I am forward facing, young enthusiastic marvel ready to climb. I am the modern brightness that shines before the eyes of those that shall come after me. I am the imagination of tommorrow that promises liberation of an African child. I am fostering big ideas with bold intentions. I am a proud African, comfortable and a proud South African. I am driven, dedicated and committed to reach the stars up in the sky. I am inspired by the great lives that lived before me and those that still live.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Africanness in South Africa
Africanness is what I call it. It becomes very difficult for an ordinary citizen such as me to define and identify with Africanness in South Africa. Our country is filled with a lot of moral and spiritual uncertainty that is derived from a number of political decisions that were and are taken by politicians. Our fate as a country is barely bright and sound.
I have learned in my country that Africans themselves are more brutal to one another than colonialists and the apartheid government was to them. There are a lot of stories that have made headlines about human trafficking recently, with the most popular story that occurred in Thailand.
The question I ask myself is, who is to be blamed for this? Is it the Nigerians who misled and threatened the young girl from eRhini (Grahamstown) or is it the young girl from eRhini for being negligent for trusting her friend and a stranger or South African Government for allowing these Nigerians to enter the country and have a free role in doing their business where and when they want?
I want to blame the Nigerians for merely loosing the inmost corners of their hearts in identifying with fellow Africans. The African nation is a dumfounded deformitation of what it is. I therefore, for these reasons commend the boldness displayed by the Apartheid regime, because they identified with and supported one another as the elite minority of the day. But we Africans with all political power and numbers in our hands fail to serve our moral obligation, which in my view is to identify as equals and unite towards gaining economic power.
I don’t believe for a moment that as South Africans we should embrace being Africans in the midst of these evident criminal activities amongst one another. Things need to change, we all need to accept our moral obligation and stand our spiritual ground from an Africanist perspective as individual citizens and change the way we think about who we are. For now, this is my case!!
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