Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano strongly denounced on Friday the "continuous social exclusion to which the majority of human kind is subject.
He was speaking shortly after his graduation as "Doctor Honoris Causa" in Public Politics by the Southern University, in the USA state of Louisiana.
He dedicated the award to the Mozambican people, whom he described as his "main professor in life".
Speaking of social exclusion he said that not only it puts hundreds of millions of people in a difficult, and often tragic situation, but also it ends up endangering the delusory security of those who live in excessive opulence.
Chissano warned that unless one puts an end to this apocalyptic state of things that results in social exclusion, the world will never enjoy a complete and long lasting security.
He stressed that "progress and prosperity should reach all peoples world wide and provide a sustainable and long lasting development", warning that otherwise "the small islands of excessive opulence will not continue living in security while still surounded by oceans of poverty".
He insisted that the prosperity that those few countries and peoples enjoy today is the result of the unjust ways of the globalisation, and it will not be long before they lose that, unless they allow every other people to benefit too.
"Political leaders and business people who fail to understand this, will only enjoy these gains a short term, because they will not be able to sustain their success forever", he said.
He explained that this is because with globalisation, one shares not only the benefits but also the ills or mistakes of its faulty implementation, that bring about cruelty, tragedy, endemic famines and oppression.
He noted that the most cruel scenary is found in Africa, where between 45 and 50 per cent of the continent's 600 million inhabitants live below the bread line, and 19 of the 23 countries which peoples are suffering of accute subnutrition across the world are in Africa.
Chissano also warned that it is this situation that gives chance to crime and terrorism.
"While some will argue that it is not necessarily poverty that causes the horrendous acts of crime and terrorism, poverty allows such phenomena to occur", he said.
Chissano urged the thousands of students who were also graduated on the same day in that university to put their knowledge at the service of human kind to make the world a better place.
He stressed that there is a good reason for them to share their knowledge, insamuch that "knowledge is one of the goods that no matter how much one gives one never loses it".
He urged those students, most of whom are African descendents, to come to Africa, to know the land of their ancestors, and also to exchange knowledge with their African brothers and help them out of the socio-economic difficulties they are facing.
Fonte: AIM
