I am African...

I am African
In the sanctity of my heart,
I am African,
I belong to the generation of the unification of the black continent.

It is my desire to see the glory of the black continent lifted out of the doldrums of the unenlightened poverty of the mind and regression of states.
Its in my manifesto to save Africa from poverty,
From poverty that is not of resources.

What shall I become?
There is wisdom in our culture.
Pride and dignity in our traditions.
But for the absence of true exceptional leadership of our African states.
The call is beyond the religiousity of hypocrisy.
We can see beyond the horizons now.
Because I know who I am,
I take pride in Africa

I am African...
I belong to the universal society of understanding.
A world of change makers.
I serve and represent the global community of African people.

I am African.
I tell you...
I am authentic African.
In generality with a black pride and a developed mind.
An African with a different spirit within me.

I am authentic African,
a change maker.
I create. I implement. I strategize...
and situate to productive ends.

I stand in pity of the generation who does not know the God of their fathers.
I stand in pity of the generation who does not understand history.
I cry for the generation of shame.
And I laugh at him, who wants to mimic whatever is non-African.

Attempting to become non-african in the name of acceptance?
for the fear of rejection?
Your fear reveals the hole in your character.
Your inability to stand and stand alone,
Even if it becomes inevitable to stand alone, tells me who you are.

For, we will never walk alone.
not forsaken and not alone in the eye of the storm.
So We walk by faith and not by sight,
unto destiny, we soar.

But as for you, my friend
Your fear of your root and heritage shows the sickness of your mind.
And you will need to bring your mind,in...for healing.
For gone are those days when you hide information between book covers, hoping an African will never read to see and be liberated.

I am African
I am Alive.
For to be truly whole and complete,
Is to understand identity.
This is me...that is not me.
I have the ability to see through the ephemerals
Piercing through facades of folly and deception.

I am African.
I appreciate the plethora difference in humanity,
I embrace this difference as my unique strength.
I rejoice in the celebration of diversity of humanity.

Truly, we have issues. I  tell you, we- Africans have many complex issues...
But don't you know and realize that we didn't get here in one day?
Our issues are not a mystery.
Our struggles are part of history.
Our problems are not without reasons.
Our journey is from freedom, unto freedom.

So, my friend, many of our issues are thrown, tossed and forced on us by those who assumed to be the completion of all understanding.
So they tell us what to do...eh! They don't want us to think...
Because they are afraid of the power of our thoughts,
And our capacity to take charge of our own destines.
These are the Pharaohs who don't want to let Israel go.
they say:
You shall go so far, but not very far ,

Indeed some of our problems were created for us.
Some were created by us.
And there is no pointing of fingers.
It is our struggles to find out who we are...
And what we truly stand for.

So, none of us have the right to break the other.
our issues are not enough to break and separate us.
For whenever, I see Africans, i see me.

No word is enough to describe that feeling...No rhetoric is needed.
I know you are mine...
And you are like me...
and I can see...
your skin, your colour....
But I will like to see your heart,
beyond your skins...

Are you my flesh indeed as you appear to be?
For I am African!
And the sufferings of this present moment are not enough to separate us...
For there is a love that bind us together.
That love is from above.
Yes! That love is of God.
No, I didn't say its a love for God.
I said its the love of God for us.
For, We the Africans believe...
And We know that,
the sufferings of this present moment are not comparable to the glory that shall be revealed in us.
Selah!