whites the Europeans
let’s say about africa has a
rather precarious legitimacy
the writer alex perry said in some
occasion that we Europeans
we have a very long history both
of exploiters how to misunderstand
Africa and is right not therefore
the stories that they will listen to
continuation
they are not my stories but they are the
stories of the people with whom I
found in an African on the roads
the races the towns in the city is
what they are going to hear next
their stories are their voices
I live in Uganda I live in the capital
from uganda kampala and one morning I
I found a mom crying nearby
from my house I approached and asked
yesterday you need something that happens and I
He told that his little daughter brenda a
a lovely little girl three years
I was always greeted by how much he said
brenda that that he was dead and I
He said he had died of pneumonia
pneumonia is a disease is a
lung infection that is relatively
easy to cure
in fact, it can only be cured with
Antibiotic drugs
these antibiotics cost only 30
cents
however only in 2016
More than 950 thousand people died by
blame for this pneumonia disease
all these people had less than
five years and most came from
impoverished countries
there are actually 950 thousand people
brenda did not die because of a
rare disease incurable disease a
long strange disease reality
They died because of a system fault
social and economic that allowed its
death in kampala the capital of uganda
there were enough medicines there
enough hospitals had
enough doctors to learn for
his mom
to understand what what is
happening and Africa is very important
back off back in time and
understand first what happened during
during the colonial period to
early 20th century Europeans
we arrived there Africa and invaded the
continent
we are left with the territories with the
more fertile land we destroy the
pre-colonial societies we imposed
our religion and we replace the
subsistence crops for the
export crops for the
crops that needed the metropolis is
Africa
at present it continues to maintain this
subordinate position in the system
global in the 80s in the 90s
financial institutions
international organizations became the
new colonial administrators
at that time twenty years later
of the nominal independence of the
African countries post governments
colonial were they are indebted
to the core and they had to
accept if or if they had no other option
the recipes the measures that the
financial institutions
internationals proposed him between
other things reduced public spending
in education they reduced spending
public health
eliminated all subsidies to the
agriculture and also like during the
colonial period as it has been during
the colonial period replaced the
subsistence crops by
crops that we needed in the West
of cocoa cotton all this kind of
crops is not to say instead of
develop an agrarian system and the
agricultural industry that guarantees
food security in africa what
develop was not an industry
agricultural the service of our
needs that’s why today Africa despite
that he probably has lands
most fertile in the world
that’s why today is the continent
hungry that continent where millions
and millions
of people go hungry every day
we are seeing that we are seeing that
for example only one country the
democratic republic of the congo has
More than 1,100 different minerals have
a place a long river Congo congo
that could generate electricity
enough for all of southern africa
has everything has jungles has
trees has water has everything has
all and yet 74 percent
of the population lives with less than one
25 dollar in Africa today to
despite all these natural resources
More than 415 million people live
with less than a dollar 25 a day
imagine yourself living with that
amount of money per day
in this is a system that we
we imposed too many Africans and
Sometimes we do not know what to do with
they
a good example of this from this
system are not cities
Africans should should visit
neiro is a curious society nairobi the
capital of kenya and to me is one of the
most expensive cities of the continent has
skyscraper has great avenues
they have mansions that cost millions of
dollars shopping mols and at the same time
in the same space in the same city
live millions and millions of people in
is the who in marginal neighborhoods
these people live in conditions in
precarious houses without sewers without
hospitals colleges and today literally
half of the trash is spent a lot
e time in these parties in these slams
and and on one occasion a father dad of 30
years explained crying screaming like the
police had killed his
bush to their children of 17 and 18 years
this what does from time to time the
policeman when he enters the slams of de
the cities of africa do not enter
they shoot and then they ask seriously
they do it because they assume they believe
slams are pockets of criminals then
Occasionally when they enter they do
this kind of thing and as there are not enough
nothing
only last year in the first
eight months of last year the
Kenyan police killed approximately
150 people probably the figure is
much more superior is extremely
figures that we know the figures
we know this figure thanks to
relatives who had the courage to
denounce organizations
probably safe
the figure is much higher but in
occasions these murders occur
in a much more useful way
remember brenda true and small
girlfriend
she should still be alive today
says the world organization for
health than in africa
the children of africa in up to 14 times
more chances of dying before
meet the five years that a child in
a country enriched like Spain
it is curious that both both first
settlers as then the institutions
international financial acted
they drive their their measures
both justifying them for purposes
philanthropic
first the settlers we the
Europeans
we thought we had a
superior civilization than the
whites we were better and so
we both have moral responsibility
to impose our system our
society to the poor poor Africans
African negritos later in the
80s 90s institutions
international financial they reached
Africa imposed what for them
they wanted it was the best social system
and economic
neoliberalism wanted to integrate
African societies in the
global economies for that way
now the result of both
interventions it’s no wonder that
has himself been the population
continent and poverty of the continent
let’s make it clear africa sport and africa
he is poor because of us because
first the settlers and then these
institutions imposed a state
totally disconnected from society
civil
a state that is has only
designed to benefit a minority
a few
we also an elite africa a
been totally linked to the
civil society in vic teacher abounds
of music abounds Congolese said in a
in another conference that the word
been in Kiswahili one of the languages
who speak the most in Africa is said to be
cali mercalli is a word scale
compound worth being comes from Arabic
means secrets and cali is a word
Swahili which means evil
this is the perception that many
African people have over their
own states
a group of evildoers who keep
secrets or in Congo which is a language that
it is spoken in some parts of congo
angola in the center of africa where
congo state is said to kill and that is
literally the one that starts the
legs
the force in its maximum expression
then the teacher kabunda my admired
Professor Kabunda said that Africa has
had the virtue of living for centuries
a state and the problems of africa
they started with the imposition of this
been imported by agents
foreigners therefore the problems
of Africa will continue until it is
Delete and restructure this state
artificial
Africa needs a state with a face
human
Africa needs a platform focused on
people
Africa needs to hear for the first
time a state that is the one that listens
because I heard for the first time
town that they take that take in
consideration of the priorities of the
African people actually do not need that
the white ones we go there to bonus in
axes with projects do not even need
that the whites go further as
journalists like me to tell their
stories africa
I said the great nelson mandela what
affects needs is justice
thank you very much
[Applause]
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