Re: AYF-News> Africans can solve their problems

[Global Somaliland Women <globalsomalilandwomen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Chris Sithole,

I do share your frustration. 

--- Chris Sithole <c_sithole@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 

> Until we Africans become more responsible for
> ourselves, we will never advance.  We will always be
> in the state of a third world. 

You are absolutely right. Africans need to solve their
problems. The world nowadays with global issues
getting wider and wider to solve means that each
continent need to solve their problems locally. People
can share resources but no one can solve your problem
for you.

Africa has  lost a lot. One problem is with
leadership. It takes one leader to take a whole nation
down with them. Take the case of Somaliland. We lost
30 years of our chidlrens' future for one leader who
decided to take the law into his own hands. After 
that a whole generation lost their culture and future
by becoming displaced and refugees around the globe.
No one wants to be a refugee when you have a country.
Somalilanders never wanted to displaced but they had
no choice. Our nation is  such that war is not
somethign we welcome. 

Somaliland also by pursuing the dream of greater
Africa joined wit Somalia as part of forming greater
Somalia. The union failed us basically. We ended up
becoming refugees around the globe. It is only now we
are rebuilding our country which means going back 30
if not 40 years. How can you a start a whole
civilisation by going back four decades.

I would like African nations to learn from our mistake
but try to manage their nations locally without
jeopardising their people's freedom. Each country
should have a pride in rebuilding their nation from
bottom up approach. Village by  village, town by town.
Africa has lost a lot. For each war that takes place
you lose decades of culture, history and progress from
your children's future. That is not something
acceptable.

African educated people need to volunteer their time
and knowledge to rebuild Africa. Some how we have lost
visionaries for the last few decades. We need more
visionaries young visionaries who can follow the
footstep of great leaders like Nelson Mandela. Africa
some how lost its dream of vision. Maybe it is time
for the youth to create this vision. I am a great
believer in youth vision for they are the brain power
of any nation. We need more youth visionaries also in
every continent for the world has changed. If the
youth does not  get involved with rebuilding their
future they will lose out. The world has gone global
and the youth need to formulate strategies to rebuild
their nations and find out how we failed them. We need
to be accountable for failing them.


> Get real, get responsible, get sober (I think we
> have
> more drunks in Africa, than on any other continent),
> and stop blaming others for our problems. Then maybe
> we can solve them and we can become respected
> people,
> instated of people who always look to others to
> solve
> our problems, and that is bound to fail because we
> have to do it ourselves. We need peace loving
> leaders,
> we need leaders that are competent, we need leaders
> that are humble, we need leaders that are not
> corrupt
> and murders! 
> 
> Chris Sithole, PhD
> Zimbabwe

Good leaders need to incorporate cultural values into
their leadership and be sensitive to the needs of the
people at the grass root level. Our leaders need to
keep in touch with the local customs and now throw
centuries of African civilisation by copying global
strategies that will undermine their cultural values.
Africa has strong tradition of chieftains and local
customs which if incorporated with current values of
democracy can do wonders. Democracy and local customs
and traditions need to compliment each other. Our
elder's values need to be respected and our youth need
to come up with ways of joining African ideologies and
traditions with global democracy and human right
issues.


We also need to work with organisations like VOW.org
and see how we can implement policies that will solve
our problems from bottom up approach.

I hope more positive role models come forward to lead
our youth into the next centurey.

Take care all.

Mrs. Lulu Todd
globalsomalilandwomen@xxxxxxxxxxx
UK ICT Liaison for:
http://www.somalilandforum.com
http://www.iprt.org
http://ednahospital.netfirms.com 
http://www.tawakal.co.uk
Somaliland Health and Education Project
European Somaliland NGOs including Youth


> > AIDS NO MORE by Dr. Leo Rebello
> > 
> > President, AIDS Alternativa International, 28/552
> Samata Nagar, Kandivli
> > East,
> > Bombay 400101, India. Telefax (91-22) 8872741.
> > Email : leorebello@xxxxxxxx /
> leorebello@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Website : http://www.healthwisdom.net /
> www.aidsalternativa.org
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > AIDS is the greatest myth of our times. Inspite of
> voluminous evidence
> > which shows that HIV is not AIDS, the myth is kept
> deliberately going so
> that
> > the following multi-trillion dollar industries
> keep
> prospering :
> > 
> > (a) Latex industry: condom in simple word, even
> children know its use
> > now. Boys and girls as young as 15, who were
> earlier
> afraid of sex, are
> now
> > experimenting with condoms giving rise to condom
> ethics, condom culture,
> > condom civilisation, condom protection, all of
> which
> is as fragile as the
> > condom itself. There are two types of condoms -
> male
> and female.The
> > production, sale and use of female condoms is very
> restricted. After the
> > 'condom accidents' the ever alert marketing men
> invented 'double hat'
> > protection that means using two condoms to be
> doubly
> sure! Simple logic
> > you see : if one condom can protect 50% two give
> 100% protection!
> 
> > (b) Eventhough HIV testing is unreliable,
> non-standardized and
> > dangerous, this is a big business. HIV tests
> include
> mostly Elisa and
> Western Blot,
> > which cross-react with over 70 known medical
> conditions and illnesses.
> > That means they are positively programmed to
> create
> scare!
> 
> > (c) Then there are microbicides, ostensibly to
> protect the women. Oils,
> > creams, lotions, potions, gels, pessaries and
> ofcourse other paraphernalia
> > like stimulators, scrubbers, hair removing pastes,
> etc. Presently there is
> > war between chemical microbicides and herbal
> microbicides for market
> > share. Consumer, as usual, is at the receiving
> end.
> > 
> > (d) But by far the most lucrative business is the
> chemical medicines as
> > usual - protease inhibitors, cocktails,
> anti-retrovirals, HAART or
> > multi-drug regimen, vitamin supplements. Costlier
> the medicines more
> > effective they are, is the false belief on which
> the
> mercenary medical
> > mafia cashes on.
> 
> > (e) Some one has 'invented' AIDS Counseling. The
> counseler is as
> ignorant as the patient. AIDS Counseling includes :
> telling HIV positive patient to
> live with it. Further telling him/her that there is
> no
> known cure.
> Scientists are working on Vaccines. Anti-retrovirals
> are life-savings. They are
> costly, but if you do not take them you will die and
> then what will happen to your
> family? If a patient were to ask about Alternative
> > Medicine, improved nutrition, change in life
> style,
> prompt comes the reply
> they are
> > all dangerous. Beware of the quacks! That in short
> is AIDS Counseling.
> 
> > (f) Then there are 'AIDS Advocates' (usually
> Americans but working in
> > sub-Saharan Africa) promoting the use of lethal
> chemical drugs and
> > fighting for and on behalf of the poor patients to
> reduce their price,
> influencing
> > health ministries to underwrite the costs of
> 'life-saving drugs' and
> promoting free or subsidised distribution of AIDS
> drugs, including to pregnant
> mothers ostensibly to save the unborn. If there is
> no
> food to eat, water to
> drink, clothes to wear, no problem. But you must
> have
> medicines, more the better.
> They refuse to accept that Nkosi Johnson, an 11-year
> old boy, died because
> of harsh treatment - 50 capsules/tablets, three
> times
> of
> > day. A 'single judge' (he is married alright!), in
> S.Africa decides what
> the
> > Presidential Panel of Expert International Doctors
> could not. Human rights
> > concern you see and he thinks he is the great
> Solomon and the President
> > S.Africa and his panel of experts are fools!
> 
> > (g) How can we forget the AIDS conferences and
> AIDS
> journalists :
> > local, regional, national and international? Big
> business. The same
> people,
> > sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies,
> parroting
> the same thing
> > without application of mind, running down those
> who
> question them,
> throwing to
> > wind ethics, morals, professionalism, not
> considering alternative
> medicine, ideas, experiments, vision or approaches.
> Very unscientific.
> > 
> > Ever since AIDS was 'rediscovered' in 1981, it has
> threatened the very
> fabric of society. It was 'rediscovered' by the
> proponents of modern medicine to
> camouflage its dismal performance in the cause, the
> course and the cure of
> major maladies.
> > 
> 
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