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Leadership

TO THE GENERATION OF MY FATHER:

Don’t write us your memoirs – the job’s not yet done!

Chioma Phillips

know it’s tempting to lay down and we are dealing with a real mess
your sword and pick up your in Afrika. A mess that this genera-
pen to celebrate your days tion and, most importantly, the next
of
I glory. To speak of bat- is not prepared accurately to deal
tles fought and won. I know your with and to finish. So, sharpen your Chioma Phillips
bones are crying to you to sit gently swords and let us meet out on the
in a chair beside a warm fire, your battlefield – you yet have work to do is the Editor of Msingi Afrika Mag-
grandchild on your knee, regaling to secure the future of Afrika. azine and the host of Msingi Afrika
them with heroic tales of how you Television. Her hope is to see the Truth
“fought and conquered distant I know many of you got jobs in the shared, with all who will listen, for the
lands” in the jobs and vocations you aftermath of colonialism. You went
took up when you were younger. to ‘mission schools’ during the time transformation of the people and the con-
But, my father, my mother – the job of the oppression and some had tinent of Afrika - and the world.
of your generation is not complete opportunities to go to the university.

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