I WEEP FOR ARICA (PART 1)

Africa is the second largest continent on the world, it is the second most populous continent in the world after Asia, it is also a place where people do not have regards for one another.

Africa as a continent is a place where a leader or ruler clings on to power for a quarter of a century or more and still does not want to leave the sit of power until his fellow country men rises up against him in protest which leads to people carrying arms and ammunition which eventually leads to civil war.

Africa is a place where stealing is not viewed as corruption,i.e people who loot public coffers or funds are not prosecuted instead are praised by some naive few who have been given stipends and do not know that they are toying with the future of their kids. 

I come from the most populous country in the world which calls it self "THE GIANT OF AFRICA" but this so called giant of Africa is nothing but a crawling snail. This is a country where a minister is confirmed to have stolen money in the region of seventy billion dollars, bought houses in the most exclusive and expensive estates in the world but still roams the streets without being brought to justice. Despite the amount of money flowing into this country it cannot boast of stable power supply, good roads, infrastructure e.t.c Its Educational system is in tatters, moral views are on a high time low and i wonder what the future holds for our kids. 

Imagine that kind of amount of money has been put to good use it could have being used to finance the construction of hospitals instead of having our leaders go to other countries for medical treatments or a president spending more than hundred days in another country receiving medical treatment that could have being brought to him in the comfort of his home country if funds had being used properly.

I weep for Africa. we have become the laughing stock of the entire world, we are no 1 in terms of corruption, the average African lives on less than two dollars per day and this is a continent where resources are in abundance and i could compare it to the biblical land of Canaan and say Africa is a land flowing with milk and Honey but greed has turned us against one another made us fight each other made us sell one another into slavery.

I weep for my continent.