Many East Africans never actualised its profits individually and nationally. Why? Today, I’ll use Canada’s confederacy of ten provinces and three territories and its population of 41 million as one of the richest countries globally to show the lesson Africa can learn. Canada’s GDP is USD 2.3tn compared to Africa’s GDP of USD 2.8tn with its population of 1.55 billion.
If Canada were divided into 13 countries, its economic clout would vaporise right away. It’d perilously and pointlessly give birth to trifling countries that’d burn billions of dollars on military budgets and purchasing weapons to protect themselves against their neighbours who happen to be Canadians as well. Imagine. How much the tiniest of all, Prince Edward Island with 182,657 homos, would throw away to fear-driven military expenditures just like African colonial-tailored states have always done? The upshot’s simple. If all African states could divulge their military budgets and those of their ever corrupt, extravagating, and thieving rulers, it’s obvious. They’ve what it takes to finance their own development and social services.
Arguably, Africa’s capable of improving our live if it can save billions of dollars burnt to colonially calculated divisions and fearmongering. This anomaly doesn’t need an ace mathematician to debunk. According to the World Bank (2020), Canada’s 2019 military expenditure stood at 1.3% of its GDP compared to ever-begging South Sudan 3.4% ; Uganda 2.1% ; Burundi 1.8%; Tanzania 1.3%; Kenya; and Rwanda 1.2%, which makes an average of 1.8% for the EAC, which 5 points higher than Canada.
Apart from military expenditure, how many billions of dollars Africa spends on feeding its do-nothing Presidents and keeping its colonial borders safe? Surely, Africa’s what it takes to become a world economic supremo without begging as it currently is. There are those who may doubt the viability of such an anecdotal proposal due to the fear that Western countries won’t like the idea of unifying Africa. For how long will Africa feed on and internalise colonial fear?
Rwanda’s once Francophone. After the 1994 genocide, Rwanda became Anglophone; and nobody stood in its way despite this not auguring well with France. Rwanda pressed on; and stood its ground. Again, for how long will Africans fear the West as if it’s their God? Methinks. We don’t fear God this much. We still commit sins. Let’s commit this sin of pragmatically and truly reuniting Africa commencing with the wobbly EAC. Let’s give it a try. For, we’ve nothing to lose except our shame and sufferings.
Essentially, the fear of the unknown prevents Africa from being reunited to become stronger. Besides, our rulers’ fear, individuality, greed, and myopia are the major blockages. If Canada were divided, the democracy it enjoys would vanish. Single election would bankrupt the new countries. How much money would it burn on elections just like it’s been in slapdash and rigged elections that produce but just the same rotten and venal rulers?
What’s more, by having their individual interests secured at the detriment of their future, African countries still blindly plot to use each other for individual interests and those of colonisers instead of working together for true emancipation. This can’t and won’t work. Commandeered in their paltry interests, African countries are comfortably divided among themselves, and their people based on rash and trivial things such as flummery and flummoxed sovereignty. That’s why countries with bigger land mass and voluminous resources have always been seen as a stumbling block to the unification of East Africa. Again, did these countries apply to be what they’re namely colonial-design structures?
Canada’s confederacy has big and small members. Comparably, Quebec is 62% of the East Africa but still coexists with the PEI, which is just 0.2 of the EAC just like Zanzibar that’s just 0.36 of the United Republic.
I, for one, am an unflagging advocate of a single unitary Africa that’ll demolish faux borders and abolish divisions based on feeble and pseudo sovereignties. I’d like to see the current Presidents hitting the road to give room for one President of Africa or the EAC. If this happens, we won’t be complaining about the dictators that want to illegally die in power or suffering from their brutality and their private but public kept armies. For, without reunifying Africa to the tune of what it’s prior to 1884, all we’re cosmetically doing’s but feeding a black hole. Why’s it difficult to think as one nation instead of thinking like useless colonial-sired states we jealously protect for our peril? Call that the lesson from Canada. Hastas entonces.
If Canada were divided into 13 countries, its economic clout would vaporise right away. It’d perilously and pointlessly give birth to trifling countries that’d burn billions of dollars on military budgets and purchasing weapons to protect themselves against their neighbours who happen to be Canadians as well. Imagine. How much the tiniest of all, Prince Edward Island with 182,657 homos, would throw away to fear-driven military expenditures just like African colonial-tailored states have always done? The upshot’s simple. If all African states could divulge their military budgets and those of their ever corrupt, extravagating, and thieving rulers, it’s obvious. They’ve what it takes to finance their own development and social services.
Arguably, Africa’s capable of improving our live if it can save billions of dollars burnt to colonially calculated divisions and fearmongering. This anomaly doesn’t need an ace mathematician to debunk. According to the World Bank (2020), Canada’s 2019 military expenditure stood at 1.3% of its GDP compared to ever-begging South Sudan 3.4% ; Uganda 2.1% ; Burundi 1.8%; Tanzania 1.3%; Kenya; and Rwanda 1.2%, which makes an average of 1.8% for the EAC, which 5 points higher than Canada.
Apart from military expenditure, how many billions of dollars Africa spends on feeding its do-nothing Presidents and keeping its colonial borders safe? Surely, Africa’s what it takes to become a world economic supremo without begging as it currently is. There are those who may doubt the viability of such an anecdotal proposal due to the fear that Western countries won’t like the idea of unifying Africa. For how long will Africa feed on and internalise colonial fear?
Rwanda’s once Francophone. After the 1994 genocide, Rwanda became Anglophone; and nobody stood in its way despite this not auguring well with France. Rwanda pressed on; and stood its ground. Again, for how long will Africans fear the West as if it’s their God? Methinks. We don’t fear God this much. We still commit sins. Let’s commit this sin of pragmatically and truly reuniting Africa commencing with the wobbly EAC. Let’s give it a try. For, we’ve nothing to lose except our shame and sufferings.
Essentially, the fear of the unknown prevents Africa from being reunited to become stronger. Besides, our rulers’ fear, individuality, greed, and myopia are the major blockages. If Canada were divided, the democracy it enjoys would vanish. Single election would bankrupt the new countries. How much money would it burn on elections just like it’s been in slapdash and rigged elections that produce but just the same rotten and venal rulers?
What’s more, by having their individual interests secured at the detriment of their future, African countries still blindly plot to use each other for individual interests and those of colonisers instead of working together for true emancipation. This can’t and won’t work. Commandeered in their paltry interests, African countries are comfortably divided among themselves, and their people based on rash and trivial things such as flummery and flummoxed sovereignty. That’s why countries with bigger land mass and voluminous resources have always been seen as a stumbling block to the unification of East Africa. Again, did these countries apply to be what they’re namely colonial-design structures?
Canada’s confederacy has big and small members. Comparably, Quebec is 62% of the East Africa but still coexists with the PEI, which is just 0.2 of the EAC just like Zanzibar that’s just 0.36 of the United Republic.
I, for one, am an unflagging advocate of a single unitary Africa that’ll demolish faux borders and abolish divisions based on feeble and pseudo sovereignties. I’d like to see the current Presidents hitting the road to give room for one President of Africa or the EAC. If this happens, we won’t be complaining about the dictators that want to illegally die in power or suffering from their brutality and their private but public kept armies. For, without reunifying Africa to the tune of what it’s prior to 1884, all we’re cosmetically doing’s but feeding a black hole. Why’s it difficult to think as one nation instead of thinking like useless colonial-sired states we jealously protect for our peril? Call that the lesson from Canada. Hastas entonces.
Source: Daily Monitor Sunday today.
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