There’s a song I wrote and I titled it ‘Africa’. That song was written by me since 2009 but yet to be released. You wanna listen to the song? Then sponsor me and you’ll hear it in a glimpse. But, that was just that anyways. This I must write about my able continent called Africa.
Africa has been a continent I used to be proud of; the colour (blackness), strength, wiseness, audibility, and lots more. The Beauty that was packed-filled-with including natural resources, good lands and trees, good people and a lots to be mentioned. Fast thinkers, medicine, theologians, historians, philosophers, archaeologists and the like, but where are we now.
We are in times where we no longer believe that our herbs will heal us, instead we import drugs that’ll add disasters to our fined-build bodies. We no longer believe in settling dispute with punishment as the crimes are committed, but instead we import judiciary to set the thieves free and punish the innocent ones. We no longer believe in our monarchs, instead we import Politics that leads to thuggery, kidnap and all sort of killings. We no longer believe in tabling our matters to elders and local Chiefs for resolution, instead we import insurgency and we are now killing our own people for selfish interest. Where is Africa? Where are Africans?!
The Photos below are just few, but this is what and where Africa really is now. I know you don’t care because you sit on the platter of gold, but when we are finished from your slavery, killings, inflicted pains, injuries, sicknesses and diseases, thuggery, and many others, we’ll see who you’ll rule, who you’ll use to get rich or simply to make money, who you’ll enslave, and who you’ll kill. Because, we’re close to that period now, we’re almost there. If can’t see it, I see it coming….!
Story by Frankie Ifop, the CEO of Calabar Reporters, Frankie Ifop Collections, Free Ice Box and others.
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