All over the ages it has been a gamut of challenges to the African
minds to believe convincingly that their destiny is in their palms as
the continent has no a place to be found in the committee of developed
nations. This destiny is clearly written in a callous and closed palm
really. It is of man to open this palm and behold his destiny; however
Africa has failed to achieve this all along while many Africans today
yet shove the blame on imperialism. The Africa posterity has come
around in this new age to devise a whole solution to the problem. The
problem which has been multi-facet indeed.
Individual freedom, being restricted by the past and some present
leaders of the continent,has come on board to be etched. A Nigerian in
London recounted his experience under the Abacha regime – a condition
that led him to seek the greener pasture anyhow- how press freedom was
restricted under the regime and how tentacles of many Nigerians were
decapitated under the vainglorious regime. Many African journalists
and lay men have experienced this in the continent under various
bestial regimes. Individual freedom is of the divine image however
many African leaders did and do not realize this. It is of man to be
free indeed to exercise fully the freewill that has been so innate, so
visceral in achieving his destiny. The destiny obscurity – though not
yet discovered – that has been accrued to restriction placed upon
individual freedom in the continent by some purists.
These purists see that not only restriction placed upon individual
freedom has so much affected the polities in Africa but over staying
power syndrome. In Zimbabwe of today citizens find it hard to
experience change, change which has been one of the divine natures for
man to achieve his social development destiny utterly. In Nigeria of yesterday the
Babangida regime which has been the longest in the country, save the
Gowon regime which the civil war crawled into to have it little
justified, really put many Nigerians in the same condition the
Zimbabweans are today and other African countries. This has been termed
avarice syndrome anyway - a kind of syndrome that has to be siphoned out
of the countries. In the age many observe that the Nigerian polity has
gone beyond the shore of political darkness, the Obasanjo regime came
to attempt in twisting the country constitution despite being a
written one. This reference and many others in the continent that
cannot be referred to, for if one attempt to do so the pages shall not
be enough to contain them all, have emphasized really a need for the
young alienated African spirits to device a new way to combat the ill. .
It behooves the posterity really to brainstorm not only on this but
also on marginalization of minority groups in the continent. The event in
Rwanda over a decade has come to the fore to make African minds see
that this is not theoretical but gospel truth. Sudan and Somali are
not left without being referred to in as much as the civil war in
Nigeria came to be experienced due to this malady of marginalizing the
minority. These rebels thought they have found their way in carrying
arms however. The truth is that the continent meteors are finding a
new pan-African path to let the revolution be on the pages of every
published oeuvre written by Africans published at home or abroad.
Under a fair government that has not been stricken of restriction
placed upon human freedom and long staying in power syndrome like that
of the developed countries of Europe and America, even Asia - which
has to be a whole range of lesson for Africa in this age, could not be
expected to marginalize, as one of his political drills is to consider
these people who have been called by some scholars second class
citizens in their home countries – strangers in their homes[a title in S U V], these
minority groups.
The restriction placed upon the individual freedom has come to blur
every face of social development in Africa. The recent chaos in Somali
where talents are found in the creek of eastern country has shown
glaringly that these young men are reaping the bad effect of
restriction against human freedom. Many have lost their lives to this,
many have been rendered beasts, and are lost ever to be found by
relatives and kilns. The Nigerian journalist would have been an
investor in the vast country however he is in London beatifying the
long-has-been-beautified nation. The continent is everyday making
clarion calls to Europeans and Americans who have read this in
newspapers around the world .It is ironical anyway – despite at home
they continue to carouse in the aura of restriction placed upon human
freedom in the continent.
In Libya and Zimbabwe the phenomenon has been to rule and rule to die
on the thrones. The citizens of these countries and other countries of
Africa have failed to develop socially - for change is needed for man
to develop. They thus remain beasts in the face of consequence of over
staying in power syndrome. Obama sorted out its importance in his ever
cogent speech before the victory. Cameron has proved to the African minds
that change is needed to be witnessed if at all there is going to be even
development. Therefore in Africa we daydream of such even developments
while the leaders let the government so unvolatile that democracy has
almost turned to the ancient traditional rules in which the kings
ruled for life, though still being practiced however unpopular. This
consequence has really signaled to every African mind to behold the
political trends and events in Europe and America.
Ask a Niger-Deltan in Nigeria any bad effects of marginalization in a
polity, mind you he has a score of answers to reply with. Though,
fatefully the group has come to power in the immense country .The
governments in Africa have really turned these groups into beasts as
they have fearlessly murdered one another as to do away with such
marginalization. Not only here - there are many countries in Africa
where the divine reference – not fear at all in this context – has
been so much snatched out of men’s hearts that human development has been
lost through the anal of apocalyptic wars. This sort of development is
what many African minds are short of indeed; and until these vices
are removed ever,African leaders are meant to beg all over Europe and
America, as the Hellenistic beggars , for even development where the
destiny is in their hands yelling to be open - though callous.
The Africa meteor is really beaming furiously to seek an end to these
malaises: the restriction placed upon individual freedom, long staying
in power syndrome, and marginalization of the minority groups. When
all these are thoroughly achieved, the leaders and the led shall see a
gamut of visceral importance that is to be accrued to human
development in Africa, most especially trough books publishing. The
posterity of the dark continent shall never place the palms on the
gauntly cheeks ever; but a massive stride towards tackling the problematic issues.
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