Africa has become a continent known for its vast problems. Colonialization may have contributed to settting up a system where African leaders want to rise to the top, exploit the people and enjoy the life of luxury while their people suffer. As the other ethnic groups are oppressed, they rise up in revenge, thinking that it is "our turn to eat." This cycle must stop.
With a more global economy and the explosion of the information age, Africans are wanting change. They want to become part of the new global economy. Now, to do so, most want to leave their countries and go to the free societies in the West-- what a tragedy for Africa. Yet, until peace, stability, education and economic opportunity comes, this exodus will continue.
In order to accomplish entry into the global market, we must decolonize Africa from African leaders who exploit and terrorize their own people while having a hand out to donor countries so as enrich their own power and ...coffers. The average Africans are overwhelmed with daily survival needs and the after-effects from living in cultures of violence and trauma that these leaders create and perpetuate. Healing must come and it affects every sphere of functioning from the physical, the mental, the social to the spiritual.
Africans must realize that most of the effort must come from Africans who are unwilling to live under these conditions any longer. It must come from Africans who are unwilling to leave it as a legacy to their children or other peoples' children. Africans must get out of the victim mentality and do what each person can do to create a freer society in their country and continent.
Africans no longer can see themselves as victims, but realize that they can be the visionaries, entrepreneurs and mobilizers that can create a more stable and flourishing Africa. But to do this, Africa needs good governance. We need the rule of law, decentralization, transparency and accountability. We must uphold the truth. We must tear down the false realities that cover up human rights abuses, exploitation of the weak and the greed of our leaders.
Africa has become a continent known for its vast problems. Colonialization may have contributed to settting up a system where African leaders want to rise to the top, exploit the people and enjoy the life of luxury while their people suffer. As the other ethnic groups are oppressed, they rise up in revenge, thinking that it is "our turn to eat." This cycle must stop.
With a more global economy and the explosion of the information age, Africans are wanting change. They want to become part of the new global economy. Now, to do so, most want to leave their countries and go to the free societies in the West-- what a tragedy for Africa. Yet, until peace, stability, education and economic opportunity comes, this exodus will continue.
In order to accomplish entry into the global market, we must decolonize Africa from African leaders who exploit and terrorize their own people while having a hand out to donor countries so as enrich their own power and ...coffers. The average Africans are overwhelmed with daily survival needs and the after-effects from living in cultures of violence and trauma that these leaders create and perpetuate. Healing must come and it affects every sphere of functioning from the physical, the mental, the social to the spiritual.
Africans must realize that most of the effort must come from Africans who are unwilling to live under these conditions any longer. It must come from Africans who are unwilling to leave it as a legacy to their children or other peoples' children. Africans must get out of the victim mentality and do what each person can do to create a freer society in their country and continent.
Africans no longer can see themselves as victims, but realize that they can be the visionaries, entrepreneurs and mobilizers that can create a more stable and flourishing Africa. But to do this, Africa needs good governance. We need the rule of law, decentralization, transparency and accountability. We must uphold the truth. We must tear down the false realities that cover up human rights abuses, exploitation of the weak and the greed of our leaders.
With a more global economy and the explosion of the information age, Africans are wanting change. They want to become part of the new global economy. Now, to do so, most want to leave their countries and go to the free societies in the West-- what a tragedy for Africa. Yet, until peace, stability, education and economic opportunity comes, this exodus will continue.
In order to accomplish entry into the global market, we must decolonize Africa from African leaders who exploit and terrorize their own people while having a hand out to donor countries so as enrich their own power and ...coffers. The average Africans are overwhelmed with daily survival needs and the after-effects from living in cultures of violence and trauma that these leaders create and perpetuate. Healing must come and it affects every sphere of functioning from the physical, the mental, the social to the spiritual.
Africans must realize that most of the effort must come from Africans who are unwilling to live under these conditions any longer. It must come from Africans who are unwilling to leave it as a legacy to their children or other peoples' children. Africans must get out of the victim mentality and do what each person can do to create a freer society in their country and continent.
Africans no longer can see themselves as victims, but realize that they can be the visionaries, entrepreneurs and mobilizers that can create a more stable and flourishing Africa. But to do this, Africa needs good governance. We need the rule of law, decentralization, transparency and accountability. We must uphold the truth. We must tear down the false realities that cover up human rights abuses, exploitation of the weak and the greed of our leaders.
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