The Image of an African Child

A black man indeed and a true son of African soil, I could be immersed in foreign culture and replace my religion with others' but one thing that remains part and parcel of me is my hereditary. My value forms my image and my integrity remains my cornerstone. Blemish it and I will send you six feet below, abuse it and I will draw the curtain. A word they say is enough for the wise.

My skin doesn't make me inferior nor superior, I have the rich and I have the poor, the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the intelligent and the pervert, the friendly and the hostile but people that know me take advantage of me, invade my land and use my people against me, then turn around and make me a symbol of poverty, hippocratically donating to my people with an endless price to be paid till my generation yet unborn and hence slavery to slavery.

Oh thee with pure heart, Africans and non-Africans, the development of Africa is the responsibility of all because the consequences of systematically degrading Africa shall be felt far and wide and in the end not only Africans will pay the price but far reaching effect shall be felt beyond.

To you the bad eggs among my people, the fraudsters and money launderers, the traitors and the selfish, all others working against the development of African sub-continent, I do solicit that you change or we shall get rid of you by fire or by force. To those who downgrade and bad mouth Africa and its people, join now in the struggle and the profit shall be everyone's but continue in your line of distrust and you shall live to regret it because the battle to liberate Africa shall be from within.

A land filled with milk and honey, God bless my father and motherland. God bless Africa.

“I fear nobody but I respect everyone but mind you respect is reciprocal.”

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Fruit of Friendship

 

Time to time, over and over again, the moment and memories we have shared together remains well carved at the tablet of my heart. I, without gold, silver, diamond, opal, emerald, sapphire or of any precious stones or cold hard cash but with a friend I can call my own is more endowed than the shining morning star, more flourished than the bed of a coral reef and surpass the accomplishment of amazon morning dew. When I feel cold, you turn a blanket that covers me and in the warm, you ventilate me from within.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore - I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting

Life Points

 

•It’s ok to fail.
•The only thing that can stop you is you.
•Ask your boss if you can do more.
•Never point out errors without offering a solution.
•Criticize the act, never the person.
•Never condemn in public.
•Tackle the challenges you don’t want to face first.
•Discover the dreams of others.
•Don’t avoid unpleasant topics.
•Be quick to acknowledge your errors.
•Laugh at yourself.
•Move out of your comfort zone.
•Give people more than they expect.
•Don’t believe all you hear.
•When you say “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.
•Be engaged at least 6 months before you get married.
•When someone asks you a question and you don’t want to answer, smile and ask “why do you want to know?”
•Smile while picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
•Read more books and watch less TV.
•Never interrupt while you are being flattered.
•Trust in God, but lock your car.
•Spend your life lifting people up, not putting people down.
•Always remember life is fair, what you sow you reap.
•Finish what you start.
•Do it when you think of it.
•Don’t write long letters.
•Realise not everything needs to be done today.
•Love is about holding your tongue.
•Look for opportunities to make people feel important.
•Be the first to say hello.
•Don’t ask your single friends for marital advice.
•Don’t take parental advice from one who has never had one.
•A man is known by the book he reads.
•Love means to love that which is unlovable.
•Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being.
•When traveling give a copy of your itinerary to your family and trusted neighbours.
•Be willing to listen without offering advice.
•Everybody has an opinion. Realise early that you won’t meet everyone’s expectations.
•Allow children to solve problems on their own before you intervene.
•People do not grow old. When they cease to grow, then they become old.
•People only see what they are to see.
•A man is what he thinks about all day.
•Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
•The wise learn many things from their enemies.
•It is well for one to know more than he says.
•The more you have, the more you have to worry about.
•We all struggle- no one is as confident as he seems.
•What a person sees in you is sometimes very different from what you think he’s seeing.

Only If You Know Me

 

ONLY IF YOU KNOW ME

Like the formation of every Homo sapien
A product of sexual reproduction
The biological fusion of two sex cells
Cellular multiplication of zygotic tissue
A new life is made to be called the ME

Out of the blue came a new ME
Marked with a name for identity
Molded into a pre-determined life
Principle, culture, belief as dictated
Hence a deprivation of my utopia

In a mixed universe of good and evil
A trait is developed to be called the ME
I am good and I am evil
The double faced life of the world of which I am a product of
He who knows the world knows ME and vise versa

My life goes on as envisaged
The good, the bad, and the ugly come my way
Wandering on the surface of the universe for survival
In the end my life ends on the trail
And there comes the end of ME

ONLY IF YOU KNOW ME