By Vincent Gunde
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Lesotho who was in the country as a guest of Honour to Muvi wa Chilungamo pressure group Mindset Change project in Blantyre, Dr. Mothejoa Metseng called upon African citizens including Malawians to learn and listen to fresh indigenous wisdom.
Dr. Metseng said if MusiMaimane Movement in South Africa is anything to go by, it has influenced the outcome of the past local elections better saying, “It would have been registered as a political Party saying people need to be seriously interrogate the efficacy of a Movement as opposed to a political party and assess if the destiny of future generations does not lie in that direction”.
He said people need to carefully debate the need for elevating a greed of national issues above blind devotion to political ideologies which have so far failed to pluck people from the precipice of self-destruction and degradation.
Dr. Metseng said Malawi like other countries on the continent attained independence from the colonial masters with a promise to better the lives of ordinary Malawians but that promise has remained a distant mirage to this day not only in Malawi but on the whole continent.
He said Malawians like their counterparts in the whole region and continent have remained slaves of ideologies divorced from the common understanding of their people saying these ideologies are often expressed in a foreign language that does not resonate with the culture and idiom of their respective countries.
The former deputy Lesotho PM said observed that foreign ideologies have kept Africans prisoners in their own countries for well over fifty years 50 years saying, “It’s now time to urgently address the need to depart from these foreign ideologies and embrace the indigenous wisdom and see if they cannot change their mindset and build better communities in their respective countries”
He added that the Mind-set change Movement is all encompassing and allows genuine freedom of opinions and views in the true African tradition which will only be through a mass mobilization of opinion and of ideas that people shall be able to find the will and determination necessary for their success.
Dr. Metseng said Africans for a long time has failed to address to this day mind-set change possible without addressing the type of education.
“They have inherited from their colonial masters saying they must begin to ponder the critical question of pillaging their resources which continue to be exported as raw materials only to come back to them as finished goods from outside the borders.
“A better Malawi is possible, a mind-set change to create the Malawi we desire is possible, the agenda for such a mind-set change is possible and all these three lie in the outcome of this forum,’’ said Dr. Metseng.