Africa can only progress if Africans began to believe in
Africa. They need to build businesses of
their own and promote their own brands. It
is high time that Africans became more Afro-centric in promoting the African
values. No entrepreneur can develop in a
business they don’t have self-belief in. Africa is business for Africans and requires Africans to market its potentials to themselves and the rest of the world.
Africans need to unite, make peace, build banks, businesses
and be patient in sharing their wealth. They need to re-discover the African value
system as this is the only way if Africa is to start on a journey of progress.
Africa’s problems are not natural, but man made, so it takes
its people to find solution to its problems. Dubai was only a desert until its
people became visionaries and turned it into the envy of the world, today Dubai
is one of the most beautiful cities of the world. Until Africans wake up from its dogmatism
currently pervading the continent. Africa would continue to hold mark as the
dark-continent in the lowest ladder of anything good.
Africans are progressing individually, building wealth for self
only, while a collective progress and wealth distribution is non-
existence. A single African owns enough
wealth to make a million other African live a fairly rich life. Africa has built a huge den of thugs,
scammers, thieves and kidnappers wanting to make money by all cost. This group
of people are well connected to those that matters at the top. They make the
rules or participate in making the rules.
A society governed by criminals is sure to thrive in criminality.
Africans do not understand how to live; everywhere you go is chaos, poverty,
disease and death amidst its enormous wealth.
Africa’s young population does not understand the need for
research and development, manufacturing or how to participate in the creation
of wealth, they only understand consumption, feeding fat, riding big-exotic
cars bought on borrowed money or corruption, living in big houses and having
too many children. The ability to build
wealth is non-existence.
Check an average public service office in a lot of African
countries and you could see its work force strolling into work at 10am on a
Monday morning for a job meant to start at 8 am and those in the office are
either sleeping on their desk or going about their private affairs. Those out of work are not about to invent
ideas to change their future. Many wake
up and sit in front of laptop looking for the gullible victims the world over
who will fall for their bait and pay a windfall.
The leaders of Africa steal money and stash it away in foreign
lands from where they had borrowed the money in the first place. Every successful African have the dream to
spend their money in designer shops in London and Paris, spend nights in 5
start hotels in New York or Florida. Not
many would consider the cheaper beautiful scenes of Africa as option. The only
way Africa can start to move forward and prosper is by keeping as much of its
wealth as possible in Africa, until this starts to happen, Africa does not stand
the chance to progress.
Africa’s dependence on international aids is becoming
nauseating and using pictures of dying African children to solicit financial
help all over the world is simply heart-breaking. Africa is a very rich continent, yet very
poor because of the greed of its people and leadership failures. Africans are busy fighting man-made wars
manufactured by people with ulterior motives without understanding the
realities of the world they live in.
Most Africans prefer to leave Africa to any destination they
can find, not many want to stay in Africa, when I ask why, the response has always been ; “nothing works
in Africa.” How would anything work in
Africa except African starts to make it work? Most Africans recognize there is problem, but
not many recognise how to solve the problem or at least ways to begin to solve
the problem. Instead they prefer to
visit religious places praying fall down and die, casting and binding when the
world is using what they have to get what they want. Africans have not learnt from History and
continued to positon themselves for new-age enslavement by their actions.
Africa has a huge population of people buying expensive cars,
living in huge houses and the best of the very bests from around the
world. However look closely, you will
see that they lack knowledge about life, they lack the needed value, quality or
the integrity needed to live the right life.
They are so frivolous; their live is void and visionless. All their expensive collections is to show
off to their keens that they have made it and are the local champion, nothing more.
It is very saddening to see the current antecedents, which is the same
if you travel from Lagos to Timbuktu or from Cape Town to Mombasa. Africans do not understand what
prosperity is or how to live a valuable life, everyone just want enough money to
buy materials for show off. What a way
to live.
Abiola Olaifa, UK
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