welcome to the african leadership series where we bring you great inspirational
speeches of african leaders before the collapse of the bipolar world
president nirere was passing through my country i think to refuel when i met him at the airport
and as we were walking from the aircraft to the lounge he was asking me what are we going to do
with the imminent collapse of the eastern bloc you know because their socialist policies you
know served as a counterbalance of assault to the capitalists whatever it is i couldn't answer him
because we really couldn't tell the way the world was going to be like and but i ventured
a little suggestion that uh well the capitalists are christians and they've been touting the values
and the culture of democracy and that's supposed to be at the core of their struggle their fight
you know so maybe the world might turn out to be a better place they're very pope john paul
who contributed to the collapse of the eastern bloc have several years later
indicted the economic practices of the world with the words the savagery
in his pastoral letter the savagery of capitalism that should tell you what
what became of the world after the collapse of the bipolar world yeah napotism the the
privatization of power both economic and political has been the order of the day so and further down
several years later what did president carter also say he indicted he reproached america and said
you've lost your moral stature and in a way this is why the world was so expectant this is why
mandela became such a powerful figure after him uh the world america found what's his name obama
he suddenly looked like a man of uh
with political morality and the world was so expectant of his leadership really
because what had happened earlier was just too much incidentally in case you never saw this
and i'm saying it as a reminder many years ago dick cheney who became bush's junior bush's uh
vice president used to be the minister for defense you know what he said on cnn that america's
interest supersedes overrides issues of morality i saw it i said my god that may be the case but
to mouth it this way and we'll teach our enemies to fear us and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
i felt very sad very sad but that has been the reality obama did his bid to hold it in
check with the practices of some of these multinational entities and corporations but
the point is that it has assumed a life of its own in the rest of the world and africa with its weak
situation vulnerable situation weak institutions has become the most vulnerable place you know
and we get up and we yeah of course the media is doing its job portraying all kinds of little
activities going on africa is on the rise etc of course we can see all these buildings all
these structures etc but i'm saying that it looks like we're being assimilated you know in the name
of investment and these private entities you know uh we will continue to hold the short end of this
stick for for some time can we unchain ourselves can we get out of that grip that old you know
it'll take people like concupa solid integrity and not materialistic if you see what i mean that is
something that we've always respected about your country uh tanzania the leadership of president
herrera you've not allowed money the monetization of your democracy of your electoral process
but i believe you're in danger of having that now like the rest of us and that's not healthy because
you end up with a situation right or wrong becomes politicized as my daughter said a few weeks ago
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