AFRICA: A FREE FOR ALL?

“The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single black boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth”…Mary Mcleod Bethune (1875 - 1955) American educator, stateswoman and Philanthropist known for starting a private school for African American students in Florida.

Freedom!

Freedom is now perhaps unwittingly a word much more potent than it sounds, it has become synonymous with an unleashing of powers and dormant potentials that we never knew was ever present. Freedom is beyond the emancipation of dark skinned people from slavery, but also the ability to speak your mind, your truth and explore the world through and through. Freedom has given us the ability to respect each other, and has given us the power to not only free ourselves, but also to free the helpless who are still in bondage, both physically and in the mind.

Freedom, how sweet it sounds to the ears of slaves, prisoners, the illiterates, the oppressed, and the downtrodden, even victims in fictional novels when the hero rescues them from villains. Although, however sweet freedom may be, it does have its own apparent complications.

“No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill”…Barbara Kingsolver (1955 - ) American novelist, essayist and poet. 

Heroes & Villains!

It is no longer news that Africa probably holds the keys to the future survival of the rest of the world, which is why she is massively exploited by the west.

Africa is so beautiful that its sprawling splendor cures diseases of the soul, She is so bright that the Sun radiates vitality and burns away depression, her land is so rich with fertility and mineral resources conveying latent wealth, while Africans themselves have the purest of hearts, gentlest of soul, sincerity of intentions, unwavering loyalty and natural strength, bourne of deep rooted rich cultures and tested natural values, becoming heroes of nature.

What have the rest of the world done to admire such extensive beauty?

They rip her apart, disintegrating her resources and her people, to fulfill the vanities’ desires bourne of their insecurities of survival upon the earth, causing environmental degradation through oil exploration, mining and other strange experiments that have brought casualty to dear mother Africa, providing clandestine deals that birth superfluous infrastructure and clause cladded loans and further plunging her into huge debt, thus acting as villains.

“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous ”…Haile Selassie (1892 - 1975) He was an Ethiopian Regent from 1916 to 1930, and an Emperor from 1930 to 1974. He is a defining figure in contemporary Ethiopian history.

Historical Future

Lets cut to the chase, we are all either incompetent in our research and findings about the true state of things and where we stand, or we’re simply a bunch of hypocrites that have failed to tell ourselves the truth that stares us in our very eyes.

Historical Africans were brave, confident, independent and strong both physically and mentally. 
They were morally upright too, which followed the descendants of such great ancestry till this day.

How come the Africans of this generation are morally bankrupt, corrupt, egocentric and insecure?

Well, it may be as simple as an uneven association with the truly more advanced western world. 

The western world as at today are much more advanced than their African counterpart, which of course isn’t a problem. The problem is that Africans are carried away by how much progress that the western world have made in engineering, sports, politics, entertainment, manufacturing, infrastructure, population orientation and education so much that they fail to realize that they once were poor with nothing until they believed in themselves.

It is such a pity and a shame that even China has joined the west in a race to recolonize Africa economically, this is because African leaders due to their greed, ignorance and lack of will power have made the youths redundant, thus leaving Africa vulnerable.

Now Africans are made to binge on unhealthy fast foods and time wasting sports views and bets, which are traits and brain children of the western world that have launched past the times, disorienting the priorities of the youths and so called leaders of tomorrow.

Africa needs to be brave and truly independent, Africans need to be reminded of the glory and integrity of their ancestors, Africans need to believe in themselves, at least once again enough to realize that all things are possible in Africa. Africa must realize that they don’t need loans from the western world, they are structured not to be easily repayable, Africa needs to start exploiting her own mineral resources, building her youths and her future in quality education, sports and leadership as only Africans understand the African challenges.

The loans and infrastructure from China and the western world are only further impoverishing Africans and pulling them back into the evil slavery.

Corrupt African leaders that have sold their souls to the devil are selling the future of Africa cheaply, perhaps unknowingly at first as their greed gets the better part of them, but guess what, they don’t even need those expensive material possessions anyway.

So is Africa free for all? Well, perhaps only time will tell, as the heroes of Africa are busy freeing a part of Africa from slavery, but the villains whose greed and ignorance makes them do otherwise have yet to see the wrath of the spirit of the African ancestors.

God bless Africa.

Thank you, and be awesome because you truly are.

Akin Abimbola.

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