Failed States

 Opinion News

               I will try to write this opinion news today with a heart that is heavy of the situation that is going on around us here in the country but also make sure that I am not carry on by the distraction of the event. my point today is the failed states however you need to understand that failed states is not only in Africa but it is a complex situation in all of this let us acknowledge that in Africa most countries is qualify to be failed states.

               What is a failed state? a state whose political or economic and judicial system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.by going with this definition you will understand that more countries all over the world can be call failed state. Now why is African countries are notorious to be qualify has a such! let me quote the Nigeria writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche; " My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe.... I am Nigerian because the white man created Nigerian and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. but I was IGBO before the white man came." from this quote I see many problem that African are not ready to solved.

               My question are , was he a mistakes by the white man giving us countries as we know it today? She is right before 1945 Berlin conference we were all know by our tribe and clan because the name of the countries as we know it just arrived after that conference and independence, it is a mistakes for the African to have the countries as it is today or we supposed to have the countries according to each clan and tribes, the situation is African people beside their culture and tradition which is made them unique however they are still not raise above their tribes and clans, that is even where war and looting come from. Another one is corruption, this word corruption is a simple word but very powerful word, I remember longtime ago in Congo a former minister of foreign affaires was ask a question by a Belgium  journalist about the corruption of the president Mobutu, his answer was " the word corruption is in lingala, or tshiluba or kikongo." this is all Congolese language however what he was pushing was in our language the word corruption does not exist therefore what you called corruption for us is not. in that time we all applauded him, now when I realize and study everything then I say thing does African people really understand what is corruption? does African politicians really understand what is corruption? most of the times the same poor people who are marginalize will says let him also get the money so what because most of the times because we are from same tribe, another one is judicial I think according to our tradition and customer and culture which is an elders are always right and you can not question an elder and elders are not accountable to anyone young and a chiefs is above everything and all, the judicial is become a problem in this Africa as we know it.

             Now did we get ourselves to a system which is above us? or did we get ourselves to the situation of making someone a Messiah then the same Messiah start making our life miserable? or is democracy  not an African thing? to understand the Nigerian write which I did quote above, I also have my tribe and not by my choice a country was given to me however the tribe issues still high and playing a big role of division in my country most of the time we do not know how to make the country go forward by seeing the capacity and ability of the person but we are always debating from which tribe is coming from. we have even the term geo politic which is every provinces must be in government not quality. if this is the way to go Africa does not have a chance to succeed but to be a failed states, I can say also the Berlin conference was just a great problem created by the oppressor to make us suffer more and it is very difficult to have a spirit of nationalist because we do not belong to this thing called country which we have no link at all and it was imposed to us but our tribe was born in us, what can we do simple let us African raise and build the Africa in diversity which we want all live in and for better future of our children.

            God bless Africa.