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Avant Garde or Liberal diatribe?

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In the early pages of love in the Time of Cholera the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marques uses lucid and brilliant prose to carry a lesson, which I think we would do ourselves well to consider.

When narrating some of Loratio Thugut’s peculiar sexual habits as a novelty of the avant garde to the sexually and emotionally naive protagonist, Florentine Ariza. Marques says specifically …and so Loratio Thugut could never persuade him that watching and letting himself be watched were the refinements of European princes…just as Floretine Ariza could not be bent to forego his values beliefs and principles to the more seductive excceses of his German fiend in the novel. We as young people of the African continent and of Namibia in particular, should avert being seduced by the easy and romantic notions of liberalism and its nascent excesses

The world is not what it seems, the beautiful is often ugly and the ugly is often prettier than its surface reveals, it would seem that truth is no longer determined by the free conscious but by thugery, collusion and the imagery that is invented subjectively and without the consideration of the values of Africans in particular, it shocks me how easily people are willing to forego their independence and liberty for temporary expedience. There are those amongst us, whom have become too comfortable in this pretension of an existence. The current global economic turmoil reveals only that our economies have misplaced priorities and that ultimately it is the poor, the young, old, woman and the rural masses of black Africa that will bear the brunt of this crisis.

We watch with flushed eagerness the resolutions of the summits of the G8, anticipating with salivating reverence that perhaps Bernake, Bush, Straus Kahn, Sarkozy or Fukuda will offer solution to our burden, how futile and foolish this is. Nujoma has taught us and continues to preach food security as a paramount precondition to our cause, we must be able to feed ourselves before all else. Then invest in the education and technological advancement of our people, this is imperative. Failing this, our states will have no choices to make for themselves and we will have no freedom other than the freedom to salivate for more of the same.

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