Thursday 16 June 2016

THE COMMON GROUND

For sometime now and the notion still embedded in many people's mind is that Africa is the 'dark'continent.Dark in terms of lack of visibility to where she is moving to  and also as a result of lack of the glory that comes with first world civilizations.
Genuinely speaking, Africa is well blessed.Talk of her rich fauna and flora. Her seasonless timeline,rich culture and valuable gems to mention but a few.Skeptics nevertheless continue to look down upon her on the basis of her very minimal contribution in pushing the  globe to where it is now in terms of technology and civilization.

Save for earlier day Egypt where a number of fascinating inventions and structures were erected.It is said Africa has not contributed much ,especially intellectually.

Most inventions,talk of medicine,architecture and now communications have zoomed in proportion with nothing substantial being associated with Africa. In a nutshell, the West has pace set everything for her especially on matters technology. Last time we heard of an electronic gadget,a transport vessel or even improvement to an existing gadget subscribed to Africa, and  that can compete undisputably on the global platform must have been aeons ago.

Then is it that this part of the world is actually intellectually dwarf.Without the capability to smear the world with innovations for problems solution? Where do the products of the famous Makerere,Daresalaam or Monash and Lagos universities go to after their stay in this institutions of excellence?Should we introduce the issue brain drain right here ?

In communications especially. We've seen the sprout of satellite, radar,computer and of late mobile phones technology.Sorry to say not even the selfie stick is coming from Africa.Luckily though, Ubuntu the great software is associated with S.A. How we need to see more of this.
On the contrary Africa showcases very well to the point of monopoly on matters sports.Talk of the track events for example. It is a known thing that the short races is an event of people of African origin or blacks really for lack of a better word.They dominate and are majority right from the heats to the award ceremony.And,in the long races the Kenyans,Ethiopians and the likes of Morroco hold their very ground.The greatest boxers that have come along again to compete to the highest levels will dominantly be of African origin for that matter.The countries they represent irrespective.The Sugar Ray's,The Ali's and today the Mayweather's and Antony Joshua's not forgetting the Cuba domadores.And this has been the trend ever since.Transversing generations.Ever asked yourself why?

This then begins to look like a win win situation. That Africa most 'third world ', might continue to rely on the west for reference on how good governments should be run,how prevalent disasters should be managed et cetera et cetera. The 'first world 'generaly plays trendsetter and torch bearer for the planet.

To vacation, after the busy schedules and long hours in research she still needs and is welcome to enjoy the big five,long coastal beaches and great culture hard to come by elsewhere.This is as Africa continues to refer,reflect,recollect and restructure going forward.She has strength and physical prowese right in her gene code.And now she ought to add smart. And so on and so forth.Thus we need and complement each other.

One alone will not tango.




9 comments:

  1. Interesting article. Didn't realize Africa had so much to offer in nature, sports and communications. Nothing like I imagined it would be like(in a good way).

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    1. AFRICA has a lot to offer,a deeper look not a passing glance can highlighted some of this

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  2. Very interesting perspective of Africa and those living in it. I am a passionate Kenyan and it feels so nice to see others appreciating the criddle of mankind.

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  3. I love how you portray Africa in such good light. Africa has so much to offer to the world and our contributions are greatly undermined. I think more people need to start shedding light on this to counter the false perception. Keep sharing!

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    1. true a lot of negativity out there yet her magnificence is downplayed

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  4. I live and write about nigeria, Africa because I want to show others what an amazing country it is. It's very refreshing to read something positive about africa from someone else.

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  5. Awesome. We need to be more optimistic about Africa just like this post emphasized.

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