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Member of the Week

Nathaniel Munetsi

Nathaniel Munetsi

Nathaniel Munetsi is a Credit and Bank Credit Analyst at Global Credit Ratings Company. He holds a Bachelor of Business Studies (Honours) degree in Finance and Banking and a Diploma in Financial Management (ACCA). Prior to joining Global Credit Ratings Company he worked as a Credit Analyst and Corporate Finance Analyst at  Barclays Bank and Trust Bank respectivily. Currently Nathaniel is pursing a Masters degree in Development Finance at the University of Stellenbosch. This is what he had to say about the kind of Africa he would like to see. 
 
"The kind of Africa I would like to see"
 
Africa, this is the place I call home and indeed, it is my Africa. Highly endowed with mineral resources and good weather patterns and yet despite all this, my Africa remains in poverty, my Africa is engaged in many unending conflicts, diseases, corruption and intolerance. Is this the Africa that I want? My answer is a bold NO.
 
I have seen it in my dreams, I have seen it in my vision. There is a better Africa, a place we will all call home regardless of race, tribe, colour, nationality. I continue seeing a united Africa, a people at peace with each other, respecting each others views, respecting human life, upholding the values of uButhu, a continent where all can get a fair share of reward to the effort that we invest in the exploitation and development of our resources.

Africa's attainment of political independence cannot be overemphasized- this was one giant step towards total independence, encompassing economic, social, and human development of all countries on the continent. Yet to achieve this, we need to move in tandem with the changes global political, economic, and social platform. In this I envisage an Africa where the sons and daughters of the soil will shrug off inferiority complex and take up responsibility in shaping their future.
 
We need to start investing in peace, creating the proper legal and governance frameworks for our continent. We need to start investing in institutions protecting our sacred heritage, our human hood, and values. We need to start investing in institutions that embrace cultural, social, tribal, gender, and national diversity. To reap peace we must plant peace.
 
Africa, belongs to all of us and its only us Africans who can indeed shape its future. We have the resources and truly with this kind of unity we can reduce poverty, crime, wars. We are able to develop our infrastructure, our schools and make Africa the true Promised Land. We need a paradigm shift, delearning what our beliefs, that we develop through aid from the West and donor funding. We need to organize ourselves as a people. I see a people powerful and mighty. China has achieved this and I believe we can truly do the same. This is my hope for Africa, peace, economic prosperity, integration, and unity. Through this, our voice will be louder and we can achieve much in tuning the global political levers. I see 1 great giant that needs to be awakened from deep slumber. THIS IS THE AFRICA THAT I WANT.

Status: Member in Good Standing!

By the powers vested in me, I, Mutumwa D. Mawere, Chairman of the Africa Heritage Society, do hereby certify Nathaniel Munetsi as the AHS "Member of the Week" 01 February 2010