african report card: zero sofar

Obama show us the way…beyond freedom…

An African report card. Zero so far.

One of the great mysteries of the world have been the inability of the black nation s to rise up after independence and become independent and succeed in acquiring prosperity for their counties, What has followed, instead, has been catastrophe, famine, wars, ethnic cleansing and general disorder. What can the cause be that leaders chose to ignore the rule of law and the needs of their communities? Maybe the first step must be introspection.

Maybe we should start at the beginning and look at ourselves, the way we relate to one another. Do we have respect for the next black man standing next to us? Do we have dignity for ourselves and others; do we treat each other as human beings, for our sake? Do we love one another as a black nation? Or is the black man in ruins, in shackles and ready to be the ashes of the world, to be trampled upon by other races? Do we trust one another? Is there discipline? We have to ask these questions. Why is it that we the black man in co-existence with other races then the blacks are always taken or treated like second class citizens? Do we bring upon ourselves to be treated shabbily?

In South Africa, black people pride themselves that they have, in what in the Nguni language is called ‘ Ubuntu’ or ‘Botho’ in Sesotho. They say they have Ubuntu/ Botho so they treat everybody humbly, humanely, with total respect and according to the norms of society. But this is where the problem lies. The pride in Ubuntu/ Botho is only trumpeted when black people speak about themselves with other races. But do Black people treat each other with respect? Why does the black man not move from the shadows of the world, and stand in the front of the shrine? Is fighting and defeating other races, especially the whites, the only triumph that there is for the black man to savior? Is that the only stories he will tell his starving children hours on and? That we fought hard for our freedoms and eventually we won? Africa has won her freedoms, she has attained dignity, she has shown the white man that she can fight a war and win it. Is that an honor? To fight and achieve peace and freedom through wars? Is it what the blacks want their starving, uneducated children and women to praise hold in esteem and cherish?
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What do the children and the women see around Africa as they listen to legendary stories about the bush wars? Are they pleased? Do they believe the story when they are told about Ubuntu/ Botho? What do African children and women think when they see happy families with contended faces across the oceans in the families of the very colonialists that have vanquished?
African Americans are said to be only 13% of the US population. That they have sought to organize themselves to deliver themselves out of the poverty and misery is commendable US the is a relatively successful country. African-Americans should be the yard stick of all the African people on how to group themselves. They must shake off the gloating about attaining freedom and showing the world how African can push for successful, meaningful business entitles. Enough of breast beating, enough about winning the war against the white man. Let the war be about the emancipation of the African from the state of apathy. Let the African stand up to do the honorable thing, make sure now the future of every child is rosy and guaranteed.

Surely, it is evident that the black man did not hit the ground running. He hit the ground, looked around and sat down gloat about his acquisitions. He did not only develop that. He also developed mistrust and indiscipline. He mistrusted his own brothers; he looked at him with scorn, hatred and malice. Instead of saying ‘Now that we have hit the ground, let us prepare the ground and put seed in the in it, preserve water in the dams and protect their animals, raise the children and love their mothers,’ No the black man started to gather things under his wings like a madman. His eyes were never raised to look at others, but down on the things he wanted to steal, claim as his own.

So the mistrust continued .It permeated from the top to the bottom. The children don’t trust their elders anymore. They see the elders involved in corrupting, drunkenness, and rude behavior. Obsession with the white man, laziness, unworthy relationships and the inability to make money, so as to take a stake in the economy and business life.


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Eventually, the man at the top has books a flight to a distant, white controlled land. He has amassed all he could and for him, it is a good bye black man life, goodbye Africa. It is then left to the man caught in the middle be man in between to tell the stories and to gloat about the war over the white man and the flight of the wealthy brothers.

Things, they say, do not last forever. Obama is that hope and change the African world yearns for. Let him, now that he has become the American President show the world that the he will run that country like a human being would and not like a black man who find’s himself suddenly on a pedestal. Let him please show African leaders that gloating and malice never filled the stomachs of the children the women. Let us wait for him and see him do all things good for the betterment of his country and in the process open the eyes and ears of this beloved brothers else where that malice, mistrust and indiscipline have no place in the development of the human race anymore.

Like all blacks do when they have messed up and everything else have failed, hands thrown up in the air with disillusionment, looking for a scape goat, we pray. We kneel down to pray. But this time the prayer is full of truth, we don’t lie about our status why we are poor souls; we don’t beat about the bush. We ask God to bless Obama.

Africa has failed to do the simple things in life, like planting a seed for prosperity. Instead Africa is obsessed with the defeat of the white man.


Obama is lucky that he will lead a successful nation a nation that will not resort to stabbing him in the back, therefore retarding progress, but a nation that will respect and push him to new heights.