Potholes in world politics

In Bangladesh, students will meet (06.08.24) the military leaders to discuss an interim government after the PM has fled to India for shelter. In the UK right-wing protesters for days fight police and society with violence seen by police chiefs as terrorists. In Iraq, the US airbase was under bombardment. Across Europe, right-wing parties gain fundamental strength while in Israel and around tensions are high for a wider regional conflict. China sits back and smiles over the ongoing war in Ukraine and Donald Trump's rhetoric to make "America great again" which divides the nation to the extent that it will witness its glorious downfall.

Adolf Hitler wrote the book "My Fight" and outlined a Germany of 1000 years to come. Karl Marx in his "Communist Manifesto" after three years of studying in the archives of London came out with his long-time vision of fundamental change.

The French Revolution and its concept of human rights and freedoms and principles of participating of the people in shaping the future were the results of a carefully drafted vision for generations to come.

The German reunification started with years of regular Monday meetings in many churches before the night of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

What seem to be isolated situations and events disconnected from each other should be a lesson learned from the failed Arab Spring to bring emotions of the moment to the street change the situation of the moment as a seed for more confusion shortly to come after. The winds blow in isolated regions simple minds assume ignoring the weather system is universal and on a global stage interconnected.

The wind can blow away any African simple-minded president by force who stands on a manifesto, not a vision with a detailed execution plan attached to it. Africans get confused by African politicians using the term vision to make themselves look sweet while they are nothing but short-lived manifestos whose arms can be twisted easily.

The African elite from all sides know how best to criticize the current state of affairs. From Casablanca to Cape Town and from Luanda to Mombasa no intellectual mind can be located who has presented any vision for the world in 100, 200, or 300 years to come and which contribution Africa has to offer. An Africa not to be anymore the victim in all of world order and politics but a Creator of a better future of tomorrow to come and stay generation after generation. Such a vision is like Mount Zion when storms arise it will still stand and have a lasting influence on the world a lighthouse in the darkness of other nations.