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MY AFRIKA
trying for many years, he gets a cannot help. He thinks he knows, ery day you see foreign NGOs
job outside of Afrika in a country so every word of knowledge you come to Afrika to do the things
where his skills are much more give him, he will throw back at they call charity, which for me
valued and rewarded. And by you, like a stone of accusation is nothing but giving a man fish
that, whether we like to admit it and resentment. He only sees but stealing both his net and his
or not, the moment he steps out- the shadows of the things which lake. The Afrikan sickness is not
side of Afrika and settles down will be made substance over the Ebola, Covid-19, HIV/AIDS; all
to do well for himself out there - space of time, but he thinks he were created and imported here.
that is a loss for Afrika. Now here sees the real thing. He cites the Thus Afrika does not need heal-
comes another guy from the uni- knowledge and lifestyle of his ing from these things, what we
versity with lower grades and no Afrikan forefathers and bullies need healing from, is the power
great ideas, because as the son everyone else with whatever he of greed and indiscipline, which
of an Afrikan politician, he had thinks he knows about them and have crippled even the minds
all the money he could spend in the wisdom they lived by. But he of the brightest Afrikans and re-
school. So school for him was is too ignorant to understand or duced them to slaves and wait-
not a place to learn, but to have realize that even his forefathers ers at the table of those whose
fun. He comes out of school with died while still trying to see the intention is to completely swal-
no good grades or ideas but is substance hidden in the shad- low Afrika up.
welcomed with government con- ows of the things which they Afrika has true and authentic vi-
tracts that his mind is not ready saw. So shall he also die, having sion carriers; we just need to be-
for. Now here is the thing, the not learnt that pride blocks the gin to truly give strength to those
first guy with ideas and good way to light but humility brings a who really need it, in order to
grades who could not set up his man to the presence of the One change Afrika.
business in Afrika, cannot be Whom the Afrikan forefathers It's time to wake up from our
considered as gain to Afrika and called Light. Such is the story greedy and selfish dreams and
neither is the second guy who of the young Afrikan man who is create new realities that we can
will definitely waste what he was caught in between two dreams. be proud of with time.
given. In other words, for Afrika He needs to know when time
to rise to her potential, we must and chance has happened and
begin to give strength to compe- how to move on.
tence and not connection. King Solomon said in Proverbs
24:3-4
Wisdom is profitable "Through wisdom a house is
Ignorance and knowledge built, And by understanding it is
should not be mixed together. established; By knowledge the
They should be kept as far apart rooms are filled With all precious
from each other as light is from and pleasant riches."
darkness. You can help the ig- As Afrikans, we must ask our-
norant man to gain knowledge selves what really we are chas-
and you can also help the knowl- ing after and if what we are
edgeable man to enrich his heart chasing after really defines who
with wisdom, but the man that is we are, or just makes us feel ac-
ignorantly knowledgeable, you cepted in the eyes of those who
really don’t care about us. Ev-
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