Fellow Ugandans, Is Onyango Obbo normal really? This is a very useless and dangerous idea I have ever read from this man. As if Africans and people of African origin in the Western World are not doing enough by wiping out arses of the old, sick and dying whites in hospitals and day homes! What indeed is wrong with us Africans? Can't we make money through the normal channel of hard work and stuffs so we can build our countries and the continent?
Disappointed I am indeed. Ocii --- Omar Kezimbira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > THE EAST AFRICAN-NAIROBI-KENYA > > Opinion > > Monday, January 13, 2003 > > > --------------------------------- > > > Uganda Should Become > the White Man's GraveBy CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO > First, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee > announces that selected Persons of Indian Origin > (PIOs) living abroad will be allowed to hold dual > citizenship. He didn't say it, but clearly the dual > citizenship will benefit mostly the rich Indians > from among the about 20 million living abroad. > Vajpayee is rightly going for their money, not the > sentimental and emotional stuff that doesn't > actually put food on the table. There are enough > poor Indians, why add on more by throwing open the > dual citizenship? > As the Indian story played out, Spain passed a law > opening the door to one million people of Spanish > descent to apply for citizenship. Obviously the > professionals and people with some money in their > bank accounts will be taken in more easily than the > needy ones. > Dual citizenship is allowed in a few African > countries, but luring rich entrepreneurs and > professionals with citizenship the way the US does, > for example, is not fashionable on this fair > continent. In fact, there is hostility toward the > idea, because most African governments, and > citizens, fear that rich white and brown men and > women will come, take over the economy, buy up their > land, and eventually take over their country the way > the colonialists did. > In all probability, if rich Europeans, Asians, or > Americans were allowed to buy African citizenship, > they would take over most of the continent. If you > are an African peasant, that is a frightening > prospect. If you are a successful lawyer or doctor, > you are likely to be less bothered. Between the > American, Indian, and traditional approach to dual > citizenship, there are other models that Africans > might want to look into. > If we fear energetic young foreigners coming in and > taking over our countries, let us bring in the rich > old ones who don't have the energy to colonise us. > Because people in the West are living twice, and > even thrice, as long as Africans, the helpless aged > now form a large proportion of the population. And > the West and Japan don't know what to do with them, > apart from locking them away in dreadful old > people's homes to await their death. > Australia wised up to the possibilities of making > money off rich pensioners by selling barren land to > the Japanese to settle their old people on. They > reclaim the land, bask in the sun, and have all the > open air they need, and end their lives happily. > Africa is even better suited. The weather is warm > and pleasant. There are green forests, birds, > butterflies, chameleons, name it, all over the > place. We are also experts at treating old people > well. A country like Uganda could set aside some > land for elderly American and Japanese millionaires > to live happily on in their last years. > These people could pay schoolteachers three times > their present salaries just for wheeling them around > their gardens. And they would pay them on time, > unlike the government, which delays their salaries > for months. > A whole industry would grow up around tending rich > pensioners from the West and Japan. When they pass > away, there is a lot of land to bury them. With > time, there will be annual pilgrimages of Europeans > and Japanese coming to visit the burial grounds of > their grandparents. > These visitors would bring in as much or more money > than the tourists coming to see mountain gorillas, > baboons, and the diminishing herd of elephants in > the parks. And it would be a more stable business. > In many countries, poachers have finished off the > buffalo, rhinos, and nearly everything else in the > park for game meat, trophies, and to be exported to > the Far East as cures for impotence and infertility. > > But the graves will go nowhere and can survive > Africa's unending wars. And once the first grave > robbers have raided them for the dead people's > golden teeth, bracelets, and rings, they will not > return to disturb the peace of the cemeteries. > --------------------------------- > > Charles Onyango-Obbo is managing editor in charge of > convergence at the Nation Media Group.Comments\Views > about this article > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
