“What should make us cry seems to make us
burst out in an orgy of mirth and
backslapping
revelry. As we speak, African leaders are
busy
making a mockery of themselves in
Washington and selling the future to their
eternal masters. The Powers of the West are
good at telling you that Africa is rising when
we all know the continent is sliding more
backward than ever. And just before they got
the leaders, the smart Americans hosted a
bunch of young Africans who had been
handpicked as future leaders of the
continent.
These ones then will become the agents who
will work against their people in the years to
come. So, we keep rolling our ‘nyashes’ to
our
pathetic pop music, celebrate our overrated
“appointed” authors who speak the language
of distraction, and follow the English Premier
League with the kind of passion that some
people put into national development. The
West is selling a dud to our present leaders,
and they have already lined up those who
will
take over and do their bidding in the future.
So, let the laughter ring from Cape Town to
Calabar, from Lilongwe to Lagos, from
Zanaga
to Zaria, from Jo’burg to Jos. “Africa Rising
– O Ye!” Jokers”-Segun Akinlolu (Beautiful
Nubia)

Truth.waiting for beautiful nubia's book.this man is more of an intellectual than a musician..listened to an interview he had with edmund obilo of splash fm and i was wowed..

True!! If only. My brothers will understand

Well said.


"Today, Africa is a continent of COMPETING BEGGAR-NATIONs. We vie with one another for favours from our former colonial masters; and we deliberately fall over one another to invite neo- colonialists to come over to our different territories to preside over our economic fortunes ... Unless a beggar resolutely shakes off, and irrevocably turns his back on, his begging habit, he will forever remain a beggar. For, the more he begs, the more he develops the beggar characteristics of lack of initiative, courage, drive and self-reliance."
-Address to 4th OAU Summit in Kinshasa (1967): In Voice of Courage, 1981.

oduastates: Well said.


"Today, Africa is a continent of COMPETING BEGGAR-NATIONs. We vie with one another for favours from our former colonial masters; and we deliberately fall over one another to invite neo- colonialists to come over to our different territories to preside over our economic fortunes ... Unless a beggar resolutely shakes off, and irrevocably turns his back on, his begging habit, he will forever remain a beggar. For, the more he begs, the more he develops the beggar characteristics of lack of initiative, courage, drive and self-reliance."
-Address to 4th OAU Summit in Kinshasa (1967): In Voice of Courage, 1981.

So they have realised this since 50 years ago but they continue to beg.