Africa unite,reminds me of Batho ha ba eo,empa lekhooa le teng/there are no people around but there is a european around.How apartheid and it's colonial brethren dehumanised the society;we are now reaping their rewards of in #Sebokeng,#CentralAfricaRepublic,#DRC,#IvoryCoast ,and believe me,more are to follow,if Africa does not start consuming her own ideas,generated by her own minds passed on by,word of mouth from grandmother to grandchild,originating from the ancestors. The continent is not rising,it is burning,people. The rise is empty rhetoric of corporations,who have co-opted their governments and now corrupting yours. Africa rising is a shibboleth,concocted by a world outside,the axis of the drum beat,filled with equivocation to confound you into consuming what is their own,implicitly of no profit to you;whilst through subterfuge and stealth,they extract what is of consequence and potential pecuniary gain to you,at a cost yet to be disclosed. By the time your leaders do a volte-face,on your irrational structural adjustment consumption policy,your people and your soul is so immersed in a labyrinth of fiat capital,that you get amerced for utilising your resources,with intrinsic value to extricate yourself from a system which you recognise to be fraudulent. You have been deluded,by those that you call friends and investors, into a false sense of security of making you feel paramount,whilst in the greater scheme of things, you are just a consumption patsy.As you were getting inebriated through consumption of what you neither ideated nor produced,your land was being encroached.Now a foreigner is holding you ransom to their will,earning value capture,on the land of the people. Therefore how can Africa rise,when a cabal runs the system,premised on fiat currencies,yet we own quantifiable resources with real value. Africa cannot and will not rise,until its wounds are healed.There,can be no true healing,until the wound is recognised,there can be no sincere friendships without restorative justice.Reluctance of Africa's offender to transform the global governance regime or provide reparations,is evidence that restorative justice is not up for serious consideration;therefore Africa is not rising,it is sinking like a person in quicksand.For the global economy in it's current form,is like quicksand to Africa. It is for this reason the #AU has adopted a quixotic paradoxical stance towards the #ICC,due to its victimhood mentality,fostered by the quicksand it finds itself in. "Healing begins where the wound was made." "Victim mentality is an acquired (learned) personality trait in which a person tends to regard him or herself as a victim of the negative actions of others, and to think, speak and act as if that were the case - even in the absence of clear evidence. It depends on habitual thought processes and attribution. Victim mentality is primarily learned, for example, from family members and situations during childhood."(Wikipedia) Africa's wounds were and are caused by abusive exploitative practices,therefore it only makes sense that reparations be administered.Our deference has proved to be our weakness,looking towards the better nature of people,especially visitors,has done us ill.We rewarded to fast,behaviour that was not earned,thus becoming authors in our tragedy.We have now become the quintessential consumers,to products that are defective to our prosperity.Foremost amongst these products is foreign aid,our culture of sharing and giving sold back to us.It has been repackaged,to do for us and instruct us,to create jobs for their graduates.For this reason it will never yield anything sustainable. For Ubuntu empowers,were foreign aid disempowers. Africa is yet to be healed,the rest of the world,progresses at the expense of our open wound.Before, you mistake my truth for drivel best left to Malema,ask yourself,how many times do you assign certain outcomes in your life down to racism?Well,you get my point,that's because no matter how accomplished you claim to be,your subconscious recognises that you are not healed;our collective psyche is affected by our open wound. "Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked—who is good? Not that men are ignorant—what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men." -W.E.B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk)