend, no matter what don't be the same, be better.

Africa: The Voice of Professor Patrick Lumumba Jan 23, 2019

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It's deep and fills Africa with hope, the hook is on the point with words that motivate: this man is a role model

Africa: nuclear for Africa Jan 22, 2019

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Nuclear for Africa by: President Yoweru Kaguta Museveni : Why nuclear energy should be part of Africa’s energy mix ?

Africa has the least nuclear power of any continent in the world. All the largest economies in the world have nuclear power as part of their energy mix.

There are three reasons why African countries should pursue the nuclear power option as part of their energy mix. The first is the continent’s dire energy crisis. Secondly, Africa derives most of its energy from fossil fuels. These are finite and nonrenewable and dwindling in supply. Thirdly, nuclear energy can help countries meet targets under the Paris Agreement to reduce carbon emissions. Nuclear can help them reach that goal because carbon emissions linked to nuclear-powered energy are relatively small. In addition, supply is reliable and prices stable and predictable.

Energy supply on the continent is critically low. There are also the challenges of lack of access, poor reliability and high costs. A rising population, growing middle class and growing urbanisation would mean more energy is needed for domestic and industrial purposes.

Energy is also critical to the socioeconomic well-being of the majority of poor Africans and Africa’s agenda for sustainable development. Nuclear energy has the potential to mitigate these burdens by contributing to the continent’s energy mix.

Africa: Goodbye, university Jan 15, 2019

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In 2018, Bryan Caplan wrote the book "The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money". What makes new technology and education due to skills from our own time experience? Bryan Caplan is concerned about the disruptions in human capital development, and the inability to think a thought longer than five centimeters.

After several years of discussing brain drain and black vs white education gap - as if it wasn't enough to think for family, relatives and students in Africa struggle to fund all the years of study: a lot of money is needed to achieve an intellectual university degree, is it worth it? But it is a question that will always remain unanswered: why is it so? Such questions can be crucial to almost everything related to the culture and quality of universities. Yet, a new world order has emerged that looks at the current university system with deep skepticism, and in 2003 Robert Kagan wrote about "Paradise and Power" how the elite in some countries of the world invest their money in Panama Papers and send their children to prestigious universities, to get the best education.

Social anthropologist Marcel Mauss article (1926) ,'Critique interne de la"Legende de l'Abraham' influenced Africa, but he never published a book, Mauss especially challenged a racist anthropology of African societies known as the "Hamitic hypothesis" and well-known to students of Africa; it states that everything of value ever found in Africa was brought there and linked it with the agitation of the Jewish question that still applies around the world - a basic argument in his essay is that the social category "race" is not a category that denotes vulnerability, but a categorization system derived from an analysis which he believes is "unforgettable." And what about Claude Lévi-Strauss ? The founder of Structuralism –⁠ he published a lot, but not in the beginning, because then he sat and thought and read and noted; it took him four years before anything bigger come up. In return he then published a book that changed the way we think about kinship. He would have lost money today if he had global funding, or from a research organization: "yours is empty", they would say about his research.

DRC: justice must happen Jan 07, 2019

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What is stated in the Freedom House 2018 overview: Civil and opposition politicians cannot influence the governance of the country through elections.

Opinion polls in the DRC are rare and difficult to implement. The few that have come, give different outcomes after the election 30th.dec.2018, but nothing indicates that the regime's candidate was in favor of victory.

In the days after the election, both the Internet and the possibilities of sending text messages were closed in the DRC, according to the authorities to "avoid unrest".

The country with 84 million inhabitants is important for the stability of the region, incl. South Sudan. Therefore, the situation is of course also a theme for world leaders. The DRC regime is under pressure to ensure that the election process is completed with a correct and fair outcome.

France convened a meeting on the DRC in the UN Security Council 6th.jan. 2019, and the African Union /AU, which have made an election observation effort, demand: respect for the result. Opposition candidates promise more democracy, millions of new jobs every year and a better future.

No one should have illusions of quick change for the better by a power shift, but the sitting regime deserves in any case not to continue.

However, the slowness in the count can also have other causes. The DRC Catholic Church, which had a large number of election observers, reports that it has seen numbers that show a clear winner. The church does not give a name, but the statement is intended as a message to the regime not to try cheating.

It's not hard to imagine that one of the opposition candidates, Martin Fayulu or Félix Tshisekedi, has won, but that those in power are trying to find ways to manipulate the result. Joseph Kabila Governement candidate is former Interior Minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary

Kansiime Anne: how to empower women and girls? Jan 07, 2019

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Hold your head up girl and you’ll go far: Anne Kansiime's message encourages women to love themselves, no matter who they are, what they look like, what they believe, and whatever hardship they may endure. Confidence in oneself breeds hope; where there is hope and a dream, achievements and success are not far away. Self-esteem is crucial to a healthy mindset.

Be an agent of hope and encourage others in your life: you never know, you may help others to cross their finish line to one of their most challenging life goals; in other words, love conquers all if you have enough faith in yourself.

Anne Kansiime gives us a testament to her ability to fully express herself, in life, in comedy, and in music: as extroverted as she may seem in most of her standups and comedy: Kansiime most have felt the need to create her empowerment label to as a reminder to continue to push in the right direction when it comes to expression.

As a female empowerment standup for woman and girls of all ages; whether you are 1 or 100, Kansiime encourages everyone to dream big and have an amazing life as they pursue their aspirations on this incredible journey called life: a female doesn’t have to be anything more than her genuine self, with a set of real problems, as she allows her unbridled faith to not only create a good life, but to soar to new heights - just like Kansiime style Through the comedy, Anne shows her incredibly resilience in the face of adversity by standup comics: there’s always gonna be another mountain; she always gonna wanna make it move and to inspire others

Dambisa Moyo: threat from Africa Jan 05, 2019

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Africa is a threat to global stability and security and Dambisa Moyo is a raw Polemicist and bring out her words with a broad brush and the main points are undoubtedly valid: Africa is today the source of some of the greatest threats to the world economic order.

Dambisa Moyo points out pandemies, terrorism and mass migration based on Africa.

Africa's problems no longer arouse interest and multitude of engagement but Western world fears collapse in central parts of Africa, and especially the Sahel region: the number of poor in Africa has increased, economic growth in Africa is based on commodities - mainly due to a period of good commodity prices on the world market.

The UN world Population Prospect show that Africa by 2040 will pass two billion and in 2100 4.5 billion people: demographic boom that will give Africa 40 percent of the world's population.

The African Threat

If the world never had to hear about Africa again, would anyone care? Africa has become the source of some of the greatest threats to the global economic order. Rather than capitalizing on opportunities, international engagement is increasingly focused on mitigating risks.

But mitigation is not enough. The world needs to engage and help solve Africa’s problems, which, sooner rather than later, will become global problems.

The continent is so vast that China, India, the contiguous United States, Japan, and most of Europe could all fit within its borders.

Africa is home to 8% of the world’s oil reserves, 7% of its natural gas, 18% of its gold, 53% of its diamonds, and 75% of its platinum.
African countries lead in the production of industrial metals such copper and iron ore.
with a median age of 19.5, Africa the world’s youngest and fastest-growing labor force, ahead of even India and China.

The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin Jan 04, 2019

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"The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way." CC

The following is the end scene from Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 "The Great Dictator" where he was both a little Jewish barber, living in the ghetto, and Hynkel, the dictator ruler of Tomainia.

Chaplin himself wrote this impactful speech:

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery.

We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate!

Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power: the power to create machines. The power to create happiness!

You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Africa: the music that challenges political power and calls for unity Jan 03, 2019

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The musician and opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by the artist name Bobi Wine, is feared by the elite: he is so popular that he threatens President of Uganda long-standing hold on power. Through his music he has gained a huge fan base among youth in Africa, not only in Uganda. NRM | National Resistance Movement have had the government in Uganda ever since 1986 together with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who promised "Freedom and Democracy" for more than thirty years. Bobi Wine's music threatens the elite's grip on power with the slogan "People power" and focuses on questions that occupy most people: Poor public services,Violent corruption that is not punished, and The obvious violations of human rights done by security forces.

What are the differences between Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (1944) vs. Bobi Wine (1982) on the road from rebels to presidential power ?

Its a pity when we know even from Museveni's own book "What Is Africa's Problem?" that was published the same year he came to power. Here he writes: The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people, but leaders who want to overstay in power. There have been positive change under the leadership of Museveni; Uganda have seen strong economic growth, and Museveni as a former Marxist kept the international community happy by fulfilling the IMF -- International Monetary and the World Bank's desire to liberalize the economy.

When the economic growth rate climbed over seven percent in the 1990s, he boasted of being president of one of Africa's fastest growing economies and with economic growth poverty reduction and a tripling of primary school children.

Museveni brought a kind of democracy to grassroots by introducing elections with various candidates at the village level. At that time he was loved by both Ugandans and the West - despite internal challenges with: language, culture, values, social and economic background.

Ugandans have lived with brutal dictators for so long that a promise of change is no longer enough to make them happy: in 2019 we now see that many of the political promises never fulfilled and if the socialist Museveni of 1986, with his thoughts on democracy and Freedom, had met himself as president in 2019, they would argue: When our leaders become misleaders and mentors become tormentors, when the freedom of expression becomes the target of oppression, opposition becomes our position.

Bobi Wine with his political text and music have nothing in common with Museveni but they have to sit down and agree how to deal with situation for the youth and elders. That will serve Ugandans: he is not a politician, he is a traumatized musician that believes in "People Power" and his music speaks directly to Ugandans with the message: women die during birth every day in Uganda, There is no medication in the hospitals, People struggle hard to get an education, Many youth do not have a job.

Bobi Wine is governed by impulses, Ugandan laws and love for Ugandans; therefore, he decided to become a politician and make elections for the National Assembly, so that he could speak directly to the government and bring out the message even more clearly and in 2018/2019 they perceived his message - "UGANDA ZUKUKA"

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