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Leadership

are aligned with these elites and not the poor. same thing happened with the owner and

CEO of Air Peace, when his private airline
Now, will I stop now that I am being secured the Lagos-London route. This is a
attacked? Mine is a calling by the ancestors sickness among Africans that needs to be
of our nation, and as such, I have no option uprooted. Why do we fight the very people

but to continue my destiny. Ultimately, it who are sticking their necks for our safety
will be a test between a calling by the spirits and development?
of the nation to save the poor and voiceless Why do we sabotage African solutions for
versus an elitist calling of exploitation, greed African problems while seated like victims

and consumption. begging for some white saviors to come and
give us aid and loans to further compound
Editor’s Note our poverty? This has never made sense.
Brother Rutendo’s concern about what But we need to change our mindsets about

happens when you pick up the fight for ourselves as Africans. And we need to do that
Africa is a very critical thing we must look like yesterday.
into and find a solution to. There are millions
of Africans online who will waste no time in

telling you to create solutions for the African
problem instead of talking about them. But
when you do create the solutions, they are the
very same ones who either fight your solution

or outrightly undermine it. Take for instance
the war and opposition facing Aliko Dangote
and his new refinery in Lagos Nigeria. You
can read about the sabotage on Google. The

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