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MY AFRIKA
MY AFRIKA

Chioma Phillips is the Editor of
Msingi Afrika Magazine. She is same rules that the rest of the world be like these despots, sociopaths and
lives by. As if Afrika is their helpless
self-inflated fools who know noth-
also the founder of the magazine's little brother or infant child who ing of the fate that awaits them...
publisher, The Knowledge Con- must kowtow to their every demand, then we are – indeed – firmly on the
sultancy Limited, which shares without a mind or a purpose of her path to total destruction.
information, tools and insights to own. These governments and lead-
provoke thought and inspire move- ers, fearing the possibility of ‘the That is the madness that Afrikan
ment... towards God. Her perspec- worst thing that could happen’ to leaders have subjected themselves
to, choosing to bury their heads in
themselves, continually sell the souls
tive goes beyond national boundaries of the 1.3 billion who are meant to the sand and to ignore the fact that
to see the full scope of what God is be under their careful stewardship whether they cooperate with them
saying and doing for the continent of to the so-called global elite. As if or not, their days as leaders – or oth-
Africa and the world in these end they as ‘leaders’ are immune to the erwise – are weighed by these scum
times. mood swings of those controlling as only valuable if they are meeting
their repulsive demands. For as
their puppet strings.
Do you know that the word elite, long as they are useful, they shall be
according to the dictionary, means: retained - but once those days are
“A group or class of persons done... well, the history of Afrikan
considered to be superior to others leaders is well known to you.
because of their intelligence, social
standing, or wealth”? So if we’re The question then becomes, why
to go by that definition, which is not just live and lead with the dignity
intended to exclude billions of of one who is not ‘owned’ by these
people in the world and place on tormentors? That way, if one dies,
a pedestal surrounded by rarefied they die with their honor intact,
air, a mere handful – then we’re leaving behind a true legacy to
saying that these so-called crème demonstrate to others the wicked-
de la crème of society are superior ness of the hidden hands and the
beyond the reach of mere mortals. truth that the ability to chart one’s
This ‘superiority’ therefore enti- own course is possible. Isn’t this why
tles them to bully, intimidate, rob, we sing the praises of the likes of
rape and murder those ‘inferior’ to Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumum-
Majuto ni Mjukuu themselves, wherever they may be ba, Gen. Muammar Gaddafi and
in the world, whenever they feel John Pombe Magufuli? Those who
This is Swahili proverb has been like. Because that’s what they do. dared chart their own course and
rolling around in my head for the Arrogantly dominate global mat- whose names now speak because of
last few weeks. It translates to Regret ters with a phone call, a flourish of the choices they made that are so
is a grandchild ... I’m sure you catch a signature on a cheque or some contrary to what has been called the
its meaning. other document, an endorsement norm these days?
extended or withdrawn – and all
For sixty years since ‘independence’, this to their own economic benefit. For the past almost two years
some Afrikan governments and lead- So they’re not only murderous, they through Msingi Afrika Magazine,
ers have been laying firm founda- are selfish, narcissistic, greedy and eleven months through the book A
tions for the failure of their people pompous to boot. Are we really People Called Afrika: Rebuilding the
and nations. Consorting with their saying that is the cream of global Afrika of Our Dreams and about 9
former terrorizers in unholy neo-co- society? That immorality, hedonism, months through Msingi Afrika TV
lonialist bonds that ensure that wickedness and a blatant disregard we have been sounding the warning
their countries remain in slavery for for the welfare of others are the and banging the drum trying with
the foreseeable future... bonds that global standards for all that is good? everything to inform, remind and
have toxified politics, agriculture, If we are, then the world is in a warn Afrikans about the things we
business, education, health, finance, whole lot more trouble than we ever have been learning. Things that have
development, sports – ensuring that imagined. Worse yet if the Afrikan been missing from our classrooms,
everyone in Afrika is bound by the ‘leaders’ and middle class aspire to newsrooms, political and cultural

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