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Gen Salim Saleh, who is among the ‘veterans of the armed struggles that have been on the continent’, Thursday expressed gratitude to Mozambique President His Excellency Filipe Jacinto Nyusi for finding time to visit Namunkekeera rural industrial centre.
Gen Saleh recalled the time him and 27 other soldiers were training in Montepuez between 1976 and 1978 where they used to read only two books that were in the library titled, “The Long Match” by Chairman Mao Zedong and the other about “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” a 1972 book written by Walter Rodney that describes how Africa was deliberately exploited and underdeveloped by European colonial regimes.
“When I was in Mozambique in 1978, we were 28 soldiers and one commander. Only four of us are still alive.”
They include; Gen Museveni, Gen Ivan Koreta, Gen Salim Saleh and Brig Gen Bosco Omure.
Gen Saleh hosting President Nyusi at Kapeeka
He said the books they read piqued their interest in the idea of developing their countries and Africa at large.
“So since that time, me and my colleagues have been obsessed with this idea of how Europe Underdeveloped Africa. That’s why we are lucky to have the Chinese here,” noted the chairman of Operation Wealth Creation and Special Presidential Advisor on Defense and Security.
He added: “We don’t know whether they will develop us or underdeveloped us like the Europeans underdeveloped us but so far so good. Because they have turned soil into products, they have created jobs. We hope that the Chinese will not under-develop us”.
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