How will we ever be our own people if we keep importing solutions not meant for us? Can Africa and Africans not think for their own continent? Must we bring in Western and Eastern methods to solve our sociocultural and economic problems?
Our cultures are as wide apart as heaven and earth. Our needs are as vividly different as day and night. What business has light with darkness?
We cannot use spot lights in broad day light. No matter how hard we try, there is no way the sun can be caused to shine in the middle of the night.
Every continent has its issues to deal with. The west is struggling with widespread atheism; at least we still believe in God, many of us do. The west have crippled moral values, we still
hold to our values and are not wild oat sowers as some of them are. theirs are diseases of lifestyle, while ours are still predominantly diseases of contagion. We have simply refused to think. that is our greatest plight.
We are too scared to use our minds and our imaginations. We are terrified of employing our critical skills in providing solutions to our problems.
Why for instance, can we not think of building dams and harvesting rain water so as to increase food security in areas prone to drought? Why can we not tailor make courses in our institutions that will meet the needs of our people? Do we think it impossible to come up with ideas and see these ideas mature? Are we too scared to begin projects and manage them to the end? Or is it true that we are plain foolish Africans – too scared to use our brains?
Africa Must Rise High - We Have No Excuse! 