Africa day

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                The 25 of may is the Africa day, As an African man I have a thought for this beautiful continent it population endure a lot of hardship but they still standing tall, and they smile and sing their songs with a great big smiles on their faces.

                 Africa as a name was also given to this beautiful land by the outsiders who come here put the population of this beautiful continent under extreme conditions, let me start by saying before the whites man come into AFRICA, they were Kingdoms which have great civilization and great prosperity and also great people some of them did do great trips to Saud Arab of today for religious pelerinage and the man was the riches man on the earth at that times, Soudiata Keita the King Manden Empire, one of the great empire in Africa, the Monomotapa empire, the Luba and Kongo kingdoms in Congo, the Zulu Kingdom with the great Shaka Zulu, also the Timbuktu which was the high place of learning, my opinion will not contain all this name because the list is long of this great things that the African people did before the coming of the white man in Africa, the concept that is out there, Africa was without civilization before the coming of the white man is false, the fact is the old Egypt was rule by African that goes with all the pyramid and things found in Egypt was made by African and to be precise blacks African, and this was a prosperous and more civilize Africa ever, than what they are trying to sale to us by the narration of the oppressor, African saying goes like this the day a lion will tell us his story we will stop believing the hunters story. and that times is now that African must tell their own story to the world.

               In 1996 then the president of South Africa, president Thabo Mbeki give a speech[ I will advice you the google it] that speech was I AM AN AFRICAN, at the end of the speech He said today I am proud to be African, that speech change my perception of Africa that I am living in, because the difficulty of Africa make me to be blind of how beautiful Africa is, the Africa land is so beautiful with forest, rivers, desert, animals oh we have Lions, Elephant, Okapi in Congo, Rhinos, Leopards and many kind of snakes, the list is long, our land beneath got all kind of minerals Gold, Diamond, Copper, Coltan, platinum, Oil and many more even we have not yet discover that is how rich Africa is all about,on top of it all it is young continent with a great number of younger population in the world that is the potential which make us to be different and it will make us rise easily.

            But beside all this great things that the almighty God has shower Africa with, we still having huge problem, when you watch the news of Africa it always about wars, sickness natural disaster, political fighting which I do not want to lie it is depressing by watching those kind of the news, also let say there is also great story to tell of how the modern Africa is changing, there is also African children who are contributing in the world development, in the science, economy, even in sport and music for decade modern African are the pioneer in this domain, in some of the cases they are doing it outside of their mother land because the condition is favorable but after they are still African, all is not lost but we still have a long way to go to make Africa rise again.

          We need to reflect on this after going through the slavery and still standing tall, colonization and still standing tall, apartheid still standing tall, segregation and racism still standing tall and seeing how our brothers and sister young as they are dying at the sea by trying to cross to Europe for better life, it break my heart and say we still have a lot to do to make this paradise continent paradise again not only in the spirit but with see it in our life time, built a better Africa for all African.

Africa Arise is a reality 

In this Africa Day I am proud to be call African