Please please please Tanzania, give this kid a chance. I wish Tanzania
would give this young man an immediate residence permit. The law
in Tanzania mandates 8 years of residence before citizenship. I have
said it should be reduced to 2-4 for diasporans. I know some of you
are wondering why it is not zero. That is because Africa is made of
countries and I think that the wholistic view of the diaspora does not
always account for this. Some think that it is ok to go to this country
take advantage of this, get up a week later, go to another anD get
that. You end up with people who are not committed to a country.
The period of residence is designed to reduce this tendency. Another
important thing is that residence gives the country a chance to review
your criminal record. Obviously, no country should ever have to accept
anyone who is a serial killer, drug dealer or financial scam artist............
Once that is done, I think that there is no reason why any black person
should be withheld from the priviledges of citizenship.
The kid looks like a friend of mine, from Tanzania, whose name was
Jacob Hajj. I am much older now, and I think that his last name meant
that his father had taken the required "Hajj" pilgrimage to Mecca.