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International News Title: Young Generation Need to Take Over Africa’s Politics for Africa to Compete in the 21st Century Presidential elections are imminent in Kenya. The interesting fact according to Wikipedia, is that the youngest of the aspirants to the Kenyan presidency, Peter Kenneth is 48 years old. In 2014, Malawi will go to the polls. Of those that have declared interest to run for the Malawian presidency, the youngest, Atupele Muluzi, only interested in the race because of his ex-president father’s extreme desperation to somehow return to power, is between 33 and 35 depending on which biography one reads. It has been frequently observed that in Africa, politics is an occupation of the old. Where does this view come from? African Constitutions do not stipulate any specific age at which a citizen can get involved in patriotic politics. Besides stipulating the age at which a citizen is eligible to vote in an election, most laws are silent on the age at which a citizen can be involved in in developing this country politically- and rightly so! Yet there seems to be in African youth a negative attitude towards politics. This view seems to have been distilled from a close observation of the prominent players on the African political scene since the dawn of the fight for independence from colonialism to date. Able young African men and women somehow tend to shun political involvement, preferring instead to remain in the comfort zone of professional careers that have as little to do with governing as possible. This is a tragedy to Africa. It is a great tragedy that Africa does not have career politicians already learning their trade in our universities. To the question whether they are interested in politics, most African youth today will respond; No. Yet at its heart in international affairs, politics, particularly meaningful politics, is very much an occupation of those of youthful years. This has always been the case in world history and in indeed in African history, and must continue to hold true if this great continent is to realise its potential. By the age of 36, Ghanaian Kwame Nkrumah was already politically active enough to have a major role and influence in the organisation of the fifth Pan-African in Manchester, England, after which he went on to found the West African National Secretariat to work towards the decolonization of Africa. In 1924, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya was 30 years old when he joined the politically active Kikuyu Central Association. By 1928 he had become the KCA’s general secretary. In Malawi, when Henry Masauko Chipembere was elected to the Legislative Council of then Nyasaland in 1956, he was but only 26 years old. At the time of the cabinet crisis in the Banda administration, Henry Masauko Chipembere was still only 34 years old. It was Masauko Chipembere and Kanyama Chiume who at the ages of 26 and 25 respectively, first started the agitation against the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland invited Kamuzu Banda to come back home and help them with the struggle. And Aleke Banda was only 19 when he became an influential player in Malawian Politics. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Africa approaches 1 BBL per person per year. That's the starvation, population crash level. 2017......
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