Page 32 - Demo

CommunityWWW.MSINGIAFRIKAMAGAZINE.COM | we tell the true afrikan story 32needs of the people. And this is not about Kenya alone, but about everyone who is considered African globally.So, am I against Africans going to work in other countries? Certainly not. What I am against is the attitude of servitude from which we view money and the making of money. Also, I am against the notion that believes that for Africans to live a better life, they either must go live in Europe or America, or they must go slave in foreign lands and then bring some money back home. We even tagged it diaspora remission and measured how well we are doing out there by it. Should Africa not have its own system at home that creates wealth for its people and also distributes it across the board, without all the corruption and the public stealing that is making a mess of our collective wealth?Speaking of African intellectuals who bypass common sense to create projects that seem to constantly put the African people in a beggarly position, we cannot sort out our social and political problems with the use of our intellect alone. Our intellect is only as great as the mentality or consciousness it sits on. This is the reason why the more PhDs we produce in Africa, the more straitened the circumstances of our continent. Intellect is definitely important, but without the guidance of an elevated consciousness, it%u2019s like giving live grenades to kids as toys. They%u2019ll destroy themselves and everyone else. We must raise the consciousness of our people through quality education that shows them who they are and not what they are trying to be using foreign measurements. Life guides us along numerous pathways, each intended to lead us to our designated destination%u2014the fulfillment of our purpose. But the fact remains that along this journey, life%u2019s experiences compel us to shed certain behaviors and cultivate character traits that match our new reality, which in turn will sustain us in our new place. How can we in 2025 still be talking about training our people to go and be house helps in other countries and then call it economic development? Are we sick or something? Is slavery so ingrained in our African DNA that it%u2019s so difficult to create a better living path for our people without having to subject them to some form of condescending attitudes toward slavery? How many agencies are set up in the UAE, the US, or Europe to train Arabs, Americans, and Europeans to come and work as domestic workers in African homes? They mostly set up their agencies, train and fund them on how to pillage our backyards while we send our people to be slaves in theirs. We don%u2019t feel shame as a people? We sure need to.ComorosOn a lighter note, when I was searching for information about Comoros, I looked at the map of Africa, and it was as though Comoros, Seychelles, and the other Island nations on the eastern part of Africa were just a couple of dots in comparison. I was amused by the size of Comoros, I confess. However, even though Comoros is small in size, her story is nonetheless amazing.The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern