Opinion / Columnist
The African Messiah is not yet born
19 Nov 2015 at 04:43hrs | Views
The Africans are still finding it problematic to settle themselves with the reality of Africa after it gained political independence. Some African leaders like Nkwame Nkrumah, Samora Machel, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Julius Nyerere, Chris Hani, Steve Biko, and Robert Sobukwe, refused some temptation as capitalists tried to bribe them, but their actions of trying to be clean angered their Political Party's cronies and capitalists, but those leaders kept a humble occupation, and regardless of the constant scorns from their companion and capitalist, they lived an honest life, even if that condemned them to a life of poverty and death. These leaders never had choice, but to live in the poorest slums and live from hand to mouth.
The pandemic syndrome which is butchering Africa today is corruption. Corruption is all over the African countries and people who are in higher positions are the ones engaged in it the most. Both presidents and the ministers and their subordinates are all involved. Even after countries gained independence, corruption never stopped instead it became even worse. The sons of the nation are now in charge after the capitalists surrendered the power. How completely the new thing took after the old. The politics of everyday life we see happening around the continent of Africa are becoming the self-enrichment by the called bogus politicians. Most countries who have gained independence bowls into the throes of corruption and the national coffers, wealth, treasure became a free for all scramble by men whose thought and learning rested and ended only within the grumblings in their stomachs.
There is something so terrible in watching a black man trying at all points to be the dark ghost of a European. Some modest of corruption are seen all over the continent as we see some people being promised some developments and day dreaming economic freedom by their candidates and they never happen. Even the money for the projects is being released. Some people live by bribes and pretend as if they are doing the right choices.
There are elements of deception as people are deceived into thinking that their promises will be fulfilled. Like what happens in the real world, Political Parties' leaders, and Councilors will come to the public begging them for their support to win the elections and promising them a lot of things that they never do. Hence the reluctance of some people votes during elections. This is due to the fact that elected candidates never deliver their promises. What will I be demonstrating for… all new political parties will be like the old? Some bogus political parties in Africa view deception as a way of making a living like and what was there to reply to tricks and deception of the innocent. They call up the rally and tell people lie so that they can get away with what they want.
Some people are even illiterate and yet they tend to be the ruling people. What one might ask himself or herself is how can one rule without even the knowledge of ruling. What exactly will they be doing that they are knowledgeable at. Our judiciaries are supporting corruption even though we will expect them to be against it. This is what happens in real life situation, people who are supposed to be fighting corruption are the same people who encourage it and people who charge others for corruption are at its high most hands. They are just hiding behind the government uniform. Their government is the ones living in the dark.
This is an indication of the dirty work the presidents are doing to their countries. They turn to be cleaver but this is what at the end leads to their downfall. Even if there are those people who want to miss lead other people. This is to say that some people still do not believe that it is the cause of the colonialism that made African countries corrupt. It is us, the Africans who enjoys being like the Europeans. Blackness is not all that makes a man ... a Whiteman would always be a white man but a black man trying to be a Whiteman is wicked.
The people that could rescue Africa are present but they are hiding behind their backs as they are afraid to be eliminated. In most African countries, when someone tries to report a corruptive action, he or she is killed. The fast movement is not merely the physical movement but rather the advanced way of knowing the truth. The men who would stand corruption and fight it to the dispatch at the expense of their lives, leaders who have dreams to take the country beyond into development and not to see the true end of politics as wealth, those who are spiritually in-tuned with the way and knows the route have not yet been born. This makes room that they would be born. One day Africa will be a better continent and be free for all sorts of misconducts and misfortunes.
The pandemic syndrome which is butchering Africa today is corruption. Corruption is all over the African countries and people who are in higher positions are the ones engaged in it the most. Both presidents and the ministers and their subordinates are all involved. Even after countries gained independence, corruption never stopped instead it became even worse. The sons of the nation are now in charge after the capitalists surrendered the power. How completely the new thing took after the old. The politics of everyday life we see happening around the continent of Africa are becoming the self-enrichment by the called bogus politicians. Most countries who have gained independence bowls into the throes of corruption and the national coffers, wealth, treasure became a free for all scramble by men whose thought and learning rested and ended only within the grumblings in their stomachs.
There is something so terrible in watching a black man trying at all points to be the dark ghost of a European. Some modest of corruption are seen all over the continent as we see some people being promised some developments and day dreaming economic freedom by their candidates and they never happen. Even the money for the projects is being released. Some people live by bribes and pretend as if they are doing the right choices.
Some people are even illiterate and yet they tend to be the ruling people. What one might ask himself or herself is how can one rule without even the knowledge of ruling. What exactly will they be doing that they are knowledgeable at. Our judiciaries are supporting corruption even though we will expect them to be against it. This is what happens in real life situation, people who are supposed to be fighting corruption are the same people who encourage it and people who charge others for corruption are at its high most hands. They are just hiding behind the government uniform. Their government is the ones living in the dark.
This is an indication of the dirty work the presidents are doing to their countries. They turn to be cleaver but this is what at the end leads to their downfall. Even if there are those people who want to miss lead other people. This is to say that some people still do not believe that it is the cause of the colonialism that made African countries corrupt. It is us, the Africans who enjoys being like the Europeans. Blackness is not all that makes a man ... a Whiteman would always be a white man but a black man trying to be a Whiteman is wicked.
The people that could rescue Africa are present but they are hiding behind their backs as they are afraid to be eliminated. In most African countries, when someone tries to report a corruptive action, he or she is killed. The fast movement is not merely the physical movement but rather the advanced way of knowing the truth. The men who would stand corruption and fight it to the dispatch at the expense of their lives, leaders who have dreams to take the country beyond into development and not to see the true end of politics as wealth, those who are spiritually in-tuned with the way and knows the route have not yet been born. This makes room that they would be born. One day Africa will be a better continent and be free for all sorts of misconducts and misfortunes.
Source - Adam Sibuyi
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