A United and Prosperous Africa (As Long As...)

A united and prosperous Africa will remain a dream as long as its leaders drive their personal agendas ahead of the interests of its people. 

• As long as one country estimates that it is superior to others. 
• As long as there are countries that wear the pity blanket and consider themselves inferior to others. As long as corruption and fraud rule the day. 
• As long as the colour of one’s skin determines the treatment they get from their fellow Africans. 
• As long as there are people born into the ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ bloodline – Africans are of one bloodline. 
• As long as country borderlines are not to regulate or limit the movement of people but are used as tools to block African Makwerekwere (foreigners) to enter certain well-off countries. 
• As long as African countrymen steal from the Continent. 
• As long as the doors are opened for opportunists to grab the Continent’s natural resources and leave its natives destitute. 
• As long as a few rich are allowed to steal from the poor, widows, orphans to satisfy their greedy, bottomless and large stomachs. 
• As long as there are sell-out statesmen running the continent. 
• As long as there is no gender equality. 
• As long as there’s no peace and justice for all Africans. 
• As long as the Continent’s leadership is not held accountable. 
• As long as its people remain as consumers of junk commodities that are thrown into the Continent. 
• As long as the nations are under dictatorship on how they should run their states by outside forces. 
• As long as African countries continue to rely on handouts. 
• As long as self-serving and self-seeking infringe on the democracy and the truth. 
• As long as capitalists are made to rule socialist communities. 
• As long as instead of empowering their people, the leadership become slaves of alien oligarch. 
• As long as instead of reconciliation and healing among torn nations, leaders and foreign forces seed hostility and confusion. 
• As long as one African language is better than others. 
• As long as the oppressed become the oppressors. 
• As long as the uBuntu value is lost to the youth who wrongly embrace the immoral of other nations. 
• As long as embracing one’s culture is deemed shameful. 
• As long as ignorance is celebrated and the foolish lead the majority. 
• As long as justice is justice when it advances a few. 
• As long as modern-day slavery is permitted. 
• As long as the children remain voiceless and are victims of ill-activities of covetous men. 
• As long as women remain victims of imperfect ruling systems. 
• As long as money’s voice shouts louder than the welfare of the people. 
• As long as black on black racism is allowed to continue to co-exists with man. 
• As long as the black or brown skin is deemed contagious. 
• As long as Pan-Africanism remains a joke to others. 
• Your hairstyle, your skin colour, your beliefs, your education, your background, your gender do not define your Africanism but your true consciousness; your critical consciousness defines your Africanism. 
• A united and prosperous Africa starts with each individual.

“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.” 

― Kwame Nkrumah