Happy Africa Day! In honor of this day, I quote my hero who graces my cover photo, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, whose words on 20th July, 1948 still ring true today: The times are changing and we must change with them. In doing so we must combine the best in Western culture with the best in African culture. The magic story of human achievement gives irrefutable proof that as soon as an awakened intelligentsia emerges among so-called subject people, it becomes the vanguard of the struggle against alien rule. It provides the nucleus of the dominant wish and aspiration, the desire to be free to breathe the air of freedom which is theirs to breathe. If we cannot find breadth of outlook and lofty patriotism in our schools and colleges, where else in the name of humanity, can we find them? The African today is conscious of his capabilities. Educational and cultural backwardness is the result of historical conditions. [Consider laziness as a crime]. Think! Study hard! Work with sustained effort! As never before we want thinkers - thinkers of great thoughts. We want doers - doers of great deeds. Of what use is your education if you cannot help your country in her hour of need? To my fellow Africans globally, what use is our education if we cannot aid our continent? We are politically free, but economically enslaved. Lets work hard to build the Pan-African dream that the Nkrumahs and Kenyattas envisioned so that from Kigali to Accra, Dakar to Capetown, our people will be free -- politically, economically and spiritually, united in vision. Let us take up the mantle and be the vanguard of the struggle against neo-colonialism. #OneAfrica #AfricaDay #PanAfrica
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 19:21:17 +0000
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