Economic downhill: the african corner shop
Oh Obama, show us the way...beyond freedom...!
While it is said in business that entrepreneurs are in it for the smart money to be made, it is equally sad to notice that most Africans regard business as only a means to survive.
A business administration course will tell you that a business must have a business plan. Among other things, the business plan will make sure it tells you how profit will be realised, how much is expected as profit and what the envisaged prospects for the business are.
But, sadly, it would seem as if African business men ignore this important document. Sometimes you wonder that, if they do have the document, do they ever go through it? African industries and business simply do not make money for growth. How do you explain the eternal poverty? It is now the time Obama, to show what it means to really be in business. It is now important to show the present business men in Africa how to make sure that they understand how to make profit so as to sustain generations that will follow and at the same time remove the shadow of the white man hovering above them. It can never be that the black man is destined, forever, to be under the oppression of the white man.
It must be said though, that the reason that the white man is still on top and enjoying a far happier lifestyle is in fact the African's own doing. The African labours and toils hard to make money and resources available for the white man. In turn, when he is supposed to do the same for himself and his folk, he considers that sacrifice to be demeaning.
The corner shop is now a dilapidated version of the spanking new dreams of yesteryear. This neglect backs up the argument that says the African man has no respect for himself, his wife, his children and his land. The moment has arrived for us to examine how the black Africans treat their business. The stock, the buildings, the human resources, other infrastructure, and all the ethics of entrepreneurship. The dream can not fade so easily, can it?
Surely there must be a fault somewhere. Surely! Can it be that it is inherent of the African to be apathetic and ineffectual?
You are an African Obama, but of a different kind. Your corner shop is now a vast, industrialised and developed country. Sir, now stop and pause for a moment. You are a lone African man striding confidently forward. Where is the rest of the black elite? Do you think that they will retard your onward step with idle rhetoric? Or most importantly, will they ever be within your speaking range as they will be busy with tribal wars?
Please do something. Summon your top men. Let them write a good business manual and throw it to the Africans. Send in your trusted men to Africa to co-run business. It is not interfering, it is saving the African soul. You will not want to sit grey-beared on a rocking chair, listening on the radio about how you failed Africa as another African child dies of hunger. You do not want that, do you? You do not want to lament, "If only I had spent one percent of my presidential time on African issues..."
But I am wrong. The African man knows where the fault is. He has debated this fact countlessly with other African men during those summits, meetings, conferences, commissions and other lavish come-togethers. The white man , in pursuit of the African wealth, has also done a lot of feasibility study. He has also paid a lot of black men money to kill and maim others in pursuit of that wealth. But the Africans have simply shrugged their shoulders and turned away from the problem in disgust. This situation, this apathy, must be halted. And it is likely that it will not be the African continent that will be able to come do it herself. Someone reasonable and with a lot of more sense of humanity will have to do it. Obama, you run a country which is far more developed than any other on the busness rankings. It is therefore befitting that a little continent like Africa must be your sidekick.
Don't turn away sir. Africa has been in this disarray for so long, as if she was waiting for your reign. Don't turn away from her dismay and turmoil, she is too traumatised and self-inflicted to recognise any self-help. So much suspicion from her own people make any home-made remedy to be treated with scorn and caution and then tossed-away as another witchcraft concoction.
Help, please.
Oh Obama, show us the way...beyond freedom...!
While it is said in business that entrepreneurs are in it for the smart money to be made, it is equally sad to notice that most Africans regard business as only a means to survive.
A business administration course will tell you that a business must have a business plan. Among other things, the business plan will make sure it tells you how profit will be realised, how much is expected as profit and what the envisaged prospects for the business are.
But, sadly, it would seem as if African business men ignore this important document. Sometimes you wonder that, if they do have the document, do they ever go through it? African industries and business simply do not make money for growth. How do you explain the eternal poverty? It is now the time Obama, to show what it means to really be in business. It is now important to show the present business men in Africa how to make sure that they understand how to make profit so as to sustain generations that will follow and at the same time remove the shadow of the white man hovering above them. It can never be that the black man is destined, forever, to be under the oppression of the white man.
It must be said though, that the reason that the white man is still on top and enjoying a far happier lifestyle is in fact the African's own doing. The African labours and toils hard to make money and resources available for the white man. In turn, when he is supposed to do the same for himself and his folk, he considers that sacrifice to be demeaning.
The corner shop is now a dilapidated version of the spanking new dreams of yesteryear. This neglect backs up the argument that says the African man has no respect for himself, his wife, his children and his land. The moment has arrived for us to examine how the black Africans treat their business. The stock, the buildings, the human resources, other infrastructure, and all the ethics of entrepreneurship. The dream can not fade so easily, can it?
Surely there must be a fault somewhere. Surely! Can it be that it is inherent of the African to be apathetic and ineffectual?
You are an African Obama, but of a different kind. Your corner shop is now a vast, industrialised and developed country. Sir, now stop and pause for a moment. You are a lone African man striding confidently forward. Where is the rest of the black elite? Do you think that they will retard your onward step with idle rhetoric? Or most importantly, will they ever be within your speaking range as they will be busy with tribal wars?
Please do something. Summon your top men. Let them write a good business manual and throw it to the Africans. Send in your trusted men to Africa to co-run business. It is not interfering, it is saving the African soul. You will not want to sit grey-beared on a rocking chair, listening on the radio about how you failed Africa as another African child dies of hunger. You do not want that, do you? You do not want to lament, "If only I had spent one percent of my presidential time on African issues..."
But I am wrong. The African man knows where the fault is. He has debated this fact countlessly with other African men during those summits, meetings, conferences, commissions and other lavish come-togethers. The white man , in pursuit of the African wealth, has also done a lot of feasibility study. He has also paid a lot of black men money to kill and maim others in pursuit of that wealth. But the Africans have simply shrugged their shoulders and turned away from the problem in disgust. This situation, this apathy, must be halted. And it is likely that it will not be the African continent that will be able to come do it herself. Someone reasonable and with a lot of more sense of humanity will have to do it. Obama, you run a country which is far more developed than any other on the busness rankings. It is therefore befitting that a little continent like Africa must be your sidekick.
Don't turn away sir. Africa has been in this disarray for so long, as if she was waiting for your reign. Don't turn away from her dismay and turmoil, she is too traumatised and self-inflicted to recognise any self-help. So much suspicion from her own people make any home-made remedy to be treated with scorn and caution and then tossed-away as another witchcraft concoction.
Help, please.
Oh Obama, show us the way...beyond freedom...!
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