Africa / America

Posachedwapa ndakhala ndi mwayi waukulu kugwira ntchito ndi anthu ena a 1,000 Mandela Washington, gulu la achinyamata a ku sub-Saharan a zaka zapakati pa Sahara 25-35 omwe anaikidwa masabata asanu ndi limodzi pa masunivesite a 40 ku US. Atsogoleri achichepere akusakaniza.

Msonkhano wotsegulira, masabata angapo apitawo, adawonetsa ena mwa anthu ovina kwambiri-a ku Ghana-komanso omwe amalandira kuchokera ku oyunivesite. Kenaka adabwera chilankhulo choyamba ndi gulu lina la ku University of Portland State, mnyamata wina-ngakhale ngakhale 30 wochokera ku Sierra Leone, Ansumana Bangura. Iye anali mnyamata wa zaka 12 pamene opandukawo anabwera kwa atate ake pa nkhondo yoopsya ya 1990s. Abambo ake anali kuntchito kotero iwo adagwira dzanja lamanja la mnyamatayo.

Tangoganizani kuti mukuzunzidwa, mukukhala mu nthawi ya nkhondo, kuthamangitsidwa kuchoka kudzikoli kuti mukakhale ngati mphako wautali kwa zaka zinayi, ndikubwezeretsedwanso chifukwa nzika za dzikoli zimangouzidwa mwadzidzidzi kuti "onse a Sierra Leone ndi amphawi," ndipo othawa kwawo onse adathawa .

Ansu, yemwe amagwira ntchito ndi ana aang'ono ku Freetown (likulu la Sierra Leone) ndi wongolankhula mwachidwi, wolimbikitsana, wokondweretsa, ndi mphamvu yowonongeka yomwe imagwirizanitsa panthawi yomweyi, kuwonetsera mwayi wofanana komanso mwayi wofanana kwa mwana aliyense. Iye ndiye tanthawuzo lokha la kutsimikizika, lomwe ndilo chizindikiro cha Africa yabwino pakalipano.

The Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) yakhazikitsa maubwenzi ambiri atsopano ku Portland State University ndipo, ndikusaka, pa mayunivesite ena onse omwe amapezeka ku US. Kupitirira apo, ndakhala ndikuwona maubwenzi apamtima omwe akulumikizana ndi a Portlanders anga ndipo ndikuwonetsanso kuti anthu onse omwe akukumana nawo akupindula ndi maubwenzi atsopanowa ndi atsogoleri a ku Africa ochokera m'madera onse a mayiko ena a ku Sahara. Ndimayang'ana ngati mnyamata wa ku Nigeria akuyesetsa kudziwa njira zabwino zoyendetsera nyumba zoyandama, zowonjezera zomwe zimalonjeza kuti anthu azikhala pakhomo pakhomo pawo komanso zimakhala zoopsya ngati sizikulamulidwa ("Ndi momwe zilili tsopano," adandiuza). Ndipo mtsogoleri wina wachinyamata wa ku Ethiopia akuphatikizapo akuluakulu a boma ndi apolisi apakati pa boma kuti adziŵe njira zatsopano zatsopano za US zokujambulira ntchito yoyendetsa galimoto pamene akuyendetsa galimoto. Iye ali ndi madigiri onse a sayansi ndi chitukuko ndipo amakopeka ku chitsanzo cha Portland mmadera angapo, monga momwe ena MW ena akuphunzitsira kuchokera kumadera ena kudutsa US.

Mtundu wa MWF unakula kuchokera kwa Pulezidenti Obama kupita ku Nelson Mandela ndipo anayamba ndi 500 anzake ku 2014, omwewo mu 2015, ndipo adawonjezeka mpaka 1000 chaka chino. Tikukhulupirira kuti polojekitiyi idzakhala yolemetsa, yokhala ndi maubwenzi ogwirizana, payekha komanso mwadongosolo, kudzera ku Africa kupita ku America.

Ngakhale iyi ndi Dipatimenti ya Boma-ndalama-ndi-Obama anachita zoyenera kuchita, ndipo pali mwayi waukulu kuti apitirize, malinga ndi chisankho cha 2016. Chifukwa cha kudzikonda kwathu, ndikuyembekeza Achimereka kupanga chisankho chomwe chidzabweretsa kusinthanitsa kumeneku komwe kukugwirizana ndi atsogoleri aku Africa akubwera kuchokera ku ndale kupita ku zomangamanga kupita ku ulimi kupita banki ku maphunziro ku chitukuko cha mphamvu ndi zina zambiri ku America. Zomwe timaganiza zokhudzana ndi Africa nthawi zambiri zimakhala zovuta tikakumana ndi atsikana ndi abambo omwe amagwira ntchito pa mtendere, ufulu waumwini, mphamvu zina, ndikuphatikizana ndi chikhalidwe cha Africa komanso nzeru zamakono zatsopano zomwe zimagwirizanitsidwa ndi patsogolo kwambiri.

Kupitirizabe MWF kudzakhala bwino kwa Afirika komanso zabwino kwa Achimereka. Africa ndi dziko lopambana kwambiri ndi Russia, China, ndi America zonse zomwe zikufuna kuti dzikoli likhale lovomerezeka kwambiri ndi mayiko ambiri a 54 pa kontinenti-njirayi ikuthandizira kulimbitsa mgwirizano wathanzi, wabwino, wamtendere umene udzapindulitse anthu ambiri a ku America ndi anthu ambiri a ku Africa. Kena kalikonse zingakhale zomvetsa chisoni.