Africans have been urged to free themselves from mentalities of waiting for solutions from outside their own inventions.
The call was made by the Chairperson of the Pan African Movement (PAM) Rwanda Chapter, Protais Musoni as the Movement welcomed new staff and elaborating the program they will work on in the next three-year tenure.
During the meeting, it was said that some high officials send their children to European countries as they don’t have confidence in local education systems.
Speaking to IGIHE, Protais Musoni said it is sad that some Africans including leaders consider the European continent as a better place than Africa.
He said Africans should wake up and defeat their weaknesses, insecurity and the ‘poor’ mindsets learned from colonial occupation of not loving their traditions.
Musoni said that some African countries save all their money in foreign banks which use it for their business benefits while this would serve more economic benefits if it was used inside local economic circles.
“You will always find Africans waiting for their problems’ solutions from away. When you lose confidence in yourself and wait for others to get solutions for problems you face, that is a problem itself. That we copy methods from away and paste them in our countries will bring us more problems. This only means we have not yet become people who can find solutions among us,” Protais Musoni said.
“It is bad when you have members of the society with such mentalities that good things are only got from elsewhere and it becomes worse if leaders born in that society do not change and love their mother continent. We need to improve mindsets of our population and work with political parties that every leader elected to an African country understands Africa’s problems and strive to resolve them,” Musoni added.
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