President Obama spoke to the young African leaders yesterday. It was on the web and you can watch it at any time. The web changed the world; and you can get notified via Facebook messages.
To my surprise, the President's talk did not sound like it was meant for those eagerly awaited for US's assistance. I could imagine all the people there would have been thrilled just to find hopes for his offers. On the other hand, the President was rather trying to get them to on their feet and not too heavily rely upon the expectation that there is the US that will save them. He mentioned that he would welcome more young Africans to come to the States for study. The brain drainage is a problem, he said, when you can be a doctor in London.
The President spoke of Zimbabwe answering questions from the people there. He said the country chose a different path from South Africa's and the sanctions are not targeted to its citizens but to Mugabe. He tactically avoided criticizing the dictator who has been ruling the country for three decades. The country suffered an economic crisis with an extremely high inflation that well exceeds a million percent due to Mugabe's measures that abolished the plantations that were owned by the ruling white minority from UK without compensations.
There are criticisms that go with the media coverage over the issues of Zimbabwe's plight. The hyperinflation was a favorite topic, which indeed was the highest in this century. The bills with many digits and the daily monetary transactions to buy foods and the stacks of bills. They seem to jeer and take lightly of Mugabe while lives are at stake. Their messages could really be racial, to depict their notion of what happens when the former ruler of UK being expelled how badly they run the farms.
To my surprise, the President's talk did not sound like it was meant for those eagerly awaited for US's assistance. I could imagine all the people there would have been thrilled just to find hopes for his offers. On the other hand, the President was rather trying to get them to on their feet and not too heavily rely upon the expectation that there is the US that will save them. He mentioned that he would welcome more young Africans to come to the States for study. The brain drainage is a problem, he said, when you can be a doctor in London.
The President spoke of Zimbabwe answering questions from the people there. He said the country chose a different path from South Africa's and the sanctions are not targeted to its citizens but to Mugabe. He tactically avoided criticizing the dictator who has been ruling the country for three decades. The country suffered an economic crisis with an extremely high inflation that well exceeds a million percent due to Mugabe's measures that abolished the plantations that were owned by the ruling white minority from UK without compensations.
There are criticisms that go with the media coverage over the issues of Zimbabwe's plight. The hyperinflation was a favorite topic, which indeed was the highest in this century. The bills with many digits and the daily monetary transactions to buy foods and the stacks of bills. They seem to jeer and take lightly of Mugabe while lives are at stake. Their messages could really be racial, to depict their notion of what happens when the former ruler of UK being expelled how badly they run the farms.