Black man, it is now... Or never

Ohh, Obama, show us the way… Beyond freedom…

Black man: It is now or never!

The time has arrived, Mr. Barrack Obama, for the black man to shine. He has attained his freedom, he has his bearings and he has fought a justified war. This is not the time to sit on his laurels and pat himself on a back. This is the time to hit the ground running.

Soon you will be president of United States of America. But we all know, and we all hope, that you will not forget where your roots are embedded, where the womb of your humane is natured and fertilized. You will always, when you reflect, ask yourself, “What about them far away at home?”

That’s why a call is loud and clear. “Ohh, Obama show us way…Beyond freedom”. The truth is sir; Africa did not hit the ground running. Africa was distracted, her focus lost within her own people, distrust and greed robbed her of the ability to think like a human being. After independence and the attainment of freedom, Africa, in the absence of the repelled white race, sought in a new enemy. That is when and then turned incestuous. The black man inherited a land raped and shredded by colonialists. The scramble for Africa left it tattered and bleeding, wounds open and the pus throbbing under swollen, festering sores. After all this slavery her mind was left numb and tired as a new beginning beckoned invitingly in the horizon. But history has shown up that instead the black man did not embrace the horizon as it ushered in a festival of prosperity, life and love. He focused on greed and mayhem. He turned on his fellow brother and in the process, the women, the children and the land suffered. The black man rapes Africa better that the white man because there is no sample of a better state to learn from. All states are corrupt and morbidly ambitious. From the beginning all states were born-again corrupt regimes. While they maimed comrades in arms they made the situation worse by looking up to the white man for funds, and in the end not repaying it. In the meantime, to spite their fellow Africans, they build and buy property away from Africa for refuge purposes. The white man agrees to sell these properties to these killer despots, because he is interested in the confused, battered, black beings.

The black man never saw the beckoning horizon. He was busy looking around him for a new enemy. He looked around him for an escape to attain glory. He forever told whoever cared to listen how he defeated the white man, how the triumphed over the west and now how Africa must wake up. But has Africa risen to be giant? Has she risen to equal the west, to conquer the world? Does she plough her fields, water her seeds, hold her own basket and have good harvest? No, Africa is the world’s basket case.

The white man left to concentrate and to look after his own affairs in the West, but he finds himself between rock and hard place. He was chased away from Africa, and was called a colonialist. But now he is called back to provide aid. He is not only called back for help and to settle differences between warring factions and tribes, he is also called

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back to provide arms for dissidents and rebels. And, in the process, behave and assume duties of faster parent. As is his wont he continues to sow distrust by taking sides. He continues confuse the poor black whose vision is blinded by a penny and his soul sold to a willing buyer.

All the while when this is happening, the black man does not waste time to tell anyone how the white man messed up Africa before independence and before freedom. He has countless examples of how the colonialists raped African before that and how he, the black man, is being hampered by the interference of the whites to step out of the shadows of poverty and famine. When the leaders of Africa compare notes as to what the Portuguese did to Africa, the English, the Dutch, the Spanish, the French, and all the others, they extol the methods that they employed to bring the white man down. In the end they promise one another that Africa has potential and that they will make it rise and shine for the world to take note and applaud. That promise is enshrined in the minutes of the meeting held in their first gathering to unite Africa. That promises still in the minutes of the last meeting held recently by the new leaders using a new name adopted the West.

Today still, Mr Obama, the hawks and vultures hover and circle high above Africa, looking for the latest casualties that have fallen by the way side after being maimed, raped and wounded by her own leaders. Mr Obama, this is not how Africa was intended to be, a prey for the world. This was not her intended destiny.

Now that you are on the threshold to lead a rich, industrialized nation, a nation that is not ready to test you but is eager to rule with you, we send an urgent, tear-filled and blood- stained emissary, “please show us the way beyond freedom. Don’t forget Africa, pray to the Lord God to bless her, to guard her children, to guide her leaders and to give her peace. And, above all, to allow you to lead her beyond being just a black race, but efficient human beings.”

All of them, these leaders, including, Robert Mugabe, must sign this plea and wait for your guidance.

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