I guess Africans are the same all over

[MR ORGILAQE]

I saw this articles the other day and i thought you might all want to read them. Maybe you cann all write on eof your own?.

 

 

I love and I adore Africa because I live in it.

 

I am unique and talented within, so is Africa.

 

I am said to have the most wonderful characteristics of a hospitable person, so is Africa.

 

I love myself because I have in my possession abundant wealth and resources - yet my children are poor and deprived of many basic necessities of good living. I love Africa for no different reason.

 

I extend unsolicited love and sympathy to strangers of different races whom I do not know - but I quarrel and fight my own kith and kin, killing them in civil wars, religious conflicts and tribal conflicts - and so is Africa, a continent I love.

 

I love myself because I command sympathy from those who seek to rule and exploit me, although I have what many of them don't have. I don't love Africa any less than I love myself for this reason.

 

I love Africa because, in as much as I love myself, the world cannot do without my uniqueness of potential.

 

How I love Africa for I know I will surely shine and when I do, Africa will surely shine. For I love myself and I love Africa because I am an African.

 

 

Mtamandeni Joseph Justice Kalilangwe, Malawi

There are several reasons why I love Africa:

 

1. Water in my village - if I want to have fun with my bath I just go jump in the river, while I bathe I wash my clothes and while my clothes are drying, I enjoy my swim. There are designated places for drinking water, washing and bathing, but I do not worry about any infections as I am in a secure environment. I drink water straight from the river without any fears for infections. I love Africa.

 

2. Poverty - I love Africa because the outside world thinks I am poor, as I am seen with tattered clothes, running nose, unkempt hair and barefoot. I do not see myself poor and neither do my peers in my village. I get up, run around the village compound, if I find people eating in one compound, I join them for the meal, run after goats or cow for fresh milk straight from the animals and enjoy a ride on the back of the cow till late after noon when I am hungry again. I go home, have an evening meal and sleep on my mat in a grass-thatched house. By the way, the grass-thatched house is cool in summer and warm in winter but leaks during the rainy season. With the warm feeling all over, these negative things are not noticed. I love Africa.

 

3. Preachers - I love Africa because even though the white man came to Africa to preach his religion, it is now Africa's turn to preach the white man's religion in the white man's world. This is our own small world - let us preach together.

 

4. Refuse/rubbish - I love Africa because one can go about without shoes, step on the rubbish or scavenge the dumping grounds for something to eat, but without worrying about infections. Onlookers worry for you but you go about your own business scavenging without any worry. I love Africa.

 

5. Hospitality - I love Africa because of its warm and vivid hospitality. Imagine a home, which has chickens, goats, ducks and cows but will not slaughter one to eat. However, as soon as a guest arrives, one is slaughtered so as to eat with the guest. In the same vain if a guest has no blanket one is given to him to use until the guest leaves while the owner of the house sleeps without a blanket. To the outside world, one might think the owner is suffering but it's the hospitality of the home and all are happy with warm smiling faces.

 

I do love Africa, as it is a survivor, a saviour and a carer for all mankind.

 

 

Joy Orawemen, Nigeria

I love the extended family relationship in Africa. In Europe, it is everyone for himself, God for us all. But in Africa, everyone is his brother's keeper.

 

In Africa, a child is not owned by his biological parents alone but by the entire extended family, nay the entire community . When a man is wealthy, it is not for himself, wife and children alone. Instead it becomes his duty to take care of his parents, sisters, nephews, nieces, uncles, aunties and other distant relations.

 

This is why when a man is given a political appointment or he wins an election, the indigenes of his village and the surrounding villages usually organise parties celebrating this event. They believe that he will use his position and new-found influence to bring development to their village and its environs.

 

Yes I love Africa for its extended family relationship. If someone is bereaved, she has a whole lot of relatives to comfort her, to wipe away her tears and to make her happy. My aunties were in our house for six weeks comforting my mother when I lost my elder sister through an improperly executed abortion. In Africa, when you cry, you have people to cry with you.

 

I love Africa because when you are faced with some emergency financial problems, you call at your extended relation's house without first informing him that you are coming. And he will help you if he has the wherewithal or he will even go and borrow for your sake. But in the western world, you have to make several phone calls to receive an invitation to visit your relation. Before this invitation will be approved, a lot of things may have happened, most often than not, bad news.

[PhiL]

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

[MR ORGILAQE]

Glad you enjoyed it Phil.

[raula]

I do love Africa, as it is a survivor, a saviour and a carer for all mankind.

Indeed true. Thanx for sharing.

[MR ORGILAQE]

you are welcome Raula

[Faarax-Brawn]

You Lots are all in a make wish beleive state.

 

Africa is destitute. its dead. its diseaseful

 

Dreaded place if i may say!

[Abdulladiif Al-Fiqih]

"the world cannot do without my uniqueness of potential"

 

Laughable to say the least. To the contrary, the world has forgotten Africa and moved on long time ago while Africans were in their sleep. Hands down to Africa at least for now.

[shyhem]

I was born in the motherland but i must i admit the place is really cursed.Life in Africa is a continuation of the principle of misery needs miserable companions.The pple in Africa are lazy, disturbingly crazy, and outrageously poor.

[Nomen nescio]

^^^^ true that...

[Faarax-Brawn]

^Hear! Hear!

 

I second that!

 

The place is outragiously out of order!

[Tuujiye]

Jareerka jilib Joogo iyo kan Jikaako Joogo Isku Jeesto Waaye!!!!!!!!

 

wareer badanaa!!

[juba]

lets not forget Africas former glory and a glory that might return.

 

Orgilaqe thanks for sharing this beautiful peice, i wish everyone could appreciate it :rolleyes:

[MR ORGILAQE]

Juba thanks for the encouragement.It seems you are the only one who understands the spirit of this piece.I was moved because what it says is essentially true.

[MR ORGILAQE]

Victor Bockarie Foh, Sierra Leone

I love Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt where African Arabs dress in robes and veils. Their rich culture, beautiful leather works, rugs, artefacts, the Suez Canal and the pyramids are great tourist attractions. I also love some leaders from this region including Libya's Gaddafi and Algeria's Bouteflika.

 

I love Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan for their desert life. I love the sand storms, locusts, camels, donkeys and the countries' rich literature.

 

 

Mozambique's Maria Mutola is one of Africa's most successful athletes

 

Oh, I love the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia. They together present exciting flora and fauna, culture, politics and history. No wonder the colonialists scrambled here for slaves, minerals and land.

 

I also love the calmness of Southern Africa where rivers Zambezi and Limpopo meander. I love the wisdom of the late Jomo Kenyatta, the safari suits of Kenneth Kaunda, the teachings of the late Julius Nyerere.

 

I love Africa... Africa for its great sportsmen and women... past and present... Roger Milla, George Weah, Maria Mutola... its great musicians... Franco Luambo Makiadi, Yusuf N'Dour, Salif Keita.

 

I love Africa's suffering children and disadvantaged women. I love Nelson and Winnie Madikizela Mandela... symbols of the continent's freedom and greatness. I love Africa.

 

 

Andrea Nicodemo, Eritrea

I love Africa for one thing. I was brought up in a society where every child was taught how to develop a positive attitude towards his or her parents and members of the community in general. Aged people are regarded as the most dignified figures in my community because they are the peace makers in times of conflict.

 

 

Locusts are a part of desert life to be celebrated, says Victor

 

Peace and love are the common greetings of every person in my community. Our leaders and the law-making bodies are not university graduates, scholars or military rulers, but people with many wives, children, and animals, because it is a sign of wealth and we are proud of them.

 

We are neither Christians nor Muslims. We believe in one God of our ancestors. We call him Dungul. God that promotes human dignity, gender equality, and the rights of every human race. Our holy places are mountains, valleys, rivers and forest. Our high courts are taboos and restricted places.

 

There is no poverty in my community. We eat every sort of food including snakes, crocodiles, and monkeys. We are taught to be generous so every one is invited to enjoy our delicious meal. People in my community spend at least 10 to 15 minutes for greetings on the streets. We live in shanty houses, where everyone knows his neighbours so as to help each other in times of danger. O I love Africa.

 

 

Adole Ralph Audu, Nigeria

I love Africa....my beautiful continent. I love, love Africa's extra-ordinary politics and its leaders.

 

Leaders who will hold on to power for a long time without regard for the interest and needs of the people they lead.

 

Have you noticed it is only in Africa where it is virtually impossible to wrestle power from a ruling party? That the ruling party dictates conditions or terms of elections...can imprison opposition party leaders at and ban their parties at will?

 

By the way have you noticed that in Africa corrupt politicians are awarded honorary doctorate degrees for siphoning public funds?

 

I love this continent for the manner in which its politicians have perfected the art of rigging elections. I will always love Africa and its politics.