Mama Africa, the land of heroes, a land surrounded by endless
treasures.
They have bestowed so much misery on your offspring, your children
are migrating out in masses for a greener pasture in foreign lands.
Oh, mama Africa!! What have you done to your children?
We sold our children into slavery, they dehumanized our children,
they lynched our children because their skin was a threat to them,
Africa, the cradle of world civilization, the continent of the
wise, your children are full of strength, tenacity, and courage to seize the
future even in the face of untold oppression. Why so much hostility on your
progeny? Why is the black child hated by the same people that derived their
livelihood from Africa? These people bite the fingers that fed them. What
baffles me is amid these cruel acts, Africa you still open your borders to the
rest of the world, she accommodated her antagonist with open arms without
discrimination. It amazes me how Africa opens her territories for the looters
of her resources to loot as much as they can, they have been looting for
centuries, yet the wealth of Africa never runs out.
What a generous continent, how liberal you are to the human race,
even though you are fully aware of the ills and stealing carried out on your
soil by these same slave masters, yet you are full of love and compassion to
accommodate all races without prejudice.
They despised you in their land, the land you assisted to build,
in that same land our fathers worked the plantations, they build the rail under
a whip, they picked the cottons, and for so many years, more than four hundred
years till date you are still treated as second class in the land where you
pledge your oath of allegiance. For how long will this ill-treatment of the
black child last? Oh, Mama Africa! Oh, Mama Africa!! See your children, save
your children and rescue your children from this plight.
African women cry for freedom.
Oh, mama Africa, how long will this plight of the African child
last? Your men are not even fair to our mothers, our mothers are consistently
marginalized. Unfair treatment and untold agonies inflicted on them by
their men’s ego in what is tagged “man’s world” syndrome. The black girl is
being stripped of her dignity, Africa please educate your girl child, for the
liberation of the black continent rests on the liberation of her females. Our
Mother is the womb of the nation, mothers are the hope of the nation and there
can never be a balanced civilization without mental and spiritual input of
womanhood. It was never a man’s world from the onset, but men and women's mental
sex interchain.
Until African mothers are celebrated and given a place in the
decision-making arena of the nation, until then Africa will never advance.
Anywhere women are marginalized, progress is spurned, anytime women are
victimized, the land retrogresses, when the girl child is marginalized, the race is stagnated.
Failed leadership in Africa
Corruption prevails in Africa, every sector has become a
transactional sector, greed and dishonest dealings among our very kinsmen. We
have sullied our identity just because of hollow gain, and the greatest waste
of the African continent remains the waste of human potential. We see the
consequences of unemployment in increased crime and insecurity, due to
this social breakdown the land is scorned. These are all underline symptoms of
failed leadership.
What about the mass killings in Africa?
Today Africa is at war, the land of Africa has become a den of
bandits. Strange children are killing and terrorizing the African people. Our
highways are full of horror due to the activities of these so-called bandits,
our farmers run from their farmlands because our farmlands and villages are
being ravaged by alien bandits. This evil is certainly not African culture,
this is not an African spirit, these killings and terror are alien to our
native roots. These indeed are masterminded by external forces in order to
break the cords of African unity, these are tactics of the western adversaries
to keep the African continent in perpetual darkness, so they will instigate
tension in order to distract us from our aim. Perhaps in chaos, they will bring
order out of the same chaos they have instigated under the illusion they are
AGENTS OF PEACE. We know their tactics, we aren’t ignorant of their scheming,
Mama Africa please wake up from this spell and let them know the game is over.
Where is our rich cultural heritage?
Our rich history informed us of our valiant conquest and the remarkable deeds of our ancestors. Today they have taken our history away from
our schools. They have imposed on us alien history; the history and culture of
the slave masters. How can we sing the African song with this false
identity?
Our identity unites us but today invaders are setting us apart.
Our culture unites us but their religion separates us. They made us think we
are inferior and substandard but these are the true cultures that empower us
as Africans. All we ever need is ingrained in our black culture, the land is so
rich and potent that the noble come to acquire wisdom from Africa. The potency
of the African resources brings healing to the world, most especially the rich
traditions and spiritual healing techniques of the African people. Through
these herbs, the world's pharmaceuticals produce their medics. Yet they made the
African child think his identity is worthless, they made us believe we have no
history, they made us accept the lies that African traditions are not worth
reckoning with. They made the African child live in an illusion. The illusion
of the slave master’s identity.
These are the plights of the African child.
Mama Africa, please INTERVENE IN AFRICA.
Our
peculiar struggles as Africans have to a large extent influenced the way we
think and act. Amid these struggles for significance, just like all other
races, the African child in her quest for a better tomorrow, is continually
harassed and threatened by various life challenges. These challenges make many
surrender their fates in idle living while many indulged in unproductive
ventures such as crime in order to survive. But in spite of these unfavorable
circumstances, so many African children are left with no choice but to
surmount these obstacles in order to achieve purpose and significance in life.
Another
crucial aspect plaguing the African continent is the activities of the colonial
masters. The whole world has the impression that Africa is poor, sick, and
starving amidst the numerous vast resources due to weak leadership and weak
institutions but we must understand the root of this African failed social
order before we draw a concussion. In my own opinion about the state of the
African nations from my research I will say Africa is not poor but Africa is
being looted.
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