A death is a death, whether you die or get killed. More than 85% of the world population die before 80, very few people reach 90 and very very few people cross 100. This makes the fact that more than 85% of human population is getting killed; whether by their fellow humans, predators, drivers, nature, germs; but they are killed. If there are killers to be sentenced in the International Court of Justice are bacteria, viruses, plasmodium and their cousins and uncles. Sorry this is just a mere argument, don't take it seriously.
Today the world has a population of more than seven billion people; more than 1.4 billion being Chinese, more than 1.2 billion being Indians, more than 300 million Americans (United States) and more than 150 million being Nigerians. Countries are having a battle on the earth resource to feed their population; no one is at sleep because there is no time for that.
Development is a song to every human being on earth, everyone wants development. People are electing their leaders in the name of development. If you are a politician and you don’t mention the word development in your campaigns, you will never get the chair, it doesn’t matter you are in United States or Somalia.
The world today have divided itself in three categories; the first world, the second world and the third world. The first world and third world are the most popular today due to the fall of communism. All these categories are the result of the level of development; meaning the developed are termed the first world and the underdeveloped categorized in the third world. Development creates the gap between the first and third world.
When the third world countries are pulling themselves to go to the first category, the first world countries are not asleep but keeping moving far and far more. The astonishing phenomenon is that the first world countries are faster than the third world in this race. As a result, majority third world countries end up saying, “we cannot run, we will never catch them”. This is bad for the third world because it erases all the hopes and as a result it creates such fades like corruption, poor control, insecurity, lack of confidence and homicide. Hence the race is becoming more and tenser for the third world.
Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you better start running!
Tanzania cannot be safe by watching Western running, it will never be safe. Tanzania should run, and run faster than the first world. Africa has a long way to go, and it must start the journey sooner because it is too late. Industrialization, globalization, civilization, urbanization, commercialization, integration and internationalization are all the tasks ahead of Tanzanian stakeholders being leaders, businessmen, citizens, officials, intellectuals, institutions, politicians and everyone in place to roll the rim. This is very important because whether we like or not, we must run or die. For us we don’t have to wait for the sun to rise, we have to run day and night. Our race is longer than theirs, our responsibilities are many than theirs.
Let everyone wherever he/she is do his/her job, let everyone do something to step somewhere along this run. We need to go somewhere, I hope we have a dream and we have a life we desire to live. We can live that life, we can realize our dream.
We can have good hospitals, good school, better roads, security cameras for security of our citizens, enough food in our stores; we can have better houses, good offices, good communication infrastructure, marine security, sustainable power supply; we can have enough water at our homes, and we can have our dream realized.
This is what we can accomplish if together we aim, mobilize, focus and act upon. We have every resource to do so. We have human resource from unskilled, semiskilled and skilled; we have land which only 39% is used and the rest unused; we have access to every technology in the world, if United Kingdom refuse to sell to us China will, if China refuse Japan will, they must sell to us and invest in our country because we are at peace with them; we have rivers to provide water to our rural and urban, Hydroelectric power and fish to our citizens; we have ocean to unite us to the world, lakes to unite us to the interior Africa; we have minerals to rise our national reserve; we have National Parks, Mountains, Valleys, Craters, forests, to attract tourists; we have colleges and universities to produce our human resources; we have everything. Hence we have every reason to join the race, we have no excuse. We make the best use of our resources, we can realize our dream. What we need is a collective effort, to mobilize our people, to employ our sons and daughters, to organize our resources, to allocate them bravely, and establish a good control system; surely we will make our dream a reality.
Ghana had a better wireless network than United States in 2007; India (partly a third world country) is good at software writing than United States, we can be better if we want to be so. Brazil was the third world country in 1990s, but she is moving to the first world with supersonic speed and no one can stop her; likewise Venezuela.
Development is a market today. A poor cannot buy a Samsung Galaxy notepad or a Dell laptop computer. Poor cannot but pizza at Shoprite, a poor cannot shop a book online. So development of a country is of interest to everyone in the world because the world is in need of market, human resource, security and integration. A poor country has limited market, limited human resource, limited or no security, and weak power to integrate. China is occupied, India is getting denser, but Africa is underdeveloped. This suggests that there is every force that pushes Africa to develop because its development is important to the international community. Everyone outside Africa wants Africa to develop, and to develop faster than a speed of light. This is an opportunity for Africa, it is an opportunity at the right time, let’s get out and start running, faster than the fastest lion. Y2K was a threat to America and Western, but it was an opportunity to India. Y2K liberated India and since then India never looked behind.
Time is up; let us get back to work. The Executive, the Legislature, the Judiciary, the local government, businesses, social communities, and citizens; let’s pull up our socks and get moving. We can do this, we can live our dream.
