Page 11 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 7
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MY AFRIKA
Period! But he just really needs to wake
Also, apart from snoring in the up and realize that nothing really
dream state of the glorious past, happens in the dream state un- TIME AND
the Afrikan man is also caught til it is given power in the awake CHANCE HAP-
up in another dream state; the world. He has to tell himself the PENED TO THE
PAST, TIME AND
dream of the future that is so truth, that time and chance hap-
bright and beautiful that he is pened to the past, but time and CHANCE WELL
rendered useless in the now re- chance - well used now - will USEd NOW,
ality. The Afrikan man is caught create the future he desires. WILL CREATE
THE FUTURE we
up in the dream of a hope in the Dreams do come true, but what
future and how, in foresight, he about reality? DESIRE.
sees and believes that great Every dream has the power to
things will happen again. He is come to pass, but the thing is
grade, renew and evolve their
so happy looking at that future the dreamer must first get up
knowledge bases. They find a
he sees in this dream and not from the bed on which he had
lazy and easy excuse in refer-
wanting to break the chills and the dream, do something mean-
ring to times past, ‘the good old
the goose bumps his dream cre- ingful that gives strength to his
days’, to ancient ways of life that
ates in him, he won't wake to dreams and with the right choic-
are not compatible with modern
the reality that he is sandwiched es and decisions, in no time his
realities. Others blame colonial-
between two dreams he has dreams will come to pass.
ism, capitalism, civilization or
no ability to control. Especially I agree with something that An-
modernity. It is true that we Af-
when he has refused to realize selm Adodo, a Nigerian catholic
ricans were once enslaved. It is
that it is what he does in this father and scientist, said in his
true that some capitalist foreign-
now reality, the decisions and article titled: Redefining Devel-
ers invaded our land and ruled
choices he makes, that will both opment in Africa - The Idea of
over us, and exploited our natu-
salvage the past he so wished a Communiversity, which was
ral resources for selfish gains.
for and also create the future his published in the sixth issue of
But were we the only race that
soul longs for. So he remains a this magazine. He wrote "Many
was colonized?”
dreamer and never an achiever. African nations are yet to up-
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