BILLBOARD GOVERNANCE

In this age of competition and the hunger for market share, the old block of politicians in the country no longer want their works to scream. Apparently, it looks like what their works spoke has either dwindled into whispers or has gone dead mute. Typical of the old generation’s swag, blowing their own trumpets is their real thing. Everyone in the elderly league believes they are their own hero and legend in their respective categories.

Today’s youth are reduced into shadow achievers because of this syndrome. If a youngster scoops good results, the elders hardly appreciate and the best remark to champion that success goes like…’there are no schools these days, school used to be in our time’. Come on, times have changed. Our elders believe in so much hard labour that they castigate the youth for using computers in their school or professional spheres. To the old guards, computers are no better than gadgets that breed laziness.

We have, quite a number of remarkable young people, the likes of Ralph Kasambara, Saulos Chilima, Dr Matthews Mtumbuka, Mike Chilewe, John Mwankhwawa and lots others who have achieved a lot within their youth league. And typical of this generation, these young people (who are role models to a great deal of young people in the country) don’t erect their success or achievements with placards along the highways across the country to tout their CVs. It is people that note and talk about their respective achievements.

This is commonly uncommon in the older generation as they would rather decorate their talk with a lumpsome of their achievements and as of that falls on deaf ears, they spend millions in erecting massive billboards that basically tout their achievements. In this cash-strapped economy, really? Where are the people to note and talk about these?

Fellow youngsters, I echo words by President Bingu wa Mutharika and modify them ‘Let the works of our hands, brains and talents speak for us’.