This is the lofty dream captured in Damien Marley's verse in the track "Promise Land" of Distant Relatives Album and it is the dream I wish to articulate in this blog I call Africa!.
Africa- homeland for all the black people of the world is a long way from the dream conceived by our forbears in truthfulness and struggle when they got independence more than five decades ago. This dream, centuries long assailed with prejudice, slavery, corruption and mis-education continues to be a fantasy. We still find African countries riddled with debt, living on foreign aids, enmeshed in crisis and war and immobilized by retrogression in the midst of plenty.But for how long? Year 3000???
The journey of a millennium begins with a day and I am a willing traveler on that journey to see Africa fully modernize. From Lagos to Accra to Cotonou to Kinsasha to Freetown...all the way down. Livable homes, constant electricity, thriving economies, motor-able highways, modern hospitals, super trains, justice, fairness, respect .... If you believe like me say amen!
Keep the hope alive.
Aluta continua,
Wale Owoeye
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