For God, Africa & Diplomacy
The story of Africa is, at once, a rich and convoluted one, punctuated at several points by interventions from here and there. It is the story of a continent frozen by the cold arms of unfriendly intentions that keeps pushing her away from the right trajectory. What should ordinarily be a one-mile journey for Africa has become one of a thousand miles, with the end slipping more and more out of sight, the farther the journey takes her. It hardly helps that the story of Africa has become one carefully tucked away in an envelope of false narratives, with metres of truth striving in vain to catch up with kilometres of falsehood, planted over the years.
Africa might not have had much of a choice about a lot in its past, but dwelling on that, at this time, is only a choice. The future beckons, not minding what fate dished out to Africa yesterday, but with anticipation of what she chooses to make of it. There is not much choice really - the die is cast. The future that is upon us is one to be lived on terms set by new realities founded on the wings of innovation. Tomorrow only truly belongs to those with the wherewithal to embrace the future ahead of its premiere. To keep romanticising victories of the past and rationalising the defeats rather than taking responsibility for the future will take Africa nowhere.
The starting point might just lie with Africans taking charge of the narrative to showcase what is being done and what is possible if we put our minds to it. If only we know, perhaps it is not as much doom and gloom as it has been projected. Perhaps the Renaissance is real. Perhaps, it is not the question of Africa being the last frontier, but the very first for Africans to discover, explore, and join hands through inter-African engagement to build. The era of waiting for those outside the continent to take the initiative is gone.
We might not have as huge a platform as others have to tell our story. But we must find a way to do so. We must tell the world that we, too, have dreams. We must share with the world that some of our dreams are being realised. We must tell our story of exploits and enterprise.
The case of Africa is that of arrested development. It is not a terminal case. It is one of fractured dreams that can be mended. Fired by the communal sense of UBUNTU, a bright future, founded on the spirit of enterprise, is definitely within our reach. It is within the reach of Africa.
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