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Mulungu Kelvin
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[Poll] Youths Involvement in Political Leadership.
August 28, 2008 - 10:30 AM
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The happenings leave nothing in my thought but scribble what is below. The youth’s involvement in leadership especially political leadership leaves much to be desired. The old leadership that fought for freedom continues to cling on to power and seems not to be ready to handover power. There is an intergenerational leadership crisis. Youths are suppose to be integrated into power light so they can start to shape their own tomorrows, but we have seen youths not even occupy lower positions in government and in key positions. Chairman Mao once said this world is for us all but especially for the youths. And in this view, we need to shape our own destiny. Today is the result of yesterday, and tomorrow of today. This calls for us to be active if we need to moderate our tomorrows.
However, the mentality of most African leaders, it will be impossible to incorporate and it has been a failure in the past. Some leaders have openly declared they can’t give political power to those who didn’t fight for freedom. Worse off is when they are tired and want to rest, they get their accomplices who have the same mentality, meaning there won’t be loophole for youths. The time their generation will have extinct then shall our services be required to nurse their political clutter. We shall look a crop of failed leaders because we allowed ourselves not to be involved to start shaping policies that will benefit our generation. They are handling natural resources is squeezing our future life. We should be in the fore front for a safer planet campaign. The effects of global warming will heat more on us and our children. Want the right step is what I am pondering on.
Fellow youths, do we feel well represented in leadership positions and especially political? While there are many NGOs promoting putting women in decision-making positions and even instruments like in SADC have been signed to give women about 30% representation in decision making positions but youths have continued to be under represented.
It might not be putting youths at the top, but they can be well fused from below until at the top when the time comes
Even opposition though have youths, the representation is still very minimal.
This post was edited on: 2008-08-28 at 10:34 AM by: kmulungu
[Poll] Youths Involvement in Political Leadership.
Hindered by old leaders
(2 votes for 50%)
Lack of Advocacy
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Lack of Interest
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They are inexperinced
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Hafiidhaturrahmah
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Re: [Poll] Youths Involvement in Political Leadership.
October 4, 2008 - 07:35 AM
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hmm..this is important problem that happened in youth in all countries i guest.
many youth didnt get their best chance just because bureaucracy.Youth still hindered by old leaders so the youth just lack of chances and became unexpert.
recently, i dont have solution for this problem because it depend on where we are now.
i hope...i can influence my district chair to give more chances for youth.
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davyk
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Re: [Poll] Youths Involvement in Political Leadership.
October 8, 2008 - 10:37 AM
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I concur and i have been working on this topic for some time now and we have been making some inroads but a lot still needs to be done.
Youth participation is now very critical we need to create that future for we are the one who will be in that future anyway!
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Re: [Poll] Youths Involvement in Political Leadership.
October 13, 2008 - 08:13 AM
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hmm.. actually it would be fantastic if there were some youth councellors or sth like that in the Parliament...
However, most of the students becoming members to a youth political party is doing this, because later on, most propably, they are gonna be leaders of the party (they are doing this for their benefit only)...
In Greece there is the "Hellenic Parliament of Youths", where youths from all over Greece, Cyprus and some Greek students from abroad express their opinions and give solutions to many many problems... the thing is that these solutions and ideas are never used by the politicians and the governments 
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Stephen Ojeremen
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Re: [Poll] Youths Involvement in Political Leadership.
October 20, 2008 - 03:03 PM
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Our democratic space is today inundated with these anachronistic versions of Marxist/Socialist ideas which to a large extent promote violence as short cut to attaining political power. We are aware of the vulnerability of emerging democratic nations like ours to these ideas. We can only move forward if we allow law and order to reign in our society. “A clear understanding of what democracy is all about is a major condition for behaving democratically”
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