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CommunityWWW.MSINGIAFRIKAMAGAZINE.COM | we tell the true afrikan story 16AFRICANS LOVE FOREIGNERS, BUT FOREIGNERS HATE AFRICAThe Prodigal African is an amusing creature. He will bend over backward to please foreigners, but he will never extend the same courtesy to his own people. He will welcome a white tourist into his home like a king but treat his fellow African like trash. He will insult his own local businesses while overpaying for mediocre Western brands. He will laugh at his own accent but applaud a European for speaking broken Hausa.Meanwhile, the foreigner looks at him with pity, knowing that a man who does not respect himself can never be respected by others.The Prodigal African is desperate to be loved by the West, but the West only tolerates him. They will praise him when he dances for them, but they will never truly embrace him. They will let him sit at their table, but he will always be the outsider%u2014the pet, the entertainment, the exotic other.And when they are done using him, they will discard him like a worn-out rag.INDIVIDUALISM: THE DISEASE KILLING AFRICAAfricans were never meant to live as islands. We were raised by villages, not by screens. Our wealth was measured in community, not in bank accounts. But the Prodigal African has adopted the Western lie of individualism.He will rise to success and hoard it for himself. He will climb the ladder and burn it behind him. He will measure his worth by his personal achievements, ignoring the fact that his people are starving. He does not build. He does not share. He does not think beyond himself.Meanwhile, his Western idols continue to dominate the world%u2014not through individualism, but through systems, generational planning, and collective progress.The Prodigal African is a fool.THE RETURN: WILL AFRICANS EVER WAKE UP?The good news? Some are waking up. Some are rejecting the colonial mindset and reclaiming their identity. Some are turning their backs on Western approval and embracing the power of their heritage.But not enough have returned home%u2014physically, mentally, and spiritually. Africa will not rise until its people stop seeking validation from outsiders. Africa will not thrive until its people stop begging to be included in a world that was designed to exclude them.The choice is simple: wake up or remain a slave.But if the Prodigal African refuses to return, he must remember one thing%u2014there is nothing more pathetic than a man who chooses exile over home.