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Being African in 2008...
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I'm not proud of being African today, when our leaders are perpetrators of violence, killing those brothers and sisters who oppose thier point of view.

Zimbabwe, Durfur, Somalia, South Africa....our brothas blood is in our hands... when does it all end? When does the violence stop? When do we start practising Ubuntu that we so religiously preach? When do we go back to the days of our forefathers...when we stood for humanity,when culture made us proud Africans because we embraced every child of the motherland? My heart hurts because we have become inhumane...loving money over people, enriching ourselves and forgetting the citizens of Africa....and then we lobby for a united Africa.....it seems too farfetched a dream. I don't see a united African in my time....and in 2010...well the world cup may be filled with the spirit of Africa, but it will be a spirit of mourning...because until our brothas in Zimbabwe are free...until our sistas in Somalia, Durfar are hungry no more and are victims of rape by rebels no more...until we stop killing each other and untill our leaders refrain from threatening to kill for fraudsters, our hearts will cry our beloved continent. Our ancestors will turn in thier graves in sorrow.....and all that the Mandelas, Kwame Nkrumas, Bikos, hack even Mugabe then, fought for will be but an ideology that was never achieved, a dream that never will.

July 1, 2008 | 8:36 AM Comments  0 comments

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