After an intense week of erudition on issues of Governance across our Continent, (we appreciated the African Charter on Democracy, Election and Governance throughout the week, we continue to…) I think there is something beyond the Charter provisions that needs serious fixing. I don’t refute the fact that there’s some good happening around us. It’s surely an element worth acknowledgement. But what happened to men and women using their “unreasonableness” and mindfulness to save humanity?
In the past, transformational men and women stood up against injustices to the choke-full. They were “unreasonable” enough to understand the historical mission of their generation. Are “unreasonable” people extinct; people that inspired TRUE oneness within and across societies? But here we are with good provisions of the law that are hardly implemented!
Humanity, to me is oneness of all, oneness of creed and oneness in each of our standing. But do we notice how we continue to grow in self-focus and individual gratification? Do we all notice how there is a strange intensification of our representatives who are DEALERS instead of LEADERS? They are DEALERS because they are less concerned with the welfare of nationals!
Yet more disturbing is how each one of us follows the example of the “DEALERS” without even knowing! Haven’t we closed people out(in so many ways.) Have we not refused to make society’s needs or concerns our business? Do we not “transact” from that which we will benefit?
The AU agenda( on good governance, democracy…) is impossible without these vital senses;
1. Sense of Duty
2. Sense of Commitment
3. Sense of Sacrifice
4. Sense of goodwill and humanity
The only way to regain these vital senses is by us all reconciling with our conscious.
Nkwanzi Karagwa 