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Leadership

Do Your Little is a demand for
you to come out of your shell and
to stop assuming that working for
a corrupt government and doing
nothing about it – even if you
yourself are not engaged in acts
of corruption – is acceptable. It
puts pressure on you to activate
your desire for positive change by
causing you to have conversations
with your team members or even
your administrative superiors that
may be difficult or even awkward
and may put your job on the line.
Because, remaining quiet and acting poisoned by people who do not within you that causes you to want
to the contrary means that you are care to stop, our children are being to respond by taking some positive
complicit in the activities of your programmed to become slaves of action in yourself and the world
office and government in fleecing a system that will devour them and around you – step forward and Do
the tax payers who keep you fed. Do spit them out once it is done with Your Little … because your ‘little’
Your Little causes you to be dissat- them, we are living out a lie and can change the world.
isfied with complacency and apathy building a system that is based on
and turns you into a force for good, lies and oppression, instead of cre-
right in the heart of darkness, as it ating something that is actually real
were. and beautiful – that the freedoms

that we were told we are entitled to,
It can be as simple as picking up based on the different constitutions
litter, or choosing to throw your and international treaties and cove-
trash in the dustbin as opposed to nants are non-existent.
the drain, or the road – or it can be Most importantly, Do Your Little is
as bold and brave as picking up the a reminder that every single person
microphone during an international under the sun is ultimately respon-
conference and disputing the lies sible for the state of and the nature
that you know are being presented of the world around them – and
there by the governments of the that it will be incumbent upon them
world. Either way, it is a choice not to step forward and create life for
to comply with mediocrity, cow- themselves, their families, their com-
ardice and failure and it is a mighty munities and nations… and Afrika
decision to tear down the walls of as a whole. And by each doing their
evil that are threatening our Afrika ‘little’ and teaching the young ones
each and every single day, and that to do the same, we will see a trans-
are narrowing the spaces within formative revolution take place that
society where the current and future will create the environment we need
generations are able to interact and in order to thrive.
live.
So, if you do see the Do Your Little
Do Your Little is about choosing videos online, take a moment to
not to ignore the plots and schemes watch and listen to the messages,
of darkness that are being rolled get in touch with Msingi Afrika Tv
out with such singular focus against if you have ideas you would like to
Afrika and the world – choosing to share, share the videos with friends
call them what they are, instead of and family alike, and have conver-
joining in with others to sugarcoat sations around them. But, more
the facts that our world is being than anything, if they stir something

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