Page 44 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 12

MY AFRIKA
COMMUNITY
Your African brother or sister
will later get employed in a poor,
racially segregated job which is
way below his or her vast amount
of qualifications and even made
to work for longer hours. So who
is fooling who?
Now as a blessed African how
do you reprogram? You need
to unshackle yourself from the
chains of religious dogma and
education of mind control and
liberate yourself to the truth.
I am talking about a complete
mind reset, which is not easy but
very achievable. As an African
you need to revisit your heritage
of what makes you uniquely
diverse and use it as your basis of
turnaround from: inferiority to
superiority, poverty to richness.
As an African you should feel
better about your skin colour as
opposed to resorting to bleaching
your melanin.
You should celebrate your rich
tribe, language and culture. You
should never shy away from call-
ing your children by their won-
derful African names as opposed
to English names. I mean this is
our identity we are talking about
here. Being an African demands
that you also take pride in your
well-crafted traditional African
attire and plaited hair. The Afri- that there is an elite, leaders in
can spirit is to view your fellow
African as a brother or sister, but
never as an enemy. You know
what is more? You should con-
nect deeply to your own spiritu-
ality like that of your ancestors
as opposed to only sticking by
religion. I am not implying that
religion is bad, but there is a stark
difference between spiritualism
and religion. One is from within
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and the other is from without.
2. Empowerment through
Good Leadership
Have you ever heard of the say-
ing; ‘Give a man a fish and you
will feed him for a day. Teach a
man how to fish and he will feed
for a lifetime’? Well, I chose to
disruptively go further from this
by saying; ‘Empower the man
to own a lake, and he will feed
generations after him.’
Global Finance Magazine 2020
Figures, present that out of
the 20 poorest countries in the
world, 16 of them are in Africa.
If you are curious like me, you
would ask yourself this critical
question; how is it that a con-
tinent endowed with so much
wealth and resources, would
be classified as the poorest in
the world? Without a shadow
of doubt, this is as a result of
incompetent leadership in those
given countries. Could it also be
the knowledge and skills acquired
through their system of educa-
tion compare less favorably, and
do not empower learners to use ing adequate experiences in business development
their outcomes to make an im-
pact toward wealth creation?
Whatever it is, it is safe to say
African countries that thrive in
chaos and impoverishing their
citizens. The best solution to this
is for you as an African citizen
to follow leaders based on their
ideologies rather than by their
appetite for looting. Interest-
ingly, some of these corrupt
handout-giving incompetent
puppet leaders have been handed
down to Africans by the West-
ern powers. Since a group of
them rule with iron fists, you as
an African citizen should relent-
lessly demand for a better deal
in leadership as opposed to the
status quo. Power always belongs
to the people, and there have
been several case studies of how
citizens from different countries
in the world, Africa included that
ceaselessly demanded for fresh
and competent leadership till
eventually their voices and efforts
were rewarded.
These, solutions are just but a
skeleton of the bigger picture.
You may add more to them if
you like. Just remember that the
net impact of such discussions
is to shift your focus from the
impossible to possible, from
a self-perception of weakness
to strength. From feelings of
inferiority to those of superiority.
To take it a notch higher, I long
to see the day that you will get rid
of the word CAN’T from your
vocabulary and replace it with
CAN because you are an able
Afri-CAN.
The author is a mentor, trainer and writer bear-
and brand management success.
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/robertmmwangi