The possibility of marriage between poor African and skilled jobless Americans and Europeans

The assumption, a minute please, no, actually, it is a known fact that Africa is blessed with vast untapped natural resouces of all sorts but has no capital or abled entrepreneurs to develop itself.

On the other hand, the armies of skilled and talented jobless Americans and Europeans are growing every day. I might be regarded as a fool,, but I cannot wonder if this is not a godsend opportunity for rightly minded Africans who are at least 20 per cent visionary as their founding fathers.

I am saying so, believing that a number of Spaniards, Irish, Kazakhs, gloomy Georgians, frustrated Russians Bulgarians, Czechs, boisterous Slovaks, Greeks and so on, with the right mixture of incentives and enablers from both their country and poor African countries can work to develop Africa while at the same time helping themselves and returning something to their motherland.

Let me use Tanzania as a case in point. What happens?

First we look at what Tanzania needs most for it to develop and become a middle income country in the world. The land has vast natural resources but lacks capital and presentable infrastructure, not to mentioned skilled labour force although this is less true with a growing number of jobless graduates from the mushrooming universities in the country.

Specifically, Tanzania needs urgently reliable electricity; modern agriculture ; modern railways; water distribution works; uptostandard roads; sea and lake ports; airports and a working domestic and international market.

From observation, the problem of garbage in Tanzania can be tied to the challenge of electricity production that can be solved by generating electricity from garbage. In turn, this will facilitate urban cleanliness. Given say about 30 major towns in the country, in their totaliy they can help generate a sizebale portion of electricity demands in the country while generating sizebale carbon countries for the cities and towns too. In addition, recyling projects are known to produce reusable plastic, paper, boxes as well as manure too. What a boone to the economy? Besides employment to local jobless educated youths too!

Environmental specialists, professors and practitioners in garbage recycling who are today jobless in Americas and Europe cannot come together and see how they can work with Tanzania's local governments to make this a reality? They will generate own employment and solve some critical Tanzanian problems too. A win-win situtation to all.

Tanzania has a number of railway lines all operating below capacity to the detriment of employees, passengers and the nation.

Is is possible for devolution or decentralization in Tanzania to be accelerated so that individuals need not take the whole of Tanzania as customer in this case.

For instance, someone can be granted a lease for rebuilding and operating the Dar es salaam -Tanga line; while another the Tanga-Moshi-Mombasa line and yet another the Moshi-Arusha-Namanga line.

In this instance, I am thinking in terms of railway engineering professors and students (jobless from Europe) working with their counterparts in Tanzania in a mode of an open and practical railway engineering and construction school. When building o f those lines is sone, am sure there shall be many othercontracts for such teams to build railways in other parts of Tanzania and East Africa.

Kn owing the nature and depth of closedness of systems in traditional East African partners, Rwanda can become a beehive of such ideas. What Rwanda can do is to use KIST's specially setup department to bring together local investors in East Africa with jobless professionals and experts from Americas and Europe to see the opportunities and challenges facing this kind of idea and then pave strategies for making such a people to people partnership possible for the benefit of both East Africa on one hand, and Europe and Americas on the other.

The same thinking can be used in case of building feasible and durable waterworks, sea and lake ports, airports, stadiums or name it.....

It is an idea worthwhile pursuing.... if we have leaders who are really interested in their poeple's development and not self glory while basking and enjoying in an island of affluence surrounded by seas of poverty.

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After the Arab re-awakening noveau administrative strategies inevitable

UNLESS those replacing the old leadership in North Africa and elsewhere can come up with innovative socio- political structures and administrative systems the likelihood of the same problems re-occuring once again may be inevitable.



Although this article is written with special reference to the Libyan revolution, the ideas contained herein may be of relevance to many other areas of Africa.

The prevalence of the occurence of state failures in Africa is a sure indication of obsolete and dysfunctional systems and structures. African countries and Africans have grown in numbers more than the capacity for self- administration and direction.
It is obvious change is needed and needed immediately not only for thesake of peace and unity in many a country, but more importanly future socio-economic development of such countries.

Economic, social and technologial changes occuring in the world now are dictating for the establishment and growh of smaller government/administrative units. Larger administrative units are falling out of fashion because they appear not able to deliver whtat they were designed for. That is modernization and people's prosperity.

The future region or province or canton shall have between 300,000 and 500,000 people only.

Such unit will have its own governor/chief or prime minister; regional parliament; regional ministers and relevant judicial structures. This is necessitated by the fact that citizens of future will not be so patient as those of the past when there was no ICT and e-Governments.


Naturally, smaller administrative units will imply higher level of decentralization and self-autonomy. Cost conscious central governments supported by strong, autonomous and effective smaller governments willl be more appreciated by its people than otherwise.

The ideal levels of decentralization and self-autonomy must give a people in a given province their own head or regional leader, a representative assembly and regional ministers. In addition, such a governemnt will have a stand alone and powerful judiciary and private and public media houses.

The head of the region, preferably, a prime minister shall be chosen from the party with largest number of seats in the regional government. While representatives to the regional or provincinal assembly shall be elected from interest groups in the said region.

Ministries in the region shall be formed depending on the number of problems and opportunities available to the region in terms of its social economic development. No region will have more than 12 ministers in order to avoid cost overruns.

Regional government, parliament work and media work in the region shall be facilitated very much by use of ICT and modern technology. Again, relationship between central and regional governments shall be based strictly on an evergrowing application of e-governance in a country.

To administer justice faster, effectively and efficiently each region must have its own Chief Judge, Regional attorney and a High Court.

Regions with own newspapers, radio and television stations shall be appreciated more by their citizens than those that don't have such facilities.

Seat of government

Having only one city as a beneficiary of all government expenses is a thing of the past. The future state shall distribute its ministries in appropriate regions. The capital will have one huge structure that will house sub offices of all regionally distributed ministries.

If Conferences facilities are built not only in towns but also in villages, the parliaments (both natioanl and regional) can also be made to seat in various towns and villages round the year, thus ensuring no one town or village partakes in the benefits of parliament seatings.

Such a distribution will go a long way into ensuring not only power distribution but also distribution of vital resources for an even keel developmnt of all the nation's regions.

In the case of Libya, Tripoli besides having the giant building housing all suboffices of the national ministries may have two or three building for appropriately located ministries. Benghazi as well as Misrata and Sirte, may have also two or three full ministries and so too are some of worthwile cities or towns or villages that deserves to house a ministry.

For instance, towns where oil is extracted rather than refinded should be headquarters of the relevant Fuel and gas ministry.

There should be a national capital and investment forum where decisions on capital rationing should be made. Such a forum should be able to earmark fairly capital and investments among the regions to the satisfaction of all. Similarly redistribution and regional regeneration policies can follow on the same principles of equitable resource allocation and reallocation.


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Sending and receiving SMS via computer

Mobile phone operators in collaboration with internet providers can make it possible for someone to send and receive SMS via computer. Than making it possible for someone to type and store data easily on the computer as well as verifying it before sending it to projected recipients. This can increase income to both operators.

Uunganishaji na Utengenezaji Pikipiki nchini

PIKIPIKI hivi sasa imekuwa ni chombo cha kutegemewa katika usafiri wa abiria Tanzania. Hakuna utakapofika usikute stendi ya pikipiki.
Hali hii imesababishwa na wingi wa magari na jamu zinazoandamana nazo mijini, barabara mbovu sehemu kadhaa nchini na unafuu wa gharama kwa pikipiki kama chombo cha usafiri.

Pikipiki nyingi zinatoka China na ubora wake hauridhishi. IPO HAJA YA WATANZANIA WALIOKO NJE NA WENYE UWEZO kuja pamoja na kutafuta mtengenezaji pikipiki atakayekuja kuwekeza nchini.

Sasa ni ruksa yeye kuagiza viungo vyote vya pikipiki toka nje na akaziunganisha hapa hapa nchini na kuna mafundi wa kutosha kufanya kazi hiyo na kwa gharama nafuu. Kulingana na bei na ubora wa pikipiki atakazozalisha soko lote linaweza kuwa lake.



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