AFRICAN COSMETICS!

“The child which you have failed to build will eventually sell off the house that you have built instead”…Yoruba proverb. Yoruba are an ethnic group in western Nigeria with population at around 40 million.

It is what it is!

Perhaps, for as long as our ancestors and history books permit us to remember, Africa has always been a force to reckon with due to vast availability of human resources, natural minerals and beautiful weather, but her appreciation has always been done in subtle ways publicly, but massively in secret by the western world. This is obviously a reversal psychological strategy, which effectively robs Africans of their self esteem, and discourages them from recognizing and ascribing value to whatever they have, how smart, but for how long?

 

Naturally, humans live by imitation, and the world has fared greatly from other nations copying development processes that also make them live better lives. The continuous evolution of mankind however has caused many nations to chart new courses and have become authorities in chosen fields of specialty. Italy is known for producing great shoes and suits, Switzerland produces the best wristwatches and chocolates, Netherlands produce fantastic dairy products, the United Kingdom are great managers and the United States is simply God’s own country.

What does Africa stand for? African countries have the oldest presidents (perhaps due to her culture which attributes leadership and wisdom to old age) ; the leaders cling to power, and have no tangible achievements to show their citizens due to corruption and lack of accountability. They are used to not being totally honest to citizens, and they are quick to award massive contracts with the sole purpose of trying to let their capitals look like London, hence a cosmetic approach.

The so called African 'leaders' need to realize that to be a leader you need to be qualified by virtue of character and not just desire. The way African leaders run their economy, it seems they are deliberately impoverishing their nations especially by unintelligently purchasing expensive products that their economies should ordinarily produce if they were effective leaders.

“To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education ”…Jonathan Sacks (1948 - ) British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher and politician.

Education!

Are you surprised how China became an economic powerhouse that even gets the attention of the United States? They made a pledge to their citizens to improve their living conditions through education and eradicating poverty, and also not leaving anyone behind in the process.

We are currently in an age where the Internet has made the world virtually smaller and it is hard to tell a lie as you could be busted a few clicks away on Google. Suffice to say the entire world already knows Africa’s weaknesses and apparent deficiencies, and how more disappointed can they get knowing fully well we are the very cause of our lack of advancement.

It is highly unbelievable that in the 21^st century, countries in African won’t place priority on education especially through their actions including budgeting and championing of the cause, but they shamelessly pay lip service about it.

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own: and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress ”…Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) English writer and social critic.

Leadership and succession plan

Do we not feel a butterfly in our tummy when we speechlessly adore mind-blowing developments that favour the ordinary people in developed nations? We are gladdened when we experience well planned mass housing delivery, good roads, efficient power, quality schools, premium healthcare and other empowerment projects as a result of well thought out policies and strategies by educated and qualified professionals that have genuine interest for their citizens and what they actually do.

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership”…Harvey S. Firestone (1868 - 1938) American Businessman and founder of Firestone Tire and rubber company.

This string of processes is birthed by quality education and genuine leadership, and it is what makes economies stable and by extension sustainable.

African leaders are known to amass wealth by all means, they even go to lengths of borrowing money from international communities in the guise of executing projects to favour the masses, but as I said, we can get the truth on the internet, and the internet lets us realize that they abandon the projects and then live luxurious lifestyles at the expense of the African people, while the international community laugh at Africa and her apparent stupidity and greed for material things that she actually can provide.

“Without prosperity, there is no peace”…Lamido Sanusi Former Governor Central Bank of Nigeria, now Emir of Kano.

Many Nigerians are even surprised that the government is all worked up about the terrorism that persists, and even more surprised at how the government is handling the situation.

The terrorists are a monster of Nigeria’s own making because she has failed to educate and empower the misguided youths, rather she let them choose religion as their number one goal, who does that?

Government officials not only loot funds, they inflate contracts and still don’t execute them, then they oppress the people with expensive cars and houses, naturally the odds will be against them, and by principle could only get worse.

If Africa doesn’t take off the cheap cosmetics they call developmental goals and start to genuinely plan a decent future for the coming generation, mother Africa may eventually seize to exist. What’s the point staying around when you cannot make an impact that you clearly can but fail to due to greed, ignorance, lust and all things clandestine but of little worth?

God bless Nigeria, Africa, and the world!

Thank you, and be awesome because you truly are.

Akin Abimbola.

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