Have Africa's Intellectuals Betrayed It?

From Emergent Africa Tue Aug 12 2014, 20:14:00

Gideon Shoo in Homo Tanzanianus:

It is indeed encouraging to read Prof.George N.Ayittey's An Open Letter to Africa and Dr Kasalla's rejoinder below. Both pieces have triggered some dormant faculties in our brains to start working. Yes, Africa has been terribly betrayed by none else but us African intellectuals.

If in most of the African countries the betrayal was somehow hidden because there was no open pro people agenda which was set from the very first days of fighting for Uhuru, in Tanzania the situation is completely the opposite.

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