Gideon Shoo in Homo Tanzanianus:
More hereIt is indeed encouraging to read Prof.George N.Ayittey’s An Open Letter to Africa and Dr Kasalla’s rejoinder below. Both pieces have triggered some dormant faculties in our brains to start working. Yes, Africa has been terribly betrayed by none else but us African intellectuals.
If in most of the African countries the betrayal was somehow hidden because there was no open pro people agenda which was set from the very first days of fighting for Uhuru, in Tanzania the situation is completely the opposite.
Tanzania, after independence, as opposed to most African countries for example had come up with a pro people policy in the Arusha Declaration.
Instead of embarking on a policy of Africanisation which literally meant kicking out whites and instead replacing them with blacks, which would have meant maintaining the status quo, the Arusha Declaration sought to make a total overhaul of the socio-economic-political fabric and strive to create a society which every human being would enjoy the fruits of liberation.
