Africans In China

JUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on “Madonna’s Malawi.” At the same time, the memoirs of an African child soldier are on sale at your local Starbucks, and celebrity activist Bob Geldof is touring Africa yet again, followed by TV cameras, to document that “War, Famine, Plague & Death are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and these days they’re riding hard through the back roads of Africa.”

It’s a dark and scary picture of a helpless, backward continent that’s being offered up to TV watchers and coffee drinkers. But in fact, the real Africa is quite a bit different. And the problem with all this Western stereotyping is that it manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of some current victories, fueling support for patronizing Western policies designed to rescue the allegedly helpless African people while often discouraging those policies that might actually help.

Let’s begin with those rampaging Four Horsemen. Do they really explain Africa today? What percentage of the African population would you say dies in war every year? What share of male children, age 10 to 17, are child soldiers? How many Africans are afflicted by famine or died of AIDS last year or are living as refugees?

In each case, the answer is one-half of 1% of the population or less. In some cases it’s much less; for example, annual war deaths have averaged 1 out of every 10,800 Africans for the last four decades. That doesn’t lessen the tragedy, of course, of those who are such victims, and maybe there are things the West can do to help them. But the typical African is a long way from being a starving, AIDS-stricken refugee at the mercy of child soldiers. The reality is that many more Africans need latrines than need Western peacekeepers — but that doesn’t play so well on TV.

Further distortions of Africa emanate from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s star-studded Africa Progress Panel (which includes the ubiquitous Geldof). The panel laments in its 2007 news release that Africa remains “far short” of its goal of making “substantial inroads into poverty reduction.” But this doesn’t quite square with the sub-Saharan Africa that in 2006 registered its third straight year of good GDP growth — about 6%, well above historic averages for either today’s rich countries or all developing countries. Growth of living standards in the last five years is the highest in Africa’s history.

The real Africa also has seen cellphone and Internet use double every year for the last seven years. Foreign private capital inflows into Africa hit $38 billion in 2006 — more than foreign aid. Africans are saving a higher percentage of their incomes than Americans are (so much for the “poverty trap” of being “too poor to save” endlessly repeated in aid reports). I agree that it’s too soon to conclude that Africa is on a stable growth track, but why not celebrate what Africans have already achieved?

Instead, the international development establishment is rigging the game to make Africa — which is, of course, still very poor — look even worse than it really is. It announces, for instance, that Africa is the only region that is failing to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs in aid-speak) set out by the United Nations. Well, it takes extraordinary growth to cut extreme poverty rates in half by 2015 (the first goal) when a near-majority of the population is poor, as is the case in Africa. (Latin America, by contrast, requires only modest growth to halve its extreme poverty rate from 10% to 5%.)

This is how Blair’s panel managed to call Africa’s recent growth successes a failure. But the reality is that virtually all other countries that have escaped extreme poverty did so through the kind of respectable growth that Africa is enjoying — not the kind of extraordinary growth that would have been required to meet the arbitrary Millennium Development Goals.

Africa will also fail to meet the second goal of universal primary education by 2015. But this goal is also rigged against Africa, because Africa started with an unusually low percentage of children enrolled in elementary school. As economist Michael Clemens points out, most African countries have actually expanded enrollments far more rapidly over the last five decades than Western countries did during their development, but Africans still won’t reach the arbitrary aid target of universal enrollment by 2015. For example, the World Bank condemned Burkina Faso in 2003 as “seriously off track” to meet the second MDG, yet the country has expanded elementary education at more than twice the rate of Western historical experience, and it is even far above the faster educational expansions of all other developing countries in recent decades.

Why do aid organizations and their celebrity backers want to make African successes look like failures? One can only speculate, but it certainly helps aid agencies get more publicity and more money if problems seem greater than they are. As for the stars — well, could Africa be saving celebrity careers more than celebrities are saving Africa?

In truth, Africans are and will be escaping poverty the same way everybody else did: through the efforts of resourceful entrepreneurs, democratic reformers and ordinary citizens at home, not through PR extravaganzas of ill-informed outsiders.

The real Africa needs increased trade from the West more than it needs more aid handouts. A respected Ugandan journalist, Andrew Mwenda, made this point at a recent African conference despite the fact that the world’s most famous celebrity activist — Bono — was attempting to shout him down. Mwenda was suffering from too much reality for Bono’s taste: “What man or nation has ever become rich by holding out a begging bowl?” asked Mwenda.

Perhaps Bono was grouchy because his celebrity-laden “Red” campaign to promote Western brands to finance begging bowls for Africa has spent $100 million on marketing and generated sales of only $18 million, according to a recent report. But the fact remains that the West shows a lot more interest in begging bowls than in, say, letting African cotton growers compete fairly in Western markets (see the recent collapse of world trade talks).

Today, as I sip my Rwandan gourmet coffee and wear my Nigerian shirt here in New York, and as European men eat fresh Ghanaian pineapple for breakfast and bring Kenyan flowers home to their wives, I wonder what it will take for Western consumers to learn even more about the products of self-sufficient, hardworking, dignified Africans. Perhaps they should spend less time consuming Africa disaster stereotypes from television and Vanity Fair.

(By William Easterly)

Quand elles se souviennent du mariage, les femmes parlent de la cérémonie. Les hommes de l’enterrement de leur vie de garçon.

Une femme épouse un homme en espérant qu’il changera, et il ne change pas. Un homme épouse une femme en espérant qu’elle ne changera pas, et elle change.

Une femme s’inquiète pour l’avenir jusqu’à avoir un mari, et un homme ne s’intéresse pas à l’avenir jusqu’à ce qu’il ait une femme.

Il y a deux périodes pendants lesquelles un homme ne peut comprendre sa femme : avant le mariage, et après le mariage.

La plupart des jeunes filles de 17 ans peuvent se comporter comme des adultes.

Les garçons de 17 ans continuent d’échanger des cartes de jeux à collectionner, ou à jouer à divers jeux, et à se battre après le cours de gym. C’est la raison pour laquelle les amours de lycée marchent rarement.

Let’s talk again about the beautiful country, the mountainous green villages in the heart of Africa, the country of Rugamba Rutaganzwa, Runyonga et Samandari, the home of Gustave and world most beautiful girls ever: Burundi.

This time about internet. According to the world internet statistics, Burundi is one of the countries still far behind in scene about internet usage. Do You know what internet have changed in the world? If you’ve heard about that monster called ” Globalization ” or maybe you may have head it in french “Mondialisation”, that is eating all the poor guys on this planet and making the already rich even richer ,I want to tell you that internet is its feet and mouth.

Listen, see what could happen if people from Mugamba in Bururi were computer guru. With internet, I mean a computer connected to the internet in those small bamboo trues and a brain able to handle it, they could work at Tokyo from there and earn within a month more than their annual income.

An other example if you think it’s dream thinking that Mugamba people will work once in Tokyo and sleep in Rugo of Bamboo.

A guy started a networking website in 2005 and now his website is worth 15billions USA dollars. That’s the budget of more than 30 years for Burundi to give you an idea. I m not going to tell you his website, because he didn’t pay me for advertisement but if you want to know him, make a search of the the youngest billionaire in the world. That was 101% impossible 20 years ago.

What that mean ? With globalization, the world is going, if it has not already ,to be a single city you can cross within a minute or two or even less, the time will depend not on the BOIENG you are flying with but the connection speed of your Internet. Having minerals and oil in a country is going to be less profitable than having well educated people. Starting a company now means thinking from the beginning going global or you are bound to failure when tomorrow those big international monsters will get in.

Let’s come back to our topic, I m not the right person to discuss globalization with. It’s a big and difficult to understand concept and there are those big, tall, fat and smart economists you can ask out there ,but make sure you learn something about it if u want to survive in coming days.

Internet usage in Burundi: Burundi according to the world statistics has 60.000 internet users, that’s 0,7% of the population. “That’s not bad if you remember that we just came from a civil war (hopefully it’s over) which affected all the sectors of our economy. ” you are going to say and that’s an excuse.

Let me compare Burundi to two other African countries : Congo (RDC) and Rwanda. From 2000 to march 2008, Burundi, Rwanda and Congo went respectively from 3000 users -60.000 users, 5000-150.000 users, 500 users - 230.000 users, , that is a growth of 1900%, 2900% and 45.980% respectively.

Yes it’s obvious that the country of the smartest guy Samandari is the last on the list. Where is he by the way? Where did he go ?. Does anyone know?

Who shall we blame for that ? Burundian government for sure you will say and it’s reasonable. But in this article I don’t want to talk about that. I won’t to demonstrate that, we burundians , I mean burundians who are not decision makers have also not played well our role in internet usage growth in our country.

How and why? You are going to ask. But tell me first, because if you are reading my article, you are most probably reading it from my blog (www.gakiza.com or daniel.rugamba.com) or somewhere else it has been posted and that’s mean u are on internet. Tell me then, why are you on internet.

If u are like me maybe, u have that 24hours 200Mbps connection at home, and at the work u are always connected and reading some stuff from here and there, about that and this , and surfing internet is a good way to keel your time. Yes that’s a good answer, and bye bye. I now want to ask to that guy who is paying 20 fbu /min for the connection.

Why are you here guy ? Maybe she has got a Boyfriend in Europe or wants to write or read an email from that old schoolmate. It’s good reason too. Remember, humans, in our nature are always looking for profit. Yes profit. Don’t tell me about the so called non-profit organizations. Even when u give money to a bagger in the street, you do it because you learn it is a good charitable gesture and that gives you peace and it’s the profit, if I don’t mention the promised haven we all want to join. If you pass around him/her, your conscience accuses you and feel guilty.

Believe it or not, I m not going to argue about that, what I mean is that, unless people can get a profit from internet, they are not going to pay money or spend time on it. May it be friendship, services or cash, Burundians need the money they spend in those internet cyber-cafe back in their pockets. It doesn’t matter how expensive it is, what matters is to get back more than they gave. Yes they need it back or they will stop going there. That’s a true truth.

Back to our statistics: I may tell you one thing , witch is no longer available at the world statistics page : Just last year, in 2007, the same statistics showed Burundi and Rwanda at the same Rank with 60.000 users each. After one year, Burundi remained at 60.000 users and Rwanda added 90.000 users making 150.000 users in all. Yes you gonna tell me that Rwanda government have been investing a lot in ICT infrastructures and promoting internet.

That’s true, I know that ICT for Kagame is what Football and Choir are for Nkurunziza. However that’s not where I want to go. Wait a bit and look at Congo.

According to the statistics, Congo internet usage is growing at nearly 49.000% ( from 2000- March 2008). I know we all heard that Rwanda invaded Congo in 1998 but I do doubt that Kagame is the one who taught Congolese, who at the time nearly knew nothing about internet (about 500 users in 2000) the benefits it can bring to them.

What the Congolese government have done, that the Burundian government didn’t do to promote internet usage among congolese. Has Congo been politically more stable than Burundi to explain that gap between 1900% and 49.000% ? . Dear friend I don’t think so. I checked on internet and found no specific policies or program in Congo about that.

So what do I want to say? It’s not the government which is going to do everything. We Burundians need to create money generating services on the internet for our country. Try to go online in all your activities and people will fallow you. How about selling your products online?, how about just telling us the services you can offer online. How about putting your car rental company or just an offer about the availability of your car or house for rental. If that was accessible, people would first compare the prices online before they decide and all those commissioners you normally find at Bujumbura central market will have to know how to use internet or will just disappear.

The truth is that, u don’t do it because Burundians don’t use internet and they will not use it before you do it. You need a ROI (Return on Investment) for your business. Putting all your services online cost money and because they won’t use it, u won’t gain from it. Try looking farther, the future is bright.

What have u done? I know you’ve been murmuring : what this guy, who is giving lessons to others have done? Shut up ! Ok , I won’t answer to that question right now and I shut up for now, give me few weeks and u will see. If u are also asking for few weeks, it’s good, praise God.

But before I leave you alone guys, let me remind you that RUGAMBA is offering free hosting for small businesses in East Africa willing to go online. write to daniel@rugamba.com or rugamba@rugamba.com for more information.

Bye Bye and see you soon.

Shanghai, Ir. Daniel Hakizimana

I wish to every Burundian to live once abroad, may it be for a short period . One of the most frustrating thing is to meet a Muzungu who knows Burundi. Who knows all about that civil war which have ravaged Burundi. Are you a hutu or tutsi ? That’s what he is likely to ask when your attention and all your eyes and heart are focussed on that beautiful girl at left, ignoring everybody else around.

If you are a Tutsi, it may be even more irritating. He is likely to pronounce Tutsi in a way it sounds like igitutsi (insult). And if u dare say Yes I m Tutsi and u are as short as me, u will get more questions than a terrorist being interrogated by American police: why u are u not tall, how come those Hutu got crazy and wanted to kill you … If you are like me and I know some are, you won’t even remember to ask for the phone number of the girl before you leave .

An other nightmare is meeting a Japanese girl who have watched Hotel Rwanda, the famous movie about Rwandan genocide. Make a mistake and say u are Tutsi, the next question is weather u will ever go back home and live at home again. Say again yes and u will never get her on the phone one more time. But that has a very quick efficient solution and don’t forget it: say that you were Kenyan before your father or ur mom(whoever comes in mind )  moved to Burundi and that Obama is your cousin. If u say it without hesitating the next step is to take care of the rest. Who said I don’t know how to catch girls ? It’s just because the priest at church said it’s a sin. Do it in that way and the success is granted.

Do I want to say that Hutu feel more better when abroad than Tutsi? It may be true but that’s not what I meant. The only Burundian enjoying the status of having a burundian citizenship when abroad are girls. Yes I mean girls, les Barundikazi. Burundian girl or Umurundikazi is no more no less than beautiful. Burundi means a country with the world most beautiful girls ever. Either one doesn’t know Burundi or he does know that Burundian girls are beautiful. Say that u are having many little sisters and some are planning to visit you in the near future .Especially if u are talking to a Nigerian, your mouth won’t be dry, if the bar has not got a good champagne, u will be kindly and politely invited to switch to that one which has, no matter how expensive it is.

The question is how to make money from this ? Yes I ask money. We have got that gift and we need to make money. What use to have many minerals in Katanga when Katanga people are among the poorest in the world. Does learning that their area is very rich in minerals make them feel happy ? We need to profit from a gift we have got freely. I m not talking about prostitution, I m a Christian. But we shall find an other way.

Don’t think foreigners are looking ahead to date burundian girl. I asked to a friend who have been to Bujumbura if he would like to have a burundian wife. He said no. Why ? I asked. It would be a problem, I know I would be having visitors all the time. He answered.

But think about it and come up with a solution. Any suggestion is welcomed, you can post it as a comment or send me an email at daniel@rugamba.com

Ir. Daniel

Hey guys,

I m very happy that many people are reading my blog. Google analytics showed me that I have received 320 visits from 29 countries within 3 days . The good news is that 69 of them are visits from Burundi; the mountainous beautiful country in the heart of Africa, the country of Rugamba Rutanganzwa, Runyonga et Samandari wa Mandaranga, the home of, Gustave and the world most famous drummers ever. Who said we don’t use internet in Burundi?  No need to mention that Burundi is also the home of world most beautiful women, that’s deserve to be an other topic.

I m very happy of that. Currently my blog domain names are www.daniel.rugamba.com, www.blog.rugamba.com

To make life easier for my audience, I have given to my blog a new domain name : www.gakiza.com

You can use it to access my blog.

Thanks for visiting my blog again

Daniel

I received some complains from some anonymous people regarding my blog.

The guy said I m violating people’s private life but he/she didn’t explain further except keeping insulting me. If anyone feels unhappy or just want me to change in somehow, feel free to contact me. I m not going to answer to anonymous people anymore . If there is any contents on my blog u judge offending, let me know. The intent of this blog is not to offend anybody. I m not refusing that I may have caused some damages to some people, but I also need to know it. While I promise to apologize if true, I don’t promise you to keep quite for next time.

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” Warren Buffett.

This quotation from the world richest guy says it all. If you are doing every thing right, you are doing nothing.  However, I encourage and ask everyone to keep giving me advices, even insults if that is what you have.

But when u do it , remember to give valid contact details, emails like personal@life.man will have no answer and their comments will not be published.

Thanks very much for ur cooperation .

Daniel

On this page, you will find some of my favorite African quotes and proverb.

—AFRICAN PROVERB

A hyena cannot smell its own stench. ( Umupfu ntiyinukira)
From colonel Muamar Kadhafi

“For 40 years all the summits have failed, our micro-states have no future.”

“Let those who are hesitating [for the creation of a United states of Africa], get out of our way”

- « Si vous ne réalisez pas l’union, des millions d’hommes et de femmes vont vous écraser. »

-« L’Afrique est à vous et ne comptez sur personne pour bâtir votre avenir. »

-”The Libyans said they’ll buy their way out of these three black lists. We’ll pay so much, to hell with $2 billion or more. It’s not compensation. It’s a price. The Americans said it was Libya who did it. It is known that the president was madman Reagan who’s got Alzheimer’s and has lost his mind. He now crawls on all fours.”

From Mandela

-« I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. »

-«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.. »

-«It always seems impossible until its done. »

-«It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.»

-«When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.»

Bishop Desmond Tutu quotes

-“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
-“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
-“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
-“I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.”
-“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”
-“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”
-“Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda

-”You kept quiet… When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet. ”

-”There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.”

-”We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. ”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A right delayed is a right denied.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ”

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brothe”"rhood. ”

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. ”

“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. ”

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ”

“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ”

“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ”

Shakespeare

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”

1. Quote or Proverb of the day:

“There are two fools in every market—one asks too little, another asks too much.”

Russian quote

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

Warren Buffett

No Comments: just meditate on it yourself

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Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is

Your captain Butoyi welcoming both seated and

Standing passengers on board of Air Burundi .

We apologize for the four-day delay in taking off, it was due

to bad weather and some overtime I had to put in at

the bakery. This is flight 126 to Bujumbura .

Landing there is not guaranteed, but we will end up

somewhere in

Burundi . If luck is in our favor, we may

even be

landing on your village!

Air Burundi has an excellent safety-record.

In fact

our safety standards are so high that even

terrorists

are afraid to fly with us! It is with

pleasure, I

announce that starting this year over 30% of

our

passengers have reached their destination.

If our

engines are too noisy for you, on passenger

request,

we can arrange to turn them off! To make

your free

fall to earth pleasant and memorable, we

serve

complimentary beer and Waragi! For our

not-so-religious passengers, we are the only

airline

who can help you find out if there really is

a God!

We regret to inform you, that today’s

in-flight

movie

will not be shown as we forgot to record it

from the

television. But for our movie buffs, we will

be

flying right next to Kenya Airways, where

their

movie will be visible from the right side of

the cabin

window.

There is no smoking allowed in this

airplane. Any

smoke you see in the cabin is only the early

warning

system on the engines telling us to slow

down! In

order to catch important landmarks, we try

to fly as

close as possible for the best view. If,

however, we

go a little too close, do let us know. Our

enthusiastic co-pilot sometimes flies right

through

the landmark!

Kindly be seated, keep your seat in an

upright

position for take-off and fasten your

seat-belt. For

those of you who can’t find a seat-belt,

kindly.

fasten

your own belt to the arm of your seat …

and for

those of you who can’t find a seat, do

not

hesitate to

get in touch with a stewardess who will

explain how to

fasten yourself to your suitcase.’

ENJOY AIR BURUNDI

Hello guys,

Ce samedi passe a ete une journee pleine d’ambiance a Nanjing. Nous ( Daniel,Mingli,Blaise,Philbert et Ildephonse) etions partis assister a une fete de diplome de Prime, un autre ingenieur qui arrive dans la famille deja pas peu nombreuse des ingenieurs burundais formes par l’Empire de Mao.

Il est 22h quand nous arrivons a son domicile . Le repas, prepare a la burundaise par des burundaises nous attend. La suite , tout le monde peut deviner: manger, dancer,……. et dormir.

Petits incidents

1. You fucking Blacks stole my cigarette

Nous sommes dans un coin avec Seif entrain de causer amicalement. Chacun s’amuse comme il/elle veut. La diaspora burundaise de Chine, il faut le souligner ne connait pas les divisions ethniques a l’europeenne. Chacun ouvre Qingdao (Bierre chinoise) bouteille apres bouteille.

Un gars pas trop costaud nous approche tres furieux. “You fucking Blacks stole my cigarette “. Le bar est plein de personnes de toutes les races semble t-il : les Noirs, les Jaunes, les Blancs … tous etaient la.
Seif ne peut pas se contenir. Comment cette imbecile qui, ne trouva pas sa cigarette dans sa poche vient l’accuser de vol des cigarette alors qu’il ne fume meme pas. Il est decide de lui montrer qu’il n’est pas aussi “fucking black” que le pauvre Muzungu (Blanc) le croit. Vous savez comment j’espere.

J’essaie de maintenir Seif mais sans surprise, j’echoue. Les amis du type parviennent quand meme a le faire fuire. Les autres sont venus a mon secours , on essaie de calmer Seif. Mais personne sauf moi et Seif ne connais ce qui s’est passe. Seulement tout le monde est convaincu que quelque soit la raison, on a pas raison de se battre. Mais attends qu’il explique aux autres ce qui s’est passe.
Alors, on se met a la recherche du type. Il faut l’eduquer. Qu’il soit ivre ou malade mental, pas de pitie. Tout est tolerable mais pas cette afront. Il faut lui donner une lecon. Heureusement ou malheureusement, le gars a deja disparu.

2. Burundi Bwacu Burundi Buhire

Il est presque matin, le Muzungu(Blanc) reste introuvable. Alors il est temps de rentrer ou d’aller chez LAOBAN pour qui le souhaitent. Devant le bar, Aime propose de chanter le Burundi bwacu (Humne national). On avait pris un verre de trop semble t-il mais on doit faire le salut du drapeau avant d’aller dormir, peut etre parcequ’il n’est plus question maintenant de le faire avant de travailler au pays de Rugamba Rutangazwa : le Burundi.

On fait un cercle: “Burundi Bwacu …” commence a retentir. Un autre Muzungu (Blanc) passe. Aime a deja remarque qu’il ne fait aucun signe de respect de la chanson (s’arreter au moins). Ca ne lui dit rien l’imbecile, clame-t-il. Il fait quelques pas vers le type. Mais heureusement on le rappelle a temps que le Muzungu ne peut pas comprendre ce qui se passe.

Encore une fois je vous demande patience pour les photos.

Merci a tout le monde a Nanjing de votre accueil, merci a Prime, Ella,Seif,Pamela,Nadege, Chantal, Toussaint, …

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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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Daniel

Suite aux e-mails me demandant comment inserer les videos de la torture de Kadege par police presidentielle burundaise, je vais mettre le code necessaire ici

N.B : comme ca casse le design de mon blog, je l’ai enlever mais il reste dsponible sur demande par email a daniel@rugamba.com

Copier et coller le code ci-dessu et placer le a l’endroit (comme dans un div ou TD ) ou vous souhaiter les videos apparaitre. Si vous voudriez avoir un player de couleur differente, envoie moi un email a daniel@rugamba.com

Merci.

Daniel

To view the video in full screen , click here.

Aujourd’hui je vais comme certains des compatriotes parler de ce qui se passe au pays de Cambarantama , la nation nous leguee par Rushatsi et Rugamba le Burundi bwa Nyaburunga, Runyonga, Ngomayasacega et Samandari. Vive le Burundi.

Depuis 2005, comme peut-etre vous le savez, le Burundi est dirige par un president qui differe des autres presidents qui ont dirige le Burundi sur beaucoup de points:

- Il est democratiquement elu ,

- Il est chretien “Born again”,

-Il est footbaleur,

-Il est un ancien robel,

-Il aime planter les avocats,

-Il donne des conferences en directe sur la radio,

- Il aime les travaux communautaires,

-Il a construit une maison a la mama de Ndadaye,…

Il est aussi le premier Hutu dans l’histoire du pays a diriger le pays pendant plus de deux ans ( Pardon a Ndayizeye, c’etait la transition)

On peut dire que le Burundi est dans une autre ere de son histoire. Un Hutu qui dirige, qu’on appelle SEBARUNDI sans grincer des dents, c’est quand meme un progres.

Meme si certains parlent d’un regime le plus corrompu de l’histoire du Burundi,le plus a blamer pour les violations des droits de l’homme, un gouvenement qui utilise la justice comme arme contre l’opposition, je ne partage pas l’idee que le gouvernement Nkurunziza soit le pire des pires.

Attends je me defends, et avant je dois vous dire que je ne suis pas le Daniel que certains ( comme Rukindikiza par ex.) appelle a tord ou a raison le “griot” du CNDD-FDD. J’ai pas ete paye par quiconque mais si quelqu’un trouve que je merite quelque chose, ehhhhhhhhhhhh.

Alors que fait le regime Nkurunziza que les autres regimes n’ont pas fait?

Vous allez me parler de Muyinga, de Kinama , de Falcon 50, de SINANKWA ou des 22 deputes (Violation de la constitution? : Je compatis avec les 22 deputes radies illegalement de l’assemblee nationale mais je dois quand meme vous rappeler que des conseils de salut national ont jete a maintes reprises la constitution dans la poubelle .) .

Stop ! D’autres regimes avant Nkuru ont fait de plus grave que ca. Seulement, on avait pas encore RPA, ISANGANIRO pour ne citer que ces medias pour nous rapporter les faits. Rufyiri n’etait peut-etre pas encore ne du temps de Micombero pour nous faire le bilan de la corruption.

Faut-il faire un parallelisme entre les anciens regimes et le regime Nkurunziza pour vous montrer que les pratiques ( mauvaises pratiques) actuelles datent d’Antan?

Je ne vais pas m’y attarder, vous pouvez me dire qu’on n’avance pas mais je peux vous demontrer qu’on ne recule pas non plus.

Mais quand meme faut-il avouer, il y a des nouveautes.

Parmi les nouveautes, celle qui a retenu mon attention concerne l’affaire du Coup d’Etat de l’annee passee, qui a envoye les anciens dignitaires dans la maison la plus solide et peuplee de Musaga : Mpimba.

De quelle nouveaute?

Des gens accuse d’atteinte a la securite publique?

C’est bien sur une pratique plus vielle que moi. C’est l’infraction que nous tous avons commis par defaut semble-t-il . C’est un peche originel. Chacun de nous doit etre pret a se defendre la documentation demande.

La torture ?

Ohhh, qui a parle deux fois avec le policier, ne soit-il pas d’une police presidentielle sans encaisser quelques couts ? Faut-il que ca cesse ? Et bien si tu es courageux comme ces gens des ligues Iteka et APRODH, tu peux t’amuser en attendant bien sur ton tour. Mais je te rassure, c’est demander trop. Une fois ton tour arrive, je te conseille de faire comme ce Mutwa qui, se santant tres menace avec des couts de points, il dit: ” Erega murancangira n’amakofe”. Une telle demande a plus de chance de reussir que les “Ngirira ikigongwe” de Kadege.

De mon point de vu, la nouveaute, c’est pas les tortures? Ce sont les tortures televisees, photographiees.

Je peux me tromper mais de ma connaissance, je crois que c’est la premiere fois qu’un regime mette sur video ses crimes.

Si vous n’y croyez pas cliquer ici

C’est une realite, la torture de Kadege , l’ancien vice president de la Republique par la police presidentielle est sur les cassettes video. Qui etait le Cameraman? Et c’est gratuit. Passez a Bujumbura, avec tes 2$, on te fait une copie. Juste les frais de te graver un DVD et c’est fini.

Il faut peut-etre vous rassurer, la police presidentielle ne demande pas des droits d’autheur pour le film produit. C’est gratuit. Du jamais vu. Meme les mises en scene, on paie quand meme. Mais pour des couts reels c’est gratuit.

La question que je me demande n’est pas de savoir pourquoi la police de Nkurunziza a torture Kadege, mais de savoir pourquoi elle a mis sur le marche le film. Pourquoi on a produit le film? Pour le chef?

C’est raisonnable d’amener les preuves que la mission a ete accomplie comme convenue. Mais pourquoi on a mis le film sur le marche? Si on vendait le film, ca serait aussi raisonable: la police presidentielle serait entrain de trouver des moyens de s’autofinancer ( Kwiyungunganya). Que le film soit produit sur des frais et donne gratuitement pour amuser la galerie alors que ca ne sert pas a redorer l’image du pays, c’est ca que je ne comprends pas.

Qui n’a pas entendu differentes histoires sur la facon dont on a tue Ndadaye? Peut-etre que le chef a aussi un film mais on devra attendre pour savoir laquelle des versions qu’on a entendues est vraie.

Pourquoi le regime Nkurunziza fait ca ?

Je vous mets le DVD en ligne prochainement.

Merci et bonne journee.

N.B: pas d’accent: priere de m’en excuser.

Daniel

Good morning or good evening depending on where u are.

It’s the end of the week, I will have 2 days of rest. I m going to Nanjing tomorrow for the graduation party of Prime. Yes an other graduation party. At Nanjing, an other engineer is graduating. Good for him and good for Burundi too. Many thanks to Chinese Government which generously give to many Burundians and Africans scholarship.

Shhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!, I forgot to tell you something, don’t speak it out, it’s a surprise, he doesn’t know. His girl friend asked. Don t , please don’t , at least before tomorrow 20h 30. Is that difficult?

Ohhhhhh, bad news, I haven’t bought a camera. But I m sure I will get pictures from some guys there. Don’t be worry. U can expect to see some photos about the party on this blog very soon. I promise again, I m buying a camera in few days.

Daniel

Bye

Did you get it ? RIRUBU. That’s Kirundi, my beautiful mother language. But it should be written like this: RIRA UBU which means cry now. One more word BURURI. And Bururi, besides that it’s a name of a province of Burundi, I don t know if it has any other meanings or its true origin.

So what the hell is this ? Do I want to teach you Kirundi? Eh ben , you need to pay for it if you want . I want to tell you a story if I can call it a story I heard during my visit in Burundi and Bururi as well. RI RU BU is BU RU RI reversed. Put BU in place of RI and u are done. From the name of a province to “Cry now” !

If you don’t know Burundi and its history, Bururi is a province in the south of Burundi, which gave birth to presidents MICOMBERO, BAGAZA, BUYOYA (BUYOYA 1,2 and 3). They ruled BURUNDI for nearly 40 years Maybe not too many for 3 presidents if you are a Togolese or Congolese but many Burundians think so. Not only they are all of them from BURURI, they are also from one commune called RUTOVU and took power by military coup d’etat. Shall I remind you that they are Tutsi ?

It’s time to sleep. No time to finish the story.

See u tomorrow for the next part.