Najja Lumumba

Najja Lumumba African Nationalist
Being African is not skin color, its by heart. FEDERATION OF AFRICAN STATES

ECONOMIC GROWTH, POORER PEOPLE I have told you before about the story of a book I wrote myself, that got bought by the s...
02/08/2026

ECONOMIC GROWTH, POORER PEOPLE
I have told you before about the story of a book I wrote myself, that got bought by the same person twice from T & T supermarket Entebbe road in Kampala. The same book that I wrote in 2019 is where I have got this little piece of information.
In 2018, Uganda's national television broadcast the news, that " thousands to loose jobs as government merges agencies". In 2019, there came a statement in the national news papers following the recruitment of local defence unit (LDU) officers. This was the statement. "thousands show up at wankulukuku to compete for the 165 LDU slots.
Meanwhile our budgets depict growth every financial year. However, we need over 700,000 new jobs per year if we are to quench unemployment.
Just pause a little, I was talking about 2018/19. Am writing from my bed at 4:24 am, it's a Saturday 1st. Aug. 2026. Unemployment is way higher than 2018.
A jobless growth is literally found in Africa.
Unemployment increases as profit repatriation increases, new buildings, new roads as people's welfare does the opposite. In South Africa, people in a certain village went out of order and started destroying their beautiful roads as they murmured. When the press asked what was wrong, they simply said, that they didn't even know where the roads were heading to. To them, the roads were heading no where. That they didn't need such roads when they couldn't afford the daily demands of life. (that's welfare). All they saw were beautifuly made roads as they got stuck with poor drainage, unemployment, higher taxes, just to mention but a few. Such unreasonable ambiguity is a political design put on by a people so flamboyantly proud enough not to care about their subjects. It looks like from time memorial, this transport system was meant to catalyse work for the few rather than the common man. Before we continue any further, we must prioritise public needs assessment reports. If we don't respond to the pulses of the people, we leave the heart of our economies to die....
On a prominent radio station in in my area, were guests and one called Joyce was challenged when the host told her that her political party too didn't have a comprehensive plan to lead the country forward. She simply said, we have a plan, our boss talked about building roads, fixing education, providing medicine in hospitals.....bla...bla... That's politics anyway. But I want to say that doing those things doesn't mean that you're pursuing a development plan. A plan has a roadmap clearly defined on the best interests of the people according to time and preference.
Roads are good , but its not just about roads, and buildings, good education, and providing medicine in hospitals. They sound so nice. I call it political sugar. Except being the pulse at a time, a plan ensures eco system symbiosis of all sectors of the economy. No perfection needed, but at least there's a reasonable sync. The interplay of Agriculture, education and health, affecting each other and what is needed for each to push the other to another level. We must mastermind on what we need to forego, and when to pause the the best alternative before we continue with the second best choice infrastructure. Choice and priority are golden. That's why I always emphasise that development is not just about tall beautiful buildings and shinning roads. It's about sensible freedom, of which economic freedom is part. Growth and development are not so except they depict in people's pockets. I imagine their president coming into power, and sends for more medicine in hospitals, builds good looking schools with ardent teachers who are paid pretty well, orders building of more roads..... bigger and durable ones let's say, then what? am asking...to what extent are they going to impact the people if we do not have extra considerations clung on them. Different areas have different needs and resources, then tune their education in the same angle. Let that influence their farms..... Match skills with education and see how beautifull the final product will be.
We often talk about investors and also make sure we prepare them the best environment for trade and commerce, forgetting ourselves as a number one priority. Sometimes I wonder how we wait vigil and get excited too, for something that we can do ourselves. Is It me seeing poorly, or something? We have known the informal sector as a billion dollar economy. I totally know that we can mobilize funds there to do major projects per financial year to keep easing the common man's life. We can mobilize funds from the people themselves and use it. If a kingdom can mobilize massive funds from its subjects unknown times, what about a full nation with stronger administrative structures. Being sincere, transparent, and accountable can be a catalyst to capital mobilisation. I talked about the private sector funding in some blog, it can as well be an option as regards to raising funds. Am talking about individuals giving freely to their country. How many people have done successful weddings and introduction ceremonies, birthdays and others just by soliciting from their circles of influence. Now some one will ask, how many times is that formula going to be successful? It doesn't matter. And by the way, It can become a culture. An onus out of impetus so to say. We have seen it work ourselves. Buganda kingdom has collected billions of shillings from people, and are helping in sanitation, free health camps, providing reasonable affordable shelter, just to mention but a few.
Talk about the diaspora. Those people send lots of money back home,.... but wait a little. Of what impact is it to the nation in regards to development except being a shock absorber ( our relief). Relief always leaves us the way we were. It doesn't propel us forward. We haven't found a proper way of mobilising diaspora funds for capital development. Burkina Faso just mobilised some good funds from its diaspora in form of a loan. If am to remember very well, it was over 150 billion francs from its diaspora and citizens during the first phase of its innogural diaspora bond known as "patriotic loan". The fundraising campaign ran from may 6th to June 6th 2026, surpassing it's initial target of 125 billion CFA francs.. How much more to nations which have a bigger diaspora. Those people can give freely to their nations, they can lend, they can be mobilised and administered to establish a number of mega projects, leaving them as investors in their own countries. That's the Africa made of Africans.
Minus corruption and kleptocracy, we can build Africa ourselves. It's the "Africa made in Africa". Instead of waiting for light skinned men to come and do something for us, let's do it ourselves because we can, if we dare. Remember this, when they establish anything here, we get stuck as "labour", as being at the top becomes their culture. We only do that if we want skills from them to create for ourselves. It's okay to leave some of their companies to operate, but none of them should be beyond control or left to meander as though their nations can do the same to our companies in their economies. The same terms should strictly apply. Do me I do you style. They shouldn't enjoy what we don't enjoy in their economies. Mutual benefits, full stop. In fact, we should make living cheaper in order that our people don't yearn to move abroad for jobs that really leave us as inferiors. If we are to move abroad, we must go their to do better jobbing, rather not being maids, cleaners, waiters etc. Anyone wanting to use us for that must be really ready to meet the costs of that, because they will be pretty high.
If we reduce taxes significantly, we mobilize funds from taxes like never before. A bigger threshold equals better cash papper numbers. Today just a few can give taxes because they are high. Most of the money is lost in corruption. Been there many times, seen it my self and got involved not by love but by force because that's how the authorities want it. If you want your business to operate, give the officials something or else they will demand the government tax that you can't even afford. I call that forced corruption.
A strategy to significantly mitigate corruption must be developed. Whether it involves ex*****on, yes, let it be, so as to save the many from the demise.
Africa for Africans is Africa made in Africa. We DIY..(do It Yourself). The more aliens have a bigger share on your investments, the more vulnerable and feeble you become.
Let's give free land to our talented human capital. Aid in establishing structures for them. Aid in research and also let our people become their home market through being protected from allied allien competitors. We should be our number one priority. Then shall we have massive products made by us. Part of development is meeting people's needs and wants cheaply in abundance. Without kleptocracy, the people will enjoy the fruits of the established projects. Every project making life easier leads to more economic efficiency due to labour and capital mobility and convenience. No need to borrow..... In one lower class while doing subtraction, the teacher told us how impossible it was to subtract a bigger digit from a smaller digit only except we borrow. He said , " it's impossible, we have to borrow". Then we did so from the nearest digit. However as we moved to a higher class, we realised that whilst on a numberline, we can actually do it successfully and end up in a negative. At least it was now possible. We were now confident that a negative is okay and correct too and there's no shame about it. In other words, you're simply just on your way to the positives. Today Africa is stuck in the former class and is not thinking of upgrading to the latter. Are we scared of negatives, as a rationale to meaningless borrowing? When shall we upgrade, reset and get set again for the take off? Staff is much better on the numberline, and it's completely okay to use what you can manage to mobilize at the moment rather than getting funds that are meant to drain you.
Now, I saw pathetic Ugandans fighting against the sovereignity bill just because of fears of not receiving money from white funders...., I seriously wondered how we can deal with such a naive generation. The bill was not stopping their money per say,.... (according to the way I understood).... but I literally saw people's nerves together with claws and I sensed readiness for Africans to fight anyone stopping the whites from sending them money. Sovereignity should go first. Africa and Africans first.
We give our enemies priority over ourselves because we are nervous.
We say that the whites are protecting our rights through these organisations, yet it's the money that we don't want to out with. And who gave them the right to protect our rights?. Who was protecting them before?. A beg to end.

Education Study the two pictures. What do you see? Of course different paradigms. Education has a lot to do with how we ...
09/06/2026

Education
Study the two pictures. What do you see? Of course different paradigms. Education has a lot to do with how we think, it determines who a person will most likely become tomorrow, and many of us are a product of education. Being a product of education means that given your current circumstances, 90% of them are influenced by the kind of education you had.Until the education system is changed from passive to active, from teacher centred to learner centred, from memory work to practice and from paper assessment merits to pragmatic character, then shall we be able to blossom as a continent.
In this part of Africa, we have an advantage in coffee. But wait,.... Who has had formal education about coffee, not you, not me, not the farmers themselves, not anyone except a few concerned individuals who take stage on media to give information about agriculture, and that impacts 0.00009% of the population. We learn farm work from individual neighbours who have grown the same crops, leaving us with very small information and know how which has left us with small yields. So the country is fed by ignorant farmers who only try their best to get knowledge informally and end up learning by trial and experience as if they are predominantly researchers.
School must make agriculture one of the compulsory subjects upto some level. Every child must have the expertise on prioritised crops just like they understand Nyungu Yamawe today.
Sectors like agriculture should be formalised and it's policies institutionalised . By the time a child gets to primary six, s/he knows how to plant and care for banana plantations, coffee plantations, poultry, animal husbandry, bee keeping, and other prioritised areas. secondary level we may venture into more research of the studied areas in primary. Development of new species, preserving the old ones, what products can we derive from that agricultural output, etc. Hands on will drive us forward more. I have seen professors at age 19, If am to remember well, she was from USA. How come, that for us to become highly recognized, there is a certain age that we must click first, just because you have not reached a certain level of education. We can have professors and doctors as early as possible depending on capacity. Many times we use gadgets thinking that they were made by technocrats. Many electronic gadgets in Africa have been made by school going children from China. These children are given expertise by technocrats and by the time they leave that level of school, they can make small spare parts and assemble them as well, as early as 15 years of age. Talk about a university child in Africa. They are still copying notes and memorising theories. No creativity at all. They have absolutely nothing productive to contribute towards the GDP of their country at the age of 23. When it comes to time for working, chances are high that they will not get the job they studied for. 98% of them don't. They then move into the informal sector, literally declaring their education system a failure. Learning how to fit in the informal world also gives heart breaking lessons that disprove their education system..... Most of them by that time have clocked 30 years of age, to purely know how they can survive in this new competitive system. Meanwhile in Europe, there are engineers already at the age of 19. But what is wrong sincerely speaking? By now I already know, it's neocolonialism backing up the leadership crisis factor which causes inadequate human capital, all in the name of democracy. Have you seen a demon clothed like an angel of hope?, ..... that's democracy. We have seen the most democratic presidents being killed just because they are honest to their people. Lumumba, Nkrumah, Magufuli and the likes...... Killed by those who claim that democracy is the way to go. So my dear, Is it about democracy or strategy? that's yours to answer.

Yet one time Lumumba said, "they can kill the bodies, but not ideas". it's not about democracy, it's about strategy. Whether it's good intentions or bad, know it from today, that strategy is far above democracy. We can change presidents, but without change and implementation of policy, all efforts are futile.

You can't imagine, we have a crisis of skills in areas that we have comparative advantage. Meanwhile we are teaching rubbish to our children instead of equipping them with skills that are needed in the real world.
We have high clean energy potential, but where is our expertise?, the answer is, "abroad". This is quite breathtaking and to have a sigh of relief, personally is far away, except by devine intervention.
You can't substitute human capital. It's a major pillar to development. If we don't polish it well, we are most likely not to see heaven on earth.
We have agricultural space that can employ all the jobless plus those working from town varanders. We are importing food that we literally produce, claiming that ours is not enough yet we have millions of arable land un utilised. It's a matter of policy change and implementation.
We have capacity to industrialise, but how much have we utilised so far. In my view, not even 20%.
Why should we glory in exporting raw agricultural products like Ovacados. Can't we get products from Ovacados? Why should we be threatened of who will buy them, given our sovereign nature from Europe and USA programmes? Do we need to worry about the sabotage?, really? I don't think so. Of course they will label us dangerous, cause conflicts on us, try to murder the leaders, and of course do the sanctioning. Nothing among those should worry us. With the little we have, we can thrive organically. Our ancient societies did thrive without exports per say. From caves to fire to iron tools to agricultural methods to Kingdoms and chiefdoms to organised communities with clans to who knows where we would be by now if it was not Western interruption..... Have you heard anything like income from exports. Forgive my ignorance please, but the few who want to consume our products will consume them and the rest, we will buy from ourselves. Ethiopia now number two in coffee production in Africa, consumes 80% of their own produced coffee. Russia learnt self sufficiency only after the sanctions. Why the fear? We must own processing plants, many enough to deliver us from the negative receipts.

We have crude oil. Who extracts and refines it? Tullow, total etc. No African is trained to experdite. Leadership crisis + human capital crisis = stagnat welfare.
regards.

04/05/2026

ECONOMIC FREEDOM
When they talk about preserving creation, you think about the environment. We forget that we are number one priority part of creation. Many races have given themselves value except the black race. Today, let's navigate one of the major pillars that drive this world and impart value on its people, and that's money.
A number of things can make a mere paper to become money. E.g scarcity, portability, valuable, changeable, exchangeable etc. Let's concentrate on value today. What gives those papers value? if I may ask. The FED prints more papers, to lend them to nations through the IMF and WB, and also give donations and aid to Africa using merely printed papers. Uhh, you also feel like printing, right?They create credit just by printing papers.In 1971, president Richard Nixon suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold. So the dollar was no more backed up by gold, but it's value determined by the forces of demand and supply untill now. A number of things make the dollar be demanded for example, the trick of selling oil and it's products in dollars by major oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia, and the purchase of export goods and services in dollars by very many of the nations we know today. We not only buy in dollars, but also sell our goods in dollars, leaving our currencies dumped. We must demand for payment of our goods and services in our own currencies.
As Africans, we can create a single unifying currency backed by gold, and then demand the payment of all our goods and services in the Afro currency.
We loose foreign exchange whenever we turn our money into foreign currency and that's to their own advantage. Not just that, the exchange of your money for their money is a dumping of your currency and demanding of another currency. That gives the demanded foreign currency more strength, and weakening the dumped one.
The day oil producing countries will suspend the US dollar, that's the day African nations will fall flat to the ground. Their currency reserves are pregnant of US dollars. Another day is when countries stop trading in US dollars. They have created demand for the dollar and that's what keeps it powerful. The whole world needs the dollar, not because they love it, but because USA has created conditions of "I can't breathe", without the dollar in many countries.
Here me very well, African countries should strive for economic sovereignty and one way is by giving meaning to their domestic unifying currency. We must be paid in that currency, rather than giving us their "printed at free will" papers. Why should we give in our valuable resources for merely printed papers to be kept as reserved currency. Papers that can depreciate any second, demanded in exchange for resources that rise constantly in value. What kind of exchange is that? The Sahel are trying to make that currency that will be backed up by gold. Other African countries should also join in the use of that currency. We don't need to create more. Let's first give that one some meaning.
Let's wake up, for it's our God given responsibility to fight for our livelihood. The day we kick away subsistence politics, for communal mutual benefits, is the day we will have given meaning to creation.
Regards.

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