United States of Africa

 Through all the trials and tribulations, it is hard to believe that Africa is still alive and kicking today even though she is hanging on a tiny thread which can break at any time. She was once blessed with rich soil that bears all the gold, diamonds, oil and coal. She was truly the epitome of natural beauty seen from her pride of lions who rule her jungle from the Serengeti to the luangwe. Her Gentle giants, the extraordinary Elephant, happy Hippo and brave Buffalo. Her beauty did not end there because I'm yet to mention the kilimanjaro, the table mountain or even Victoria falls. She was once so beautiful and through all that she has been through,she still is.

Mama Africa taught her children well by teaching them to welcome visitors with open arms and share with them all she offers because she was more than enough. She did not anticipate the greed that this visitors had and could only watch as she was ripped into pieces and her gold, her diamonds and even her children were snatched away from her. It must have been painful to see the sorrow in the eyes of her children when they were chained and whipped into large ships and it did not help that She had the best seats in the house when all this happened.

Today her children a fighting against each other even if though they know that they are born from the same womb and are all children of Mama Africa. Her children allow scars all over Mama Africa known to them as borders to divide them even when they did not benefit from the pain that came from the very same scars. I wonder what makes them believe they will benefit from them now. These scars they prefer to call them borders serve no relevance to the children of Africa because they never got the piece of pie that Mama Africa was seen as by the rude visitors but they were merely left with crumbs which they still live off today.

Perhaps if they started seeing the bigger picture, they will see that if they come together like true siblings and stop putting relevance on whether they are Nigerian, South African or Ethiopian and start putting relevance on the fact that they are all Africans. They will realize the true potential they have.

The talk of Afrophobia prevents them from taking back their Africa which was stolen from them and it opens doors for others to come and steal what remains of her. They must instead have the conversation of sharing ideal plans for a better future for their children. They must invest in themselves by investing in each other and stop relying on investment from those who do not have their best interests at heart. Create a platform for their youth to participate in the 4th industrial revolution because as a continent they have been deprived of many industrial revolutions as many of them were about them and not for them. United they will rise and divided they will fall even further than they have.