Africa, Listen To This! (ePub)

This book is a depiction of my life experiences and how over the years, I have come to understand the world around me as you would hopefully know it. As stated in the blockquote in the book cover and introduction herein, I venture into the past only because it would be almost impossible for post-colonial and post-apartheid individuals to understand the current demographics, let alone predict their own future. With this book, I am hoping to remind or retell the African story and how Africa became as wretched as it is today and with that in mind, it is worth noting to the reader that as I inscribed this book, I had at the back of my mind these words "lest we forget - in case you did not know". I may be stating the obvious in most of my arguments herein, but it is the possible solutions that I bring about that might trigger different reactions from different folks, depending on the side of privileges one might be perspectival from. One major aspect I am concerned about is the age-old indoctrination that continues today; either from schools, home or the general public; hence I am serving the purpose of reawakening amongst Africans through my writing herein, their seemingly dying consciousness; with the hope of what Fanon calls "to set afoot a new man". While the world swiftly moves on with its everyday life, Africa continues to strive for equity and equality amongst its vast nations; this is a direct opposite of what the former colonial powers were about. Radicalism, patriotism and fearlessness, are what is lacking in our post-independence heads of States; except for a few heads who were/are silenced by either death or character assassinations. The age-old divide and conquer approach of the colonial era is what causes self-loath among tribes in Africa - hence Xenophobia in more extreme cases.

Revolutions are never televised.