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LeadershipWWW.MSINGIAFRIKAMAGAZINE.COM | we tell the true afrikan story 14The African is not lost; he has willingly wandered into exile, romancing the very hands that raped his motherland and feeding off the crumbs of a civilization built on the bones of his ancestors. The Prodigal African is not a victim%u2014he is an accomplice in the murder of his own heritage.He mocks his own reflection, wishing for a paler shade. He sneers at his mother tongue, speaking in accents that make him sound like a malnourished parrot. He has become so intoxicated with Western validation that he wears his chains like jewelry, mistaking servitude for sophistication.This is the tragedy of modern Africa: its people are free, but their minds remain in bondage.MENTAL COLONIZATION: WHEN A SLAVE LOVES HIS MASTERIt is not the white man who holds Africa down%u2014it is the African who refuses to rise. The Prodigal African sees his homeland through Western eyes: a jungle of poverty, disease, and corruption. He ignores the fact Community