Africa – a toothless bulldog

Thanks for sharing, Bobe Joe.

At the global, African, state and community levels, the common denominator is "humans". And if you ask me, the most precious asset is also the same: humans. Who else can we blame for any failures (or successes, if any)? Humans, of course.

Now here is a question: how do we get humans to design and implement their own success and happiness? How do we get them to work consciously towards ending human suffering? Where do we begin? Where do we go after beginning?

If you ask me, "leadership" in the African context is overrated. But that's just me. Why is it overrated? That's another discussion. A pointer: there is a disconnect in understanding what leadership and followership are, or are not, probably because each African community has its own version of leader and follower, in pairings that would baffle any casual observer.

Africa has become just a shell of what it really is: a bulldog with only a whimper for a bark. Eleven million square miles of land, flora and fauna where, again, humans keep making decisions that do little or nothing to add value to the ancestral inheritance of ALL Black people.

And if you ask me, ideas, visions and dreams come from the inner sanctum of humans (brain, spirit, conscience… give it a name). So the question is: do African citizens have the wherewithal to harness the power of that inner sanctum, to provide the fuel Africa needs to take off into a brighter future?

You tell me.

~wv

— Wanaku Verdzekov