Africa is rich and beautiful and there is a lot going for the continent and for the people. We may not have won the World Cup, but we organised the best ever, World Cup.

The racist white Americans have been overwhelmed by the intellectual supremacy of Barack Obama that all they can say is, 'He should go back to Kenya'.This week, a South African won a global Golf tournament. Black people all over the world are excelling in Sport and Academia.

Most countries have consistently registered impressive growth for a number of years now. Everyday we hear good news of discoveries of Oil fields on the continent, and finally, the citizens of the continent are demanding accountability from their leaders. As a result, the leaders are finally being forced to fight the evil of Corruption which has for years failed our economies and our politics.

Going by the economic activities going on around us in our various countries, it is just fair to say that the continent is determined to transform itself from backwardness to modernisation. If this has to happen, our countries need to work together to overcome what has in the past denied us The Unity of Purpose.

As Africa's leaders meet in Kampala this week, they will do well to remember the wishes of our ageing statesman Nelson Mandela: 'I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent…'

His words ring true especially at this time when some countries on our continent are being occupied by international and local terrorists who derive pleasure and happiness in the suffering of other human beings, whether innocent or not.

In Uganda we have been terrorised for years. Other than Mwalimu Julius Nyerere - that great leader - coming  out to aid  us when he was still alive, others have always abandoned us to fight off terrorists by ourselves. Until we kicked Kony out of Uganda and he went to their countries.

When a few years ago the African Union decided that they must save Somalia from self-induced extinction, only Uganda and Burundi have sent peace keepers to Mogadishu. The rest have been sitting on the fence like they did when Nyerere and the Tanzanian people were liberating many of our countries in East and Southern Africa.

Fortunately, history is replete with situations which remind us that once in a lifetime there comes a time when the only choices left to nations are either to fight or to submit to the enemy.  Africa today, is faced with those two stack choices - to defend their countries wealth, peace and security or to surrender their countries to nincompoops hovering around like hawks waiting to strike.

AU leaders  in Kampala owe it to us and to themselves to first and foremost, secure Africa and then to ensure that Africa, of which other citizens of the world want a piece of, continue to grow into a prosperous continent.

As it is today, not only are Africans beginning to visibly take pride in being Africans, the black people all over the world are showing interest in belonging. Africans who have been living in the Diaspora are beginning to come back home because Africa is the new land of opportunity.

We have only been failed by the guys meeting in Munyonyo. Fortunately, our people are fast and furiously learning how to live their lives without government. Hopefully, one day soon, we will be able to kick some of these liabilities out of our lives, save our money being spent on them, and then use it to make roads, build hospitals and schools. After all power belongs to the people. Why should we fear to use it? blog comments powered by Disqus

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