Another passionate essay spent conflating different issues and misrepresenting China, and saying nothing new or of substance. Related articles Ntsiki defends letter to black people Umhlonyane vs umemulo: How Minnie got it wrong Ntsiki Mazwai pens letter to black people Thandiswa Mazwai jets off to New York Ntsikis sessions a huge hit Now Mazwai says it in print Should we embrace our natural beauty? Yes, obviously. Thats such low hanging fruit its basically a distraction, the sort of statement a politician uses to build a false sense of rapport: I like sunshine! If you like sunshine too then we must agree on all sorts of things! As to the meat of the argument, a lot of complaints and not enough proposed solutions. Kids should know about Queen Nzinga and Nandi? Then tell them the story. Next. Kids should know an African language? Then speak it to them so they learn it. Next. I want to see black people own their own businesses and not ALWAYS be the consumer. ALWAYS be the consumer? A needless exaggeration and false on its face. Black people ran their own businesses during Apartheid. Next. Of course we could talk about the important issue of increasing black ownership of assets and capital but then we would be out of the hyperbole business. You hail EVERYTHING which is not African and then you have the nerve to say ‘it does not make me unAfrican?????” WTF *_* Please. We have this debate so bloody often its pretty clear that we are not hailing EVERYTHING not African without any thought about its impact on us...an accusation which is mighty rich considering what shes wearing in the photo attached to the article. the Chinese learn about THEMSELVES and are running the world IN MANDARIN! Yes, the Chinese learn about themselves. Thats simply a question of school curriculum. Maybe if we took schooling more seriously than simply complaining about it our schools would improve too. As for running the world in Mandarin: China doesnt run the world. When theres a global security threat, most nations do not go to China for a solution or leadership. Whos learning which language? Does the Prime Minister of the UK/Canada/Australia learn Mandarin? Or do the leaders of China learn some English? [Its the latter by the way] The same trend is true of children, learning English in China (and Asia more broadly) is much more popular than learning Mandarin is in the West China has become wealthier through the adoption of western-style market reforms and opening itself up more to the world and world markets, not turning inward on itself and saying if we dont invent it or design it we wont build it or buy it If Ive said it once Ive said it a hundred times: if you despise everything about the West so much, get off the internet, stop trying to get published in newspapers, trade in your Western-style democracy, and embrace the electricity-free bush. Stop crying about how you hate your toys while you are loathe to give them up. I wish that if newspapers are going to continue to publish on this topic, they would publish things that push the discussion forward rather than the same click-bait nonsense. Instead of having a real discussion about African identity we have all this crying that amounts to nothing more than How dare you other Africans want the same nice things (that work!) that Westerners have and I have too?
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:42:08 +0000
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