VUKA AFRIKA

VUKA AFRIKA
Written by Ayanda Nkomo

Africa has everything yet we continue to suffer. The world's two super powers - China and America are battling each other for power, and the battlefield is Africa, because that's where all the treasures lie. We as Africans don't even see our own worth, we're too busy trying to be European and American to appreciate ourselves.

 Our resources and minerals are being depleted by the day, yet our continent is starving and we have nothing to show for it, we're too distracted by social networks, series and fashion to even begin to see and understand the bigger picture. The white man has everything and we're too comfortable to do anything about it, we believe we have freedom, yet it is only an illusion,we are stuck in an oppressive system that enslaves Africans to generate money for the western world.

We need to start taking ourselves seriously as Africans and especially as BLACK people. No other race likes black people, not even black people like black people, we need to pull together and start ensuring that the system starts working for us instead of against us and it starts with the youth.

We are tomorrows leaders and should therefore induce a paradigm shift. We have the capacity to change the world but we're too busy taking selfies . If we intend on the world seeing us as people instead of just second class citizens, we need to change the way we think. let Bantu Steven Biko's death not be in vain. Let's bring back black consciousness because it clearly seems to have been forgotten.