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It is quite unfortunate that
people who have ideas are always the first to be killed. And more often than
not they are killed by their own people. They are seen as threats because they
have visions and want to see others prosper and not themselves. Those who are
greedy and want more power put blame on them, insult them , humiliate them and
more often than not exterminate them so that they can continue feeding at the
expense of others.
In Patrice Lumumba's Last letter
he saw a vision for Congo, he prayed that one day it will be beautiful and that
everyone will live in peace and harmony. He wanted what was best for the
Congolese and this made him a threat. He wanted change and had a vision of
uniting the Congolese under one government but he was referred to as 'Satan'.
It is a really sad and angering
story to know that Africans were and are still treated as idiots who need the
West to survive. The moment we break the ties, the leader orchestrating the
breakup lose people's support and are killed by them including friends and
associates who backed him up.
Africa in a sense is dying;
famine, hunger, terrorism, xenophobic attacks, civil war, natural calamities
and assassinations are the order of the day as minerals are squandered and
become depreciated day by day. We are becoming more western and forgetting our
values and identity.
(Gado Cartoons)
I appreciate all what the Western
nations have done, but we can never be like them. First of all we are black.
Second we do not have visions for ourselves and follow them blindly. Thirdly we
do not know ourselves and thus copy what they do yet it does not necessarily
work for us. Fourth we are content, as long as we can feed our family and have
good houses and cars we cannot stop to think about developing ourselves. Fifth
we are so over dependent on what we get from outside we fail to appreciate our
own alongside that we have gotten.
Patrice Lumumba stood up for his
people. He wanted to make a difference in Congo. He knew that he was stepping
on people's toes, but he wanted to see the vision he had for his people become
a reality. He knew he was going to die, but he was not afraid and the people
who killed him knew it. Even after his death, they fear he will come back from
the dead.
People can be killed but ideas
remain alive forever.
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