Opinions of Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Auteur: Allan Buah

O Ye Mother Africa; Why, Why, Why?

The following content of this article seems poetic and rhetorical, but that is not my new style of article writing. I was moved by some poetic and rhetorical articles I read recently to express my harboured emotions in the form of questions.

These questions need sincere answers and further appropriate actions. However, I am guided by the fact that there are more questions than answers, but the preceding sentence still stands!

O ye mother Africa, when would you fully arise and shine? When would your children start defending and continuing the toils of their forefathers? Must the children of mother Africa accept that "black" is condemned inferiority and darkness? Has the recent state of mother Africa plunged her children into inferiority and darkness? Are the leaders of mother Africa foolish together with even the masses?

Also, have your children demonstrated that the whites can only transform mother Africa? But why did Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah claim that "...the black man is capable of managing his own affairs..."? Have your children forsaken the ways and works of their historical Pan-African Champions? Would these Champions commend or condemn their descendants for their ways and works today? Why is mother Africa still not advanced in the midst of many precious natural resources?

Moreover, can mother Africa solely or largely solve her own basic problems such as poverty, diseases, corruption, injustice, ignorance and conflicts? But how did those Asian Tigers transform their economies in few decades? Is it because they are not blacks? Lastly, do the children of mother Africa ask themselves such questions? And what must the children of mother Africa do now concerning all the above questions?

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