Failed States

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               I will try to write this opinion news today with a heart that is heavy of the situation that is going on around us here in the country but also make sure that I am not carry on by the distraction of the event. my point today is the failed states however you need to understand that failed states is not only in Africa but it is a complex situation in all of this let us acknowledge that in Africa most countries is qualify to be failed states.

               What is a failed state? a state whose political or economic and judicial system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.by going with this definition you will understand that more countries all over the world can be call failed state. Now why is African countries are notorious to be qualify has a such! let me quote the Nigeria writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche; " My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe.... I am Nigerian because the white man created Nigerian and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. but I was IGBO before the white man came." from this quote I see many problem that African are not ready to solved.

               My question are , was he a mistakes by the white man giving us countries as we know it today? She is right before 1945 Berlin conference we were all know by our tribe and clan because the name of the countries as we know it just arrived after that conference and independence, it is a mistakes for the African to have the countries as it is today or we supposed to have the countries according to each clan and tribes, the situation is African people beside their culture and tradition which is made them unique however they are still not raise above their tribes and clans, that is even where war and looting come from. Another one is corruption, this word corruption is a simple word but very powerful word, I remember longtime ago in Congo a former minister of foreign affaires was ask a question by a Belgium  journalist about the corruption of the president Mobutu, his answer was " the word corruption is in lingala, or tshiluba or kikongo." this is all Congolese language however what he was pushing was in our language the word corruption does not exist therefore what you called corruption for us is not. in that time we all applauded him, now when I realize and study everything then I say thing does African people really understand what is corruption? does African politicians really understand what is corruption? most of the times the same poor people who are marginalize will says let him also get the money so what because most of the times because we are from same tribe, another one is judicial I think according to our tradition and customer and culture which is an elders are always right and you can not question an elder and elders are not accountable to anyone young and a chiefs is above everything and all, the judicial is become a problem in this Africa as we know it.

             Now did we get ourselves to a system which is above us? or did we get ourselves to the situation of making someone a Messiah then the same Messiah start making our life miserable? or is democracy  not an African thing? to understand the Nigerian write which I did quote above, I also have my tribe and not by my choice a country was given to me however the tribe issues still high and playing a big role of division in my country most of the time we do not know how to make the country go forward by seeing the capacity and ability of the person but we are always debating from which tribe is coming from. we have even the term geo politic which is every provinces must be in government not quality. if this is the way to go Africa does not have a chance to succeed but to be a failed states, I can say also the Berlin conference was just a great problem created by the oppressor to make us suffer more and it is very difficult to have a spirit of nationalist because we do not belong to this thing called country which we have no link at all and it was imposed to us but our tribe was born in us, what can we do simple let us African raise and build the Africa in diversity which we want all live in and for better future of our children.

            God bless Africa.

The Revelation of God by Miracles.

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              I will first put the term revelation what is all about, also let me say there is two words that I used when I am talking of revelation, there is what I called GENERAL REVELATION; which means that God makes himself  known through nature, human conscience, and history. there is also what I called SPECIAL REVELATION; which means that God makes himself known to specific people in a special and unusual way, and at specific times. there are various special revelations of God, such as Prophecy, Miracles, gifts of the Holy Spirit and many more but in my opinion news today I will put forward only the revelation of God by miracles.

              Genuine miracles are a special revelation of the power and presence of God, that aspect it showing also the omnipotence which is the all powerful God, however the confusion or what same people do not understand is Satan and his agents attempt to reproduce every good program and work of God. by that I will like to warn anyone that making God revelation base on miracles only is not enough, A miracle is an event of divine, and sometimes of satanic, origin that is contrary to or divergent from an existing law in nature. in brief I can say it is something beyond man ability.

              The miracles in Egypt as the Bible recorded are verify the definition which holds that the miracles may as its source of power God or Satan, Moses as God's representative and Egyptian sorcerers as Satan's representatives engaged in the same type of miracles working up to a certain point. Both threw down their rods and they turned into serpents, they did that again and again until when they tried to bring lice, the Egyptian magicians tried and failed but Moses and Aaron succeeded. this show us that in Egypt God used miracles to impose judgment upon the nation, that make us to see throughout the old testament miracles were used almost equally as acts of judgment and as acts of mercy, and on some occasions they were used as acts of judgment to the enemies of God and as acts of mercy to the people of God, therefore I will love to be in the side of mercy than judgment.

               Explaining what is meant in the definition of an event contrary to or divergent from a law in nature, the example of Simon Peter is selected. According to one of the first laws of physics, one concludes that when an object is placed into the liquid, it will sink into the liquid by the pull of gravity until it displaces its weight in the liquid. Simon Peter did stepped out of the boat into the water, in this situation Simon Peter was the object and the water was the liquid, according to the law of gravity, he would have immediately sunk into the water but he did not he even walk on the the water contrary to the law of nature. that is the miracle. the case of Miriam and Aaron in the book of numbers 12:1-8, which the Lord anger was kindled against them, Miriam was left with dreaded disease of leprosy, however Aaron was saved because of him being a High priest and having the priestly cloth with him then God placed the judgment upon her, their problem was not only about Moses wife but it went far about God talking only to Moses, but by Moses prayer God did have mercy on her.

             The miracles that Jesus performed are recorded by all four gospel writers, the total number that are recorded is 35, only one is recorded by all four which is the feeding of the five thousand, Matthew records 21 miracles, Mark records 21 miracles, Luke records 20 miracles, and John records 8 miracles, of John's eight miracles, six of them are recorded only by him, which are water made wine, healing of the nobleman's son, the impotent man, the man born blind, the raising of Lazarus and the drought of fishes after resurrection 

           The miracles did continue even in the time of the Apostles as the book of acts does record, even today with the help of the ministry of the Holy Spirit however not every miracles come from God as mention above, and signs, wonders and miracles does not mean God is with you and this revelation alone is not enough. it is important to have a good study and understanding of God theology for you to have great and complete revelation of God.

                  God bless you all

The independence day of Congo

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              Today in the 30 of June 1960, Congo became a free, that freedom sometimes I consider it as a curse which fallen upon this huge country with great potential, let me tell you who I am, my name is Jose T, Ntambwe born in Congo as this day they are debating about who is a Congolese as for me I am a 100% Congolese no debate about it.

               Congo as a country as we know it today was not like this before the coming of the white man, it was a place where Kingdoms was all over the land of Congo, most popular Kingdom was Kingdom Luba, Kingdom Lunda, Kingdom Kongo and others this Kingdoms did have their leaders or Kings whom did lead the Kingdoms with measure of prosperity, they were organize one things we need to stress here is they were not united block because this Kingdoms are different in cultures and traditions and their way of living, until the white men come to the land it was so.

               When the so called explore come and make know to the world that they discover something that was there before even they were born is amazing, then as president Zuma once say the problem of South Africa start when a white settler landed in South Africa this is also the case of Congo, the explore sale the land to Leopold 2 of Belgium and this man who he was the King of Belgium make sure that all the Kingdoms of Congo must became one country, remember before this they were not a country called Congo, by force and evil mean he make sure this vast land became  one as a country then start the Congolese woe, first that vast land became a private property of a man called Leopold 2 King of Belgium, for years he rule the land as his own house, under him 10 million plus Congolese lost their life, and he make sure whoever was not doing what he ask his hand must be cut off, he exploited all the mineral of the Land without accounting to anyone, because it was his private property, when his evil action was know by his European counterpart in 1908 he give the country to his Kingdom, the Belgium, he was never blame or judge for his genocide action in Congo, let us make it know that his action in Congo is worse than what Hitler did to the Jewish people in Germany however until today nothing happen to him or his descendent.

             1908, Congo became know as Congo Belgium, this again the white men of Belgium became the master of everything, not like in English rule country in Africa, but in Congo Belgium, the oppressors were in charge of everything , which is all the administration was lead or control by the white oppressors, all doctors, mayors were white oppressors, for the Congolese of high education was level 4 primary school, and this was done to make sure that the Congolese people remain in bondage , one of the Belgium did even said that for independence in Congo will be only discus in 1980, can you imagine, however when Ghana became the first African country to be free, a man called Lumumba also inspired by the Ghana Kwame the leader of the freedom Ghana, Lumumba start talking about the independence of Congo now, soon the people like Kasa Vubu the first president of Congo, Kalonji mulopwe , Tshombe, Bolingako raise up against the oppressors and they did not have others choice than to accept the defeat and Congo became free in 30 of June 1960, but no one from the Congolese side was ready to government the vast Congo land, because none of Congolese people at the time was raedy to do anything in the country, because all was done by the oppressors, now they are gone and no one is ready to do anything, this is what happen 7 days after the declaration of the independence they was a civil war and the separatist of the Katanga and Kasai declared the separation to the rest of the country, 11 days later Lumumba as the premier minister was arrested by Mobutu and put to death by Mobutu.

         Here what I want to say, Lumumba did ask for the independence of Congo as it is, meaning no region or province of Congo must became a country, however by my humble thinking that is were we miss everything, by bringing this vast Land together it was a mistake, why the first election which for me the real one, they were not a majority winner, this push the parties to make alliances but because Lumumba party have 33% which high than any others parties he became first ministers, this is the problem even today no party can have majority rule in Congo because of this situation of bringing all of together, this also was the reason why Lumumba did not rule the country, he only last 21 days in power it took him all night to have a government ministers because every provinces wanted to have someone in power, 1965 Mobutu took power by plotting against Kasa Vubu, he became the country second president in his first 5 years in power he was good and the economy was great and the copper was doing great, in 1970 he change the country name to Zaire and the currency also then things start going bad, in the mid 1975 the price of copper went down and the country also, 1990 the cold war was over and Mobutu is no longer needed by the west, 1997 Kabila took power and he was killed and his son became president then 2018 Felix Tshisekedi became president.

        But the Congo problem still high since 1960, poverty is high or one of the highest in the world, beside all the mineral Congo is very poor country, no infrastructure, no health facility, no road , no good school, even most of others African countries with no mineral resource like they have developpe their more than Congo, but Congolese are still busy killing each others to a war which have no cause, Congolese have easy language of insulting each others without a cause, I ask myself this question was it a mistake to have this Land as one country? because we are going nowhere it is with heavy heart I am saying this, but in all let us have a blessed birthday and a great 61 birthday.

          May the Lord bless the great Congo.

Elijah a Man of same Nature like us [ A DECLARATION OF WAR ]

The Natural Attribute of God

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             The substance of God is his essence or his being. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the essence of God, the nature of God, and the attributes of God. In this opinion letter, I shall discuss the attributes of God but only one attribute only, the natural attributes of God which are classified by some scholar of Bible as non moral attributes. by the natural attributes of God is meant those qualities of divine personality that do not involve moral or emotional issues. and also man does not have the natural attributes of God, which are omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and eternity. however as I said before only the omnipotence I will talk about.

              By the omnipotence of God I mean that God is all powerful, with the ability to do whatever he wills. Let me dwell on this, in some measure Man is seen or qualify as powerful but not like God's power, Man power is quantify by what he has for example a Man with a lot of money is called powerful man, here I am talking about the billionaires which are few anyway, Man with position of authority like president of the country, let me put it clear here, it is not about the name of the countries that count but being a president that matter because you are in the position of power, Man with the position of authority in any scale of power in the society is also called powerful, even in the family sometimes age does not count when you are in the position of power than those who are elder to you, however this power of Man is limited, also most of the times Man does not have control over his power which lead Man to be a dictator, most of problem of the world is because Man is drunk to his power and he think only for himself not for others, like the wars in the world is about Man power just is out of control. Because Man want to dominate and to rule others men.

              By contrast God's will is limited by his nature. He cannot contradict himself, nor can he do evil. He will not grant the power of making free moral decisions to his intellectual, created beings and at the same time withhold from them this free moral agency, God's power is limitless and man power is limited, but God's power is harnessed to harmonized and coincide with his purposes. It does not minimize God's power to say that he cannot look upon iniquity with approval, that he cannot deny himself, lie, commit sin. God has power over his power and exercises it in harmony with his freedom and nature, God could have kept sin out of his universe and he could save a sinner against the sinner's will, but this would be a contradiction of the relationship of freedom that he has established in the free will of his rational creature.

            There are actions of God and demonstrations of his power that are in harmony with God's nature and will which cannot be hindered or withstood by any other force in the universe.  Some of these demonstrations have been manifested in God's work of creation, in his miracles, in the revealing truth through the prophets, in his sending Christ into the world, in his sending the Holy Spirit, and in his answering prayers that are prayed in Jesus name. Also in the future in the second coming of Christ. 

            God's omnipotent power was demonstrated when God said, let there be light and there was light, when God put the rainbow in the sky, when Moses rolled back the waters of the Red sea, when Joshua commanded the Sun to stand still, when Jesus said to the storm tossed sea peace be still. there are plenty of the example in the Bible of God's power my letter can not contain it all.  

            When God demonstrates his power let men stand in awe, let angels prostrate themselves, and let devils shudder with trembling. None can withstand his power. God can indeed do what he purposes to do.

           God bless you all 

African Youth

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               Tomorrow is the 16 of June which in South Africa it is a big day, on 16 June 1976 Youth were killed in Soweto by the apartheid regime, it was a cold and brutal killing by the minority white government regime, the young boys and girls were protesting about the language that the government was imposing to black for the learning at the school.

               By the looks of things when I check about age in Africa, I am really amazed to observe that Africa is the continent that is bless with youth and the vast population of Africa continent is the young people, however there is a problem in this, I can also say which is for Africa as a blessing it is also became a curse! Because it looks like Africa does not know what to do with his youth! When you compare what we have with others continents, Africa is the young one in the average of age, Europe, America, Asia are all old in the average of age.

               When you look at the job opportunity African young people are victim of not having job, let me put it clear, there is no job at all for the young people in Africa, this I do not understand why we are not able to create and make job opportunity for the young people in Africa, let say this the most great things to happen to Africa is not the mining or minerals that our beautiful land have but the young people, if we can know how to used them for something positive our Africa land will be magnificent, because the power of our future is not our minerals only but a dynamic youth and vibrant young people, will make our Africa great again, our energy is in the wrong direction when we neglect our young people, things need to be done for us to make them see their part of today and tomorrow, most all they are the future of our beautiful land.

              There is sad story about our youth which is going on and no one is talking about it, I can compared it with the event of 16 of June 1976, the difference is that event was and still be made aware every years in the media and by the South Africa government, however this sad story which is happening every days , even when I am writing this opinion, boys and girls of Africa are dying by trying to cross the mediterranean sea to get into Europe for better life, and all of African government are quiet about it, year after years there is AU meetings I can said I did not hear anything about this from our African leaders! Amazing, this I call it silence contribution to the killing of our young people, if it goes on like I may say it a genocide that our leaders are making against their own people. this decision we may blame them but desperation moment make people to make tough decision, because also Africa can not provide them great opportunity and for them Europe is the eldorado or a place of better life, if that is in the risk of their life so be it, because to many of them staying in their countries it is death sentence therefore trying to cross the sea is better than living an humiliation life of poverty.

            I can assure you I do have sympathy with those young people and I feel them and understand them, because it seem like only the elite minority are the one to have a better life in Africa, let us rise up to the challenge as the youth in South Africa did rise against a brutal and evil killing regime of apartheid and conquer them, yes we can do it again for our youth than letting them down and dying far away from their sacred land and without a proper burial from their love one, in Africa burial is sacred, some parent still hope and think that their children are still alive but not knowing that the child is long dead. our leaders have obligation to rise above and do the right things by using our young people which are one of our great resource ever, let us used it because they are our bright light of today and tomorrow.

                  Young people do not give up, Arise Arise Arise young people.

                                       God bless Africa.

Who has bewitched Africa

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               When it is about witchcraft in Africa it is not a matter that people in Africa take it lightly because it make people killed and some will not talk to you or even you can be banished by the all community, some people in Africa their carrier just finished because of the rumors about them being called witches or woman will never get marriage because of it, some used it for power in the command and others for the healing power, in reality it is very complex the matter of witchcraft in Africa, and a matter no one dare to challenger anyone in day light. 

                Why I ask this question of who has bewitched African? simple because African in general are believers of the most high power above, or above the living there is a power that is above all the living and that high power does protect and guide them and also bless them, the living on this earth, also when things does not go well, they will consult their most high, where it get muddy is when they consult their ancestors or this being who possess power and ability to communicate with the others side which is not see with naked eyes, that is where things get muddy, by that I means manipulation and scamming became the reality. but all is to get answer to their quest to comfort situation, but for this question I am asking a simple of what I observe of what is going on in same country in Africa.

                Before I handle the Paul Mbiya story, let me says this, when Mzee Kabila was killed in Congo, He was still a president at the time and his son Joseph Kabila then became president of Congo, this make Omar Bongo president of Gabon to said things like that will not happen in Gabon, then after sometimes he also died then what happen! his son became the president of Gabon not only that the guy is sick, he can not walk or talk anymore but he is still the president of the country, even worse people whom he supposed to lead does not know if he is alive or not and he is still the president, this is the dynasty of the sons replacing their fathers in power, in Togo Eyadema did the same, Congo Brazaville the dictator which is in power since no body can remember when, he is also preparing his son to take the power, I did not know that democracy is about letting your son to take over under so called election where the opposition is been kick out.