Some house cleaning

I was just wondering to myself how I would feel when after cleaning my house, some stranger comes in it and destroys or messes things up for me. I would feel really angry if after putting all that sweat to making my home beautiful and nice for me and my family, someone comes in and disrespects it and disrespects all the sweat I put into it and wants to claim the same rights as those I sweated to make my house clean for. So where I am coming from, take homes as countries, some people have sweated, fought, died to make their country what it is today. They did it for their children and generations to come. They made sure their children’s future is secured. They get angry when what they fought for is not respected or what their fathers died for seems to be taken for granted.

If you take a look at Africa or any land where you have blacks or black leaders, there is not much to say about it. Africa has become a laughing stock and no leader cares and neither do the citizens see any need to lobby or advocate for a change. It seems everyone is just seating down and waiting for some sort of miracle to happen. The citizen’s blame the leaders blame and the leaders blame the west or any person that they can use as escape goats. You find poverty in its extreme in Africa. Forget the few privileged you see in glamour magazines or on TV. You ask yourself, can’t they (we) help themselves (ourselves). Why is there no innovation going on in Africa or why is it being suppressed? Why cant the people stand and make a difference? It is all so alarming.

I read on the papers last week of a man suffering from Aids that is being deported to Africa and human rights activist are running up and down to stop the deportation as it is certain that when he gets to which ever African country he comes from, he will surely die. Where will he get the drugs from and which expert will look after him and give him the level of care he is receiving in the UK? The lady that was deported some months ago, died in Africa. There was a documentary of HIV/Aids in Africa I saw and I just wept. How come this diseases has spread this much? What happened? Poverty does not mean that the people’s souls are also in poverty or does it?
We blame colonialism for every ill in Africa and maybe it did have some role (a big one) in it but why can we all not push and push for a change at least for the sake of our children.

So does it mean that after we have finished destroying a land given to us by God then we carry our baggage to another man’s country and expect them to give us the same rights as those they have fought for? How do we expect the West to keep helping Africa, how long will they keep giving aid to Africa? It gets to a time that everyone says let them all kill themselves. Let them starve to death. Africans, if you want change, development, respect, it is time for serious house cleaning. Stop killing yourselves and come together and make a change.