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| The Future of Poverty in Africa |
By Kayode Oladele |
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10/17/2009
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African Affairs
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(Posted by MojoMojo)
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The Subject == The Future of Poverty in Africa ... The Poverty that ravages the African continent is the type that resides under the skin. I mean literarily under the skin. Every part of the African life will testify to this. ::: I will pretend that I am African and write in first-person singular. Nigeria being a former Colonial post for England, now metamorphosed into Britain, left us like a child that the mother has dissowned by giving us premature independence. Even if they waited till the seventies or the eighties, we could not have fared better in our living in poverty. ::: This is the reason :- The African poor want a better life, but they do not want to be humiliated or treated with contempt and indignity. Instead, they will prefer to remain in their poverty. However, we all know the social and political consequences of this. What becomes of poverty in Africa depends on us and not on external donors and philanthropists and African leaders must stop ridiculing our poor with the patronizing policies they have put in place, policies which simply do not and cannot work.
::: The writer of this text is a manifestation that we Africans remain as one-in-poverty.
::: Like all schooled Africans, we look at our poor ones that have no shirt and trousers and feel sorry for them but can not do much about reversing the situation. Again, we look inwards to ourselves and start self pity by claiming that God will bring Jesus back to improve situation. That is the mind set of the well-off - materially in AFRICA. The truth is that the well-off are the danger in the self. They suffer the poverty of the mind. This is the worst kind of human degradation that can be experienced by any living being. The Africa's well-off knows they have not produced much to claim self worth. They look at each other as not abled even when thay have the biggest of houses and palaces. How would you detect that trait? The well-offs do not work in-concert in Africa. The well-offs in Africa do not build factories for others to work in. This might make others become well-off. The well-off do not want mass education as such generation might grow to oppose the sovereignty of other people's way of life over theirs. The well-offs usually like togetherness through segregation. The well-offs are aided subconsciously in this drive by the so-called Pastors and so-called Evagelists spreading the gospel of retardedness, the belief that us Africans are doomed by nature and in return call the name of the Lord in-vain and create sweat houses called Churches. As I write, the poor at heart, poor in spirit, weeak in the flesh will be up in arms as if tomorrow they will do better for themselves. No. Everyone will remain comfortable in their weakness and continue to console each other through the fight to get out of Africa to a better world anywhere else but Africa. That is the Future of Poverty in Africa.
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