YES I AM BLACK AND I’M PROUD!
I have a dream and I do not know about yours but mine are very big and the sky is definitely the limit. You know growing up one has the mind of a child one and lives freely without much of a care in this world. Well for me reality checked and dawned on me just the other day and I wondered what I really want to do besides my career .I insatneously knew I definitely want to make Africa a better place. After a period of solitude and deep soul-searching,Africa popped in my mind almost immediately. I have mad love for the so called ‘Dark continent’ and I am more than fed up not with the rest of the world but with us for always blaming the world for not giving us the chance to exploit our unlimited potential in every area. Africans have always been complaining! That is totally understandable considering what Africans have gone through and are still undergoing; the colonial period, post-colonial period and neo-colonialism all this things happened and will still continue to happen to us because we believe nobody can beat the ‘White guy’ this is a white lie because it is a lie we desperately want to believe not because it is true but because we are too lazy and unwilling to think otherwise! God put something unique in every single being irrespective of their race Africa is no exception! proof of this is God’s own words ‘Let us make man in our own image and likeness” if you don’t believe in God I can not say I respect that opinion rather I urge you to seriously wake up! Smell the coffee and quit being ignorant!
My point therefore is all developed countries did not get there overnight obviously they had to struggle and hustle just like you and me the only difference between their goals and ours is that theirs are Original, Specific, Realistic, Timebound and they are Achievable. Our goals are not any of the above if anything most of our goals are either to mimic or out do our Western friends.We depend on the same people to guide us there or worse still we leave it all to them! That is where we are missing the whole picture. You see while we are so busy trying to ‘Be Like’ we lose ourselves and are nowhere near them the key thing here is not be like them; their lifestyles, their money, their way of doing things to mention a few.That is theirs all their achievements, failures, glamour everything it is what they have managed to do with their time, education (discoveries and technology), money and resources from all over the world .We are never going to sit back and reminisce on how far we have come if we continue with the blaming game and come to think of it we do really have what it takes Africa has beautiful resources some are still virgin because no one has bothered to discover them. People are there to provide labour and the insight needed but they die and waste away with undiscovered talents and hobbies.This leads to people not resting in peace.Enough said Africa needs to embrace whatever little it has and forge ahead letting the minds of our young mature without any interference from outside and the wisdom of our elderly guide us not only to preserve Africa but to discover its wonderous treasures and the capability of a true African.Adios everybody

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WHAT SHOULD I DO?People have problems others are bigger than yours and mine.How you deal with your problems.Maybe you are willing to share and then again maybe you think it is none of my business.Whatever you think doesnot change the fact that your problems are there is asolution to every problem.If you are about to stop reading because you think I am a preacher don't because I am not one!Another shocker is that the answer to all our problems is not God!Before you criticise Read On.Most of our problems,wecuse them ourselves.God is always there and he solves every problem every day.The gift of free-will sums everything up God has given us freedom to choose what is right and follow it.He has granted us the Bible for guidance on our daily christian living and the Holy Spirit as a reliable helper in times of need. It is therefore evident that God has done his part so before you say you have a problem and that God is unfair,think critically about the role you have played in solution.What are the challenges facing young people?As a young prson what problems do young people face?What are the solutions to these problems?We definately can't leave everything to God and actlike we donot have a role to play just like I said earlier 'Young people we have a big role to play in the solvng of our problems!Write tome and tell me what you think........................

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