I was in the USA in UCLA. in 1964 ...nothing turned me more from savage wars than to see a preteen Vietnamese girl having her skin melt by the chemical heat of a napalm bomb .. It is all a matter of selling arms ...something that President Dwight Eisenhower had warned against the establishment of <<<the military industrial complex >>> The speech lasted less than 10 minutes, and was delivered on January 17, 1961. That is 61 years ago.
I want to go further back when Stalin..the dictator and his advisor went on a spree of killing . One of the people Stalin killed was probably one of the greatest Russian Scientist called Vavilov. He was a Agriculturalist, geneticist and inorder to end famines in Russia and in the world came with the idea of the world hot spot of tyhe main grain. \In Africa he spent time in Ethopia/Eritrea and would most probably have visited East AFrica. He spent time in several European Universities. Through sheer bad advise he was sentenced to death. In fact starved to death. His crime he was a bourgeois. Khrushchev over 40 years later declared him a national hero. You might wonder what has all this to do with the present. Well you heard of a fellow called Iddi Amin and the havoc this General caused..not only to Asians but even to fellow Africans . He took pleasure in seeing humans being eaten by crocodiles. The irony is that these types of episodes can take place in any country ...even in Tanzania. Fortunately the Almighty spared us from a dictator, During the few years of the rule of the Fifth President we lost more reporters and even an attempted assissination of a leading member of the opposition. There are telltale signs when things do not seem quite right. We were lucky in Tanzania ....we had Divine Intervention. We followed the constitution .after the death of the Fifth President the Vice President succeeded so Tanzania has a Lady President.. She categorically told the people that <<<God gave both men and women brains. I will use Mine>>>>But that alone is not enough. Universities, other institutions and citizens can and participate, It could make a difference. ,,, Grandolfo In a shopping Mall