Beautiful reading , indeed Mr. Kah...It is lovely to have the freedom to sepeculate on the author's last question
"...How can such mundane cupidity and callousness be the outcome of so many years of idealistic teaching, personal risk and heroic deeds?"
Momodou S Sidibeh
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> This is beautiful reading.
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> >Subject: *** Marx is Dead, Long Live President Museveni's Daughter
> >Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:18:00 +0200
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> >From: Chris Opoka-Okumu
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> >Subject: Marx is Dead, Long Live President Museveni's Daughter
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> >Opinion - East African - Nairobi - Kenya
> >Monday, October 6, 2003
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> >
> >PHILIP OCHIENG
> >Marx is Dead, Long Live the President's Daughter
> >President Yoweri Museveni's activities remind me of how, when I worked in
> >Dar es Salaam, in the early 1970s, the story used to be repeated throughout
> >Tanzania that Julius Nyerere's wife constantly nagged him to send his
> >children to England for higher education.
> >He always had the same powerful retort: "How can I possibly do such a thing
> >when I am the very person pushing all other Tanzanian children to attend
> >collectively-funded Ujamaa schools?" The story was no doubt apocryphal. But
> >it illustrated the uniqueness of the person. No post-colonial African head
> >of state has ever been so humble, so upright, so honest - the epitome of
> >self-abnegation and abstemiousness.
> >
> >At one time, a Swiss bank wrote to advise him to open a personal bank
> >account in Switzerland, explaining that, Africa being what it was, Mwalimu
> >might soon be overthrown in a coup and would have
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