Our African Future

We would suffer more as Africans from the suffocation of numerous resources than from a lack of them.

So far, what I’ve observed is that there are resources to get things done, but there are more people who don’t know how to use them. Individuals who would sooner leave a failing system than stay long enough to see their imagined prospects become a reality. It’s not a headless demon in charge here, but a bloodied human.

This is not me encouraging you to stay in this face of death, rather this is me telling you that the arachnid survives in the king’s palace regardless of how much they want it away.

If at any time more than ever, creativity is our only bailout from such impending doom. There is a huge blessing on the Land. And as Africans, we have to own these blessings and developments.

The simplest way for Africans to partake in global developments and to contribute to the world’s growth in science and technology is not to compete with other third-world countries or Nations. Rather it is for Africa to manage its own resources, Capital and endowments well enough.

This is however not thoroughly dependent on the government, as they are only a fraction of the entire populace. This is much more dependent on deep-thinking individuals, who are not only citizens but participants in their own spaces.

The pictures we see only are narratives of another person and in order for us to own the narratives, it’s not about fighting for them, it’s about us making them our life goals and agendas. It’s about us committing to creating beautiful narratives from magnificent creativities that are born out of our convictions about who we are as a people as a Nation and as a race.

Creating things is not an impossibility. At all, not in a tiny way are they of any impossibilities, they are in every way possibilities. But giving attention to creating things is where the problem is. Being creatively consistent in the face of lack of support, not resources is the issue and the major secret to creating abundance from lack.

History has shown us how Africans created great edifices from materials we would rather throw away this time. In fact much more about how they utilized resources without access to what others are doing in other parts of the world and still created awesome narratives for themselves.