NAIROBI: THINK BEYOND THE UPRISINGS

                                     theafricanvoices Founder-Abdirahman Mohamed Ali

The uprisings that the world is experiencing is not worthy at all at one point, in my opinion, people should understand and think beyond the box. The fact is that what makes news does not translate on what is happening on the ground.
Whatever happens in any country has a rallying power behind it or someone who takes responsibility of all the chaos or mess that we see today particularly in the Arab nation. Every one of us hates violence but let us discuss the truth of all these chaos.
Opinion leaders and great political and social analysts and spectators will definitely agree with me that all these evil actions were organized chaos and not a revolution. Citizens of a country will never bring a country into a standstill and leave women, children, aged people to suffer in their homes, while the so called pro-democracy protestors take to the streets with the intention of looting and destroying properties and much more of the beauty of their country.
Political reforms, social freedom, freedom of press and a parliament representing all citizens instead of the federal council representing only the monarchs of a multitude of sovereign union states, all these are never achieved by use of force, causing destruction and scaring locals nor by trying to emulate violence that has occurred in other states.undertook several condemnations and endorsed what his administration called "freedom agenda" and this brought the issue of ‘freedom’ into focus but blurred the distinction between democracy promotion and forceful regime change. How do we distinguish reforms from revolution? Our youths have continuously been misused to do things that they don’t understand and those that do not benefit neither them nor their families but benefit the political class at the long run and. How do we differentiate between a genuine revolution and a corrupt revolution?
Former US president George Bush once undertook several condemnations and endorsed what his administration called "freedom agenda" has brought the issue into focus but blurred the distinction between democracy promotion and forceful regime change. How do we distinguish reforms from revolution? Our youth have been misused to do things that they don’t understand. How do we differentiate between a genuine revolution and a corrupt revolution?
By following very keenly the recent uprising that happened in Egypt, Tunisia and other parts of the Arabic region, can the people who cause their own president to leave power bring a structural change and a real democracy? How long will it take the reforms that some activist are demanding be put into full implementation? How much will it cost them to put what they plan on paper to reality? Are they ready to pay the price?
It is always said that transitional periods are not smooth as many wanted to be, but it is complicated and messy, we find misunderstandings, disagreements and threats characterizing the transitional period. In my view without people taking to the streets and causing the country to a standstill they can demand a constitutional reform that will help the process of transfer of power to a democratically elected civilian government.
Well, I am not saying that the monarchies, kings and other regime that hold power for long are all saints, but they do mistakes such repression, corruption, low accountability, a surprisingly narrow base of support and fast-rising inequality. The argument is how to change the law that governs the country. Changing the regime is not the way forward to bring real democracy. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, we must be the change that we would like to see in the world

The most difficult situation in any country can go through are times of political turmoil and civil unrest throughout the country, one of the worrying thing is that a sectarian civil war has threatened to the stability of a nation. Sectarian has divided and torn apart the unity of a country, unfortunately, people feel their political identity is tied to their community rather than to the country in general and this makes some citizens not represented in the ruling class feel left out.
The protestors have always achieved their goal half way but they never accomplish what they want through destruction and mayhem. Their greater investment in the broader political arena had real benefits: they cultivated new skills, reached new parts of the public, developed broad agendas, and interacted with international actors but all the youth have been misadvised and misguided to doing things that brings no plus to their poor lives.
The West might have a hand in these uprising directly or indirectly, perhaps they might have indicated significant discomfort on some regime that seems to be defiant to their political, social and economical interest in the region. Some super-powers nations were hesitant and stayed away from to directly support the ongoing unrest in some countries. Time has come we realize that they have developed their own countries and it’s our turn to work on our own development that can never be achieved through constant political wrangles and mayhem.
There is a total confusion of why the uprisings are occurring, what we hear from the media are just speculations from the actors on both sides, but thinking beyond the uprising need a sharp reflection on what is really fueling the protests and a solution found soonest possible.
　

Abdirahman Mohamed Ali

 Theafricanvoices founder