Chukwuemeka E. Onyejinduaka - What Africans Need

WHAT
AFRICANS
NEED

CHUKWUEMEKA E. ONYEJINDUAKA

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/11/2013

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE
COMMITMENT

Commitment is the power behind every victory, it provokes victory and puts it ahead of defeat. Nobody wins a battle without commitment and nobody realizes a vision without commitment. Commitment is a key that unlocks all the doors of victory and progressive living. Life without commitment is worthless, absolute death, and spiritual deformity.

Commitment can be seen as anger in the mind of a provoked person who is ready to fight and win. In another perspective commitment is a visionalized victory in a winning man who has refused to fail. One can also see commitment as the eyes that see victory in the future.

If the definitions of commitment can be seen as aforementioned, it therefore means that commitment should be considered as an ingrate part of life as it is. No commitment, no life; no life, no commitment. Whatsoever one is not committed to, such, he will never have. When a person is totally committed to his vision, such vision will not die. When a person is committed to his vision such individual will not rest until the vision is realized. commitment is of different hierarchies and views, hence, people see it differently. While a lot of people are committed to air vision and their visions die before they are born, some others are committed to what is called water vision, hence, they initiate unstable projects.

WHAT IS AIR/WATER VISION

These are the visions considered as dreaming great dreams inside a dream. The question you ask a person who is sleeping and having a dream, and right inside the same dream he begins to have another dream, which of these dreams will be realized first? When a person is hoping to get the impossible done in a few seconds, such individual is having an air vision. Any vision conceived while flying in the air cannot be realized. How can one conceive a vision while flying in the air?

In Africa, most of the leaders do have a lot of visions for the people during their political rallies without knowing how to realize them. Any vision conceived, but the visioner did not know how to realize it, is considered as air vision. Water vision can be likened to a vision that is beyond the control of the visioner, which automatically gives access to people, for a person to say he/she has a vision it means that the visioner must have found solution to such vision. If otherwise, people will then come in to decide the fate of such vision, therefore, whichever way it goes, the visioner conceived water vision.

Considering air and water vision you will discover that it takes a committed heart to conceive a reasonable vision for the people. It takes a man/woman of spiritual and physical commitment to conceive a vision and realize such vision for the people. African democracy is not succeeding because it lacks what is called inward commitment. Inward commitment is a situation where one is committed to self development by properly using things that are within in order to get things that are outside, putting all together to enhance the quality of life. You can also see inward commitment as one having good mind that conceived good vision for the people using the same people to realize their vision without struggles and harassment. In Africa, the leaders lack managerial character that can pave way for primary human development and empowerment. African leaders have initiated a lot of good visions, yet, Africans are suffering. From OAU to AU a lot of good programmes have been initiated, still Africans are not satisfied. This is because inward commitment is missing. The leaders are depending on oversea aids and grants to develop Africa, because they believe that without foreign connections Africans cannot succeed. This is lack of self trust.

If African leaders can understand clearly that nobody can help Africa better than Africans they will stop looking for help overseas. Rather they will return home to seek what I call home solution. It is only then that things will begin to work out well. If African leaders can understand that the people of Africa need their fellow Africans to be better, I think Africans will start presenting themselves as good people from a better prospective to the world. Around August 2009, there was news that in a certain African country, Libya to be precise, thousands of Nigerians were facing death sentences and in other African countries a lot of Nigerians have been killed, mostly in South Africa. If Africans can be against their fellow Africans to such extreme, then what does the future hold for Africa. From the lifetime of OAU to AU African leaders have not been able to put in place what I call Africa for African protection laws. This means the following:

It is a law that tells who an African person is.

It is a law that tells the level of punishment an African person will not receive outside his/her country as long as Africa is concerned.

It is a law that determines deportation of Africans who have committed a capital offence in another country.

It is a law that makes an African feel at home in any part of Africa without harassment.

It is a law that holds a country responsible for murder of an individual in such country.

It is a law that is empowered to put it to African leaders that once a person is deported for committing a crime, the country of immigrant should be held responsible if such individual is thereafter found in the country where he had been deported.

It is a law that can compel African leaders to stand the risk of paying compensations to a country that deported a person and later such person is found in the country again.

Though a lot of laws have been made to protect the African child the question is are these laws indeed protecting Africans? In the days of OAU, a lot of laws were put in place to protect Africans and to ensure better life for every African, but those laws did not make impact in the lives of ordinary Africans. The reason is that the leaders who put up these laws did not make the laws in the interest of the generality of Africans, rather, the laws were made to ensure their steady stay in office as leaders in their different countries. Though people may have different views over this matter, my position remains that African leaders are not committed to Africans and African projects. It is very easy to convene meetings in Addis Ababa to make laws, but it is not easy to implement these laws, because there are many ways people make laws and there are many ways people can be deceived by such laws. One can make laws to deceive people, and people make laws to control and deceive people as well. One who is in authority can make laws to ensure his stay in office, people can as well make laws to ensure that their positions are well secured. One cannot see any successful programmes put in place by the OAU or AU, except peace keeping forces. Apart from peace keeping which also has international backing like all other programmes, I have not seen any other programme in Africa put in place by African leaders that has stood the test of time and is successful without foreign support.