Thursday, November 6, 2008

BOYCOTTING, A LOSING BATTLE?

Owing to chronic problems prevailing in Tanzania colleges, students have made up their mind and came to the stiff conclusion that boycott is the only promising and effective resort.
But according to history and experience I have had so far concerning college matters, most of boycotts undertaken by students attempting to press hard the administrations to give a closer look on our problems and seek permanent solutions, have virtually turned out to be a tragic failure. It's a battle that we always loose. This fact is evident and I am sure any continuing student can testify this. I am not preaching boycotts are worthless; all I am trying to put into light is the actuality of the consequences and repercussions of already-happened boycotts.
I think before deciding what to do, first, we have to seat and evaluate entirely the decisions we are making, taking into accounts the benefits and downsides of the preferred alternatives, look around to see if there can be another free-of-flaws alternatives before jumping to boycotts which at a good frequency have led us to more problems, and much worse, failed to solve the existing problems. Poor results of boycotts in essence are caused by lack of good grounds and sound baseline to convince other citizens that what we are claiming through boycotts are suitable and feasible.
But sometimes, our leaders need a nudge to wake up,they are deaf and blind until they have seen students rejecting to attend lectures and protesting physically. So I am neither opposing boycotts nor giving a hand. I am stressing to have a concrete and rational reasons before doing anything seriously. If we boycott its ok but let's have grounds to back up our actions, it would be a shame on us to gather and shout SOLIDALITY without reasonable grounds.
It's me and only me, Emmanuel Temu(Emmino).

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

But a winning war.

Anonymous said...

Has anyone thought of those private students who do not benefit from any of this? i have nothing against the strike and i understand why my fellow students were boycotting classes. I am a private student, and no one has stood up to protect the rights of private students who do not take loans and have no intentions of taking loans from HELSB.
So you see we rushed into a decision without thinking of all parties that would be affected by our actions! BOYCOTTING in this case is a losing battle!
Am sorry to say this but no one has thought or even said a thing that would in one way or another benefit private students, all i hear is SOLIDARITY forever!!

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