At this point, one has no choice but to believe that everything going on in this world and country is deliberate. 

This is because it is unbelievable and inconceivable that even after many decades of political freedom, most African countries seem to have no will or real intention to uplift the masses from poverty and undignified way of living.

This begs one to imagine that maybe poverty and inequality are necessary prerequisites to those who lucratively benefit from having massive control over the masses. 

One has no choice but to believe that the poverty and inequality are not deliberate because research has been done with findings and solutions documented, but such may be laying on some shelf collecting dust. 

Often, most of these brilliant ideas that can even instantly improve and transform the lives of citizens never get to see the light of day because they are a disruption to a certain political agenda or those of their masters.

To imagine that politicians still want to sit in August houses to fruitlessly raise and discuss matters which are not only well known but already documented with solutions is either a deliberate insult to the masses or simply just to deceive the masses that something is being done about their plight.

Truth is that while we are busy debating, be it in parliament or social media, unemployment and poverty keep on rising, corruption goes on, the red line is still intact, and the future of a newborn is getting even bleaker. 

This is all going on even where there are exemplary leaders in the world who have demonstrated that real change is possible. The likes of Ibrahim Traore and Nayib Bukele are a living testimony that when political will is intentional, real and tangible, change can be felt in the hearts of the citizens.

They have demonstrated that to be truly free, one has to break the chains and entanglement with the global organisations, which are nothing more than instruments of neocolonialism and economic sabotage. No country can truly be independent and have an agenda of its own when still in bed with
organisations that are massively infested with the interests of its former colonizers.

Truthfully, for as long as the status quo of the political direction continues with no quest for real transformation, the inequality gap will keep widening and heading into an existential disaster. Until there is an honest and sacrificial will for reform in the education system, true economic emancipation and industrialisation will remain a pipe dream. 

Again, with all practical examples in the world of how nations like Singapore and a few others have turned their countries around, there is no reason why any African country cannot assimilate and gradually pull itself out of its socio-economic debacles. 

Needless to say, it will be a great day when every child in Okahandja Park, Ombwa ya Lyatotina and in every other informal settlement has a dignified roof over their head with electricity, proper roads and sanitation. 

For if these basic human needs cannot be prioritized and addressed, how would we even then achieve a heavier and more ambitious idea of massive industrialisation?

*Uncommon Sense is published in the New Era with contributions from Karlos Naimwhaka. YouTube channel: Karlos Lokos.

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