Mama Africa Part. 1

There's something about Mandela and Sankara that just always makes one feel proud of being an African. I don't know what that is, but you read about this two personalities and you're just proud to be black. Africa as much as its underdeveloped, it's one of the best things that God ever made me come across in my life. Yeah. Majority of the population is poor, but the ones that have it ,they don't mind sharing the little they have (That was long before "they" came and changes the system). 

Look at African men. Men that fought for a course they knew nothing about but they just did it. They wanted to liberate us from the colonial rule. People who were basically ruining the sense of Africanism in us by forcing us to neglect our ways of life to copy theirs😑.

We adopted their lifestyle but in many ways, I admire the African lifestyle of the past than the modern Africa. Minimal vices. Just brotherhood. One wise leader. Huge Families. No city hullabaloo and some that I even don't wanna mention. More of the Africa we read in books than the one that we in. Right now, things are rough. Africanism bullshit put A-side till further notice. Brothers turn against brothers. Leaders only look at theirs and their families welfare. We're just in shambles. 

I don't blame anyone for this but yoh, you thought copying "their" lifestyle would make you them?? (Funny, though it worked for afew in French colonies) lets just face it. We are Africans and we are better than them. Even if it's in a few areas, the key thing here is WE ARE BETTER THAN THEM. 

We don't wanna be like them. Our ancestors lived without "them" .Nothing weird befell them. They led a normal peaceful life. No wars. Death was timely and natural. Only common diseases. Basically, they never died prematurely. That's just my thought anyway. 

I'm not trying to imply anything but you guystry deciphering this Thomas Sankara Statement for me. "THIS STRUGGLE TO DEFEND THE TREES AND FORESTS IS ABOVE ALL STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM, BECAUSE IMPERIALISM IS THE ARSONIST SETTING FIRE TO OUR FORESTS AND SAVANNAHS"~Thomas Sankara(Burkina Faso's prematurely murded first president).For awhile, I was taken back after reading this and I realized why Africa is ever in Chaos. But that's a story for another day. 

Above:NelsonMandela

.           Above:Thomas Sankara. 

All in all, I support Mandela I support Mandela's Ideology. He tried showing us that we Africans should rule ourselves with our own ideologies and we don't need foreign ideologies to better us and also by Sankara's philosophy of supporting ourselves as Africans. Sankara once said ," The one who feeds you usually imposes his will on you. " and that hit hard. 

So fellow Africans, please, don't cut off your roots. That what I'm trying to tell you in all this paragraphs. Don't overstress yourself wishing you were someone else. That's basically what I'm telling you. Love you and where you come from. Love the blood that flows in you and treasure your ancestors teachings. They are the ones that fought to liberate us from the people who tried to take us from our own ways and take all we owned. Finally, I love you mama Africa.