Why we should Stop playing politics and listen to this guy from Monduli
The story of our ‘Ole-Juma’ begins at the tail-end of the latest public lecture in a monthly series hosted by the Tanzania chapter of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB).
Sit back and visualize a zebra on a motor bike speeding perilously along Sokoine Drive somewhere in the plains of the fabled Serengeti minus a helmet. This ostensibly careless omission to protect itself in case of a crash soon pays off: if our zebra had taken a minute longer to dress up for accident, a waiting predator, you guessed right, the lion would have caught up with him!
The moral: success goes to those dare to take risks, real or imagined. That’s vintage Calestous Juma, a professor at the Kennedy School, Harvard University in the United States.
Perhaps unknown to him, Calestous had just landed on the soils of a country also known as Bongo, where fine leaders talk fine science; but behind closed offices and boardrooms their tongues and fingers provide evidence to the contrary. Here, you cannot do a descent job -- no matter how well constructed your intentions may be unless you’ve been bribed by Monsanto, or some other imagined brood of vipers, as everyone seems to suggest.Continue reading
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