Sinking into Poverty

The following story appeared sometime this month regarding a coffee disease ravaging different districts in Uganda. The article says that before 2002 Mukono district had 54,000 hectares of coffee and at the time of this article, half of that had died due to the coffee wilt disease. Remember that Uganda is an agricultural country that depends on coffee for jobs and incomes. Since at time, the population in these districts has increased and yet coffee production which has remained the economic activity is reducing. Can anybody suggest some solutions? What surprises me is that there is no response on this matter from the Coffee Development Authority.

Zanzibar The place to visit!

Zanzibar is the place to visit but the country has more to do. Despite its years of history, poverty is still a major problem. Enjoy the pictures.

Immigration officers should treat Africans with respect

John Bahana the Coordinator of the International community for Bakyankigezi wrote in the Monitor of August 6, 2013 about how him and his group were denied Canadian visas. Subsequently there was a string of responses on the Monitor Newspaper blog. Reading through these comments, you appreciate that people are not happy with these visa problems. The key challenge we have is poverty in Africa. It is not common that wealthy people want to associate with the poor. The message that is being sent to you as Africans is to devise means of improving your economies. It is wealth that binds west together to accept one another to move into their respective countries with little visa restrictions. If we do not plan to get out of poverty, this problem will live on forever. This challenge to our leadership, no amount of negotiations and protocols will solve the visa problem.

South Africa which has 40 million blacks and 5 million whites imposes visa restrictions on the rest of Africa. The reason is very simple. South Africa is more developed than the rest of Africa and they would not want to share their success and wealth with the rest of the poor Africans. Let us get up and work, improve our productivity, produce more and history will judge us.

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