#BanaBaabo- True recognition is never imported, It is earned at home.
Linda Banks wrote;
A nation’s progress cannot be measured by applause from invisible puppeteers or celebratory posts by outsiders celebrating their return on investment.
As Kwame Nkrumah warned, “Political independence is meaningless unless it is accompanied by economic independence.” When validation comes only from beyond our borders, it raises a serious question. Who is development really serving?
Real economic success is not a headline written by a foreign hand. It is a lived experience felt by ordinary citizens. Julius Nyerere reminded us that development is not about the growth of statistics, but about the dignity and wellbeing of people.
If prosperity does not trickle down into jobs, opportunity, affordability, and hope, then it is not development. It is extraction.
Let us pause. Let us remake the story over the next six months, not for international applause, but for domestic impact. Then, and only then, let the true owners of the country, its citizens, be the ones to recognise and celebrate progress. Because when the people celebrate you, history listens.
But also the problem is that home is mired in toxic partisan politics where praise fails to come because the beholder fears that if they gave praise they would be undermining their own chances of taking over power. So imagine PF giving praise to HH for managing the debt well when they themselves failed. That is near impossible, but then does it mean that HH does not deserve praise for that, he does. So you cannot just grossly dismiss praise from abroad, and sit waiting for one from within even when you know that even if it does not come from within it doesnt absolutely mean there is nothing deserving of praise. That would be biased analysis based on what you generally hold of the govt in place. So maybe its not realy the praise from abroad that needs to be dismissed but your own shallow biased observations.
Viva HH
Viva UPND
Viva the progressive Forces of the Zambian Voter that brought in the HH and the UPND in power.
“A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house” is a biblical saying from Jesus (Matthew 13:57, Mark 6:4) that means people often reject or fail to recognize the wisdom, talents, or divine message of a prophet or gifted individual when they are most familiar with them, as familiarity breeds contempt, leading to unbelief and limited impact locally, even if they’re revered elsewhere.
Did zambia borrow from its citizens or from these same foreign hand. And all the medical, the gadget you are using to send this rubbish, car, the bulb, the tissue, the maize meal to turn into meal is all foreign. Eventually everything comes from that same foreign hand. You your first house to own was from the loot that happened after huge debt accrued by the same thieves you are support today. Not local debt but foreign
Hater Linda, sorry you can’t open your eyes/brains. If your pf had not borrowed and misused public resources leading to international embarrassment default, may be we could’ve not been in international papers.
When have you ever heard of Zambian government employing more than 60000 public workers in a period?
Some of these people are just hypocrites. If the same foreign entities had produced a report of how bad president HH has performed, they would jumped on it and make all sorts of claims about him, and would not claim that it is foreign, but just because the report praises president HH, they want to dismiss it. Sometimes it’s better to keep quite if one does not like the news, instead of exposing themselves of where their heart stands, but making bad comments.
Some of these people are just hypocrites. If the same foreign entities had produced a report of how bad president HH has performed, they would jumped on it and make all sorts of claims about him, and would not claim that it is foreign, but just because the report praises president HH, they want to dismiss it. Sometimes it’s better to keep quite if one does not like the news, instead of exposing themselves of where their heart stands, by making bad comments about someone.
You can’t quarrel with success. The fact that HH is getting some recognition on the international forum means he is onto something big.
Your Mr. Lungu got mentioned only for the wrong reasons, like defaulting on our debt payments in 2020.