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MY AFRIKA

bucket. And because they are not to manifest what our destinies are, of whitewashed tombs with dead
thinking to ask the accurate question confidently build new unsaturated bones. Many Afrikans create things
about how they got into the bucket areas of interests and critical think- just for the purpose of selling them
in the first place, and how to at least ing about setting up institutions that to the West and then turn back and
come out of it and live without it. last beyond ourselves etc. say things are not working in Afrika.
They fight and waste time, thinking How will they?
they are cursed, and by that inner Remember Putin’s words (inter-
conviction of a “curse”, they lived spersed here with mine): As long as Is there really a curse at work?
as “cursed people.” Afrikans must Africans believe in Europe, America What’s a curse really?
kick away their supposed “buckets” and China more than in themselves, According to wikpedia, a “curse” may
of limited visions, myopic thinking, Africa will never develop. Africans refer to such a wish or pronouncement
rat race tendencies that leave them don’t trust themselves at all. A white made effective by a supernatural or spiritu-
as rats even if they “win” the race, man will commit crime in Africa al power, such as a god or gods, a spirit, or
tendencies to pull at each other in- but no action will be taken because a natural force, or else as a kind of spell
stead of pushing each other forward African authorities view us as semi- by magic or witchcraft.
and the many other “curses” we gods, far from the truth. A black The question now is this, knowing
allow upon ourselves. man can be abducted in Europe, get that “curse” or “curses”manifests
harassed or even killed, but no Afri- through wishes, which is only pos-
A short while ago, I was having a can authority will question. Africans sible by thoughts in a mind, could
chat with my wife, and we were just present themselves as weak people it be that the actual “curse” of the
talking about Afrikan issues and why with no hope especially when deal- Afrikan is the mindset that keeps
it seems that the average Afrikan (a ing with Europeans and Americans. “wishing” for that which is not the
huge chunk of the lot) think they true reality of the Afrikan people?
need to do what everyone else is We Afrikans are our own ene- I believe it is. For if Afrika is the
doing to make it in life. We talked mies. cradle of humanity, and the mother
about the tendency of Afrikans Afrikan governments impose of all humanity, and if her “wishes”
to fill up a particular sector of the insane taxes, levies, licenses that have been accurate, should Afrikans
economy, causing it to become only cripple the ability of the youths not have been in their best place by
over-saturated, simply because to set up businesses or even inno- now? They should be. The rate of
others are there and are “making” it. vate, and then they say the youths self-hate, negativity and self-impeed-
Instead of looking for other sectors are unemployed. Some even have ing pronouncements Afrikans use
that are not saturated yet and then the heart to say their youths are against anything Afrikan is terrible.
build from ground up a new reality. lazy, worthless, unemployable and Curses are thought energy given
And my words to her were, it is corrupt. That’s a cloud of shame strength by words and that’s why
majorly the foolishness of the heart on the faces of such leaders. They you hear of people that cast spells.
and a weakness of mind that makes forget that what the youths produce
people do such things. For clearly as fruit is the very effect of the seed Why can’t a graduate of mechani-
when you look at the sky, there is that they, the leaders, sowed. cal engineering collaborate with a
never traffic jam there. Why? The graduate of software engineering
vast and open space is very huge It breaks the heart to know that and build a technology that works
compared to the minimal numbers when an Afrikan becomes rich, his for the Afrikan people, instead of
of planes that fly there. Using the bank accounts are in Switzerland. sitting and complaining that there is
same analogy, there are traffic jams He travels to France for Medical no job? What better “job” should a
on our roads because the small and treatment. He invests in Germany. man have than the one that CRE-
limited road space cannot carry the He buys from Dubai. He consumes ATES new technology and then
numbers of cars available on the Chinese. He prays in Rome or Mec- employs others that also CREATE?
roads. So, what does that mean? It ca. His children study in Europe. He
simply means, we as Afrikans must travels to Canada, USA, Europe for We must stop being the “witches”
learn to think without any boxes tourism. If he dies, he will be buried that are “cursing” our own reality.
of limitations, weird mindsets of in his native country of Afrika. We must be a THINKING and
pulling each other down, foolish at- Afrika is just a cemetery for many CREATING PEOPLE.
titudes that make us not realize that Afrikans. So how can you devel-
we don’t have to be like any one else op a cemetery except a collection We are BLESSED.

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