Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

Stockholm, Sweden

Discernible Error

The Confusion That Is Us

A figment of the collective imagination, an illusive shadow
that walks the fringes of reality, like the shadow retreating
with the dawn, mirroring the dawning of a new day. Yet not
the awaited arrival of things bright and beautiful. The light
that dispels the fear of darkness, he was not of the
darkness, he was a shadow of the darkness, an entity that
found meaning and description not in the light, but that
signified the creeping dawn. He was an isolated reality
whose existence was denied in one instance and sought
after with feverish despair to be snuffed out like the soft
flames of a candle, the next. He was the voice of a
thousand thoughts; struggling to find expression, he
embodied the idealistic and realistic musings of fleeting
thoughts in the buzz of frenzied action. He ruminated the
thoughts of the masses. Giving voice to the million silent
shouts of despair among wandering and wondering minds.
He strode with the stride of a wounded tiger; the
undisplaced, yet mature anger gave him the cocky stance
of a floating fly dragon, yet he was humility personified. His
wildness had been tamed to docile civility by the sublime
processes of socialisation. But his anger was a self-
consuming desire seeking direction of appeal. The case
had been presented, not once, but it has become a tedium
that has lost the novelty appeal of structured conveyance,
the first time around. Yet like the mantra of a vestal virgin,
the song repeated again, is better than the one just about
being completed.
Another day dawns, the light comes very early, as early as
two a.m. the brief darkness begins to unfold and the
horizon beyond the glass window panes assumes darker
shades of varied yellow, reminders of spectacular sunsets
in shades of orange. The summer light, this part of the
world, is an abundant overplay of clarity, lighting and
heating in a seeming overcompensation for the prolonged
darkness of winter, enough to light, at times even the
darkest of souls.

He is a moving ball of distorted emotions on the downside

of life. Uncoordinated rage criss-crosses his fragile
emotional zone in non-specific lashes of overlapping
multivariegated shades of off-colour red, filling him, way up
with unresolved emotional differences, that he has only
barely began to appreciate, least of all understand. Over
thirty years of age, brimming with visions and ideas,
unfulfilled, with yesterdays lingering despairs clawing
tenaciously into today's sorrow.

From some infrequently accessed grey brain region,

suddenly there spreads unto the memory screen, scenes of
a small tropical island, dry and rocky. Its white houses,
seemingly bleached by the ocean waters lapping its
scrawny shores. The graves in its cemetery had the look of
something well cared for, but that could benefit from major
maintenance works. Like the neatly painted houses in the
poorer sections of town, carefully held together only by the
invisible bonds of hopes nurtured by hearts bleached of
sorrow. Structures lighted from some extreme artistic
viewpoint, delighting in the higher, brighter shades of
primary colours; the best effort only seems to accentuate
the extremities of poverty. The people, on that little island,
they sang sad sweet songs, cracked the big rocks that
littered the shores into small collections of gravels; the task
was pursued by many of the people who lived there, on
that little island, with a consciousness and attention that
exceeded the requirements of the task. It was a task
pursued with the avid determination of desperation. The
meaningfulness bequeathed the task cried of the need for
definition, a definition of not what it is that they are doing,
rather what their purpose to life was, is and going to be. On
that lonely place, out of time and place, it was a place
where they sought to give life more than a passing glance,
before retreating to the approaching darkness, where
perhaps they will find something that gives peace.

He remembered the assistant headmaster of the famous

secondary school he attended in Cape Coast, Mr Bart,
reflecting on his path through life "... most of you boys are
overeager to be science students, yes, in my days it was
no different, the competition was tough, and eventually, I
was also one of the chosen few...that was many years ago
and hundreds of gallons of coffee and countable hours of
sleep. Today, I am an assistant headmaster while some of
those who we thought were dunderheads are today
heading 'big organizations' and doing well in politics.
Maybe if I had also studied political science at the
university I could very well be an important government
official today, and not just an assistant head . . ."

Words uttered expansively, captured with vivid clarity by

subtle processes in a far away place and recalled with vivid
clarity these many years later and in so far away a place.
Yet still, he may have overlooked a few things in his favour,
by dint of being a teacher in a boys school, he occupied a
hill top bungalow and inspired great fear in a thousand
boys every passing day of the academic year, not only as a
result of his enormous bulk, but he was quick to use the
cane in his chemistry class and outside on undisciplined
boys, and 'boy!’ could he lay it on right'. To aspire to be a
politician, that certainly is 'crank' thinking. What haven't
politicians done in undoing all? In their insanity, and
cowardly pursuit of personal underachievement, they have
ruined the vibrancy of potentials waiting to find realisation
and destroyed the hopes of many a generation.

Threshing in some deep dead end labouring task and

being the ultimate purveyor of the hand-me-downs of
overlords. Yes, certainly, some, almost all, but there
are a few who bring the light into the darkness, the
purest of the souls, these, are the ones who give unto
us the joy of pride and the identity of a people. They
must be sought for, defined and appreciated.

The bane of self-imposed ruthlessness, pathetically

described as leaders, in recent times have sent some in
search of economic security in far and foreign places.
African governments are busy despoiling their own
societies. The colonial legacy of artificially unnatural,
seemingly inconsiderate and haphazard splitting of a whole
continent by a few buccaneers, whiling away time over
whisky, pretentiously assuming laconic attitudes of
discoverers has had lasting repercussions both positive
and negative. (Only heaven knows what they had
discovered anyway. Probably, they discovered that others
live their own sustainable lives in their own societies.
Inarguably, however the doctrine of Christianity and
accessing God through Christ Jesus, has been one of the
most profound and farthest reaching benefit of contact with
these intrepid adventurers). On the whole, the prevailing
negations have been massive inadequacy of leadership
capabilities to effectively manage the transformational
transition actuated by this cross-cultural contact. It is only
in the paucity of consideration when issues are examined
through the tinted lens of dissatisfaction that proper
perspicuity is enabled. In reflective consideration it would
seem that the grouping of previously independent tribes
into the constraining boundaries of nation states probably
serves some good purpose. Possibly the different tribes
could muster their resources in their newly defined
configurations, employing in the process their worthy,
under exploited intellectual potential to build great nations.
But nation building is not by any means a job lightly taken
or pretentiously assumed. It is a commitment that demands
committed commitment. For as the prophet Isaiah echoed
the Supreme Architect Himself with resonating - resonance
through space, time dimensions - inquiry, "Can a country
be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment?"
For this ancient landmass peopled with cultures as old as
the rocks, the birthing process seems an unending
contraction that gripped the mother to be at the crack of
dawn, leaving the piercing shrill hanging in sustained pain,
reverberating through the years, and making the children
cringe with unknown emotions. So far, in most instances
Africa's artificial nation states are too busy self-destructing,
attempting without much success to assert everything, but
the expected appropriate self-direction to define meaning
within changed contexts. The fight to find definitive
emergence is only a continuation of a process of necessary
equilibration that the advent of colonialism to the African
continent perpetuated. That contact was an indication of
weighty matters in the higher trans-physical realms of time,
change and universal divergence and convergence. The
cycle had gone full circle and closure had been attained,
adverted by the advent of the adventurers. With that there
has been activated a transitional transformational shift, up
and into the beginning of another level of the infiniteuos
spiral.

It is more natural, to imagine a successful Ashanti nation

state, a strong Hutu enclave, a free Tutsi nation, a
dominant Bantu state, just like it was before colonial
influence came and distorted it all. However the dominant
issue that is most relevant is how existing society sorts out
the rubbles of the "tower of colonial Babel" and rise from
the ashes of being latecomers and rise to the task of
uplifting the crumbling spirits of a continent in despair. The
desperation of mayhem teaches crucial lessons of survival
and brings to the fore the vultures and the hunters that rid
society of the verminious thrash of a disembowelled and
chaotic society tearing apart at the seams, desperately
seeking to hold itself together. The ominous undeterred
recrafting powers of nature and the elements, grander in
scale and immolatingly unresponsive to the puny
irrelevance of humans self assumed grandeur of relevance
and import, petty assumptions easily cast aside in the
maelstroms of supercilious seemingly ungainly onslaught,
even by the very earth.

As some struggle to come to terms with the thinly veiled

circus like scenario enacting itself and exacting human
costs in terms of the unfulfilled dreams of whole
generations. The pride of identity and of central belief that it
was not for want of ability to pursue a course for the
general well being, as it is a lack of the opportunity to
express the sought for expectations on the larger social
scale that has engendered hopelessness in the midst of
hope and has led some to give vent to wild theorising to
explicate the profound regression of a whole race and from
this vacuous speculative basis sling wild intemperate
attempted pot-shots of suggestive wisdom seeking a
redefinition of reality, in misplaced adamant constructs of
fault ridden surety. For certainty, in refusal to reconsider
there is but one surety, unlimited despair.

As separate groupings migrated south, they lost the

finesse of their past greatness in the vast savannas
and mighty forests, they retrogressed to primitive
states and primary existence, but their societies were
well organised, so they survived, they adapted and
were too some extent in control of their environment.
Change came in the guise of just a few desperate
'fellas' in search of adventure and gold. The latter
invaders of the crumbling Black empire of ancient
kingdoms. They came, they saw already well-
organised societies and they traded. "Ayevu" means
crafty dog. The men of past knew what the stranger
had in mind but all the combined forces of their local
gods were no match for the bold cunningness of the
leaders of the strangers, they moved in slowly, craftily
and before the tent owner knew what was going on
the camel was calling the shots. Hundreds of years
later and several millions of the best of its human
resources depleted in slavery and confused relocation
to distant lands where the search for self-discovery
and recovery is a manifest reality manipulated by the
craftiness of the strange wayfarers. Blinded by the
parochial visions of tribal survival that successfully
sold of the best of tribal foes and in greed, kin. Lost
and bewildered, confused and betrayed. Only they,
themselves as a people, understand the deep
undertones of the bewailing cries of mourning, death
and disaster that have struck the family homestead.
War and great turbulence has devastated the
tranquillity, yet after burying their dead, they must
 gather again and remend the tattered garment of a
dispersed and distraught humanity. Dorning black
mourning clothes, they forsake their primary economic
activity of farming herding and hunting, for a while,
and 'sit in ash, dressed in sack clothes'. The garments
of sorrow had wearing durability and withstood harsh
wear. Then when tired of mourning, the wise elders
respond to their collective hunger pangs and say 'its
enough, let us all up and restructure the fabric of
meaningful existence'. But before rebuilding the
scattered fragments of dishevelled existence. Satiate
the primitive urge to revenge, to self-destruct, out of
the ashes of the ruins, piece together meaningful
creative activity that adds meaning and purpose. The
day comes when the made believe barriers are cast
aside. Overlook the artificial boundaries; discard them
from the margin of imagination. Of mind and the
marginalisation of the land when the Ashanti kingdom
of strongmen wise in their wisdom and the knowledge
of the strangers shall span the south-western tip of
Nigeria through the middle of Dahomey across the
hills of mid Volta and the tips of the northern
savannah into the sweltering rain forests of Cote
D'Ivoire. The King of Buganda will rise in spirit of
brotherhood and the mighty women, probably the men
too, of Shona will reach out to link the chain of
brotherhood completing the link with descendants of
the Zulu. Out of these smouldering ruins of despair
shall rise a great union, men will salute men with
respect, and women will tell the tale of the improbable
to their yet unborn children.

The tiny shards of sheds, frail palm fronds and plastic

sheets and other materials, cling with frightening frailty to
the black soils a little further up the beach. The seashore is
a veritable latrine where the waves roll the droppings of the
dwellers unto and back into the coastal waters. Here
easing oneself on the beach was not in any sense unusual,
it is the expected way of fulfilling that human function. The
boats, the nets, the children, the pigs and goats, the
women and the men are fused in an obnoxiously disgusting
travesty of all that is normal in a sordid existence of
desperate poverty, on these dirty beaches. In their poverty
they had desecrated natures purity in a perverse manner
that is intensely difficult to acknowledge and inexcusably
unacceptable, yet in the acceptance of it they compromise.
One wades through putrid and soggy grounds through
houses in the sun where darkness has taken a tenacious
hold. Here and there are the remnants of some palm oil
dish sacrificed to some clay and earth idol grinning
hideously. Here dwellings comprise of two rooms or single
rooms built to enfold a compound of sorts where privacy is
meaningless and gossip thrives like the children
enshrouded in caking layers of salt and dirt. Stomach's
bloated and heads seemingly larger than normal because
of their under nourishment, these children at first glance
seem to multiply and emerge at random from women who
seem to thrive on child birthing. First appearances could
not be more deceptive. Beneath the seemingly useless
despondency of failure, is a well-ordered system of grieving
anger against a society that has failed its habitats. The
society is a reality sui generis, a dark overwhelming
depressive entity that cowered obedience to its invincible
dictates. Here are nurtured dreams, born out of dread of
the suffocating material poverty and obvious doom, the fear
that triggers survival response instigated fear to escape the
dread. From such humble beginnings emerge every now
and then some desperate soul with a drive, the power of
the individual will propels a desire that ejects enough force
to break from the encircling grips of futility and despair. For
the most part the desire is born of education that enables a
vision of an alternative, a feasibly favourable alternative.
Where awareness and literal ability fleeces away the
depressing darkness of ignorance and opens the windows
of faded hope to some illusionary deceptiveness of "new
worlds" within the known world, a half baked offering of
unappetising outwardly pleasing fare that quickly pales in
the self revelatory light to engender profoundly depressing
meaninglessness of foggily defined new realities. A subtle
ill-defined process that by its very nature is annoyingly
depressing. The avidity with which these emergent ones
clad themselves in white clothing seems to be a blaring
declaration of the overt expression of their internal fight to
quench the nightmare of childhoods spent tottering on the
edge of despair and crippling poverty. Worse than poverty
is the general acceptance of that which is obviously
despicable and unacceptable. They live within it, but they
will not acquiesce to its cannibalistic thriving. They have
seen the figment of society's dreadful animosity that
consumes its core constituents, locked into and engulfing
those within its confinements to its slow degrading
annihilate consumptive greed of never sufficing hunger.
Those who are awakened to the reality of disparity within
which they exist are seemingly amazed at the acceptance
and the lack of desire to effect change even on a small
scale. The awakening is the light cast on the sea of vermin
us loathing, it is only the beginning, and the light lifts off the
darkness that shields the horror. Revealed fully to be
appreciated in the glaring light is the moving river of
unimaginable horrific realisation. There are images that are
scarred on the edges of sane minds in times deprived of
reality in a world and people that define reality in
excruciatingly non-realistic terms. In an enigmatic setting
and time, often it is not unseal to wonder despairingly
whether clarity of what is appropriate and self-redemptive,
is not in a sense abnormality when everyone behaves so
outrageously normal in their monotonic travesty of
meaningful existence. Traditional authorities are the
guardians of customs that enslave the soul and chain the
body unto corruption. The chiefs hold on to outdated
customs and irrelevancies in the face of arresting problems
of daily existence crying for solution. It is a holding on, that
in its tenaciousness reveals the truth that they have nothing
else to offer, no matter how much they may desire for a
viable alternative. Viability is indistinctive from the
sustainability of the self, first, and foremost, the individual
must be in existence and find self definitive grounding that
is meaningful, to be able to be potent harbingers of change.
Traditional authority is a fast eroding terrain of nonviability
in a rough ocean bridling with alternatives that are elusive
yet persistent. People are choking their desire to let out
their screams of desperation and in their last acts of
meaningful and sane behaviour choke to ghostly existence
of shadowy lives of futility. Here the young people do not
hold their elderly in contempt for failing to be conduits
through which youthful desires are realised as acts of self-
accomplishment. These young ones have a discernment
that is astound perspicuous. They have discerned with
shameful clarity that the elders no longer have any
solutions to problems that they can no longer comprehend
and have no realistic setting to enable solubility. Thus,
have they resigned themselves to dissolve into the rising
miasma of coagulating and congealing mass emotion of
pent up frustration that is an outcome of their irrelevancy as
mentors and architects of their children's future. These
young ones have redefined the existing reality, they do not
point at their mother's birthplace with their left fingers, they
seek with a certain studiousness’ to forget the locations of
their birthplace. There is a beguiling remorseless intensity
with which delusion is cloaked with charming disdain under
sheer and extreme ambitious drive, to not necessarily flee
but to satisfy the hunger for a change that is so obvious yet
so far out of reach. Fleeing to return; since success can
best be celebrated twice; at the moment of victorious
attainment and later at the more settled sedate stage of
adulation, where the individual eccentricity finds mass
expression in a collective gesture of celebration on the eve
of crowning glory (in the pits of despair, where the
homestead with its tradition that suffocates, now liberates).
They have set their face into the sun and seek for self-
fulfilment in the shadows of others achievement, striving to
find their location in well-mapped environs. Those who
have arrived only discover on arriving that the journey has
only begun. The transition zones are multi layered slices of
clean cut phases of lateral movements within and without,
up or down depending on the swaying currents taking hold
at the minimal individual level and the uncontrollable
societal denomination. The vague and ambiguous barriers
are intended to thwart and frustrate, driving one to acts of
desperation and yet stranger acts of enforced survival
against the prevailing dominance. It is indeed a long
seemingly hopeless stride against the emptiness that
curtails and quenches. A desperate blindfolded determined
mindlessness that enables a pleasant stroll through the
venomenous snake pit. The alter ego redefiners are the
rebels, who rebel against everything that their elders
acknowledged as acceptable, they fill the void of vacuous
empty listlessness with acts designed with a determination
to arouse the angst of all into the unrelieving despair that
the advent of things that arouse desires that cannot be
satisfied on a whole scale level engender. These are the
noise some pestilence intruding from the edge and setting
all on edge. They fornicate with the proclivity and intensity
of hormone drenched bulls, seeking as it were to burn their
frustration in welting fluids of insatiate desires. They steal
and plunder with unstoppable zeal, arrogating to
themselves in terms that are self derived the joy of the
hunt. They generate emotions bordering on social
disintegration among forbears who have lost themselves in
a hazy perplexity; insecurity that devolves to primal
instincts of self-preservation and of the little that can be
secured. They have elevated drunkenness and outward
overt expressive volatility of physicality with an aim of
destructive pulverism into an act form. They thrash and
remodify with an acute zeal of creative destruction of a
finely acute and intense nature. They are shadows that
merge and unify with the deepening darkness, melting and
unifying in acts of wanton consumptiveness under the
cover of darkness. They are the indicators of a sickness
that eats with an offensive and sustained tenacious grasp
into the fabrics of a disentangling meaninglessness. There
is no looking back, of appreciation of tasks accomplished,
victory is not savoured in the aftermath of accomplishment,
it is a despairing onward remodelling effort, a total work
over, the results of which are not certain, but the very act of
doing, in a morbid sense is satisfying and slowly mortifying.
The sneering contentment of evil when reality creates a
vacuum of appropriateness in the absence or deliberate
withdrawal of good.

A few determined souls have gone in search of the light of

knowledge. They sought to dispel the gloom of
overwhelming despair. The givers of the light are content
not to give the light to those who dwell in darkness. So the
fire is raised and burns ever brighter and stronger, those
who seek the light are misled, and seek to light their torch
at the shadow of the fire. Some get too close to the fire and
are singed. These are the ones who suffer severe damage,
only those who have the eyes can see their scars, but the
pain is evident for all who care enough to share. Some
return disoriented and confused. The torch they lit is hidden
in the inner recesses of their chambers, they mount an altar
of selfish pride in their madness and live in the light of the
fire they lit, out of place and out of touch with those who
live in the darkness. The words of wisdom says no one
lights a lamp and hides it under a bushel, words that
sparkle of guiding wisdom, foolishly bypassing the
arrogantly despairing. Light dwells with light and darkness
with darkness. The search continues. The heat of the fire is
inviting in the cold of the land of the great fire, some
succumb to the weakness of the flesh and forget the
greater goal and the larger mass of their people waiting for
the light to set ablaze the pile of firewood gathered with
great toil, to dispel the gloom of the all pervading darkness.
So they stay, failing in their duty, " you who fail hearken
yea to the cry of the people and forget not the judgement
before the ancestors and the Creator" No one blames
another, no not yet, the day will come, then atonement and
understanding will generate forgiveness. For now, it is very
true some do return; their flaming torches held high and
bright, stupidity, ignorance and inwardness characterize the
darkness. The touch of wisdom cannot be appreciated; it is
quenched with great rapidity and finality. Some torches
burn ever so bright in the presence of the great fire, they
stay, begrudgingly a space is created for them. Some have
come, back to the homestead twisted, contorted, distorted,
disjointed out of sync and rhythm, reality can hardly define
their strangeness. These ones are the calamities, empty
shells, with a head full of inapplicable knowledge,
tormented by the very fire they had gone to seek succour
from. Hatred beyond reason has wormed its way into them,
first they seek, they ask, they try to find reasons where
there are no meanings, where answers confuse the
questioner, its better not to know the answers if there are,
souls in torment, they lose the very essence of life. Seeking
direction when there is no place to go, so the search
continues. 'The spider has silver skins and in its whiteness
is reputed to have great wisdom; he tricks all the big and
the strong of the jungle and makes them dance to his tune.
When he is tired of them he sets them one against the
other and his raucous laughter rings across the jungle with
foreboding clarity'.

The era of mad men and visionless leaders. The era of the
shortsighted visionary preceded them. For the astute
observer it is not surprising that the leaders who led Africa
to independence dovetailed themselves and their "new
countries" into resounding cataclysmic failure. They were
battling two forces, primarily, the internal insatiate desire for
never ending power. Secondarily, the pandering to external
forces, which forces are potent manipulators with a focused
self centred interest, a hard core devoid of humane
padding, projectiles projecting outward, with a single intent,
to hurt, ever so intensely. So from the depths of the jungle
and the never ending plains these princely class marched
into the domain of the lion, they were wiremen, they
succumbed to the denigration of the spiritual self, but they
had immense inner strength, beyond the wildest
imagination of their mentors and masters. The lived to tell
the tale, they mastered the masters craft and confidently
threw the masters out of the workshop. Only this time the
battleground was the "discovered" land of the primitive
tribes of the lower Niger, Basuto land, and any of a myriad
of despicable names that the strangers will apply to
assuage their senses of humour, romance and perpetuate
the culture of inferiority. Africa was only discovered in the
imagination of reckless adventurers, in reality Africa was a
phenomenon waiting to happen. It was not an issue meant
to be corrected and redefined within the context of
inapplicable perspectives. There was a way that had
ceased to be sustainable, the emergence of new and more
accommodating replacements in tune with the
requirements of the time, is hedged in by discomfiting
circumstances from within and without. The old ways had
sustained the tribes for so long, there was a need for
change; the strangers only came to fulfil the predictions of
old. When they came they were actors acting a script that
they could not comprehend. The sailors and their leaders
were in a sense escaping the suffocating environments of
societies that needed release from the rule of a tyrant
minority. They were also the source of renewal in a bizarre
sense as they themselves sought for release from the
frightening damnation of societies carving and consuming
with avaricious ugliness their own children; a wild,
prolonged social carnivorous exhibitionism of intensely
disgusting cannibalistic orgy of tyrannical rulers, devising
ever more refined processes to scorn their societies.

The societies labelled as primitive were well

organised and disciplined. The "they", could at best
live as strangers and purvey their treachery and
destruction. To survive, for hundreds of years they
stayed cooped in their castles and fortresses, making
the occasional foray, expensive in terms of human
lives. To survive you had to understand the land, the
dynamics that propel its inhabitants and submit to
their laws, once they managed that with a few intrepid
extremists, they had began the conquest. The oracles
had long foretold the advent of the strange men from
the boiling waters, the oracles had divined the rise of
the falling ones from obscurity, and the oracles had
foretold their own demise and disappearance.
The tribal heads were strong men and powerful rulers.
Their descendants had to prove they were worthy to sit in
the stead of the mighty men they were heirs to. They were
men who hungered to rule; their laws were in conformity
with the times, humane and intolerant of disobedience. The
disobedient loser paid a painful price of humiliation and
ultimately death.

Tokor Atorlia, literally translates as the fifth lagoon.

The chief of Anlo migrated with his people from
Notsie, rebelling against the wickedness of Chief
Agorkoli, who had migrated with his people from the
wetlands of Nigeria, where the rest of the people who
had descended from the land of the Pharaoh's had
settled. The story remains in bits and pieces, but there
is a story.... The Awormefia of Anlo had decreed that
all disobedient youth who broke the laws of the
community should be buried neck deep in the mud at
the banks of the lagoon. The executioners came at
dawn and in the darkness preceding another day, the
brave and the stupid shrieking there silent fights of
desperation were hauled away, on a one way journey
of no return. They were taken and buried neck deep in
the marshy grooves surrounding the lagoon where the
ravens pecked their eyes out and they rotted to
death."

"The eye that mocks a father,

that scorns obedience to a mother,
will be pecked out by the ravens of the
valley,
will be eaten by the vultures." Proverbs 30.
 "The god of the shrine requested a human sacrifice
every year until the perfect sacrifice was found. So
every year some innocent stranger lost his soul in
rites of great secrecy. That was until one unlucky soul
from a far place strayed too far from known terrains.
They built a clay idol around him and even to this day
the shrine speaks fluent Portuguese and the Hunor
easily interprets it."

Men by their nature, deliver the best performances of their

lives in the most trying circumstances. So the daily heroes
enact the greatest acts of survival in the most desperate of
circumstances. The spirit of a man takes a beating, the
pain is stored in, it takes a rub, the anger is stored in, the
reservoirs are slowly building up, pressure mounts, till,
unrelieved, boiling point is reached, desperation and the
primeval responses are activated, a life and death struggle
in depths and dimensions varied, ensues. Therein are
revealed the true individual personalities, there are men
born to carry the burden of humanity, others simply create
the burdens for others to bear, some men must fight for
self-redemption enabling the finding of the real self. Others
just seem to be intransigent passengers on a journey they
never desired and would help in no way ease the rite of
passage; they drift monotonously to the embracing
darkness and numbness, never experiencing the thrill of
the ride. These are the ones resigned to die. The truly great
pay the price of self-sacrifice, it is a price they accept with
humility, to such as these, it is enough to overcome the
obstacles and pass the reward that is beneficial to the rest
of humanity. These are the ones possessed of great inner
strength and fortitude. They have the strategic minds of
born warriors and the patience of a digesting python. They
will smoulder in their rage over time and situation that will
break the will of lesser men. They anticipate and
precipitate, and when the moment is right, they descend
upon the lesser beings with awesome destruction and
reconstruction, of such, were the first round of emergent
leaders. They were not descendants of the powerful tribal
rulers, but they had one thing in common, the desire for
self-determination and reorientation to changing
circumstances. They bided their time, studied in the great
learning centres of the emergent civilization, when the
preparatory period was over, they came, liberators of the
minds and rediscoverers of the will and hopes of their
people. They were driven, impelled by maniacal zeal to
rebuild and restore. First, they had accomplished the initial
task as nature had destined, the remainder of the task was
yet to be defined, you could only achieve so much in a
generation, that which had taken six centuries to distort
cannot be restored in a brief lifespan. Correction can only
be effected in the presence of recognition of an error, the
error has yet to be diagnosed in the confabulating mixture
of unresolved differences of what is to be measured in the
absence of a measure defining instrument, of a defining
morality of what was, is to be, is now, and what should be.
No matter how much or how insignificant the
accomplishment it was only the start. The greater task
ahead had only found definition in the mind of dreamers
who walked the edge of the beaten paths, well beyond the
known and safe places.

There were the traditional rulers and there were the

successful traders, they all recognised that the future will
be defined in terms of those who master the defining
values of the adventing culture. The strangers knew that
they had limited time to lord it over the rich sources of
needed raw materials. A mutually accepted experiment to
create a new individual for different reasons led to
education, western education. Traditional man did not need
five thousand years to evolve a literate culture, the
evolution manifested in perfect mastery of the language,
mannerisms and adaptation to the new culture. Enlightment
is the literates’ redemption of what was buried under the
decaying lumpiness of clumsy forcefulness, when gentility
is akin to the pusillanimous whining of insignificant
cowards. There were those among the many who took
education further, as far as far was possible, in situ, who
saw the reality revealed in a vision of rejection, progress
was equivocated in profound rejection of traditional values,
the weighty acquisition of borrowed cultural artefacts touted
with vain and vague relevance. Education became an
apparel of forceful acquisitiveness of individual grandiose
rather than a tool for evolving practical solutions to
daunting problems. The children of the master class were
deliberate and wanted to delay the change a little longer,
just long enough to have perfected the despicable slave-
master attitude of the strangers. Who, themselves, having
smarted under subjugation in their own lands could not
hold back on their desire to cunningly institute the same
practices among their hosts, but not before they had
effectively weakened the continent with their divisive antics
and turned neighbours against each other, supplying the
means that effectively deployed perpetual self-annihilation
into a self sustaining spiral that has gripped the tribes in a
sustained destructive gory disregard of life, making the task
of subjugation easier. The sustained anger of the
sojourners lacked the patience to tolerate that irrationality,
they came back and spoke, the message was clear. The
forces of self destruction that created mayhem all over
were inevitable, the leaders loved power and wanted to
keep it, they had never lived such power before, but power
self destructs the holder and those upon whom it is
exercised. The leaders had been through the fire, and the
suffering had provided them the energy that pushes the
weakest of men to the peak of endurance and
achievement, a life defining force is unleashed within the
darkness of cranial regions that must find let before it self
destructs those that are possessed of such immense
power, it must be unleashed. That inner energy
accomplished independence, the trap had been set by
unwary men, which angered the beast they could not
contend with. The new leaders of the monstrosity of tightly
constrained incongruity of intolerance that passed for the
new nation states came into inheritance of the pittance that
was the leftover of the exploitation of the mass of the
landmass. The exploitation is an afterthought of an
incomprehensible dilemma. They not only had ready
money, blood money, that bounded into obscurity, but
predictably to play by the rules of the enslavement and the
enslaving position, this time mental; of economics and
trade, the western way. The chips had fallen in place for
the mentors. The educated African, passively acculturated
and weaned, knew only one way to play the tune, the way
of his master. They were pretenders to freewill and
independence, for try what they will, they were doing what
they were trained to do. To lead their people and harness
the resources of the land to accentuate the survival of the
'master'. They were closely watched... They started with
fiery enthusiasm to imitate and equivocate the only thing,
the one way, they knew. They made believe they were
liberators, but the real liberators were yet to come.
Liberation was a mind process circumnavigated with
precise adroitness and harnessed for disciplined control to
benefit the colonialist, be they missionaries or
representatives of the 'empire'. The matching of intellectual
development with material improvement as indicators of a
changed status, which rankled at the mind state, was a
powerful controlling process that had barely been
understood. In its dynamic multiplicity, some of its portent
capabilities had escaped the harbingers of civilisation. It
often is evident that the awesome ability to gain access and
manipulate whole societies through the beguiling and
passive mind manipulation, was only barely breached by
the French colonialists who in their inability to comprehend
the awesome wholeness of a dimension of human nature
and the potentialities therein only poked at the surface and
let passed an opportunity, fleetingly flirting with its shadowy
elusiveness. It is a lesson that modern governing
processes have not approximated as they preoccupy
themselves with the barbaric aggresiveness of obtaining
obedience through physical oppression, an act that
activates a mind state of rebellious disobedience. To fully
acquire the power of servile governance, one needs to
revert power back to the individual members of society,
who in their individuality lack cohesive strength to impact
the larger mass and must by a consenting contract of wilful
submission surround trust to an individual. Leadership by
providing the podium of uniform authority, that expresses
the common desire, thus wields the awesome acceptable
rule of the conceding power. This is barely the beginning of
the governing process. The nature of the possible
expression of that power is the basis for qualifying the
success or otherwise of the governing process.

The first line of leaders had to fail, for in their failure they
provided the needed focal point for the diversity of tribes in
socio-cultural transition to rally and acknowledge the
unarguable requirement of the unity of all. The former
separation that enabled identity of the tribes, the rallying
calls of faintly distinguished former values that needed
nurturing and spread to others, were broken and the
artificial new boundary lines brought together what would
otherwise have been inconceivable, to come into being. But
for some the mourning had not yet started, the residues of
ancient anger and unresolved differences would have to
find expression through bloodletting of the most heinous
kind. It is all a necessary part of the cleansing that heralds
healing of the whole, soon the mourning will begin in
earnest and then the rebuilding.

The liberators were driven souls with mega egos and low
intellect. They were the vagabonds of other times. This
time round they held onto and wielded power, and that
power spoke audibly, spitting fire and wrecking destruction.
Fear strode along with them, they were not used to such
power, neither had they even slept nor dreamt the dreams
of grandiose delusional disillusion from which those they
overthrew were awakening. The violence that punctuates
bad governing is an indication of a disassociation between
the assumed view of leadership and the reality of
leadership. The job of assuming responsibility for society's
welfare and coalescing the disparity of individual
aspirations and providing the flexible but uniform platform
that enables a sated state of pleasant social interaction, is
hardly conceived in terms of rabid display of force. It is a
subtle, but deep engagement of the social psyche in a
sustained multi directional probe to attain ever-higher levels
of human attainments. To energise and tune the variety of
independents will struggling to find emergence in a tangle
of negatively opposing forces, requires a mental agility and
a highly developed skill at social manoeuvrability.
Destructive force and dishonesty are definitely not
accredited variables in the variety of required
characteristics of good governance. It hardly comes as a
surprise when the military men were exposed as cheap
imitators of poorly understood complexities, dwindling over
time in a mess of ever tightening loops of erratically flung
outlandish policies that made a mockery of civility. That
these human compendium of irascible usurpers had no
good intentions in their driving mind states is easily
discerned, they established governing bodies of confused
'buddies' whose idea of the governing process began and
ended in materialistic realisations, first for the self, then for
close relations, maybe for their tribes and the state, well
just the food chest to be raided at the midnight hour. They
had cliques of uneducated condoning tribal monstrosities in
uniform and mufti that perpetrate a prevailing overhanging
atmosphere of barely restrained chaos, under which the
people wilt in frustration and denial of basic essentialities
that define meaningful existence. Is it any wonder that
government has evolved to be seen as an entity of
suppressive terror destined to torment the individual and to
be joined as a gravy wagon of petty thieves and usurpers
of the common good.

"Now you rich people weep and wail

because of the misery that is coming
upon you.
Your wealth has rotted,
and moths have eaten your clothes.
Your gold and silver are corroded.
Their corrosion will testify against you
and eat your flesh like fire.
You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
look! The wages you failed to pay
the workmen who mowed your fields
are crying against you.
The cry of the harvesters have reached
the ears of the Lord Almighty.
You have lived on earth in luxury and self
indulgence.
 You have fattened yourselves in the day of
slaughter.
You have condemned and murdered innocent
men,
Who were not opposing you." James 5:5&6.

Human life is so short, yet in this brief period of individual

existence, men have crafted cruelty of devious diversity,
making each one life one prolonged unending refined
torment. A roller coaster existence of meaningless highs
and lows in a placidity of turbid nonfulfillment. The life lived
and the collective enduring mind, sustained in one
prolonged sustained note of excruciating high pitchedness;
sounds so disturbing! There are many things that need to
be done or desired, aspired to, to be achieved, but the
wishes are washed up at the graveyard. Dreams belong to
the sane, yet a few mad men seek to live the dreams they
had not conjured, these are the deranged that become the
heroes of their days. There are those who look back, to
ascertain what little had been achieved and how much
more could have been done. A man wants to do so many
things, he aspires to want to rebuild society, to take control
of lesser beings, unite them into an impregnable force to
push beyond the barriers that imprison them into a
perpetual cycle of miserable existence, untying them from
the chains of misery that maintain a strangle hold and sap
life out of unborn hopes. Using the energy generated, his
dream will build for them a better place where men and
women live in dignity. Such a man has many problems, he
is like a bottle of honey in the open, opened, the flies will
come, disgusting, filthy and breeding disease, the bees will
come with a sting so sharp, painful and a big after swell,
the big bad bear comes along and gulps all of them
together down its big black throat.
Isaiah, the prophet (may have) echoed the times: -

Woe to those who make unjust laws,

to those who issue oppressive
decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed
of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?
Nothing will remain but to cringe among
the captives
or fall among the slain.
Isaiah 10:1-4

After accumulating the unjust wealth of greed, building the

secured nest in the midst of the suffering masses, the wars
of ravaging poverty, brutally maul the collective, and all
without exemption cower in fear. In fear of what? The
twelve year old brandishing a weapon of destruction and
burning a stiff of whiff? The denied that were not even
worth a spit a few quiet weeks back? Yet no one learns. No
peace can be had in the midst of the unfulfilled desires of
others. Yet, even, when those desires are contorted into
mockeries of decency, what is to be fulfilled?

Some had seen the light beyond the gloom, the starlight in
the wide black night sky, a glimmer of hope and a catalyst
of illusions and the fantasy of dreams that curl the brittle
dry lips into faint smiles. A few in desperation, in search of
meaning had looked up and seen the little lights. These
ones, they are fed up, tired and disgusted with the stench
that is beneath, on the ground, they arrogate to themselves
wise ness. They have climbed the backs of the doddering
unaccomplished and taken a whiff of the freshness that is
above the common ground, they like it and do not want to
live in the stench on the ground, not anymore. So they
stretch their necks ever further, breathing the sweet
scented air, standing on the back of those suffocating in the
stench beneath. Life on the ground is beastly, but even the
beasts can forage in the pristine purity of natures beauty
undefiled. Men have created filth in the untainted beauty of
nature. Men have taken that which is clean, freely given,
giving joy, they have substituted dirt, hatred that melts
others with one look, and turned existence into a
meaningless menagerie. People are choked, choking to
death with the filthiness of inner city slush. It poisons the
very air they breathe, its corruption is overwhelming and its
stains resist cleansing. Young people, desperate and
dangerous, seek for meaning and direction in this
madhouse melee. The old look on, worn out, feeble and
confused, they have lost their sense of direction, in places
where there is nowhere to go. The old wisdom of the
ancient, have nothing to give in terms of the concrete
realisation of significant dimensions of the social, physical
and idealistic expectations defined by intrusive
externalities, not any longer; even before they could hand it
out, the young have stolen and discarded whatever the
elders had to give without permission or right. Who can
afford the luxury of theorising about the insignificant when
people perish in want in the midst of unbounded and
limitless possibilities due to ignorance? Yet the dream
continues, the dreamers awake and only then does the
madness of living begin. It is their intense desires born of
frustration in systems that do not adequately approximate
individual expectations in time and place that engenders a
search at one level, to realise what is adequately most
satisfying, and at another level, leads to an obsessive futile
search for the means to gratify their intense cravings.
Some look beyond the now, the constricted limitations,
despairing not at the bleakness of the landscape, rather are
apprehensive of the fertility of the filth and filthiness that in
its quirky corruptibility has layered all and all things with
suffocating and progressively tenuous rank fetidity, tainting
all within the grasp of its awesome modifiable embrace.
Yet, people in close proximity never seeking to understand,
mocking the misfortunes of others, wishing everyone to fail
like them, pretending to have heroes in a world that is
beyond them, in which they live.

Keta; little town by the sea. The sand, everywhere,

not a single rock on those beaches for miles and
miles, it was only the pale yellowish matured bamboo
coloured sand. The ever lulling splash of the surf
pounding the shore, the stiff breeze and the salt on
your tongue and the smell of it tingling your nostrils.
The early years of innocence when you could just
remember all the little details of life and the activities
going on around you the carefree joy of innocent
childhood. To all intents and purposes, grandpa must
have been the epitome of motivated ambition. In his
latter years, well after he had broken the chord of
despair that held the family in a suffocating tenuous
embrace of ancient rites and primitive traditions
realised within the traditional occupation of fishing. He
emphatically decried every thing that identified the
people in the village. He was insistently intolerant of
noise and brash behaviour in any form. His huge
mansion painted in a brilliant white, the white wash
regularly redone to maintain that pristine purity of
cleanliness was a very quite place. A spoon dropped
in the female quarters of this huge sprawling edifice of
human accomplishment was a catalyst to an irksome
irritation that vented itself not only against the dimwit
who disturbed the carefully cultivated peace. There
were always one houseboy or another who came to
live in the little boys room at the end of the garden
that fronted the inner outer court. The houseboys
maintained and kept house, doing all kinds of chores.
Grandpa was of medium height. His normal dressing
style was a standard immaculate white and British
khaki trouser, and solid, ground-crunching buffalo skin
shoes. He was a head teacher famed for his
disciplinary intolerance to his pupils. And at his funeral
many accomplished men and women who had risen
from the little villages and towns lining the Atlantic
coast of this section of West Africa to positions of
commendable achievement at the national level,
retrospectively acknowledged the benefits that his
severe canning and hard expectations benefited their
individual drive for success. He saw in education a
great opening and took to schooling with a fervency
that surpassed all the expectations of his father, the
great fisherman and local chieftain had thought. After
the missionary education at the primary and middle
school level. He proceeded to teachers training
college. Later on in life he got into trading, engaging in
an import trade activity, selling British wares and
opening a bookshop that was famous along the coast.
He was thrifty with his money and loved the
companionship of the ladies of the town. The
distinguishing characteristics of grandpa was less the
eccentricities that defined his daily existence or the
marvellous beauty of architectural imagination that he
realised and relished in, it was that, he was a little
man with a hard driving motivation to snap the cords
of brutish existence and find another form of solace.
He grew to despise the gross mannerisms of the
fishing folk and their brash ways. His attendance at
their traditional rites was to wane into non-
participation, a replacement process it would seem.
He became head teacher, church elder and town
councillor. It was a setting where ones approximation
to British mannerisms or whatever interpretation it had
assumed here, was the realistic assessment of ones
status. The traditional society endowed the elders with
great positional responsibility and accorded great
respect. This blended very well with the highlighted
civilised conduct of this educated dandies and church
fathers. In this new phase of small town evolvement,
the ability to read and record information assumed
such importance (that an educated elite, who held a
teaching post was for a generation accorded greater
acknowledgement than his equal in material riches),
since it blended very well with the traditional ways of
holding court and making land acquisitions verifiable.
The teachers, like my grandpa, became men of social
significance and made their presence felt at every
level of society. Education and Christianity were the
two greatest enlightens, that was in sync with
traditional society's search for a breakthrough into a
new phase of social organisation and found ready
acceptance in many quarters. In his self-realisation,
he played against the times and exigencies and won a
flush. His crowning glory of self-achievement was his
house and his children. In those early years of the
'new era', the children of the teacher, were to all
become accomplished academicians, who attended
 the great universities of Western and Eastern Europe.
They defined the times in their persevering nature.
They triumphed against the odds and the
improbabilities, albeit grandpa's money made a
difference. In later years the sea erosion along this
portion of the Atlantic coast took away all the great
mansions of Keta and broke the hearts and spirits of
many a daring settler in this little town. It was the end
of an era. There were the children who took away with
them the quaint memory of this beautiful little town
and its twisted heroes.

Sometimes, watching nature, deliberating on its extreme

but unified diversity of miasmic expletive calculability, it is
not unnatural to conceive of humans as the height of
creation perfected. Within human species are displayed
varying levels of intellectual capacity. In all its diversity are
clear streams of generalised commonality. Human intellect
is spread broadly from extremely intelligent to the
downright stupid. At both ends of the spectrum of
intellectual capacity there are only the exceptional few. The
larger majority of mankind are bunched in the middle. It’s
within this middle class that the worst and the best of
human nature abound. In this grouping lies growth of all
societies in response to the peculiar demands of their
extenuating circumstances. So it is that he forerunners of
creative scientific growth the few who think beyond the
general populace in conjunction with good leaders, using
as their base the knowledge of different civilizations and
the intrepidness inspired no doubt by hunger insatiable for
the yet unattainable set out to expand the horizon of
feasible knowledge. That growth being attained in minute
stages with its apparently unbelievable out ward
manifestation of its results. But each widely acclaimed
discovery, that the mass of the populace applauds, is
attained over trying times and suddenly when perfection of
that particular bit of knowledge is eminent it, it explodes in
a myriad of cross products; that presently accentuate the
gaps in knowledge.
That emphasis of difference is not per se the natural
consequence of progress be it scientific or otherwise....
Traditional man had attained equilibrium in dynamism.
They had attained a unity with nature and their
environment. They had attained a form of self-sustainability
that was truncated and stolidly grounded, yet non
generative. The traditional societies operated at the
pertaining level of physical reality and spirituality. To the
spiritual leaders have been entrusted down the generations
the limitations that passed for secrets wrapped in the
deceptive cloaks of religion and magic that enabled
accessing the power of nature. That power was enormous
in its revelation. Awesome in the destruction that it could
wrought, if handled improperly. But to those to whom its
responsibility has been entrusted, it is assumed, that such
a source of strength need to be used to benefit the general
well being in all its fearsome capability.

The ancestors are the factual realisms of departed wise

men whose presence lingers on in their attainments and
the wisdom of their words. That good deeds must be
condoned and great individual attainments may outlive
transient existence, the wise ones enshrouded the lessons
of the past in the guise of spiritual garments of proverbial
existence of the departed in a spiritual realm that is close to
the living. Subtle, yet gripping effect on restless humanity.

Traditional society had all the rudiments of modern

industrial society, but somewhere between the transition
from a basically tilling society to the grandiose pretensions
of modern industrial society. The essential human factors
inherent in traditional society were deliberately discarded in
a rush to acquire the excessive consumptive materialistic
mentality that glorified the emergent civilisation. Traditional
society demanded honesty from its members; roguery was
not compromised in any form. The chiefs held their
responsibility and honour above wealth. The punishment
for default was severe and instant. With civilization,
whatever it meant, came unbridled acquisition of criminal
proportions. Civil servants and factory workers plundered
state resources not only with impunity but also with
aggressiveness remarkable in its intensity; everybody stole
from the national government and from each other,
conducted themselves in a manner designed individually
and collectively to destroy the shaky foundations of
assumed nationhood. Workers through selfish
manipulation, bribery and corruption of enormous
proportions, made it not only frustrating for their own
people, outside the bureaucratic system to deal with
government offices; but after walking the tightrope of
bureaucratic inefficiency and corruptible influences, the
aftertaste was bitter, repulsive and detestable. The
question demands an answer. One that few bothered to
ask, was, what is and was the responsible element
accountable for a situation where persons from recently
traditional systems who wouldn't dare to steal a cob of corn
in another persons farm, plunder with ease and no self
consciousness the collective wealth of nations. There
seemed to be not only a total refusal to accept the new
form of governance that colonialism imposed, but also in
their bid to introduce western values and elements of
governance to African societies the European deliberately
botched the job. Consequently central government
imposed the rule of the weak over the strong in a system
that was only barely understood by the majority of the
populace. Enforced by national armies with the cowering
influence of that pervasive underpinning of human
barbarity, armaments. The natural reaction was individual
rejection, manifesting in tangible acts of deliberate
misconduct, unconsciously directed at total destruction of
the false system.
Visualized, it is like a stick forced down, through the throat
into the stomach of an unwilling subject, the physiological
reaction is an intense and immediate rejection
characterised by violent retching, vomiting and excessive
salivation, stomach muscles contracting spasmodically to
regurgitate the offensive object. The stick may be forced to
stay in place, but the efforts at spewing it out are
uncontrollable and stop at death of the subject or spewing
out of the distasteful object.
For a people who lived their life in daily contentment with
nature mastering its vagaries and uncertainties, traditional
man was a highly disciplined and socially oriented
individual. In-group hunts each individual had a carefully
orchestrated role to play, but each individual had a
responsibility towards the group and its members. With the
hunt in sight, a faltering away from one's role could result in
another's death, so you learn to cover for your brother and
hold the group together, worse than death is the label of
cowardice and laziness that could result from misconduct,
a label that sticks to a family, is abhorred and despicable;
in essence laziness and cowardice were not aspects of
traditional societies. Like the old ones say, 'snakes breed in
the farm of the lazy man'
. Yet under national governments workers prided
themselves in the guile with which they absolved
themselves of their official responsibilities.

Traditional man was the epitome of human kindness in

non-warring times; a stranger, no matter where he was or
who he was received a refreshing bowl of cool water. They
believed that the gods at times assume human nature and
tested humans. Not to incur their wrath and receive only
the blessings, they bring, you learnt to be kind to strangers.
Society was structured to be supportive through mutual
acts of supportive cooperation.

Nationalist governments were the vestiges of colonial

exploitation and the dislike of foreign exploitation and
denigration of long cherished values carried over from
colonialism and stuck to central government with incredible
accretion. On the other side of the issue it is much easier to
brand some as lazy and inconsistent and then create
conditions that perpetuate the realization of this foible than
to credit them with resilience and strength that built the
superpower of this eras civilization. A power is only super
in comparison to another, lesser power.
On the whole the fragmentation that occasioned imposed
nationhood had a dual effect, basically it interfered in no
small way with traditional organizations of statehood and
civil responsibilities.

On the other hand life continued pretty much the same, a

large number of the people still dwell close to nature,
taming it and compromising with it pretty much as their
forebears had. They worked, using simple tools, depended
on the goodwill of Onyame-Almighty God- to water their
crops, hard work yielded bountiful harvests in some places,
the harvest is stored using old and trusted approaches of
storage. In hamlets and villages, old ways and traditional
rites still held strongly. A man is born, grows and becomes
initiated to the ways of the capable, marries, procreates,
supports his family and if he lives well and works hard he
dies and becomes an ancestor. The basic framework of life
as it is in all human societies with but slight variations.
After independence, the imposed, national governments
were attempting to fashion a meaningful system of herding
together the disorganised flock of cultural disparities that
constituted their contrived nations. Cultures develop in
some sense as an attempt for a people to come to terms
with their unique circumstances in specific localities. The
influences that shape the emergent culture vary across
human emotions to unique unvarying situational locations,
with the spiritual demands of religious beliefs. Thus while
two separately identifiable groups may inhabit the same
locations, the disparities in their belief systems and
expected behaviour patterns may be all, but similar.
Colonial legacy of a fragmented continent, artificially
broken up, engineered to self destruct-Africa had to heal
itself, like one struck by a strong fever, when you survive
the first attack you develop some amount of immunity,
consequently the fever may strike again and it always does
and again, each time increases your chances of survival
and yet may be the one that takes you across the chasm.
The first round of post-colonial African leaders had the
primary task of solidifying their leadership base, this task
some of them accomplished in a manner that left
unresolved differences for later settlement. Differences that
will be the bane of these countries ranging from nepotism
to tribal wars, settling issues as only men know how to; by
their strength. Overlapping this issue was the quest for
modernisation. Selective modernisation one could safely
suggest. Without doubt the defining material expression of
the civilization of the present era. However sight must not
be lost of the fact that it is the conglomeration of all the past
civilizations that manifests itself under the guise of present
day civilization. The mannerisms of the epochs of this
civilisation was adequate only if it satisfied the fulfilment of
a need, in this case the need was the incorporation of
valued western technological knowledge in diverse forms to
ease and sometimes complicate the conventional ways of
life that African societies had evolved. The issue remains to
be resolved exactly what the traditional societies in the
jungles and savannahs were up to, till they got in touch with
the potpourri of advanced and continually progressive
advancing technology. It is if course obvious that the state
of development of a people is to a reasonably large extent
a response to the constraining demands of their existing
circumstances. The demands for facilities that enhance
survival in difficult and trying circumstances have no doubt
been a driving force in human adaptation and
inventiveness. Traditional societies had well organised
social systems that sustained them in their forest
settlements and grasslands, society was not a chaotic
mayhem of ostensibly wild semi humans. They had evolved
in a sense the rudiments of a monetary system, buying and
selling with cowries as a means of exchange long before
the dramatic outcome of the sublime cultural clash.
Nevertheless the extent of uniformity of cultural evolution
was as varied as individual intellectual capacity in any
human setting, thus some tribes were more "cultured than
others". However, though some intrepid adventurers may
at some time had inculcated some elements of traditional
culture to the dominant western civilization, the combined
wealth of all previous human advancement that had
congealed into present day civilization, the fact remains
that on the whole the continent and its people were
progressing at their own pace, a pace, which compared to
the extenuating events that directed human progress in the
harsh conditions and cold lands elsewhere, was indeed
slow, much too slower, as Africans were to realise.
Traditional man detected the fierce hunger for acquisition
on the face of the early seamen, they knew from nature
where all of life's lessons are compiled, for those who can,
to appreciate that the weary travellers were wily customers
and their intellect not to be underestimated. They are only
now awakening to the folly of underestimating that intellect,
the hunger that sent men across unknown seas, the mind
power that takes control with the sole purpose of
acquisition and species survival as primary objectives. In
nature it is a survival of the strongest of the species, it is
also the ability of the weak to outwit the strong that
balances the food chain in nature. Yet, if the lion had its
way, its survival may be determined by the intensity of its
hunger and not the ability of the hunted to reproduce to
feed it. Yet, one can only effectively conclude on that issue
if he were a lion. In a strange way it is at times not
inconceivable to conjecture that creation was a systematic
progressive attempt at creating the finest and perfect living
creature systems. Such strange conjectures can easily be
obviated by the ease and preparedness of all cultures, in
varied manners, to make the developmental jump mentally
to learn and to a reasonable extent approximate the
dominant culture and civilization.
The difficulty lay in how to bring the majority of the people
to accept and in the process discard some of their old and
valued ways and integrate meaningfully the alien values of
so called modernity. The social and evolutionary jump of
the natives may have to a reasonably large extent made
their ways of living much easier much too early. The
associated problems are not fully defined and the solutions
are not being worked out. Nevertheless, events of today
indicate that it was inevitable that the culture that closed
distances and revealed the most hidden lands be the
dominant culture, the culture to which all must adapt to
survive. The world as defined by that culture was not going
to wait for Africa's sheltered natives neither was it going to
overlook them. To enhance their survival they had to
exploit the less civilized, civilized as defined by their
standards. The continent and its people were of use only in
terms of how they could be exploited and as later events
were to prove and as history indicates, if that meant total
annihilation, so be it. In which sense men and lions are not
too far apart. In some sense the colonization of Africa was
a rapacious intrusion that disrupted life and organised and
evolving systems in so drastic and abrupt a manner that
the continent is still in a state of shocked unawareness, the
resulting mess all too often resemble men awakening from
a hard fall dumbly reaching out to find reality by grasping
the air.

Sitting back and reflecting, it all opens up like an

onion peeling to reveal its inner core. - It stings- the
typical African village is clean, women get up at dawn
and swept the in and outside of their homes.
Communal labour was enthusiastically participated in.
The larger part of most African cities is a haven of
filth, open sewers, rubbish mountains and
haphazardly built tenements. They are places where
people are rushing or rusting into nothingness. A
reflection of the mess of colonial legacy, its aftermath.
The capital towns and cities were and still are places
where people for the most part migrated temporarily,
to engage in some form of wage paying labour. Their
settlements were transit camps haphazardly put up.
These people intended to acquire some money and
after awhile return to their home villages where life
was meaningful. The migrant quarters have become
towns, filthy towns, giant slums where the national
governments administer in true jungle style. They rule
in a manner not identifiable with any of the previously
existing types of ruler ship on the continent. Their rule
is as perverse as the system that instituted it. It is not
 totally obtuse thinking, even in an abnormal mental
state to think of it as a handover from one group of
usurpers to another- a master brigand handing over,
perpetuating the system of discordant values that
denigrates the essential pride of human nature, to his
apprentice burglars- the twist in the situation however
is that the apprentice, coup mongering burglars are
sons of the land, with the daughters presently, only
lurking in the shadows. The need to provide decent
housing for all the people and in the process,
beautifying the settlements, like all things this side of
the world, has assumed the nature of selective
prestige, limited to a section of society while the rest
of the people remain embittered observers and non
participants of the common good. The dynamic nature
of social evolution implies that people are content with
mud huts so long as that is the normal and accepted
habitat. When much more appealing, but
nevertheless, serving the same purpose infrastructure
is introduced, then everyone will seek the more
appealing, it is just the way humans are. An
overlooked situation and one that requires attention is
the need for the leaders to upgrade African societies
to live up to the demands of their necessary social
jump. The simple lives of the traditional society is in a
rapid state of fusing and evolving dictated by forces
not emergent from the environment in which change
is necessitated by extenuating realities of group
survival rather than as the luxurious afterthought of
relaxed well-being. The innermost core of the onion is
a softer version of the matured outer shell.

The system of economy that post colonial Africa inherited

was a 'feeder' and 'dependent economy' on one hand and
a mismanaged internal economy that had barely begun to
find expressive definitiveness. The consequent
mismanagement was and is a natural consequence of
ineptitude on the part of the leadership who in their
incomprehensiveness of their role requirements were
seeking to find direction along a precipice in a snowstorm.
It was a pathetic beginning and a winding road of sorrows
and distress. The feeder economy was oriented to feed the
growth of modern industrial requirements for raw materials
at the cheapest, morally possible price. There was little
consideration given the source regions of those raw
materials so long as they satisfied the needs of the
acquisitors/inquisitors. The scenario is not very different
from the industrial depletion of the environments in the
developed nations themselves. A selfish individualistic
perpetuation of greed and total disregard for others and the
earth. How can you knock the head of one in whose mouth
your fingers are stuck? On the reverse side, the surplus
productions from the consuming centres were directed to
African markets at exorbitant prices. The game like nature
of the whole international trade denigrates human values.
The seafarers came to Africa, institute their values and
money economy, then they return to base and begin
sucking away all the usable resources... beyond this of
course the game gets out of hand as the uncontrollable
factors supersede the deterministic nature of the game. In
any case the economic system thus instituted, perpetuated
and did fixate the Africans to more than necessary
dependence on the overflow of their colonialists. The most
dangerous consequence of this is that it slowed and
virtually brought to a halt self assertive discovery and
inventiveness on the continent. Africans became absorbed
observers, wrapped up, like children at a cartoon cinema,
glaring at the latest mechanical and electronic invention
emerging from the west and latter the east. They
concentrated on the acquisition and not the invention and
development of the things that add value to life. It seems
like
The pressures of change had not fired the drive to seek for
means of enhancing the group survival by the introduction
of improved technology evolving from within the group. On
the offside is the reality of being sucked into acquiescent
acceptance of the easy availability of what others have
made available. Thus Africans take pride in import
substitution industries and one rarely hears of any `cutting
edge´ technological industries. The lack of directive
leadership only widens the gap between consumptive
desirables and what is productively realisable. A situation
that implies that the few Africans, who are the geniuses or
plain madmen, who are a cut above the norm, driven, by
whatever forces them to seek and exert to discover, to
bring into realisation their dreams, can only do so outside
the continent to a large extent. Yet the potentials are locked
up in the villages and die undiscovered. Independence
implies the need for breakaway from this destructive
dependency. It implies more than the importation of
machinery to sustain import substitution. It requires creative
adaptation that takes advantage of the base of existing and
available knowledge to evolve a self-sustaining scientific
and industrial development on the continent and for its
people. The chains of mental slavery that binds to
accepting without shame that which is easily acquired and
bonding must be identified and loosened. The culture of
dependency is one of the most difficult issues Africa must
contend with. The bulk of Africa's potential lies buried in the
contrivances of western instigated dependency. The
consumption of technology developed in the west is a
necessary luxury for those who can afford it, so be it. But it
should not hamper initiative for the continent to create the
supporting environment to improve on that knowledge
base; it is of critical importance for Africa's scholars to
continually take advantage of the accumulated civilization
of humanity and project from that standpoint into the future.
The acquisition of knowledge merely to apply to technology
created elsewhere and non-sustainable in the African
environment is merely a stopgap measure, eventually the
African like the Asiatic must be technologically
independent, the deception of growth that imprisons,
chaining to the trough of feed boxes, the free spirit of
humanity locked in the prolonged struggle to rediscover the
trifled independency of existence exchanged. The
pioneers of national rule had clearly identified the
importance of education structured along western values,
adapted to their localities and environs, the second round
of usurpers and criminals who raped their own people with
avarice, saw in education a threat to their dictatorships,
these brought to a halt and ultimately reversal the seeds of
missionary education and national government strive to
educate every child to the highest attainable level possible
for the individual. After all these years, most of Africa still
contends with the unrealism of lack of education of
children. The denial of structured articulation of formal
knowledge hampers the contribution citizens to the formal
institutions of nation states and denies the individual, the
fullest existence as a human being productively engaged in
contributing to their society. The negative consequences of
these are already reverberating all over the continent,
armies of uneducated youth are fighting to find meaning in
a society which values education and yet has inadequate
structures to educate its citizens. Nevertheless it is
comforting to note that Africa per se in terms of individual
abilities has risen to the challenge of modern education
with alacrity, demonstrating its ability to come to terms with
its standards and at times excel in trying circumstances.
Much as individuals will expound racial superiority and
differences, the emergent reality is that there are only
cultural differences. There is only one world inhabited by
different people, sometimes the difference existing between
persons living one door away from another supersede the
differences that are reputed to exist between races and
colours. It could not be possible for any group from this
world to justify its superiority before an alien culture from
another world, if they exist, if they could not use their
superiority to better the needs of their less fortunate
neighbours and be puffed up with pride at their
achievements, never.
In reality, in some sense the situation of the majority of
Africa's people is not very different from the masses of the
poor who were revolutionary awakened, to assert their self-
discovery some seventy years ago in some parts of Asia.
That others had overcome worse situations and
shortcomings to develop their societies, gives room for
hope.
Africa's artificial boundaries have in no small way proven to
be an impediment to the continents rapid transition to a
technological and scientific age, apart from its economic
ramifications. The colonialists by craftily putting within large
geographic configurations people with different
perspectives on social organisation have in the short run
hindered smoothened growth while at the same instance
made it possible for the required early dissolution of cultural
differences that will have hampered continental unity.

Reflecting in the coolness of the strange calm of

dawn, the quiet preceding the mornings rush of
whooshing sound of traffic streaming, screaming in
the tense early morning rush to the same unglorified
desk job. Muddled minds of the early morning work
shift. Unthawed minds, heavy with the unshed
 thoughts of a new day. One does admit that there is
always a middle ground in almost all situations, in
revisiting negative dominance, slavery and
colonialism, the emotions aroused often give rise to
polarisation of views, nevertheless Africa south of the
Sahara owes conditional gratitude to foreign influence
which delved beyond parochial interests and brought
enlightenment as defined from the view point of
emergent western culture, however it is also the case
that negative attitudes have created wide gaps,
meaninglessness defined in terms of pigmentation.
But there is a need to acknowledge that human
nature, oft times exults over others demise as an
acknowledgment of its achievement, it is within this
light that such expressions of superiority must be
acknowledged. It is critical that overt efforts be made
and admittedly have been made and continues to be
made to refocus the mind set, on people being God's
creation in diversity. In other ways it is worth
considering what will the world be like 200 years from
now? Based on current trends it will be polarised
along too many lines for the comfortability of the
underdogs and the deprived, the critical question
worth pursuing from this standpoint, is what of Africa
and its people?

Africa and Africans stand in the best position to determine

their own fixture in the evolving human race. For the better
part of a quarter century, rather than assuaging the wounds
of 500 years of rapacious and traumatic destabilisation,
Africa, splintered into meaningless chunks had to face the
question of who determines what! Men who will not have
had the guts of disgracing village committee meetings were
suddenly thrown into leading a desperate continent seeking
for meaning in a uniquely, peculiarly disquieting situation.
The truth remains; unambiguously that, the fates and
outcomes of all the continents offspring’s are irrevocably
and inextricably linked to the end of that desperate search
for location, identity and a resetting of the course for
projection into a meaningful future.

The new Africa is an Africa that needs to be gripped in a

mental revolution, the days of metallic, cutlass rattling,
physical, non-sensitive revolutions occasioned by gun
totting imitators to leadership is over, in its stead must
emerge and is emerging the matured mind search that
seeks for self discovery from within, mapping it to external
sources and emerging with a comprehensively simple but
far reaching agenda of a unitary continental growth. Growth
that places the least of the people at its focus, the focus of
which is the total identity based on a need to discard self
centred individual well-being and to reach all the way
beneath the quagmire of social injustice and discover the
refined beauty of development that does not perpetuate
underdevelopment to accentuate individual greed.

African needs to compose it reacquire the self-confidence

to determine its own agenda this time not from the
perspective of external adventurers nor in contradiction to
any viewpoint, but from defective leadership principles and
inappropriately conjectured governing principles from
within. The hunger for self-recognition from external
sources is too deeply ingrained and inconsequential to the
required growth and attainment needs of the people, the
release from the constraint of inner emerging unresolved
inadequacies. The only recognition worth cultivating is one
that derives from the self, the recognition that ingratiates,
generating pride in self-achievement; external recognition
is secondary and an inconsequential addendum.
The times indeed do not call for lamentations over the past,
but the past must be evoked with solemnity if the pains of
the present are to crystallise and break into freshness,
wounds that have barely begun healing. The existing
circumstances are the only guide to an undefined future;
the future is inscribed in the map of the past. But a map
defines an existing reality, discarding the map does not
invalidate the superseding finality that found representation
in some idealistic realisation of true states. If that discourse
has anything to tell, the tale is in us, wherein lie our best
hopes?

Let Sanity Prevail

Wondering in the nether regions of qualified sanity,

with great effort and seriousness, postulating on the
end solution and debating it ad nauseum. Down to
reality, it all comes, to offer the lassitude of the tedium
and drown the self with the boredom.
Poisoning the body of the deliberating minds with
bitter coffee, that gives the kick to kick-start this tired
old engine. The exhaust of bloody expurturation is a
constant reminder at the end of the day of a body
complaining against misuse. Yet, the body exults in
the momentary pleasure of the expanded nervous
ejections that the coffee occasions. Strong men
weakened by the exigencies of the times that confront
them with the emptiness of painful inactivity loll into
useless states of dampening despair beyond
redemption. Their tired and worn muscles long
deprived of the building strength of conflict and the
push against which the renewal and continuity of
building and replenishing the strength is a non
negotiable requirement, lounge langorously in
meaningless places where they waste, suspended in
time, where time has been stripped of all meaning.
The momentary pause in the haze of maddening
activity has lost its intense relieving pleasure.
Deprived of the counter pressure that makes relieving
the pressure worthwhile, all wait in suspended
animation, yet they waste. Wait is purposive when
there is a thing to wait for, wait is torment when even
the thing to wait for is yet unformed, formed it must be
while the waiting has yet began. Minds that tire from
seeking things to think about, until tired of waiting they
strike out in rebelious anarchic disregard of
convention that stifles the growth waiting to be born.
The mindless abandon let loose in the torment of the
dry places. Stretched to their limits, straining against
the non existent, direction invoked from the hidden
sources that are yet still unfound. In the place
seemingly devoid of existence, thrives the things that
quench the living. The fearsome, unexplored, barely
understood, have found their dwelling in the dry
places devoid of meaning and living for, there, they
with tormentous slowlyness, that is paralysing in its
seemingly inactivity, exult in the renewal that comes
from the destruction of the presently existing far
removed from the truth that abounds.

Days of empty loneliness

Stretching way beyond the yawning emptiness
of known horizons-
Time in unlimited supply of inactivity
Minds decaying in living shells, emptying-
Thinking of things to think about
Eyes weary of sleep,
 slumbering in the darkness of light-
Weariness of churlish existence
Unending boredom of unrelieved tedium
Latitudes of lasititude
Profoundity of profuse uselessness
Postponned urgency for nonexistent occupation
Unappetising lumps of undesirous filth
Loathsome limbering stretch of unexercised
circumcision-
Conspicuous desolation of faltering hope
Murderous abandonment of aspirations
undreamt
Maimed souls seemingly beyond redemption
Abandonment even death forsakes
Hopeless lilting futility expanding unendlessly
Waves, upon waves of simmering undiscernible
lividness-
Leaking disgustively foaming stinky puddles
Shaping in agony incomprehensible in form.

There is a simmering meaningless anger, within the

profusion of untapped talents, flowing into wasteful
aridity of uncultivated deserts devoid of the quickening
spirit of fertility, nourishing renewal. Long in
expectation, hopes are hung on withered branches,
the shrubs of failed trees, that long devoid of the
renewal of water are silently dissolving into dust.
The hopes and aspirations of the masses need the
shaping hands of true leaders who bring to realisation
the silent dreams of the masses suffocating for want
of the directive strength of a leader who breaks the
mould of suppresive nonaccomplishment.
In the maelstrom of dissillusioned inactivity, in time, it is
only the procreative act of sustaining replenishment that
assumes centrality. Earnest ambitions had been slowly and
deliberately starved of means of finding realisation in
accomplishments. From the enactment of this basic
primeval acts of procreation misused for pleasure, arise the
need nurtured for redirection and the creation of
meaningfulness. Words mumbled in states of expiation,
mumblings of meaningless exasperation.

The rumbling underground train thundered through the

cavernous and endless stretch of dakness. The
background of tunnel darkness in contrast with the inside
flourescence, created a perfect mirror, one look and the
head involuntarily bows under the weight of the
conscience, the image mirrored so perfectly, peering with a
half open-mouthed astonishment at the memory,of recent
events. A people caught in the spiral of the stream of time
whooshing through the cavernous darkness of modernity.

They came with a hope, they descended from clear blue

skies into a cold, clincally clean environment of a city in the
northern reaches of another world. A journey that took
them from the frustrating dirt and grit of Africa to the cold
reality of the only proximity to a perfect society on earth.
The first few weeks would be a hazy dizzying adjustment to
the northern climes. Rather than being a short period of
acceptance and adjustment, their bodies and minds were
to sustain their combined refusal to acclimatise easily and
enable them find their footing. The 'I of the me' in them,
fights the body and the mind state as it were in rebellion.
The splintered personalities had to find a combined ground
of mutual acceptance to enable a resolution to that great
internal struggle. The chaotic disintergration of cohesive
personal existence, opened the doorways for pale ghosts
who were the welcoming committee to usher them into the
new setting, their silence voices echoing a persistent
refrain of accusation. The silent voices keep screaming,
without let, they keep whispering, shouting their maddening
insinuations, those voices, silent, yet so clear and loud.
The words come clear and distinct; the temptation to
engage the silent voices in conversation becomes
irresistible until you let go of the remaining vestiges of
sanity and indulge in the unlimited joy of unshared
pleasures of seemingly meaningless diatribe. It is the
observers who have a problem, cause by the time they
begin to talk back to the silent voices that torment them,
they are too far gone to care about what they think of
others or others think of them. So they hold it right in there,
keeping as tight a control as they can, caught off guard
they murmur some inaudible response. The silent rage
builds up, its like the gas tanks they have become. The
propensity to ignite is a palpable possibility. The pressure
ignites that inner rage and they are caught in the vortices
of powerful uncontrollable emotions and yet how proudly
they carry themselves, yet for all that outer display of self-
assurance they are wilting within, empty shell, turning and
unable to anchor solidity of the self in the totally consuming
inner generated response to the hatred that comes from
without. A constant reminder of a task unfinished. Recalling
with the vividness of images that make a lasting impression
the picture bounces to the fore of the minds eye, the
tangled shock of unkempt hair, the wild flashing eyes
deeply set in flushed faces, on a fourteen year old boy
seating on an air of thorns, moving restlessly in all
directions in a non ceasing jerking non coordinated fashion
that sets nerves on end. But it was the smothered appeal
for 'recognition of my pain' lacing through those sad brown
eyes that holds one in a tight fixture of constriction as a
mumbled burst of meaningless spurt of 'hello' not directed
at anyone, but in a sort of acknowledgement that
surprisingly was acknowledged. The rumblings of the
subway, the confinement of well separated individuals.

There was a certain belief, a sort of guiding insight into

reality that was self sustaining, that has been nourished
and been realised in the lives of others. It was the belief
that systematised knowledge, as offerred in the formal
academic setting of universities was a key that opened the
door to meaningful existence in the base materialistic world
of unending desires and the higher self attainment realms
of the mind state, that conceives the reality in
intangibilities. In that formal system, lies the possibility of
the formulation of reoriented policies that could draw
society further away from the brink of the bottomless abyss
of chaotic disintegration, which all of society was peering
into with great forboding. It is difficult to separate the self
and the set outcomes from the woes of society. There is a
general belief that, a new way of realising the common
expectations was possible and could be realised by
individuals who desire a new social configuration, these
ones think of the common welfare rather than the individual
well-being. Knowing that in the common-wellbeing was the
truest realisation of the individual's most honourable and
most base desires. And there were indeed many similarly
oriented individuals among the youth and the elderly; who
felt betrayed by their society and its leadership. Some
study abroad, to enable an appreciation of the supposed
heights of human civilisation that their society has been
pursuing as models to be approximated with lingering
failures all these years. It was a means of escaping for a
while from the all embracing decay of societies that had
become decadent and disoriented as they struggled
without affectual direction to relocate their centers in a
world that was rapidly gyrating out of focus. The idealistic
aspirations that lifted the weighed down soul upon the
floating wings and set me down gently unto the cold shores
of some faraway realms, were shattered by the harsher
realities of unbounded meaningless constraints of others
frustrations finding realisation in ways that impacted my
bubble of hope, with precariously negating effect. The calm
quititude of isolated loneliness that defined the landscape
was an illusory sheath, barely confining the strong
emotions of tentative destructivenes in a carefully
cultivated contentment of civility. The act committed, ahead
is a lifetime of a deliberately tormenting conscience to deal
with, a conscience that is deliberately cruel, playing
variations on a tormenting ever present theme. It was not
an accusing conscience, but it was one that refused to
provide a specific expression, of appraisal, and
condemned the individual to a mental state of blankness,
where there is a refusal to recreate the events of the past.

Identified, is the problem of the lack of a culture of

maintenance in a situation where there is little to maintain,
Seemingly, swimming against the overwhelming tides of a
rapid and turbulent sea of change, there seems a lack of
technique, a nonavailability of knowing how to flow with the
currents, yet, it was a time of surviving in a realm where
only strong swimmers could manage, so clinging to their
'pieces of iron' they took the deep plunge to nonentitiness.
The never ending journey inwards, where that which is
acquired with undeserving difficulty implodes destructively,
has for some become a maddenning search for the reason
underlying the meaningless behaviour of seemingly
nonaccomplishment. Why having touched the core of
fundamentalities, could they not use the energy gained in
the inward journey to source, to reach out to recreate, but
rather self destruct ? The search must per necessity be
from within, in accessing the inner strength, in order not to
be stiffled within those increasingly spiralling inner power to
dissolve into nothingness, there is also the need to seek
that which is without and constantly evolving, the act of
delicately balancing both sources of powering strength
enables the escaping of one without the destructive impact
of the other. The hidden hopes of the multitudes hovering
in a meaningless dimension seeking for a solid landing
zone, hinges on the actions of the doddering
unaccomplished. The leaders are caught up in the
frustrating complexities of the microcosm of personal
prides and wounded hides, meanwhile the waiting goes on
unabated. They have become attached to the uselessness
of discarded outmodedness. Thriving on the maintenance
of things that have long given way to improvements.
Sealed as it were, in the perpetuation of never ending
cycles of doomed existence, where the trend is not toward
the outward wholesomeness of broad configurations of
outer projections of closed attainments projected upon
each other incrementally, powered by the awareness of
self capability, rather there is a tendency to focus on the
slowly dissolving crudity of decayed particularities of ever
lessening circuits.

He was a strange quite fellow, he walked the streets with

stooped shoulders, bracing himself against heaven knows
what. There was that glint of fired determination that lit his
squinted eyes, that is if you bothered to look into them.
There was that air of something about him that triggered a
second look when you first met him and on consequent
meetings. Then my 'paddy,' Charles told me his story, not
Charles' story but that of the little man with fire in his eyes.
Actually, it was just a statement, casually dropped, as we
parlied about "things", as we strolled down the treeless
street, "that fellow has completed his masters, but he
deems it below himself to put the knowledge acquired from
school working for a corrupt military government".
It was just said in passing, and quickly forgotten, on my
side it never quite departed from my ruminatory mind
where ideas that are ensconced, are regurgitated every
now and then for palatable paliative contemplative
rechewing. Several years later when I brought it up -'it'
referring to the 'wilfull unemployed'- with Charles, so I
could ascertain whether that lonely rebel had changed his
mind, he looked at me with the kind of look that one
assumes when one is trying, impatiently, to come to grips
with the complex thoughts of a moron. He had completely
forgotten who the chap was and why any one would refuse
to work after graduating. A behavioural response that
infuriarated me in no small way, considering the gravity of
the ramifications, from my perspective, that an individual
proclamation of condemnation of the naivety and simplistic
approach that governance assumed in our time. To me the
silent hero was not to be dismissed casually from mind, but
his bold and immediately slow self destructive sublimely
fierce indictment of people who had betrayed the trust of a
suffering humanity gripped in the intense monotoneity of
the introverted spiral of meaningless existence needed to
be accorded in the private recesses of our thoughts the
commendation of heroic status.

The inability for governments to realise the expectations of

their societies finds expression in individual frustration, as
the sorry citizens live through a haze of dissapointing
reality in the midst of overwhelming possibilities, the haze
of daily existence is truly expressive of the difficulty to
appreciate the clarified nature of the failure of their
societies in establishing the means for the realisation of
individual their aspirations. Beyond the immediate basic
needs of most people, which needs cannot be met in most
of slum urban centers, there is also the desire for the life
enhancement needs that are frustratingly ignored by those
who have been assigned, or have innappropriately
assigned themselves the role of managing national affairs.
Most people, initially, assume an attitude of just giving
themselves and those close to them meaningful existence,
but after a while it becomes inevitable that no matter how
well, they had managed their individual fight to survive,
they are clutched inextricably in the collective failure of the
society at large. Their burning anger at the system that
refuses to sustain itself and those within it begin to shape
into a need for rectification of basic errors and a solution to
problems boiling without let from within and clouding the
hopes of the whole. Inevitably the society begins to digest
and ingest itself from within in a frustratingly slow motion of
certain volatile explosive expletivities of non definable
attainments.

Magnetized Pooling Centers

Development of regional centers on the continent is

gradually emerging and assuming definite shape, a
complexity of factors has defined certain countries in each
geographic zone on the continent as centers of
advantageous growth. Thus becoming potential targets of
regional economic strongholds and centers of
development. In the instance of countries such as Ghana,
there is the need to acknowledge their locational
advantages and make use of their inherent potentials as
centers of growth. It is up to farsighted leaderhip to evolve
far reaching policy frameworks that will enable policy
formulations that entice investment and stabilise
industrialisation. Those policies will not emerge from the
linear thinking conditionalities emerging from external
sources. It calls for clear headed leaders and an
administrative machinery that exploits existing potentials
creatively, potentials that presently are generally
overlooked. The government machinery must be
deregulated and national parliaments rather a national be
established. The parliament as the law making organ of
government must be located within the ruled, Ghana must
have three parliaments - the Southern Parliament, the
Ashanti Parliament and the Northern Parliament. The
Ashanti must be given self centered government
machinery. The development of such ingenious people are
being stifled by overfocus on the capital. The central
location of the Ashantis in Ghana and West Africa
correlates with the strategic positioning of the Ibos, and
they must be enabled free rein to industrialise and develop
their bussines potentials through intelligent government.
The three sitting parliaments will thwart any adventurous
coup makers and demand by consensus that legislation be
effective and development oriented since the legislators are
within their own kith and kins. In the area of education -
taking Ghana as an example - needs to develop a regional
research base at its universities attracting talents from the
large pool of potential human resources in the West African
sub-region. All universities and higher instituitions have the
potential of being at the forefront of groundbreaking
research, but as to whether that potential is utilised is
another issue. The adoption of short term measures, such
as increasing student room occupancy from their required
occupancy rates to something akin to poultry coops, is a
representation of the gap between the aspirations and
desires of the populace and the activities of leadership,
even, in the rarefied heights of academia. Academia is not
the disposal site of aging knowledge, but a potentially
vibrant setting to rouse society from its slumber. Out of
academia, the depository of active and flexible knowledge
must engage itself in creativity in an unlimited and
unrestricted manner. They must progress from the
uneviable position of perpetual victims to implementors of
profitable ventures. If higher instituitions with their
repository of knowledge cannot generate effective ideas to
exploit the resources in their environments to achieve
expected ends, who will? There is a need to break the
mould of redundancy and institute progressive policies that
aggresively exploit innovatively. The nature of
accomodation in Technical and Polytechnical instituitions,
as well as other specialised post secondary instutuitions of
higher education, must change from dormitories to
community flats. In a setting where there is a severe lack of
housing for workers, it is naive that, the existing
government policy expects a private sector investment to
provide adequate hostels for students at a reasonable
price, and possibly with adequate facilities. Minor, and
inconsequential as these issues may seem when
compared to the larger issues facing society, nevertheless
these minor issues touch the daily existence pf the people
and determine their day to day well-being and thus are the
end effects of higher policy making that are of relevance to
the people. It is these reoccuring defects in leadership,
reflected by severe deficits at the end of the chain- the
common man's daily outcome- that project a sense of
desperation and incapacitation on the part of leadership,
and profoundly curb the people's hope of any progessive
improvement in the forseeable future.
(The area in the mid voltaic hill country of Amedzofe,
Akpafu, Vane, Fume, Nyagbo-Sroe etc. must become a
south eastern volta higher education and research
catchment area, providing an infrastructurally immense and
incredibly developed educational center located in the hill
country and its malleable regional climate and human
resources complemented by an ingenious system of cable
cars and electric trains. Attracting scholars from the whole
of the West African sub-region and the world beyond.
National boundaries must be considered in more matured
states of mass rationality as being configurations that
demarcate states of enablement. To foster inter-nation
development, there is the need to build Aflao and Denu in
the Volta Region as commercial and educational centers
taking advantage of the Togolese capital's proximity to
pursue dual language education and commercial initiatives.
Likewise the other border towns must take advantage of
strategic location to become highly developed centers. The
lower Volta basin must take effective, forceful, local action
to improve the traditional economic base by improving
upon traditional practices of reaping natures bounty, fish
farming in the Keta-Avu lagoon must be considered with all
seriousness. The breadth and extent of the lagoon must be
increased by massive excavation of filled in parts of the
lagoon extending northeastwards towards the southern
portion of Agbozume and Some, south eastwards linearly
towards the Togo-Aflao border region. The massive clay
deposits to be excavated could and should become the raw
materials for one of the large scale brick and tile factories
to supplement and provide for high quality construction
material for the nation. The Keta lagoon sea inlet project
must be seriously reconsidered and modernised to provide
adequate seawater to blend with the Volta river lagoon
innudation project. In the Northern territories of Ghana,
Navrongo and Bolgatanga must become regional hubs of
transnational education, agriculture training and
commercial hubs for local and cross border interests. While
the large towns in the Northern sector must undergo
massive reconstruction, just as the rest of the country. A
process that will absorb idle youth for more than
generation, a period of respite to ease the excessive
unemployment, while government contemplates far
reaching policies. There is a need to encourage the
establishment of a navy cadres marine instituition to
educate children and youth in mainstream education and
maritime specialties in the Western Region. Thus begins to
emerge regional specialisation to take advantage of local
endowments. Nationwide there is the need for total
rebuilding and relocation efforts to eradicate slum dwelling
conditions all over the country. This is the sort of huge
infrastructure project effected at the local and district level
that will provide massive employment to occupy idle hands
and generate the realisation of a real improvement in
national development that has a direct and immediate
impact on the wellbeing of the people. Unless there is a
dramatic shift of direction in what the nation envisages, in
terms of improvement and adding value to peoples
lifestyles, in addition to ongoing efforts. There is no doubt
that the gap between expectations and what is realised will
continue to widen. There is the need to consider the
emergence of instituitionalised cyber centers of
technological diversity, Kumasi is an obvious choice in
terms of human talent and location. Tamale and the
University of the North should also provide a northern hub
center. The University of Cape Coast seems a viable
choice in the mid southern sector. Comparatively, Ghana is
an "island" of stability in a region where each individual
country is struggling to come to terms with post colonial
power vacuum that needs to be resolved and redefined.
The two potential tribes that could split the nation assunder,
the Ashantis and the Ewes, apparently have settled down
to acceptable tolerance of each other. The remaining tribal
differences are self contained and do not have sufficient
power and territorial influence to break the country apart.
The Ashantis, indomitable warriors and one of the most
influential tribes in the West African sub region, play for
significant recognition and influence in the national political
millieu, but in the whole there's is a society where success
expressed in terms of wealth supercedes any other thing.
They are still rooted in strong adherence to traditional
authourity, and their Ashantihene is a force to reckon with
and commands more respect and adoration than any
leader within the nation. The Ashantihene in the post
colonial setting has shown no inclination to push his
subjects to war as a means of exerting the overwhelming
influence of Ashanti power, despite the fact that some
influential individuals within that tribal grouping may have
considered the idea it finds no overt expression or
following. The Ashantis together with the Kwahu's have
become a formidable business and awe inspiring fortune
seekers who continually show their inner strength by the
tenacity and intensity with which they will pursue any
means both home and abroad to become successful
owners of property. The Ashantis are harbingers of eye-
openning cultural introductions into the country from other
societies. They are welded together by strong bonds of
tribal identity over and above the closed family relation.
That way their actions are responsive to strong public
opinion and expected standards of social interaction. By
their unique ability to ease themselves into any setting,
they infiltrate and live securely in every region. While they
learn local customs of the place they live to easily
assimilate, they have been noted to prefer exporting their
language and subtly persuading others to acquire their
language. The Ewes of the Volta region come in two broad
non-specific groupings, these are the southern Anlos of the
coastal subregion and the mid-voltans who have a culture
that is heavily influenced by the Ashantis. The Anlos are a
strict paternalistic tribalists of intensely individualistic
stance. They are great achievers and incredibly bold self
centered people whose centrality of ambition is individual
success and achievement that radiates to the whole, but
the person is central to the group. They strive with an
intensely honest goal of self-achievement, in the process
exhibit an intolerable sense of discipline and intolerance of
wrong doing. The Anlos have no clearcut traditional
authourity with similar clout to decide the actions and
directions of the tribe in national issues as compared to the
Ashantis. Among the Anlos education and educated
decision making rank at par with traditional authourity and
respect for the elderly. In a sense it could only be
wholesale persecution of an extremely violent and
inhumane nature on the whole tribal indentity and its
membership that could generate a united base for
defensive reaction, which former action is most unlikely to
emerge from the Ashantis. The various powerful groupings
of the northern territories have no inclination to impose their
will nationally, there is the Islamic factor that unites the
various groupings, but there is also the split engendered by
unresolved tribal differences of land rights that exercise a
stronger emergent differences in outlooks among the
various tribes. Individuals are geared towards education
and agriculture the former late in arrival and of yet defining
influence, the latter an aspect of the whole nation. People
are finding individual achievement determined in a
seemingly broad definition of educational achievement.

The unresolved tragedy of these times, is the emergence of

a deterministic central government which has whittled away
individual and communal responsibility for self
determination. The massive displacement of responsibility
unto a seemingly ungrounded and shaky national
government has as indicated given rise to polished
banditry. The gruesome plunder of national assets by
neglect and partial responsibility founded on individual
interests before social commitments has rendered
government implementation dangerously ineffective. The
redefinition of the art of governance and leadership; the
expected qualifications and mass endorsement of effective
leadership are unnegotiable priorities on the continent. The
future cannot be mortgaged for purposeless rhetorics and
nonaccomplishment by any single group or set of usurpers.
While we maintain the existing national boundaries as
conveniencies, the governing process in actual power and
purposive realisation capabilities should per necessity
devolve to the governed. This requires far reaching
innovative governing strategies, which will lower the power
of presidents and prime ministers or have three leaders
corresponding to the three parliaments who must then work
with a national figure head to determine the outcome of
their constituencies. After all it is not so much about the
person at the top as it is about the common man who is
waiting expectantly that social organisation processes will
yield desired outcomes. The truth is that most people only
care about the leader if he or she is totally incompetent or
excellent. In between they just expect that leades should
do deliver on their expected duties and society should
progress. In the long run what matters in defining the
direction of economic growth will be private investment
against a background of adequately supportive and socially
conscious legislation. Leadership will have to create value
and relevance for itself in its social oriented programmes.

The African intellectual property organisation

To speed up the modernisation and upliftment of life in the
slums where the majority of the people dwell in the cities,
there is the need to opt for zone specified developments
occasioned by total infrastructural upliftment projects.
Without curbing private sector initiated developments, the
deprived settlements, like Korle Gonno, Nsawam, Nima,
Chorkor and the coastal zone lying south of Mamprobi and
Dansoman require a massive redevelopment and structural
upgrading scheme. The development of residential, social
and economic infrastructures financed at the national level
are prerogatives to absorbing these otherwise boundary
inhabitants of society. These areas, like many others, are
the underprivileged with insignificant or virtually no
employment opportunities for occupying the youth. They
must be considered for employement creation projects and
socio-economic upliftment support schemes. They must be
empowered through self governing schemes where the
basic fundamentalities of organised modernisation will be
dynamically structured to be improved by additions and
improvements introduced by inhabitants of these areas.
These slum and deprived environments must be enriched
and educational facilities must be of the highest calibre.
The architecture must bring "joy to the heart" by its
elegance in the artistic blending of nature and solid
infrastructure. A total and unimaginable, but necessary
desire to be fulfilled, a departure from the slum conditions
to human decency. When the means exist to enable better
and improved life conditions, any adherence to prior
existing deplorable states, whether inevitable or preferred,
is a disacclaimation of the human essence that appreciates
beauty as a definitive realisable concept to be sort after
and expressed in concrete expressions, when the
individual appreciation of spirit lifting physical beauty
cannot be realised within society and the physical
environment they inhibit, their seems an acquiscence to
prefered states of lesser beings. There is a natural
predisposition to improve ones states of being, whether out
of 'neighbour envy' or plain restless ambition fueled by
survival needs, which needs in these times has assumed
expanded needs, which expanded needs have defined
quality of life so thoroughly that any attempt to pretend
idealistic rural agrarianism as an option, in a culture and
society which has barely emerged from the harshness of
the reality of primary rural existence, will not as the saying
goes, 'hold water.' For the African, proud and independent,
the fight is a deep seated inner conflict of quiet, intense
brooding, where the individual creatively resources means
of self fulfillment, hoping all the time that hope will come in
the form of bold leaders, focused on the grander issues
and not ignoring the easily ignored. The self is under a lot
of pressure and constantly seeking for direction and
support, with the individual lacking the means to realise
grander ends with wider social ramifications, the proudest,
most capable people, with faith so strong it lights the fires
of expectation long before hope is realised, these strong
undeterred, underutilised, people, the colours of the earth,
these collectives of determination, are among the saddest
people anywhere, as quietly they watched with courteous
trepidation and see their leaders perform the things
unmentioned in the open places of honour, and they weep,
those heavy tears of inner pain, unshared, mutually
acknowledged and pretentiously ignored. They see the
truth in the words that express the private shame played in
the inner chambers of sullen and dampened hearts, at play
in these words evoking their painful states with cutting
clarity. The one thing that emerges is a question that is
sounded with the exhalation is "so what do we do?" The
leaders being inexcusably deficient in task execution, the
society becomes a collection of bitter escapists, recoiling
into the inner self to find fulfillment in severely restricted
dimensions or running into wider outer societies to be more
severely restricted, displaced, dissappointed and sidelined
in the era of seemingly unending possibilities they are
eaten by inner humiliation and tormented by assumed
hopelessnes. The inner spirit flared by the drive to survive
awakens to new possibilities and hope is converted to
creative pursuit. The factor that holds the individual
semblance intact and society minimally functional is hope,
hope that one way or the other somebody will emerge who
sees things the way the individuals in the collective, in their
secret lomeliness perceive reality. The hope that solution is
feasible, it is just a matter of making the appropriate
derivations within the existing reality and the expected
solutions will begin to fall into place. Indeed it is this hope
that holds this tattered society, straining to split asunder
along many lines of fault ridden weaknesses. The materials
to realise Identity cards, credit schemes for social and
primary needs financing should enable the provision of the
basic essentials for comfortable and meaningful domestic
convenience. These are the basic requirements denied and
desired by the masses, languishing in poverty and want of
opportunities.)

As a people and a race set apart from all others. African

will define the course of improving the life and settings of its
people only within the unique configurations of the
continents social dynamism. The continent will benefit
adaptation of relevant technology from other societies but
in its intricate details and sophisticated operation will not be
the same as that of those other groupings since the basis
and focality of these groupings are at variance with the
primary human values of Africans as a group.

Government's role in national development is to be

configured as an enabling role not as a definer of
outcomes. The role of government as the manager of the
common resource implies the need to operate at a highly
noble and articulably highly paced role, providing to
improve in significant ways the upliftment of the people
from the restrictions of want and poverty. Enabling the
liberation of the potential talents locked and waiting to be
freed for creativity in a diversified environ. The role of
individuals as harbingers of cultural imports should be
eased and raised to an artform not restricted by regulations
and punitive taxes that hinder the fast forwarding of
national development.

National borders are a figment of collective imagination,

these barriers within the African context must be
considered boundaries that facilitate development. The
individual geograhical demarcations of nations state must
pursue intergration at various levels to enable taking
advantag of each other for the well being of the whole. The
individual person, the lowest and most vulnerable person in
each society should be the mark of comparison. When it is
well with this person, then it is well with society. The
potentials that governments open up to be explored will
invariably project the most determined, the luckiest, the
sharp investor to the fore. But of utmost significance is that
the most vulnerable and weakest individual should be our
mark whereupon the well being of each society is defined
and evaluated in terms of having achieved its social
improvement goals.

The resilience of African talent that has contributed to the

rapid civilisation of the world should be energised and
multiplied in the crucible of the suffering humanity. Africans
have learnt from the table of stinted accreditation and must
bring to blossom on the collective wholistic level the lesson
nurtured at the knees of sorrow. It is a sorrow of humanity
as a whole. The continent must be the welcoming home
place where the people are at peace with themselves and
their environment. Breathing the purified air of freedom in a
God given plave that they can best exploit their awesome
potentials as God's foremost creation. When Africans
awaken from the futility of striving without meaning in an
unfair race to edify themselves at the court of
unappreciative humanity, itself seeking to discover
meaningfulness in the maelstrom of misplaced priorities.
Then they as a whole will relax enough to be refocused on
the primary task of evolving within their uniquesness to
uplift each and everyone for the collective wellbeing. At that
point of self realisation they will begin to emerge like
butterflies from the deceptive self wrought restrictions of
cocoon stage.

Once the large mass of the continents human resources

and organised institutions are able to evolve an alter
continental economy, freeing the continent from the
debacle of the foreign exchange restraint which so far
leaves the continent at the mercy of manipulable forces
that retard continental growth, therein emerges the
beginings of the critical continental determined trade and
resources exchange economic development that will
parallel and co-exist with the international exchange
process with one not relevant to determining the outcome
of the other. The truth of the matter is that Europe and its
allies of the developed world economies are practically
miles ahead of African economies and it will be untenable
in the medium term to continue being stringed along at their
pace and by their unfair standards, in monetary, economic
and trade policies. While there must be energised speeding
to catch up with them in basic infrastructure, with more
complex infrastructure, time plays to Africa's advantage
invariably. The very emergent of which is a watermark in
the continents maturing process. The process of
continental rationalisation of priorities that places the
community over and above individual interest, while at the
same time ensuring the well being of the most
incapacitated in whatever ability, is invariably an
evolutionary process that cannot be forced but nurtured
into realisation. The idea must be projected into the
collective mentlity like a seed sown and watered to speed
up the nurturing process, it must be fertlised by letting it
gain ground and conceptual realisation among the
intellectuals and community leaders.

There is the need to demystify large scale engineering

projects and with assistance enbark on massive but
meaningful and applicatory engineering projects to manage
our environments to the improvement of traditional society.
Africa cannot afford to engage in piecemeal and a slowed
and watered down growth process pari passu a world that
is rapidly transforming itself in directions hitherto
unheralded. A radical socio-economic shift rather than
lineal growth is in order. Society must be moved into a
higher plane wholesale, a need for looking at things on a
grand scale, to bring to all their basic infrastructural
upgrading in a generation, in the process providing
meaningful goal oriented employment on a sustainable
level. It is not the impossibility of it rather than the mind
barrier that limits the growth that privately and individually
is seeking to be let free for the common good. For their
capabilities are system inherent and must be facilitated by
the provisions of efficient organisation of the social
instituition with the collective wealth at its disposal. What
government must come to terms with is that their relevance
is directly related to the effectivenes with which they are
able to provide society with what it desires. What Africa
needs are not series upon series of debts but governing
processes that enable the individual to maximise their
potentialities in the decency of qualitatively the highest
standards anywhere. A society that has little must put its
limited resources to the highest quality application and that
should apply in all sectors. Government efforts must be
identified with the highest quality anywhere because the
government has the collective and must use it justifiably.
Better the little that is done be of enduring quality than
littering the society with slipshod inxecusable debris of
excused ineffectiveness. There is a vast difference
between foistering useless short term gap measures and
identyfing and implementing simple technologies with far
reaching utility values.

Maximisation of continental resources and the breaking

down of externallly instigated limitations and restrictions is
a sine qua non as the continental socio-economic shift is
enagaged and activated into realisation.
The continent by dint of human progression stands at a
better location in time to engage in the type of massive shift
and socio-economic projection into better societies than
any previous civilisation. The toils of past generations in
every aspect of human civilisation is available to us by
means of the tools of the inormation. Its resources mustt be
comaandered to yield optimum benefit as Africa makes the
jump shift into a new era. The drive for change will have
continental ramifications and yield change at the most
profund level of individual psyche. But the emergent seeds
and the dream is a solitary endeavour of a few gifted
individuals out of synch with the masses.

The continent must borrow knowledge with the aim of

adding value to its existing reality. And in the process
stretch the boundaries of known scripted knowledge. For
lying dormant and latently in the unresourced minds
wasting away in the neglected sectors of society are the
the God given abilities that will bring changes unconceived
to this blessed land. There must not be any self imposed
hindering of copious borrowing from everywhere
knowledge is available by what means so-ever. They are
entitled to it, because it is the common heritage of all that is
capable of utilising it for their well being and not the
property of short sighted and limited civilisation. The
continent and its people are limited only by their self
imposed restrictions, the African must not continue to act
like the chief who died of thirst by the riverside because
there was no slave available to serve him water. The
people must apply themselves without aforethought to the
utilisation of all available knowledge from any culture and
any part of the world and apply themselves vigorously to all
such knowledge with vigour expanding within the unique
environs of the culture and the setting the boundaries of
knowledge in directions hitherto unconceived. Africa is
where it all begun, where knowledge shall return and take a
drink, a refreshing at the fountains of the ancients, the
cauldrons brimming over with enhancing spices that give
depth and variety to blandity.

Pride and restraint must give way to end-goal-orientation

mentality. It is what is gained eventually, the means is more
a moral consideration. However all human emotions that
retard the projective goal must be subsumed by inner
strength to focus with a determined end goal achieving
mentality before which any and every other thing is
secondary.

The unbelief and hesistancy that occassions new and

untrodden paths as when radical reorientation effects a
transitional shift that in the case of developmental growth
needs commesurate with mind state evolutionary states,
will on the continent be technological enhancement of
organised systems, is normal, expected but would and has
been a transient period, after which quick responsive
adaptation enables projected growth. The failure and
faltering that has led to social downgrading has been more
of system inadequacy at management points to maintain
stability at higher planes of social transition, rather than
inherent system incapacity to maintain itself at higher plane
levels of mind actuated human social existence.

There are certain misplaced beliefs that Africa will reap of

the benefits of the hand me downs of western
development, if it does happen it will certainly be an
afterthought, if prior history is anything to go by. Whatever
will be achieved in terms of development will be the result
of sustained effort building upon the derivatives from the
aberrant thoughts of visionaries. The existing developed
worlds attained that status by opening up their societies
and engaging in adaptive applications by copious
borrowing and grafting through exposure with other
cultures. Given that this has meant growth of stagnating
knowledge in original sources, it has been a positive factor
to the human race to open up and merge ideas through
trade. That Africa should miss out on this piquant
adventure of great social benefit is a failure that cannot be
displaced to any externality albeit such influences are
pervasive, they must must be tempered into applicatory
usefulness. If it misses on in it, it would be more a
consequence of societies that accept and tolerate leader
inadequacy and by so doing limit the full utilisation of their
utmost capabilities. The leaders who imposes himself on
the society has one condition for tolerance of that sort of
malfeasance that he projects a vision and makes evident
achievements that indict social tolerance for this sort of
roguery. The only revolution this continent needs is the true
revolution, a clean break with the negations that foister
suffering on minds that have outgrown the restraints and
limitations of primary existence. The people who have the
choice of electing their leaders must cut through the mush
and noise of the clanging political machinery and source for
leaders with a vision and an expressed basis for
catapulting their society upwards and to more desirable
states of social organisation.

There is the need to attract for cultivation and development,

the continent's mental resources, mainly underemployed by
a systematic strangulatory effort employing sophisticated
and manipulatory mechanisms to hold by fiduciary control
these mental resources and most determined of souls
wasting away. These are the talents that have had the
foresight and blessing to fight to pursue the intellectual
disciplinary effort needed to obtain what they perceive as a
key to successful individual existence and appreciable
social worth in some contextual definitiveness, they also
have the mind set to respond to practical calls from their
motherland to apply the wisdom of age and experience in
conducive settings to facilitate progress. There is an
enormous reserve of waiting minds begging to be
uncovered by educators enabled by appropriate
educational programmes that do not concive higher
education as the sole preseve of a selected few, whatever
the medium of selection, rather education at all levels
conceived as an enabling process of encuraging the
discovery of human abilities in perfect synchrony with
individual capabilities. Remember this words echoing down
the halls of time - @The true wealth of a nation is
measured not by how much gold it possesses, but by what
it can produce. (Adam Smith 1776, The Wealth of
Nations.). The external world has capitalised on the mind
and created value for the things that formerly were
unmetered. Africa having observed this expanded game of
primary exchange, seeing that it has great value must
apply it in diversified adaptations, that set the human value
at its core, with appreciation for the source of physical
sustenance, this God given land of unimaginable riches.
The development of this continent is not necessarily
mandated on the gadgeteries and contrivancies of the
external world, though admittedly they do help along
several frontiers. The development of the continent is the
activation of expanded mind sets to push the boundaries of
existing limitations by increasing the inherent human
creative energy in diversified activities that add vakue and
expand the horizons of human capabiities, while at the
same time, in ethos with the provisions of the era, making
existence on earth a bearable burden. In the past,
societies, cultivated crops, herded livestock and engaged in
trade, learnt trade and other arts from old masters and at
times fought a tribal war. Those were activities that were
commensurate with the ethos of that era. The times have
changed and changed overall positively, it is not that the
contnent will be bypassed in totality, but the worry is that
faulty social organisation may leave many by the roadside
of the streets of development and growth, and come the
night the city will hear and feel their anger. The whole
society will be wrapped in fear because they have failed to
take responsibility in totality, that is the basis of accusation,
the referrent point from which revisory effort should
continue. It seems that society is begining to accept with
great discomfort, to astute observers that some by
circumstances beyond their control should live an existence
of miserable torment , while others may live in
pleasantness, what is wrong with all appreciating the
benefits of God's benefice, even if it is in terms of material
provision and engineered decency, afterall he enabled the
mind for its realisations. Evoking God is postponning the
unpleasant reality of this lopsided development, for while
God is patient and longsufferring, human's are fairly
unpredictable and short fused. Thus it is more an issue of
how to facilitate harmonious societies on the continent that
supports humanity than pleasing God. For God finished
with his work and was pleased with all he has done and set
the framework for human social organisation, love your
neighbour as yourself.- It is up to humans to utilise their
creative intellect and realise the full potentials of the
collective intellect in each evolving era. The lines has been
drawn and the equipment provided, the rest of the game is
up to humanity to enact, and in the process create some
worthy existence for themselves, that will make their short
life on earth a bliss rather than a misery.

Continental development in a picturesque presentation

could be imagined as taking the rough abrasive edge of
traditional percusion and modifying and blending with
smoother and refined mellowness of classical composition
filtered through the wide and widening range of modern
music in all its diversity. However much change it
undergoes in this transformation process there remains a
detectable element of something traditionally unique in
origin and strongly definitive.

If is of course without doubt that whatever level of social

upgrading that will in effect uplift the African image must
emerge from the minds of the people dwelling therein,
there is little point in stressing that Africa and its talented
humanity must wage afrontal war not against each other
over personal aggrandisement of any individual, the true
war are the battles that must be fought in the mind and in
planning centers to bring development in its highest
possible level to each and everyone, the continent must
depart from second class and subsidiary social philosophy
of third worldism and awaken to the realism of concerted
social up gradement second to non. The only difference
realistically in bare bone terms between the haves and the
have nots is one that is defined in the mind set to change
stones and pieces of papers to valued exchange
commodities and craft a civilisation from that. In the
process Africa has found itself as being over these few
hundred years a raw material that is an input reource with
no aforethought consumptive consequence of others
machinations. The awareness is a step in the process to
craft a self sustaining system outside and beneficial to the
continents and its humanity.

Each stage of the current drama of continental

developmental drama, replete with failures and horrifying
blunders and at times retrogressions into the abyss of
intellectual and social darkness, in retrospect must be seen
as part of a difficult learning process, where hopeful the
past provides roadmarks of forms of realisation not to be
evoked since their outcome are nothing short of disaster.
Likewise it is the case that their a time when certain well
intended plans, implemented may yield positive outcomes
while in other times and settings they result in adding to the
miserable state of the vulnerable. The developmental
process is per necessity fraught, like any endeavour with
peaks and depths of success and failure respectively like
any human endeavour. So long as the course pursued, is
genuinely based on concern for the least of humanity in an
effort to uplift all, there is ample room to adjust for errors
and re-position course for the sought after goal.

There is no basis for pursuing a programme of

approximation to existing systems and patterns. the whole
process of upward growth and civilisation over time has
indicated a pattern of copious borrowing and a hack and
patch adaptation process where freewill and strong willed
leadership has exerted a creative spirit elevating the
individual mind in concordance with the massed desire of
humanity working in concordance with God's purpose to
elevate humanity one notch up. The African must make use
of what is natural available to him/her in complementing it
with what can be borrowed from others and begin to forge
an accelerated social upheaval that is not necessarily an
imitation of others, so long as it in response to the basic
need of improving upon existing circumstances, to add as it
were value to primary existence.

To those upon whom the mantle of leadership has fallen on

the continent, whether they assume wrongly that it was in a
large part due to their personal exertions, they, the every
first moment they assume power have an obligation to the
masses within whom their power base base finds definition,
to become channels or conduits for channeling the greams
and expectations of their governance with a single
determined purpose to bring to fruition as much as possible
at the most advanced level an improvement on the well
being of their people and their circumstances. The
continent must be envisaged as one complementary
segmented whole. Where the dispersed resources must
bring relief to all its colourful diversity. Diversity need be
emphasised for bridging the monoteneity of attempted
eveness, it is contrary to the very dictates of nature, but it
should not be exploited for destructive ends. If there is one
commonality that binds all, it is the poverty of short
sightedness and incredible stupidity in the presence of
unlimited possibilities. To be bold and open minded to
acknowledge the limitations of the mind set that perpetuate
unnecessary suffering is a necessary first step toward
working out viable and sustainable long term solutions. The
primary long term goal is to underemphasise selfish
exploitation and cultivate traditional communal values in the
aid of the highest and most refined socio-cultural-economic
development. Beyond physical infrastructural development
is the cultivation of the finer mind set on societal basis. It is
only within this mind set, that individuals and communities
begin to breach the negative tendencies of introverted
selfishly destructive imploding focus on the self, the small
grouping and the tribe, to begin to enlarge their focus and
begin into view the continental possibilties that are
unlimited in their potentialities. This mind set will enable
sustainable development that is closer to the development
of the self, over and above a faceless, meaningless
government. It is the mind set and its philosophical
underpinnings which when transfused down the
generations will keep ablaze the flickering torch that is
hopefully being lit. The idea must need be given life and
palpably wholesomeness that must find continental
expression not as figment on the peripheries of the
imaginations of a hopelessly embattled fragmented mass
seeking for solace in the wrong places and putting
individual satisfaction in total disregard of the economically
disenfranchised. Instead it must find voice, be articulated
and permeate the thinking and daily expression of the least
informed individual. It is the beginning of the effective
articulation of a continental desired destiny that transcends
the rarefied halls of officialdom into the local parlance that
will instigate the mind search that occasions the awakening
of the slumbering power of the common will working to
bring to realisation the idealsitic musings of the populace
desiring a better state of affairs. It is this desire that
accords humanity the pitiful, but nevertheless essential
appreciativeness to applaud mere approximations of
desired states by leaders who impose their solitary
madness on the collective mentality. In the land of the blind
the one eye man is king, so in a situation where the
expected best of the most elevated only yield barbaric
expression of brutish, carnivorous feast like despoilations
of the nobility of human gentleness in misdirected acts of
cowardly and visionless despoilations of the weaklings,
even the slightest spot of brighteness in the wary dimness
is worthy of commendation. How much more when the full
light of liberated minds lift the cloak of visionless rutted
leadership for the liberating upliftement of the true touch
bearers of the freedom that liberates the mental bondage of
made believe poverty in the bountifulness of God's treasure
house of creation and creativity, the land, in which we live.
The position of leadersip in a surrealistic sense is akine to
the highest realisation of philosophical vacuity of bringing
into being at the highest level humanly possible at a
societal level, enabling the possibility of the hopeless to
perceive hope, empowering the powerless to become
instruments of communal contributory effort. The
government machinery in that case becomes a humane
instrument striving to create meaning for those languishing
for want of direction in the throes of indecisiviness. It is not
in this case a murderous instrument of chaotic
dismemberement of fragile social strand, there is no life in
death, there is no truth of sacrificing one life to realise
meaning for another, all life weighs equal, the gift of God,
not to be abused for any flimsy excuse of any misguided
individual aggrandisement. The realm of avaricious self
centered acts of individual greed is best realised in the
realm of private business. The transformation of
governance into a falsified staged theater of individual
greediness and contrived deceptiveness is a realisation
within the collective acknowledgement that spells a dim
future. The unmitigated truth that is obvious is that, honesty
as a social construct is evidently the basis for social
stability. Leaders must be honest to their electorate not
because it is a resounding platitude; and society must be
honest in its regard of rewarding leaders equitably because
it is a condition for demanding good government.

Africa is cornered by desperate poverty and

underdevelopment of an excruciatingly painful kind, the
pain arises from the awareness that, the leaders have
failed to take appropriate advantage of existing knowledge
states, where others have blazed the trail and the human
mind has attained a collective state of intellectual capability
needed to ease the overpowering control of the at times
harsh impositions of traditional agro-based social
organisation, not much is being realised in reaching critical
mass effect in terms of structural change effects that will
bring much needed change at the level of the most
deprived- more so because the land and its resources have
been largely underemployed to resolve the most basic of
the needs of the people in a transformative manner. The
African seems to be enshrouded in multilayered silk cocoon
of seemingly unending woes trivialised. What is rather
disturbing is that they seems to be no concerted effort
sustainingly aimed at breaking the mould of sperficial
restraints. As a collective, the people have not tested their
strength and capabilities to breaking point to create a surge
effect that will lift the collective mass into a higher ring of
the cyclical spiral and thus are incapable of knowing their
limitations and their possibilities in the context of presenty
existing facilitations of developmental processes
elsewhere. The amorphous government machinery made
up of individuals who are sentitive to the needs of their
communities and brimming full of ideas in informal settings,
must begin to undorn itself of the garment of isolatary and
vacuous policy implementation. It must be more person
oriented in its policy implementation, not achieving results
in half hearted, half-way, developing context, but within its
limitations delivering the best perfomance each time in its
implementation. The African scenario is clearly one where
there seems to be an accepted policy of later redressing of
fragility. This must give way to the delivering of the highest
quality implementation process, no matter how little at each
installment. It is without doubt more acceptable to give the
very best at each serving, rather than reserve for another
time what is inapproriately conceived as developed world
quality, there is only one consideration, what is the best
that is possibly conceivable. There is no need to perpetuate
on the self debasement emanating from fictional sources.
The Continents's first perfomance must be it's best
perfomance, that way the people stand to rise above
themselves the next time around.

The fragmentation process set in motion on the continent

due to inept past governments is creating a schism that is
spreading the social margins ever widely. In the one
instance are a few who through advantages that are of
irrelevance to the argument but that nevertheless have
established solid self contained units of up to date material
wealth enabling them to approximate lifestyles that are
askew with the deprivation that torment the majority
underprivileged. While legislation is made from the
viewpoint of favouring these lucky wealthy and the
significant influences on policy making to a significant
extent derive from this captive enstranged class who are
out of tune with the harsh realities of the extremity of
deprivations that make beggars of honest people. The
government by asceding to pass social and economic
policies that make no serious attempt to break the vicious
grips of poverty and depravity, while at them same time
perpetuating a form of local government that does not
ensure marked economic improvement but focuses on
petty toll collection economics; tasking the poor to spite
them that is irksome. Refocusing on basic issues it
becomes clear that through time the human mind has been
pushed by extreme circumstances to yield to higher states,
but in the case of Africa's deprived masses the problems
and the solutions therein engendered tend to center on
basic live requirement of decent environment to live,
adequate housing provisions, the basic furnishing and
rudimentary domestic entertainment devices and a steady
employment. Many are left wondering why the gap
between the governing process and the most vulnerable
persons who are in majority, needing all the assistance that
organised exploitation and export of the continents
resource are suppposed to support most. By ignoring to set
into motion activities that are practical in meeting the basic
expectations of the masses, the governmental apparatus
has become an isolated significant determinant of the
quality of life outcome of the people. Governments are
made up of people, they are supposed to represent the
interest of the citizens, by dint of that, a government for the
most part is not represented by physical structures and
clearly defined non relatedness in interest and activities
from those it is supposed to represent and act on behalf of.
The structures that povernment habit are properties that
belong to everyone, in a sense everyone is entitled to such
premises, it is for the public. The government that begins to
act on its own is in effect not a government but could be
classified as innapropriate appropriation of the common
good for selfish purposes. Reactions to restore to the
rightful owners can only be achieved in terms of recourse
agaisnt the individuals who have betrayed the common
thrust, but not against the instituitions and the structures
that habour these instituitions. Individuals by common
consent and social responsibility have been granted a
piece of the land that belongs to society as a whole.
Beyond that is the reality supreme that everyone finds
acceptance and definition by dint of allowances made by
others in any of a varied of ways to yield them social
acceptance and tolerance, and in some cases respect. In
the same way that it is given it can be withheld by society
at large. A leader that is denied rulership by his subjects is
no longer a leader, simply because leadership finds power
within the ranks and file of the commonality. It is at its
highest and most refined level not a unilateral imposition by
any one person on all others, but an acceptance of one
person and a small group to align the expectations of
everyone in a rationalistic and creative manner to yield
fallbacks that profit the society as a whole and enable the
individual aspirations in all its diversity to be realisable in a
socially acceptable manner. When this realisation filters
into society, the power base is transfered into the hands of
the least of humanity who acting in conjunction with all
others can with hold the killing hands of tyranny and refuse
to spread the mould of corruption that taints by misrule.
Awareness that power resides with those upon whom
power is exercised acting in unison is to bring constructive
awareness that, much as individuals strive to be what they
wish to be, striving against impossibilities and nay sayers,
some and a lot achieve success beyond their wildest
dreams. For a society comprised with such talent and
potential, it only requires the appropriate directive influence
to convert improbabilities into possibilities and uplift the
vibrancy of being several notches. The effort towards
positive and realistic social change must derive from within
the very continent. The outside world realistically, taken, as
from the perspective of the individual can be assumed as a
helpful, tolerant and supportive society. However the
primary driving force is what comes from within desiring the
change and willing to make the commitment and sacrifices
to enable attainment of these noble goals of projecting
oneself to the stars against the force of gravity.
Within the philosophic assertion of circumscribed
determinism, there is implied an assumption of
maximisation of the lee way of deterministic potential
available to justify accomplishment. For lack of vision the
masses perish, it need not be a vision born of critical
conditions that demand outrageous policies. It is incumbent
on real leadership to harness the potentials of its
citizenship and bring to realisation projects and efforts that
find realisation meaningfully only within massed effort in
socially responsible settings. There in indicative a
leadership vacuum when the sole effort of governance
projects the promotion of individual initiative without igniting
the communal spirit of large scale state sponsored projects
aimed at uplifting the dismal state of the weakest of
society's composition. These poor and inappropriately
denied have been relegated to beggarly status not for want
of resources and a the individual to achieve, but merely by
a denial process consequent of closed mind leadership
(where lacking of ideas, the leaders refuse to acknowledge
traditional values that wisely say that, one head does not
rule a nation). Leadership lacks capability to organise its
human resources to be fully employed in productively
profitable ventures. Profitability has been constricted by
non expansive thinking processes into monetary and
stunted profit-loss economies. There is the profitable
employment of labour that is directed by society to improve
upon its own environs. Thus it is the case that while
everyone demands a clean society, it is an aspect of
normality to maintain a semblance of personal beauty at
some level, yet it still requires the deft management of
adroit authority to employ the energy resources of its willing
but pliant human resources to apply this God given energy,
employing simple tools to heighten the droll(the ones who
due to bad luck become the objects of laughter for the ones
who by dint of luck can afford to laugh at others less
fortunate) and dross(the seemingly worthless and
nonproductive humanity) into productive mechanisms that
convert the raw into artforms of aesthetic exuberance. The
truest definitive attribute of leadership is not based on
depriving the majority to provide for the unappreciative few,
neither is it based on ignoring the plights of those to whom
the greatest assistance is due. It is not so much a n issue
of closing the gaps between those who have and those
who lack. It is enabling those who nedd support and adding
value to their existance, while at the same time providing
ample opportuntiy for those who have to increase their
wealth and share with those who lack. There is a
preoccupation with complex systems when the simple
suffices more than enough, to advance isnot necessarily to
become more confabulated, rather in advancement the
seemingly intricate is unstranded into into its barest
minimun, to facilitate understanding. There is no substitute
for fundamentals, the builders foundation on which are
placed the complexities. There is likewise no alternative to
gradual beginnings. Construction begins with an idea, that
is converted into primary sketches, these then become an
architects blueprint, that guides a construction crews
realisation of the idea in concrete terms. The actual
construction process is a gradual, systematic process, with
clear cut beginnings, anyhow there is always a form of
systematic projection. Long term projection is a bedrock of
sustainable, sustained development on the continent.
Continental development is a hands on project, not set
against other prior or ongoing developments, the
marginalisation of the continent, whether seen as a
consequence of other civilisations or a carefully
orchestrated attempt with darker motives notwithstanding,
is only of secondary importance. It is merely of historical
consequence, all that the continent needs to upgrade itself
is within its capabilities and boundaries. Of immediate
importance is how apt are the governments to gear
themselves to take advantage of the times to shape a new
and materially improved future for their people. Applied to
languishing masses, there is no relieve in sight if there is
no attempt, no matter how miniscule, at initiating physically
prescient upgradement projects within the poorest of the
land.
Government is not the sole reserve of "qualified
politicians", it is a domain by which society enables those
most capable to wield the directive power rod for traversing
a set course with a starting point and a defined objective, it
is in its implementation, a process that transcends the time
and times and parochial interests. It is a vibrant dynamic
entity that is yields socially oriented benefits, rather than a
position of greedy acquisition and self aggrandisement.

The national economies are stunted because the majority

of the people who by their earnings are supposed to grease
the monetary economy are virtually moneyless. There can
be no significant money games enabling cyclic expansive
spending to boost economic activities on a local scale if
economic policies are not structured to make monetary
resources available. But if the monetisation game is not
balanced by productivity, there are the inflationary
considerations. The retail aspect of local economies remain
in a primitive state and tax collection resembles market
tolling because obtuse monetary policies that lack
imagination determine the never ending poverty enhancing
inflationary driven torment of archaic and strangulating "big
brother" economics. Conceivably it is expected that new
and far reaching strategies will enable a well knit spending
process that enables acquisition and cultivated spending,
while keeping control over excess liquidity. To allow such a
process to evolve naturally is ideal, but can never be
realised in the presently foreign exchange determined
monetary value structures that hold the poor in perpetual
bonds of economic deprivation and social denial. An
alternate parallel process must be evolved where
government in the processing of alleviating poverty by
highly intelligent and imaginative mechanisms enables the
growth of diversified and sophisticated trade and retail
activities.

As noted by one analytical mind, some revolutionary and

world changing technologies never do have all that great
an economic impact. Radio, for example, blurred regional
differences, wiped out vaudevile, and enabled the rise of
national consumer brands. But its hard to find anyone who
can point to a causal link between the arrival of radio and
increased national prosperity. The truly crucial
technological innovations from an economic standpoint are
those that make humans more productive.

Such innovations enable the human mind in its central role

of system regulator to yield more of its seemingly infinite
capacities. Productivity increment through this means if
applied with consideration enables all round improvement
in society.

There is no reason to emulate other civilisations or

developments that have occured elsewhere. To attempt to
do so is an exercise in futility. For one, there is so much
that is imperfect in those developments, secondly the
course traversed to attain these hyped states of
imperfection is far too long and the cost, of which, the
continent has contributed, without much in return, is far too
costly. not in human designated material costs, but human
costs. More importantly, the variables that influence and
determine the outcome are dynamically varied and
situationally different. The continent must take advantage
of the experiences of others, picking wittingly their strong
points and discarding the negations therein inherent and
blend these with the natural provision in crafting an
improved society in terms of life enhancing actions for its
people. It is not per se that by remanining in existing
primary agro-based systems, there is any likelihood that
there is certain to be a complete anhilation of the populace.
There is however a certainty that defining strength and
development in military strength and advanced mass
destruction technology will anhilate the entire populace.
There is a middle ground that entails selective choice and
adaptation that bodes well for sorely desired easing of the
burden of deprivations on the majority for whom existence
is an unneeded suffering. All the organisation and planning
needed to facilitate a much more wholesome society is to a
large extent outside the economic dictatorship of external
power bases. The wisdom that abounds on the continent
should awaken fron its dormancy and give forth selfless
leaders who are bigger than the limitations of personal
greed. Until the millions of minds brimming with ideas that
are not regulated by world banks and yielding ideas
implementable, no matter how grandiose, government will
remain a preserve of dehumanised entitities, who capitalise
on ballot box mentality and sweet talk the people to an
early and hungry grave. To share and participate for the
common good does not begin at the ballot box and four
year terms, this naivety is an imported imperfection of
systems that are seeking for balance in the midst of
uncertainties. It has its noble aspirations, but there is
something that is higher than a wasteful diversion on. .
.There must be an inner desire on the part of society to
realise in its leaders their most grandiose aspirations in
concrete achievements, be they the idealisations of
individuals or society as a whole. Society must hold its
appointees responsible to their tasks, just as leaders hold
their subjects responsible for task executions.

When one lives life looking at things through the lens of

other peoples eye, it is not totally out of place to assume
than soon they loose sight of their perceptive abilities. They
thus become inactive participants in defining their own
viewpoints and courses of actions. They have lost focus
because of lack of exercising their own viewpoints and
takes on issues relating to the self, those same issues that
they have seen through others eye lenses, distorted not
only because it is distortion of faulty viewing, but also
because the borrowed eyes just cannot see what they are
made are not made to see. The take is perculiar and only
those with the designated equippage can effectively
discern the terrain and its obstacles. They should benefit by
heeding advise and learning from others who have
tarversed similar terrain. By acquiscing to others viewpoint
of what best classifies the self, unconsciously there is a
bounding slippage of that others assumptions of how to
realise the self with all its excess baggage of negations
therein accruing. Worse is configuring to fit the
assumptions of those classifications-which in truth do not
reflect the desires and expectations of those so classified.
Until there is a marked improvement of the conditions of
the masses of the people dwelling in filth and desperate
poverty. Whatever is achieved will be defined from the
scope of those who leaders see as inconsequential. The
state of the continent will never be defined from the
viewpoint of how many have broken through the poverty
barrier to become middlemen rather it will always be
defined by how many continue, even in the remotest
settlements to be denied improved life conditions.
Limited resources must be justifiably applied not on
redundant discards that have outlived their usefulness
elsewhere. By the assumptions of social jump theorising,
those who begin late do not have to recourse to retracing
the steps of others who have prviously traversed a similar
course. They must begin where others have ended where
possible, and take short cuts through well travelled terrains.
That is not an achievement that will be handed down with
gratuitious smile from those who paid the price of
seemingly vain idealism to push the barriers of realism unto
hitherto newer frontiers encompassing changed and
changing 'worlds'.. For the Africa lacking in truly bold
leadership, it is an effort that never yields to realise the
basic underpinnings of such idealistic musings in
constraining circumstances. It is a constraint that is
particularly vicious in its unyielding grip in a world system
that relishes in the inadequacy and deprivations of the
masses. The world is unwilling to share the fruits of its gain,
delighting instead in self glorification, designing economic
systems that perpetuate suffering and qualifying its
justification on superficialities of realistic inconsequences.
The time of laying blames need to give way to optimising
the forced ejective energy latent in deprivation in the midst
of possibilities. There are sublime advantages inherent in
being followers rather than trailblasers. At least one is
saved the cost of unforeseen mistakes in plodding well
trodden paths. To be a follower does not imply to be an
imitator. The past is for guidance, not a retrogressive zone
to revert to as a means of retracing lost time processes.
The reality is a catapulting effort in trajectory with the here
and now, where possible and as much as possible. Natures
unprocessed resources have a nurturing limitation, it
seems as if following the nurturing period, the maturing
process requires the application of the collective mind
power to yield sustenance from nature. Since humanity is
certainly dissatified with remaining in situ and thrives by
constantly changing. The means to satisfy the hunger for
change, by tinkering with nature's resources, lies with
potent leadership.

It will be naive to think that all the lessons of other world

civilisations have no relevancy for Africa's growth. There
are inherent lessons that should be applied to an evolving
processes in progress on the continent. The most
significant lessons are that tyranny and wars do not aid
development in any sense. War mongers retract social
growth and increase society's burden, there is no
destructive effort that in total effect acts as an element of
growth. Tuburlences can forcefully wrought a change in
some instances, but the obvious indication is that incapable
leaders create the social dissension that push normally
peaceful and a docile public to acts of wanton destruction.
The grip of incompetent tyranny that has overwhelmed and
touched of decay in the vibrancy of potentialities and
possibilities, will certainly not let go willingly. For as long as
those who should play a role in society's affair are not
participating, projecting ideas and parlaying on how to
realise them in their communities and society at large. For
so long as leaders and governments see their role from the
limited viewpoint as ends in individual ambition rather than
as responsibilities requiring sacrifices for the well being of
the majority, the kind of growth nurtutured in every heart for
their communities will not find expression in projects of
social grandeur. Until there is an unlocking of the hold of
manipulatory authority which allocates positions of
governance as favours and rewards for affiliation rather
than based on capacity to effectively execute the demands
of office and qualified background knowledge... The worthy
truth is that office of leadership is a sacrificial engagement
that requires a mind power that transcends monetary and
selfish material desires. Those to whom office is offered as
a reward for personal favour are better off with cash
donations. The inefficient office holder is not only a liability
to the growth of society, he is a danger to himself in all the
entrapments of his incapacitation. Until the allure of greedy
acquisition is stripped off the lacklustre realism of public
office, until adequate provisons are made by society for its
leaders to enable them focus on the major task of
renegineering society, underdevelopment is a self
sponsored reflection of people who are still wandering in
the mist of uncertainties. Africa needs insightful leaders
who must enable the emrgence of all that the continent is
capable of. There is little doubt to be expressed over the
viewpoint that, while it is worthwhile to appreciate and
attempt to find some form of tempoarary orientation within
the existing monetary order, unless fervent efforts are
made to develop a parallel continental fiduciary instrument
that is robust and capacious enough

While it does makes sense to have a measuring rod of

what state of development has been achieved it makes for
good comparison to realise that emulating others
achievement to petty details does not seem realistic nor
feasible. Against their imagination and with nothing to
compare to, others have risen to great heights of societal
growth hitherto unattained, in some of its realisations. The
continent must take a cue and adopt a tangential
developmental comparison strategy, with the factual dictum
that the basic measuring rod is that development has made
available to the least of its habitats the highest posible level
of human material and potential enhancement capability
possible. Using what can be obtained locally and what can
be accessed from outside domains. There is no need to
approximate to exact details comparative achievements,
insamuch as these can be guideposts and indications of
what is possible. By focusing on the foremost activity of
change not from a definitional perspective of being in the
process of striving to approximate other civilisations the
task of continental development can be better realised with
a more confident attitude of reconstructing nature to add
value to habitat and tame the latent energy and resources
of nature for yielding added value through human ingenuity.
There is a path that is common to all humanity, a desired
and commonly accepted and when realised a welcome
respite to all people. Beyond the essential physical
upgradement of mud and swish tenements, the provision of
continuously updated and innovated technological facilities
to enable the desired life improvements that have been
achieved in other places, envied and desired elsewhere
and generally appreciated as definite improvements and
facilitating provisions. The difficulty is defining the
underlying philosophical grounding of natural development
and induced accelerated development. It is a grounding of
the projected development in a spirituality of existence that
finds meaning within the unique contextual evolvement that
sustains the course of that development, rather than the
constructural replications of monumental structures
imported as face lifting projects in the opaquity of an
ungrounded face lifting. Any and every sustainable
development must seek for and find definitional grounding
within the spiritual energy of the intended source of the end
project, to enable sustenance, for the inner core of the
ideas, that no matter how idealistic in conception, in
realisation are in tune with the aspirations and desires of
the people, presently and in the future. It is this sync
between the leaders and the led in engaging common
grounds of pursuit that enable the philosophy of grounded
development. It is an emergent phenomenon that evolves
within the specificities of particularities. It must be sought
for, identified, cultivated, fed to the people, be in
concordance with their ideals, Development is not
encapsulated in concrete edifices, it is the massed
mentality finding realisation in concrete form that is the true
indicative nature of development, spanning time and place.
The central significant role of a well planed infrastructure is
a desire that reflects the massed mentality and one that in
its actualisation will reflect the true realisations of society.

The best and most ingenious trading techniques are the

ancient, but timetested financial skills, honed by the
centuries and in interaction with the emerging financial
savvy of developed economies by the agile Mossi. To
these ancient talent, go back and learn the true lesson of
economic finesse. The purported best minds of the world,
have proven best at what is most easy to pursue. Leave
the weak to perish and impoverish the borderline cases. Of
the strong enslave to a an international financial system
that will never set them free from the bondage of debts.
The greatest bondage is the willing succumbing of one's
'mothers wit' to the undiscerned knowledge of another. In
the process one has lost the foundation of wisdom and
sacrificed budding intellect into a permanent oblivion of
hazy confabulations. What passes for stupendous and
overwhelming groundbreaking discovery, the sort of
discoveries that uplifts the weighed massed soul and keeps
it bouyant for generations yet unborn is the lightning strike
of simplicity. The simple is counfounded by the
excesiveness of the complexity of ignorance seeking to
obfuscate the clarity of simple and bury it under cover. So
that when the simple underlying truth is discerned it is
applauded as remarkable. Yet we are no further from the
possibility of a commonweath of joy than our selfishness
and greed restrains us. At a point, light must begin to filter
into the darkness of carefully wrought deceptiveness that
delays the growth of the continent. The ongoing pervasive
questioning by all on fundamental issues, is the mumblings
of an awakening sleep walker, the fogs of sleep are
certainly wearing off. Now is not the time to retrieve
meaningfulness from the nightmare, perhaps, indulgence in
the unpredictable art of dream interpretations, may help
discern some elemental value of the long nightmare. The
sleeper must wash his face, tidy up, and pick up his work
tools, while he slumbered, grinning with stupidity in the
dream state, others have been at work. He must with
earnest attempt to do his share of work before time runs
out, yet time runs out at the beginning of the night, only to
begin with the crack of dawn. Time is what favours the
lateariser, giving the chance of making up for indulgency
and catching up with the earlyrisers in the longtime, but
there can be no catching up if the basics of a waking day
are postponed, waking up.

The collective expectation of the individuals of a community

for progress in society are expected to find massed
realisation in those upon whom the responsibility evolves to
collatively manage the common good. To deny these
realisations by acts of commission or ommission is criminal
neglect. It is the sort of social irresponsibility that needs no
qualification in its positioning among the generally
acceptable acts of unacceptables. Those take opportunities
of positions or responsibility to augment on their individual
greed are glorified social pariahs, their wealth need not
incite admiration, but made to exude the stink of corrupted
undesired. The insignificants of society are the mediums
within which the undesired seek to find acceptance to
exhibit their grandeur, that acknowledgement must be
withdrawn by society. Mediocrity has been elevated into an
artform and placed on a pedestal, whereupon society
delights in vileness that has been layered by layers of
deceptive malevolence to become acceptable against the
urgings of individual conscience. The collective sensibility
is no longer reflective of the inner purity of individual
honesty and goodwill. By the uncommital acts of individual
silence, evil which has found acceptance as normality
thrives and has defined a reality in a surrealistic settings.
There are no kindly over achieved societies ready to pass
on their excess to assist those in need. Many more shall be
the unrelenting woes of Africa if they believe at an
individual level to be a part of a larger whole. The
individual's striving in dismal and seemingly impossible
situations to add value to live will more likely yield even
greater results when pursued at a communal, continental
level. While on a continental level it is unlikely that the
fierce independency of the African personality will inveigle
itself into total state controlled manipulation. It is also
unavoidable that at some point of complementarity the
individual drive must be supported by a well planned higher
level governmental policy and implementation process
geared in its totality at providing a base for poverty
alleviation. While there exist rudimentary forms of this and
other feebly functioning mechanisms of govermental
implementation in one form or another. There is room for a
reconsideration and an adoption of goal oriented decisive
developmental projects that bring adequate housing and
generate sustainable employment for those who can not
afford to build standard homes as well as obtain the capital
to be self-employed. Improving such basic public
responsibilities as keeping clean streets warrants the call to
resort to basics, instead of bandying words of despisement
like "the poor, the disadvantaged", as inevitable unresolved
consequences of a free market economy. Africa does lack
in many ways, but it does not lack wisdom at the individual
level, the few educated and capable must begin to shape
realistic far reaching policies that should intend to put
limited and outdated technology in solving basic issues
while the search continues for more sophisticated
approaches to solve primary problems. After all, while the
last 50 years have resulted in an incredible leap in science
and technology, the definitional infrastructural layout and
economic establishment of other civilisations were attained
in conditions far more primitive than the existing isolated
patches of advanced social and technological knowledge
base and capacities that dot the sorry picture of a
seemingly visionless disaster zone that the continent has
become. It takes one bold visionary to bring the light of
knowledge and awareness to dawn on the multitudes. The
"poverty and disadvantaged" classification is a reflection of
inadequacy at the societal level, rather than individual
inadequacy. If only the people could express their heart felt
belief that their leaders have their best interest at heart,
poverty and the pain of developing will no doubt be easier
borne.

The development of a continental fiduciary instrument to

facilitate a continental trade and exchange activities is
inevitable. The earlier efoort is put into the expected slow
nurturing of such an instrument the better suited it will be
as a stable and sustainable instrument of continental
growth. It is inconceivable that given the long term
developments, based on present day experience,
continental business interactions will be based on an
external medium to facilitate harmonious exchange activity.
The fractious dispersal of resources and core centers, likely
to become emerge as focal zones of growth make it
imperative that individualistic, nation centered economic
development is not likely to lead to the emergence of a
strong fast developing overall Sub-Saharan Africa. Co-
ordination of activities and agendas with an ambitious
realistic continental based buwarked support system is a
more advantageous possibillity. The idea of what passes
for and is accepted as hard currency must begin to evolve
from within-without. The fundamental idea for the
development of a continental fiduciary instrument, is not to
be based in terms of a competitive instrument against
highly developed external sources, rather it is to enable
meaningful development in primary exchange of goods and
resources on a continental basis without the hindrances
and constraints of externally powered monetary resources.
In a way of speaking, it must be asssumed that it is
because of the unsophisticated and uncomplicated nature
of the evolving system that enables the development of a
replacement-parallel continentally focused instruments,
against a background of marginalisation by the developed
economies with all their shortcomings. The capital market
likely to arise therein will initially be comparatively
moderate, but in addition to ensuring ease of continental
exchange relationships, it will in time become the medium
of exhange for all dealings with the continent. Enabling
greater stability than the existing fragmented national
currencies that are virtually weightless individually against
the rest of the developed united world economy. While
certain concessions could be made to ease the economic
burdens of small and weak economies, the reality is that
the rest of the universe is not going to take a pause for
weakers sibblings to catch up, you either grow up or wither
away. Continental growth is best conceived from the a
position of a unity of weaklings and their resources. As
units the economies of the individual countries like the
critical mass to facilitate the sort of all embracing
continental growth expected, what will occur will be atolls of
economic success in an ocean of despondency. There is
no better opportunity or condition under which to combine
resources than when unity forges hitherto unattainable
strength. The direction for the way forward will not come
from outside, for the outside has never proven hopeful. The
power is within and with the people and their true leaders.
They are the true visionaries who let loose the chains of
mental incapacitation, empowering the least of humanity to
reach to the inner core and leap higher than the
imagination. Not the fake usurpers who denigrate the
collective conscionsce of the expectant expectations of
generations by acts of mindless despoilations. The coming
together of previousl powerful economies provided an alter
ego to a powerful controlling economy, the gradual
nurturing of a third or fourth will keep a center of balance
between previously existing, and of more importance yield
immense benefits to the continent. Africa's above all
differences are united by a cultivated culture of poverty and
inferiority that it can more effectively reverse by uniting than
wasting time and scarce resources attempting to engage
in a competition of who tops the base list of inadequacy.
Much more will relevant and useful is combining the latent
strength into explosive growth, albeit realised slowly.

There is no call to begin a short sprint to approximate other

world achievements, the benefits of these are available to
those who can afford it. All achievements are driven by two
basic incentives, it would seem on the whole. The first is an
envious drive to be one up on someone or everyone else,
the second is the profit motive, in which case, over and
above the wider cycles, people who can will have what they
want, the underlying principle of the so-called global
economy. The call is for doing what is right by the masses
of the people and in that process adopting far reaching
policies that ensure that, as a race each and every African
has a future and a life worth living. The task is only as
undaunting as our minds limit us into believing it is, its
realisation will still call for the simple task of organising the
community to realise its collective aspirations.
 But the needy will not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish. Ps.9:18

Public works are an essential aspect of government

implementation and has been recognised as such. In most
African countries though public works were later to earn a
disreputable image of waste and inefficiency. There is little
doubt however that these state sponsored nation building
activities elevated and improved the underdeveloped status
of these countries. The problems that accrued with state
sponsored job creation activities and nation building
activities were lapses of admininistration and greed on the
part of leadership. The bulk of activities required to improve
upon the miserly and extremely unhygienic conditions of
the bulk of people residing in the urban slums will never
emerge from the private sector. The private sector will
never build roads, central sewerage systems, cemeteries
and funeral houses, modern and well equipped schools, as
well as provide the housing needs of the people who dwell
in the slums, for the simple reason that the private sector is
a profit oriented setup. By the neglect or delaying of these
projects, the cities and towns on the continent will never
attain the sceneric beauty of layout and cleanliness that all
the people so desire. There has been an excessive
tendency to heed ill conceived advise from external
sources who are inadequately placed to slate unconditional
requirements of how development should procede. While
there is general acceptance that governement must
disengage itself from sectors and activities best realised
effectively through the private sector, the fact remains that
many of the future developments in job creation would
need massive infusion of public capital. The crown of
leadership is continental wide growth, with infinte potentials
for individual growth potential realisation, not segments of
well-being in the encompassing misery, thus if existing
policies are not pointing to these direction, there is more
than ample cause for worry (for as far as the lumbering and
slow process of instituitionalising social constructs are
concerned, the future is very much mapped in the present,
irrespective of the fact that the future may be quite unlike
anything the present can conjucture). The lack of insightful
leaders (an insightful leader is one who has the foresight to
advance policies that not only are in tune with the desires
of the electorate but one that is one step ahead of the times
to keep society's growth tangent sustainable in the medium
term) (such a leader, by no means, is not one who is
pursuing outdated policies that are hardly reviewed
regularly and improved upon) has not helped the situation
either, but worse than this, are those citizens who refuse to
participate by forwarding opinions; and complacently refuse
to participate in nation building. The nation, the continent is
not the sole preserve of any one person and his or her
gang of usurpers who stunt the aspirations of generations
yet unborn by refusing to prepare the grounds for a future
worth looking forward to. It must be reitarated that
leadership can only be realised within a domain of willing
subjects reading to will power to a select group, that means
of facilitating leaderhip can be withdrawn by the suffering
masses from usurpers of the commonweath for personal
ends. Worse still are those who for selfish ends assume
positions of leading to bring to realisation the aspirations of
the masses and don't know what to do. A leader is not
expected to be the sole preserve of knowledge on
anything, he is supposed to be the level headed individual
who seeks for guidance from his or her subjects and
facilitate for the common benefit what cannot be easily
realised at the individual level. A real leader is a servant of
the people and not a 'cane wagging bully', the people in
recognition of the immense duty they require of their leader
in turn threat the leadership role with respect and dignity,
according leadership role great honour (which honour the
new leaders have discarded like a filthy overcast, these are
times.) In effect the leader cannot be afraid of his or her
subjects, since he is in a role of administering to the
interest of the people and not formenting enmity and
creating blocks of supporters and opponents. The
agreeable and disagreable segmentation of society, is
based on idealistic opposition and convergence on issues
and does not assume a personal nature. The true great
leader is the one who by action and deeds, instigates
reactions of single minded disclaimers against unpopular
policy decisions or implementation, while garnering praise
and adoration for the appropriate measures. He is focused
on issues without neglecting individuals, their peculiar
needs and emotions and is prepared to acknowledge that
leadership is not a pursuit in perfection but an endeavour to
touch the least and most neglected of society, without
polarising society on the basis of haves and havenots. To
those who have acquired by honest means, a good
government will increase their wealth, to those who have
not it will provide for and for those who have acquired by
illegal means it will return the loot to their rightful owners.
The role of leadership in Africa with all its endowments and
diversity is principally an effort at harnessing the abundant
human resources presently excessively underutilised and
project all that energy into productive and growth related
activities. The ease and efficiency with which
warmongering madmen have taken advantage of the
frustrations of of the youth, at their impotent governments.
Mobilising and finetuing them into highly efficient
phenomenal instruments of death and destruction. These
local wars have defied all reasonable expectations in their
sustainability, employing the most basic but incredibly
efficient primary war tools, they leave one wondering how
much more could be achieved if all that ability were
directed into social upgrading projects that satisfy the
nobler instincts of human nature. This is enough evidence
that it is not for want of ability to achieve that the youth are
wasting away without benefit generating, socially organised
employment activities. Rather it is the acquising neglect of
the people to participate and require from their
governments the best that could possibly be given. An
individual no matter how determined can never sustain an
act of aggressiveness and hostility and plunge a whole
generation into a state of chaos. But when he does
persuade and deceive people in search of direction, into
the wrong places and in the wrong actions, he suddenly
finds a power base of deference and acknowledgement
where criminal behaviour is appraised by ignominity as the
role of leadership. The poor and depressed by withdrawing
their acknowledgement and support of participation in
wasteful ventures, gain by creating an opportunity for
change and redirection for hope. Investing their thrust and
hopes in a choice of leaders who stand to provide the
social foundation that facilitate the growth of initiative. The
awakening of the least of all humanity to their role in
facilitating the operational medium of a leaders power is a
critical first step to sobering criminal neglect and lacklustre
governing.

The excessive emphasis on the operative inefficiency of

the public sector to engage in anything that the private
sector could make profit out of, has resulted in a linear
pattern thinking where even what the public sector needs
by requirement to undertake to alleviate public discomfiture
is not being pursued with the urgency required, maybe new
beginnings are elusive to the public machinery.

There is a need for a balancing of a drive for open market

oriented policies - which at its most efficient and idealistic
level will ease faster and stable trans-continental
intergration at various levels by removing the turf-invasion
mentality in practical and easily acknowledged form - and
the overemphasis of privatising government. For their are
realistic advantages in maintaining an efficient state
initiated projects in construction, education, commerce, etc.
Without necessarily compromising private sector
investment. For instance the investments of the private
sector in housing and education is not likely to be
jeopardised by the governments efforts to provide high
quality and modernised housing and other infrastructural
development projects in areas and sectors of the society
that are so deprived that not in this lifetime are they ever
likely to accumulate enough financial resources in the
hand-to mouth barely sustainable personal economy of
borderline starvation inwhich they are forced into. These
projects, will, on a scale large enough, provide employment
in the construction industry and other economic activities
that will emerge. Thus putting to use the immense
resources of a humanity, that by lack of appropriate
initiatives, on the part of those upon whom the duty falls,
are presently being wasted. The biggest problem that
Africa has to deal with is how to find a way out of the rut of
linear reasoning. By diversifying idea resourcing and
widening resourcefullness, at a level, that by enabling the
people entrapped, by the narrow minded and oft times
confused non directive administrative mechanisms at statal
level, to be freed and consequently engaged for productive
and life satisfying activities society on a continental level is
likely to be all the better for it.

If there is a belief that social welfare oriented policies are a

threat to capitalism, it is a misplaced belief. If there is a
belief that by focusing on primitive low tech educational
policies there will evolve a modern, well educated and
technologically advanced population of youth capable of
projecting continental development, that is not likely to be
realisable. A school is more than an aluminium sheet
draped over four pools in a dingy environment. Much as a
market place is more than a collection of dirty sheds on a
rubbish dump. While all desire improvements, it is only at
the governemental level that the required change will be
manifested. Capitalism thrives on populace with money to
spend, if governement is not focused on job creation as an
end policy, whatever market economy is supposed to do
will be a dream unrealised. Nothing will change unless the
mind set is drastically re-oriented towards more
progressively idealistic but nevertheless realisable policy
making and implementation. The multiplier effect likely to
result from the initial government expenditure to improve
infrastructure and in the process providing jobs in the slums
and the rural areas will more than necessary qualify the
justification for the required expenditure in this neglected
sectors of the society.

The land issue requires forward thinking, radical rational

policy making strategies and direct involvement of the local
populace in decision making discussions. By adopting
policies that will increase agricultural yield per unit land
area, adopting modern cultivation practices and advancing
communal landworking practices without withdrawing
private land ownership, there will be the desired emphasise
on productive land yield and
employment of agricultural worker force while
deemphasising the landownership strife and its concurrent
unproductive activities.

Society owes critical responsibility to provide for the

creature comforts of its governing force while in office and
after completion of their office term to ensure that those in
leadership are not distracted by the important personal
deisre to secure a comfortable safety net after serving a
term of rendering public service. The provision of what is
considered at the time as standard requirements of decent
livelihood in property and financial needs must be a
condition of reward to give valuable cognisance of the task
of administering, while on the offset setting a conditional
requirement that to whom much is given much is required.
The hard driving individual aspiration for material success
in African society, where individual acts of ambitious
achievement are applauded and become the materials of
folklore, cannot be easily waived aside for a form of
outlandish socialisitic system of common ownership. It is in
view of this that sight must not be lost of the fact that aside
of the latent desire to do good, people in office of
responsibility also have a personal need of material
success. This need will not be set aside in the absence of
conditions to guarantee it for office holders. For the public
office is a highly demanding and requires great sacrifice to
ensure social goal attainment. The worker must be paid his
due. But as to whether that due suffices the worker's needs
is often times beyond their means.

The time of high vaunted non realistic rhetorics coupled

with inconclusive policy implementation has yielded a
prolonged period of despair among the peoples. Their
hopes and aspirations had been hijacked and trounced by
leaders who represented themselves and their
shortcomings. They shortchanged idealisms for reality and
realised surreality. These troubled souls have not in the
process found any redolent joy but have been and will
forever remain the pariahs in the opening pages of the
continents postliterate history. Now there is a need for a
hands-on approach that seeks to brighten the increasingly
depressing political and economical landscape with
activities that are in tune with the upward progression of all
humanity and not burden the people by perpetuating
mediocrity in any guise. While the governements must not
be isolated from the people they represent they must also
be harbingers of far reaching and innovative projects that
bring succour and hope rather than policies that destroy the
worthiness of life of the least of humanity. Ladling them
with increasing unrelieved suffering.

Ideally it is preferable to have dynamic instituitions that are

updating and reviewing policies and implementation
processes. Instead, were have governmental instituitional
activities that are for all intents and purposes collectives
ponds of fetid inactivity, pursuing outdated and irrelevant
policies. More worrisome however is not the lack of
activities within these institutions that would have rendered
them inoperable, rather there seems to be a fixation to
instruments of establishment, with simple and progressive
retooling activities that would have ensured incremental
improvement of services to the public these instituitions are
set up to serve. Continental instituitions are contrary to all
expectations and desires not maturing progressively, but
crumble into decline from their set ups. While examples
abound, it is arresting that Housing and Development
Banks have all but depleted their resources and in evolving
have assumed commercial activities, while the construction
of residences and private and public sector construction
have not progressed, by benefiting from their activities in
any remarkable manner.

In the educational instituitions there seems to be an

awkward touting to heights of seemingly absurdity
theoretical espousals that have been discounted and taken
a back seat to developments in current researches
elsewhere, while little effort is made to encourage the
development of situational representative theorising. The
continental educational effort rather than taking a cue and
evolving parallely has been frozen into a state
retrogression into meaninglessness. The advantages of the
quickly developing computer and internet technology that
will have brought the advantages of the positive aspects of
vibrant and abundant educational context therein available
have so far been a quiet by-passing phenomenon to a
student population that stand to benefit most from it. The
worrisome question is, while all acknowledgement that, by
another continental lack of initiative, of excessive reliance
on an international financial system that is light years
ahead of weakened continental monetary instruments, the
continnent is cash strapped. That is foreign exchange
strapped; when will there ever be a correlation of the needs
of the populace with the actions of their elected leaders or
otherwise. While research and development are expanding
in other Universities elsewhere, graduate education and
research funding are inactively discouraged. The potential
advantages that could have been improved upon and
utilised to no small end, have been left to wither into
nothingness. The regional potential of the universities and
research instituitions in some countries on the continent
serving as service exports and development bases for
innovations have all, but been discarded. To all intents,
there seem to be a captivating attention to others
achievements and efforts, while whatever little that could
have been nurtured to gigantic proportions, we aborted and
abandoned.While the general populace have little
ambiguity about what the direction of developmental policy
and implementation should take, the governments are still
undecided whether to give way to others or continue to
reign over mediocrity. That one equates governments with
individuals and groupings outside the general populace, is
a reflection of our times. In reality, the government is the
people, but the leadership is an expected aspiration of the
wishes of the majority, with a personality that often times
represents itself and its limitations; rather than the ideas
and expectations of the people. The desired change in the
state affairs will only emerge from an actual tackling effort
of the problems instead of piecemeal scattering of
misplaced trivialties that pass for government action. The
continent does not need foreign assistance to keep clean
streets, it is absurd, that even the simple task of keeping
clean markets have assumed the formidability of
unresolvable. The poverty that is all evident is evidence of
our collective failure rather than the machinations of any
external power. That the continent in its leadership's
expressivity tout underdevelopment as an accepted
definition of failure to act, and embrace as a qualification
the woeful characteristics that all seek reprieve from, they
have failed their people.

While scarcity of resources call for a careful dispensation of

limited resources. The adaptation of reform policies from
borrowers, there need be a reminder that all countries no
matte their current state of development have relied on
massive state intervention to keep their economies running,
as well as achieve theor current state of development. By
turning away attention from the core issues as relates to
state sponsored activities, which is project monitoring and
managerial responsibility and accountability. Not only is
continental development delayed, and further deprivation
ensured. But the burden of activities that should have been
started, but have been sidetracked by these half-baked,
incompletely considered policies, (whether imported or
locally cultivated) increase tremendously. The long term
effect is that in the face of overwhelming and daunting
obstacles due to delay and the pile up effect. There is an
onslaught implementation strategy with its expected jerky
and halting progress. What should have begun as batches
of small, and easily tackled government projects, executed
and maintained over time, being revised as time and
extenuating circumstances evolve is attempted at a go, and
without much surprise, but disappointment nevertheless,
often half completed failures.

By putting themselves to overcome seemingly

impossibilities, the incredible intellectual creativity that is
characterisitic of human nature is flexed to invent. Each
improvement is a departure point from the mundane, and
an opening to the excitingly fresh. Technological progress
is an accumulative departure from the familiar and time
rendered redundant. By remaining in situ, captivated by the
trappings of undervelopment and endless pursuit of dead
end approaches, by extolling the transistory short gap
measures of seeming to await the abridgement of a
development gap. The latent creative energies of the youth
are stunted and die untilised. By refusing to take
challenging measures of upward and breakpoint
development (breakpoint development, is by using the
advantages of modern technology, one creates situations
that may define the course of continually improving
technology) the leaders have turn the key and locked their
people into a void of unending frustrations.

The course of human nature has indicated a process of

differentiation and intergration, as prior and ongoing verities
of evolution and growth. Where the integration is
superceded by sumsumation through power exertion and
dominance the end process, invariably is a fusion of
principals. The separation of cultures in a way enables the
competitive spirit of human nature to pursue a course of
yielding comparative best. At the apogee of achievement
the winners merge and together increase their joint benefits
as a single entity. The reverse process is where the weak
must join forces to form a power base to survive. There is
no option for the continent, but having failed to strive
separately, the time of unions mandate that there is nothing
but to join limited, both human and material. resources to
forge strength and start from their accrued positions of
failure. It is an union where separate entities strive within
their limitations (seeking help where it can be found) while
maximising the advantage of continental filiaty. Instead of
pursuing meaningless and unrealistic nationalistic policies
which drive a wedge between imaginary nation states that
are still struggling to find iternal identity. There must be
open doors policies where borders can be seen as
demarcations that facilitate manageability of portions of a
larger community of equally desperate people. The borders
will remain nothwithstanding, and will enable leadership
accomplishment to be measured and compared. But
competition must be progressive and growth oriented,
where each is the brothers keeper. When situations are
broken down to their fundamental components and the
facade of vague complexity vaporised by common sense
and traditional wisdom. It becomes overtly apparent that
what has been misconceived in true terms of personalities
and their shortcomings, have transcended their narrow
confinements and superceded the critical task of societal
issues and become debacles that undermine the
progressive improvement of society. By redefining issues in
the light of emergent clarities and clarifications, the
previous hindrances can be converted into present
advantages to fuel continental growth, on a scale hitherto
unimaginable. Open market economies demand large
populations and huge markets, the easiest way to facilitate
these market of buyers is to open the borders and redeploy
the dysfunctional border guards in the manufacturing and
processing industries. Long before traditional traders had to
bother about national frontiers and still in practice, the
tribes had traversed Kingdoms to take advantage of market
avenues. Now the past and the progressive future dictate
openness and the facilitation of conditions at various levels
to ensure sustainability at an individual and societal level.
The individual drive is by no means lacking, but the society
is dissolving at its foundations.

Underdevelopment must be jugulated with its vices, to

enable the formulation of transformational policies that are
not in a race to approximate any other system. Other than
a forward looking sustainable policy of redefining the
existing paralytic grip of inefficiency on the continent. The
hodge podge fuddle of western education that in
misapplication has held the people in an estranged
prophetic lingering for an exalted time of enlightment, that
will usher in the immediate realisation of all their
developmental expectations. Lifting off the veil of suffering,
is a waste of time and a depletion of energy in the wrong
act. Like true salvation, you must work your salvation
through faith in the Saviour and in so doing yourself. The
unchanging fiat of creation dictates that by thy sweat thou
shall realise. The problems are within the range of
solvability, if only the leaders will direct the workers, it will
be accomplished. Instead of a pervese absurdity to keep
hampering on excuses that have outlived their usefulness
in propping up misfits that have surlied the altar of social
progress. The earlier, opportunities for upward projection,
are teased out of intricate, seemingly unresolvables, by a
process of creative, all hands on deck, problem solving
approach. The less likely it is that the years, may very well
see a nascent retrogression from positions of
nonaccomplishment to a void of inescapable despair, if that
has not already been approximated. There is no resort to
unending criticism, but an opening for stimulating
deliberation of what by complacent avoidance should have
been and could be done in the limbo of indecisiveness.

While the rest of the word slides by Africa, this is the time
to evolve durable, yet flexible and responsive internal
operative mechanisms of growth and development. It is
indeed an apprehensive observation that in the absence of
such objectives, and an excessive adoration for anything
emergent from external sources. The continent is virtually
promoting a strategy of unconscious self containment with
disparagingly woeful consequences for the people and their
future. If those to whom the obligation has fallen to carve
out a sustainable existence and future for their kith and kin
are not up to their duty. They must not only bow their heads
in shame, but abdicate their trusts of great responsibility
and let more capable persons assume the role of
designating a surety for their yet unborn. The pattern of
peripatetic half hearted and half witted partial discharge of
responsibilities, with a bias towards self enrichment as
against instigating creative diversity to promote social
growth, on the part of individuals, who have lost sight of the
utmost importance of their role as trustees of the future, is
a lamentable and hopefully quickly curtailed attitude. For in
the end process humans are predators, the strong will
exploit the weak without let to nonexistence. Africa must
not by acts of willful omission and individualistic non
participation in decision making at the higher level become
a depleted desert to be filled. Just as the grasshopper
tarried while the ant toiled, there is a price to be paid for
waiting too long, wasting time and resources pursuing stop
gap measures while the real issues are always being
postponed. The future is to some extent a determination of
the actions of the present. Those whose actions have
created the existing lapse of discontinuity, have
shortchanged by their little acts of omission the sustainaible
viability of supporting internal environments for the
generations yet unborn. If the toils and despair of the
present were conducted such as to provide a continuity of
hope for the future, creating stable states of progressive
enhancement. Then suffering has a distinctly human face.
The unitary question on the minds of all the people is what
is wrong with our governments? But the true question is
why do we continue to tolerate these brigands who like the
"fabled Nero are fiddling while the future burns up in
flames." The leadership issue is the crux of the problem
the continent faces.

There is the need for leaders who define their situation, and
present grounded projection of achievables, and then solicit
for assistance. The existing situation of soliciting for
uncoordinated advise, is a "putting of the horse before the
cart." First define a purpose and seek for ways to realise it.
The reverse is anomy. The society may be brimming with
intellectually creative ideas, but if there is no bold, bright,
and focused leader to channel the massed brain power into
the realisation of energising projects. All that individual
ability is shortchanged, and instead of being the force
behind the forging of a formidable, forward looking Black
African continent. Will rather find its highest achievement in
one house built, and a cheerished second hand
automobile, in a surging sea of poverty and dirt. The
expected sense of triviality projected, is the truth, of a
people without a vision in the midst of explosive
potentialities. The financial manipulation and the "unfair
international trade system" are consequences rather than
determinants. From another perspective, Africa has never
been any further or nearer the rest of the universe than it is
now or will ever be. As a collective, exposure to
developments elsewhere and the willingness of support
from external sources, though restricted, is an enabling
motivator to upgrade the traditional societies. It is part of
effecting that change to activate imaginative resolution
processes to obviate the consequences of contact with
those externalities and their seemingly retarding effect on
continental evolution. In all verity, the offset is a society
mired in the rudiments of prolonged tribal and agro-based
economies. Six centuries, notwithstanding, the refocusing
on the reality of Africa within the context of a millenium of
human evolution will most likely change our expectations
from others. While redirecting the organising principles and
the philosophical underpinnings of how the continent's
development is to be realised. The rest of the world owes
Africa, little, in terms of realising the well being of its
inhabitants. Other distinctive races have not survived the
consequences of European civilisation, but like the
Europeans, after the Roman civilisation, it is up to Africa, to
take advantage of the benefits of the influx of that
civilisation to adapt and improve on its society. It took the
rest of the then world, well over Africa's present six
hundred years of post European contact. To take full
advantage of that presently, defunct great empire to carve
out an identifiable civiliation that is still in progress,
separate in identity from that other worldy civilisation.
Incorporating every single benefit of its accumulated
chanelling of previous human achievements in its
benumbing overwhelmingly great civilisation. Africa, must
through its leaders, blend in with the rest of humanity,
knowing that every single acquisition of a gain, is the
equivalent of a battle of wits fought and won. It is only with
this mind set that a proper course for true continental
growth can begin to be plotted. A course that dictates that
every true change, every approximation to a desired state,
every radical reorientation, while borrowing from others,
must come from within. To realise these change within a
seemingly non supportive external environment is part of
the package of continental goal achievement activated
within well defined strategies that incorporates extenuating
externalities. The existing sickening attitude of beggarly
cowering and a seeming "everybody else owes it to us," is
a reflection of the times and the failures of the individuals,
who, by dint of the roles society enables them, to be the
voices that project the collective intellect have ineffectively
articulated the truest desires of the populace. By their
individual inadequacies, and misdirected senses of duty
and responsibility, they have perpetuated society's slowly
deteriorating demise. A growth process that is retarded,
and belated, a regressive net output when compared
against what can be but is not, may seem like growth, but
such growth is the expressivity of a failing struggle against
a terminal situation. Nobody owes the continent nothing in
the ongoing individual drive for material acquisition, which
finds expression at the societal level as the taking
advantage of the situation to better the individual lot. For a
time Africa has been consenting victim, when it could also
have been a predator in reversal. Having been awakened
to their lapses, the only resort, is to earnestly begin the
dreary, but nevertheless uphill task of reconstituting and
setting right what is amiss. Given that it is not broad based
platitudes that reconstruct obvious failures, it is also
clearcut that in the absence of consistent transparency of
what the priorities are, as articulated and projected at the
highest level. There is a need for redefining the
groundrules of what needs to be done. Until such a time as
there is a vigourous individual reaction on a collective
societal basis, to repudiate this misnomer, as not being
truly representative of the collective, by withdrawing
societal consensus. Until such a time when leadership
roles are the highest expression of honour that society
endows upon the wise, rather than the sole conserve of
usurpers, the continent is doomed to bow its head in
shame. Because as individuals selfishness, offishness, and
general disinterest in the most critical social exercise has
taken root in the midst of the continent. Nothing will
change, unless a direct effort to make these changes at the
most basic level is set in motion. No matter how much one
expresses a desire for a certain state of affairs, that state of
affairs will never be realised unless wish making gives way
to active involvement in concerted effort at realisation.

"We have enjoyed a long period of peace under you,

and your foresight has brought about reforms in this
nation. Everywhere and in every way,...we
acknowledge this with profound gratitude. Acts 24:2.

(Of whom in these times can these ancient words of

acknowledgement be made?)

Government, by having the collective resources of the

people in its possesion, remains a formidable instrument of
development implementation. Any excessive harping of
government's inefficiency is in reality a displaced
indictment of individual inefficiency. The government sector
more than any other sector, has the commitment and
resources to manage strategic and profitable ventures. The
missing link in the equation is monitoring and
accountability. As has been rightly pointed out by a Swede
(the ultimate social welfare nation) living in the USA (the
ultimate capitalist abode) "It is a myth that all state or
community-managed activity are bound to be less effective
than privately run activity." People, it is the case, have a
tendency of keeping a close eye on activities in which they
have an invested interest. The disinterested inactivity of the
common man in government and collective decision
making, is mainly due to central authourities inability to
generate stable focus of purpose in dynamic social set ups
of governing, and by so doing project a consistency of
pursuit that permeates the rest of society. Government
machinery thus has become liabilities on individual initiative
in newly established nation states. As awareness increses
that the governing effort is a collective responsibility, the
disinterest that enabled abuse of position and unchecked,
and unhindered irresponsibility is not likely to predominate
and flourish as in times past. But whatever the nature of
that awareness it will require extremities of dedication and
heightened communal devotion to put the anomalous
society's interest above the obvious individual interest. It is
a dedication arising from an awareness that by
implementing creative policies that expand development
and forcefully breaking the restraints of lower level
development era constraints and ejecting the society
upward to a higher social growth plane, the wealth and
mind state injected-evolutionary progression sets into
activation dimensions of materialistic growth that
supercedes anything the existing era enables. The leaders
have a responsibility to awaken public interest and
encourage active participation and the supervisory role of
the people in their vested national investments. It is in
place, that all and every state initiated project of prolonged
duration should have its workers as partial share holders,
thereby encouraging higher commitment. The releasing of
as much as fifty percent of the shares of all state initiated
project shares, to be floated in the stock exchange, shoud
be the rule rather than the exception. Where, it is assumed
that brokers will market their activities such as to
encourage minimum cash investments in stocks, cutting
across all social strata. By having their livilihood tied to the
perfomance of the commonwealth in developments that
enhance the well being of society. There certainly will be
individual and society's concern with how their common
resources are managed and unrelenting interest on the
outcome of the management process. There certainly will
be interest in those whose activities, in perfoming their
official duties, have profound effects on the individual,
commune, city, nation and continental outcome. Right from
the cottage industry grinding cereals in a never heard of
isolated location to the mega industrial investments at the
national and continental level. Those who by their acts of
omission and commission have proven themselves not to
be within the consenting approval of public expectation will
be quickly replaced by the public demand for effective
management. Administrative processes will thus become
responsive to public expectation, rather than being agents
that act disdainfully towards the society that set them up to
further its (society) interest. Innovative leadership by subtle
and intensely promoting individual interest in the governing
process, will engender in return a responsive commitment
to the higher causes of nation and continent building.
Forcing a requirement on the part of leadrship to be
constantly perfoming and improving in response to their
constituents criticisms. A state of affairs that will ensure
that the public is constantly provided with detailed
information to judge their leadership by perfomance related
activities rather than blank explosive rhetorics that are
disconnected from the heart of the people. Instead of the
laikadaisical denial of information to the public by state
corporations, banks and other instituitions, these
organisations will have to engage their public audience
rather than treat them as petty irritants. Where
management's tenure is tied to the votes of stockholders,
all of a sudden, state projects will become the domain of
the brightest and the best, and yielding profits to boot and
more important "realisation". Any civil authourity that does
not strive to secure popular participation and commitment
to its governing effort, has by an act of overt omission
eroded the only true power base it has claim to. It is the
wrong viewpoint by the populace, that government is an
entity outside the governed, that has created a
responsibility vacuum, of who actually determines who or
what group of people are fit to take control of the leadership
role. A crucial role that in all its reality exercises a
determining influence over and above the role occupant
and their supporters. At stake has and is the future of the
people. It is a vacuum that has enabled gun totting
disoriented men to hijack and disrupt the lives the
populace. With no one but themselves to account to, they
run mayhem administrative processes that have been
nothing short of disasters, that tainted even trained
administrators. It is not enough to conclude that something
is out of order, the fault within the system must be traced,
and workable solutions formulated at the broadly defining
level and implemented precisely by an adaptive process
that is particularistic. It is the belief by parties elected
through the popular vote, whether genuinely conducted or
otherwise. That they can exercise their mandate outside
the public, to whom they owe a task of executing their
stated proposals, that has led to a disassociation between
the continent and its leaders. It is a disassociation that
created vacuum that cannot be filled by balloting, but by
responsible and honest leadership. Broadly applicable
descriptive terms like "responsible" and "honest", are often
taken by some as mere illusory deceptions. Yet, it is also
veritable, that in a situation, where ones ability in a public
office are qualified in terms of the adroitness with which
such office holders pull the wool over the punlic's eye,
while staching away public funds, leaves much to be
desired, including honesty and responsibility. Over and
above that is the search for the visionary men and women
who articulate bold aspirations, tapping into the collective
intellect and having the qualification to back their claims.
The qualification of a good leader benefits from literacy, but
it is not by any measure the definitive determinant. That
required qualification is a consideration to truly listen to
those governed.

Governments, for now, still remain the most secured bet for
foreign investors in Africa. They offer a better guarantee
against investments, because by being the supervisory
authourity over the dispensation of national resources, they
are by all considerations potentially rich and can secure
investment funds against marketable natural resources. A
security guarantee that is beyond any individual private
concern. It is in this light that governements must sell the
deprived state of the richest natural resources endowment
among the continental land masses, as its greatest asset
for the market hungry industrial community world wide.
Given the natural flow of human activities, it does not
require a genius to discern the awesome market potential
of the continents acquisitive people, who in the main lack in
many marketable products. All it requires for the over
capacity production that is leading to unemployment in
other parts of the world to exploit the potential millions on
the continent are far sighted leaders, with a gift for
discerning the unobvious. There is a subtle, primitive,
layered subconscious opposition among discernible
differentiation of groupings, a vestigial defensive reaction of
wild groupings of protective hunter gatherers, a gripping
and lingering genetic seepage that adulterates the
cultivated sophistication of mankind. The resultant wild
whoops of 'we have the territory you run' finds expression
in the turf protection framework around which global society
is weaved. The pretentious shared sympathy or the self-
indulgent approval, are the current versions of chest
thumping self acknowledgement. It is a normal expression
of a degree of achievement through hard labour. To find
the weakness in the perforated certainty of instinctual self
protection and provide a means of continental development
through infusion of self enhancing rapprochement of
differing interests with common destinies remains to be
fully exploited. The calamitious destruction of grand scale
war has meant in an excusable manner a growth industry
for the steel mills, for example. The situation is no different
in Africa. The leadership must sell the continent to the
manipulators of the money game, so that the circle of
demand induced industrial sustenace and economic
boosting for the developed economies will yield reciprocal
satisfaction. It is the duty of leadership to expand their
mental scoop of possibilities and dare to venture beyond
the horizon of known territories. It is a mind game. In the
end, it all borders on a healthy internal economy for the big
players and their bosses in the money game. In the same
vein it is a question of infrastructural development to
alleviate poverty and destituition for the continent. That is
the criteria by which the people will judge the success and
failure of their leaders, among others.

There is an aspect of the collective mentality that must be

identified and tapped into by government to arouse
commitment and national identity. It is that force of the
people that is willing to applaud positive effort, ready to lay
its life down for such a vague course as guerilla warfare in
its most detestable expression. It is that exultatory gushing
of goodwill that uplifts the collective mentality to bouy
football teams to victory. In a way it is only when that
powerful identity with rulership is realised that the severe
shortcomings of disassociative governance will be
obviated. Just as millions vibrate in a mental unionism of
collective desire to excell in the activities brought to fruition
by a disciplined representative of 11 men. In the absence
of effective articulation of the expectations that are of
relevance to total well being of individuals from their
governments. The noted disaffection that characterises the
relations between the populace and their representatives
widen. The dangerous quicksand phenomenon where the
government machinery has been depersonalised, and
virtually capable of finding social representation outside the
wellbeing of individuals in society may continue to take
dominance among the populace. The consequent widening
gap, thus is not only a continuing disassociation between
the governed and the governors. But owing to the unique
political evolution of Africa in the post-industrial age,
society may eventually be subtle drawn into working
against itself in an unusual, albeit operable state of chaotic
dysfunction. In this state, the weakened state machinery,
losing all identity with its power base, exists to promote its
own member employees interest. They through, a socially
less engaging democratic process of acknowledgement by
balloting, pursue an energy draining administrative process
of self sustenance, that bears little on the real interests of
voters. Caught in a circle of budgetary deficit and the ever
increasing irrelevancy of token implementation. The
employees of the giant state machinery, exist to exploit the
very society they were meant by designation to service, the
very society that by no collective constituent malfeasance
is being gnawed from within by its critical components, that
by some freakish socio-genic defect has turned self-
destructively on itself. The individual members of society,
thus, see their government as a bunch of strangers
perpetuating their state of suffering, and not representing
them. Instead in the collective mentality, government is
depicted in all its emblemetic representation as a
necessary liability of society, that must be exploited where
the means exist. Thus is the nasty twist introduced, who is
by elaborate definition a separable entity labelled as the
government other than a vital segment of the social
construct turned dangerous? This type of exploitation can
be likened to a situation, where one member of the family
depletes the limited food stores of the family in the middle
of an arctic winter, through selfish indulgence, while the
others look on unconcerned. Nobody gains in the long run,
only in the short term, will one family member suffer from
bloated constipation, and torments the laikadasical
relations in closed confinements with offensively
nauseating self relief, in the long run they will all perish,
due to improper food management procedures. Owing to
the peculiar setting of inextricable relationship between the
government and the indifferent public, a relationship that is
anything but that between opposing viewpoints, the conflict
that results is equivalent to a head bitting the tail to rid itself
of an itch. A badly bruised tail does not make for a
comfortable state of mind. Unless the tail takes evasive
action to avoid the heads absurdity of harming the tail. . .
(that, indeed is how absurd the situation becomes when it
is broken down to its barest minimum).

It is leadership that is able to sensitise the populace to their

full awareness, of being the crucial determinant factor in
the governing process, that will take the first step to
national and continental development. The variety of
diversity of deeply embedded tribal values. The unresolved
pre-colonial differences and inconclusive tribal wars, has
left openings that could be exploited for destructive
retrogression. Or utilised for awakening an obvious but
quaint reality that all Africans share an unnegotiable
identifiability that cannot be eradicated or negotiated; their
unique positioning in creation is assured ad infinitum. In the
interim, poverty and the predominance of primitive living
conditions due to lapses rather than a necessary state of
being defines all, without exception. Individual success is
irrelevant in the face of mass deprivation, in the definitional
categorisation of aspects of blackness. The only course is
the acceptance of the positive values of welding the
diversity of varied cultural perspectives to eject a variety
that is vivacious in their onward search for progress. On the
other hand is the stiffling referral to historically inaccurate
rampages of forbears who have nothing much to prove for
all their valiant destructiveness, an emphasise on
differences that owe more to geograhical adaptation than
any deep seated differences between people who share a
common destiny that has a potential to create a society that
is consumed with hatred. This seeming absurdity has
surfaced more often than most people care to knowledge,
with all its distractive despoilations. A leader who taps into
the deeper emotionalities of the populace and by a
transparent process of involvement invokes an identity of
the government with the governed, has by this
achievement, given impetus to a committed goal oriented,
achieving workforce, who will nurture their work like that
work is a fauvorite child. A child with all the hopes of the
parents hinging on its success as an adult who will feed the
parents in old age. In the absence of this nurtured identity
with the government and its activities. No matter how high
remuneration rise, workers will continue to see state and
continental commitments primarily, as exploitative sources
for individual interest. There are to many diverse interests
that constitute the populace, that have not had, the created
or naturally, arising opportunity to share deep seated
bounding experiences, forming the nation states. To expect
high patriotism to arise naturally or in concordance with
assumption of positions of employment, appointment or
responsibility is vague unrealisable. The nearest to such
bounding experiences, can probably be ascribed to the
briefly shared high hopes arising out of the achievement of
independence. Which in hindsight was a misplaced
expectation, since the focus revolved around charismatic
individuals. Who, seeing that the glare of the spotlight of
popular attention had its benefits, of personal-egoistic
bolsterism, decided not to defray the attention. If they had
taken advantage of the opportune timing independence
enabled, to shift the popular enthusiasm with the governing
process into a national commitment. They would not have
failed so miserably in their principal task of nation building.
In its stead, they built personality cults and allowed the split
between the populace and the governing process to grow
wider and wider, while encouraging further splits along
superficial levels of differences, till they seem incompatible.
It will require commitment and purposive aspiration to
realise this hitherto lacking intimate connection between
the government and the governed. No amount of rabble
rousing will suffice. Identity of the populace with their
governments and the governing process must be cultivated
by acts of exemplary leadership, fairness and honesty. As
well as overt efforts to court such commitment and interest.
Without seeking to arouse in equal measure the support
and emotional identity that national football teams arouse,
the leadership cannot by any means run a tight ship of total
commitment to a common purpose. If it is the case that
leaders with such orientation that focuses on the populace
cannot emerge to take over the mantle of leadership, for all
its perishing talents and potentialities, Africa will not realise
its fullness. On the side of the populace, at the individual
and societal levels of expression, it is a desire that people
are aware will stabilise any search for social and economic
progress, and will appreciate in its realisation. The
leadership and the governing process lies at the heart of
the individual drive for success. As the enabling authority
that channels society's massed energy to create the
amiable social setting in which all hopes flourish (or
founder). The individual citizenry cannot in verity distance
themselves from a process that is so central to their
ultimate well-being. Neither can those who occupy such
high offices, of so great responsibilities, allow themselves
to be distracted by petty crimes of individual acquisition or
the fomenting of tribal differences. Instead of inscribing
their names forever in letters of gold, it is a sign of the
times that many will rather forgo their honoured position in
history and aspire to petty misdeeds. (Anyone who
ascends to higher office with the sole purpose of personal
acquisition is a social aberration, and in reality is no
different from a common thief). These failures on the part of
leadership are abominations rather than failures. Neglect of
duty at any level, no matter how low, is akine to pointing at
your mother's village with your left hand. It is just not done!
In an amusing manner, most people seem resigned to
situations, that, they have the ability, to steer to positively,
definitely rewarding ends. In there private conversations
and witty social commentaries, they give vent to their
frustrations, anxieties, and suggested solutions. Some of
which suggestions for what needs to be done, in their
innovativeness, as far as the positing of ideas are
concerned, are bar second to none. Indeed, the mind
power that is required for change, is not a repository of any
individual or groupings of specialised knowledge base. It is
the communal repository of shared knowledge in
interaction that enables far reaching realisation of the gifted
idealisations at the extremities of society.

Jehovah presides in the great assembly;

he gives judgement among the "gods".

How long will you defend the unjust

and show partialilty to the wicked?

Defend the cause of the weak and

 fatherless;
maintain the rights of the poor and
oppressed.

Rescue the weak and the needy;

deliver them from the hand of the
wicked.

They know nothing, they understand

nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are
shaken.

"I said, "You are "gods";

you are all sons of the Most High
But you will die like mere men;
you will fall like every other ruler."

Rise up, O God, judge the earth,

for all the nations are your inheritance.

PSALM 82 (New Int. Vers.)

The "aluta" had been in progress for a week and a half. It

was becoming an unerving and dangerous precedent. In
the weeks leading to semester examinations, the student
leadership having been unsuccesful in gaining a needed
increase in the student loan among other grievances have
usually declared "aluta", and a condoned a mass refusal to
participate in academic activities until there demands have
inrrevocably been confirmed by the government and the
university authorities. As a hall president and a member of
the university student council, I was in attendance, at every
meeting where issues were raised for discussion. Finally
the student leadership opted for a refusal to comply with
university academic activities and by consitutional demand
force a closure of the university as a means of forcing the
hands of the government to seriously consider the
demands for increase in the student loan. As well as the
reconsideration of fee paying at the tertiary level etc. The
Vice Chancellor requested a meeting in his office of the
student leadership, as we sat with him, he had two
considerations and one option, he had a responsibility as
the head of an instuition and a government appointee to
prevent any disruption of academic affairs, he had also to
acknowledge that he was dealing with young adults, who
had a relevant issue worthy of consideration, his words
were a clear manifestation of his dilemma. "Young men",
he intoned in gravelly voice, "your parents have sent you
here to study, I will advise you to go back to your halls of
residencies and advise your colleagues to write their
examinations and let us bring a long and difficult academic
years to a close." It took me these many years to fathom
out why his words left such a bitter feeling of
disappointment on my leaded tongues. For a man who had
benefitted largely from state largese and its free education
policies, he was conniving to introduce school fees at the
tertiary level when most parents could hardly make ends
meet. He had failed to address the issue and skirted
dangerously, attempting to arouse individual interests in a
leadership of mainly upper middle class students,
representing students from mainly poor backgrounds.
Critically, has been the implicit, approval of the status quo,
when educated minds exposed to other cultivated cultures
should aim at bringing the fruits of change to advance the
progress of traditional society, a few had yielded to the
frailty of advancing years and growing children to sell the
'birth right' of youthful idealism of desiring and working for
change that benefits the whole, to becoming acquiscent
docile lapdogs of feeble minded dictators.The student
leaders then had to confer with the general student body,
to solicit their consideration and affirmation or rejection by
consensus or disinterest in the executive body's
suggestion to close the university through boycott activities
at the student body level. At the halls of residence level,
the decision was easily carried through by common vote.
However a few dissenting souls, who were in their final
years, thought the timing inappropriate, it being so close to
the final term examinations, and wondered why they
shouldn't be allowed to write their final examinations and
bid farewell to the fast deteriorating university conditions.
The infrastructural development of the university had been
at a virtual standstill over the past twenty or so years, while
the student population had been increasing in multiples.
There were excesive overcrowding in the halls and lecture
rooms and to worsen the general displeasure, there was
now a suggestion by a government in which students had
no confidence to implement IMF policies to commercialise
and instituitionalise fee paying university education. The
matches that usually occasion the boycott of formal
academic affairs, had become a regularly end of year rite,
since invariably, there was always unresolved issues that
each student administration sort to obtain closure on,
through forced bargaining with higher authorities. The
matches began after an outdoor student leader adress at
the "kenkey stand". It ws an occassion where all the closet
marxists and private revolutionaries gave a fairly
impressive display of their gab, in high vaunted exhortatory
speeches of the fire brand kind to let "aluta continua". The
reception was always great exultations of pre-examinations
tension being released. After several days of these pattern
of activities repeated, there dawns the silent inquiry that
soon gains public expression, what next. There could be a
match to town that will for sue be put down forcefully by the
police or a slow wait for the closure of the university at
which point all go home, wondering whether the policy will
be forcefully implemented outside the popular dissent. On
a monday we were invited to the Vice-chancellors office to
discuss the state of affairs. At the first meeting with the V-
C, he suggested that since our demands had been
forwarded to the government ministry responsible for
education, the leaders should request the student body to
return to normal academic work. A suggestion that the
"kenkey stand" audience vociferously disagreed with. The
next meeting was a rather informal affair where the
president of the student council, and a couple of hall
presidents, of which I was one of two, met briefly in the V-
C's office, here a concerned and fatherly looking V-C
appealed to our individual senses of responsibilities as
students with aspirations of our own, and desired that we
convince the students we represent to return back to the
lecture halls. He knew and we knew that it was a betrayal
of the common trust and will not yield any change in the
general agenda for a rescincision in the government plan.
We requested that the dean of students, a respected
senior lecturer at the African Studies Instituition convey the
paternal request of the V-C directly to a restive student
body. A nervous senior lecturer confronted the angry and
restive gathering at the famed "kenkey stand", they were
awaiting a positive response from the government. Who it
was, rumoured had placed subversive agents and spies
among the students, a suggestion that smacked of
conspiratorial theorisation, but that nevertheless appealed
to the popular intellect. The dean in a few well placed
words suggested that since, the university administration
was involved in negotiations with the government on the
student demamds, the students should proceed to carry
out with their normal academic work till their was a
response from the negotiators. A response that was
supposed to be rendered before the university
examinations proper began. One of the stranger aspects of
the "kenkey stand" presentation, in those days was that it
was a mob scene where a loud and drowning approval
carried the finality of the ultimate student body expression
on the issue tabled for popular acceptance or rejection by
acclamation. After the dean's presentation there was a
pause of unnerving quietness, whereupon the was a call
for responses by the student president from speakers from
among the student body therein gathered. After a few
presentations, it was clear that opinions were divided as to
whether to proceed with boycott or to await the negotiation
result. In a remarkably well timed exhortation by Mickey,
hall president of Sarbah Hall circa 1990, in which he boldly
yelled, " Give it to him, lets give it to him, the time they
require, lets give it to him." For the first time in several
years the university avoided a break in the normal running
of the academic year through a student boycott.
At that point, it was a sudden revelation to realise
how a strong individual
with a clear, unselfish mind state had gone against all
popular expectation and realistically with a boldness
that all those present that day, on that occasion,
lacked the boldness to proclaim their beliefs, set a
new pattern for the student administration, when
"boycotting" was in the process of being realised -by
expressing a truth that run contrary to popular opinion,
not to block the officials so long as there is one more
level of negotiation left to pursue - There are always
choices and options at every level of decision
 making.While some decisions have a beneficial
outcome to all, some other decions are made with
personal interest superceding social consideration.
(Such decision making are the hallmark of small
minded leaders who have little recognition of their
unique positioning in the cosmic universality of human
affairs, their actions have significance over and above
their individual limitations in time, place and situation).
Since such decisions have an exploitative element,
they are self limiting in their general social benefit
when not applied with the wider dimension in focus.

There is not implied here the viewpont that with time the
situational limitations imposed on the society as a
consequence of the exigencies of the time will not get
better. But it is definitely implied, that if no persistent effort
is made in the direction of required change. There will be
no improvement or lessening in the desperate grip of
poverty on the lot of the majority, who have seemingly lost
faith in their ability to win their individual fight against the
adhering grip of desperate hopelessness in a society that
apparently is uncaring. Desired change in itself is not a
naturally, automatically occuring phenomenon, it requires
an identification of a situation warranting change. The
formulation of a change strategy, that consults the
constituents of the proposed change. A deliberate pursuit
of the change, with adjustments made to accomodate
unforeseen developments. While there is no doubt that in
the absence of any directed effort, change does and will
occur, it can be argued that the nature of that change is
least likely to meet the aspirations of those affected in its
occurence. To qualify change as having achieved a lot,
demands a fairly definite agenda, seen through to its
implementation. If there were intents on the part of the
governing body on the continent to give hope to the
populace, it must have been layered down by the economic
malaise. The economic malaise itself is a reflection of
failure on a grand scale by the leadership. If people cannot
even sustain basic living standards, in a land that is
cultivable, year round, notwithstanding other problems
posed by nature. There is definitely a point to be made for
significant failure, at some level of planning,
implementation or policy renovation. While across the
board generalisations are hardly the basis for jumping to
irrelevant conclusions, it is also the case that covering up
obvious defects in the system will not facilitate system
reorientation in core policy making. An acknowledgement
of defects is a required beginning to resolving the
deceptively sealed cracks of inadequacy that frustrate the
wholesome realisable aspirations of the continent.

Core policy making in the economic sector is currently

market oriented and tended toward private investment, but
it is the sort of market oriented policy that places at its fore
the belief that the society will only advance if foreign
investment resources are allowed to gain easy entry. It is a
core policy, that by deemphasising continental evolutionary
involvement in progressive dispacement by replacement of
entrenched irrelevancies, and by emphasising the external
superiority. Has shorterm relevance, but no long term
benefits for the development of continental based
economic determinancy and maneuverability. To wit, by not
making any effort at effectuating the domestic maturational
strengthning processes in industrial innovativeness, while
incessantly courting the facilitation of investment strategies
with no definable long term benefits. No provision is made
to gradually wean dependence on external goodwill.
Rather, there seems to be an amiable acceptance to being
configured into a system that is designated to enrich the
rich and deny the truly poor, without any relief. To all
intents and purposes, the lessons of others experiences,
seem to have no relevance to the continental effort. Since
the leadership is obliging to duplicate their mistakes, when
alternatives are evidently pursuable. To go through the
same brutal "civilisation" process leaves much to be
desired. To acquiesce to the dictates of external sources
without proferring, and implementing alternatives is to
concede to the perfection of those systems. An acceptance
which is unfounded on the anvils of experimented factual
basis or reflected in reality. These are systems that are not
only imperfect, but defective and constantly adjusting to
compensate for their shortcomings. Their best, at any one
time is not necessarily the only viable working alternative. It
is also an affirmation that the inadequacy of previous
governments is a true representation of the society's
highest realisation at policy making and implementation.
Thus at a dead end, the society must accept as defining
framework, impositions from external sources. As regards
the moral grounding for acknowledging acceptance, of
those biased advices and or requirements, there is none. It
is based on a game that at its most effective deprives a
part of the whole to sustain a minority in nervous well
being. It is decidedly and conclusively imperfect and
transistory. That being the case, the leadership must
persist in evolving self sustaining, more efficacious policies,
that emerge from within in response to unique
circumstances. Rather than attempting a wholesale
implementation of invasive fault ridden externally instigated
policy frameworks. If there has so far, not been the
wholesale recognition, that these external systems are high
stake games, begging to be corrected and replaced. Then
there is much more suffering and bondage ahead. In
antiquated settings, that predate the existing mess, the
disregard for the weak and indefensible, by their leaders,
who fell prey to inadequate assessment of the whole and
prefered the short term benefits. Has led to a scarring of
humanity, that is yet to heal. Since then, only the level of
sophistication has gone one step higher, mankind has still
not absorbed the spirituality of humaness in its entirety.
Unless concerted effort is made to rectfiy the internal
weaknesses, as well as the promoting of self sustaining
policy frameworks that is all considering. History, it is
certain, is barely widening its circlic whorls, but the end
results of entrenched deprivation in sectors of society are
discernible. Only this time, the blame cannot be passed on
to others. Once they opaquecity of the game of social
organisation is grasped in its entirety as nothing more than
carefully contrived human endeavous with desired end
purposes. Then there need begin the grafting process of
rewritting the rules of the game and redesigning its spin
offs to meet the deprivations of novel settings. The
greatness of the United States of America, is not in its
progressive gradual evolvement into a heightened state of
civility and modernity. They have superceeded the previous
emergent centers of civilisation by pursuing a discordant
dissonated ante beat of radical replacement module of
disparate patchy projective strategy in realistic pursuit of
enhanced instituitionalisation of nobler states of human
existence. Enabled by access to the existing provisions of
acquired states of human achievement, giving free rein to
human endurance and the hitherto untapped inventiveness
that desperation unblocks in the higher realms of brute
streghth and the light that the mind reflects, when
unhindered to guide the tormented soul into the miracle of
redefinitional enablement, when the flight and the fight
forces emergence from the darker realms of privation and
seemingly unending hopelessness of human bondage.
They created a beam of hope and recreated the finer
spefications of social recreatability relishing in the unlimited
expanse of its ever widening realisability, giving hope to
hopeless humanity and creating physical beauty that
gladdens human existence in the wilderness of infinite
gloom. The course ahead does not necessarily lie in the
course previously travailed, though all the lessons of past
experience do come handy and are worthwhile. It is a
desire, fuelled by slighted nobility, the nobility of the causes
that do not find acceptance in the courts of the self
designated nobles of the presciently existing, to realise for
the wretched insignificants on the margins of human
existence that releases the spiritually fueled heightened
possibility of hitherto unacessed energy to reconfigure
nature to yield pleasure in the maelstrom of frightening
collaidal withdrawal into nothingness. The slow
disintergration, that turns to dust the structural reality
denied growth and stunted by self limited inhibitions of
noncohesive individuality, fragmenting in the turmoil of the
storm that besets the society on the edge of the
transmogrification, not re-instituiting itself, but dissolving
into the dust that clouds the spiralling winds.

There is an implicit desire in individuals to share and show

off their talents. It is this communal asset of the thought
process that when tapped into and liberated for the
common benefit, has a potential for laterally elevating the
society into higher states of communally driven
achievement. History clearly indicates that the excesses of
bad leadership have flourished, in contradiction of the
popular desire, because there have always been minions of
the bad leaders who easily without any moral
consciousness will work against their own people and their
honourable goals. However, there comes a time in the
affairs of disassociated systems where in the absence of
any evidence that the leadership will ever foster a self
engendering honest society, over and above the gluttonous
self focused corruptibility of slighted honour, must find the
inner insight to rise against the overwhelming oppression.
The fight for self sustenance supercedes any benign
latency to serve the well being of society for the common
good. At that point the people have lost faith in their
leaders, the communal values (that are still dominant in
agricultural communities) that sustain honest service, and
will do anything for individual survival and acquisition give
way to the brimming upheaval of the desired social
outcome foaming within the individual. It is in that state of
intensely devalued social morality, where a thin thread of
reasonable tolerance, sustains a frightening state of
corruption and barely disguised theft on a socially grand
scale. Where the society is tottering on the edge of
anguished desperation, and effective task execution gives
way to crafty stealth at avoiding responsible role execution.
It is only then at it becomes most obvious that a leadership
that is unaccountable, is a social liability to society as a
whole, without exempt. Leadership that thrives on the
society's earned respect, is one that enables the
unrestrained growth of all its potential possibilities. While it
is indeed the case that the transparency that is desired is
best structured in complex arrangements. The basic
underlying principle, the true lesson that needs to be
learned and emphasised is that, all are subject to the same
laws, and government is a collective responsibility, that by
collective consensus designates by a formal appointment
procedure representatives, who must at all points be
answerable to their society. The concept of democracy is a
welcome idealism, to a society that has seen some of the
most verminious forms of leadership in recent times. But as
has been noted by some of Africa's great scholars, in the
pre-colonial setting no chief ( with a few outstanding
exceptions, who have all perpetuated great tyranny on their
subjects) was greater than the people. The power of the
ruler is a social consensus measured in terms of its
approximation to the people's expectation, no matter how
crude those expectations are. The democratic concept is
not in its entirety novel, but the wanton abuse of political
office is a departure enabled by colonialism, and
capitalised upon and instituted over the years as an aspect
of the governing process by the renegade leaders,
democratic concepts need be modified to suit the
continent's special needs.

There is nothing that gives sustenance than a quest for

high ideals. The establishment of a continental agenda for
a continental fiduciary instrument, free trade and regional
trade zones, an African intellectual college of academics
and technologists, the intergrated continental
communication network programmes, the continental
satellite project, etc, are ideas that have been touted, some
have been realised, ad have yielded enormous benefits in
terms of improving the welfare of the people. There is an
undeniable need to continue to amalgamate at all levels, it
is unnegotiable requirement to make use of limited
resources, for the benefit of all.To reduce the mental
dependence and cement independence in self dependency
realistic terms. The fragmented rebellious outcasts snipping
like wildcats at the outer edge of society, fuming over and
seeking with a fire brand anger to smelt the masses and
rework them into worthy substances of accepted humanity.
In their all consuming anger they have been blinded to the
reality of the destructiveness that they have become in their
rage. These are the ones who are in responding to their
society's failure have swung out of sync and in maddening
intrusive reminders prod painfully the somnolent mass,
leaving in their wake a splattering of nightmarish
mindlessness that further bewilder the lost ones traversing
a treacrous time haze seeking for direction in a dream state
of receeding reality. The blurring of reality has cast them
outside the mainstream of nightmarish reality, they dared
not be forsaken, lest in their ever heightening clarity of
facile phantoming of the dream state of mind manipulating
dream state, they keep waking the dreamy mass up into
ever deepening horrors of the frightful horrors of the
nightmare visited upon the unwary uncaring. They must be
sought after, courted and reembraced, being awakening to
the futility of the struggle against the dissolving images that
taunt.

The schools, the educational instuitions, must be uplifted

both physically and non materially. The schools are
embodiments of the future of the people. Physically, their
architecture must provide the highest possible realisation of
beauty and comfort for the common benefit. Schools, right
form nursuries to universities, must be artscapes of beauty
on the landscape, a place where people shall desire to
inhabit, to acquire knowledge. Rather than crumbling
structures of miserly despair, that sensitises awareness to
despair. Without being, as should be, the source of light to
be realised within and without, bringing the seeds of
enlightment that bear fruits of joy to society at large.
Currently these institutions, like every thing else, are true
reflections of the common mental state. As the society
embarks on a projected growth process, there must be a
reflection in physical edifices of the rapid upgradement,
which should mirror the envisaged hopes of the continent.

"Some people say there is no use trying to change the

world, but if we don't try will it change?" (Jonathan
Mann, 1947-1998).

The marginalised, in a society that is determined to place

the individual interest before the commonwell-being, giving
vaunted praise to open market policies, while neglecting
the more important task of creating the foundation upon
which that growth will flourish, is on a one way track to
perpetuating a cemented underdeserving underdog of
dangerously envious poor class. In a setting in which the
rich can only thrive on the continuing deprivation of the
deprived majority, there will never be the beningn
enjoyment of the wealth, thus generated without a tinging
of retributive bitterness. It is the society's empowered
leaders who by simple foresight, should, create the balance
to ensure that all without exception share in comfort, the
gift of God, that is within their means to administer and
distribute equitably. In many ways it is the very heights of
absurdity that in a setting where there is a need for, a from
the ground rebuilding effort. Many young and energetic
men are wasting away pursuing aimless non activity. The
art of combining nature's resources to build society, is not a
negotiable conditionality to be determined by external
agents who have all the lesson of their past sufferings to
tender their hard unyielding consciensce. It does not glorify
the achievements of the massed intellect that in the midst
of so much, many go without remission, wanting and
languishing for want. In totality we are all in a mind state of
primitive barbarity. What has developed is the physical
environment, but the mental state is definitely barbaric. The
people who have empowered visionless leaders must, from
their state of suffering retrieve all the possibilities within
their means and effectuate change by their combined
strength. All without exception know what is good, all want
to have that which is good, and all have the means by their
individual acts to participate in realising this commonly
shared desire. The respect that enables power, emanates
from the people as a freely but carefully assessed
withdrawable social approval, there is no modicum of
difference in strength of each individual's vote, an
affirmation that should be reflected in nonambigous
physical enhancing realisations on those who have
presented a worthwhile agenda. The entrapments of
political ideologies is for the sated and those dwelling in
luxury. For the suffering masses it is an issue of when each
one will share equitably in what others by stiffling the
masses take for granted. There is no future time ahead that
will produce an exceptional individual, upon whom
leaership is inscribed and who will bring about all the
changes that society envisages (at least not in the human
realm). All must endeavour by a desire that is strong
enough to activate the slow rebuilding process. Just like
any individual endeavour, there will be mistakes, failures
and exasperation. But what needs to be done, must be
pursued unrelentlessly. The masses have taken to religion
and football with fervent despair, that is frightening in its
intensity. It is a peculiar displacement of massed social
support for organised social activtity, with a certain, but
nonetheless unspecified end goal. It is the sort of positive
social support that good governance will engender among
the populace. There again is evident what the massed
energy of people acting in union is capable of achieving. It
is rather pitiable that there is no crossover effect in
applying, the inherent lessons there unto daily life.

"Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself,

and your righteousness only the sons of man."
The Book of Job in the Holy Bible (NIV).

It is not so much wickedness as it is gaudy ignorance.

Humanity is progressing at several levels. The change is
marked by professed standards that serve as the guiding
measuring rod of social expectations and realisations. The
aspects of imperfections of the attained level of growth are
marginally zones marked by acts of faintly disguised
barbarity. The struggle for male supremacy, the pitted
bullfight for economic and monetary power, finds adequate
representation in the animal world. The finer aspects of
growth and those easily realised have been the flexible
points in the strained rope of social tolerance. In the
substituted fight for satisfying the cravings defined in
concordant progression of society, the focus within the
roving band of stultified groupings of human groupings,
centers on the group and its boundary protection activities.
Within the bounded territories of pretense, well demarcated
in overlayered spillings of futility, bleeding and bled in
congealed markings, there comes into play the peculiarities
of situational relevant contrivancies that are irrepresibly
amusing to the external observer. It is within this mind state
that development has brought progress that engenders
anger and distrust in one sector of humanity while
promising hope and improvements for the other half, it
denies its realisation for the weak and deprived. The
monstrosity conjectured, is itself a negative breeding of
angst driven search for the commonly desired multiplicity of
desired ends that has been manipulated to find limited
expression. The limitation is itself an affirmation of massed
limitations in social consciousness of the apt and inept.

For far too long the highest hopes of social growth, in the
most materialistic expressible way has been touted as the
highest possible aspiration attainable. Like a cruel joke,
when all have bought into the scam, the means of
conversion that will garner the society's resources and
bring to realisation this acquired desire, is being dangled at
an unattainble reach, right at the nostrils of a seemingly
asinine humanity. The blundering errors of our times are
finding ready acceptability, until in the druken haze of the
fumes of imcompetency, displayed at the exalted height of
honored positions, accepted defectiveness descends to
permeate the body politic on the one hand, and punishes
the populace on the other. The consequnce is a non
striving for improvement in the case of the former and a
creeping despair that is frightening in its realisation in the
latter. The whole society is gripped in a rut that is
deepening constantly without any hope of an internal,
outward projective ejection from the entrapment, unto the
higher grounds of realisation. It is a sinking desparation.
There seems a need to acknowledge the quaint
uniqueness of the particularities that distinguish the people,
but more importantly is a requirement to make a communal
progression that enables enlightment for the whole society.
The benefits that accrue to society as humanity
progresses, should not be denied to any sector of society,
by dint of the fact that they do not have the pecuniary
resources to buy into this progress. That it is presently so,
is a clear indication of the depth of deficiency in the
governing process. Society may engage in copious
borrowing where the need exists, continually seeking to
improve the existing situation, with the foundation of a rich
history of past attainments and capabilities, and a general
ease to assimilate the best that the rest of humanity has to
offer, with a view, to constantly set ahead, to a better future
for all without exception. The refusal to engage in adaptive
change, not necessarily inventing trail blazing approaches,
but being quick to graft emergent approaches that have far
reaching effect, is an aspect of the defining role of
leadership difficult to comprehend. There is a repugnant
grovelling in discarded inadequacies, that has been
excused as underdevelopment. Underdeveloped by simple
logic, implies an identification of a lapse that must be
rectified, rather than exploring its negative hindrances and
revelling in it. There is a lack of projective policy making,
and an abundance of hopeless reliance on incapable
outside sources. Outside resources will yield benefit within
a system designed to incorporate those incoming
resources in a manner designed to yield multiplicative
growth benefits. There can invariably be an absorptive
capacity that gives credence to any assistance, but has
that absoptive capacity within it a generative designated
capacity? It is the lack of the a carefully planned and
constantly revised internally designed system to
incorporate available knowledge from external sources and
adapt such knowledge in a progressively productive basis
at the wider societal level that accounts for a larger part for
the retardence of society. At the individual level those who
have the means will acquire the aspects of the outcomes of
technological and expanding knowledge base to better their
wellbeing. The gap thus created between the haves and
the have nots, is in several ways the malfeasance of the
governing authorities to incorporate a forwardly oriented
social development policy. There is a never satiated abyss
of self oriented desire satisfaction, especially where money
and material resources are concerned that has by default
of a weakness in the human nature predicted that any
expectancy of some one else doing all that it will take to
bring forth the groundings of desired change will ever be
fully fufilled from external sources. This awareness by itself
implies that any preoccupation with self centered
aspirations of any leader, reflects as wasted years for the
society thus denied any well formulated focus on central
issues cogent to progress and improvements across the
board in the whole society. Instead of silent acquiscence to
this wickedness the deprived in society must begin to
realise their strength in the society's outcome and
practically begin to utilise this strenghth to ensure that their
well-being is catered for by their representatives in
leadership roles. The degeneration of the governing
process into a squabble of poorly coordinated subtle
fleecing of the public purse, is a repudiatable social
acceptance and owes its entrenchment partly to excessive
material expectancies from holders of dishonoured offices
of great social responsibility. The drive to meet the social
expectations that fuel the social demise has created a
social debacles of unequivocal outcomes the attainment of
one is detrimental to the pursuit of the other. The resolution
is a resolve to uphold honourable discharge of social
responsibilities in positions of responsible outcome to the
social wellbeing. That expectations of honesty and
dedication evoke laughter, is a clear indication of the state
of the collective mentality as to what is right and wrong.
The structures that enable organised and disciplined
development have barely been indentified before they have
been subsumed by the matured polished robbery, that in
gaining firming currency spells doom for any emerging
hope of a society destined to fully exploit all its
potentialities. The issues that must be addressed in their
trivialty are ignored and swept under the rug. But the whole
society is insignificant by any standard, and the miniscule
measures of rectification that needs to find articulation from
the center, by being ignored has by ommission become the
sealing of unrealisable hopes in a fetid cauldron of
inactivity. The failures at the higher levels of organised
society are the individual's painful tears of despair flowing
unseen on the dried cheeks and scarring deeply the
individual's distrust of the society and those who by choice
have offered to set a course of meaningful realisation and
having been given the mantles of responsibility, instead of
responsible acts of leadership through high commitment to
the social wellbeing, they, instead, take for granted the
hopeful aspirations of the muted masses and bury it under
a deep cover of dark and frighteningly wicked incapability,
failing to realise for the whole, while with ingenuity,
acquiring with greed, for the self gratification. The society is
greater than any one person or group of usurpers, yet its
outcome is always at the mercy of a clique, in the absence
of society's self empowering awareness to enforce the
fullest realisation of its desired outcome. The discipline
required for establishing a base of decency in the
governing process will never evolve naturally. In its
absence all aspirations of the commonwealth benefitting
the common good, is a pipe dream in an expanding
sophistication of roguery and theft that will not only cement
social deprivation but will give body to the simmering
frustration that the inefficiencies in the society engenders
and in a way will set the ground for a visitation of recurrent
social unrest on scales that can only be barely imagined.
There is an urgent need to fuel a drive for development
with a surge in communicating socially relevant messages
at myriad levels, messages must suffuse the social
consciousness of the need for honest behaviour and the
inculcation of thrust, by execution and perfomance.

The African must begin a recrafting of the crucial axis

around which the continent and ts composites
developmental evolution will turn in the foreseeable future.
It must be based on policies that acknowledge the need for
assistance for its majority and significantly marginalised
human component, marginalised by the very social
organisation that should place at its fore the weak. There is
a pressing need to make comfortable adaptation to
suggestions from external sources, that as mentioned
previously are a hodge podge of imperfections that
perpetuate suffering on those who are most in need of
assistance. The solid basis for society's even development,
is one that focuses on care and attention to 'the least of
humanity', not excessively market oriented plunder
economies that benefit a minor segment, and seals the
suffering of the poor irredeemably in inconclusive policy
measures. The policies that will sustain continental
development are not buried in inaccessible formulations,
they are the expressive desires of the individuals finding
expression at a societal level. It is the idealisms that when
forced into realisation, are creations of physical beauty and
the wholesome realisation in the life of all the citizenry of
the things that bring joy to the heart and make life worth
living. Development is not realised in extreme antagonistic
projections of depriving the poor to maintain the rich, it is
not in tumultous desires to even the differences among the
evolved levels of differentiation in society, insamuch as it is
a bridging of the gap of destituition and the upraising of the
deprived. It is not to be found in forced restituition of
manipulated acquisitories to the deprived masses. It is in
reality, a state of social consciousness that will structure
the malleable system to enable meaningful existence for all
the people the society, the commonly expressed social
desires must find a true acceptance within the minds of the
people and be reflected in the outward workings of the
social system, like the air that fills all lungs, irrespective of
differing lung capacities and lung conditions, enabling a
teasing out of all the joys of life that is so fleeting, at a level
commesurate with the dictates of technological
advancement without curbing the individual drive of
harmless ambition that catalyses the social drive for
individual and collective well being in all its diverse
expressions; without depriving or sacrificing the individual
gains for their efforts or some vague pretext of some
anomalous social consideration. It is not so much who has
control, but to whom control has been enabled; to whom it
has been enabled, is the required expectation that
increasing societal empowerment must be utilised to
mobilise not for individual gain, but in creative ingenuity for
providing without exception for all those within the
influential effect of that control.
Each person in a role position of responsibility, must see in
their task execution an appropriate element of importance
in its deterministic outcome for the whole of society. Like
the one who must execute his task with precise accuracy
and commitment to enable a worthwhile realisation, the
worker in whatever position, whether great or small,
personally significant or insignificant, whether so deemed
or ortherwise, likewise has an implied requirement of
commitment and unrestrained execution, in the appropriate
direction. Just as is expected of one in a critical role
position, who may, by willful omission or commision
become a nemesis purveying destruction. When people
assume that their positions have little relevance to the
grand social outcome and thereby disengage themselves
from committed work goal realisations, they indict a system
of irresponsible and undedicated leadership. There is thus
a complemetary process of compromising the obviously
unacceptable. It is difficult to take a stand on an issue
where one has an emotional involvement of culpability.
While society expects its leadership to direct the way
forward unambiguously, it is also a responsible requirement
of each individual and grouping within society to demand
excellence and uncompromising honesty from themselves.
Much as the former is difficult to realise so is the latter.
Difficulty of realisation however is not by any means
approval of acceptance of the unacceptable. Society
advances through a refusal on a part of its constituents, to
accept what is prevailing, and a bold start to search for and
realise a worthy alternative.

The plagued futility of an existence without a chance of

improving on ones dismal poverty has created an ever
widening pit of dangerous despair. The poverty of
deprivation of mental and material growth has generated a
despair that is frightening in its realisation in the youth. The
youth are in the deepest emotional despair imaginable on a
wider social scale. They are exposed to possibilities that
their systems will never enable them to realise, not even in
their dream states. Their bleak futures are predicted in
unrealistic terms, since there is no clearcut articulation of
the gradiose idealisms and the crafting of social reality in
directions that are expressive of the long term realisations
of those wishes. In the face of impossibilities and
improbabilities that are realistiscaly sealed in concretised
states of painful reality by acts of gross negligence at the
highest level possible, the mind state, they have submitted
their youthful spirituality of aspring to a meaningful future,
worthy of living for, and in one last dramatic overture of
hopeless disthrust of a society that has betrayed the noble
ambitions of youth and existence, wreck havoc in acts of
wanton destructiveness that defy meaning in realism. But
real life is a parody of meaningless traversty of rationality
and justified possibilities, in an era of possibilities. The
simple and easily realisable have been accorded deified
status and then in mockery of the freely giving nature of the
deity, denied to those whose exigent circumstances need
its granting.

The African has been cast by history and the exigencies of

the times into the role of a lesser humanity. But this
classification is realisable within the contemporaneous
events of emergent civilisation, and by no means discredits
prior achievements in some earlier definitional setting. The
point being made is that in a new era, requiring new
organisational principles, there is a call being made to
master the complexities of the newly evolving scenario.
The realisation of individual talents by individuals of the
race has done little to ameliorate the psychic
disenablement of being later arrivals on the scene, a scene
that is a disassemblement of sensibility, the peices of the
puzzle take a lifetime to sort and then its noncohesiveness
is the dirge to the departed. It is a traversity against the
very land and the spirituality of massed existence, that in
this state, the leaders will continue to do disservice to their
unique positions as directors and uplifters of their people.
In this setting, if there is any person who has not
recognised their unique responsibility of honest and
concerted effort in the discharge of their responsibilities in
any position of responsibility, they are indeed pathetic. It is
the individual apathy to communal responsibility, an
apathy, that was itself a product of a negligent society, that
found expression at the highest level in self centered
acquisitiveness that led to the presently evolving system of
twarted aspirations. The arising frustration at the system is
as expected finding realisation in unmitigated violence and
destructiveness. A seeming desire, that if society and those
appointed to be responsible for its outcome, will not
imaginatively create fair and adequate playing grounds,
then lets with one accord, level that society. It is a
rebellious acclamation in the opposite direction to well
defined growth oriented policies, and since it is an offspring
of desperate uncoordinated but massed frustration, will
likely be a terrifyingly unending spree of man's most violent
display of barbaric destructiveness. The scenario has found
limited enactment in some quarters, and until open-honesty
and goodwill prevail as the defining characteristic of the
body politic in the polymorphic societies that constitute the
landscape, the stench of dreadful forbearance is not far
removed. People who have nothing worth living for, will
court death and destruction with fearless comeliness and
visit their destructive anger on those who by failing their
senses of decency, have failed humanity and their people.
There is a choice, change in socially accepted definition of
what is honourable and acceptable, or a failure to admit the
frailities in the existing reality and a headlong dash into the
dismal future. The devolution into a state of chaos is an
improbability that is easily realisable. The individual
achievements of gratuitious acknowledgement are of
irrelevance in a continental state of barely sustained social
cohesivity lacking any indicative direction of committed
idealistic expectations grounded in perfomance. There is
an ingrained spirituality of peace attained only close to
ones ancestral roots, no creature comfort can replace this
hunger that tugs at the heartstring of the pale reflections of
bold humanity that dot the diaspora. There is a sublime
wishful thinking of a return to a quite peaceful haven, it is a
peace that is realisable by communal effort. Communal
effort, in a social system that is seemingly bursting at the
seams from the diversity of individual talents and
dispositions randomly firing outbursts of initiatives, need to
be coalesced and directed in system enhancing directive
influence, to tame the pulsating potentialities, to coordinate,
to facilitate maximisation of outcome potentialities. A
process of management that will guarantee a settling down
process of massive upheavals on multi micro levels to
facilitate the individual goal attainment through group
coordinated effort. It is beyond any one ignorant ego
falsely parading in surreality, pretending to be in control of
affairs that the masses are only beginning to conceive. The
elevation of the social consciousness to approximate the
individual awakening to the incontrovertible inseparability of
the social and individual well-being is a crucial identity point
in the transformation process in progress.

There are two fundamental approaches to resolving the

deep seated issue of excruciating deprivations that is not
receeding with the years, but finding deeper and growing
entrenchment. There is the option of the natural growth that
comes with good economic policies that in a way seal the
class differences. And there is the alter option of
accelerated assistance that provides the deprived with the
basic essentials that define respectable lifestyles and a
hope to fill the deep break between the capable and the
deprived. The provision of good housing at every level of
society, the existence of good educational systems that are
diverse and undiscriminatory in their intake, the improving
of the infrastructure, the health system and employment
avenues therein created are by no means luxuries. They
are the basic foundations of all societies. Their inadequacy
or total absence is not an issue defined within the context
of underdevelopment or any ther hubris, it is a clear
indication of major failures with Africa and its leadership,
both now and well into the future when the sole purpose of
leadership is creatively engaging its populace in resolving
these fundamentalities. It has taken other societies, who by
no means have fullly resolved these issues, many more
years than Africa's transitional ejection into the present era
of civilisation. However, they made a concerted effort, and
it is the unnegotiated establishment of that focality of
definitional emegence of priorities that is being called for. It
is to all intents in its most unclarified form presently existent
within the individual psyche and need to be adequately
articulated. The articulation process is an awakening of the
society into a new realisation, it is a realisation that is
somnolently epipheral in most people's idealisations, but
while they seek to find reality in a system gone awry, has
assumed the delicacy of leisurely after thought. To survive
in the filth you must bath in the mud. There must emerge a
clarion expression of these expectations and their
realisations, in the most divergent ways possible.

The subsistence agro-based society should not be

misconceived as finding a continuum in the present nation
states of the continent. The continent does not have the
pleasure of leisurely growth into a state of civilised maturity,
the precocious developement is the desired end to balance
the extended entrapment in a social organisation that has
ceased to serve any meaningful ends. This is the age that
has displaced religious darkness with Godly enlightment,
the achievements of the ages has caught the continent in
the full blast of its afterpass and left the people twirling
bewildered in search of a reality to anchor their wobbly
stability. There has been a transitional movement upwards
and forwards, giving rise to the emergence of a new society
that operates around fundamentally previously non existent
factors, that, now in emergence, combine to determine the
crucial definitional expectations and outcomes. Which
outcomes may reflect the expectations of the people or
deviate considerably, in a negative unexpected outcome
effect. Since individuals cannot in isolation realise the
appropriate patterns of execution which they assume and
are denied because the social setting for that individual
realisation is a void of inefficacious nonaccomplished end
states. They have no choice but to come from their mental
and physical isolation, keeping themselves apart from the
totality form which they inhibit, and force the body politic to
respond to the expectations of its constituents at the
noblest level possible. When left to its self, it is obvious
now that it is the offhandly evil that preoccupy themelves
with the governing activities and perpetuating abnormality
on the society in a frighteningly possesively infectious
manner, afflicting the populace with unimaginable
deprivations. The supposed economic underdevelopment
is a misconception of changed circumstances. The
economic policies compound inadequacies without
providing a way out and thus leaving the youth withiout a
future. The seems to be in effect a forced struggle,
deliberately instigated by leadership conspicuously
inadequately equipped idealistically, to structure the bland
state of an emergent transisted system, to choose to
participate, when there are no obvious choices. The society
must be structured to enable access to maximise individual
potentials, by the provision, or a course set in the direction
of the provision of enabling states of possibilities, of the
core facilities and processes that are in concordance with
the desired requirements of the new social system. The
inadequacies of traditional agro-based societies that are
fading away with their customs and essentialities, must not
to be manipulated to become entrenched social class
identities, but like primitive practices must be discarded and
the acceptably desired fundamentals of modern society
provided as the basis for the emergence of the transited
African. First there must be an acceptance that any policy
that favours a segment of the population but leaves a
majority to be despicable spectators of filthy wealth while
leaving in dejected poverty is a social malfeasance and is
an error of judgemental decision making on the part of
those to whom the task has been entrusted when
accepted as unnegotiable. The process of re-formulating
borrowed knowledge and rephrasing it in radically modified
format reflecting the changed circumstances of relocation
has been passed over for the passive application of
borrowed knowledge. The resulting conflict between the
paradigmatic variances between existing circumstances
and the inflexibility of inapplicability due to the misfit has
been at the center of worrisome development.

They misplacement or nonexistence of political will to

tackle the issues that of immediate consequence to the
depressed majority, has engendered a head in the sand
political leadership, where there is an adoption and a
tenacious hold on to the things that are easily manipulated,
without a recourse to immersion in untrodden paths and
exprimentation with positively valued policies. It is this fear
rather than any form of external manipulation that is at the
root of the dire poverty that bedevils the continent. The
external world itself, is at some levels, expressive of a mere
imitatory connivance of what is deemed appropriate and
acceptable. But that approval and acceptance is the
conditional and the limited viewpoint of those, who by
design or mere coincidence, give expression to the voice of
their society. It is by no means the absolute truth nor
conclusively derived summation of complex intricacy. That
being the case any adjustment that is based on an external
point of view will be, as is, too little too late. The greater
effort must come from within and find appreciation
internally and externally. A good starting point will be a
preaching of a politics of committed honesty and the
provision of the fundamental framework that will enable its
fúnctional realisability. The external influences and dictates
that have assumed centre stage in African affairs, in reality,
no matter their share in total continental activities, must be
conceived as extraneous assistance rather than the focal
exigencies of continental idealistic realisations. These
idealistic realisations are works of civic and social
upgradement, not the netherworld wanderings of blood lust
and destructive ambition of the marginal minds that has
held society captive in a trance of spell bound insanity.

The pursuit of an approximation to western capitalism as

the pathway to modernity as the adopted preference of
continental development has given grounded currency to
descriptive terms such as 'underdeveloped'. The
outstanding talents of continental human and material and
other nondescriptive resources, have been dimmed by
seeking to find realisation through imitation, by towing a too
exact pattern of realisation. Given that there are many
benefits accruing to attaining whatever material
developments have been attained in these societies. There
is still a lot of unexplored room for diversity, without the
retractive effect on the onward progress of the society.
Here is offered an opportunity for the conception and
establishment a departure from the futility that has haunted
and scoured painful despair across the span of human
existence, and yet there is a waiting, worse than the waiting
is the throwing away of the opportunity to bring forth status
reversal. A throwing up of the hand before the task has
been defined. Given the absence of a fully developed
infrastructural framework upon which to evolve divergent
excellence, there is a further introverted regression into the
abyss of despair, when in the process of generating the
girders upon which to drape the manifold creative intellect
that will truly bring to full realisation the transitional shift to
an age of renewal and positive growth, mistakes are made
and by ignorance accepted through nonparticipation by the
very people who are directly affected by those decisions,
thus there is a weak basis for projecting away from the
shadow of others. The chords that bind the continent in
bondage must be identified and loosened, gradually to
inconsequence. The bondage of ineffective leadership is a
bane, that hangs like a dead goat around the unwilling neck
of a thief in broad daylight. The unmaginable spectacleof a
society spiralling rapidly out of sync in the absence of
correctional measures to stabilise forces of vortice. The
existing model of attained development that Africa is
attempting to approximate is a fault ridden one, that entails
the marginalisation of a significant element of society, the
unnaturally created monstrosity of the deprived, the
underprivileged. That in emulation, there has been a failure
to take advantage of the trail blazing trail effect of this prior
ascendancies and capitalise on their mistakes to evolve a
better society, there is a serious lapse in the leadership
process. It need not be overemphasised that if preparatory
effort is not put in creating the supportive environment for
consumptive behaviour, then in the future as at now, the
outputs of the heightened productive activities of the
information age will be only insignificantly realised, whether
as products of the land or as imported end products.

The meaningless preoccupation with definitional

categories-The expanded boost that manufacturing
activities are meant to realise for the modern economy is a
consequence of consumptive absorbability. The present
disposition of Africa in the light of developments outside the
continent imply that unless it constitutes a self contained,
evolving system of economic development , that by feeding
on itself, generates the drive to spur creative consumption,
acquiring with an intent to mutiply. If not realised, not only
will the continent remain marginalised but it will gradually
dissolve into isolated patches of immeasurable despair in
the midst of unexplored opportunities. For far too long,
since the faintly acknowledged awakening of the masses to
the transitional shift into another age, of possibilities other
than subsistence agriculture and the emergence of
economic forces that made possible hitherto nonexistent
exchange of ideas and material products, making it
probabilities within achievement the widened ranges of
transforming nature to expand the narrow activity range of
human activity hitherto . The continent has been only within
"smelling range" without actually cooking the meal and
relishing slavishly in its flavour. By initiating and
implementing a continentally focused economic and
industrial initiative, there is ample room for seemingly
unlimited growth and innovative capacity. With the
overwhelming abundance of information enabled by human
growth in this century and the willingness for co-operative
assistance there is a basis for embracing continentally
oriented development process at all levels of social
organisation. The outside world has been, and will always
remain partially curious observers of a setting that
confounds there understanding, and since there is not likely
to be any sated state of development, given that evolution
is a time linked phenomenon that is inexorably slowly
progressive, there is no point waiting for salvation from
outside sources. All the God given means have been
concentrated on the continent to facilitate its constructive
development, development is not necessarily a process of
aggressive destructive alteration of the beauty of nature to
yield short term benefits. Development is more in the sense
of the application of the expanded knowledge base and
mind states to mellow the comparative harshness of human
existence to add value and volume to the narrow and
restricted limitations that unexercised and slow mind states
have restricted overall social growth. That society is never
at any one point at a halt, but constantly modifiying with the
onward progress of time and the changes in the natural
environment is undebatable, the sort of adaptation that any
society is capable of at any time period is indicative of their
state of development attained then. Invariably, the
assessment of the quality of this development is
measurement in terms of comparative improvement in the
general well being and the level of refinement to mere
crudity of a past period. Yet in this circle of systemic
developmental evolution there have been heights of
attainments, unmatched by anything the presently existing
offers and depths of depravity out of concordance with the
general progress of civility attained. That being the case,
indisputably there are worthy lessons from the past to set
forth the direction for the future. The added advantage is
not having to conceive from thin air the direction, but build
on existing knowledge. The intriguing nature of humanity is
that it realises its self, self being a collective state of being,
from pushing against the existing reality, formulating,
reformulating and discovering wider dimensions of possible
applications and usage and thus giving not only impetus for
progressive growth but also a wider more satisfying
appreciation of existence. This process need not be carried
out in a state of constant suffering, inasmuch as suffering
occasioning deprivations and inadequacies have been the
basis for progress in some settings. Indeed it is the ability
to restructure through a remodification adaptation process
the basic provisions of natures endowment that enables
societies sustenance through changing phases of differing
periods of social complexity Social complexity is perceived
in terms of the diversity of the ranges of social activities
that occasion social organisation rather than in terms of
unilinear expansion in one dimension of feasible definitional
categorisation of society (for example expansion in
population as compared to diversity of expanding activities
as occasion industrial and scientific growth). In
retrospective perspective there was and still is a constituent
provision for unlimited diversification of the raw energy of
nature and its resources to serve human end ad infinitum,
the limitation is the limitation society imposes on the mind
state to activate its creative element, to explore, discover
and restructure to expand existing horizons. The
contigencies of the times and the existence of influential
directive capacity catalyses somnolent mind states to flex
the malleable mind state to shift through phases of
possibilities. Development and growth could as well be
realised within a state of unembittered strive against plain
vanities and gall-bitter inner strife against the sapping
deprivations of unavailable provisions of sought for states
of existence . It is the means for this realisation that must
be carved out in the mind state of the populace and
realised in social execution. The mind state must be
uplifted and purified, to be plastered from the lowest to the
highest level, in philosophical excoriation of unacceptable
behaviour and the applicatory instituitionalisation of
exemplary, acceptable task execution and behaviour. The
striving for, and the full realisation of high and imaginatively
beautiful ideals, to fulfill, begin as imaginations that are
images in the individual mind, then are condemend as
unrealisable on the wider social scale, and then in finding
realisation are anchored into materially concrete
constructions, and become the definitions of social reality.

On the whole, achievement in agrarian society is focused

on the bold striving of individual strength. The sustained
consenting contribution of disparate thoughts to benefit the
common good, found expression in destructive activities as
tribal warfare. To imagine that the substitution of individual
self interest for the social well being can evolve without a
sustained effort at identifying its core location within the
massed mentality and cultivating its espousal as crucial to
the emergence of a viable modern centrally governed
system, is a foible of the unrehearsed faltering that persist
in this poorly ocherstrated miasma of pretense struggling to
find rebirth in birth. There certainly is no lapse in the
indiviudal drive, but in the presence of a social vacuum that
hinders rather than augment its fullest realisable possibility,
it seems like a wellfought battle for the right course in a
contextual void. The true and the basic environment upon
which any form of socio-economic policy will advent true
transformation is the mind environment. It must be
prepared, cultivated and made to identify with the
commitment to aspire to noble ideals in communal welfare.
The absence of the appropriate mind set is evidenced in
the infamous abrogated and unmaintained infrastructures
that have deteriorated even as the need for them
increases. The underlying uninferred cause is beyond the
monetary resources, it is a lack of a consensual
appreciation for the commonwell being at the highest level
of the nation states. The consequence secondary factors
are reflections of the absence of a cultivated mind set to
conceive the public, the government, as inseparable from
the self. Any policy no matter how highly touted must find
expression through human elements, the sustainability and
the the positive transformation of those policy measures as
they are sustained over time, needs an appreciative human
element ready to make the sacrifices to bring to fruition its
impementees. The popular mind of the populace needs to
be courted and not manipulated through indoctrination. The
process of planting the fundamental values of social
responsibility needs to be equated by responsible
behaviour in leadership processes at the governing level.
Exemplary behaviour cements permanently the theoretical
lessons of expected honesty. The crucial mind set that in
interaction with disciplined purposiveness towards the
progressive realisation of focused idealisms is the key that
opens the door to social well-being in all its expressions. A
society that marginalises a significant element of its human
component and places the individual before the society can
never expect any commital towards unnegotiable
perfomance, the desire to secure the individual interest will
predominate and since that desire is inexhaustible in its
requirement, the short and long term goals are curtailed in
the begging bowl of individual greed.

The prevailing attitude of free and unrestricted activities

that occasion social organisation is not an expression of
some quaint 'African freeness and opennes', as it is
indicative of marked inefficiencies within the operational
capacities of central authourities who are disconnected
from their prime functional responsibilities and substitute
pretentious irrelevancies of excessive preoccuptions in
their discharge of expected activities. Substituting
irrelevancies of marginal activities as core interest, while
barely controlled chaos is parcelled as individually
instigated initiatives is hardly the way towards a balanced
and self sustaining society, capable of generating self
supportive growth. The unmitigated and uncontrolled
profusion of uncontrolled activities carried out in contra-
indication to the expected orderliness expected to be
realised within the societies is nothing more than another
indication of the disaster of enormous proportion being
whisked in a bowl straining from over use and exerted over
the capacity, without constant adjustments being made in
social components to bring the society t's core controlling
elements to reflect its radically changing reality as
articulated by its members. This sort of uncontrolled
individual imposition on an unresponsive social system is
leading to uncoordination and barely constrained mayhem.
There is a need to enforce standards of acceptable
conformity without necessarily stunting individual intiative
and creativity to diversify, in certain cases. Society and
government must complement individual freedom with
group limitations to ensure the highest standards of
realisation in social and infrastructural implementations.
The active enforcement of social regulations aimed at the
highest possible realisation of vaunted social goals will
certainly ensure that what is being done on a limited scale
has long enduring existence, maturing graceful with the
passage of time, rather than stop gap measures, awaiting
another occasion for a preferred realisation. Every
individual activity is best set to prosper in the social millieu
advantageuosly structured to catalyse its prime realisation
and growth. It is the absence of that millieu that belies
some of the contamineous distress that occasions all
organised activities on the continent. Worse than its
absence are those, who by default are placed in positions
to thwart the fullest realisation of the highest and noblest
capacities that are streaming to waste, in the unexplored
rivers of diverse human creative intellect, that the stunted
system, allows untapped to waste as deplorable
uncultivated human resource. The greatest injustice of the
years of despairing unfulfillment is the betrayal from within.
The people by acquiscing their power to inept leadership,
and condoning, against their intuitive intellect, to sack their
communities from within have become self consuming
organisms. The clarion call of awakening is a call to self-
awkening from the destructive slumber of selfish
indulgence. Society must postpone its judgement of the
people and their unique location within the wider universe
of humanity, until its potentials, fully accessed and explored
are fully exhausted, not before. The struggle to get to the
starting line is apparently set within the wider cosmic reality
of things not easily configured. But translated to the more
accessibly informed state, is the dictum that there is no
need to postpone, what can presently be released. When
there are such great issues at stake as the worthwhile
realisation of priceless humanity. In the surrealism that
reality has assumed in extreme circumstances, after
identifying a problem, it would appear that another layer of
problems is weaved in, to encapsulate the identified
problem. Thus, instead of a scaling and peeling off of the
originally perceived defect, the solution is a layering of
creatively conjuctured negations to the original problem.
"The short term" is a perfect covering to camouflage these
perfections of the unperfected.

The disassociation between the intellectual elite and the

unelightened stupidity (stupidity qualified in terms of
comparative awareness of existing possibilities, without
being negative in connotative indicativeness) of everybody
else, is another expression of blinded individuality that
belies continental problems. The assumed intellectuals by
carving their own spheres of realisation in the sweltering
fecund fetidity have given adequate proof of their limited
insight and overtly displayed their self-centered aspiration
to better their lot at the expense of everyone else. Anyone
who takes advantage of the freely proffered assistance of
their community and after realising the full benefits of those
benefits turns his back on the languishing masses, who by
consent enabled that one to be an expected means for the
many, may very well become adept in his field of professed
knowledge, but he or she has failed in the ultimate task of
self attainment, by failing to realise at the global level, the
sacrifices of his community. It is the realisation of this
failed fealty to society at the individual level and the
censure of society to curtail these ingratitude that will form
a significant aspect of the realisation process of the
awakening to reality. Reality is a state of social awareness
where the issues that constitute to define lingering
obstacles against the hopeful upliftment of the society from
its deep seated, fitted consignment to the extremities of
desperate existence of the larger segment of humanity, is
sought for, identified and unravelled of its mysticism, and
effectively discarded into the dustbin of the practically
inapplicable. Reality is an awareness that equivocates a
search for appropriateness within the contextual realisation
of inappropriateness. A practical, unassuming, humane
effort to ripoff the lingering, left overs of cleaving rotteness
of disgusting fealty to placatory corruption that hinders
social progress on a grand scale, yet in being tolerated
slowly infects the purity undiscovered beneath. The violent
discarding of the superficial, decayed façade, will enable an
assessing of the untainted purity of collosal capabilities
hidden by the accumulated dirt of the lost years of despair.

The desperation of futility slowly takes a strangle hold

and completes the transformation of the transformee
into the transformed. These are the gentle giants of
emptiness, gliding slowly with downcast eyes along
 lonely forgotten paths of dreams that in turning into
nightmares are sublimely realised in the self
consumptive emptiness of the void. Their tears
unshed, have rained within into the prepared grounds
of fostered pain, borne with seeming ease. Their beds
of thorn have with great unobviated tolerance became
downed feathers of comforting respite. These ones
laugh pain in the face and court danger with
submissive ease, in search of nothing.

The imbalance of contradictions within core system

constituents and operative variable indicators in the social
evolution is evidenced in the skewed emphasis on aspects
of social engineering that strive to attain perfection in fiscal
and monetary policies without establishing the social
environment within which these policies can promote stable
social development within the whole system. There is thus
created and boosted an anomaly where the few favoured
make a fairly established transition to a new phase of social
development and the majority by no fault of their making
are like heavily loaded weights that drag and dangle the
society in the practically unbefitting operatives of the
vagueity and vagracies of a previous, presently, non viable
period. The people are holding on to hopes built without a
reference zone of probable attainability.(The fear that they
are permanently caught in the vortices of forces stronger
than they can effectively bend to their favour has created a
palpable state of fear of failure and social inconsequence.
In the society's failure to guarantee the individual's
capability in being socially relevant and individually self
sustaining, the society has cast people in an undesired
state of tensed suspension of dread, it is a dread of
unconditional failure that is in contradiction to the fast
disappearing traditional social values of self definition of
manly capacity through hard work in traditional
preoccupations. The emerging society is replacing
traditional occupations in large sweeps with unsustainable
and limited provisions under the aegis of the definition of
the modern economics, in the limitations of the provisions,
individuals are finding no effective all inclusive replacement
for traditional economic activities. It is a failure due to
government's incomprehensive ability to structure and
reconfigure the emerging society along progressively
radical and essentially relevant reconfiguration to
accomodate the existing resources to the populace in a
vibrantly diversified format. In the abence of a clear
redefintion of procedures in implementation to reallocate
and accomodate emerging system dynamics at various
levels; excessive emphasis on free and unrestricted system
self configuration far from ensuring the emergence of a
stable prosperous free-market economy, will possibly yield
this expectation at one level of society and creates massive
system failure at another level. Since social systems are
linked inseparably, there is bound to be a cancelling out
effect which inarguably will be insufficient to naturally
control for the system embalance, which must be corrected
by far reaching intrusive system engineering efforts
emerging from the leadership. Anyhow, so far the shift into
modernity and the consequent transitional phase of
continental evolution has been a bitter experience of hopes
in suspension). The society has fostered marginality by
facilitating partially realised directions pointing into a
netherworld of unfulfillable dimensions. The full benefits of
the new system, which system has not been fully
appreciated by the power brokers to appreciate its
intricacies and unexploited potentialities, cannot gain
general foothold to yield its fullest benefits unless a
concerted effort of taut commitment to pursue rational
generally all benefitting policies at the level that impacts the
individual state of being is activated from the leadership
level acting in conformity agreement with the rest of
society is pushed practical existence. Enabling the full
realisations of the new and partially emergent system
optimum utility capacity. In effect the modern society as is
being sought in African society is beyond the realisation of
small scale cultivators of pepper or any other type of
agrarian or small scale activity that generates barely
sustenable domestic economic sustenance. This activities
have their relevance to the general social wellbeing, but the
very nature of the society that has evolved in response to
the changing times and their required adjustments, has
been probably inadequately understood and improperly
managed to enable a close approximation at all levels of
society, for changes at the various levels of the changing
society to be in concordance with the dictates and outcome
effects that the change has impacted on the society as a
whole. Thus there has been a conspicuous excess of
defective and unexercised The society must assist to
rebuild the agrarian system with its crumbling infrastructure
that was sufficient for primitive agrarian systems but
inadequate to equate the accepted standards of expected
living conditions of the modern(?) society. The system
identified as the modern society is not an alternative choice
of attained states of self attainment. It is an irrevocable
advancement, an upward unnegotiable upward transition to
a new state of human social organisation. It is capable of
individual realisation, facilitated in a limited sense, but must
find full expression and realisability at the highest possible,
massed societal level for its full benefits to prevail system
wide. There is no viable alternative, the traditional society
and all its accruing materialisms has outlived its practical
usefulness as a desired end state. The emerging society
can put in place the needed policy framework that is
effectively universal in its provisions and direction of
purpose to upgrade society, in its absence will be the
hapzard, erratic, bestial struggle to attain the possible
better state of existence. The basic provisions of upgrading
the housing needs and the educational provisions, the
redesigning of communities through basic infrastructural
reconfiguration, are activities that should not by means be
delimited to select urban estate projects. The presemtly
evolved state of African communities is not an urban
phenomena, the beauty of the rural communities cannot be
obliterated in the presence of limited clearly defined
purpose and intents and gross inefficiecy on the part of
leadership. The prevailing serenity of small and large
villages wreathed in history and symbolism must be
upgraded and reconfigured into the modern society,
bringing to these communities the advantages of modernity
without creating cultural deserts of emptied, sanitised,
layouts of meaningless, fertilised beds of unseeded earth,
waiting for the seeds of wickedness and dysfunctional
youth culture to be sown, while at the same time not
leaving the roots of presently dysfunctional traditional
customs that stunt growth. The present urban slums
sprawling with unchecked impunity into permanency must
be eradicated and a breeze of structured orderliness
brought to realisation. The beauty of modernity must be
structured and built to enable the fullest appreciation of
God's given endowment in all its respledent natural beauty.

Our desire is not that others might be relieved

while you are hard pressed
but that there might be equality.
At the present
time your plenty
will supply what they need
so that in turn their plenty
will supply what you need
Then there will be equality
As it is written:
He who gathered much
did not have too much
and he who gathered little
did not have too little.
2 Corith 8:13-15.

Human nature is tainted by a lot of ingrained inferiorities

that oppress the emergence of noble acts of social
goodwill. The process of socialisation mostly attempts to
inculcate positive values of social responsibility and respect
for others, an underlying soft spot of essential humaness,
that makes appreciating the pains and discomforts of
others beyond the self the essential consideration of
ordered society. But at some higher levels of culturation
there is an imbibing of negativisms that promote the worst
elements of social behaviour albeit in a refined manner.
Thus society does not seek to provide a level ground to
promote its even growth, rather there is a nourishing
acceptance of others suffering and suppression subtly
promoted and sustained by a select advantaged grouping,
who have manipulated and grafted themselves into the
social wholeness and have been eating away at it with
rapacious ravishness. An element of the system that has
the means to correct the social error continues to promote
their well-being and gain, without easing the social
discomfiture across the board. These have set themselves
a race apart from the masses, setting superficial barriers
(that nevertheless hold fast in situ) of membership, and in a
grand orchestration of sustained moral indignification have
held the whole of human progress by deliberately holding
back from opening the doors that set free constrained
minds to achieve with a purpose. While this is not per se a
call against self accomplishment and individual strive for
success, there is certainly a serious defect in a system that
focuses excessively on the self at the expense of the total
well-being, and the processes that promote the realisation
of this potentially imploding social process of selfish
gratification. The unique positioning of an emerging social
system to construct a social system that enhances the total
well being of all its members without in any way limiting the
push for excellence among its ambitious individuals is
worth striving for. While the termination of processes that
inveigle society into accepting the negative and partially
parochially benefiting, intensely savage, parasitic,
advantage taking of the weak and disaffected members of
society, no matter how well couched it is in civility, is to be
discarded.

There is in a way a requirement in the mind limiting state of

poverty that is currently realised that every single brick put
on another must be with an aim towards the realisation of
airy beauty, and not another addition to the ugliness that
saps the light out of existence. The massed realisation of
poetic ideals, must find expression at the unique level of
leadership that by giving expression to the massed appeal
brings beauty and hope in its effort rather than damnation
and unceasing misery. The mind state sustained the
intolerable suffering by devising innovative, seemingly
unevitable, procedures to further entrench the looming
permanency of a perpetual underclass. By
condescendingly promoting a social focus that revolved
around quickly realisable profit through trading, while
deemphasising other social issues of immediate
relevance,. The aggressive unmediated drive to acquire
material wealth has become the dominant preoccupation of
the society, by any means.
The capitalist open market system exported as the end
solution to economic underdevelopment finds concrete
realisation presently in idle youth with brilliant minds
vending the lower ends of the extolled products of the
industrial overlords of ignorance, waiting under temporary
sheds of superficial achievements, unstable and flimsy
foundations of self centered strivings of limited conveyed
social relevance and wasting away. Simply because the
basis upon which it will operate efficiently, enabling its
utmost totality of social relevance to be fully realised is
unavailable. Herein lies the required lesson, adaptable
concepts are conditional upon the provisional requirements
of variable system states, where their potency can be fully
cajoled into operative realisability, inveigled, albeit
-circumsbribed rationality- to fuse with the dynamic social
system variable state to yield expected ends. Money is the
endgame of futility in the midst of the greatest impetus to
push the creative intellect to diversify and expand the
narrow margins that stiffle meaningful and expected states
of existence. Money and the processes that manipulate its
undeserved centrality have become the centrality of
existence. The pleasures of the immoral acquisitive nature
have beffudled the leaders, blinding and binding them into
a state immoral stupor of worthless preoccupations that
deviate the essence of labour and the beauty of existence
in pursuit of the intransingent misdemeanours of sinful
pervesion of rightful positional influnce. The self at the
center of the leadership role has meant frustration at the
core of society, especially when the self has meant
diffused rationality of inconsequential relevance to the well
being of the governed, and of yet still unmeaningful
designation to the role requirements of the leadership act.
Those who are disposed to accumulating material wealth
and partisan favour are less disposed to rule in situational
requirements demanding greater minds, with wider, all
embracing focus,as they are more favoured to find utmost
appreciable self realisation in the market place of capitalist
end games of winner takes all. The profit motive and the
means and the accoutrements of this form of social activity
is an undeniable relevance permeating the general social
system and facilitates social organisation. It has given birth
to its 'creatures of manifest greed', but government and its
calling, endow the specific functions of the leadership role
with nobler characteristics and requirement, over and
above the rapacious banditry that occassionally occassions
the core functions of commercial activities. The essence of
the profit motive is dominance with material and monetary
accumulation that empowers at a level commensurate with
the specifities of those activities. Leadership in the
governing processes requires more emotionally based
characterisations like mercy and care to enable the
enormous power and strength it wields to yield its utmost
value to its subjects. Leadership is not a domain for
exploitation but a means for facilitating utmost social
improvement across board. The mixing of the boundaries
between the two have confused priorities and delayed the
thrust upwards to higher states of being across the human
stream. Commercial activities are self constraining acts of
limited intents and ends, they are limited by their very
designation to engage in wider mind explorations of
physical realisms over and beyond their immediate profit
goals, which profit itself is a narrowly defined self
gratification rewarding instrument which focuses first and
foremost on the entities that seek to control through limited
knowledge of the social realm within which it finds
realisation.
The aspects of social organisation and cultivated systems
that are appreciated in other cultures and are desired to be
emulated or considered a part of the continent's
sociogenesis, are in many ways idiosyncratically
established social norms and values that over time, by
appealing to the general society's sense of valued and
esteemable indicators of worthiness have become
accepted as ostensibly universal patterns of social
approval. The structured composition of ordered thoughts
as knowledge, finding expression in diverse mediums and
transferred by an establishement (of seemingly permanent
fixtures) are idealistic realisations of idiosyncracies that had
(and still have) a common appeal and found general
acceptance. The crux of the matter here is that, there are
unlimited possibilities that are worthy of exploring, and that
in their realisation uplift and are accepted as valued sets of
knowledge to be expanded and made to yield benefit
across the spectrum of society in place and over time (and
hopefully uplift an emotionally and psychically dampened
society). The means and the minds that realise these are
within continental grasp, but it eludes formative
constructiveness because, on the whole, the finer details of
the vaunted socially desirable aspects of these grand
individual aspirations, can only find definitive expressibility
in the social millieu, that is structured to enable its
attainment. The society is at one level a gathering of
consenting free thinkers, but it is a highly malleable entity,
in which constituents are constantly seeking for patterns to
follow in the quest for individual self attainment. The forces
that coerce directive influence on this malleable entity;
society, can very well be positive and attuned to the purest
and highest ideals possible in time and place or
malevolently evil in its intention and by flimsy pretense
position society on an inverted course of individually
centered desires at social expense, or worse still engineer
the elements that compose the society to work against
each other and in the end self destruct the fragile
membrane of social network that sustains society. There
are and always will be options, but in veracity, there are no
choices open to a society that finds definitive definition in
excesses of negativity. There is a need that finds
expression from within to seek for and strive to attain the
highest excellence possible. The heights of creative effort
are great internal upheavals against mediocrity and the
most suppressive forces that have festered against a
cowed human(ity) for so long, such that, that the fear that
binds, looses its grip on the deadend. Manifesting
creatively in effect as the explosive rejection of all things
that limit the freewill. Often times these reflexive
reorientations, give birth to attainments that have
transformed the pits of festering evil into the gleam of new
ages of human possibilities. That is the choice that is left.
The way into the abyss of futile greed is the path we trudge
on, but it is a pathway upon which the majority traverse as
prisoners on a death match, while the few who benefit are
the guards, who themselves are prisoners of a gloom that
taints the regurgitating mind worse than the peace of death.
Together, they are pitiable spectres of the darkside that
stands in opposition to the purer brightness of the common
hope fully realised. The denial by some on the whole, in
finding partial expression, is an indication of an awareness
that calls for a redefinition of the rules of the game. The
game itself has transformed itself from orderly
inconsequentiality, where the participants are accorded
willing boundaries by apathetic spectators, into a mélee
where the boundaries between players and spectators has
disappeared. There is a free for all tumble player, where
order has given way to chaos and coordinated team play
(the rules that enable functionable system) has dissolved
into individual struggle to come up for a gulp of air, and
plunge into the milling crowd. The essence of the
fundamental pursuit has grayed into a nondefinable
potpourri of hasty individual survival guidelines. Yet, in
society we seek to survive, individual survival and social
organisation are inextricably linked, together, they can
spiral into destructive nonexistence, or leap up, freed,
reaching for the high ideals of human perfection, within
society. The means by which the good things dominate and
subsume the evil struggling to gain dominance are within
the same system. The system can coordinate to attain
optimum efficiency or rankle discordantly to disintergrate in
a noncohesive uncoordinated grating of uneven spokes in
the social wheel, spiralling out of sync. The failure of the
larger mass of society to find adequacy of satisfactory
social engagement is not failure due to individual
defieciency to squeeze into the limited of niches of socially
defined individual achievement or effort, above all things, it
is a significant failure of the sort of social configuration
society has adopted and developed and when its failings
are so obviously exposed, society still pursues it, these
doomed development models, with the avidity of a blind bat
deprived of its undeveloped radar sensors, are
caterwheeling like the doomed creature, on a collision path
with uneven but cold reality of finality against hard
surfaces. The great advances made so far have been of
benefit to a select category.

It is human nature to identify with and emulate positively

rewarding ideas and mind sets, in the absence of
progressively multiplicable good ideas, men will resort to
squeezing whatever that is individually rewarding from
wrong mind sets imposed upon an unwilling but pliant
society. The implicit certain truth is that, while the essence
of apropos is dangling on the edge of every mind, seeking
to find expression, it is only through a few purposeful and
bold minds that it finds social manifestation. It then
becomes a lingering chorus rehashed by the rest of pliable
society's pliant human component and touted favourably
for a time. There can however be no doubt about the
paramount primary fact that while the continent on its own
and through its self programmed agenda has become a
certainty of failure waiting to enfold, little can be gained by
postponnng the radical mind re-orientation that wil bring to
fore the desired refocussing on the society rather the
individual as the focality of the governing process. The
activities of the governing process must be socially
designated to impact in its material manifestation equally
on all its members. There must not be a deliberate
manipulation of the emerging society to favour any aspect
of its component in a way that is unfair in its core operation
and thus favouring a 'plunder the system' mentality. While it
is still comparatively simple and unsophisticated, the
governing process makes itself amenabe to significant
restructuring that projects a foundation of transparency in
implementation processes, which assumes a nonpartiality
and an embracing social nondistinctiveness that is all
inclusive. The implementors and the formulators and the
affected must by principle be equally affected in the end
process. Where there is a segmentation of the society not
based on individual effort to excell but a deliberate
manipulative effort to perpetuate poverty at one level while
enriching another level unfairly, there is thereby introduced
a significant element of destabilising variables, that will
work against the very society facilitating this process.

A parallellisation of fiscal and economic systems that

facilitates continental exchange activities within the grander
scope of eventual evolving of harmonised continental fiscal
policies and monetary instruments should harmonise
economic activtities with an intent of expanding the existing
range of active direct exchange potentials at all levels of
social grouping. Hopefully (hope is a relevant evocation a
positive outcome in a rapidly changing dynamism of
relevant factors that predispose the system to respond
strategically with adroit applicability of emergent paradigms
of untested efficacy) while striving to obtain resources from
the wider domain with monetary instruments applicable
therein, the eventual outcome will ensure a coterminious
dual existence of equally effective and practically relevant
monetary instruments, that while enabling expanded
continental exchange activities will open further the extent
of interaction with the other transcontinental systems.
Among other things, a harmonised continental exchange
instrument and fiscal policy, should enable the gradual
deemphasis on external monetary instruments, that in their
sophisticated operativeness emphasise the sustained
under developed dependence of their vagaries and
defective intrusiveness on the projected evolvement of the
continent, thus enabling a breathing space for
maneuverability to coordinate local resources accessibility
and development, without the encumbrances of external
restraints. Inter- regional trade activities involving
continentally developed products will receive a massive
boost in terms of industrial growth potential, if the accruing
benefits to the production source is unconstrained by
monetary instruments grossly discordant with the
fundamental realities of the continent. The present course
of practically uncoordinated disparity of economic policies,
with excessive focussing on counrty specific interest, if
pursued without any effort at remedial assessment will
eventually lead to a total continental economic structure
dependent on externalities that by design operate
inconsequential of their assumed importance as fiduciary
manipulables of the continent. The seemingly impersonal
monetary system has a personal and emotional nature and
while the economic system may project an image of
desensitised figures and numbers, the critical operatives of
monetary systems can hardly be separated from the base
mentalities of the controlling human component of those
monetary sources. Thus the existing dependence on an
assumed international monetary system must be
appreciated as a weaning period towards self developed,
supportive, internally originating and continentally sensitive
monetary instrument. Since the facilitatory convenience of
monetary and fiduciary instruments is irreplaceable
presently, a difficult start that coordinates that exchange
mechanism to be a reflection of the existent realities on
ground can gradually mature to ensure certainty of
grounded reality in continental situations. For all its appeal,
there can be no parity ever being attained between
systems so disparate, as those that define the state of
continental reality pertaining and the concurrent
sophisticated diversification of other sub-systems. Any
participation in that global system must be an end, but
involving only partial engagement, for its core operatives
are beyond continental control. That controlling
manipulation has only one end designated fulfillment; to
protect its creators, its emergent source and their interests
primarily. While the divesity of an enormous continental
landmass with a prevailing commonality offers a possibility
of an equivocation of the imitatable. One of the greatest
obstacles that must be overcome is the mind set that
assumes that any set of actions is incongrous to any
existing externality. The reality indicates that development
is a continuous process of grafting and improved
adaptation, with one end purpose, that it should benefit
those at the source of the evolving development and
ensure a reasonable lee way of self determinancy in the
midst of the vagaries of viable existence.
The establishment of state owned industries as the opening
stages of the industrialisation process on the continent was
a step in the right direction, but it took a wrong turning in its
evolvement. But the inability of the society to accurately
determine the deeper permeating basis for the failure to
improve on an ostensibly good beginning, has led to fllimsy
and weakly rooted diverse and superficial efforts at
remediation that are in effect another shot in the dark in the
hope of making a positive hit by a poor labelling process.
Their failure consequently, was due to the establisment of
state industries on vaccous mind sets focused on
leadership ideas disconnected from the existing social
reality, and a consequent inability of leadership with a good
intent to engage and involve the general society in its
shared vision. Leadership of the newly defined
geographical entities was unable to resort with intensity to
remodify the existing mind state at individual and small
group level, grappling to define a new reality in a drastically
changed social specification of reality and in failing to find a
socially balanced focus to attain self worth, sought to
delimit social reality through individual fulfillment at the
expense of the general society. By failure of reorienting
society to a changed appreciation of the government and
its provisions as a commonwealth of shared hope, to be
cultivated, retained and improved upon. The lapse of a
philosophical dimension to emergent continental leadership
resulted invariably in a shift to sought for closure within the
limitations of internal and self centered reality. Thus there
was a shifting from social growth to individual well-being,
noxiously also at the leadership level, where the definition
of a new set of social configurations that would have set
the mark and specifications that embrace individual
attainments within socially explicitly defined specifications
was severely shortchanged for vague self aggrandisement
of leaders. When the expanding complexities of diversified
systems, coalesced without clarity, in an upward shift from
primary agrarian and primitive states of commerce to
budding industrial societies, defied the evolving incapable
mind state of leaership activities that occasioned the
changing African societies, there was and still is a
befuddling of society in general from reconfiguring at all
levels to maintain parity of varied subsystem elements, to
coordinate and ensure balance in the evolving systemic
whole. In consequence, unable to remedify that imbalance,
there is still a continuing 'drag effect' of subsystems spun
out of synchrony with other sub system elements, the effect
is a disproportionate approximation of expected end states,
that still prevails (In the absence of an unravelling effort of
the problem belying a societal and leadership social
philosophy, to enable a social reconfiguration along primary
axis commensurate with the demands of the forces of
change, the full benefits of the tear and patch social
policies, which by themselves will hardly yield their full
benefits, not to mention the more important and still
untackled reality, which is that existing gap in knowledge
which in being unabridged will never permit the
instuitionalisation of the yet undiscovered full
complementing range of reoriented policies, that will set the
path towards sustained direction towards full continental
transmutation from primary agrarian societies to nation
states enabling full transformational shift across the whole
social spectrum). The mind set at leadership level by being
the coalescing force of all social capabilities will always
remain the critical foundation, which in being solidly and
soundly established in the needed social philosophical
orientation of what its task definitions and its expectancies
are, would enable concrete attainment at the individual
and small group level. The illustrous leaders who led the
way into independence, had worthy ideals but were sorely
limited by their distorted images of self importance, their
task was simply defined and quickly exhausted, the
situational requirements of existing reality on the continent
is incomparable to anything that those early years could
have configured, by inability to agily adapt and reorient,
their has been and continues to be ineffective
excessiveness of dependence on poorly qualified external
models of little continental relevance. This is the pont of
departure. The greatest achievement of the individual is
that which can be infused into the common mentality and is
capable of evolved continuity. To assume a pole position of
irreplaceable knowledgeability, is itself a defective mentality
of social arrogance. The fake projection of the personal
individuality of a leader, over and above his responsibility,
and his or her assumed self importance, whether self
concocted or socially imposed is a false façade, the
individual leader is an inconsequence of time and changing
circumstances. They are all in role acts, in which their
individuality is inconsequential in retrospect; rather, it is
their projected mental conceptualisations executed to
beneficial end terms that is the assesed qualification of
their passage through their role act in the stream of time. A
worthy leader lives behind worthy ideas, an unworthy
leader lives behind a lingering stench of corruption and
failure at societal level, probably soiling his lineage with the
unworthy spoils of undesired material acquisitions.
Steeping the whole of society in clinging putrefaction of
expended usefullness and outmoded ideals and ideas.
Social growth finds meaningful expression in concrete
materialisations of infrastructural developments, but it is
over and above this base, albeit necessary and needed
state, it is a state of human evolvement ensconsced firmly
at the mind state and articulated in sustainable conveyance
to generations yet unborn and material states yet
unconceived. By focusing on base material ends for the
self and setting self importance, over and above the
importance of the society, there has been and still remains
a misplaced focus on the actual role of the leader and for
that matter the proper functioning of the governing
machinery. The critical evolutionary role of the leader as
the agile manipulator, who instigates and sustains progress
by wielding the instruments of leadership at his or her
disposal, enabling the activation of the dormant and
inaccessible, but nevertheless, immense potential that lies
simmering within the populace, waiting to be discovered,
chanelled and explored for the common good; identifying
the means of employing and utilising that dormant lethargic
energy creatively, thus attaining far reaching ends that
supercede any individual in any role position, this the
neglected role at all leadership roles in every major and
minor position of responsibility on the continent that needs
emphatic revoking. By harnessing for positive utilisation all
the available human resources and bringing it to bear upon
the latent resources of natures provision, there is invoked a
bringing forth to activation, a latency, beningly sublimated
in the coarsity of primary existence, that is creatively
sustaining in the process of multiplicatively regenerating
higher constructiveness that maximises human potential
and possibilities. A catalysation process of leadership that
thus gives a wider dimension to human existence and its
capabilities in its physical existence. There is thus made
possible a higher quality of existence that through a
process of social organisation eases the difficulty of crafting
individual desires by combining effectively the massed
energy of individual talents managed and directed to
positive and valuable desired ends. The being matched
with the physical manifestations of desired states, enabled
by a mind state that is comensurately increasingly
expansive in its scope, human existence as a whole is
gently nudged to higher levels of existence. The
expectations of the required acts of leadership must
necessarily be of such nobility that they transcend time and
the meager provisions of material limitations. (That
limitation itself a limitation in the activation of the
capabilities of the creative intellect). The pursuit of the
clamourings of material acquisitiveness at the expense of
the social growth, stunt the spirituality of leadership and
strips it of its implied honour, limiting in consequence, the
possible attainments of the society, while multiplying its
woes and despairs in unequal, disproportionate measures.
The higher mind state required of truly great leadership
cannot be sullied in being limited by lesser minds that set
the leadership role in conflict with the baser desires of
lesser requirements. The one to whom, at any level of
social organisation, leadership role is enthrusted must be a
reflection of a state of mental purity that births and nurtures
growth at various levels over and above the individual
constituents personal ability, a communal activity realised
through appropriate directive influence. These are the ones
society must seek to engage, in seeking a path out of the
quagmire of despair. They are the ones to whom society
must disengage power from the incapable and infuse with,
to be led into the pathway of light, out of the gloom of
deadends. These ones are the wise ones whose clarity of
thought and purpose is clear enough to reflect the common
hope and aspirations, hopes and aspirations set out for all
to see without the need for interpretors. While society may
wish for externally engenderd solutions, the answers, lie
within the continental constituents and the means are in the
collective intellect that finds expression through 'pointer
individuals', who in setting a course of action expresses the
common will in concrete actions with specified ends.

'Pointer individuals' are those whose fates are inextricably

linked to the society's outcome. They are individuals who
are designated by fate or circumstances to bear the
weighty responsibilities of facilitating social outcomes.
Through a self determined grittiness to overcome the
challenges of personal obstacles, taking from the
provisions of the commonwealth of their societies,
exploiting its proffered potential benefits, they position
themselves to respond to the call of a society that in calling
for the requirements of the qualities they have toiled to
accumulate as personal achievements position to these
individuals as essential resources of their societies. They
have been set apart to serve the common good. By unique
natural human endowments are self selected, best
equipped to work for the less favoured and the larger
society. The society is greater than its constituents, but its
grand outcome is indisputably in hands of individuals. It
does not take long for any one of these 'pointers', whose
exceptional natural traits predispose them to serve the
interest of others less well endowed, that they are special
tools designated to hewn the rough edges of nature in
concordance with a purpose over and above their self
interests. The bane of society, has been the excess of
disoriented and ill positioned individuals at the helm of
statesmanhip on the continent. The seeming
disengagement of the general society to the acts of vapid
leadership, is in reality postponned aggressive and violent
requisition of the leadership role and its appropriate
restitution to the qualified honourableness it deserves. It is
the unawareness of the importance to the systemic whole
of the critical role that each individual is capable of, who
has a self or socially allocated responsibility to fulfill, that
has contributed in a marked way to the failures that are
evident in the social setup. There can be no possible
compromise over total commitment to optimal efficiency in
any public office. If each person is awakened to the import
of their actions to the emerging social outcome, and
coerced into maximum output efficiency by the required
acts of expected fulfillment on the part of a responsive and
responsible society, manned not only by honest, but also
highly innovative leadership, the greater gap of the wide
social chasm has been more than bridged. A positively
oriented leadership running an efficient governing
machinery is the ultimate pointer of all 'pointer individuals',
facilitating the utmost accomplishment feasible within the
constraints and the designations of the times and setting.
The act of balancing the system to yield utmost satisfaction
to all its organised sub constituents is over and beyond any
formal categorisation. There are certain sub units of the
society that exert great influence on the contouring of
socially designated outcomes, but the basic requirement
remains undettered, that the governing process involves
finding a middle ground for ensuring maximum benefit for
all the constituents of the society of concern without
stultifying the individual drive finding expression within any
sub-organisation or at the unrestrained individual level from
realising its fullest expressivity and possible realisability. In
most instances, there has hardly been any effort to
configure the exact boundaries of possibilities of the
continegencies of the times, less likely any sustained effort
at progressing beyond those restrictions of previously
attained efforts. The quality of government and leadership's
outcome is measured unequivocally in terms of concrete
realisable improvements among the least of the governed.
Any leadership that does not conceive the ruling process
as an act of constant and continuous improvement in all
conceivably possible, instead conceiving of it as the
maintenance of the status quo has started on the wrong
footing and is doomed to failure. The failure is due to a
misconception of the fundamentalities of social evolution;
highly evolved systems have in the process of evolving
attained certain sustained peaks of efficiency that defy time
and its exigencies, they then tend to sustain social
organisation at some zone of the multiplicity of
multidimensionality of dynamic systems. The systems
under consideration, could not possible in their immediate
transition to a new level of social organisation have
attained any of those sustainable levels of efficient
functionability. These emergent states can not be borrowed
and installed, society is too malleable and diffuse to find
concrete cross-over representation in wholesome
significant segments across the disparate time and bio-
feographic realms where equanimity is assumed. The
present presence of negativities and akwardness that
occasions the administrative machinery of governmental
implementation can be unraveled and discarded by a
determined effort to purge the mentality of dishonest gain
and reengaging a refocusing on traditional values of
honesty and decency in office holders as approved social
norms. Whatever option is pursued becomes in the course
of time the established pattern. In some external societies
where the ethics of public office holders engenders clarity
and high quality energetic commitment to task and
responsibility, there has been reciprocal rewards for the
society as a whole, in other societies where the art of
repugnant corruption has been refined and shaded to
become a cultivated social connivance, there has been
equally negative effects on the society as a whole. There is
therefore without ambiguity a required capacity for the
leader to redefine the course and direction of progress of
the emergent societies by concerted efforts to reawaken
society's sense of decency and extoll honest behaviour or
lead the society on a path of ignonimity and hopeless
dishonesty fomenting distrust that ferments anarchic states
of aimless abandon. Any act of service that involves an
interaction across the individual boundary, incorporating an
exchange relationship, no matter how conceived, involves
a mutually consenting acknowledgement of honesty and
trust. A deliberate abuse of these all encompassing values
that define the quality of assumed innocence and accepted
responsibility, of the exchange relation at any level of social
interaction, denigrates the quality of civilised behaviour and
create frictions that unbalance the delicate scale of social
interaction. Resulting in the introduction of negative
intrusions that society needs to correct, lest they gain
ascedancy and acceptance, since there is always an
element of short term benefit involved in these acts of
twisting the social rules of behaviour for personal
convenience. Society is designated round deferred
postponement of satisfaction, to subvert the tortuous wait
to reap immediate benefit has a longing appeal, and
uncurbed, can gain a destructive stranglehold on the
delicate social balancing process that seeks to meet each
individual desire in the constantly evolving social system.
Such radical unchecked reversal towards social accepted
social disorder strains the already delicate balance that
enables stability to make feasible a mapping of a specified
designated direction of expected growth for any particular
society. The call for reorientation must find manifestation
from those who have assumed a directive role in the critical
segments of social organisation and must find enforced
compliance. Good governance begins and ends at the
mind level. A government that cannot penetrate the mind
of the governed and rule the brighter side of the intellect,
directing towards positive achievements, while dissuading
the darker mind state of destructive hostility that pitches the
individual interest against the society, in a struggle that is
not mediated by the society, is a non starter. To indulge in
physical acts of imitatory pretense that do not tap into, or at
worst is in contradiction to the saliency of the mind state of
exigent expectations and desires is a reaffirmation of
nonexistent reality to the social well-being; an operation of
the governing process in a vaucuous state of unfounded
continuity between the the leadership and the governed.
The government machinery itself is pliable to effective
utilisation if the necessary structures and directive
influences are facilitted through leadership's controlling
influence. The hodge podge patch of small scalisms and
appropriate technologies are tenous lingerings of
substantiated, intermediary desired end states but must be
substituted with major re-modelings with clear cut
purposive aims of social upgradement to pull the people
out of dismal antiquity. The only apparent continuity is an
abysmal dissolution of the existing configurations into
courted chaos in the vain hope of rebuilding from the ashes
of self destruction a process that in retrospect never began.

In the absence of wise leadership, where wisdom is

enobled by acts of bold discovery of the forgotten straight
and narrow path of collective social responsibilty and
honesty, a veering from the existing constrictions of limited
viability with delimited social interest and benefit is an
expected requirement. An overall consensual failure, to
project beyond the seeming possibilities, to seek for, and
exploit the unique strong points of the diversity of varied
viewpoints that must be strained and amalgated to yield the
finest human developments possible, the society is gripped
in maximal greed tapping minimal potentials and permitting
the subversion of the barely budding hopes to improve the
exiting dismal states of being. The ultimate measure of
attained social wholesomeness will be the extent to which
every single individual is fully benefiting from the
commonwealth of society, managed to yield its utmost
benefice at any comparative point in time and among the
range of possibilities. The individual members of society,
who by a malfeasance of the ruling process had been
sidelined as inconsequentialities in the positioning for
rapacious leadership, must be reinstated into their natural
center position, as the essential core around which society
and its acts revolve. Implying, unequivocably, that it is the
individual members of society that by their acts of
voluntarily participation, determine the relevance of social
provisions rather than the vague meaningless
manipulations of ineffciency parading as controlling
authorities that minimise human capacities.

The split between an urbane city state within decaying

rural community nation states needs reconsideration of
reorientation, each large modernised 'city within state',
itself, a fragile, non impacting, nucleus of developement,
swamped by an outer rim of slum, stiffling the growth that
should spread from inside-out, and being cramped by the
desparation without, worming its way in and snuffing the
barely sustained light of hope, until in another desparate
act of incomplete escapism, the center has shifted to the
edge of the city, running, as it were, seeking for solace at
the extremities of civility. These cities have become
unplanned focalities of national development and the
modernisation drive. There must be a redress to engage in
structured redevelopment and reconcentration of smaller
settlements as a partial solution to the land issue, while
bringing the expanded benefits of industrial and service
industries, both of which are premised on an educated and
articulate citizenry. The massive redevelopment and
reconstruction to upgrade the living standards, in terms of
housing and associated facilities, will have to develop
around the massing of scattered rural and small crumbling
townships into central locations, with the facilities that are
engineered to meet the expectations of the populace
effectively integrated into the new settlements. The freeing
of land will enable the development of larger joint
commercial or communal cultivation agricultural activities in
area thus suited. There must be an effort to maintain the
social balance by not distoring the clarity of lands identified
by appropriate entitlements and ownership rights, while at
the same time emphasising the social benefits of structured
urbanisations, whether pursued by private entities or
governmental resources. Any development that insults the
integrity and intellectual acuity of the human elements that
activate the multiplier effect of the basic infrastructural
component of the project is established on shaky grounds
and will inevitably have to court acceptance by the society
or be sabotaged into nonexistence or worse still as a vulgar
disfigurements that stands as a constant irritant in the eys
of a scoffing public. There exists within the individual mind
an idealisation of equity in social organisation, the
government is a social construct to bring to realisation this
massed idealisation at the highest aesthetic level possible,
in as varied and diverse, levels of expressibility. The
deviation of the basic expected designation of government
thus desired, to self serving instruments of social
disfigurement and tyranny, will invariably perpetuate
aberrations and anomalies of gross evil, finding expression
in monstrosities of social deprivations and depravities, that
no matter how they parallel reality and approbation at any
level of wider social existence, in place or time, permeate a
miasma of social discordancy and swell and roll
pertubations of the tangential growth of normal
development.

There is an obviated benefit of structural development,

there is brought into existence through such activities an
expanded economic viability that enables a geometric
expansion in economic activities and organised social
elevation, which makes this a focal area for governmental
activity. The never abating search for exploitative avenues
for individual benefit that parallels every project aimed at
assuaging the social deficit is a problem that is as much a
reflection of the disparity between the society, its social
values and its constituents' desires. Bringing adequate
equanimity that creates harmonious complimentarity of
purposes across the diverse stream of disparate interests
without creating the sort of tense instability that pits the
society as self realising entity against its individual
constituents interests, and thus preventing the deplorable
situation where the common interest is subverted to satisfy
limited self interests is the delicate balancing act of the
governing processes that must be tackled with sustained
fortitude. That part of the challenge of facilitating
continental growth must be resolved through elimination of
the problem, the problem is how to refract the focus on
individual gain while maximising social gain.

Individual drives are restricted and curtailed by

manipulative authourity that cowes obedience from the
most ebullient drive for social benefice from any sector of
society. The collective endowments enthrusted to and held
in trust by leadership has far reaching effects on the
determinant outcomes of individual aspirations. To obviate
the obstacles of decandent tyranny to engineer and
organise the abilities capable of realisation through the
directive effort of leadership for the common good is one of
the difficult tasks of enlightened minds. It is in a way not
necessarily a confrontational engagement with the
governing bodies, as it is an awakening of awareness in
the sleepy minds of the stultified masses of the options
they could demand and realise as members of the society.
The powers that be have carefully contrived by
malfeasance a restive underclass of deprived masses held
by leash under strain by a manipulatory minority who are
themselves held in check from opening the mental portals
that will enable the upliftment of the masses to fully liberate
themselves of the contrived bondages of deprivation, be it
material or of the mind state. The manipulatory minority
master class have become docile prison guards refusing to
activate the exploratory mind set of the majority to search
for all benefiting better states of existence, their reward is
the carefully measured material greed to which they have
become prisoners, in defiance of their innate intellectual
proddings to utilise their positions of advantage to expand
their spheres of benign operable influence and realise the
hopes of the masses. They have beome unwilling minds
that contrive sophisticated mechanisms and operatives that
stretch like sheets of fiery bronze across the landscape and
perpetuating the legacy of ignorance parading in stolen
glory that is filthy to behold. The greatest jewel in the crown
of individual achievement of selfless service is that of
redeeming the deprived and the abused, this aspect of the
human mind struggles within the lives of the discerning
deprived and denied, who even operating at the highest
possible level of human efficiency have been consigned
and discarded into the dustbin of inconsequential
irrelevancy by the existing system. The best of years of
youth are wasted in languishing despair of self relevancy
and self worth in a social system where human worthiness
is dictated by monetary value and ability to find relevancy
and worthiness in employment. Whereas the system has
configured relevancy of existence in tightly defined
constraints and rewards, it has, the social system has failed
to effectively ensure system balacing effect by ensuring
sustainable variable adjustment configuration by defective
administrative organisations processes that will in effect
have ensured adequate allocation and ensured relevancy
in constant adjustment. Revolutionary liberators are ancient
romantics setting themselves the task of unshackling minds
caught in self limiting bondage of unexplored potentialities,
their relevancy in a modified state is a required necessity in
response to the existing incapacitations within the
stultifying governing bodies within the continent. The
excessive reliance on the inadequacies of existing
knowledge as a basis for decision making instead of
incapacitating collective effort for facilitating systemic
growth along expected delineations, should act as a spur
for diversifying the exploratory basis for expansive
creativeness. The collective mind at the leadership level
must per necessity eschew itself of limiting doubts, and by
overcoming their fear of giant projects, project an
awareness that will enable the full flowering of individual
potential that have social relevance. The acceptance and
promotion of ideas that hold firmer the bands of belief of
inferiority find expression in the extent and type of effort
made to bring the social provisions of the society to be
commensurate with the expectations of the human
components of the system. Condoning a decisive lack to
push the barriers of existing reality at the larger and higher
and all embracing leadership level, in the face of evidence
that the existing base of knowledge needs expansion to
meet the existing demands on ground, draws tighter the
inelasticity within the relevant decision making bodies
presiding over the solemnity of the breaking dawn.
Presently is required an expansion in the existing mind
state to create value within the existing mundane states of
relevancy. The whole of human progress can be surmised
as an exercise in creative creation of meaningfulness that
creates expanded horizons of previously nonexistent
material expression of active mind states in search of
diversified reality. Required and mere exercises in the
imaginative capacity within the bounded limitations of what
is expected is socially limiting (More so when reality is a
constantly evolving variation, it creates a dilemma as to
when the validity of what is expected has actually outlived
its relevancy, in retrospect it is often the case that actual
relevancy for any specific social designation is exhausted
well before it becomes a general, socially acknowledged
past) that being the case, the prescient leadership mind
must be unhindered by the limitations of existing reality.
The desired social improvement requirements to enable
social stability and individual growth and infrastructural
provisions that complement growth are capable of being
realisable in every society. Required to facilitate progress
at all levels of society are sturdy minds in pursuit of
constant change in reponse to the challenges of dynamic
systems short circuited from utmost effectiveness. This
requires the exercise of the highest activation of the
collective mind to seek and bring to applicatory
enhancement the resources accessible and capable of
being acquired to improve and expand existing system
viability. In the absence of the collective active mind in
constant adaptive creative effort with clearly specified ends
and implemented with precision. The actual cycle of
industrial and technological growth development and
wealth generation as conceived within the existing social
development paradigm projects its benefits as limited to a
select grouping of favoured humanity while the rest are
teased frustratingly with improvements that they are
ostensibly capable of yet inaccessible to. Much as this
viewpoint is premised on a seemingly arcane manipulatory
power base that seeks to influence and project strength
through limited controlled rationalisation rationing of the
benefits of developing technology that delimits the spheres
of benefit to select categories or groupings. It is also a
persistent reality occassioned on submissive subjects by
incompetent leaders in avaracious pursuit of dead end
policies based on ineffectual exploitation for expectancies
beyond existing reality within the narrow confine
configurations presently available. Since technological
development has emerged as the existing systems driving
force for human social progression to improved and
expected life conditions and states of existence. The nature
of its distributive availability, invariably impacts on the state
of diversified living conditions for all humanity. The chain of
control of facilitatory availability has like all the positive
values of governing capacity been entrusted to a select
grouping of leaders who in defiance of their role as pointers
for humanity have confabulated their roles with that of
rationers of civility, shrouding simplicity under a contrived
contraption of hindering economic nonessentialities, that
highlights humanity's deprivation, and like the rest of
human efforts lives the solution to the highlighted problems,
as a sickening proclivity for suspended animation of active
life forms held in situ in states of extreme undesirability, the
leaders and the path minders have become connoisseurs
of cultivated artforms of depravity, totally immersed in
delectable forms of extolled wickedness, streched to yield
variegations of human indignity, soiled, are the art and the
artists, in the cesspool of the outpourings of the mournings
of their works. The whole human race is deliberately
lagging, being held back from the mass transition to higher
states of flexible unlimited growth, being restrained by
petty, negative, particularities of fealty association to
personal greed that has been unnecessarily accorded
center stage, while the grander acts of wholesome exercise
of human intellect to shift to the higher dimension of
limitless exercise of infiniteous creativity has been
relegated by lesser minds focussing on group fealty,
vestigial encumberances of vassal states and territory
protecting activities of combative nature. While vaunted
idealisms does not by itself replace the harsh realities of
humanities present disposition, the refocusing of mind
states on what is desirably and appropriately sought for
and need be attained cannot but find expression in the
dirge of the dawn of the awakening that buries the evil
dead.
The liberation of essential human resources from groping
and wasting in the abyss of futility of easily eradicated
woes must be evoked to be activated, to give the people
tottering on the edge a hold onto a hope.
Some processes need to evolve at a comfortable pace to
enable an equability of approximation of the ongoing
process and the human elements at the focus of the
changing situation. However any process that gives added
value to human existence, thereby bringing to fore the
Creators awesome endowments into active utilisation can
not be deliberated delayed, by unfounded philosophies
deliberated at leisure by a sated segment of the totality;
propounding selfish gratification as end goals. The high
positions and the accruing material gratifications that
accompany elevated status are the middle stages of a
process of social empowerment to enable the socially
advantaged, to uplift and stregthen, the denied, the
neglected and the desperate. In essence the truest self
assessment that any individual can make of his worthiness
as a favoured entity in the array of God's creation purpose
is irreconcialiable with material acquisitions that benefit the
self, in the pursuit of spirituality, holiness by its very
conceptualisation despises dirt and filth. There is thus an
indisputable imposition on those who are favoured in
society to have a socially beneficial focus in their self
improvement drive which edifies the purity sealed beneath
the filth by lifting the physically exhausted out of the grimes
of painful existence. Of what use is medicine if not applied
as emollient to assuage the pains of the sick? The sick by
their very disposition are incapable, they must be
resuscitated first and steadied to become capable of
reciprocal favour to the social system.

True achievement, in terms of the fulfillment of the

individual's end goal success, has been inappropriately
represented in monetary and material gains of creature
comfort, but it certainly goes beyond that. The focusing on
the material ends of success has engendered a mind set
that has compounded existing problems in confining the
creative intellect into crushing limited circles of materially
driven self satisfaction. It is a short circuiting of an
unfulfilled social growth circle that has attenuated human
progressive maturation to higher mind states. By seeking
for, and eliminating the aspects of human material
acquisitive nature that detracts from the ultimate end
purpose of constantly improving human states across the
board, while retaining the facilitatory role of monetised
systemic organisation belies the task of visionary
leadership. There has been gross inadequacies in systemic
organisation or a severely defective natural evolution that
has enabled the imported social values that placed material
acquisitiveness as ultimate desired ends; a designation that
has crystallised the prevalent social inequity and
deprivations in a glaring limelight of irritating exposition of
failure at higher levels of social organisation. What is
required is a massive social restructuring to enable the
approximation of required upgradements of the core
essentialities of modern social organisation to sustain
present society's operable existence at a level that is
commensurate with the generally expected and desired
requirements. In the absence of which the increasing
turbidity of seemingly mindless aggression will continue to
tear and rip society with a prescient, but not necessarily
fulfilled hope of destructive creativity by mindless terrors of
frayed sanity fringing the edges of society who are ever
poised to wreck havoc in a sustained exclamation of
frustrated angst.

Agnosticism has not displaced the spirituality of Godly

awareness in daily activities, and in the detractive
maelstrom of modernity and its materialism, belief in God is
the nonmaterialistic foundation upon which meaningful
reality is carved, verified and confirmed. (Yet how uncertain
is our self concocted reality). By identifying the basic
material requirements that by general provision will lessen
the focus on individual centered economic foraging that pits
the society against its constituents and in the insuing
struggle within, the elements composing the society are
activated to working for individual ends even at the demise
of the social setting within which the individual finds
meaningful existence; the constituents are thus pushing to
unstrand the strands of socially woven networks of
meaningful and dependent coexistence within limited states
of unexploited potentials and narrowed bases of exploitable
potential, randomly and disconnectedly bursting forth and
distorting the uncultivated but nevertheless needed and
must be realised socially harmonious synchrony of
complementing interests for overall social development that
yields benefit for all. The adaptive element that defines the
human nature in its constant rebalacing effort to find
stability in changing situations, set within a constantly
varying environment implies the need for a directive
influencing mind set projected to create the disposition to
find stability within well defined mediums, adjusted and
made responsive to correlate with changes at the individual
level to complement the existing soial reality, albeit
temporarily in the same consensual direction. It implies the
creation of situational modifying contingencies, emerging
from the leadership and expressively realised at all levels
of the society which will subtly but firmly force social
pressure to exert a moral guidance that influences the
direction of individual pursuits in a uniform pattern of
expected and desired, socially benefiting direction.

The anger felt is a livid angst of betrayed trust

That in being acknowledged as a reality sui generis
evokes wide ranging emotions on the negative
spectrum of the full emotional range.
There is little ambiguity over what needs to be done
Of the little that is done, most is done wrongly.

The awareness that the lighted candle is being

pushed under the bushel, ever deeper.
Invariably awakens anxiety about the coming
conflagration.
There is little doubt concerning that.
The massed energy is primed, ready to explode.
In the absence of meaningful and positively valued
employment.
The resulting expression, is a misdirected fury that
consumes without paucity until in the ashes, in ashes
clothed
sitting in mourning over the emptiness of the future
in contorted despair, discernment is sought with
resigned unfulfillment.

The forests has refused to provide shades for its

habitats
The fishes poison the rivers
The land eats the seeds
The seedbeds of terror have taken root.
The measured meaningfulness cultivated with tedious
patience-
Consumed by a rush of maddening anger
The vestigial lingerings of wisdom have been battered
for pieces of material insignificance.
The leaders have fallen in the market place
The priest of the shrine has become a laughing stock
 And the subjects laugh a strange high pitched
spluttering of meaningless and chilling laugh.

The ominous clouds are closing round the midday sun

The light is being filtered through gaping holes of
ignorance. Its very brilliance has lifted the ominous
depressive cover of darkness and lighted the flames
of consumig destruction. Spiking the heels of the
masses fleeing in a helter skelter of undirected flight,
in the light.

Each life, especially life that has been nurtured whether

through trying circumstances or relative comfort is
priceless. The years in between growth can not be any less
important for any life in any social categorisation. If those
years are not successfully negotiated, there can be no
continuity worthy of contributory assessment to the general
social well being . Across the board, the human being is
such an awesome creation, placed at the top of a nature
that in its creative diversity is an acclamation of the
awesome grandeur of its creator. That every and any
human life is a priceless entity is an understatement, that in
being ignored or taken for granted has generated a history
of human society written in the blood of humans discarded
for vain glories. Those to whom the responsibility has fallen
to harness the diversity of human potentials capable of
being expreesed given the appropriate conditon, have
hardly been up to task. In the falsely created illusion of
awakened expectations, leadership has become an
exercise in excuses for failures. There has been a
deceptive cheapening of life's worthiness; a gradual
seepage of deception that is fast clouding the wholesome
mental hemisphere displacing the importance of placing the
individual at the center, and displacing it with contrived
economics that has turned to stifle the human growth
potential. Leadership has failed to rectify the imbalance in
the material acquisitive mechanisms as means of
accessorizing the basic tenet of worthwhile existence, while
at the same time pushing the acceptance at the collective
mind state of evolving society by default of non exercising
of appropriate corrective procedures that material success
is an end on its own. An acquiscense which reflects in the
general social disposition, to place human welfare and
necessarily protracted, sustained human development
initiatives as inconsequential to materialistic end purposes.
While material acquisitions and developments towards
improvements that focus on creature comforts and limited
focus exploratory activities have the possibility of a filter
down effect on the general populace, there has been a
tendency for far too long of general social orienting towards
securing group advantages and deliberate manipulation at
preferential levels to delimit general participation, as a bid
to limit and control accessibility to growth effects and
benefits, particularly among the underpriviliged, from
having widespread social benefits. No matter what
arguments are projected to support the narrowing of
opportunities as a means of protecting an exclusive
category of humanity, the end effect is that it thwarts the
drive that propels innovativiness in humanity as a whole.
The only limitation desirable for any individuals desire to
participate in any valuable and socially desirable
endeavour, should be the individual's will power sustained
by an accomodating and supportive social environment to
nurture budding talents.- A social commitment of working to
plant, with the aim to yield fruitful harvest, on the hardest
mind surface, a drive to excell, exploiting to the individual
benefit and social well-being all the capable capacities
within each individual's latent potential. The "bottom line" of
any enterprise within a social setting needs redefinition, the
redefintion is needed because by relocating the focality of
interest and effort, there is inculcated in to the social
mindset a new acceptably prescribed focus as required
behaviour. The true bottom line is not a facilitatory
designation, money, that has trip jumped from its proper
place as a means to facilitate gentle social co-existatory
exchange media to an end on its own. (If in effect war has
been socially prescribed as a process of talking
convincingly to win others mind instead of wanton acts of
meaningless destructiveness, there would be a grand
social reorientation to render redundant the existing social
relevance of acceptable definitive requirements of war. To
conceive of losing war as a graceful acceptance to adapt to
the more mutually convenient point of view, and victory as
the capitulation to adapt to mutual consent, then the spoils
of war will be in terms of hitherto totally unconceived
growth effects. (The destruction of life is a vestigial
attachment to primitive instinctual reaction to protect the
self, in a setting of growing mind states it becomes totally
irrelevant, as the expanded mind acts of social
reconfigurations of variable states eliminate and make
irrelevant the situational variable states within which
aggressive destruction of mutually cheerished values hold
sway. It lives unaswered the obvious question of how to
deal with physically aggressive social aberrants, but the
awareness remains nonetheless that social abberration is
conceived within social systems that enable its expression.
If not capable of being eliminated, it is capable of being
consigned to insignificance, from occupying a position of
expanded social relevance, by the social designation of
relevant states engineered to define society and its
expressive states of relevance. Yet, as to why humanity
accedes its collective power to groupings of pusillanimous
governing authourity with an incomprehensive agenda of
abusing power and limiting its utmost benefice, and, then
individually and as a group, in an absurd display of abused
innocence the social grouping deactivates the social
coherence of power and its responsibility to the society, by
pliant submission, instantaneously projecting unto a single
individual awesome, undeserved mystical strength, to act
out the peculiarities of their madness on a pliant,
acquiscing, nevertheless underserving of such
traumatisation, populace). The inevitable antagonism that
unprofitably pits the "pointers" against the led in any social
millieu of organised activity is a reflection of the disarray in
the values of rationalised social processes. The variables
of rationalised social management has stacked the
appropriate variables in confused disarray, the rest of
humanity waddle through the deviously engendered "mish-
mash" in dazed confusion, exerting their energies and
resources in pursuit of irrational ends. Could there be
alternative ways of organising the guiding principles of
social tolerance such that society effectively eliminates the
violence factor while at the same time receiving its due
from leaders? Could an environment where the elimination
of evolved primary needs, the availabilty of the common
material provisions of utmost expectation, be created out of
the existing social chaos; thus freeing intellectual and
physical capacity to be occupied in higher mind activities
that sustain in dynamic growth through the creative
provisions of the mind state in the evolving social system;
an approximation to expeted states of peaceful co-
existence ? If it could, why has this approach not assumed
dominance as the social philosophy to drive the evolving
societies locked in the tenacious grid lock of conflicting
interests in common pursuit of mutually desired end states?
(Lower mind activities find expression as brutal exertion to
debilitate the self and others, higher mind activities nourish
the self and elevate the group to approximate ever higher
dimensions of mind abilities, a flowing out of confines to
expand and rise and birth forth the sustaining nourishment
of ever expanding growth that is all encompassing.)

The whole of social science and for that matter any

systematic study to establish first principles, and identify
the composite mechanisms of seemingly fluid systems, is
based on a validated assumption that all human activities
involving some form of interaction congeals indicatively in
identifiable variables. The guiding assumption of
management is that the variables that constitute social
interaction in any setting are capable of decipherable
manipulation, the elimination by social engineering
processes the undesirable aspects of these variables that
amalgamate to be patterns of interactivity impacting
systems with specified expectations. The inculcation of
variables, previously existing within the social millieu or
introduced and infused into the set patterns and causing
reorientations that reset and diversify the social interaction
pattern. The general society is at some level desirous of
stable states that promote peaceful co-existence and
development potentials across all levels decipherable
within that society. There is a possibility for social re-
engineering, which eliminates the variables and factors that
occasion negative social circumstances, while at the same
time seeking for preferred variables and inducing them to
combine reproductively and yield concrete substantial
outcomes indicatively along significant masses within
evolving social systems.

(The stability of middle class neighbourhood as compared

to the violence and despair within poor neighbourhoods is
a result of the preponderance of a composite of factors that
tease out the worst elements in humanity to be actively rife
and domiant in the poor neighbourhoods. Yet poverty is an
acquired state of comparative desirability. The poor have
stringent rules for maintaining social semblance, that
crumbles at the sight of the excesses of the normality of
the wealthy. Thus the ground is prepared and verifiable,
that system states at all levels, are an interplay between
hard verifiable variable states, which themselves by their
dynamic predisposition are constantly altering to yield
differently, and highly expressible, yet dominatly sublime
and inaccesisble emotional states. There is indisputably a
common element that characterises well to do
neighbourhoods, material wealth and purposeful life. The
poor neighbourhoods with all their negative tendencies
have a common element, poverty and lack in everything,
including such feasible emotional contrivancies of prescient
states as hope; existence by its very configuration within
the specifities and provisons of that carefully contrived and
imposed social setting, is purposeless. If it is so obvious
that there are elements within social organisation that
guarantee a life style of satisfactory existence. Then one
begins to wonder if the very essence of social organisation
is not to be focused around realising that for the whole
society. That, it is possibly to attempt mass social
reorganisation around the vaues and basic material
provisions that guarantee a basis for meaningful existence,
while enabling higher attainments, is within the capability of
astute leadership. That they have decided to promote the
faintly disguised social cannibalism of survival at others
expense, is an indicative expression of their
incomprehension of the task set before them.)

The people perish for lack of vision

The vision must arise from the darkness
pervading the inner sensibility
providing the clarity that removes the doubt
 of inaction, providing a wide swath of clarity on
the path untrodden ahead.

The market oriented society has designated the creation of

wealth, based on the monetary medium as its greasing
mechanism, to facilitate availability of needs, improvements
and developments at the end of the chain of activities
where some form of reward is merited for expended energy
and to ensure the facilitation of complementary social
utilisation of limited abilities in an efficient manner, however
it has failed to adequately account for those who by no fault
of theirs are denied access to having "money". These
category of deprived segment of society have been labelled
as poor and deprived and inappropriately discarded from
the center stage of attention. The poor are shunted aside
and made irrelevant by those who have been consigned
the responsibility through favourable circumstances to
prepare themselves to adequately cater for the less
favoured. In their failure to be responsible to their natural
designated tasks of being worthwhile citizens, they have
created pervesions of normality in cloistered isolation of
selected rich and common poor and hide their individial and
collective failure in displays of gross consumptiveness that
is gross in the face of penury and depravities among their
brothers and sisters. Their joys are pretentious cavorting of
sorrow and beguiling failure. They have attained their self-
centered minimal glories of material accumulations in the
mudpit of the dross of their own kind and have in the
process become obscenities to the society's sense of
decency, their achievements are grand proclamations of
failure on the manipulated social scales of irrelevance, and
they live their miserable lives in the miserableness of the
embracing society, cowering in fear, they fear their own
failures and frailties and pretend they must mount a
defense against their only hope of secured existence, their
own brothers and sisters, who they have cheated and
stolen from, by betrayal and self imposed limitations. On
the contrary the expansion in growth and consumption that
will fuel protracted continental growth will emerge from
these swarming masses seeking to find definition in a
social system that is insisitent on priding itself on the
demarcation of humanity into groupings of haves and have
nots. The simple act profit making naturally focuses on
those who have the means of enabling profit generation,
thus it has in its basic expression a delimitation of focal
interest, which delimitation has thus censured the obviating
of any effort over and beyond its essential occupational
focus of effectively reducing its essential profit making
orientation to engage in palliative social restructuring,
unless, adequate grounds and reasons are given for this
deviation from primary purposes. The nature of the profit
making organisation, poorly equips it to be engaged in the
sort of protracted social expenditure in the monetised
economy to bridge the social gap between the disparate
social split. Even when the means and possibilities remain
to wipe this shame of contrived differences among humans
off the social slate of mutually shared existence, the easier
choice and the one always exercised is not to exercise it.
Their is a certain obscure element of conspicuous pride
that flaunts its attainments in the face of the direly lacking,
which obscure element has been a dominant aspect of the
existing social system. Invariably the designation and
realisation of society as a social system, implies common
barriers of mutual existence that invariably creates zones of
friction in this existing social configuration. The mind state
must basically be lifted to redifine its constituent rationality
to enable clarity of purposiveness. The acts of leadership
has for far too long been circumscribed by 'truly
insignificant' power dealers whose claim to prominence are
acts of corporate success and rational economic
manipulation that places self acquisition over and above
mass social development. These ears of government are
least suited to the task of true leadership that centers on
the sort of social engineering that places profit making as a
secondarily consideration to general social upgrading.
Nevertheless there is no call to take away from or minimise
the relevancy of individual and private initiative to generate
wealth. In a petulantly serious platitude the continent lacks
in a marked manner the basic infrastructure to develop any
seriously sustaining capitalism, if the primary acts of social
upgradement and mass social elevation through the
facilitation of processes that position the society to
effectively complement capitalist efforts are critically
considered. Indeed the existing social gap will continue to
widen and eventually swallow the whole social system into
its yawning jaws of unrestrained and untamed savagery of
yet undefined expressive anger and frustration. The
frustration of unfulfilled wishes of a primary kind, needs,
like access to unrestrained educational needs, skill
acquisition, and free enterprise in prepared environments
that enable high quality and satisfactory end provisions, as
against the 'rag tag patch and strip' water world scenario of
post industrial failure in societies that barely seem to be
skirting the raw edges of technological growth. The
sustained deprivation over the years of adequate
infrastructural and service provisions that sustain the
evolving systems have made mediocrity a standard
acceptable and unapproximated. When rules have to be
bent to accomodate the deprived instead of concerted
efforts to upgrade their dismal states, there is an
entrenchment process in progress of undesirables in
perpetuation.

The neglected sections of towns, the neglected rural areas

are the reservoirs of untapped talents and dreams bursting
at the seams seeking to find a medium upon prepared
platforms for expression. The undesired slums that have
become the socially realised horrors of the regressive
consequences of the assumed advancements of socio-
ecomomic growth realities in the money game hold the last
untapped sources of vibrancies, where the drive for radical
change is undampened by the harsh suppressions of social
betrayal. In the richer areas of town where all things are
provided through individual effort and complemented by
governments dutifulnnes there are hardly talents to be
discovered at the cultural creativity level. The society by
not providing a pressure releasing hatch of appreciable,
gradual and meaningful social development, making
significant inroads into the stagnant patches of denied
populace and thus seeking to alleviate through meaningful
policy implementation the building up simmering heat of
anger and frustration seeking to find escape from the
poverty and misery throug feeble futilities, has provided a
basis of ineffectual closed circuit latency in the governing
processes, to transcend beyond the social realm, to infect
the sublime individual emotion of languishing despair and
tindered the patient endurance of hopes nourished to
become self consuming conflagration of hopeless
procedural existence into lethal uncompromising
instruments of social disorder in the face of the pathetic
lethargy of unexhausted blunders within the repetitous
ineffectiveness at basic discharge of responsibilities within
continental leadership.

The overall continental development process needs radical

reconsideration at its core component levels at shorter
intervals for effective repositioning of evolving variables of
changing social priorities to be in concordance with the
rapidly changing reality. The seemingly static governing
machinery which defines social reality and creates the
socio-economic environment within which individual and
social grouping expctations and productive behaviour are
realised, for explicable reasons, is at a severe retarded
disparity with the existing system component definition of
expected provisions. The disparity between constituents
correlation of expected and realised variables creates
severe system instability. There is a requirement for a core
component of stability that is positioned to adjust the
components and the variable combinatorial outcome states
of the general system as the basic formulations of social
and infrastructural development undergo rapid
transformation as humanity as a whole enters a new age.
(This center expectedly should be a capable leadership
role, positioned to mediate the transitional shift.) With
regards to education, no matter how altered he format for
the transmission of knowledge, as before and shall still be,
the articalation of knowledge will remain the cornestone of
social growth, and more than social growth and
development, social reorientation. Education needs a
medium of transfer, access to accumulated knowledge is a
critical modifier that provides clarity and enables a basis for
reconstructing changing reality. The mass of this articulated
knowledge, that drives present day society has been
engedered in external social systems, but the lessons
therein accruing are nevertheless relevant. Relevancy in
education has mutiple and diverse inferential determinancy,
ranging from learning for creating awareness to the age old
unresolved issue of the practicality of academia.
Undisplaced from its centrality is the unwavering
awareness that an educated society is a hopefully
positioned society ready to take advantage of its changing
circumstances. (The traditional educational modes like the
rest of the traditional has for the main outlived its
usefulness, and is applicable for moral rather than creative
engagement of mind states for constructive realism.) The
physical premises within which these education takes place
must complement the process of mind activation. In short
the centers of knowledge acquisition at all levels must be
physically upgraded to have creature comforts and the
provision of material states that will facilitate adequacy of
acquisition in the learning proces. Thus, there is a need for
total elimination of crumbling infrastructures and dilapidated
sheds that are painful reflections of disoriented systems in
chaotic evolution with just that bit of restraint that prevents
disorder from becoming mayhem. The society must set in
letters and diagrams an agenda for raising the educational
media to the high status becoming of it, transforming
edifices of education into physical structures expressing
exulted beauty in architecture, the highest possible
attainment for the common good in educational instituitions,
right from crechés to research instituitions. Education is
needed complement to sustain social development and
economic progress. The advancements in technology and
the insights of the information age, need be applied with
rigorous co-optation to educational processes. The
societies must seek for and couple their feeble educational
systems with willing patterns across the span of human
societies, where, presciently there are willing minds waiting
for assertive governments and leaders to ask for
assistance and joint projects that by aiding and uplifting just
emerging systems, enable the accessibility to all the latent
talents wasting away, in forgotten paths of murky obscurity.
Failure at leadership levela has intruded its effect onto the
general populace as massed failure. As compassionate
humans, acknowledging our grandeur as awesome feats of
created intellect beyond comprehension, by failing to seek
for and give expanded expression to idle minds in forgotten
and forsaken desolation, humanity have have made
possible an impossibly realised society of mind closure in a
timescape of unimaginable possibilities. Education is
frantically ancient in its conception and its delivery, it needs
a quantum jump, in the process making adult centered skill
improvement and acquisition standard formats within reach
of all. The advantages of mutilingualism, the development
of cross border shared economies, yielding mutual
benefits, marketing towns and educational centers,
designed to modern city state formats, will bring peace
among societies stranded across coloured lines on pieces
of papers and magnetised strips of plastic. Humanity is
higher than any of its thoughts and the more society is
pushed towards the realisation of ever high states of being,
the higher the mind state rises to handle the petty fractious
disputes that are sour aftertastes in the mouth of history.
As society rises over and above selfish self-limiting
destructive proclivities of social aberrants, and begins to
dip into the traditional storehouse of social morals as
existed in the traditional societies matched to the thinking
tinkering of uplifted mind sets, a course is set for the
attainment of the desired higher state, by eliminating the
stumbling blocks of materially deprived and all the physical
manifestation or the absence thereof of poverty and its
entrapments on the social mind set. At that stage education
acquires its actual role of a means of liberating the fettered
mind to revel in the unlimited potentials of universal
discovery; creativity revealed, unveiled, and multiplied
without pause, for a good course; to acknowledge the
awesome wisdom of the creator and we his handiwork. A
true celebration that never stops as mankind engages in
non-trivial pursuits of wholesome participation, where none
is deliberately side roaded and fitted into a category of
undesirable. Even at in its worst state, the individual human
is an awesome testimony of fearfully created and incredibly
beautiful expression of wisdom in harmonious disarray that
must be retuned. Instead of avoiding the grim reality of
being the the bottom of material development, African
society must see this as an incentive for unrestrained
experimentation of speeding growth, instead of hanging
onto frail strings of weakly propped external models, the
continent has nothing to lose from picking all the positive
lessons of these previous trailblazers, activating its masses
to indulge their creativity to transcend and supercede with
an aim to social development, united with the mind set of
the hurting, working peacefully towards relief on a grand
scale.

No matter how considered, there is an underlining

simplicity that prevails through every good idea. The sort of
advancements that have projected societies outwards and
upwards, have been denominated on simple ideas with a
humane face. Complexity evolves as a leisure pastime to
occupy fastidious minds bent on stretching the viably
simple. Those who dwell in the luxury of simple provisions
that benefit a large swath of humanity at any one place in
time appreciate the truth that stable society's are built on
the equally available provisions of simple all encompassing
required necessities. If all of the continents problem lie at
the foot of that unfathamoble reality; poverty, then ideas
must begin to emerge as to how to eradicate the social
menace of poverty within the peculiarity of the continent's
unique setting. Society needs to be distinctively split along
two accomodating distinctive categorisations. There is the
larger social responsibility of general social provisions and
there is a wider encompassing reality of individually driven
ambition to achieve attained states of social and economic
success. The latter is a quinstessentially exploitative
process that can be mellowed by the instituitionalisation of
constituitional and legal provisions that enable the
emergence of effectual benefits of competitive superiority
through unhindered but regulated participation. The former
is where leadership must on a continental level begin
exploring the possibilities of far fetched ideas to convert
desperation into creativity that liberates. The issue of
physical deprivations, inadequate infrastructure, and dirty
environments are the foremost primary indicators of
poverty. The secondary layer indicators, such as, lack of
education, unemployment and inadequate renumerations
or incomes, are predicated on the former. The higher level
expressions such as the absence of rule of law and the
lack of application of the fundamental code of human
rights, are aesthetics, the absence of which in
implementation reduces humans to barbaric monsters. The
higher level expressivity of lack of participatory democracy,
unavoidably denies the provision of the afore mentioned,
but monarchs are known to have been enlightened
benevolents, providing their subjects with improved states
of being. The obvious question that springs to mind is, what
is it that poses such a difficulty to the continent's leadership
that, they are unable to combine commonplace raw
materials and sculpt out decent infrastructure? Why can't
the leaders copy to adapt and implement on a grand scale
the basic infrastructural requirements? And what are the
leaders waiting for? The slave traders came from across
the oceans, mixed palm products, clay and seashells, and
left edifices of sterling durability, despicable memories of
their acts of pillage and trickery, nonetheless stolid
evidence that the resources for building monumental
structures of everyday relevance and comfortability, is not
the sole preserve of any economic system, but rather within
the grasp of daring adventurous, ready to stretch their mind
sets; people who are ready to take their destinies in their
own hands and exploit their envinronmental resources to
improve on their primary states of being. What has been
learnt? What is keeping the continent from implementing
borrowed knowledge to provide infrastructural needs and
improve existing crumbling inadequate infrastructure, on a
grand scale? Selfishness and a lack of leadership qualities
that desires to achieve for the benefit of the weak and the
masses, more than inadequacy of mental capacities on any
grand scale lies at the root of the continent's problem. The
fear that by improving the status and primary conditions of
others one stands the risk of status usurpation, more than
any other hindrance, has and continues to be the core
factor amidst the unending stream of emerging problems
that hinder continental growth and development at the
relevant level of those 'marginalised weaklings' most in
need of assistance, these are the rural poor and the urban
desperates. It is clear that the truely great leaders are yet
to emerge. Greatness is bestowed by the masses on the
select, who have truly achieved, not for themselves but for
their people. The great leader is the one who is conscious
is sensitised to the sufferings of the weakest and
situationally rendered most insignificant of their subjects
and utmost responsibilities. By cutting through the tightning
coils of never satisfied satiated selfish to address the needs
of their most neglected human and social responsibilities
they cut out their humble achievements in the minds of the
people, renewed with each passing generation, till polished
by the passage of time and embellished memory, they
become immortalised heroes, engraved forever in the
collective memory. Their emergence is made no easy when
every person hinges his individual gain on same delimited
patronising debt of political gratitude from elected office
holders. The payment of which debt invariably demands
some bending of official rules of conduct and appropriate
behaviour on the part of a power wielder (yes, there is a set
of unwritten rules that has as its base, staunch and
unyielding respect for the weak and the denied in the moral
standards that guard and guide a true leader's conscience
and behaviour. Which rules, already unfair to the majority is
further bent negatively to benefit selfish interests under
inefficient leaders.) Certainly, leaders owe a debt of
responsibility that in their acts of governing find
recompense that yield benefits across the board. The
question therefore that all the continent's leaders need to
pose themselves is "are we in line to be heroes of the
people or villians?"

Organisational psychologists contend that the

effective utilisation of people in any organised effort
has always been a pressing problem in society. In a
typical complex organisation, the Chief Executive is
constantly resolving the problem of defining a goal for
the organisation, organising work to achieve the
selected goals, recruiting, training, allocating and
managing an equitable work force. Such an executive
must also consider how to create work conditions, a
reward and punishment system that will enable
workers and managers to maintain high effectiveness
and sufficient morale to remain effective over a long
period of time. They have to contend with how to
change the organisation in response to pressures
arising from technological and social change, both in
the external environment and from within the
organisation. They have to cope with competition and
other forces from other organisations, from units
within their own organisations such as unions, as well
as regulatory agencies, and unavoidably from their
own evolving with time. These and many other
questions are embedded in any organisation and
have to be faced and resolved by managers,
bureaucrats, politicians and leaders.
Such organisational questions can be viewed from
two perspectives, these are the perspectives of the
worker or individual employee who depends upon the
organisation as a source of work, economic livelihood,
membership, identity, social contract, and basic life
routines, acknowledging the fact that most people in
society spend the bulk of their working hours in some
form of organisation. The second perspective is that
of the manager of the organisation, who creates
policies and makes decisions which affect the day to
day routines of large numbers of individuals and
which ultimately affect the destiny of the organisation
as a whole. It is asserted that this latter perspective is
a kind of organisational perspective, which clearly
indicates that the organisation is not an abstract
entity, rather it finds expression through the acts of
individual members occupying key managerial and
leadership roles.
Both workers and managers perceive the organisation
as a psychological entity affecting them in any myriad
of ways. The quality or quantity of work, research
indicates is related to the individual's image of the
organisation as a whole, not just the specific
requirements and characteristics of the work one is
involved in or the immediate monetary incentives. Yet
psychologists do confirm that the system of rewards
and punishments created by organisations have a
major impact on effectiveness of workers.

Organisation studies indicate that the typical

organisation is a complex social system and almost all
questions related to the determination of individual
human behaviour within the organisation have to be
viewed from that unique organisational perspective
and its social system. Recognition of this social
system has given rise to issues not limited to
individual behaviour per se, but the behaviour of
groups, sub systems, and the total organisation in
response to internal and external stimuli.

Current interest, focuses on the non static nature of

systems. Systems change and evolve in response to
internal and external forces, the implication being that
to obtain an adequate meaning of issues arising in
organisational context from a psychological
perspective, there is need to acknowledge the
concept of total systems interacting with complex
environments.

If the micro world of organisations can be compared

with larger systems like nations, then efficiency in a
national management will involve the active
manipulation of all segments of the system
components of the nation, just like in organisations.

Presently, the best conceptual framework for

describing an organisation is in terms of an open
system. A system is the arrangement and relationship
among component parts that operate as a whole. By
this conceptualisation, each component in a system is
a subsystem that has some system properties of its
own. The various components of a system form an
elaborate web of causal connections, so that a
change in one component will set of a chain reaction
in other components of the system. The resulting
change is not always exactly predictable for both the
component that initiated the change and the other
components because of the complexity of the
relationships.
It is the case that those who have the responsibility of
deciding the direction an organisation will take and
 who hold the authority to move it towards its goals are
the single most important factor in determining an
organisations success or failure. The quality of an
organisation's administrators will determine its
success; successful administrators will anticipate
change, vigorously exploit opportunities where they
exist, correct poor performance and lead the
organisation towards its objectives.

For the continental system, conceptualised as an

organisation requiring committed effort, there are
numerous severe lapses, and unexplored potentials,
where successful administrators will have to reorient
leadership initiatives to utilise hitherto underexplored
potentials to promote the positively relevant growth of
the systemic whole.

Flexible mind states that are adaptable, are the bedrocks

for the emergence of a truly sustainable socio-economic
system. The unique qualities of the people combined with
the realisations of other mind states applied with unyielding
zeal and diveristy to generate the sustainable enthusiam
and pride to achieve as a society for all, yields definite and
concrete results. The awesome diveristy of creative abilities
and raw unexploited talent that belies the superficial
grittiness of layered poverty will rinse off to reveal the
diamond sharp brighteness of purified mind states that are
unbreakable in their resolve to better their lot, only when
the appropriate leaders begin to shape for directive
focusing the diffused dispensation of unfocused energy in
pursuit of trivial mundalities. The people must be awakened
to the reality of true knowledge, true knowledge is simple
and easily appreciated, its efforts and results contribute to
adding value without limitation to the depths and heights of
the diveristy of the human spectrum. The knowledge that
has a guise of deceptive complexity yet in its wake has left
suffering and pain, may traverse the known universe but its
fruit shows its deceptiviness as the apogee of human
intellectual attainment, in the wake of the attainments of
those preceding knowldge have been sown the seeds of
social immolation that is yet healing, the lessons to be
acquired from those knowledge sources must be wisely
discerned and selectively adapted to yield expected ends.
The utmost application of the outcomes of general human
mental development will be to make humans out of the
restrained wickedness that is afraid of its shadow in the
wake of its wickedness. More than anything is the need for
awareness that all good things are emergent of the noble
abilities enthrusted to humanity, the gifts of an awesome
creator whose sublime presence in human spirits gives
meaning to the universe humans inhibit and are striving to
appreciate. In their appreciation of it they acknowledge the
creator with reverence, yet seem to dismiss with a
simpletons ease the underlieying principle, that whatever
humans have sought to adapt and craft at whatever level of
mental growth and development, they have with greed
limited in accessibility to others so that a few can play 'god'
above others, is nevertheless freely given and has and will
continue to outlive any one person, and possibly all of
humanity, whether in its original state or in altered states. In
lieu of this, the continent and its people are limited only by
the narrowness of their visionary capacities. All good things
should be provided in acknowledgement of the creator who
out of wisdom created all things out of nothing and set it
before man, to be enjoyed in appreciation, yet man has set
limits to the joy, by artfully, in crudity, elevating inversely to
the depths of the heights of humanities depravity and
wickedness and denying the majority so that the few can
delve and relish in the accumulated misery of the masses,
who have been blinded to pursue the same worthless
ambitions of meaningless materialism and coverted power
that imprisons. Even in seeking to break out of the delusion
of miserly conduct that passes for governance and
corporate power, humanity has postulated social theories
that in their application frustrate the people in bondage
entangling them ever tighter in a knot they have tied with
blossomy relish in confabulating knowledge. Suffering and
material poverty are mind states generated in physical
realism of seeming deprivation(s) of access to some form
of material provision. The unloosening of the knot, in a way
is two fold, the benevolency of supervised access that does
not deny, yet with a view to maintaining order and positive
directive influence which enables unhindered and unlimited
acessibility to the collective realisations of human acts and
preoccupations. The second is the collective mind set
redirected to appreciate the vanity of stockpilling pieces of
materials that in a great distortion of reality have usurped
the position of their creators and acquisitors, becoming
centers of attention when in reality (it) they (is) are (a)
facilitatory (medium) media of social coexistence.

Existence itself has assumed repetitious expositions of

ungainly eccentricities bothering on the abnormal being
accepted by the larger society as commonplace
occurences that no longer cause costernation, so much so
that first principles that form the basis of meaningful social
organisation have been buried under pretence, layered in
meaningless complexities that in twisting the giddy masses,
who already unsteady in an evolving social system that has
eroded the basic guarantees of meaningful existence,
denuding simple desires and substituting a camouflage of
ineptitude, that the masses in a haze of confusion, (like
sleepwalkers pursue with ardent purposiveness only to
awake to the sweaty realism of that gray zone between
sleep and reality, realising with uncoordinated regret or
surprise, clutching the vaporizing images with a willful
desire of some displaced accomplishment,) reaping the
futility of pursuing materialistic self centered, money driven
goals that displace the centrality of humanity in all human
affairs. While there is definitely nothing wrong with
ambitious drive to excell, there certainly is everything
wrong with making material acquisition the centrality of
human existence, and money the basis for individual and
social accomplishment, without conditional qualification. In
the pervesion of normality, money an material acquisition
has become an end value, irrespective of the means by
which it is acquired, once successfully in ones possession,
there is not only social acceptance but social approbium
accorded. From the individual to the society and from the
society embracing the individual, the basis for social
acceptance is as aberrant as the valued substance of
social attainment. In the emerging societies on the
continent, the promoting of market economy, capitalism
and the concurrent deriding of social welfare systems
indicate without ambiguity that if there is any turning of
social values on its head, there are many more spins in
dynamic propulsion that will if unchecked not only slam the
whole society against a wall, but the schisms of unjust
differentials between the have and havenots will deepen
the trickling despair into raging floods of unsupressable
dissent in an ocean of grief. The rich and empowered will
increase their poaching skills, and the resentment of the
excluded by default, will ensure an athmosphere of all
tainting insecurity and fear. In effect there is conceptualised
in limited visions and realised in physical reality the
unending nightmare of closed mind sets accepting without
qualification and adjustment a borrowed concept extolled
by societies that have set their major priorities wrong,
centering money and sidelinning the essential fact that
these pieces of papers and scraps of metals are meant to
serve as intermediary variables of related relevance. In a
way while these obvious realities of discarded idealistic
musings underlie the very basis of the deception that
perpetuates misery, humans in all their intellectual
dissuasions choose to deceive and coerce an equally inane
populace to accept and believe that there is a wayout of rut
that ends in glaring dead end. (the brick wall of ineptitude
has assumed invincibility, as society somnolently or
ignorantly choose not to acknowledge a need for a
retracing of the way back to first principles of human values
and rerouting the way forward, while acknowledging the
experience gained on the route traversed hitherto).

In the emerging economies of the continent there is a need

to refigure exactly the process of facilitating adequacy of
normalcy in the ease with which individuals approximate
acceptably high quality levels of existence. To wit a child
must be born to willing and capable couples. The child
must have access to health care and supplementary diets.
There must be in existence a financial support system for
mothers and their children in families beneath certain
income levels throughout the pre school years. Each child
must receive equal support irrespective of the parents
financial background. This is an ungetioated responsibility,
held in check for far too long. To stretch the existing social
welfare mechanisms available to secure this continental
social responsibility justifies at a basic level society's tax
liabilities. Children who are undernourished, deprived of
meaningful existence and material provisions, because of
indequate social frameworks that will ensure fair and
equitable distribution of the commonwealth, can have little
benefit from and yet still less to contribute to a free
education school system. They are the potential talents that
never find expression through massive and sustained
system default. Working mothers must have access to
creches and dayhomes of the highest quality possible.
Liberating for improvement the unique intellectual and
creative element of feminity, hitherto locked between the
shackles of feeble febrilities of immatured male domestic
hegemony and misdirected diffusion of feminine strength in
pursuit of excesses of limited consequences.

"Until the children you produce and nurture in the

blight of unrelenting deprivations; prepared for a
future mapped in the blackhole of uncertainties,
assume their proper positioning on a carefully
mapped certainty of meaningful existence, woman,
you labour in vain"

Clothing and child support must be provided to complement

nutritious diets at state sponsored day care centers. The
state and its provisos will remain center stage in
determining the future outcomes of the continent's people,
irrespective of how much contribution private sector
investment and iniative assumes in the continent's
economic affairs. All must have access to decent, high
quality housing provisions whether from one's own effort or
through some form of social provision. The bottom line is
that no one is denied the basic infrastructural provisions
that are desired and need be provided by the government.
The schools for the young, pre school, primary and junior
secondary education must have the infrastructure that
spurs creative budding of latent talent. There is a need to
emphasise a required developmental improvement over
and above iron sheets thrown over four pools on a dust
plain that passes for a school. The deferred postponment
of "riktiga" infrastructure, the provision of environments that
effuse healthy beauty and inspires spontaneous poetic
expressiveness of souls in exultation of the achievements
of the mind set to a task is a standing standard requirement
of human existence, an experience, denied the continental
masses for far too long. To accept ugliness as an excuse of
stunted mind processes that have instutionalised poverty
as an accepted norm of a peverse society, pervesity forced
down the unwilling throats of people hungry for the
realisation of beauty in exploding diversity is tantamount to
rejecting the glory of God infused in humanity to reflect his
beauty in ourselves. These are states of minds, mind sets
of bubbling hopes rising through to the top of the waters of
illusionary impossibilities. Possibility and impossibiity exist
as opposing counterparts, just like light and darkness. The
two are incompatible and yet define their mutual existence,
the presence of the one dissolves the seeming omnicient
weightiness of the other. The beauty of worthy existence is
not the sole requisite of any delimited segment of society,
to be measured out by the largesse of any overlord, it is a
gift of nature enabled us to be realised and relished in
celebration of our worthiness as a collective entity. If the
people are looking for inspiration, they need not look far,
within the soul of staggering poverty, pain and desolate
desolusion and restive spirits seeking for redemption from
they know not what, belies an immense stirring of unlimited
energy to create, creativity is emergent of dire
circumstances, it is a reaching down deep in defiance of
the odds, the odds are the challenges that quicken, to
arouse, to seek for solutions that edify. The higher
expressivity of achievements in the face of daunting
improbabilities evocates from within the inner recesses of
the respledent mind, which is equipped of a bottomless
ladder of applicatory enhancements of coping and
innovativeness, in a manner not unlike the base unrefined
physical response of fight or flight. Every expression of that
survival extinct is the end product of complex processes in
detail and accumulated experience of generations of
practiced and refined exquisiteness that enables an
effectively quick response in exact sequence. On the other
hand it is also a gift of creation in synchronous modulation
with time and circumstances. In effect there is an unlimited
possibility to readjust on the wider social level under the
configuring directive influence of a socially rather than a
self oriented leadership bent on realising for the whole
society, acknowledging that the diversity of individual
talents in a hyperdrive to achieve can be collated and
chanelled to realise each individual inspiration in the
context of elated and elevated social dimensions that
(which social setting) become the well spring for, a base, a
well laid foundation where the hopes of the masses are
liberated on the perseverance of individual talents finding
expressive ability in the appropriate environment, and in
reverse becoming pillars that support the average upward
levering of society. While society cannot provide equality of
abilities, it can enable the social organisation that in
providing unhindered opportunities liberates that creative
intellect to yield its values to improve and add value to the
social systemic whole. The sought for equality is an
approximation of acceptability available to everyone without
being an obstacles for those who will strive when others
are content. All children of school going age must draw
equally from the child education support fund, until their
years of education have been satiated through natural
capability. The ideas, that set the pattern of what to aim for
is not the sole recluse or preserve of capitalist market
economy realisations. Social arrangements should ensure
that, all its benefits prevail across the aboard, independent
of socio-economic philosophic orientations of the preffered
ruling class. The facilitatory social organisation that edifies
the true value of life in each and every one of the species,
takes precedence over superficial leanings that are
temporary. This is the worthy idealism that should
encapsulate the governing process. (If building a
settlement within the emptiness that lies beyond the beauty
of awesome life giving sustenance that humans inhabit is
an imaginative reality realised, then how much more
idealistic it sounds when the mind set, is set, to setting a
pattern of wholesome existence, for all without exception,
and taking the smug of the chin of the those who delight in
the misery of the masses to boot. The accomplishments
that signify worlds within worlds are minimised within their
limited states of delusionary senses of accomplishment. In
the midst of the heights of these infractions on the
complemetary uniformity of natures rhythmic unity,
suffering and despair of unimaginable proportions
permeate the thin air of polluted purity in a dance of greed
holding sway in the halls of power.) The worlds in worlds
are layered into dissolving pains beyond the grappling
minds of increasing inadequacy, emerging itself from the
darkness of impositions that burden unrelentingly, widened
in scope and passed on. Limiting itself by its limitations, the
mind set narrows its self gratifying lenses into delimited
space and peers outward with hopeless certainty.

The Swing
(Inextricably linked in cycles that could be looped with
gaiety, bringing joy in its stead or swung with wicked
intent slapping -cutting- its pain on -into- crumbling
shoulders.)

The hyphenated negative connotations of deprivations that

occassion the continent are the road signs of the way
forward, not the "finitos" of an undesired end stage that
imprisons. The third will like the second world borrow and
adapt and refuse to be unhindered by traditions and beliefs
that perpetuate mediocrity, garnering in its stead of
changing evolvements, accolades applauding the creators
of development based on humane factors at peace with
nature. There is a need to complement nature as society
progresses, rather than perceive development as ugliness
that despoils the natural contours of natures' rhythm. A
seemingly forceful departure from the complementarity that
sustains natures balance, even if that complementarity is of
'a culling nature', has occassioned what passes for
despoilation of nature without conscious remonstrance,
what humankind has in for the larger part of the twentienth
century extolled as the sings of progressive. The
industrialisation process that passed for human progress
was for its larger part an aggressive, immatured,
experimental reaction, initially a radical survival attempt at
nature engineering to sustain human beeds, then an
expanded sophistication within its limited constraints of
typefied economics and in its progressive adaptation a
response to its detrimental aspects. For the continent
entering industrial age at a time when there has been
pressured conscious response requirement for industrial
activities, development in terms of providing for the
expanded needs of increasing populace, requires more
than the acquired installment of outmoded technology. It is
an active and persistent to match the needs of the times
with the technological provisions most responsive to the
complementary adaptiveness of the human-nature
interphase. Therein lies the way ahead, to adapt to improve
within the abundancy of natures provisions, firming the
seemingly unlimited supply of iron laced sand into a
firmness that is malleable in the sculptors hand bringing
forth beauty that exudes excellence and reaffirms the
hopeful desire to live in the shadow of minds that are in
concordance with the grace of nature, artfully transformed
and adding insight to the obvious, instantaneuosly
transforming, achieving a replacement therapy of structural
grace that edifies human existence and uplifts the spirit of
the awesome creator within us. The whole of nature is a
grand architecture of never ending diversity and awesome
intricacy reflecting an aspect of human creative potential
that the limitations of restricted minds and constricting
situational limitations of underdeveloped societies has not
enabled Africa to exploit in applicatory enhancement in
dignifying aspects of human constructive realism. Though
all of the continent efforts at rising above nature have been
in humble adaptation to natures determinates rather than
forcing nature into grotesque submission into grandiose
hackings of natural rhythm in a brutish desecretaions of
natures rhthmic contours. The availability of the means to
'rend apart' in an injurious way natures sublimeness in
pursuit of short-term self aggranisement ends, has in its
totality caused excessive stress to nature and enabled a
few to wallow in short term creature comforts at the
expense of the sustainable strength of natures supportive
mechanism. The continent, it must reiterated, must seek for
development in complementarity with nature. The mind
must be freed from the garbled deceits of failed systems,
grossly distorted, starving the graceful positioning of
humanity in the scheme of things and cheapening the
priceless quality of human life, substituting satisfaction
short circuited to irriatate the majority of the deprived in the
wastefulness of its limitations. Away with the ugly
dispensations of the heights of the depths of human
wickedness, extolled with pervese brashness in the
marketplace of the extremities of deviance remodified to
have a face of acceptability, in the midst of its handiworks,
the woes of humanities anguish, celebrated and framed,
shall ye acknowledge its worth. Awaken ye who lie in the
darkness of depair and break free of the chains of
suppression, set free the mind to realise new horizons.
While preaching may assuage the pain of souls in spiritual
anguish, and hopefully enable closing the gap between
man and his/her creator. Yet, just as it is man who has
distanced himself from a willing and benevolent creator,
likewise can one realistically affirm that in every evolving
human social arrangement there are emergent positive
aspects that if isolated and pursued are likely to yield
diversities of positive effects displacing and hopefully
cancelling the negatives. Invariably there is within the very
designation of human makeup, the aspect that exudes
within the social evolvement of dynamic systems, an
overflow of abundance of negations and negativities, there
are often short term and immediate gratification from the
preffered proffered advantages that some of these
negations offer. (They are like the speedy highs of potent
narcotics that eventually destroy the 'user abuser', but offer
instataneous exhillirating effects so pleasantly profound
from the individual emotional viewpoint, that it is easy to
succumb to the succubus of inevitable destruction for the
short term gratification.)
The slack of unutilised capable manpower wasting away, is
more often a reflection of inadequacy of management skill
at the national and continental level that cannot configure
human resources into needed activities that yield gratutious
benefits for the systemic whole, enabling these hitherto
wasted and sidelined human capacity bleeding to waste in
exasperating uselessness to expend their energy creatively
within a social arrangement designed to expand to
accomodate the dynamically widening society with its
incrementally diversified needs. The span of activities that
the people can occupy themselves with defy the puny
imaginative capacities of any individual or group of people
according themselves the qualification of defining the limits
of social components capacities. There are no limitations to
what task configurations society can designate to occupy
its constituents. The task of creative leadership is reflected
in energy directed towards the realisation of socially self
emerging designating malleability towards diversity in
attained and presciently existing states of evolved social
state that merely requires directive influence.

In a hypothetical state of being, the heights of absurdity are

attained when production capacities lie unutilised,
deliberately shut down when many are without the
products such a manufacturing units are producing. Men
have drawn imaginary barriers of wicked intentions and
devised wise words and deceptive mechanisations to
perpetuate their wicked intents in the midst of the
abundancy, of freely given resources, they have set
themselves as task masters of vicious stinginess. They sit
"respledent" amidst the groanings of compatriots who
water their growing and ever increasing wealths with others
swelling tears of humuliation and shame. These are the
worth beings configured into categories of varied
usefulness, varying into vented ventillations of energy
pursuing the wind in search of meaningfulness in the
desert of want. Men have taken to playing God with
disastrous consequences for all mankind, they have
desired to measure out goodwill and adjudicate mercy with
material things. They sit in self satisfaction, presiding over
the anguish of their compatriots, in acknowledgement of
their inadequacies as men much more a higher a
benevolent creator. The enlightenement of the developed
is a qualified state of inhibitory idiosyncracies of minimalist
perfectionism in constrained space. The whole
technological and scientific advancement process is itself a
class act of infantile puerility. The glorious acclamations of
the apogee of its attainments are in terms of weapons of
destruction. The majority of humanity are denied access to
its positive aspects, supposed to project the whole of
humanity higher on the evolving mental plane of assumed
higher potentials. Its controllers have annexed its benefits
as its sole beneficiaries and in the true light of its
immaturity, which in itself is indicative of the whole of
human growth, are tightening ever closer the bounds of
inclusiveness that exclude and deny with a contrast that
magnify the deprivations of those in need. There is barely
elightment other than the imperfections of insignificant
delusory insight into things beyond the comprehension of
the unheeding. The continent has little of true value to
learn, in terms of the development goals of the totality. In
its bounded attempts of all compounding extension of
equally desirable end goals, they have at the heights of this
stunted growth, decried the welfare state and socialism,
hyping the capitalist glory of denied accessibility, that pits
the advantaged against the disadvantaged for the prize of
worthless pieces of paper and bits of metal, in the realism
of disparaging human worthiness, the object of unparalled
value drained of its uniqueness and made to assume
expendability with acquiscing humulity. The objects of our
collective mind, created to facilitate ease of interaction
have by an aberration of inconsequentialities of
questionable morality and sensibility assumed center
stage. Setting into motion a reverse process of destructive
consequences.

Jesus called his disciples to him and said,

"I have compassion for these people; they have
already been with me three days and have nothing to
eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they
may collapse on the way."
His disciples answered, "Where could we get enough
bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?"
"How many loaves do you have? Jesus asked.
 "Seven," they replied, "and a few small fish."
He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he
took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had
given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the
disciples, amd they in turn to the people. They all ate
and were satisfied. Afterwards the disciples picked up
seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
The number of those who ate was four thousand,
besides women and children. Matthew 15: 32-38.

Humility begins with acknowledgement of malfeasance. An

openness to acknowledge gross deficits and a willingness
to learn. Learning is seeking to understand with a view to
improve on existing circumstamces, least of all to provide
diversity. There is everything wrong with a world structured
such that man's twisted mentality exultates in the wasteful
abundance of others misery, credited as states of higher
civility and driving ambition. The externally developed and
yet evolving model is built on transient transigency of
frailties that are disconnected from the true worthiness of
humanity, and must be adapted to ensure social
equanimity, irrespective of how irreplaceable it is made to
look, anything that goes against common sense
(unfortunately clichéd to be uncommon) is a traversty of
decency. The very art of social transformation is akin to-
analogically depicting- the delicate rebalancing of hair
weight springs and finely grooved wheels, perfectly tuned
yet malfunctioning with a precision that is predictable,
though imprecise in its wholesome adequacy. The society
as it is, is functioning in all its existent componential
constituents, as a delicately balanced network of viable
interconnected and interrelated components, but it is an
outmoded viability that is out of sync with its external
reality, the external reality is the powerful, intrusive
emergent forces caling for extrusion of existent cultural
artifacts and the redefinition of dependency elements.
These elements are social artifacts directly affecting
continental states of approbious existence and deliberately
crafted to keep development under leash on the continent
to manipulative influences controlling global financial
systems whose activities have more or less condoned
inadequate leadership roles to wreck massive havoc in the
pitiable lives of the masses of the people. There is nothing
wrong or manipulative about this 'control element'
emergent from external sources, in that, for so long as the
continent has been unable to be build structures, well
established enough to offer viable acceptable alternatives
to this external determinancies they have no choice but to
find realisation within the definitions of these external
instituitions. However, there is everything wrong when the
internal continental system organisation is not pursuing a
determined course to take advantage of the existing
facilities and developments emergent from these external
sources to design and set in motion a gradual but
nevertheless, certain, self affirmativeness, in determining
progressive policies independent of external
determinancies. While the discussion is not geared towards
moral philosophy, there can be very little doubt that the sort
of concerned leadership required for setting this required
progressive agenda, requires large doses of honesty and
concern for the 'insignificant social elements' who by being
configured prominently into any form of social reorientation
set a target for continental development. The point
becomes more meaningful when one considers that the
individual elements of the continent, as stated elsewhere
have by means of monetary facilitation grafted themselves
into external social benefits and outcomes, but the society
itself as a whole is lagging severely by all considerations.
Any meaningful development has to embrace the poor and
denied members of society. To seek to rectify the error of
neglect on that analogically depicted time mechanism is a
delicate task of rebalancing.

Set forth straight simple lines of simplicity, in easily

discernible form, let its beauty inspire to conjure forth
the light sealed in the darkness of despair. Liberating
the joy that seeks to enlighten and shine forth its
message of hope, the seeds of worthiness sown on
receptive minds taking root and yielding harvests of
abundant satisfaction. The old in falling, fertilise the
prepared land and enable the sprouting forth of the
sturdy saplings ripening in the sun, sustaining the
hope of the generations and the cycles yet unfolding.
"Out of the strong, something to eat, and out of the
dead something living." Let despair give forth hope in
its unyielding resilience, let the light dispell the gloom,
and let the filth fertilise to bring forth life and beauty. In
the heat of the midday sun in the unending stretch of
the deserts of tormentous heat, feel the dew of the
dawn of the awakening day and taste the sweetness
of joy exploding in the light breaking into living colours
of hope, springing out of tiny bubbles of living waters
delicately balanced on blades of greenery.

We retrace into the past and discern the lesson only

to misapply them. Christ died and ordained the
celebration of the death that opened the door to a
future of hope. Humans live their lives of fleeting
futility, celebrate death and remain in the same
position.

Even while there is an obvious wallowing in the mediocrity

of 'braked' development at the highest mental and psychic
level of leadership. The gradualism of the eventuality of the
inevitable has not seen a discerning acknowledgement for
a reorientation on the 'road' into the blurry future. The
clarity of the errors that commit humanity into a lopsided
overrated depressive disillusionment of delusions of high
attainment of fragile inconsequentials is not nudging the
'pointers' enough from refiguring priorities of human
existence within the limited scope of present day
dimension; the needed reevalauation of priorities from the
perspective of the substance of the material basis and the
emergence of the beginnings of a definition for a new
course, to serve as the foundation on which to plan an
expected future for the evolving society. At present there
seems to be in progress a 'knee jerk' random selection of
self effacing measures in a directionless society refusing to
acknowledge its basic primary error. Each autonomous
'knee jerk' reaction to internal crisis produces an
'adrenaline rush' of 'quick fix' immediate solutions, but what
is required in this continentally comtinent sustained
'emergency syndrome' is total reevaluation from
fundamental states and a proper diagnosticism, spread
over a wider time stream which should enable the
beginning of a course of treatment at the end of the
assessment of the inbuilt frailities in these old and
unsustainable internal structures that bedevil this very
ancient piece of human grouping, stuck seemingly, in the
senile mentality dragging a young body into a unneeded
destruction. The mind must find renewal to sustain the
rejuvenated body of the youthful dash into tranformed
modernity. The febrile senility of weak leadership must
seek to find expression through higher mind activities
seeking to divulge the tenacious irrelevancies of selfish
traditionalism to a more relevant social humanism as the
guiding light of the evolving governing process. A sustained
deliberately ingrained social inclusiveness in contradiction
to vague and barely appreciable slogan touting preference
for some distant and ineffectual identification with some
experimental form of social organisation. The absence of
an unambiguous philosophical grounding to focus the
social definitiveness of the totality of aspired projections in
tandem with bordering external worldly systems, leads to
diversionary pausities that effectually detracts the whole
society from maintaining a consistent pattern of growth. In
its stead there emerges rickety, halting uncontinuous
development that is more responsive to the whims and
idiosyncracies of each batch of leaders assuming brief
stints in the various continental leadership roles. Yet the
continent requires for any sustainable development policies
that have tenacity independent of individuals, rooted in
deep seated belief and purposive directiveness,
established and articulated as a socially relevant
philosophy that bulwarks continental development against
the buffetings of temporal hindrances. Which sidetrackings,
in the absence of grounded directive social philisophy, to
enable reorientation further confound an already pertubed
continent, stagnating any hope of quick recovery in the
organisational labyrinth of trials and errors, a situation
which may otherwise in sidetracking the projected
expectations in realisation, lead to, as is presently the case
spiralling decandence. Thus the question if posed, of what
the philosophical foundation of the continent's
developmental idealiams are and on what assumptions
these ideas are built, which underlie the inadequately all
embracing developmental policies, such a question will
yield a regurgitation of mindlimiting closed circuit ejections
of what has barely sustained other systems from falling
apart, borrowed without systemic adaptation to fuse with a
defined system specific idealism. If there is one thing that
binds all the continents diverse societies together, it is
variations of poverty and ample room for creative
application ranging from the nonfeasible mind states
needing to be liberated to liberate and produce creatively
physical provisions for extreme states of deprivaties. There
is enough initiative to delight all the quirky minds seeking
for something to do and for the ideas to concretise into
appreciable attainments of mind over matter. The 'pointers'
of the evolving continent must as a collective, acknowledge
their inadequacies (as positive invigorants that will propel)
as a basis for fashioning an appropriate direction for
growth.

Apparently there seems to be self centered

satisfaction that posses the smirky self gratifying
notion on the part of misguided 'pointers' that once 'I'
have struggled and beaten the odds, then others
could and should, but in the same thought process
could it be suggested that 'you' were sustained to
prevail against the odds so that others needn't go
through the same suffering! Of what worth is any
individual struggle to break frontiers of human barriers
if it would not change the course of all humanity. At
the height of achievement are the truly great ones
most humble. The most difficult notion to accept of
these reasoning set, seems to pose the belief that
suffering is inevitable to humans and human
situations, certainly it is not, all of human progress has
been in the direction of lessening the pain of brutish
existence, (though the deviations to excell at
technological designations that could bring the
process to a close suggest differently, it is a choice of
application of what can have beneficial effects all
round and has served a highly qualified positive
deterence purpose), it would seem a reversal to the
same mind state if after overcoming the odds, the
 human entity then designs barriers in his cleverness
to prevent the undeterred benefit of these
developments from reaching all of humanity. That it is
so, is an indication of severe limitations in the
collective mind set.

There is a stalemating in the brute physicalism of societal

motivation for remodification on the continent, there is a
need to quickly, if quickly is a realisable concept in terms of
achievements that have become commonplace, in
infrastructural development and a beginning to refocus on
mental pursuits of individual and social development.
Errors need be corrected, but correction is an acceptance
of viable alternatives that are more fitting to acceptability.
Truth is a relative in the void of unending alternatives, mere
approximations to the ultimate that is beyond grasp, yet
proffered constantly as a single alternate choice to the
unending approximations.

Organising social systems such that ease of accessibility to

acquire the inevitable necessities of normal existence are
within range of the populace is the fundamental
requirement of leadership. These basic requirements have
undergone transformation with the passage of time and the
diversity enabled by technological developments. However
the core components have remained unchanged. Human
beings desire and need to live in decent environments and
in the post-industrial age, the infrastructural provisions that
enable these decent socio-environmental standards to be
met can be provided on wholescale basis adequately
through government intervention. The issue is not so much
the fact that poor people are undesirous of these creature
comforts, but the issue is that in the age of so called
modernity, by far too many people are languishing for want
of primarily everything that justifies technological
development as a mark of human evolution and higher
mind states. That all are seeking to have and participate in
these developments, is an indication of a certain parity in
the dimensional shift that has occasioned human evolution.
To evolve is undoubtedly an irrefutable syncopating of the
circle of time and natural adaptation to fit in with the
changes that occasion the lapse of time in motion. It is the
basic responsibility of the societies and their leadership, or
the leadership as such societies determine as appropriate,
for harnessing the disparate individual energies to
formative creativity with social relevance, to set forth a
broad and all encompassing agenda of not only what, but
also the quality of that 'what', which has been designated
as the essential and formost pursuits of that society. Here it
is only logical to assume that anything worth expending
resources to realise, (no matter how those resources are
configered and controlled to set limits to their availability as
part of the game of organised society that for want of better
becomes the focus of infusing excitment and meaning into
the otherwise humdrum non spirituality lifestyle extolled as
civilised existence) is worth doing well. This simple dictum
implies a need for a major reorientation in terms of
enhancing projects undertaken within any society, as
previously briefly mentioned, there needs to be a significant
aesthetic qualification in infrastructural development. It is
that permeating element of the sublime beauty of God in
the human being. Simple lines realised with an intention to
complement the beauty of nature, rather than dumpings of
pieces of blocks that are poor excuses of realisations that
awaken the joy of being alive in man. Good governance, in
a sense thus has as its primary objective, the
establishment of the conditions where every single person
is positioned to activate the potential capabilities and the
latent talents in each person, without necessarily facing an
unrelenting wall of frustration at every turn. When the
typical government is maintaining a meaningless status
quo of uninspired ever tightening coils of dehumanising
inconsequentialities designed by wily minds with an evil
intention, there is a major gap betwen intentions and
desires between leaders and the governed. There is
possibly no magic wand to wave away the problems of
insufficiency, but it is the depths of inefficiency when no
attempt is idealised and pursued to break the tormenting
bonds of worthless theorisations that in their deceptive
finality has acted as huge chambers of unrelenting torment.

The diffusion of a barely emergent, clearcut, designation of

the aspirations of the masses, for continetal directional
patterned evolvement in societies in a transformation shift,
consistently articulated by leadership due to system
incapacitation to reorient and ensure balance of equanimity
in equilibrating forces of incongruent subsystem constituent
variabes, is in many ways a diffraction of leadership
responsibilities, which, in its inability to refocus and focus
the directional influence variables within the general system
has led to critical core dysfunctional definition of priorities
projected. The whole governing process spectrum is a wild
dishevelled disjoint of wisdom in massive disarray seeking
to tackle a diversity of split discordancies with
conspicuously antagonistic end measures that by
temporarily alleviating problems at one end and
concurrently generating and worsening new and previously
existing untackled problems at the opposite end of the
social dimension, in effect lead to stolid social
accretiveness in reactive structured problem solution and
innovative social reorganisation. Conclusively, such
breakdowns in what should be a linkage of clearly and
cleverly structured strings of complementing social reactive
response measures to anticipated and emerging problems,
becomes in reverse belated, insufficient, inconclusive half-
measures that in attempting solutions creates destabilising
social angst within some significant segment of the social
whole.

There is a need for serious reconsideration of what social

organisation entails beyond the vilified concept of the
money economy. At present everything hinges on the
economy, but the economy as far as the individual within
the social system is concerned hinges on money meeting
their available provisional requirements. The initiative of the
whole creative mentality of Africa has been chained into a
crisis state of stressed induced survival maneuverability,
manipulated with destructive discomfubulation at various
states of statal anxiety. But much as social organisation
has over time congealed around this basic essentiality of
social interaction, the concept is not by itself an inelastic
contrivance of certainty, more so when it has in its present
state perpetuated a humanely undesired state of greedy
acquisitiveness in the face of primary human deprivations.
In a world brimming with endless possibilities, the
continents possibilities end at this fragile machinations of
contrived convenience. The greater and more relevant
issues of how to position human beings within creation
such that each being is actively appreciative of all that is
within its potential utilisabilty and actually coming into
position to apply these resources to ease his or her state of
existence, has been pushed further and further off center
as the paramount primary nexus of all social organisation.
The existing system may acknowledge this essential
requirement, yet its acts focus on balancing the economy
that by is by its very designation, an unbalanced state of
inequality actively promoted to realise inequality as a
cheerished end. There is nothing per se wrong with the
social instituition of economic rationalisation in any guise,
be it capitalist market economy or any other variation of
social welfarism, the essential issue of consideration, is
that there has been a deliberate holding back from the
whole human society's benefit the fullest and totally
unhindered benefit of collective human created worthiness
due to the manipulatory barriers of economic theorisations
and power brokers. Power applied to intellectual
capabilities, exist to promote liberalisation of constrained
souls. Yet by its works and its effectual espousals, is this
systems power and knowledge identified as the
perpetrators of enforced debilitation. There should be
amelioration of economic theorisations and applicatory
capabilities to widen the range of beneficience of human
creative intellect, however in an inane and
incomprehensible manner, the leadership are designating
logic and reason as it were to endemnify a faulty social
process, and pass on that error as the fundamentals of
meaningful existence. In effect the short sightedness of
imperfection has been parcelled out unchallenged as
veracities of irrefutable, unnegotiated foundations of
human, socially configured existence. For the African, while
the temporary condoning of this primary error is inevitable
in the absence of effectively articulated counterpart
substitute measures articulated with clarity from a
reasoning opposition disengaged from the narrow
personality counter-cult attack mentality of the perceivable
alternative fora. The efforts to begin a worthy social
configuration for dispensing the existing effectual
productive efforts of the collective creative intellect
productively to instigate social equitability is an
unnegotiated requirement for long term social development
and individual growth unhindered by socially imposed
obstacles, whether those social obstacles to full individual
development of the self for social benefit is intended or the
unintended consequences of foibles in the leadership role,
presently existing on the continent. Else, the obvious
deprivations and torments that this inefficient, yet highly
hailed, existing, social organisation has exacted in terms of
frustrated individuals perishing with their talents
undeveloped (and continues to be promoted), extolled in
smug satisfaction of thinly veiled vain gloriousness, evident
at the heights of its limited attainment, is nothing short of a
dissipating effort that labels and denies, instead of seeking
to uplift, by experimenting with viable alternatives. In reality
set against the progressive developments in other viable
external systems, what in terms of social organisation, on
the continent is accomodated as acceptable devleopments,
is a painfully abnoxious subsystem of irrelevant, outdated,
inadequacies of introverted benevolence, a left over
vestigial lingerings of dissipated overlordship of leaders
with conditional consideration for general society only if it
serves their personal interest. Embellished with the
passage of years, modern society is still firmly within the
clutches of a clique of closed minds untampered by the
suffering of despairing humanity over whom they crack
their wanton whips of wickedness, but why should these
leaders not continue in their abysmal failures of
unvarnished crudity, when their track record indemnifies
their acts of leadership, through a quiscent public
confirmation that mediocrity is acceptable. Parcelled out as
hope, severely controlled, and niggardly dispensed with a
beggarlly intent, doled out to a humanity burning with
frustrated made believe inadequacy, in the midst of
unimaginable possibilities. The rest of mankind have been
deliberately lured into a tunnel vision of extolled
ineffectiveness that has limited relevance. (Unless there is
a masterplan with clever intent which the heights of
cultivated knowledge are yet to reveal, it is perfectly normal
to assume that there is a marked deficit that needs major
rectification - which no single human grouping has sole
insight to - Thus reference could effectively be made to
gross inefficiencies, and major short circuiting in the
assumed perfection of capitalist democracies, the defining
social philisophical grounding of the leading social systems
defining the general direction of the wider society.) While
virulent criticism serves no end purpose, peremptorily,
attention is drawn to the relevancy of the issue of
contextual interest by pointing out glaring loopholes in
assumed consistencies of tried and tested systems that
have stood the test of time. The robber economics is a card
game gone on for far too long. The game has become a
tedious boredom sustained by the gatekeepers to the inner
recesses of the darkroom, where the players in the
darkness of illicit activities are out of tune with the demands
of an emerging new day and its requirements. The
economics of relevancy to desired social organisation, is
the value laden economics of viable sustenance that seeks
to allocate the unlimited abundance of human
inventiveness, allocating roles and positions that
adequately allocate humans to purposes in a grand
acclamation of universal participation in human progress.
Not the present rationalisation of inadequacies shored up
by meaningless deferment to incapable leaders posturing
in acts of gross pretentious infallibility. The subtle twist that
edifies a culture of hoarding, placing barriers to
accessibility, to create a meaningless adulation of
irrelevancies in the midst of postponned immediacies is
contrary to expected outcomes. Unless there is an
underlying virtue that effectively explains such simple
existing verities as the widening gap of the extremities of
poverty and wealth, access to and inaccessibility to
available modifications of natures freely given resources
(right from the intangible inquisitive mind state of tenacious
will to break existing barriers of bounded knowledge to the
material realisations of organised systems), accepted and
explained away with expounded adoration as the basis of a
bold new world, there certainly is everything immoral and
incisively desiring of correction. At what stage of attained
growth in a dynamic system of unceasing cyclical
evolutions will there be a softning of hearts that eschew
greed and selfish suppression to maximise meaningless
differentiation, extolled ad naseum to rationalise the heights
of human stupidity (stupidity again is qualified to indicate
bounded and limited knowledge in the face of ample room
for improvement). The leaders at all levels of the wider
society have failed at their task, at best they supervise
mediocrity in the face of unlimited possibilities to extend the
benign spread of desired, easily realisable ends. In their
failure they have pushed their misguided tools of
suppression and infected ignorant innocence to follow their
path in pursuit of vain glories that do not edify. To wit, of
what relevance is technology and development from which
the masses of the people are barred from participating in,
by the exact same process of mind liberation that has
enabled these developments to become instituitionalised?

You are the light of the world.

A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
Neither do people light a lamp
and put it under a bowl.
Instead they put it on its stand,
and it gives light to everyone
in the house.
In the same way let your light shine before men
that they may see your good deeds and praise
your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5: 14-16.
When the accumulated knowledge of humanity's progress
and growth is exhausted on the global resolution for
alleviating human inadequacies, and establishing a
platform of unhindered universal progress, then leadership
actually begins to show the qualities most desired and
sought for, in it, at the highest quality of rendition it is
capable of. On the contrary when divisions, envy
unwarranted, and the hoarding of material
inconsequentialities of the irrelevancies that have assumed
importance to the overall detriment of humans, continue to
be the yardsticks of fractious attainment of limited insight to
delimited groupings, gripped fiercely in vaunting the
commonality of human differences and variously
apportioned and widely scattered spattering of freely given
talents to be utilised for the common benefit, then one can
sadly affirm that there is a not only a fair amount of the
primitive turf protection mentality belying these false façade
of modernity and delicately balanced technological
advancements that have raised human intellect one notch
up, but the whole slippery process of civility and civilisation
is a weakly supported mental structure likely to cascade
down at a slight nudge. That the global social growth
process is a thinly greased façade of slippery, delicately
constructed social reality that still requires rigid group
definitive expressibility is as much a construct reality as it is
a mind state cultivated, sustained and nurtured, that
evidences its nature in the ease with which humans revert
to brutish animal state, bestially tearing each other apart
with fierce and unrestrained aggressiveness at the slightest
provocation. In its benign state, it is a faceless,
emotionless, hijacked growth that is self appeasing at its
highest evolvement and has barely any overall social
benefice over and above the monetary barrier and its
gratuity effect. Africa need not pursue the same
emotionless socially disengaged materialistic path to social
growth, much as material acquisitiveness is an aspect of
human nature, it must at all times be tampered by mercy
and consideration for others, for after and beyond the
materialistic nature and its fulfillment, looms the larger and
greater fulfilling realisation that one has in some manner
been of value to the species as a whole. The two are not
necessarily opposing activities, for inasmuch as exploitative
development has been extolled as the only way forward, it
is barely a crude stage of finessing the full range of human
potentialities. By the blaring inadequacies in existing
system designations, a better philosophical orientation as a
guiding principle should begin to be formulated, a social
philosophical orientation, that is not self limiting in its
expression, but a dynamic guiding principle, formulated
such that it has as its foremost agenda for varied
expressivity, the realisation of utmost quality in the
transformation of raw natural talent, resources, and the
processes therein involved, engendering within the end
target and the social processes designated to attain it,
infinite developmental and increasingly effective adaptive
potentiality ad infinitum within the organised human setting
- man and his environmental resources- for the general
benefit at the highest realisable possible state at each time
interval of the stream of human existence. Leaders or those
who seek to assume the onerous responsibility of
formulating a cohesive directional channelling procedure to
bring to realisation the diverse interests struggling to find
expressive outlets have no other choice than creative
widening of the functional human potential utilisation base
for adequate distribution of the commonwealth in whatever
desired state of realisability commensurate with the
requirements of the situational setting. They must have an
appreciable formula that is inspiringly relevant over and
above the managing of debts and the failures of previous
legitimisations of uncertainties that wrecked sustained
social havoc in teasingly creating half-measures that have
effectively lighted the lamp of hope without any fuel to
sustain the flcikering flames. In the obvious awareness of
the general consensus that while monetary resources and
wealth accumulation have their limited relevancy in limited
scopes of individual centered activity in the wider social
domain, and that by placing this limited activity at the
center of human activity and social organisation and
realisation, leaders and the proponents of wealth creation
as the central activity of human existence have created a
social nuisance of grotesque proportions, the continent and
its emergent leaders must begin a recrafting process that
places the essential invaluability of human beings and
nature at its core, and the facilitatory role of money in their
proper positions in the overall scheme of social
reconstruction, such that just as water is a daily neccesity
of sustainable existence, it does not become a resource
that quenches the viability of diverse existence,
unhampered by individual limitations of accessibility to
adequate monetary resources, instead of just facilitating
adequacy of normal existence, through social organisation
processes that ensure meaningful existence within the
wider social spectrum of different and varying talents.
The essential question that needs to be answered, could
be posed as; what is the essence of human existence and
what form of social organisation could be engineered to
coordinate the fullest realisation of this essence? As
regards the fulcrum position of money and wealth creation
as the nexus of societies in gradations of approximation to
expected end states of desired material provisos of
satisfactory attainment - inwardly, as self constituent
entities in interaction with other systems of defined social
organisations in bounded and identifiable territorial
configurations of imagined, made believed, identifiable
superiority - So long as there are significant reservations
among a broad band of existing global society as regarding
the adequacy of existing social systems that deliberately
render redundant, otherwise productive talent, through
deliberate manipulation of social mechanisms, rendering
vivacious beings seeking to find expressive reality within
designated social configurations practically redundant,
preventing these individuals from meaningful existence by
curtailing their productive relevance, preventing them from
participating in the socio-economic structuration that
permits meaningful existence. The existing social
compartmentalisations of active contributory expenditure of
the energetic life force that invariably delineate explorative
creativity in the existing social reality is only partially
individually fulfilling and overall, socially debilitating in its
inability to adequately generate a closed linkage of end to
end solutions that enable closed systems dynamic effects.
And for so long as those social designations have an inbuilt
limiting factor that unjustifiably excludes and in its
appropriating influence of rendering value and worthiness
within narrow constraints, society is grossly inadequate in
its organising capabilities. The pursuit of the basic tenets of
this social organisation will certainly live in its wake
enormous wastage of priceless human resources. The
premise of historic precedents of the utilisation of human
effort and the expected profitable organisation of human
capacities to yield social goals and dignify the individual
worth, has hinged on the expropriation of the positive
potential of massed communal strength to satisfy the
deviant abberant desires of cliques of a tormented ruler
class, who have utilised the destructive potential of the
mind set in unrelenting pursuit of puerile goals, that places
the individual acqusitive desire above the common well
being of society in general. The mind set that is supposed
to lead towards positive ends, has found adequacy of
utmost expression in selfish gratifications, made possible
by the active manipulation of material benefits, that to have
value had to be cleverly constrained from ease of
accessibility to all without exception, enabling their imposed
values to assume reality through limitation. Demand and
supply thus become refined mental manipulables realised
in a quota system that delimits through a skillfull chain of
constructed reality of pervasive suffering to enable a
'financial kingclass' and their acolytes in 'pointer' positions,
positioned at the very top of the social organisation, in
positions that enable them to carry out their gatekeeping
role of limiting the fullest participation of all in the
progressive benefits enabled by the inventive element of
human nature; for them and their favoured acolytes to play
to the adulations of a deceived humanity, manipulated and
entrapped in an enticing cycle of deception. ( It is not so
much that reason needs to be made of it, but that these
manipulable contrivancies of social organisation by
providing no viable alternatives create a false impression of
a taken for granted acknowledgement that suffering is
inseparable from human existence. That even where the
means exist to lighten the woeful burden of seeking to find
meaningful existence, it is normal to pepertuate painful
existence. Absurdity has found acceptability among the
masses because the masses have been denied meaningful
alternatives. Not that the masses lack perceptual acuity to
call for redefinition, rather the directional finders have
doubled back and diffused the leadership responsibility with
vague socially irrelevant self centered interests.)
The functional responsibility of evolving leadership in Africa
is not so much capital accumulation (the ridiculous effort to
build foreign exchange reserves, in a projected
perspective, for reconsideration, is indeed foreign to the
activity of governement, government in end terms must
dispensate resources created through an effective
mobilisation of the resources both human and material at
its collective control. Thus while there is little argument as
to the fact that you need to accumulate to redistribute,
there is a yawning gap of inadequate mind set, expressed
unambiguously as a set of policies or ideas of expected
governance, creating as it were an awareness of a gradual
replacement substituition that becomes a sine qua non as
the continental system disengages gradually from
excessive foreign dependence and builds up its internal
capacity to be self sustaining. To effectively determine its
projected developmental outcomes, there must be clear cut
openly debated purposiveness to broad social organisation
themes of relevance across varied stratas of realisable
expectancies, built into debatable philosophies that centers
on the fullest realisation of human worth. There is an ever
widening gap within the social consensus in the
establishing of the philosophical underpinnings of what the
exact nature of the expected outcomes should be for the
continent, the gap basically has developed from divergence
between the individual expectations and the leadership's
articulation of the means by which there can be a bridging
between actual leadership task realisations and the
system's needs.
To assume that the thought patterns of the purposes of
leadership is a sole prerogative of the idealistic musings of
political entities serving their limited aspirations of reality
grounded in fundamental principles of social organisation
that are severely flawed and have common appeal by
enticing the base materialistic selfish interest rather than
the general communal growth aspiration calls for remedial
measures.
What needs to be at the focus of long term aspirations
within the governing process remains unambivalently the
organisation of society such that in its progressive
dynamism it has ever widening scope of inclusivity, rather
than the existing marginal provisions at the edge of the
excluded and increasing improvements in the narrow
inclusive segmentation of unfairly advantaged. As
suggested elsewhere, the expectation that there will be
'fallout effect' from this exclusive band of wealthy in the
encircling of deepening poverty, as touted by the capitalist
theories of market economy is severely restricted by
conditions, that facilitate 'a spread effect' of wealth, which
nonexisting conditional provisions within the existing social
structure, only increases the desire to exclude and protect
the self interest. In which state there is not likely to be the
expected overall social upgrading emerging from a solely
individual initiative motivated by the profit motive.
To attain the goal of overall societal inclusion in continental
drive for improved human states of existence, there is the
need to assume a factual view of the underlying reality of
the basis of existing state of intolerable deprivation in the
larger segment of the social divide and from this source
begins the emergence of definitive formulation of what all
desire but many are denied due to system ineffectiveness
in renegotiating the social adjustment process that is
inevitable in the constant change that occasions the time
and human social boundary interface.
The value systems set into place as the basis of assessing
wealth and states of development is very much within the
manipulable influence of society. Thus the wealth of a fairly
successful individual within the dimensions of the present
economic designations that places value on material
wealth, may dispose an individual in a capitalist economy
to have wealth calculated to be more than the earnings of a
whole society of specified geographical configuration, yet
this end measure begins to disintegrate in its relevance
when the complex social dimensions of human
consequences and expected nonarithemetical tabulation of
mere summations, rather such outcomes as wasted lives,
unnecessary misery, and profound dehumanisation enters
as the multiplier effect in the social computational process.
Thus governments may be absolutely useless in
circumstances, where leadership focuses on personal
monetary acquisitions through fair or foul means, yet that
material acquisition becomes irrelevant to the actual
leadership task, in the light of absolute human potential
activation processes which have been substituted for self
centered interests. In effect for the emerging African
societies, the philosophical assumptiom of social
organisation must be considered from a perspective that
eschews the all finality of money as the end worth. Here
there needs to be an assessment based on the sort of
social organisation that enables fulfillment at all levels of
society. Money and wealth acquisition thus become
incentive at the individual level, though not contrived to be
the ultimate societal goal, thus enabling the leadership to
be more focused on deriving governmental principles
solidly grounded in non-specific, but adaptable humanistic
principles that places the benign mercy of the divine
principles of mercy and compassion in the exercising of
power and the fulfillment of the provisional requirements of
authourity.
The balancing of equitable distribution of basic
developmental needs at individual and sociatal level,
material provisions, employment needs, and an
accomodating environment that does not dampen
individual initiative, must be delicately balanced and firmly
rooted to ensure viable and creative social millieu. (That
some societies have approximated this idealism, without
removing the restrains that will enable optimum
participation of commonly desired ends is incontrovertible.
There are lessons to be learnt but the continent will
inevitably evolve within the reality of its unique conditions,
without being in contraposition or in consideration of
existing system influences.)
 There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow
men…no greater contribution than to help the weak.
There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it
well -Walther Reuther, as president of the United Auto
Workers.

The incessant pursuit of monetary acquisition as an end

and the absences and gapping lacks in task execution due
to the dishonesty that occasions material acqusitiveness as
an end game of the ruling class, is itself a sympton of the
poorly developed economic infrastructure, which itself is a
consequence of wider social chaos of improperly
formulated social organisational priorities. In socially
intergrated organised settings, where capitalist market
systems are synchronous with effective social provisions
and comparatively higher accessibility to individual
development media, as well as creative realisation of
personal desires with social worth, the central position of
money as the central issue of economic organisation
begins to assume a secondary position of a need to induce
spending rather than hoarding. The problem with the
developing continental systems are that, there has not
been that adequatly prolonged period for the stabilisation of
unrehearsed implemented or socially emergent
developmental processes that are symptomatic of non
agrarian traditional presently evolving states of social
organisation, loosely defined as modern society (the truth is
that Africa is hardly a modern transitional society, rather a
traditional society with individual pockets of fairly flimsy
modernity) that will balance the process of social
engineering with acquired experiential knowledge over time
has not enabled that state of unlimited opportunities built
upon adequate social infrastructure. Thus whatever is
desired in terms of the social framework must find definitive
expression, projected unto the existing inadequate social
reality, with an intense machination to radically eradicate
and replace, rather than assuming that as the society
engages in a series of unconnected, occasionally
disruptive, haphazardly evolved socially disconnected wild
gamble stabs at disparate aspects of required whole
instituitional reforms, there will emerge over some long run,
the expected transformed (modern) society.
The rabid pursuit of capitalism must be tempered by the
realisation that the exponents of this ideology of state
organisation had a fairly prolonged period of liberal state
provision of essential social requirements and
infrastructural needs. When there was a saturation level
attained in these social provisions such that maintaining the
essential statal workforce that assume responsibility was a
drain of resources on a redundant activity, they were then
positioned to focus on the expanded opportunities that
these foundations enabled private investment to supercede
the quality of state provisions. It is therefore necessary for
leadership in the evolving African situation to be fairly
liberal where it comes to the building of the infrastructural
requirements for effective capitalist economies. To remove
this essential factor condition of social provisory
preparedness for unrelenting capitalist profit oriented
marketplace of crushing competitiveness, is less likely to
yield the expected benefits for the majority of the deprived
masses. Whatever benefits accrue to the open market
system of capitalist oriented economic planning must be
allowed to flower, however the required expectation of
leadership to upgrade society by enabling the provision of
the firm foundation upon which this socio-economic
organisation can be firmly grounded to effectively add value
to existing society must not be obviated. There is a not
altogether valid fear that if the process is not effectively
balanced, in the bid to match socio-economic progress in
external systems, there will be a permanent large
underclass of shadowy denied subgroupings from the edge
of society seeking to find meaning and integration into a
narrow mainstream of economically succesful grouping of
socially advantaged. Already emerging, it will make social
co-existence tense and unbearably dangerous. The failure
of mlitary governments was their excessive reliance on ad
hocism as a revolutionary depletion of resources they had
done nothing to accumulate, as quick-fix solutions to
problems beyond their inflexible mind capacities,
disciplined to be unanalytic responsive subservients, the
military lack the tactical explorative inventiveness and were
least interested in securing the qualified mind set to employ
these skills from the society to evolve far reaching creative
decision making, that can best exploited the continent's
unique positioning in time and place. The problem with
evolving democracies on the continent seems to be short
gap, vote winning strategies, with real term economic
maximaisation of inadequacies craftily manipulated to
perpetuate continental 'underdoggism.' From 'the children
of the land', the succumbing with far too much ease into the
larger external system requirements that staunch
staunchily continental ease of growth and improvement
across the social spectrum. By grafting or seeking to find
expressive creative leadership role within the narrow
confinements of the dictates of these external dictates,
larger society directly thwarts individual initiative,
preventing enhancement realisation hope fulfilliment
aspirations by depriving the society of the structural
provisions within which meaningful individual achievement
can be realised. Depriving society of the needed truthful
explanations to explain their unending despair and at the
same time failing to provide the broad all embracing social
road maps into a better future, while with practised ease
and distasteful parlance leaders ease into lies and
unrealisable rhetorics built on shaken foundations of
nonexistent social frameworks just to win votes. There is an
absence of a far reaching social philosophy that in mingling
with the leaders ambitious drive, ensconced in some
individual philosophy of fair play and hard work, will hone
the sense of honesty within the collective responsive
conscience. It seems that for now, the leaders having done
a quick take of the miasma of the entangled mess that
compound the politics of inefficient economic systems
tottering at collapse, opt for garbled rudimentarism of
toeing some ill defined line of expected leadership
perfomance from some discomfitting external setting,
leisurely formulated by idle minds musing within made
believe mind states of assumed reality, and in applying the
broad outlines of these postulation sink their societies ever
deeper into the quicksand of social dissolution along
patented lines of 'haves' and 'have nots'. They then adopt
the easy way out, borrow as much money as the
government can from the international funding agencies
and allocate a sustaining quota for personal long term
sustenance. Meanwhile the academicians who should be
involved in the intergration of the common expectation
towards the formulating of a grounded social philosophy
that will frame long tern development, mapping the way
ahead, are hindered from participating in government as an
involved and rewarded group, but pander as individuals for
political appointments as means of easing the pains of
inadequate income. In the vacuum that is thus created,
short term, ten year and five development policies are
polished and rehashed as the basis of government action.
Meanwhile the international community which itself is a
faulty, constantly adjusting imperfect institution of stressed
individuals perpetuating lopsided development policies,
become the source of appreciable model for a projected
future, of a setting that has conditional relevance to their
existence. There are serious problems! (While there may
be no easy solutions at least making an effort to begin the
slow process at rectification is apropos.) As to who lays the
broad outlines of appropriate social development
projections, it must be pointed out that making the
assumptions that underlie development plans will benefit
from insightful minds but it is not the sole preserve of any
one individual, but a communal effort at establishing the
ground rules and broad specifications that are responsive
to changing circumstances. While foreign expertise is
appreciably relevant in assisting in many areas of
development need, such foreign interests lack the
emotional and in a way "spiritual" link between the people
and their society and its needs; and thus are severely
shortchanged in ability to formulate long ranging policies
with adequacy of sustainable solution, realised within the
natural environments of the continent. It does make a
difference to exclude local insight due to the observation
that the locals on their own have been unable to provide
solutions to problems engendered in their midst. It is
enough to acknowledge that social progress proceeds at
situatioanally instigated initiative to introduce novelty on a
limited scale and at the larger social level of communal
provision of desired structuration towards desired ends.
This is the larger social consideration that revolves around
the significant others who cannot exercise any initiative due
to social constraints, and barriers that inherently impose
limitations to the physical realisations of the highest ideals.
Gradually, this begins to clarify the previously expressed
cognition that there are no inherent inferiorities that
markedly distinguish between superficially different
societies. Each has the potential, that if nurtured, and
provided for within the adequate environments find
expressivity as capable appreciable creative ability that
modifies the raw provision of nature, to sculpt reflective
grandeaur that heightens natures supportive capacity to
sustain humans and their complement environment at the
highest level of attained mental capabilities, in time and
place. Whatever solution that emerges to any peculiar
problem requires local participation if it is to be sustainable
and productively replicable, undergoing transformative
upgrading with applicatory enhancement.

To reiterate an obvious observation, there are aspects of

social designation that are ephemeral but have assumed a
permanency that is stultifying and conclusively defective
social mechanisations that thwart overall human progress
and development. These appendages of external
suppresive classicism, are in many cases obvious, since
they belie the underdevelopment and unnecessary
suffering of easily realisable end purposes that is keeping
humanity in check. They may have served their purposes in
some suppresive and dark period of primitive state 'of
survival by any means', but in the expanded possibilities
made available in comparatively liberating times, - from the
limitations of brawn and the inexpansivity of the hindered
mind states primed to survival instincts- their presence and
influence are detractive to the fullest and essential ultimate
utilisation potential capability of the existing collective mind.
Thus the palpably attained possibilities enabled by the
liberated mind set needs to be freed from the excessively
emphatic trivial pursuit of basic material exigencies of
acceptable and desired comfortability in the light of realised
transformative diversity of manufacturing processes.
Rather the liberated mind set must make the required
general provision of these material consumptive aspect of
the human nature as an intermediary provisional step to the
actual utilisaton of the full range of the human potential in
the quest of continental human transformational processes.
(To the controlling influence of leadership that minimises
the fullest impact of the worthiness of this processes to the
larger masses of humanity in distress, there is a need for
humble re-appraisal of the obvious (reality) that there is no
need to misplace the vaunted pride of accomplishment
through uncomplemetary unsophisticated economics of
limited consequences focusing on excessive materialism
and its acquisitive nature. For Africa and the people have
found utmost realisation in higher ideals, albeit crudely, of
derived satisfaction, in naturally lately developed
materialistic orientated social form, from higher mind states
of communally derived consequences, that in being
adapted to changing circumstances, where the introduction
of monetised materialism inserted as a middling part of the
transformational social organisation in progress will
eventually lead to a stable, contented society set on the
higher mind task of unhindered human explorative
processes.) The very basis of modern social organisation,
the exigency of market economy and capitalist oriented
economic policies as the foundation upon which society
founders of floats is a gross misconception of indequately
conceived and misperceived social linkage.

The process of capital infusion as a philantrophical

approach of abridging inherent gaps in social development
in all its faulty fealty of associative overemphasis on the
monetary factor rather than the human element as the core
axis of appreciable evaluation of accomplishment, indicates
conclusively a need for reconsideration of the foundation of
human social organisation in concordance with the
emergent reality. The intermediary role of money that is
effectively detractive, must be minimised in its impact, in
the linkage between needs and the provisions of those
needs as the productive capacity and the intellectual
creativity that effectuate diversity has developed to the
stage where human technological and social organisation
skills effectively eradicates supply restrictions of real
limitations on production and enablement capacity. The
restrictive obverse self interest of closed minds have
dorned the discarded robes of controlling power that
destroys and are holding humaniry in retrogressive check
from mass onward progression of higher mind states by
inflicting the contrivancies of complexities of truncated over
sophisticatory of national economic interests pursuit. The is
a need to begin the construction of accessibilty instruments
of social exchange media that regulates the greed of the
defective human excess while not hindering the access to
provisons that embellish existence within meaningful
boundaries. Thus, the social organisation becomes more
focussed on the application of advances in micro electronic
data cards that regulate access to uncensored product and
material needs, while deemphasising contrived limitations
to accessibility that underlies poverty and deprivations at
the core of social instability in developing systems. When
accumulated wealth due to varied productive and creative
efforts is indicated in a value system that find limited
exchange at higher levels or more precisely, relevant
levels, of inter instituitional exchange, the exchange
modality at individual consumer need level will then find a
proper positioning at a feasible exchange mechanism that
faciitates social coherence without detracting government
effort at stabilising around the equanimous organisation to
realise common needs at a fairly adequate basis without
inbuilt processes that favour subgroupings unfairly. To
achieve this sort of social organisation the continnt must
begin to rethink the basic foundations of inefficient
modalities that perpetuate social 'split'. The 'split' refers to
the aforementioned unparalled growth and development
within the social mass the favours the materially and
monetraily robust while providng little or no room for the
poor to improve on their existing states of nominal
existence.

The unique opportunity of well funded governments at

independence (where the passing of power was peaceful)
enabled the continent in its early state to define the axis of
its social-evolution with a humanitarian intent at leadership
level. The changing times and quickly depleted coffers,
presented another set of realities pari passu the continents
barely scratched transformational infrastructural provisions.
The idea of conjuring a continental setting of unlimited
possibilities predispose Africa to reorient and set a
humanely radical fast-forward, progressive, human
centered social development goal. While there is a
common aspiration seeking to find expression within the
constraints of existing chaos. There is little doubt on any
mind, even the most ignorant at the worst extremities of the
superficial social class designations built on the unfair
distribution of accessibility to human enhancement
avenues that the reality of realisation in concrete terms is
far beyond mer idealisations. For the majority of humans
the issue is not mountains of stashed wealth in the midst of
unmitigated suffering and limited opportunities; the issue is
not comfortable positions of employment avenues in the
midst of crippling delusory underutilisation of human
potential capability; the issue is not a desire to occupy
positions of influence for the realisation of merely selfish
interests. For the average man the issue is the sort of
social organisation that enables the creative manipulation
of leadership skills to catalyse creative thinking cutting
across the society to realise meaningful existence by
sharing equally with the option of a choice in the available
existing reality, realised at the highest level imaginable. It is
a sort of desired for social organisation that cannot be
realised within the contingencies of existing systems of
economic and social disposition to glorify lopsided
materialism as an end. Even for the few who are lucky
enough to become beneficiaries of excessive wealth in
developing societies in Africa, there is a dearth of lack at
the general social level that makes meaningless their
overall wealth. Wealth thus becomes an entrapment of
frustration, it can be obscenely displayed with deep
reservations even in the most greedy in the midst of
poverty that leaks and stains with sticky adherence its
emotional outpourings of despair, sucking away all the joys
of simpe existence; even escape to pretentiously spend
such wealth in external systems is a flight of fancy in the
grip of ridicule. The African leadership apparatus has no
choice but to embark in conjunction with external systems
instituitions, a renegotiated social agenda of equitable
development that not only centers on equitable distribution
of wealth, but more importantly the opening of doors for all
to participate in the development and continental
construction task meaningfully.

The whole basis of inequality is based on limited access to

expected ends. The end that lies presently at the beginning
of human deprivations is money, money itself is not the
source of the problem that creates social inequality, though
through its mediatory capacity it underlies the evetual
expression of it. It is a social configuration that to all intents
has outlived its usefulness in where seeking social balance
becomes a focal issue, it has placed greed that exploits
and abuses as a desirable end goal, over and above the
essential human appraisal of dignified existence across the
board, that eliminates the variables that breed frustration
and engender violence and desperate acts of social
destabilisation. To wit most people are indifferent to their
location in place and social setting, so long as they are
content with the provisos that sustain stable, normal and
respectable existence. Within the context of aiming to
realise this fundamental condition, of decent existence
society wide, the continent and its leadership have to set at
the fore simple clearcut moulds for society's construct
reality. Mankind in general has been on an exodus of
displacement over time and that journey has taken them
across known geographical locations in search of expected
realisation of social equitability and justified existence. In
their strive they have broken boundaries of restriction that
impoverish the very spirituality of God's awesome glory in
his handiwork. It seems difficult to appreciate that having
won the fight against the suppression that intimidates,
quenching the fire of the light that liberates the masses
huddled in fear and despondency. They have with ease
denied the fruits of their labour to compatriots and limited
the gains of their effort to those who need it most. Power
liberates to empower the weakened and affirms its
worthiness in the sights of appreciative intellect by its
positively valued constructiveness. Just as the freewill of
man given by a benevolent God exalts the awesome
grandeaur of God's wisdom in the sight of appreciative
mankind, so must puny human leadership acknowledge
with great humility their position as enablers of the goodwilll
conferred on them with great honour by their people, and
set to task to liberate man from the superficial limitations of
contrivancies that impede progress, and constrict its worthy
capacity to delimited insignificance of petty relevancy.
Across the board, one must question what sort of mind set
establishes an exploitative social mechanism that
consistently pursues a sustained agenda of denying the
benefits of development to every member of society,
seeking in the light of its inventive awareness to keep
others in the darkness of ignorance? And, then in a
transigent immorality of normalcy projects a grainy irritation
of perpetuating class differences across regional barriers of
limited relevance; in effect a replay of the things that are
generally accepted as obnoxious and unpleasant, has been
centred unto the middle stage of the extolled economic
theories of assumed currency that is eroding faster in its
conceptualisation of reality the favoured expectations of its
human setting than the bare denuded hills of an
overfarmed, eroded countryside. The fight having been
won, the gains are delimited spoils of a select grouping.
There is a noticeable lack of maturation in global leadership
as a whole. In the era of expanding possibilities, there has
been a setting of faces to the stars while the significant
masses of the majority swelter in the deprivations of
natures vagaries and the impositions of limited minds
setting artificial barriers of limited relevance but widespread
consequence, the consequences no matter how varied
evetually congeal as poverty of one sort or the other. (It
could be a poverty of deprivations or a poverty of denial to
realise one form of desired expectancy or another). Of what
relevance is expounded theorisation on a developmental
gap to a woman whose cosmic reality is foreshortened to
intense labour, sweating buckets of pain, giving birth to a
child whose survival chances are numbered in hours, and
his only solace is the salt browned corrugated iron sheet
roof of a dingy clinic, when the means exist to upgrade
standards to dignify existence, in this God given beauty,
despoiled and sucked dry of reason on the anvils of a
reality that is surreal in its objective expressivity. (There is
no hope in limited opportunities, and a teaspoon of water
cannot but tease with annoying irritation a scorched desert
of postponed desirabilities and perpetual bestiality). In the
midst of this obnoxious posturing of irrelevacies of worlds
within worlds, the least the continent expects from itself is
excellence at the highest level of social organisation and
the governing processes that activate the concrete
manifestation of the desires of the people. The continent
must create relevancy within limited configurations that
should instigate the desire for the citizens to carve out of
the raw provisions of nature a higher and more rewarding
existence. Enabling out of that drastically altered
continental perception the realisation of long nurtured
hopes. The actual process of detailing the complex
processes of continental building needs to firmly anchored
in renewed mind states of commitment to the weak and the
total inclusion of the whole society in progress.

"I desire mercy not sacrifice" Matthew 9:13a.

The people are a consequence of their unique setting in

time and the formative realisation of the events that
congeal indicatively to define the existing realities within
which they find meaning and realisation. The evolution of a
technologically backward Africa, in the presence of an
aggressively progressive external system, is a transient
state, presumably, however the sort of future the continent
will realise for the broader spectrum of its populace
remains undiscernible at best and in its existing state
places far too much emphasis on exploitative individualism,
an individualism for wealth creation that pays little attention
to the social consequences, determined by men straining at
the leash of the excesses of the pains of incompetent
leaders and unsupportive environments, has been the
defining social format within which the continent, still,
inordinately, excessively, is influenced by a barely modified
external system's rapacious leadership's mind set. Finding
definitive expressivity of system focused relevance can
hardly be assumed to be a fait accompli. At best there can
be a prayer for a change of heart, and an internal focus of
enlightened souls freed of the gluey infectious greed of
easy material satisfaction in the face of an undesirable
alternative of desperate existence of a short life time. The
alternative of brutish existence pertains because
unbalanced social development has created an alternate
class of suffering people who are denied by leadership
failure of a better alternative throughout their lifetimes.
Survival is the issue at stake, historical relevance of social
innovation of far reaching proportions that sets a
determined course of commonly realised goals in some
hazy uncertain future, pales before the realism of the
clawing demands of immediate family and bare self
protection interests.

(If only a fatherless child can steer this tottering

ship on an ocean of stormy untempered despair,
then it will require an army of dedicated
bachelors and spinsters to enforce and supervise
the ground rules of expected behaviour in the
face of adversity).

There is however immense possibility for the emerging

societies of Africa to turn their underdeveloped states into a
potentially poised state of readiness to transform the core
definitional categorisations of its social configurations, to
embark on a course of development that has at its core the
essential human element in complementary relation with
his natural environment, as it were presently, existing
reality clearly indicates that previously attained states of
development, that has been mainly rudimentary agrarian
societies with inept technological advaces, have outlived
significant relevance. As the centers of industrial
development go through a developmental shift upwards
into new definitional categories of core technological
elements. There is emerging a realistic hope -that needs to
be firmly and widely effectuated within the developing
societies- that just as the process of cultural absorption of
external developments have moved other civilisations
through and into hitherto nonexistent states of
development, so there exists the welcoming respite that the
continent's growth and amelioration process is capable of
adaptive capacity along lines determined in the interest of
the masses and to the extent that its constituents desire it
to be. Africa (south of the Sahara) is set in isolatary
demarcation by natural forces of creation, its inhabitants
have been secured generally, in isolatary noninterference
and survived in natures conforming realm maintaining a
uniqueness of identity and values. There are certain
perculiarities in that separation which will and have come
strongly into play as the continent awakens to its sublime
potentialities in gradual self discovery quickened by the
pain of its labouring rebirth into a new era. The post
agrarian traditional era, will be defined by forces and
circumstances over and beyond the existing reality,
resulting in a differing semblance to waning external
systems. The onus lies on the people awakening to the
reality of the new dawn and setting their course in deeply
layered defintions of higher mind states expressing
themselves in enigmatic physical constructs; an inner
focussing on internal relevancies, in conformity with
traditional respect for natures supportive role to be
embellished rather than rapaciously assaulted, to realise
social sublimation at an exalted state of the greater
acknowledgement of God's benevolence at the centrality of
human existence. Reflecting that benevolence in
honourable leadership realising common goals at the
highest attainable states of complementary co-existence,
within the human groupings and between the active human
force and the animate and inanimate physical environment.
(of nature enhancing complementarity).
The whole mind set guiding the development of educational
curriculla needs to be reevaluated not merely as an
academic exercise of official responsibility, but there is a
need to redefine at the earliest stages of knowledge
acquisition, specified clearly, what purpose the acquisition
of knowledge is to serve in developing awareness of a
constantly evolving reality of unlimited dimensions, the
sublime infusion of analytic interpretability of quick and
easy discernment of knowledge acquisition as an active
appreciation of the defining variables that determine certain
outcomes, the revelation of the obvious in the midst of
uncertainties, must be defined, refined and infused into the
whole range of structured knowledge acquisitive process.
Such that in the structured format, at the earliest stages of
the educational process, creative awareness is engendered
and fostered to be an active element of formative thought
processes. Nursery school children must recite mindlessly
nursery rhymes and made to fantasize in their own
compositions of stilted meaninglessness. But the inner
peace to enable the opening of the inner mind sets will not
be facilitated in physical structures of open shades,
peopled by beddraggled youth, dispassionately shuffling
through a miserable existence of serialised sorrow, in the
midst of awesome natural beauty. Somehow, a way must
be found out of the frustration and desperation of existence
on the continent, a fusing of the raw edges of human frailty
and desperation and the vagaries of nature must be
attained and in the process enabling physical expressivities
of the gentle nurturing fusion with and in imitation of
natures rhythmic beauty. The development of the mind
through formal education requires the complementary
enviroment of physical structures and provisions that will
enable the fullest growth and explorative activities needed
to cultivate a viable vivacious culture of creative diversity.
To provide for the educational needs of the youth and the
adults in instituitions, a suggestion for calibrated cards is
made. The calibrated card for facilitating exchange can be
pictured in terms of a manager who pays his workers with a
credit card. There is no physical exchange of cash but
there is facilitated an exchange capability. Assume that
every retail outlet has a teller system that is capable of
processing this calibrated card. ( A development that will
positively enable the effective control of acceptable
standards in retail outlets) or that purchases involving
calibrated cards can be made at outlets that are amenable
to its usage. Then in a carefully contrived dispensation of
regulated availabilities of purchasing ability made available
through this card everyone without exception is able to
obtain essential resources for expected academic needs.
Thus a certain specified percentage of usable value weight
of the available regularly upgraded calibrated card is
usable only for the acquisition of a certain grouping of food
items, thus while there is no social imposition on specified
usage, control of abnormal and socially unacceptable
expenditures on this system of acessibility to purchase is
controlled with good intent. Higher purchases that will
require spread out payment can be gradually deducted on
specified regulated basis, such that, alloted portions of for
the purchase of costlier items, are not denied, one cannot
have a second or additional piece of costlier items for the
sake of a collective interest on the basis of the calibrated
card. There are bound to be points of weakness in the
allusion, where there will be a breakdown in straightforward
and simplistic idealisation, but this points of weakness are
the essential joints of needed flexibility where adjustments
can be modified with changing circumstances to ensure the
sustainable viability of responsive social construction. But if
this social dispensation enables all without exception, from
school children with cards fitting their needs and
requirements to adults - who have all been configured into
aspects of the social organisation that enables their
effective realisation of their human capabilities for the
common benefit - to assume semblance of normal
existence across the board. There is thus ensured
effectively, the minimisation of the excessive preoccupation
with the pursuit of money that preoccupies all of the mind
capacities of the majority of the people living virtually no
room for creative idealisation needed to expand the
existing base of society's development. Then a remarkable
headway can be made that will focus the freed mental
resources in sustaining society at a level where higher
ideals can be realised. It is only worth to indicate that what
passes for reality is what has been carved out of mind
states to become definitions of reality, thus in seeking to
bridge the gap between existing social provisions and
desired states of existence, a realisation that must
permeate the decision making processes is that often times
the existing reality has inbuilt limitations that cannot be
reconfigured to become amenable to aspired future states
without some form radical departure from existing reality.
Thus, for example just because existing states have made
the cost of building materials excessively high does not
prevent a government bent on upgrading housing
conditions from exploring alternative materials and making
it available at much lower cost to meet expected ends. The
future is in many ways the transformation of existing reality
realised in predictable patterns deriving from the existing
reality or the drastic reorganisation of the fundamental
constituencies of the existing reality and their expression in
new hitherto unrealised states of conjured realism in
idealism.

The biggest challenge facing African societies in the

emerging era is equitable social distribution, but for social
distribution to become focal issue, there must be adequate
resources facilitated through some effective productive
process to be made accessible to all, in the absence of the
resources to be distributed, equitable social distribution
becomes equitable social responsibility. Which requires
policy making responsibiltiy to have a wider scope of
concern, embracing larger masses of the inhabitants.
Reference is not being made to strangulating social
management akin to prison supervision, driven by
unrelentless tyranny. However there is a call for correcting
the imbalance in the distortion emerging from the negative
external influences that is gradually pushing social balance
off center into a lopsided categorisation of haves and have
nots. Both are the result of the social designation and find
definition within the narrow social realisation on ground.
Leveraging the social system does not need to set
oppossing ends of social groupings against each other in
the futile hope of realising short gap measures while what it
will take to realise the adequately satisfactory ends are
stretched and expanded minds, pushing beyond the pale
restrictions of known reality, to realise the common place
by exploiting untested grounds. The sort of society that is
evolving is overly dependent on the cultivation of one
worthy aspect of social organisation, which in itself is only
minimally realised, the perseverance of individual intiative
to realise rewarding ends, while neglecting the basis of
social provisions and infrastructural developments that
serves as the identifiable evidence of societal development.
In and by itself a worthy pursuit, but in unmitigated
circumstances, it often means depriving the weak and the
needy to sustain and maintain existing unfairness. There is
a need to put in place the social mechanisms that
guarantee that while individual initiative continues to find
adequacy of expression, the tired and the weak are
configured into the social system where all become
appreciative constituents of a dynamic rewarding social
constituency of progressive citizenry. The challenge is not
in a pitted race to access the outer margins of known
universe, but to maximise the knowledge acquisition and
enable optimun participation in its end benefits across the
board. Leaders who cannot effectively articulate this basic
ideals and their concrete realisation, while excessively
harping on balance of payment deficits are essentially
confused by the distortion of reality within which their reality
is effectively defined and realised. They need to take a step
outside the mudpit of incoherence and seek for clarity of
purpose from outside the clinging mudpit. If external
systems had approximated the state of a form (and their
are variations to the basic form) of social organisation
where the means exist to enable the fullest realisation of a
society of balanced provision of basic material needs, and
then held back, to perpetuate their conscribed nightmares
of social class distinction, one wonders whether the
satisfaction with their societies will have provided the
impetus for imitation of such societies. One wonders, all the
same, whether that is where Africa should be seeking for
inspiration. There are worthy ideas emergent from such
societies that could be borrowed, and taking off from where
they have exhausted their goodwill in pursuit of frivolties,
continue to create the desired society for the continent and
its unique needs. The inner compassion for the
undertrodden, the deeper appreciation of natures
supportive role, and a bonding desire to attain heights of
expressive beauty in our midst. The joy of the freedom that
knowledge brings and the motivation that grips all of
society to farm the mind and yield its unlimited harvests of
possibilities that border on the absurdities of fantasy,
should spur the society to acknowledge the awesome value
of life without exception and to seek to cultivate its
sustenance. Barriers that benefit selfish interests of greedy
acquisition and exalted status may have their motivational
benefit, but in the midst of so much poverty, such social
acclamations of achieved excellence are pervese and
indicative of collective malaise of gross inadequacy. Again,
one needs to pose the question as to what aspect of
implicit social designation prevents the easy pursuit of a
maintained course to remove the existing barriers to make
available without exception to the collective, the worthy
states of achieved excellence? (If the barriers to growth are
identified, next, effort must be made to explicitly project a
framework that encapsulates a sustained verifiable
direction of expected growth that supercedes transient
processes within the body politic and existing social reality,
and by its ingrained sustained prevalence at the cultivable
mind state, mould the evolving social system in expected
outcome stages of flexible adaptive progressiveness).
From basic requirements of daily social maintenance, such
as medical provisions, information technology hardware to
all school children without exception or just the general
notion of enabling the development of orderly social
arrangements within existing context, seeking to maximise
whatever resources are accessible and amenable to
transformative adaptability, to realise enhancing capability,
with an inbuilt self improving designation, that evolved
framework, is the suggested social philosophy, that at its
minimal state of expressivity demands a progressive social
orientation that is all inclusive at its highest state of social
philosophising rooted in the values of this ancient society
responding to changing needs and in its baser physical
realisation as physical constructs. The society needs to
express a flexible deterministic guiding philosophy of social
designation, aspiration and realisation. The emerging
definitive and powerful individual and non central grouping
aspirations are far too varied, noncohesive in terms of
generational sustainabilityand by their very nature far too
dependent on the central authourity actions and decisions
of leadership to over time congeal significantly enough to
become a sort of natural social philosophy serving as the
bedrock of future developmental policy, such influential
views arising from within the diversity of interests and
viewpoints that constitute the variegation of cultural
grouping that constitute continental African societies are
transient, inarticulately related to broader social issues,
have economic influence as the power base of the sources
of the views, and in totality lack the deliberate concerted
pro- academic situational uninfluenced futuristic insight
required for formulating a stable directional discursive
documentary rationalisation of Africa's future agenda that is
totally immune to momentarily pertubations of the forces of
social dynamism, inasmuch as such a clearly articulate
document of deep reflection acknowledging the new
paradigm of continental transformation and its criteria of
reoriented socially determining variables is responsive and
adaptive in shaping a clearcut future of expected realisation
that is all encompassing and evocates the continental
communal interest.

An essential aspect of social organisation is the need to

coordinate evolving internal states with external social
system variables of relevance, thus bringing to the fore the
issue of what to borrow from other trans-continental
societies, in what form and how to adapt them to local
peculiarities. Rather than assuming that there is a falling
into place without deliberate effort to engineer society to
absorb without regurgitating these borrowed knowledge,
there is expressive need to plan and realise this plan
consistently at the higher leadership level. Indeed the
widely dispersed individual interests constantly infusing
foreign, albeit, amenable knowledge forms, be they
technological products or non physical knowledge forms,
become socially more relevant when these diverse
incorporations affecting the systemic whole, emanating
from the individual level find definitive form, fitting as it
were, into a broader societal value system of broadly but
productively interconnected clearly defined expectancies.
The need to maintain a semblance of synchronous
coexistence between separate but interferring states
demand an intermediary supervisory influence between
possibly, but not necessarily, opposing interests in
constrained spaces of limited viability, viability itself
mediated beyond the exertions of wielded ability with an
intent to realise subsystem focused interests, but based on
shared resources negotiated for mutual benefit. In the
wider spectrum of varying ranges of diversified activity,
supervisory responsibility with mutual benefits across sub-
systems is the delicate balancing act of governance; a
process of focusing on optimum states of common interests
in the midst of distractive influences of asserted
differences. A balancing act which by its inbuilt ease of
disintergration of cohesive coordination at boundary points
of opposing internal interests makes social coordination of
varied interests in the delivery of expected ends a daunting
task. For the mediatory role position regulator of these
disparately constituted, fiercely independent, self
designated constituents of self-serving interest to prevent
the subsystems delicately balanced in mutual coexistence
of fraying but barely tolerated acknowledgement of mutual
coexistence from causing a massive disintergration of the
multi bounded boundary definitiveness of social coherence,
it must find a center of balance that guarantees mutually
realisable ends irrespective of peculiarities of specific sub-
system interest. It is a daunting task in poorly formulated
circumstances of indistictiveness across several levels. Left
unstructured, such systems tend to find self defintive
formation of priorities around commonly desired ends,
however, while such unit centered definitive realisability of
desired ends, in and by itself is commendable; within the
wider medium of interacting social influences, there
remains the unobviated reality that weaker systems as
opposed to systems that have an inbuilt strength of
comparative advantage are locked in thinly veiled
competition for limited resources. The more
advantageously positioned subsystems stand to benefit by
exploiting the weaker subsystems in their acquisitive drive,
of mutually beneficial ends. in converse the weaker
systems exist resiliently maximising their minimum
acquisitions of the commonly desired end benefits, bidding
their time, and in the course of time their is a dissolution of
subsystems differentiation in the weaker subsystems and a
formative congregation into a larger subsystem with a
common shared designation. The designation of the larger
weaker subsystem is a contentious reactive accumulation
of potentially system destructive emotions sublimely
playing out in the daily drudgery of self sustenance. Within
the weaker system of restricted abilities across a wide
spectrum of varied ends, there is a common factor that is at
the focality of the controlling determinant of their needs,
basically all needs have a limit of acquisitive significance
and more importantly relevance. To approximate that level
of preferred material acquisitiveness that guarantees
meaningful existence (existence per se is a state of being
alive; meaningfulness of that existence finds definition
within existing realities of what constitutes adequacy of
expected state of being) the individual constituents
exercise expendable purveyable resources at their control,
their physical or mental strength, to ease their way into
means of remunerative employment, with the aim of
acquiring means of enabling meaningful existence. The
process is a straight forward segmentation of individual
reaction to socially determined outcome states, that if
functioning efficiently ensures social tranquillity (the
efficiency is a responsive determinant state of adaptation in
complex dynamic recombination of variables in constant
rearrangement response to changing circumstances and in
their rearranged composite response to changing situations
have been structured to effectuate expected ends within
meaningful boundaries). But there are several zones of
brittle fragility that if improperly negotiated causes collapse
in social organisation, the wisdom of managing the social
balance is to turn these brittle points of potential collapse in
civic organisation into flexible zones of social adaptation, a
process that in its simple presentation is in its realistic
operable maneuvering a tasking mental agony fraught with
the frustrated anguish of negotiating invincible barriers that
seemibly multiply in rapid geometric proportions with the
rate they are painstakingly subtractively eliminated,
especially so if the social balancing effort is uncoordinated
with the emerging variabilities in developments of
significant determinant external bordering systems whose
active variables and the specifities of their combinatorial
determinancies of complex intrusive effects are not
effectively monitored, analysed and integrated into the core
systems evolving deciphering effort of internal state
determinant variables and their combinatorial outcome
effect, with an aim to integrate for end purposes
determined to enable goal realisability across the social
stream. Society is composed of subsystems of varying
interest working in concordance to realise common goals or
in opposition to realise subsystem centered interests,
irrespective of the favoured prevailing arrangement,
conflicts of interest centered around scarce resources and
its distributive accessibility are inevitable. The task of social
organisation has been in flux in developing societies, the
internal arrangements are imbalanced by gross
inadequacies in provisions to safeguard the proper act of
individual dispensation of energy in a productively fulfilling
social framework. It is the availability of this designated
social framework that enables the sustainable development
of the provisions of the infrastructural requirements that
enables equal accesibility to the foundation needed for
individual idiosyncratic dispositions and their desired
direction of expressivity unhampered by the social
inadequacies in organising capabilities reflected in barriers
to socially enabling environment to foster individual talents
and promote social tranquillity. In effect there is a pursuit
of monetary adequacy as a means of finding individual
sustainability. But the absence of the facilitatory basis for
the realisation of the medium of money, (in the absence of
educational facilities, inadequate employment training and
retention facilities, the inadequacy of social facilities for
absorbing redundant latent human resources, the lack of
facilities for developing sustained system widening
capacities for diversity in the labour market, etc.) makes
mere acquisition of money, or the availability of money half
way measures to a complicated social issue. The issue is
not resolved by infusing money into the system, (much as it
might offer some temporary relief compounded by inflation
that eventually worsens an already dire situation) but by a
social reconstruction orientation that begins at the mind
state and devolves to the provision of physical
infrastructure across the board. Basic needs like housing,
as previously mentioned, schools of accpetably highest
quality, complementing blackboards and chalk with
information technology's hardware that opens the
knowledge of the world to be interpreted for mind liberation
to create, decent environmental layout that blends nature
and concrete edifices, the elimination of slums and the
upgradement of physical infrastructure in rural and urban
settings, are the basic physical realisations of creative
decision making that configures a social infrastructural
framework sealed in cogent social philosophy reflective of
the unique condition of the African reality; a sort of
cognitive ethology at the human level, so to say. In the
absence of that essential cognitive awareness that
structures the society's purposes in straightforward
realisable steps for the benefit of all without exception,
there is nothing but subsystems at polarity sealed to each
other and working adversely at cross purposes for the
realisation of common ends, a contradiction that
eventuates in system implosion and dissolution with
appalling consequences for system constituents and the
existing system.

Since there is a separation of society along two lines, the

haves and the have nots, and the medium of determination
of group constituency is material wealth, it is the case that
society is seriously impaired by the state of prevailing
deficiency in one category which undermines the reality of
normal social existence, it is imperative that some
coordinated effort at remediation is in order. The resolution
of social problems must focus around the critical issue of
removing the requirements of the have nots, without
drawing the haves into the position of have nots. This
simple solution is the outer shell of a complex social
organism that is environmentally adaptive, constantly
changing to enable survivability without undergoing the
total reorientation in the basic building blocks that will in
chaging its appearance ensure a more viable organism that
equally facilitates the adequacy of provision of essential
requirements processed to ensure the supply of required
vitality to all its cellular composition. In its present state of
existence it is a primitive living organism that in its adaptive
evolution has favoured the development of its more
favoured active components without transferring stored
energy or adequate resources of growth and maintanance
factors to less favoured inactive components, which
nevertheless are essential in its total realisability as a
functional organism. That is where the analogy
breaksdown, in viable system states such as society, there
is a possible structuring capability that is an essential
aspect of social designation at the leadership level that
realises the eventual social designation. In effect this
implies the making of clearcut specifiable formulations of
altering the existing reality to assume the shape of desired
outcome at the leadership level, a complex malleability of
shifting reactivity to external developments; which external
developments are effective upon the whole social
organism, but the social organism itself by some self
designated weakness is incapable of balanced adaptability
across its totality. A tentative structural resolution of the
system deficit is to rechannel resources such that there is
adequacy of acessibility enabled by a restructuring process
that streghthens overall existing framework by balancing
the excesses of oversupply to one sector by creating
avenues of resource transfer, conducting by determinance
to weaker parts of the overall structure to increase their
basic structural requirement of adequate states of
existence such that the overall system finds stability of
sustenance in balanced states of determined existence that
by design are dynamically conforming flexibilities that in
their adaptivity do not weaken the framework of basic
social organisation by excessively eroding bearing capacity
and undermining the balance of distributed weights.

God is a fundamental state of being, a basic

awareness, God is the highest state of being, an
awareness of order realised at the extreme edge of
the conscious individual mind state. An
acknowledgement of unquestioning fealty in the midst
 of the closed mind state of unexplored reality; a
dawning of awareness that supercedes reality at the
end of discovery; a closeness of limited abilitites at
the heights of unshelling reality again at the highest
order in the diversity of the unity; the closure of infinity
at any one point creates awareness of a higher order
of being permeating to minimal states of being. God is
a responsive realisability as the simple balancing
factor in uncertainties.

Focusing on one end of a multiple realisable phenomenon

is a definitional characterisation of primitive or primary
states of being. The broad structural definitional format is
realised, but it is in a crude state of unrefined rawness. An
appealing invocation of untainted virginity, it has enduring
appeal, but exposed to the vagaries of infectiously tainting
environmental influences of unrelenting intensity and an
unnurtured inner effusivity of barely contained outpourings
of unrestrained expectations. Social organisation in this
context supercedes or has a depth, over bare
technicalities, it is an emotional configuration into physical
provisions generated by far sighted decision making
processes. There is need to refine and diversify, to realise
functional states of sophisticated expansivity that sustains
a vastly changed and changing state of being. The
tendency is to follow the natural flow of easily realisable
states, but there is a potential flaw of thus bypassing
potential far reaching benefits of unexplored advantages in
equally satisfactory adaption of drastic but not necessarily
sudden (offbeat) off the normally trodden path that
heightens creative intellect and remodifies the existing
reality around essentially new dimensions of variable states
with an intent to realise better states with less system
disruptions in the process. Any change process that does
not have an inbuilt shock absorbing capability to cushion
the shocks of change, so as not introduce previously
nonexistent variables, that on their own are powerful
enough to pull the evolving change dynamics in directions
that detract from the realisation of expected ends or ends in
the general direction desired. The essence of
innovativeness in diffuse malleable states as social
systems with varied interests and goal aspirations is to
explore new approaches that have a general benefice and
preferably, built in laxity to enable adjustments with
expressed and extolled addition to existing states within the
cross section of society. Thus taking acquired resources
from a hard working advantageous class to provide for a
weaker underprivileged categorisations is inappropriate as
it is in the long run ineffective; likewise jeopardising
medium and long term abilities in one category as an
attempt to create social balance is unimaginative. In the
process of creating a conduit for effective accessibility
within the core framework of the social structure, is in many
ways an intelligent openning of ineffctive channels of social
distribution effort that discovers previously unexplored
latent capability that has lain waste because the critical
mass in social activated pain has not catalysed its
utilisation or there has been an excessive focusing on
narrow constraints that underutilise the existing capacity at
its utmost productive level. It is in effect a widening of the
scope of existing boundaries of social operable capacities,
expanding the barriers of formely defined reality. It is an
outcome that is only realisable within the realisable
configurations of carefully planned and systematically
social design. The excesses of accumulation in one
segment of existing social reality is more often than not an
accumulation of effciency organised at one level, while a
defectively realised or non-existent activation capacity for
full exploitation in the segment lacking leaves a significantly
large aspect of potential latently realisable but realistically
unexploited.
An aspect of social organisation that is basically
indusputable is that developments instigate further
discoveries for exploitation, while a restricted constriction to
existing states lives higher states of exploitation in check.
Assuming that the benefits accruing have a general effect,
one would thus argue that, resources that are stored
because of their existing value within the definitional
realisations of existing state are better used in realising
higher states of wider dimensions which are concurrent
with the introduction of new values. There is no progressive
stepwise approach to developments and influences have
the appearance of geometric progression where the
catalyser influence from external system into the system of
interest has a (realisable) potential of changing the axis of
the determinances of social progress in general. In Africa,
the effect of change has been indisputably catalyser
influences, which have projected their influences into
existing societies and changed the basic orientation of
social organisation, a process where as is, if inadequately
controlled and chanelled effectively creates lopsided
development centered around the accessibility of the
essential realisations of these intrusive catalyser
influences. Thus it is the case that traditional values and
material realisations such basic farm implements, mud and
thatch houses, traditional apprenticeship as a means of
education had found comfortable centers of balance in
fairly stabilised agrarian societies, where the dearth of
differences between the wealthy and the average person
was not wide enough nor apparent enough to push society
towards imploding. The reorganisation of society around
externally emerging material and value systems and the
inadequacy of leadership (or more realistically, the
immatured state of leadership to appropriately appreciate
and reorient the traditional systems to enable effective
accessibility creatively to enable adequate absorption
efficiently across all social levels is the basis of social
instability). Their is not being assumed any rapid delivery
but a consistency unscrabled at the higher mind level,
specified to reflect the existing dimensional transformation
into a new state of social existence. A specified delimitation
of higher thoughts that is directive rather than a frail wishy
washy response reactive to undefined states in response to
rapidly evolving external states, that in confabulating the
confusion has created a genre of questionable academics
of underdevelopement. Underdevelopment is an intolerable
state of manipulated underexploitation of natural and
human potential in response to changed prevailing reality,
while the reality of defined variables had undergone a
transformation, a part of the system remains operating at
the previous state which is incongruent with the evolved
state. When expectations match existing reality then there
is an attained state of social growth. If the existing social
reality has no use for the functional basis of what defines
external systems, they are irrelevant to that systems
essential state of being and thus finds no relevance in its
growth determinance equation. If on the other hand they
constitute significant variables of external intrusive
influence then, there is a need for internal system
modulation to ensure amiable matching of internal
resources and these external variables of significance to
ensure system equanimity and the highest realisation
within system elements.

The existing order of global communities is very much

reflective of the internal order evolving in African societies,
it is a situation which on a smaller scale resembles families
of different meanings living in close proximity, sharing
common resources but experiencing different family
environments. In the well to do family there is abundant
supply of necessities, while next door is a poor family
barely surviving on a shoe string budget. The whole effort
at social restructuring is not to take from the rich to give the
poor, since it is only normal to maintain a course of
individually initiatitive that enables a stable domestic
environment devoid of the fear of want, but it is to ensure
the viable exploitation of the endowments of the society to
enable adequacy of access to all its individual components
to live above a standard of general provision that enables
the realisation of a desired quality of life across the board.
It is this basic realisation that lies at the center of the
concerns and worries of the mass of the people who
despair at the ineffectuality of task execution of their
leaders to harness all the willing energy of a restive people
to transform nature to yield desired ends. The problem
however is that the leadership mechanism has been totally
lacking in an anchored set of pricinciples, a socially
relevant philosophy to set the tone of direction for society's
evolvement, expressive idealistic musings from the higher
mind state that underlies the superficial changes in day to
day administrative activity of the governing process. The
governing process is excessively overwhelmed and
incapacitated by adhering to patterns of execution that
have long outlived their usefulness, thus there is a disparity
between adaptive administrative processes and
innovativeness that is consistently pursued as an end. A
situation that has displaced the establishment off the firmer
foundations upon which to realise relevant day to day
activities. There is also indisputably a focus on puerile
concerns of negative general social consequency,
displaced activities that need not be the preoccupation of
leadership. Which acts of conduct by themselves are
indictments of a lapse in defined characterisations of who
constitutes the leadership class, a definition not so much in
individual idiosyncratic self allocation into some social
grouping as an establihment of certain required sets of
qualifications and expected background experiences not
underemphasising the realistic understanding of the actual
role of leadership in the peculiar situation of the continent
and its expectations. A situation not helped by the creation
of escape avenues for inefficient and generally defective
leadership, who distort their responsibilities from a dicharge
task for the common benefit to that of an acquisitive display
of agility to 'pad' self interest to the detriment of the general
society. However even if the criminal element were
completely eliminated from the leadership process, there is
an inbuilt lapse in the social construction process that until
identified and remedified will thwart all efforts built on
shifting sands of rapidly changing realities to construct a
society that realises the common expectation. The solution
does not by any means lie in unmitigated imitation of
external systems, which systems have built sustainable
systems that even at their heighest level of realisation
desire with a tenacious acridity to maintain an underclass
of socially underpriviliged; albeit there are great lessons
worthy of adaptive application to societies in social
transformational shift. A principal reorientation of social
values as regards leadership is a necessity; power
embodied self decency in traditional societies, of which the
changing society still identify with, in the turbulence of the
change there was bound to be an upheaval that in settling
down must assume a discernible directive shape. The
emphasis is on directive influence which underlie varied
patterns of activities in pursuit of a common objective of the
social constituency. Power that realises practical
construction that benefits the society is long enduring;
power that has limited insight abuses the real power
source, the individual-weaklings that by acquiscing to the
directive influence of inversely devolved authourity from
individual to a central authourity for the realisation through
a harnessing process of commonly aspired to ends
become victims of their creation. When the idea simmers
and settle in the collective intellect that there can only be
socially good leadership and not leadership that interests
parochial interests and sets a fraction of the society against
another, power then reverts to its real source the people
without whom it is socially nonexistent. In a necessary
awareness process, that should be cultivated and filtered
into the collective intellect, the role of leadership is
rewarded by the honour of being of use in implementing by
a directive influential process, speedy or gradual social
modification efforts that have general non group specific
interest. Material rewards must be cmmensurate with the
task of leadership, nevertheless, the role of leadership is a
position of honour rather than the means of furthering
personal ambition. The only ambition truly furthered in the
role position of leadership is the facilitatory role of social
enablement, it is a powerful transference of activating
potentials without direct personal benefit to the leader but a
permeating social benefit of the opening of opportunities.
Those who misunderstand this concept need to realise
their ambitious drive of material acquisitiveness in the
realm of business where their true mettles are embelished
by their acts that have a self centered interest as its
ultimate goal. The true leaders are cast in the image of
chancellors of universities, rather than heads of profit
making organisations. The great leader is a benevolent
social influence whose reward in the wisdom of the
experienced is the benign joy of the facilitator of
unimagined boundaries. Leadership is a collective
realisation that is close to its subjects, and at the same time
on the edge of positive innovativeness ideally located in the
mind of creative and innovative individuals. Capable of
realising social reorganisation realities that in being beyond
the limited expectancies of the collective, sets the whole
society one step ahead and are widely appreciated and
broadly acclaimed. All the efforts at collective realisability in
national and continental projects coalesced at instuitional
and organisational levels, where task execution is effected.
The nature of the exact outcomes of these instituitions and
organisations, have yet to find a common committed
expressiveness, in the vaccuum, exploitations and abuse
have been, at various times crafted into normative art
patterns of official responsibility. These organisations have
a diffused objective, that is often expressed in the conflict
between individual interest and national interest, and even
where national interest dominates, there is an absence of
commitment that is reflective of a gap between the society
as a feasible reality of individual construct reality and the
individual's emotional dispositions and self expressed
perfomance value, which often times
reflectibg the times, is at odds with the actual needs of the
society's expectations of official perfomance and
responsibility.

Expanding the economic base requires expanding the

acqusitive capability of the larger segments of the society
who have hitherto been sidelined and denied by the
restricted, economically actively enabled populace. A
responsibility of the governing process, economic and
educational empowerment is at the core of governmental
action, even if inadequately tackled presently. (What seems
inconspicous, at best deliberately ignored is that, every
physical man made structure, at one time resided in the
immaterial mind state, thus the difference between
assumed states of underdevelopment and better and more
acceptable states of restructuring nature to accomodate
human needs is likewise in the minds of great leaders.
Leadership extends all the way from the nuclear family of
responsible and adaptive family organising to the
continental inter-nations adminstrative processes). While
free, unhindered, individual, economic initiatives will benefit
from governing policies that permit free trade activities and
ease of realisability of individually instigated initiatives, it is
most unlikely that this will enable the full realisation of total
economic empowerment of the socially marginalised. (To
be 'totally economically empowered' makes sense in a
situation where even in the midst of abundant natural
resources people are starved of basic essentialities of daily
existence, because the leadership has still not fully
understood basic principles of the money based exchange
economy, in some of these, there is the need for
innovativeness because there are no lessons to be copied
from anywhere else). As activities like industry and
manufacturing find increased adequate outlets under the
private sector, government must become more active in the
upgradement and transformative process among the
populace who are still in the traditional agrarian states of
daily existence that is no longer viable, its sustainability
fallbelow its functional capabilities in the light of the times.
The establishment of large scale social transformation
process commensurate with the existing configuration in
town and village planning and the provisions of modern
states of existece needs should become the greater focus
of government activity. If the continent is to find the center
of stability that enables optimum utilisation of its human
resources potentials. It is not so much the case that these
transformed states of existence are negotiated luxuries,
they are required conditions for social growth and
meaningful social development. People living in darkness
and sharing pit latrines with reptiles are hardly disposed to
find acceptable self satisfaction if by no default of theirs
they have been marginalised by an economic policy that
pits society in a meaningless menagerie of imported
cultural appendages of untempered foreign values of what
constitutes the appropriate economy. The economy is the
management of the collective resources in interaction with
external systems to yield benefit to all equally and without
exception or undue favour. That there have been severe
lapses in realising this end of the economic equation
comes as no surprise, but a painful reminder of the gap
between reality and expectancies, albeit the expectancies
are much more genuine than the achieved reality. Within
this conceptualisation can essential elements of social
imports find accomodation. What is reffered to as poverty is
a lack due to manipulatory processes that limit access or
ineffective exploration of the environment and natural
resource base to support meaningful existence, due either
to immatured collective mind states that limit enviromental
manipulatory capacity, gross defects in distribution of the
commonwealth or ineffective directive capability that
inadequately matches existing capabilities with natural
endowments. The demystification of technological growth is
a minor necessity; the revolutionary progress of the past
hundred years, have in more than one ways, been, a purely
application of structured mind sets to nature to realise
higher states of being, but it is a process built upon
accumulated build up over thousand of years, suddenly it
would seem, gathering speed, but it is in more than one
ways a superficial coating of human states of being that
have basically remain unaltered over the aeons, the group
is dependent on each and every member playing its role to
sustain its survivability, likewise the tribe expects bold and
socially conscious elders. All that has changed has been
the expanded role, but the role expectations have hardly
changed. The more there is a deemphasise on vulgar
materialism as an end rather than as a required
enhancement of living arrangements the more the
restrictive barriers that occasion the provision across the
social system of basic requirements of adequate living
state come tumbling down. The society will reward
excellence one way or another, but destructive greed and
inefficiency in role position has far reaching consequences,
over and beyond bruised pride and vaunted ambition.

On the whole, if there a systematic reorientation that

refocuses the essential position of the individual as the
core focus of governmental activity, which the whole
machinery of complex social arrangement seeks to
complement through a resource management process; the
existing obtrusion of the governing process, where there
seems to be a process of maintenance of an amorphous
entity, the governement machinery, that seems far
removed from the most essential members of the social
composition, the socially deprived, leading to a situation
where in effect government is attempting to manage an
economy that is over and above, and totally unrelated to
the majority of the people whom the economy is supposed
to serve. With a devious intent, the agility with which that
minimal utilisation of the collective energy is pursued in
edifying the restricted conceptualisations of limited
relevance, (the economy), is wrongly lauded as the
foremost expectations of the highest activities of
leadership. In effect while there must be balanced account
to enable the procurement of social provisions, at no point
must the instrument usurp the importance of the user. (A
lance can be sensitively used for medical procedures or
under the guise of appropriate usage caused to inflict
malicious harm.) The economic management process and
other relevant social controls and facilitatory fora are meant
under all circumstances to gratify and uplift the human
state, in so long as they are improvements in primary
states of being across the board this counts as an
approximation of the actual expected outcome of
leadership. Where these auspiciously higher states of
evolved social states on the contrary indignify the human
state in their expressive states, there is a need to question
their relevance, and activate a process of determining an
improved and better facilitatatory realisations of worthy
ideas wrongly or inappropriately instituitionalised in social
paradigms that constrict general social growth. All the
existing efforts in developing systems to find sustenance
from dependence on external systems, are within existing
reality appreciable efforts to improve the general welfare of
their populace. However, beneath all the delusionary hope
that excessive reliance on attaining internal
transformational shift construct reality across the social
stream is unqualifiable dependent on this form of economic
orientation is a joke of humoungous proportions. However
the joke falters on the ground that it is causing severe
human suffering that is unnecessary in the light of the hope
of general human growth and intellectual expansion, a
gloom is being cast over the human landscape that is
spreading, taking hold and leaving uncalled for
hopelessnes when al it takes is open minds reaching out
and taking hold of the light and lifting their people from the
bondage of limited mind states. There are established
patterns in social systems that are generally predictable,
and unavoidably realisable in every social system. If the
existing world powers had pursued a path of dependence
on the previously existing powers, heeding their benign call
to be in check of economic states and assumptions of the
flow of power that determines their outcome states,
certainly the world will be a motononeity of 'benign
despotic' domain, which breeds the people as cannon
fodders in wars fought over women. The whole purpose of
leadership is to enhance the existing state of human
existence by harnessing collective human capacity,
liberating the creative intellect to find expressive purposive
for social benefit in diversified forms unhindered by the
limitations imposed by the crudities of primitive states,
engaging man and nature in a nature enhancing process
that borrows from external systems in an effort to increase
self dependency and improve society's access to its natural
endowment that could be malleably transformed through a
processing format that is mutually beneficial to human state
and nature's productive process, resulting in beautiful
states of high attainments that is all benefiting. This first
and foremost is what leadership was intended for, before
the lust to kill became an embelished art form acclaimed as
the heights of bravery and manly expression, way before
leadership became a domain of greed which exploited its
imposed or forcibly acquired status of self aggrandisement
for perpetuating suffering and deprivation, that was before
in the chaos of vacuous fear and despair abnormalities that
permeate torment assumed exalted states of noble
achievement, indeed before the commonality that held all
human in unity was smashed on the anvils of industrial
economic and the manufacturing economics, splintered into
pieces of papers and bits of mint that effectively
dismembered social harmony into collective differentiation
of the monied society and its class systems and the
disengaged and sidelined who waste away made to feel in
a pervese and wicked way as the inconsequentials of
creation. Yet they are the masters, placed at the fore of the
creative effort, take away the foibles of their collective effort
to add value to life, appropriated and squandered on the
edge of mental abberants posing as the masters of their
fate and pillaging the hopes of the generations in the
misery of their wickedness. They are the ones who have
set imaginary barriers and boundaries to the aspirations of
the masses held in check, checks of tears, barriers that
have held as strong in keeping a check and a control of the
way out of these depths of deprivations they have dug in
ugly defiance of natures benign beauty and impartiality. At
the heights of their attainments they inflict the joys of their
attainments as pain raining unto parched tongues. They
are the fathers who give stones to their hungry children,
and look to a God they desecrate in their acts of wanton
acquisitive accumulation that degrades humanity, for bread
and showers of relief in the wake of the heat in the light of
the fires they have ignited. Africa lives in the wake of the
fire, its anguish has been a long drawn howl in the
presaging darkness of the ongoing torment that has left too
many people languishing in the midst of the distortions that
cloud reality in disabling lack of initiative and discernment.
There is a larger world that defies the any individual
interpretation of expected reality, but at another more
relevant level, that world begins inward out, at individual
and systemic specific level. All the existing processes of
intellectual development and all the accessible outcomes of
human inventiveness exist for one purpose, a purpose that
must not be responsive to any external interpretation of
reality, but around which reality should be moulded,
designed to realise without hindrance an interpretative
realisation of reality within beneficial configurations. In
simple terms, development and inventive technology is of
little relevance to a farmer in some isolated village whose
existence and primary live issues are as far from central
government as central government is far from being
involved in the realisation of their expectancies. Their
expectancies are probably better houses, power,
furnishing, schools, and the list expands from things
realised at individual level to socially shared facilities that
add value to primary states. The extent to which these are
realised as close to their source of usage as possible using
resources close to the natural endowments of the society
the closer government becomes an existing reality and the
higher government's activity can be rated from the relevant
perspective of its social location. The requirements and
provisions that will establish the transformational shift
process that is an inevitable consequence of contact with
external cultures are basically realisable within realistic
virtual independence of external determinances, if the
adaptive mood in directive leadership is shifted into higher
gear. The inventive mind must begin to be guided to find
application in increasing amounts of abundant local
resources and increasing reduction of permitted influence
of the distortions of external trade influences that lie at the
base of rational economic distortion by consequential
irrelevancies of external system demands. Strip away the
pretensions around reality the unpadded clairty is depicted
in simple straight lines of unambiguity. It is not totally out of
place to assume that what passes for problems are
indequacies of analysis that are unable to lay bare the
obvious, and are befuddled in the sophisticatory of
ignorance. If leaders in evolving African societies can get
behind the illusory hype of antiquated modernity that has
and continues to saddle it with the excessive burdens of
intolerable suffering, they have more than dealt with halv of
the problems underlying their inadequacies, if on the other
hand they also focus on reaching out to upgrade the living
qualities as enabled by evolve states for the least of the
society and in the process creating a solid foundation for
further growth, they have dealt with more than three
quarters of their task focus identification problem. If all the
disparate societies combine their energy to create an
effective unhindered base for development, their
dependency problems have been far and large and
resolved. The remaining minute external intrusion needed
for system balance can be easily accessed by appealing to
either the sense of kindness (virtually non existent) or the
sense of greed to exploit a poised, ready and cultivated
profit making base. The complexity stripped to
bonebareness, is only the essential first stage, the
realisation process requires the mind set and the
intellectual bias with the sense of societal benefit rather
than enriching foreign banks, another useless appendage
of the befuddling money game, instead of focusing on their
set task, and simmering in the appreciation and honour and
gratifies the very spirit in man.

The issue of privatisation and realising of state industries to

the private sector is an essential progressive step in overall
social evolution, Government undertakes a project that it is
better equipped to fund, it is run for a period of time under
inspired and committed management team or
incompentently run into demise; in the elapsed time there
has simmered into the social system an acquired capacity
for private sector management of the government funded
and established industry, it must then be divested to private
ownership where there is more commitment to sustain
profitable management for much longer than under
government control. The underlying rational is that the
government machinery is not suited for profit making
ventures. Government is in a way a higher realisation of
individual aspirations and must realise for the common
bnefit without easing itself downwards into the niche best
exploited at a more centered level of driving individual
ambition. When the thin line between social foundation
laying of governement as a facilitatory agent easing
individuals into pursuits of their natural inclination or
diposition is substituted by total governmental control which
is nothing more than the hijacking of the government
machinery by questionable leadership element, society is
set on disaster course. The obvious free spirit of
humaneness must be positioned to find free flight in
socially acceptable ways, or in ways that do not
unnecessarily disrupt social states of normalcy. But that
freewill unncessarily restrained under the guise of some
questionable state controlled determinancy of the creative
intellect tends to stunt social diversity and expansion in the
base of growth possibilities. A standard of expected base is
required of government without government becoming an
impediment for individual growth and creative diversity.

In its supportive task in the effective restructuring of society

to realise expected standards of changed states, their is a
need for increasingly creative adaptivity on the part of the
governing machinery. How does one raise the traditional
market into a modern food supply chain with adequate
health standards and packaging standards met that will
increase employment potential and improve the earning
capacity for the market mammies? This are the
fundamental daily acticities around wich social growth
revolves, and its from this basic considerations that real
social change is appreciated in daily existence. Here is a
pervasive reality that requires a market economy solution
at the stock exchange level or strong government directives
with initial state capital infusion. Government can fund the
construction of food retail outlets, improve packaging and
storage, and in a mutual co-operative investment fund
absorbtion process create a viable, functional modern food
retail outlet around an existing traditional market. The
whole effort provides a basis for social elevation within a
low income group that otherwise will nevr have attained the
move that approximates a state of social evolution that
seems to be bypassing a significant mass held in reserve
by the lack of intiative and innovative awareness of infinity
unexplored possibilities. For every single person by passed
there is a loss of potentially exploitable consumer if one is
promote change within the existing greed paradigm of the
monetised economy. Thus in providing the base for
facilitating growth at the individual level, rather than
ignoring into classifications of poverty large segments of
the populace, the actual and most meaningful growth of the
market economy is based on positioning people in
increasing numbers to be financially enabled to activate
and expand the money game. There is a significant
contextual element to development and growth that needs
be kept at the fore of leaderships planning. There are
certain easily accessible elements of development that
cannot be utilised unless the appropriate environment is
provided for its realisation. For instance while in the
medium term education may benefit society by the enabling
of global access to information sources and educational
support materials. This desirable mediun for the transfer of
knowledge cannot be realised society wide within the
existing educational structural provisions especially in the
deprived sectors of society, like the slums and rural
communities where there are willing minds ready to be
activated to discover, yet by some social coincidence have
found themselves at the wrong side of the invisible social
fence. What is difficult to appreciate from the individual
standpoint is why there is so little effort being expended in
infrastructural provisions that enable developoment
internally as compared to developments focused on
accessibility to enable exploitation of natural resources for
the export market. This is a chain that international
economic distortion has made the cornestone of the
development agenda, but what people expect of their
government is development focused on realising direct
benefits to the society as a whole. Rarely are people
outside government very interested in appreciating the
national government as 'storekeepers for the world', 'astute
wholesalers' who ignore the general welfare of their
families. The people want to be enabled out of the store to
explore their potential in the freedom of their God given
inheritance rather than chained to the drudgery of
warehouse loadbearers. All societies have advanced by
freeloading on developments attained elsewhere, Africa
must not hold the rest of the world back by conceding
leadership responsibility to self limiting leadership that in
realty is denying the rest of the pack that has exploited its
weakness and beggarly sustained it in its primitiveness
backwardness, its about time that they also facilitate the
development of its essential human content to provide the
rest of the world with ever expanding knowledge base.
Come to think of it, forced into corners where the African is
constantly seeking for self worthiness, the individuals are
stretched thin, they can hardly find sustenance among
foreigners and their roots are starved of sustenance of
hope of something to return to. Hope can never come from
outside when the problems are in-house, this is a fact not
lost on anyone. Self-worthiness as a people facing a future
to be mapped in the present is certainly not desired merely
as an acknowledgement from outsiders as a
recommendation of capable social beings, self-worthiness
is credited in deeds by the society to itself. If an African
mask can provide an exploitable idea for inclusion in the
generation of the cinematographic depiction of space
societies on the cutting edge of imaginative visualisation,
then, it is not altogether out of place to advocate radical, far
reaching, exploration of dramatic (in the existing context)
alternatives as substitutes of meaningful hope for the
existing despair by struggling to explore whatever potential
lies unaccessed. Logically, idealistic musings within the film
industry hardly qualify as a basis for drawing correlations of
whole societal activities in a real world hell bent in ensuring
maximum suffering. However, if logical reasoning and
emotional pleas, will not quicken subservient minds into
adopting expected measures, then fantasy may open the
minds eye to the possibilities barely submerged beneath
the existing surreality. The initiative must begin to come
from inside out, a proposal of what is desired from willing
hands ready to help. The quicker that becomes a
continental wide phenomenon the better the rest of the
world will be. The continent has burdened the emotions of
the whole of humanity with its outpourings of sorrow
punctuated by leadership acts of barbarous extremities,
even if the instigation is orchestrated, doubtfully, from
external sources, the leaders complemented it by playing
out the chorus of death and desperation, with their
harrowing choirs of the innocents waving ecstatic
desperation through spitting rods of death (even in death,
where material relevancies are inconsequential, the dead
are even deprived of the decency of peaceful burial, a
people gripped in the crippling 'mass dementia' of
materialistic pursuits in the filth of unequality and injustice,
and the solution is leadership's extollation of policies that
widen the gap, how can the dead go in peace knowing the
painful future they left in the present? ). Now in singing the
requim's refrain of healing and peace, let it end on a high
note of hope revitalised.

There must be a predetermined course boldly laid to be

followed and clearly indicative of what these
'misunderstood collectives' (Africans seen from other
societies point of view) desire, foremost, and exactly where
they as a people are they heading. It is not merely
rephrasing the dictates of some recognised body(e.g. world
bank), but it is creating a defined social mind state that
finds acceptable recognition among 'international bodies'
as ideas emerging from a society intent on reaching out to
a better world, a world defined from their own perspective,
founded on clear expectations, in tandem with the other
world, the external world, in the commonality abridging the
dictates of the external world and the African postulations,
in the finding of ease of accomodation between the
differing world views, there comes a relaxation knowing
that there is a similarity in the thought pattern underlying
the ongoing reality. It is nothing new, the Ashantis were not
only rampaging and conquering, they were assimilating,
creating an expanded brotherhood of different tribes, and
subjects who maintained their identity but owed allegiance
to the Ashantihene. Transfer that to the transformational
shift situation and let it find expression. The world may be
seemingly drawing ever closer together at some levels,
each day takes all ever closer to the 'new earth', yet the
fact remains, unobviated, that Africa is a distinct identity
seeking to find establishment in situational definitions of
reality of which it is by no means the author, the solution to
the continent's problem will be complemented by external
contributions, but such contributions will only fit into a
continentally defined expectations and their expected
patterns of realisation. It may be arguable, but it can
assumed that no one wants to remain as paupers or to be
reffered to as the lesser beings all the time, but changing
that state will be a totally committed effort emerging from
the continent's own resources and complemented by the
benevolence of trans continental resources. 'There is no
one that is insignificant in any society (much as imperfectly
co-ordinated social arrangements that are unable to
support their weak and needy may try to indicate) and to
prove it in social coordinating efforts, lies at the core of
good governance, realised on the continent by ensuring the
laying of social foundations of deeply rooted equality,
where irrespective of their idiosyncratic peculiarities or
social standing all of its human constituents are positioned
to realise their utmost capabilities. Let all drink from the
same well of education and dwell in decent environments
and live in concordance with the dictates of the times, all
without exception.' For so long as there is one person who
feels government has failed him or her, for so long as there
a feeling that there are locations for lesser humans, for so
long as people feel inhibited in expressing their creative
intellect through socially approved and appropriate ways;
for so long must the governments accept that they have not
delivered on their expectations and must continue to seek
for creative ways to provide that essential foundation. The
African society is a driven society of achievers, a small
percentage have attained and surpassed the desired
foundation level, the rest must be gentlu nudged abreast to
this standard to enable viable social growth. The only
responsibility for the existence of government is to
undertake the essential task of exploiting its domain with
specifiable objectives that have an end benefit for the
governed. External concerns are secondary considerations,
for exploitative utilisation as a complement to the benefits,
governments endow on the governed. This has been the
basis for the economics of external relation in external
systems relation with other societies. Probably as the utility
value of imaginary barriers that demarcate loosely bonded
humanity lose their importance and there is a diminishing of
differences between different systems, their operation as
synchronous complementarities will dictate the emergence
of an overall globally beneficial system that seeks to exploit
the individual within a global setting rather than exploiting
'excluded' societies for regional self centered interests.
Until then there is the need to focus on internal
upgradement of existing facilities as a means of enabling
global integration. The latter is consequential on the former.

A poor man's field may produce abundant food,

but injustice sweeps it away. Proverbs 13:23.

If there is any controversy seeking for resolution in Africa, it

is the big why as what could possibly account for the all
round lack of vision within the leadership rank. The
precedent of great leadership feats of amazing
achievement in other time settings, prevailing against the
odds of nature are constant steely reminders as to the fact
that far from being a nation of unidentified directions, the
African has a capability to overcome and not only find a
center of reality but actually to set the course for a new
direction worthy of imitation. If individuals could emerge as
pace setters for society, why not transfer the individual field
defining capacity into a social asset; the novelty that drives
social change is often the effort of individuals finding
acknowledgement within a discerning society. The
question, therefore is, when is this era going to awaken
from its suffering induced stupor state of dazed
bewilderness and begin to set straight courses for social
reorientation. There is a need to refocus on priorities,
taking a positional view from the recent past era and
identify a course for the future. Whatever value accrues to
the society will not emerge from a partial realisation of
preffered states determined by some self serving order of
parochial interests. The value will come from inside out, the
more a wider stream of society is enabled through effective
organisational directive influence and the establishment of
appropriate conditions to improve on existing dismal states
of existence, the more the African social system
approximates expected states, irrespective of how closely
the society in attempting to fulfill some externally generated
model of limited relevance, approximate some expected
standard of frail economics of exploitation. To the most
important member of society, to the individual components
of society, a system of knowledge is only relevant if it
imitates desirable reality, inasmuch as negative realism
finds effective interpretation, there is always the underlying
desire for resolution. For people in deprived states, as it
has been proved over time, there is an emphasis on
contextual interpretation to the relevancy of knowledge.
Knowledge must serve a purpose in explaining their state
of being and presenting applicable solutions. With this bent,
it is not unusual that a favoured approach finds overuse
and continues to enjoy extended applicability even when
their actual functioning relevancy has been usurped by the
changes within wider society. Substituition needs are not
by any means automatic response patterns, as much as
they are a response to awareness that warrants a
reorganisation of fundamental system elements to effect
modification. Thus even if the extent of linkage of local
economies to external system is a minor outcome for the
external elements, and is of greater relevance to the local
economies. Its outcome effects are not inevitable, as much
as they are manipulated realities with a benefactor,
definitely the manipulator of the economic configuration
within which external trade is realised. Above, that if there
is a need to apportion blame, which there is no need to, it is
more a need for an awakening call to local societies to
become more creative and less dependent. It implies that
for the focal system there must be set in process a radical
reorientation to enable resort to effective inventiveness to
improve on continually worsening states. The leaders need
to open the collective intellect, exposing the information
stream of creative energy surging freely begging to be
used, tapping into this pervasive knowledge stream and
using it for continental development. No other social
system can realise this fully for Africa, when the leaders
awaken from their intoxicating power drunkeness and begin
to appreciate their full responsibilities, they might suddenly
find truth in the adage that knowledge is power, it is a
power that the continent requires in its existing state of
listlessness. What better setting in time than now, for lifting
the deadpan of stiffling traditional inhibition and the leaden
weight of imposed realities from the outside world, and
attempt a reconfiguration that enables unhindered
possibilities to build on and diversify the relevant existing
base of available knowledge for humane purposes.

If the rest of the world is willing to assist the continent, the

question in how well prepared and capable is the existing
framework to filter resources to the socially most
disadvantaged and most farthest from the activities of
existing government benefices. These very ones, who have
been bypassed by present governing processes and
sidelined as the economically socially marginalised are the
ones most likely to bear the brunt of the pain of market
oriented economies that are the focus of attention of
existing preferred ideal upon which to establish a firm
social foundation for the continent development. How can a
society on its first step into an undiscerned future, begin by
affirming the exploitation of the weakest of its citizenry? If
there is inadequate base development for expanded and
untempered open market economics as the centerpiece of
the devlopmental process, government must admit the
inadequacy. And in so doing, create a forum for foraging for
ideas as to how to sculpt an appropriate social theme for
enabling full development across the social stream.
Presently, because humility is lacking within the governing
process, leadership is finding it difficult to accept that the
whole of the social organisational process is contrary to the
wellbeing of the majority. Instead of re-evaluating the
society and re-assessing its priorities and how to realise
these priorities within changing circumstances, pride is
placed rather placed on irrelevancies that have no benefit
for the ralisation of the masses locked into states of
crippling poverty, focus is on selective development that
emphasises increasing benefits to comparatively
advantaged sectors of the society and attention is on
wealth creation through individual initiative. The appalling
truth however is that the majority of the people in need of
help lack even the ability to initiate the means to improve
on their existing states without some major effort from
central authourities. Generally, there is a major problem of
unresolved inadequacies in central govenment machinery
that needs to be remedied. When there is a lack of clarity in
conveying the exact circumstances by which government
effort begins at the level of the deprived who by their
existing states of incapacitation need more attention than
any self sufficient successful social sector, but who by their
incapacitation do not merit any attention within the
configurations of the capitalist economic agenda being
realised by present governments, there is without doubt a
major gap in policy making which existing system
definitions of priorities and factor variables to considered in
realising expected ends are ill equipped to resolve. What is
needed is a total re-orientation along major definitional
lines of what constitutes priorities and what goals the
society should focus on realising. In obvious
circumstances, it is undebatable that any policy that begins
with a focus on the weakest of social designatees will
enhance more than necessary the already well established
sectors of society while the reverse is not true. The existing
reality on the ground is that national economies revolve
around balancing budgets through feeding markets that
have manipulated the terms of trade such that the
continent's economic standing is permanently weakened,
debilitated, and ludicrous by all standards. In the
definitional constraints of these restrictive social
organisation, improving slums and providing information
accessing hardware to rural educational systems will evoke
around of healthy laughter at the higher levels of
government. But it is precisely for these reasons that there
is a need for the articulation of the full emergence of
alternative states of social organisation along the major
paradigms of social structuration, where in sorting for
system dependent growth, not only is their a lessening of
the external determinancy but more importantly how the
new social organisation will enable the least of the weakest
as the continent emerges fully into a new state. So the
issue goes back to the question whose interest do national
governments' serve? Beyond the principles of
representatve government, the merits of party politics and
representation. Beyond the higher enlightened theories and
principles of appropriate government. There is only one
concern that cuts beneath the excess, overflow of words,
delivery! People in their everyday lives, in and out of the
continent care very little about what theories are articulated
and what economic principles are currently viable. For
them there is only one issue, deliver, by whatever means,
what is expected of leadership. Thus over and beyond the
refinements of academic theorisations that were birthed for
the most part in evolving system states, lie a crucial social
philosophical issue which to date remains inadequately
articulated in Africa. The delivery issue is a social
philosophical issue of unresolved clarity. It must begin to
find adequacy of definitional formation to cut through the
mass of leadership inadequacies. Every organisation that
attempts piece meal, to face off and resolve a segment of
its expected outcomes that has been delayed is working
within the undefined unconfigured issue of what is actually
expected in the light of its inadequacies? How is the
expected end to be attained? And what changes in core
operative functionability will enable successful delivery on
its goals ? Considerations, that need to find expression
over and above time and situational peculiarities, such that
they become roadmarks and measuring rods of the
direction and approximation of expected states in differing
circumstances. To wit, what are the expected indications of
social growth and development in evolving Africa? Is it
spreading urban slums? Increasing select neighbourhoods
of wealthy segments of the general society and increasing
poverty among the already deprived? Increasing numbers
of shops? Increasing deindustrialisation? Or increasingly
impoverished rural areas? Do half way measures of feeble
attempts count as problem resolution and delivery? What
combination of all these is -not- to be pursued? The
delivery issue is a collective requirement of leadership, to
realise the common objectives of society. It is not a
beggarly desire for help, but a specified requirement of
leadership to exploit all the available resources that society
has placed at its disposal for expected ends. That, this,
obvious responsibility of leadership has been left unfulfilled,
while unacceptable acts of social plunder and
demoralisation have been and continues to be the modus
operandi of leadership role players is indicative of a major
default at a crucial level in the structuring process of social
organisation. In this defective social set up, the hierachical
structure has proved to be socially self limiting. It is far too
distant from the important segment of society. (In effect it is
analogical to polishing a brand new shoe over and over
again, while the shoes needing actual polishing attention lie
gathering dust. Seemingly, the two pairs may never have
any influence on each other, but the common value that
holds them together is the human entity that is wasting
resources on a shoe that is unneedy of the extra attention,
while the needy shoe accumulates increasing layers of
grit.) It is to those who are comparatively and increasingly
incapable and incapacitated, becoming unacknowledged
social liabilities that governments need to focus attention
on if this continent is to have a worthy future, from poor
children to poor adults wasting away, when society has
disenabled them by shifting determinancy of outcome from
the individual to the society. There is a need to restructure
the leadership locational format from a pyramid structure
reminscent of hierarchical organisational arrangements to a
central locational format that places governing role in a
central location to society, rather than at the top. Central
government is thus redesigned to be central to society,
radiating its governing effects in rebounce to its constituent
elements, giving central government a new organisational
outlook, rather than being at its top. This system
designation of government realised in social structuration,
realises on the ground a process which makes government
accessible to all sectors of the society in soliciting opinions
and effectuating ideas emanating from the core of society,
while facilitating society's identification with the government
machinery. In society's increased awareness that
government is not an isolatory imposition of the elected or
some leadership clique utilising available position through
effective and agile manipulation of social control
mechanisms, there is ever increasing need that
governments become relevant not only in opaque
grandeur, but as individually relevant forces that impact
daily existence positively and constantly. A central position
will enable a realisation that is essential that government is
a reflection of the collective mentality, realising ends at a
pace mediated by the overall society. A failure in the
governing process is as much a lack of leadership
capabilities as it is due to society's faults. To project the
creative intellect, setting forth broad patterns of functional
conversion of existing resources to meet their needs is as
much an effort on the part of society as a whole, as it is a
failure of effective organisational and management
capabilities at the leadership level. Yet it must be a concept
that finds realistic expression in the everyday details of the
governing process. In short, the leaders, must not be
distant from their subjects, just as much as the society
must not permit the power of government to become too
detached from their effective control. High ideals emanating
from the leadership to be realised among the people is as
welcome as leadership sourcing for worthy ideas from the
people. It is not an issue of pointing out defects in a young,
weak and unsteady system, but the fear is that the African
system is not making any effort to begin walking, it is too
comfortable at a level that is depriving essential human
components of its constituents otherwise, easily realisable
and available facilities, and excusing the whole lapse in
delivery on an unfavourable international economic system.
Granted that is the case, there is an expectation to see far
reaching meaningful effort to create a viable, satisfactory
state of existence for its people. Presently, even if more
than necessary monetary resources are made available;
because of a lack of adequate social infrastructure,
founded on a sound social philosophy of desired end states
and the way of realising them across the whole social
spectrum, there is more than a high likelihood that private
accounts of 'responsible individuals' in leadership position
will take precedence over the common man. The filth and
the dirt that are identifiable landmarks of African townships
in runaway, uncontrolled growth, has basically nothing to
do with internationally manipulated economics, but it has
everything to do with incapacitated leaders hooked on
meaningless outmodedness of irrelevancies that in the
vapidity are clear indications of incapability and
ineffectualness (within existing context). Outmoded, the
arguments may be, but sadly to admit, these depressive
reality, contrary to expectation is not fading, barely
appreciable organisational modes of hierarchical lords of
inefficiency seem to have taken root and are flowering
fruitless trees of despair. It is not an individual defect, it is a
major system flaw. Bitter and painful as harsh criticisms will
sound to hardworking, committed leadership on the
continent, little can be said for improvement over the years,
that has meaningfully brought tranformational shift change
facilities at the level of the marginalised in society to the
level desired, realised elsewhere and not even
approximated in Africa. Since independence, the economic
and tax systems has worsened, corruption has increased,
medical facilities have deteriorated and the gains made
have been qualified gains and of limited import and impact.
That the issues at stake are far too complex to be
explained from a simple linear perspective does not by any
means render ineffective such observations and the
consequences they bode. What is even more difficult to
appreciate and accept is that the whole society has been in
a slowly disintegrative state of regression to basics.
Leaving many to wonder, whether there is a need to revert
to post-colonial primitive states before finding a way out of
the miasma of despair that despondent, unimaginative
governing processes have wrecked on the continent. That
many in the rural areas affirm that independence took away
whatever little hope of improved states colonialism fostered
is the deepest and most shameful indictment against
people who given the opportunity to help their kind, have
become highly effective pilferers of pieces of papers and
trinkets; gigantic and massive abominations on the
landscape spreading a cloak of deception that steals the
light of hope by a trickery that confounds those beneath the
cloak. While they that wield the cloaks of mischief are far
too busy with their degenerative acts of plunder to
appreciate and utilise the light. The cloak must be cast
aside with the disdain it deserves and in the light, revealed,
the awakening to reality and to the task of the day, left for
far too long undone. A traditional proverb says 'set the load
upon your knee and help will be offered to lift it up to your
head'. Even if there is a help forthcoming, it will yield its
utmost contribution when there is some indication of
seriousness and above all honesty that belies humility and
concern for the weak, tired and hungry. The true
assessment of government's effort, it must be reiterated, in
the light of the unique setting of Africa and its needs, must
be in terms of the extent of social provisional efforts rather
than miniscule concerns of irrelevant economies that wield
a tight bond of meaningless strive against artificial barriers
to utmost human realisability. The economy may be central
to existing social organisation, but what is most relevant is
a moral philosophy specifiyng the ethical requirements of
leadership responsibilities to all, and more significantly to
the marginalised. If the little that has been achieved over
the years is reflected in the 'tainted' (tainted because, a
sizeable number cheated and stole, denying in association
with incompetent leaders in discharging their social
responsibilities with honesty. But that said, there is no point
flogging a dead horse, now the societies must continue the
task of social reengineering, a task which is by no means
fully defined.) emerging middle class, a lot more has to be
done to push out those left behind the first time around.

More than anything there is a lack of a deep seated,

generally shared, awareness on the part of society and its
leadership; an intangible absence of a certain cultivated,
articulated and consciously absorbed proclamation of
expectation in the early formative years and constantly
presented to always assume a fore position in the shared
reality of what incontrovertibly permeates the diversity of
variations of shared destiny. It is a social deduction that
calls forth duty and responsibility, an awareness that
infuses automatic dedication to the cause for realising
general social well being through honest discharge of duty
in whatever position of responsibility one occupies in
society. When this mind set is cultivated at the level of
leadership, projected into the mass social mind set and
made to assume the cornestone of existing reality, the
foundation upon which each person is constantly reminded
that they owe a sense of responsible discharge of duty in
their accomplishment to their society, then the foundations
have been laid for stable progress in dynamic
environments where commitment is undisplaced by petty
distractions. For if there is one indisputable fact that by now
is evident, it is that, there is only one place where the
African can find his peace of mind and live in the fullness of
his spirit, his short individual existence on this earth. The
faster it is made a commonly shared joy for all without
exception, the quicker will the Race find its focus to define
a reality of appreciable states of existence. Growth and
fullness of existence, within the definitional expression of
existing reality, is based on the provision of a certain basic
foundation, that foundation can best be laid by the very
society to which it is relevant. It is only from the inward
search for realisation aided by the insight of external
relevancy that any progress can be meaningful. Enabling
for the millions lost in meaningless states of diasporic haze,
hope of return to the motherland, land that has been
carefully nurtured, embellished and offered to these 'vain,
simple and disoriented people' lost in timeand place,
seeking with bewildering abandon to find solidity on the
shifting grounds of changing times, as then, and still now, a
place offering nourishing sustenance. To those whom
responsibility falls, there are no better times than now when
honourable discharge of duty is a place assured in
permanent collective memory.

African has nurtured the world on its strength and

resources, Africa knows the pain of rejection and it is
an abomination to practise within the 'continental
house' what the people suffer in the streets of the
world, it is the only place left where they can take of
the mask and share a laugh together. Whosoever
assumes a leadership role, by whatever means, bears
upon his or her shoulder, the weight of centuries of
loaded history and the unwept tears of the years of
unfulfillment. It is hardly a responsibility to bear with
unsophisticated intellectual triviality and disrespectful
disregard for the people who by their tolerance have
kept their hopes suspended in inanimate states of
postponned fulfillment waiting for leaders who came
not to light the torch held up by the masses but to take
their lights of inner sustenance, these leaders the very
children of the land, point at their mothers birth place
with their left hand. They are not only social aberrants
but but their wicked departure from the path of true
leadership laid out by the accumulated and collective
wisdom stretching deep into the dimness of the past
and borne far into the light of the inaccessible future,
which is that the true leaders bears with their subjects
their sufferings and work with them to find reassuring
escape, have become blights upon the landscape
perpetuating hopelessness by their vaunted acts of
despoliation. For a people who have borne with
patient tolerance the unrewarded burdens of the
frailties and insanity of humanity, the only thing that is
uncommon among its commonalities is its repudiation
of human value, and in the reversion of progressive
improvement, it, the human values must not be taken
for granted, for it is the respect of it, that acts as the
last string of the shattered strand holding societies on
the brink, together. For the normal leadership in
pursuit of generally acceptable government, meeting
the expectations of the governed, it is enough to
approximate the expectations of the society and the
processes within a social organisation that does not
distance itself from the collective. It is indeed a rarity,
when there comes one who in leadership position, not
only express the common purpose, but redefines the
reality by converting the collective energy to realise
creative diversity at levels higher than the
expectations of the collective mind, and in doing so, is
buoyed from the midst of the masses onto the higher
platform of achievement that uplifts all of society, such
leaders are lifted by the collective acknowledgement
unto an eternal plane, of a place in the collective
memory of not only gratitude for a job well done, but
for keeping the doors of opportunity open through the
exercise of malleable governing mind sets that
enable, multiplicatively. The roots of great African
leaders is misty with outstanding achievements,
dripping from the past to nourish the present. It is not
that the people are not capable; they are, they have
yet to find the appropriate sources of directional
influence that is commensurate with the individual
energy fighting to find expression, in the turmoil of
radically changed situational definitions of reality. The
continent looks with stupefying bewilderment at other
systems struggling to perfect social engineering
process that are faulted, but the solution will come
from within, with assistance from without. It is a
solution that is as old as time, and a definitive spirit of
human nature; to enable all within any specific social
configuration to maximise their innate talents and
acquirable capabilities. Concerted effort monitored at
leadership level which places high value on not only
hardwork that has immediate individual benefit but
also such highly placed social values as honesty,
trust, social awareness and social responsibility in
reciprocation of a society designed to be responsible
for its constituents. Such high extolling of Godly
principles, replete with acts of supportive kindness,
enabled presently great societies to enter the
wilderness of uncertainties and with staunch hearts
and strong minds carved from the physically
nonexistent mental idealisation the existing rugged
rawness waiting to be tamed and conformed to yield
comforting rewards, and in their success have
become models of social organisation worthy of
emulative adaptation. The continent has been raided,
exploited, laboured and watched with expectancy to
implode, the watching persists, now even the labour
being offered after the people have dragged
themselves to the slavemasters is turned down. The
watching goes on, the times have changed bringing
with it different sets of variables, yet the watching
certainly goes on. Have the people become pale
ghosts reflected in the mirror of time watching their
own funeral unfolding?

What is poverty? Should the poor always remain with

us? ("The poor you will always have with you, and you
can help them any time you want". Mark 14:7 Revised
Standard Version of the Holy Bible.) For the society at
large this is a thorny issue. Poverty, non-spiritually,
that is, is the lack or inadequate means of financial
needs, in one relevant sense. But if the means exist,
would not the provision of adequate means for all to
sustain themselves at a reasonable decent level of
existence not alleviate this burden of human social
reality? By deliberating manipulating social reality to
reward work effort in any viable direction and then
limiting the means for effective realisation of this work
output effect, through deliberate gaps of carefully
contrived social engineered lapses, human society
has over time, found it convenient to allot value based
on a devised mechanism, but like all things human,
superlative excellence in one area of mind exploration
was not able to fully run its full gamut in its expressive
realisation, and there has been a severe
shortchanging at the other end of the viable
employment idea, thus, while in a sense, rewarding
employment is an essentiality of social organisation, it
has left in its due, by a process of 'half cooked'
gulping down of a meal in preparation, the full
realisation of its intricate detailed wholeness, the
essential supplementary process that would have
ensured a balance in the social mellieu, where
rewarding work is concerned, by excluding and
leaving to waste human energy that is unable to find
sustenance through lack of employment. The
monetisation process has stopped at a level that is
not commensurate with the required totality of its
social exigencies. Creating a vacuum of exploited
misery, that seems to be widening, even as the
polarity of uncensored means of acquisability that
preferred states of social organisation adulate
approve of its worst aspects in terms of its exploitative
element potential. Of the existing instrument of
facilitating commercial exchange and thus
determining end states of well being in terms of
material provisions and required needs to sustain
existence, other than what the individual makes by
himself, the continent without any dalliance is ina
state of barely contained chaos, it is an imbalance
that derives from a system structural weakness of
extreme severity. In many places, the struggle of
existence is invariably a dismal occupation at piteous
and harsh living, irrespective of the value placed on
money or the value it gives its hoarders. There is, in
these harsh settings, a limited base due to situational
restrictions on available possibilities of inadequate
bases for utilities, that the means of purchasing could
enable through improved states of existence. Thus in
agrarian societies, the prevailing issues of what
constitutes social basic needs, the lack of which,
causes social strain and the suffering it imposes on
society are totally at variance with the emerging and
ever expanding list of what constitutes basic needs
within existing social paradigms; yet the established
requirements of shelter, food, clothing and work are
still the dominant needs of normal human sustenance.
The specificities which constitute these core needs
like the rest of the society has undergone a
developmental growth improvement. The issue of
interest is, if the existing social order puts government
at the center for the realisation of these needs, and in
the midst of existing possibilities, government is
severely self restricted or otherwise restricted by
circumstantial circumscriptions of existing social
definitions. One begins to wonder if there should not
be a redefinition to refocus on what is at the core of
the needs of the masses and the poverty it
occassions. There is a natural tendency that in the
expressive divergencies of individual outputs most
people seek to find definition of reality and the
appropriate within what society defines as the
appropriate choices. Over time, retrospective
reflection indicates that the choices that are defined
and articulated at the social level by the channels of
authourity through which society finds expression, are
not necessarily the best or the most viable among a
compendium of available options. Thus if there is one
location that requires a remodification of the social
intellect to find a socially more relevant modus
operandi, it is Africa, where poverty is beyond barely
material considerations. There is a straggling
inadequacy within the highest levels of social
organisation to conceptualise the existing reality in
simple and easily appreciable terms and evolve
solutions that are tenacious and multiplicable. The fog
of ignorance cloaks the whole system in needless and
meaningless complexities of inadeacies parading as
intelligence and binding the people to the solutions
within easy grasp, while excess divergence evolves
upon farfetched outmodedness. There has been a
tendency to slight models that aspire to realise across
the social stream viable options, as grandeurs of
social idealisms, but in a seemingly jarring indication
of the controversy that belies what is normal and
abnormal on the larger scale of human designations
and leadership expressions, there has been a
distortion of social capacities to minimise human
output capability through deceptive mechanisms of
social and economic imposed barriers that lack logical
conclusions. Logically, there will, it will be assumed
maximal exploitation of any existing means of
upgrading human quality across the scale, with the
emphasis on those most in need. That there is an
excessive energy spent on a social exclusion from
participating in a physical realm where all is freely
given, while greedy consumption at one extreme of
the social spectrum is avaraciously cultivated as an
obscene expression of flaggrant disregard of the spirit
of humaneness, which spirit has at its core an
empathic desire to reach out and help sustain life, is a
clear indication of gross soial malaise and a yet
immatured mind state at the societal level. The touted
forms of social organisation, such as the variegations
of capitalist market orientations, is not per se
inadequate in meeting some needed form of social
management process, but it is an aspect of the
malleable social monster of distorted realities of
monarchic vestigialities which in its strangulating
offensive act of social transfer from the "king" to the
"people", which people have become cliques of self
oriented centers of authourity, exercising their power
with a cruelty that lashes across the bent backs of
shackled humanity sweltering in the despair of
unfulfilled needs and an expanding void of
meaningless existence that authourity is supposed to
alleviate, but in failing to ease has created a barely
contained social angst of diffused emotions, that holds
the whole of society on a tightrope of pulsating stress
and dissolving edginess. In a world where the
potential for a calm and profitable exploitation of the
mind and its creation could be pursued in the beauty
of peaceful existence. The choice and the path of
closed minds in pursuit of vague vanities of pieces of
papers and bits of metal has turned society on its
head and left mankind breathless in the great chase,
sanctioned by leaders whose very purpose,
directions, means and realisations is in massive
disarray. The African society is faced with the option
of what choices to make, the choices are effectively
made at the leadership level for the rest of society, the
options are the same for each member of society, the
option is that which edifies human existence by
effectively harnessing and transmitting the collective
intellect and mind to realise ends that are beneficial to
all without exception. Thus, material poverty begins
and ends at the mind level. Its physical manifestations
notwithstanding. Its physical manifestations are
inarguably severe lack and unmediated suffering in
the physical deprivation that occasions it. But it begins
at the level of the incapacitated mind state, and must
be solved at that nonmaterialistic level and expressed
by the provisions of the material realisations of mind
deliberations. (The intellegent and curious mind
applies its diverse imaginative capacity to mould pliant
nature, initially as a response to critical human needs,
and later as an aestheticism to break the tedium of
boredom, anyhow the acts of the expanded mind
have been brokered and stunted from their utmost
worthiness by lesser minds , the guides on the path
have become gatekeepers, setting toll gates of
irreverent suffering, dispensing wickedness by default
and constricting creativity, role reversals of power
drunken mindlessness, grovelling in the dirt of their
emptiness and starving their weakened and
tormented liable dependants.) The creative effort must
project from priorly erected platforms at continually
higher levels, the basic nature of creative intellectual
activity has nevetheless remained the same; to
diversify and venture beyond the existing reality. It
calls for a projection beyond the presciently existing
reality in search of unexplored realms of palpably
possible but hitherto unaccessed. In the exploration of
previously traversed terrain unilinear tracking leads to
"groove syndrome" repetitous renewal of errors. The
essence of education is to learn from others, and seek
to diversify by utilising existing knowledge base to
explore previously untested but potentially viable
options. For the masses on the continent, relief is
within palpable accessibility but the entrapments of
the dervish deviouness of abnormal hoarding
behaviour that has set the whole society in a twirling
discordancy of flailing wasted energy in pursuit of the
chaff that is elusively transient, ahs and is holding
everything that is desired in check. That which is
desired is common to all without exception, and until
that realisation fully settles in, piecemeal, sectorial
growth is not gradual development, as it is an
expressive indication of perveted exercise of social
immaturity which promotes societies splintered along
degradations of haves and have nots. In effect these
are exposed fortresses of illusionary joy in the mud of
soul sucking poverty, poverty not of the material
deprivations, but of the forclosure of hope under the
awning of unlimited possibilities. The trappings of
existing material wealth and the relentless pursuit of
temporary irrelevancies, (in the light of the greater
social responsibility, that qualifies centric effort with
rewarding essentiality in the wider social realm) that
detracts those best positioned to rally their
communities to evolve more sustainably satisfying
forms of wealth creation, that does not leave in its
wake abject misery in the larger swath of expectant
humanity, more than the actual accumulated wealth,
is the issue of concern. For the majority, the
individual's accumulated wealth makes little
difference, for so long as they can find meaningful
adequacy of means of sustaining a respectable
existence in their brief span of existence. It becomes
a difficult cycle to break, of self centered pursuit to
acquire a better and improved status at the expense
of the systemic whole if necessary, in the midst of
appalling denigration in one sector of society, if the
evolving social system does not make a concerted
effort to reorient the mind set to put all embracing
 social growth as the center of social developmental
effort rather than individual based success expressed
in monetary wealth, which wealth is innapropriately
placed as the utmost expression of the human effort
and thus becomes an end usurping other ends, the
existing meaninglessness will become in due course
falsified wisdom upon which is erected a 'society of
cards', swaying and unsteady, a creation by denial of
approriateness rather than by desired relevancy. The
transformational change situation provides a flexibility
to remould emerging social reality in its existing state
of ill conceived and blurry states of conscious long
term clarity of clearly carefully contrived plans to yield
expected end states of reformulated priorities to set
forth a pattern to be followed as a means to an end,
the existing weaknesses and fractious zones of
discord warrants a reconsideration of system
priorities, to be reviewed under leadership immersed
in the minds of the people, projecting to set itself to
the proper task of expansive mind states unhindered
by the spritual poverty of empty souls in pursuit of
ungrounded fleetingness of frivolous preoccupations.

The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow

to bring down the poor and the needy,
to slay those whose ways are upright.
But their swords will pierce their own hearts,,
and their bows will be broken.
Better the little that the righteous have
than the wealth of many wicked.
(Psalm 37:14-16).

The effectiveness of leadership roles and grand individual

achievements of the children of the land are inavariably
dampened by the continental physically realised
inadequacy. The contentment in one section of the social
whole has not necessarily enabled the expected overflow
to the other section who have borne their indignities of
deprivations under a false hope of a spread effect from the
overbalanced end of society that will tip the scale, and
enable a leveraging of the social balance for the benefit of
the systemic whole. The underdevelopment of the mind
state that will enable the expected social spread for mutual
benefit in many ways account for the continual deprivation
in sectors of society that have had no meanningful
improvements from their traditional agrarian states to
improved states. When Europe was devastated in two wars
that leveled all forms of meaningful infrastructure that
indicates development, it was only the governments that
had the resources to engage in the sort of major rebuilding
required, a rebuilding process of society, at least at the
infrastructural provision level that is in many ways not
different from the continents existing needs. If they could
manage it when they were emotional and physically
ravaged as a society in the severe and climactically limiting
circumstances, it is not altogether to criticise the lack of
innovativeness in leadership that often times seem to be
operating at cross purposes with its primary
responsibilities. There is a wrong assumption, that a leader
is only an econmic administrator, but the leader is more
often than not an inspirer and an exhortor. Since the
continents leadership lack transparency, they cannot even
appeal to their people towards meaningful and truthful
sacrificial effort with a desirable end. There desirable ends
lack a foundation of reference in the collective mind,
because colonialism brought different tribes together for its
own ends, independence was a form on incomplete self
assertiveness that has yet to forge the higher mind
aspirations defining a direction and a common future. The
process has been halting and disconnected efforts,
appreciable in its achievements, but lacking common
acceptance and consistency of linkage of purposes and a
defined future expectation. The prevailing economic focus
emphasises further fragmentation without having first
established coherent adhesiveness. The United States of
America were united in purpose of a better place where
men shall be free in spirit and soul, liberty and being white
united them in common effort realised at various levels.
Africa has individuals seeking material achievement by any
means possible with no unitary high philosophic aspiration
binding the individual drive. (Their aspirations are in
imitating outsiders). Leaders are mistaken in thinking that
merely emphasising tribal differences, the commonality of
poverty and favouritism, as being fostered, will ever
dissipate to automatically create the future that all desire
but is differentialy being realised.

The poor, for the most part are delicately balanced on the
edge, for a few it is an entry into the joy of expectations
being fulfilled, for the majority it is the untempered
perception of the stinging exasperation of seeing a few
exultate in despondent desploration in an orchestrated
deprivation of the masses that bristles and pushes reason
beyond comprehensibility, where reason as a concept of
social tolerance, is pushed beyond the borders of tolerance
and tips the scales into the chasm of spurious bloodbath of
meaningless sacrifices that taint and stain without purifying.
Meaning has fled the realms where social consciousness
has been subsumed by materialism.

The people seek to find joy in the weak lights of lighted

hope in the midst of the gloomy clampiness of the
pervading depths of denied dearths of darkness that has
caught a hold of the bouyant of souls and held them in the
grip of the wanton lust of wickedness and crudity. The high
notes of their sad songs are the high ends of wailings of the
life that has been cheapened and made so casual by the
trites of the circumstances that in the face of the weightiest
solemnity of evocativities of the human essence, essence
has become the emotion starved drama of the sustained
intensity of bare survivability in the tense reality of the
ordinary and mundane. It is a world within worlds where
humanity has been stripped of all elegance and the
ugliness of crudity is not polished but hazed over to
become barely sustainable acceptance of a reality that has
been denied its fullest expression. Being human is
expressive of the highest poetic expression of excellence of
expressed creativitity. Those who are the voice of the
announcer at the dawn of the breaking day, chattering the
quietitude of the silence of the waking day with their harsh
sounds of croaking stick against metal, announcing the
departure of local folks to ignonimity or mythical
permanence of ancestorhood, proclaim the declarative right
of accorded delegative authority to rouse the somnolent
public to badnews. The light of the collective intellect
seeking to find and give the right way must seek the right of
way by dancing to the solemn tunes of the drenching
agonies of the hapless futility of bonded humanity shackled
by closed minds, and in singing the tunes of soul sucking
sorrow, light the fire that kindles kind hope of refreshing
awareness. There can be no joyous exultation for so long
as a single human entity is denied by system failure to
enable utmost realisation of the highest possible attainment
of innate capacities. The task is far too enormous to allow
the wasting waway of precious human energy in a middling
state of delayance occassioned by the inability of those to
whom power has devolved to clarify the extensiveness of
the task laid before them. The people wait with a muddled
sense of individual failure for the kingdom of God, but each
in his own heart is beset by a benumbing awareness that in
many ways they have failed their God in their collective act
of inadequacy; inadequacy of effective implementation of
harnessing to yield optimum benefit, in the true spirit of
each man being his neighbours helper. Help is best
appreciated by those in need, and to those who seek it, it is
given, yet there is an arcane obscenity in preventing people
from gaining the mind set to seek for a way out of their
morass of debilitating want, and it is more biting that its
source is from the society and the very ones who have
been consigned the task of leading the way out. In seeking
for help, the people have become beggars instead of ready
labourers seeking for fulfillment in rewarding occupation.
They are not only physically denied, but their very spirits
are taunted and beset with doubts of self worth.

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in

need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in
him? 1 John 3:16.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,

but whoever is kind to the needy honours God.
Proverbs 14:31.

Everyone without exception is lacking in some essential

requirement that qualifies human worthiness, at a very
deep level on the continent. There are the incontinent
wealthy who are in a soporific stupor of greedy constipation
of overindulgence lacking of the required expanded mind
state that travails the trivialities of minimal individual growth
acquisitve accomplishment in the midst of the yet
untouched, unimaginable weighty task of social
upgradement. In their lack of discernment their
accomplishment at the individual level and their inability to
use their potential at being levers of society's elevation
from the grinding gnashing despoilation of unutilised
resources running to waste in the face of great need is an
exemplary indication of their lack and their spiritual poverty.
These are the ones who set by fate to yield value and
glorify the gift of God in humanity have set themselves as
cretinous abberations on a gluttounous splurge of unending
revelry of bestial proportions where the actual task of
leadership remains unaccomplished, leaving in their wake
the other half of society that is lacking by acquiscing their
willpower to be trampled and discarded, leaving them
naked and dehumanised. Together the abuser and the
abused by commital and condoning have become liabilities
lacking assets that they need to recover to redefine reality
and fulfill accomplishment within the redrawn boundaries of
reconfigured spirituality belying humans dwelling within the
light of a new dawn. The reprieve from self inflicted torment
through denial to submit to consensual social discipline
based upon humane consideration for enabling equal gains
across the social spectrum has been vaguely veiled over
as an ambitious drive for individual achievements, which
drives are faulted along primary lines of the unequal
foundations upon which the drive is initiated. 'Social
salvation' is premediated upon a needed sensitisation to
begin the quest for justice and equal rights from collective
consciences that are pricked to awareness of the futility of
lopsided system dynamics self correcting to yield expected
ends rather than fracturing along seams of weaknesses
and visiting chaos through system disintegration.
Desperation begets violent acts that in remonstration of the
abnormality of the social arrangements that give rise to
these acts of spontaneuosly approved aggression against
the society from within the society indict acceptable
acknowledgement of the exceptional unusualness of the
times and the people who make it a surreal reality of the
reversed phantasm of naiveties. The existing social
evolution and its configuration of determinant variables, is a
brooding recipe for disaster invetably. The criticism of the
existing continental system and its expressive exigent
ramifications and tolerated albeit not accepted values are
not intended to blame sections and individuals as much as
it is to depict the folly of resilience resolution to extol
existing frailities as grounded progress upon which to base
future growth. The individuals and the sectorial
beneficiaries of the ineeficient system configuration, stand
to be criticised because they benefit at the expense of the
whole systemic beneficial improvement, and given their
ability to wield influential power at their control to change
existing reality are compliant with the failures that benefit a
select minority while at the same time ensuring the
perpetuity of hopeles despair in the face of force that the
denied can not effectually instigate to change in their
curtailed mind state of calling for creative redefinition of
reality. These select minority are as much results of the
system as they are its perpetrators, since in the absence of
concerted effort that calls for minor sacrifice for an
improved all round social system designation, the limited
exploitation of potential that stunts social growth will remain
stead fast, much as the eventual social upheaval that will
upturn their thinly protected imaginary security within the
provisional manipulations of wealth that is immoral in not
only its source but serves as a means for curtailing the
expected hope of socially uninhibited improvement in the
living standards of all. Their are no common people, much
as their are no higher class humans, stripped of the
material creations of the collective mind set,
misappropriated for limited expendability, society has
created an imaginary absurdity that has gripped the fanciful
nature of the society and found credible instituitionalisation,
that human worth is measurable and sustainable in
material acquisition and or ability to access materialistic
indulgencies of absurd profanity. While there is no intention
to set a measure and limitation on what each individual
should effectively indulge in as a means of expressing their
fullest possible realisation of the human spirit, be it material
or otherwise. That expressivity should not by the social
system the collective mind embraces through forced
acquisence, be contrary to the spirituality of humanity, that
in being denied, builds pressures of resentment, that burst
forth in acts of massed dejections of the profanity that
denies mirror the very processes they react against in their
extensive orgy of 'contra-humanity' profanity of destructive
impulse. The human spirit cheerishes and seeks to fulfill
common aspirations at a certain socially acceptable level.
These aspirations as stated, uplift the essence of human
creativeness and embelishes life from a basically primitive
state. Its actual expression is contingent on the specificities
of time and situational conditionalities. But the great moral
debate that remains at the core of social instability and
remains unresolved in the era of greater social definition of
individual expectations is should society permit and create
social systems that manipulate to limit the fullest
expression of the benign spirituality of humaness by
enabling access to potntial ultimate realisability to some
while effectively denying for others? If there are no innate
qualifications within the creative element other than the
base limitations of fully unexercised mind set that
perpetuate suffering by not enabling equitability at a level
commensurate with the realities of social expectations,
then it is only to be expected that the more any society
deviates from this expected equanimity within its social
configurations the higher instability is infused into this
system, no matter how conceived and realised their can be
no all round satisfaction within such systems, not even
among the favoured, for their material dispositions are
contrary to their spirituality, which no matter how twisted
and contrary to normality it is, must seek to find stability
through two acts, protection of contrary states of being or
diffusion of material acquisition as a means of enabling
inner spiritual harmony. The absence of which harmony
diffuses outwardly from a veritable individual inner
perspective of benign emotional instability of immaterial
states of being to gross social instability of total chaos.
Society is the massed energies of individual mind states
coordinating activivties through a carefully balanced
orchestration of disparate individual viewpoints seeking to
and unnegotiably bonded to find common grounds for
expressing and finding realisation in a collective millieu.
The essential role of leadership to shape the disparity
therein to find generally satisfying ends, is the crux of social
balance, betrayal and or ineffectiveness in this role,
invariably leads to the unravelling of the carefully patterned
social arrangement of contracted individual strengths, a
messy process that in light of the unconditional requirement
of society as the physicall defining realm of individual
existence, is fraught with extremes of heightened emotional
acts contingent upon failures at levels of social organisation
that effectively makes life a meaningless existence of
intolerable and endless misery. It seems the gradual
awareness of the failure of society at the leadership
organising level leads to radical acts of desperation in a bid
for major restructuring through total destruction. A process
where meaning is suspended as the anger suppressed for
prolonged periods attempts to sapient itself through
organised fragmentation of core social values-indictment of
the social essentiality of human existence even in chaos.-
The excessive pursuit of social engineering configurations
that place excessive emphasis on individual effort without
providing the socially instuitionalised system states that
ensure unfrustrated individual effort is critically lacking on
the continent, thus while leadership is en a way
emphasising the appropriate self motivational ambitional
drive expectations, leadership's call is being made within a
vacuum of expected provisions, that render inappropriate
the expectations that anyhow are needed, (if this is a
complex thought process that is ambiguous it is an exact
reflection of the social reality) in the process frustration is
engendered and unrelieved builds to an explosive level of
barely tolerated irrelevancy of leaders who have not only
failed their societies but have devolved failure through
incontinent improvisations and creatively renewal social
organisation processes that set the society at par with the
evolving internal and external influential processes. In
many ways the evolving social system is at many stages, a
fractious malleability of flexibly redesigned model or brittle
dissolution of organised structure. Thus systems that are
unable to restructure their core system end state defining
variables through repositioning and incorporation of hitherto
nonexistent variables, are likely to be led by leaders
exercising authourity in a manner such that that their
objective and actual situational realisabilities are
completely irrelevant to overall constituent desires. They
are so to say "flogging dead horses." The entity that
defines the actual expression of leadership behaviour and
yield must be reinvented and infused with a new vitality
concurrent social constituent expectations. Though it
remains without doubt that some inherent system strengths
are best realised in the midst of noninterference from
central government, it is also unarguable that systems
require planned realisations that by their very designation
necessitate a well formulated and implemented constructed
base upon which inherent system strengths must find their
natural expression. Thus the natural element is boosted for
utmost realisation through a preparatory groundwork
intended to benefit the systemic whole. The pattern of
development within African societies has been an uneven
attempt at delivering even development across board, it
has yielded positively valued growth and improvement in
limited sectors of the society, the preparatory ground, thus,
enabled, those sectors of delimited social advantage to be
the vanguards of individual progress; they are in a way an
indictment of the surety that given the adequacy of
preparatory efforts at the larger social level that is all
inclusive, individual creative energy directed and facilitated
at the larger societal level, within delineated social
configurations with the amenable control and manipulatory
effort of social beneficial leadership of all inclusive social
segments, (despite the appeal of common and equally
comprehensive approximation to the required elements that
when available catalyses social growth aspirations, society
is by its natural designation, self preferred segments of
varied interests, which cannot be wrongly sought to be
coercively conformed, to enable a uniform society. A
uniform society is a social abberation that stunts the
diversity of creative energy along forced lines of
incomprehensibility that engenders a feeling of excessively
controlled states of being, which is contrary to the human
desire to live in an orderly but unconstrained society). But
realisable at the massed energy level of broader
continental configurations, such standardised dynamic
provisions, spreading and covering within expected
desirability of time and quality will usher the masses into
their preferred zones of optimum creature comfort and
potential realisability of natural and acquired talents within
the definitional conformities of the times and their
specifications of what is possible and desired. Individual
lifes are brief when set against the vast expanse of human
existence and future, but within each lifetime, there is set in
motion strong and unyielding drive to realise the utmost
value within the existing reality. Even when seemingly
placcid and unexercised, that human energy, continues
unabated at a sublime mind state in acts expressed or
displayed, where there is invariably the continual fight to
give value to latent potencies through acts of self motivated
constructive effort or socially directed destructive
expending of assumed socially instigated frustration.
Whether at the individual level or at the social level, the
acts of experienced frustration with an overall destructive
effect, have a significant social element and responsibility
accruing to the social system that in the midst of validating
the individual drive for creating self value with a social
worth often finds obstructing and frustrating. With this at the
fore of the collective mentality, those set the task of
realising the common aspirations must bridge the gap
between expectations and the availability of the medium
which they are amicably realised.

The solution to the 'social rut' of assumed normality of

ineffecient states of being is at the mind level. (The mind
level or state is an embodiment of solution derivation within
existing social reality that seeks diversity, continuity and
diffraction from the existing reality of general dissatisfaction
and its infectious disaffection on the general systemic
whole. With an assumed hope- the unverified emotional
component of feasible but unaccessed states of prefered
existence- of a better more satisfying socially engineered
configurations of reconformed variable states of social
existence) Articulated purposes emanating from redeemed
mind states within the social millieu, (most relevantly at the
leadership level where its permeating effect will have wider
effect and preferably whole system effect with general
positive outcomes), boldened to challenge existing reality
with intent to realise expeted ends, lies at the center of the
solutions that paves the war for unexplored social
orientations. (renewal processes that need not neccesarily
visit chaos as the cleansing fire of renewal- renewals that
often lead back to the dead ends of previously travailled
paths in the quaint continental setting). To find solutions to
endemic problems of stagnant systems sinking into
dissolute states of nonessentiality to their components
constituents, requires an appreciable capability to
understand the phenomenal powers sited with leverage to
jostle whole systems unto better locations where their
reconfigured inner constituents and their dynamic system
variable constituents are capable of recombining to yield
expected ends. The ends that are are contingent of the
leadership acts of governance are all embracing, but not
presently all desired, the dearth between the ends of
existing governing processes and the expected desired
ends that effectively leadership should facilitate within
existing reality is wide enough to call for major system
reconfiguration with a refocusing on the whole system
benefice rather than sectorial benefice with whole system
exploitation. The reason why detailing of an assumed
solution will be transient is the dynamism occassioning
transitional states. That transitional states must be
conformed to specified all inclusive social engineering at its
core system categorisations is obviously that in the
absence of this all embracing social rearrangement of
variables operating within and across major system
componential levels, not only will the existing
overemphasising of partial componential advantages
create massive social imbalance resulting in lopsided
systems evolving dynamically out of synchrony, but the
lopsidedness will enable the destructive outburst of
assumed corrective balancing effect emerging from the
other extreme pushing an imabalanced system completely
of balance with consequent total system collapse. Societies
by their their interrelated fusion of independent entities co-
operating towards ends that are of social relevance with
preffered individual realisability are by their very nature
tensely, delicately, balanced. They cannot realistically find
perfection in uncontrolled states of being, but worse still are
social control mechanisms that convulsively undermine the
delicate natural balance by a delusional partial system
benefiting, focusing, on one aspect of a section of the
segmented whole, to the disadvantage of the other
components.

A chieftain fleeing the heat of a local war finds

himself dying of thirst beside a fresh spring, Far in the
forest away from the safety of his court. Traditional
upbringing has thought him that he must always take
his water from the hands of the cup bearer. His deep
seated upbringing wages a prolonged inner conflict
with his biological need to quench his thirst. By the
time he resolved to scoop his own water this time, his
unslacked thirst failing to find any succour in the inner
conflict resolution process in progress, had let loose
the calm of death over turbid immaturity parading as
royal mentality.

Africa has put its system's priority in discomforting

disarray, thus while there are improvements in limited
sectors there does not seem any sustained 'pull along'
effect in the excluded sectors. There is thus created
internal disharmony centered around common interests.
Thus while there should be unity of focus on pursuing
commonly benefiting end purposes. There is a system
created internal conflict, that basically, wastes collective
energy otherwise focused on pursuing common pursues,
that yields graded results with eventual widespread effect.
The existing inconsistencies within the system will not be
resolved by any external interests. When this system defect
that permit the existence of a denied class of a section of
society is left to assume social normalcy, any external aid
and assistance will only go to streghthen their social
resilience. Their must be a fundamental reconstruction at a
level that defines existing reality that will ensure that all will
have the same preparatory granted basis for ensuring their
human adequacy in their own societies. There is a certain
delusional deception that social systems can and do in the
course of time self adjust to ensure system sustenance, but
the reality is that unless deliberate deconstruction and
reconstruction efforts are made with tenacious intensity to
yield desired states, deplorable aspects of societies
increase in a negatively directed intensity and eventually
suffer massive collapse in the absence of effective forced
effort to rectify the inherent weakness. Thus there will not
be any likely improvement in the deprived sections of
societies other than increased suffering and worsening
states of existence, while the waiting and lack of initiatives
at the levels where it matters assumes proctracted
chronicity. The continent is standing by the pond of endless
possibilities and self defining opportunities in the light of
progress and developments elsewhere and must be
catalysed to improve its existing state through socially
conscious leadership with a creative agenda. Presently, for
large segments of society, there is only a waiting without
avail for some charitable samaritan to come and rearrange
their priorities to enable them dip into this desired resource,
yet the awareness is pervasive that the society will have to
recreate itself along all approving lines for newly realised
ends. While existing system designations enable optimum
efficiency for maintaining the vestiges of poorly adapted
colonial minimal industrialisation and stagnant technology
manufacturing sector's labour intensive production
processes. The rate of development to bridge the gap
between these minimal technology and the adequate
provision of production processes have created the
unsustainable government policy that over emphasis
private sector investment as the way out. The actual way
out has been inconclusively tackled, which is the hyper
level of ordering and projecting the expected and planned
developments to closely approximate realised provisions
on ground, which at the same time should be broad based
enough to plan system accomodation for the total
population with enough slack built in to absorb surges
beyong medium term projections of population growth. The
all inclusive plans it must be reiterated must enable
adequate infrastructural provisions at system wide level
without exception to enable actual human perfomance and
productivity at levels that are economically attuned to
sustaining the self and enabling the expansion of the
transited society. The existing society is characterised by
leadership barely governing within severely restricted
limitations of sustaining semblances of civility that just
about holds the nation states together, but generally of little
relevance for the desired future for most of the populace.
The call for radical reorientation is unarguable if the
concept of modernity is to have relevancy within
meaningful time period. Otherwise, the awareness needs to
assimilate the whole society that modernity is an option not
a given for the whole system. Much as that awareness is
within the collective mentality, due to excessive lapses in
effective execution at the leadership, it must be obvious
that the lacks and hardships that occassion traditional
forms of socio-economic organisation, indicate that, unless
there is a concerted effort to organise society such that the
whole system is adequately upgraded to the expected
levels of organised transitional shift, the imbalance due to
the existing of disparate components pursuing the same
ends within a desirably balanced system will eventually
lead to system collapse one way or another. The simple
implications being that diversified society should exercise
all the options at its conceivable ability, with emphasis on
the means that enable significant achievement, to enhance
system balance, through the establishment of the core
essentialities at the feasible materialistic infrastructural
level and the educational and training provision level to
ensure that the aspects of the system that create severe
imbalance are corrected in qualified time to ensure the
balanced stability in the stressed joints in the existing social
infrastructure, by alleviating the pressure that are pushing
towards system fragmentation by elimination of needs and
provisions of templates of sustainable dynamic adequacy.
The stresses that occassion existing society are due to
myriad factors, yet the obvious reality is that while the
concept of modernity has gained ascedancy within select
segments of the society in meaningful ways, the
government's have assumed that traditional and backward
sections of society are capable of self development and
thus enabling the completion of the development gap. But if
there is an assumed irrationality in the wider system, it is
immaterial to the day to day outcomes of the people who
are seeking immediate relief. The people seek for self
defined rationality emerging from within addressed to their
peculiariaties to facilitate comprehension of the problems
that need solution. The solutions must reflect the problem
and not merely the vague postulations of some fancified
theories struggling to find real world definitiveness in some
nether world of little relevance to the people who bear the
daily brunt of imposed sufferings of postponned
realisations. Within the philosophic framework of social
orientation, the adept society must generate diversity within
defined reality, thus much as the society is composed of
segmentations of varied interests and degrees of need
provisions, there must be agility in diversity, as the social
directions responds in correlations with the specifities
emergent of sectorial interests. In the end the purpose is to
realise for the whole system an equity in social provisions
that equlibrates the diversity that occassions every society.

The nature of formative structure is all inclusive and not

selective, thus while at some levels sections of the society
that have taken early advantage of social provisions and
have become a comparatively advantaged section in some
narrowly configured state can consider themselves through
some manipulatory mechanism of social functioning to be
better placed than others, there is inevitably a common
bond of effectual and eventual mutual interaction among all
the constituents of any society to realise the existing ends
of that society. There are some 'head in the sand' ostrich
exponents of some vague social relevace accruity theory
who wrongly assume through short sighted expositions, of
some ill defined economic postulations, that some sections
of society are by their advantageous location within the
social spectrum, more relevant to the sciety and therefore
deserving of more consideration for the allocation of the
common social wealth than other sections. But then, the
reality is that, society needs to direct more energy and
resources at sections of the society that through inherent
weakness or lack of opportunity, have been sidelined over
time to become unproductive and overly dependent (which
is not possible on the continent) to be positioned and
socially energised to become effective productive elements
in the social mechanism. (The energisation of the people,
who after thriving against the odds and obstacles of
dysfunctional social systems, seeking to find niches for the
expression of the economic viability and finding no such
means, but levels of ever sophisticated frustration, is
crucial, if those in that category of resigned redundacy are
not to be wasted, by a social process that first fails its
constituents and then ignores them, treating them with
ignominy.) The broad assumption can be made that the
material needs and requirements of humans are
exhaustible at a certain definite level of provision within
specified time periods and that the specific social
designation of the governing machinery through which
government effectively yields its results, should enable this
basic level of accessibility of the individual to their material
needs at all segments of society, across all levels, right
from the cradle to the grave; while not imposing barriers on
individual creative effort and energy expenditure to
generate additional gains to satisfy their hoarding cravings.
The effiecient social framework should by its designation
provide an effective system for utilisation of existing
resources to create the productive structure that not only
focuses on providing sustenance to all its constituents, but
also enabling unhindered realisation of their contributory
latent talents within a well defined individually satisfying
and socially appreciable state of commintment, in an
environment adequately adjusted to meet the aspirations of
its constituents. That the existing society is able only to
effectively utilise a minimum percentage of its existing
capacity in human and natural resources, while desperately
attempting, a wild, generally irrelevant to the mass of its
constituents, exercise in social stability of narrow
actualisation, to find an equitable balance, (it is more an
exercise of self contained admiration at minimum success
at minute levels, of a society that has besieged itself in a
cataclysmic failure at leadership level. The leaders with an
initially socially relevant agenda, have found themselves
midstream, struggling to find task identity, and broad socil
relevance to their leadership responsibilities, in a severely
altered environment, where the indequacies of poorly
designed initial social frameworks, compound the
increasing difficulties of adjusting system elements in
tandem with the evolving inner system and intruding
external system influences. The weakened and
increasingly irrelevant unrevised social framework, thus
unable to provide the hard definitive framework around
which social realisation is adequately expressed, becomes
further weakened and the controlling role of leadership is
further narrowed in the expanding diffussion to delimited
delusional 'relevant sectors of economic importance'. The
increasing constriction in leadership 'direct impact
relevance' as their actual influence diminishes is in actual
fact, nothing more than the diminishing influence of the
government in its inflexible inability to adapt as its sectors
of influence expands dynamically, leading to the widening
gap between incongruent elements of the systemic whole.
This creates a situation where, unrequired devolving of
definition of individual states in the social medium is
expressly confirmed at the individual viewpoint in
contradiction to the general social balancing effort which
attempts to blend conflicting interests by ameliorating
excessive disparity to enable general benefice. The later
response, which by itself is an automatic self sustaining
response at the individual level in socially diffused
unclarified settings; activated in the absence of individual
self realisation within existing system configurations. While
within the managed provisos of the systemic whole, such
individual expressions tend to find actualisation within
carefully planned mediums that complement the society's
general agenda, left on their on, uncoordinated to blend
with the social growth agenda, they tend to be wild,
unteethered individual acts of bucaanery self-benefiting
acts, with a secondary consideration for the general
society. However, every individual end must need find
exression within a social medium, thus government's that
emphasise and create social situations for exploitation that
emphasises individual and group limited beneficial ends at
the expense of general society, must supplement their
market oriented policies with adequately, improving social
provisions to complement the social balancing effort.) The
absence of an effective leadership agenda within specified
accomodating social framework to equivocate the dynamic,
vast, continually expanding, plane of required direct social
influence, the lack of government approximation to rapidly
expanding social interests has led to dismal social demise
set in motion by the earlier stated irrelevancy of the
leadership interests and those of the governed, an
essential requirement of common ground for trust between
the government andthe governed; it is also an indication of
the low level of social development that the continent has
attained. In some social systems models, human resources
are deliberately rendered redundant not for lack of effective
system integration into the productive mechanism, as much
as for low intensity disregard for unanimity of human
values, and thus can hardly be seen as worthy models of
emulation. The extent or degree of graded transformation
of raw nature must be expanded to provide system
sustaining activities that occupy the constituents at a level
commensurate with the requirements of the system state at
any particular period. The inability of the governing process
to provide basic provisions and essential organising
schemes in system infrastructure that will effectively ensure
that all system costituents are fitted at all times into socially
sustaining configuration of productive capacities underlies
the existing dismal state of the continent.
The provisions required to balance the social scale, are
bare time mediated aspects of the totality of governing
responsibilities, but their provision is necessary to
accelerate the individual intiative that continually frees
government from actvitivities that are better pursued by the
sustaining drive of individual goal achievement motives and
frees government to be concerned with the higher
responsibilities of orchestrating social balance to be
responsive to the evolving systemic whole. Development
must be a combination of internally driven innovative
initiative in combination with maximum access possible to
external resources and innovativennes. The external
factors become an important comparative consideration
owing to the uniqueness of the continent's positional
disposition in reference to global development. The actual
measure of real developmental growth is in terms of what
percentage of internal developments are instigated from
within the system, rather than from without, and capable
self sustenance without recourse to external support.
Unihibited and easy access to the external world is
unconditional to continental evolution, but it does not
eschew the required gradual or accelerated decoupling of
continental developmental efforts from external
conditionalities and the faster there is an establishment of
the basic infrastructural and system designation
procedures that effectively establishes a system wide
realised transition rather than the existing select sectional
preferential growth strategy, the quicker there will be te
ready accessibility to unleash the gradual opening up of the
vibrant minds budding with exciting ideas, to interact with
the provisions of the nurturing environment to release their
fullest potentials. Individuals as member of society are
predisposed to activate their life sustaining work energy in
directions that will support the individual life for the general
social benefit. Society is designed at the leadership level to
provide the social climate within which social viability is
sustained by employing the directive energy of governing
processes to effectively the social constituents for desired
ends an for sustaining social viability. There is a required
commitment from both aspects for realising commonly
supportive ends, this common ends must be solicited for,
and creatively engaged to yield mutually benefitting ends.
The common denominator is that humans are occupied in
role positions at both ends of this viable complementing
positions, to employ and apply resources, to realise
mutually sustaining existence.

The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for
the people, and they stood round him from morning till
evening...why do you alone stand as judge while all
these people stand round you from morning till
evening? Moses ansewred because the people come to
seek God's will. Whenever they have a dispute, it is
brought to me, and I decide between the parties and
inform them of God's decrees and laws. Moses father in
law replied, "What you are doing is not good. you and
these people who come to you will only wear yourselves
out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it
alone. Listen now to me and I will give you some advice,
and may God be with you. You must be the people's
representative before God and bring their disputes to
Him. Teach them the decrees and laws, and show them
the way to live and the duties they are to perform. But
select capable men from all the people-men who fear
God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain-and
appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds,
fifties and tens. Have them serve as judges for the
people at all times, but have them bring every difficult
case to you; the simple cases they can decide
themselves. That will make your load lighter, because
they will share it with you. If you do this and God so
commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all
these people will go home satisfied."
24 Moses listened to his father-in-law and did
everything he said. He chose capable man from all
Israel and made them leaders of the people, officials
over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. They served
as judges for the people at all times. The difficult cases
 they brought to Moses, but the simple one they decided
themselves. -Exodus 18:13-

The larger part of social improvement is concerned with not

only enhancing existing productive activities but innovating
to invent new means of adding value to human existence
and in the process infusing a system wide increment in
desired and desirable output. The improvements in
agriculture and nature related ecomonic activities, are not
excessively far remove from existing practices, but what
the people lack is an organised integration of traditional
practices with the mainstream modernity that define
existing social reality. The absence of the slight
improvements required a an aesthetic measure to abridge
the infrastructural inaequacy, has created a seeming
unbridgeable gap of existing states between the traditional
society and the modern society. But in reality when
efffectively tackled and the proper controlling guidance
inserted into the the social medium, it is, but a little jump
into the future. The existing social designation is a creation
of the inquisitive mind state and it can only be sustained
through active application of continued diversity at the mind
state. This is especially difficult to realise where the artisitic
intellect has created barriers that set a limit to total
comprehensibility of the full dimension of what is assumed
to be normal evolutionary expression of social growth. The
artistic expression of the mind state expressed in
consistency and sustained and maintaned to find solid
definitive expansivity, is a surreallity that must be fully
comprehended to facilitate the utmost expression of the
deired modernity in traditional systems. Art is fantasy
findng expression in meaningful fluidity of a blend of the
purely inaccessible mind state in outward blend with the
physical reality to realise itself in a format of physical state
that is unique to the mind state finding expression in the
physical object of aopted expression, but capable of having
a crossover appeal that can be of a massive social
acceptance. The bare essentials of existence that sustains
the life form are crude and basic in comparison to this
engagingly consuming ecstatic individual mind exploitation
that in its ingenuity captures the common mind and adds
value to life. In-between the artist and the realist has
evolved a stable driving element of the growth and
expansive development of huan social organisations, that
Africa is attempting to replicate. Development and
infrastructural provisions are neccessities as much as they
are evocative desires to complement nature to realise
physical states over and beyond mere essentials for
sustaining existence. There is a critical level where the
combining of relevancy and artistic expressivity when
realised across a broad stream of the society is bound to
create indicative change in systemic whole and could be
geometrically improved to affirm the directive growth of
society in ever increasing dynamic improvement.
Development as in all cultures borrows extensively from
existing knowledge base, but its essential configural nature
is that it must find local expression at some level of its
realisation, it is this which makes, adaptive growth a
worthwhile desired global end, the diversity in the
expressive art of added values, rather than a motonous
unvaried monochrome photocopying effort. The sort for
development is a speedy replication exercise of what is
existing in internal system states, it is a grounded mind
state exercise to generate continuity in higher quality
systemic planned and fully realised strategic alteration of
the natural evolutionary process, in situ.

All developmental efforts without exception must

compliment nature, no matter how radically the
transformation processes involved are. Thus, the pervasive
attraction of nature, is in its sublime infectious emanative
calmness and the consequent induced reduction of stress
that it facilitates upon the social collective and its
contructions. The ruggedness and rough provisions must
altered to enhance maximum accessibility and increased
benefit therein emerging. In that process, nature's
untainted beauty in its original state must be engineered for
increased value, contrary to the existing dismal state. The
existing free ranging encroachment on the beaches, (The
beaches must be completely free of unnnecessary human
structures for at least 800 metres from the wavelines, to
ensure that the beauty of untainted and undisturbed peace
remains as a common location for relaxation) the river and
stream basins, the lake front despoilations; these are the
inability of governemnt's to effectively regulate and
structure the only beauty left untainted by the mediocrity of
the inadequate administrative procedures set in place in
place to manage the modernisation process and its social
machinations. In the midst of inadequate social framework,
the growing cities in many places, are but unrestrained land
gulping menageric unmediated removal of the sublimity of
greenery in large uninterrupted space to break the
concretisation that passes for cities. In the midst of the one
place where a blend of trees and infrastructures would
have created utmost beauty; inadequacy and
incompetency have limited city planning to limited spaces
of irrelevancies, where the land title battles eclipse the
higher and more relevant city-nature blending that will
ensure future cities in yet evolving societies of planned
realisation that evokes the sublime beauty of nature
becalming effect in the midst of the masses. The false
assumption there could be a recourse to temporary
development until creative room could be evinced at a later
more comfortable stage of the collective mind growth state,
is a faint probability but all reason indicate that it is best to
have high quality at each implementation of the
development agenda that will undergo modification and
improvement with the progres of time as such
implementations age with grace, rather than allow the
ugliness to permeate and suffuse the landscape with
suffucating abandon. It would seem that there is a lacking
of the delicate finesse to mediate in the midst of the raw,
untendered energy, that is driving the individual motive in
the socially uncohesive shamble of disengaged leadership,
such that while, the leadership relieves itself of core
definitional activities that it is supposed to provide and
prepare the private sector to take over through shared
responsibility between the collective interest and the
ownership interest, through a gradual preparatory shift of
responsibility. The speed of disengagement is nit being
matched be the active effective implementation of
supervisory policies that will monitor and mould the
emerging hitherto uncensored individual centered social
growth spurt. The excessive implementation of rules and
static state controlling laws definitely will stifle growth and
individual explorative desires, but the ineffieciency in
control methods will instuitionalise chaotic development.
Social expression must be moulded within limited bounds
of acceptability, lest there be a massive outpouring of
individual idiosyncracies causing distortions in the ordered
social semblance. Pointedly, not all that is individually
convenient, is socially beneficial, thus the mediation
between the government and the society's constituents
must be maintained at an extremely high tempo. The
reason being that all forms of social expression must find
meaningful structure within defined social framework. The
nature of that framework requires extreme sensitive, rather
than the forced marshalling of the individual freedom to
conform to some ill-fitting generalised social strait iron. The
viable individual creative energy must be harnessed,
controlled to find expression through socially acceptably
and system developing constructs, lest, in the midst of the
noisome irascible nondefinitive changing transformational
shift, it, in frustratation, turns on itself, and become a
socially disabling force, of infinite devious inevntiveness in
its crudity. It is the responsible leadership role to invent the
social environment where all energy are directed towards
positive ends.

Dancing by the fire, he learnt soon enough.

He had come along way, far away from somewhere
With hopes and a pulsating energy to fulfish a wish
'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride'
Riding the high horse of honest thought
He was thrust into the fray
Stinging flames lashed out
Rapacious tongues licking in long abrasive strokes
He bore the scars and learnt, real quick
Hopping with one foot over burning coals at the edge
of the circle of flames, he stood his ground with
patient resilient.
The warrior has faced his test, in the heat of the battle
Steady heads carry the day
And what a long day it turned out to be.

The easiest solution to a problem is to 'sweep it under the

carpet.' To pretend the problem is not the and silently
wishing it away. The sad truth for leaders and social
architects is that social problems are not only stagnant if
left unresolved, but they aIso tend to multiply, thus delay
and false pretence hardly solve the great social problems it
only deepens them, entrenching them firmly in the social
landscape and widening their effects. Thus by pretending
that ignoring attempting bold solutions to irritating problems
works by keeping the irritant out of disruptive view, and
thus eliminates the consequent emotional upsets at both
the problem source and the solution end. In the wider
viable system of complex entities in complex social
configurations there is only increasing ramifications of the
problem. This error complicates simple problems to
become major social accretions, and creates the ground for
severe social disruptions. The leadership role position is
the only one centrally located enough to engage in problem
sourcing and solution generation, adopting an interactive
strategy of resorting to involved rather than standoffish
approach. In a rather sad, but nevertheless amusing
manner, leaders have been garnering expertise at problem
dodging than a gradual one stop problem elimination
strategic orientation. Thus there is a shift from actual and
expected problem solving to a devious artform of
camouflaging process. Translated to real terms, there is not
an increment in the expanded activities of the government,
but the growth in government has been minimising direct
impact on the severely deprived in society, while at the
same rate governing has become a social status role rather
than am exercise in social welfare, a deviation that has
focused on the individual benefit of the persons in
leadership role and a decrement in concern for those that
need to be positioned in social upgradement effort. In the
absence of a reversal of activities that will refocus the acts
of government in directions that have widespread social
benefit, the entrenched poverty will prevail and expand in
its scope. For those outside the sphere of beneficial
influence capable of taking advantage of their existing
states to exploit capitalist economic organisation, it will get
only worse and worse. In the absence of concerted
government effort to enact and implement far reaching and
drastic policies and administrative measures, the continent
will be a mass of poverty of seething seas of slum and
poverty dotted with islands of taunting wealth. In both
worlds there will be no joy, or only pretence and fear. Just
because the few who are capable of bringing the required
solutions have attained their own ends does not merit a
disdainful disregard for their compatriots, while the majority
appreciate the reality that in a world structured around
money and its supply as a control for development, what is
required is a mind state and a spirituality of enagaged
concern that in the effused social philosophy reassured the
populace throug overt acts of concerned effort, that their
leaders are not only pursuing their tasks with qualified
ability but perfoming in expected directions. In its absence,
their seems a surrealistic exercise of barely tolerable social
robbery, its acts are evidence of its crime. 'Run the
government such that it is just about socially sustainable for
the indvidual plundering to continue.' The crime is not only
the acts of commital but the acts of ommission that deny
the present and the future constituents adequacy of
expected states of existence. Unless there is a forceful
departure to securing the individual interest and security,
unless the leaders are enlightened realists stretching their
suporific minds drowning in the elusive reality, stretching
their imaginative creative mind to create a new artform of
social designation that dignify existence. Together, the
desparate and the sated are walking the same path of pain,
pain of the things that could have been, but are not,
because no one is ready to rise above himself, from the
sucking pit of irrelevant clamouring catching hold and
drowning the brightest ideas in the murky darkeness of a
people strayed of the path of truth and honesty and lost in
the grasslands of falsified deceptiveness. That which you
can truly enjoy and fully delight is what the hard work
etches from the flimsy firmness of the idealistic mind.
Idealism must find social worthwhileness in enabling
departure from the existing pain.
Adaptation is the essential cultural component of
development, the raw and unadapted technology stripped
of its social relevance and cultural enhancement, is nothing
more than a foreign implantation in a diseased body. Much
as the body will benefit positively from absorbing and
accepting the foreign implantation, the social body like the
physical body finds itself in auto self destruct rejection of
the foreign graft into its ailing body. Thus the acceptance
and amiable adaptation at the individual level has yielded
more astute transfer of technology, while at the higher
social level of government and leadership processes, there
is a lack of appreciation of the full workings of the needed
foreign imports meant to facilitate the social transition
transformation process. The failure to fully adjust the
leadership processes to facilitate smooth growth, is
reflected in the existing society where barely restrained
chaos veils the restless masses, struggling in the absence
of the required social framework to find the individual
expression in the unsupportive social system. All evidence
indicate unambiguously that social growth on the scale
required to enable full approximation of the modern state
desired across the social stream will never full emerge
unless massive system alteration accompanied by the
needed inputs are injected into the system to realise the
desired state by the statal apparatus. When the society is
weaned adequately enough to assume individual control for
the social benefit, the government can then begin to
transfer responsibility from state ownership to private
sector ownership, where apparently there is more
commitment to sustain over the long run. The returns for
government is an expanded base for taxation and system
sustenance. The poor are stripped of all their active
contributory capacity, and whatever the society can benefit
from them is left to waste, value emerges from quality in a
sense, and it is society's responsibility at the leadership
level to infuse value into its human potentials and derive
benefit for the whole society in return. The awareness
permeates the society that the initial investment and effort
to uplift the larger ignored mass of the society does not
have any direct profit benefit and thus has little relevance to
profit oriented private sector investors, however as stated,
in the absence of the prepared bases upon which the
private sector can increase and expand their activities, the
whole developmental processes is a fluke. Indeed the
provision of the needed infrastructural provisions for rental
occupation and usage is beyond immediate relevance to
the masses languishing in poverty, irrespective of how
critical these provisions are to the long term system
development. The society is lagging severely, displaying
the extremes of all the characteristic associative aspects of
poverty. That poverty is a mind state reflected in physical
deprivations is inarguable, the poor segment of society has
stagnated by choice or denial, in a state where their needs
are not met by the provisions available, whether those
provisions are mental upgrading through education or
material provisions, in the end the lack impacts the end
state of the individual retrogessively progressively. Beyond
the infusion of the needed technological base, the
contribution that the continent makes to that technology is
adapting it to local conditions by complementation. The
appropriate adaptation process endears and nurtures
social identification, the disparity between the government
and the governed is assuming annoying proportions, to the
extent where all government activities are interpreted as
detrimental to individual enjoyment of their God given
natural benefits. The truth that has receeded with reality is
that the apparent distance of government from the people
and their interests, to that of a parochial interest serving
body of absurdities is an indication of the transitional
phase, rather than the permanent reality.As society
progresses the rulers only distance from the ruled is in their
mind utilisation capacity rather their self serving
capabilities. It is up to the governed to elect mind states
rather than vocal rabble rousing capabilities in their
leadership choices. Leaders who cannot articulate
specified measurable end achievements within the broader
social framework (yet to be articulated) are not capable of
realising these unstated and well defended ends. Thus
illiterate voters who desire literacy for their children must
seek for how an elected government will realise this within
their backyards, rather than some vague, ill defined and
poorly articulated economic pronouncements. If the people
living in the savannahs want aircondiotioned busses or
aircondiotioned houses, they must see their desired
leadership aspirants expressing not only this wish but how
it will be attained within expanded mind states applying
existing and unexplored resource potentials. Thus a major
jump is made from empty political posturing to serious
application of existing data, resources and potentials, in a
focused effort from potential leaders to project realistic
ideas that will whet the appetites of receptive citizenry.
When standards are of expected political posturing emerge
from within the people, it should put a brake on dimwitted
pranksters who by their gamey political ignorance and the
indiffirence of an apathetic public, together sustain the
existing state of continental decay. From the trivial to the
crucially important, the people must desire improved
conditions and coerce their leaders to awake from the
slumber of inefficiency. From clean towns to clean waters,
from continental inter-university contacts to continental
tourism, from green cities to accessible beaches; the
people have the power in their votes to demand
specification from their leaders. Much as the virtues of far
thinking and imaginative creative ability in social organising
capacities are extolled virtues of leaderships, in most cases
the visionary idealisations of the leader must be in rhythm
with the general trend of desired expectations of the
governed, even as it transcends the common mind in its far
reaching visualisation visionary capacities. Thus leaders
and the led must complement each other in the social
organising process. Whatever that is desired would have to
be struggled to be attained, any developmental projection
over and above the existing demise, of truncated growth,
stagnated before it could set actual course, would come
through a concerted effort to refocus the continental
psychic energy of the united mind set in far reaching
combination of bulk energy and salient mind set. The
longer there is time wasted purveying dead beat policies as
the future, the longer the masses will remain in states of
drifting deawoods in the sea of global progression. This is
the time to be sourcing for talents and geniuses, not the
time for brutish torment of tired children and wearied
mothers. The rest of the human community are headed
upwards and away, forging a path they have no
patience or interest in being dragged to the past in the
present and all its worrisome toils of closed minds. Not only
must the leaders seek for help, but the must achieve in real
time and real terms to warrant any interest. Who wants to
waste resources on unpromising inconsequences, that the
continent has defined itself to be. In a way the belief has
been created and by realising by the leadership, that
whatever resources are worthwhile will depart to find
sustenance and development elsewhere and expend its
created values their, outside. The solution is within the
masses, who must be rediscovered by their leaders and
put to all embracing use. The efforts of a few individuals
following their interests have changed the scope of all, but
their idiosyncracies found effective social platform, carefully
contrived by perspicuous mind sets to enable widespread
effect and sustained development. These individuals
achievements have become grand acclamations of extolled
pride by society at large. If the narrow social spectrum is
not effectively widened to embrace the whole society, the
parochial parodying of external, all embracing reality,
passing for status quo of select benefit and distinctiveness
will keep the continent in backward suspended animation of
futility. The bonds of restrictive constraints must be
breached, forcefully rent and forced to yield to the
expanded mind state realisation, which combines intellect
with desires to realise a new continent of dignified
existence across the social stream. Enough priceless life
has been wasted, the next revolution is the application of
active, adept and agile minds adapting to conquer
ignorance, in grandiose acts of achievements, bringing
budding hope to maturation. The struggle to overcome
ignorance is merely highlighted pari passu the
developments and advancements made in other societies,
invariably, it is a struggle that is inseparable from humanity
and the search for secured existence. Preparing the society
for the way forward. There is a repetitious cycle within each
level of attainment, beyond which the mind must traverse
and bring into being ever higher levels of achievements,
each with its soon established cyclical repetitiveness. For
the larger masses, of the continent, they have not even
made it up the first rung of applying the mind state to
seeming ambiguity. Therein lies the rut within which the
cycle of poverty is activated in ever tightning loops of
hopeless frustration. To be able to break the iron grip of
that tightning loop will require great ingenuity, capable
leadership skills and adaptation of external resources,
rather than any form outpouring of donations from some
assumed sated external grouping. Social orientation is ever
evolving, and there will never be any stage of satisfactory
attainments, where total attention will turned to any other
grouping lagging behind in the social evolution scale. Even
if this awareness permeates the continent, the leaders
seem in no hurry or worry to speed up their act, even
begging requires skillfull maneuvering, how much more
wealth creation, this time social wealth reflected in general
social improvement. The people are not only starving for
material needs, they are begging for the appropriate social
framework, where their minds and talents can find
expression, that is why for the continent, the developmental
needs supercede economic self sufficiency; that is barely
the beginning. The actual liberation is that which liberates
the minds crying to find expression. Facilitating
infrastructural provisions that enable accessing the
expanding flow of information and providing structuration
processes within which they can be understood, applied as
learning tools, adapted to create diversity is certain to be
the core responsibilty of the more relevant education format
at higher levels. Levels that are within the common grasp
but made inaccessible by leaders preoccupied with petty
irrelevancies (Any effort that centers on self interest at the
level of leadership, is petty and irrelevant to the greater
task of realising society's expectation). The continent will
have to 'pluck in midstream' to the rest of humanity's
development, beginning from graded states of
primitiveness is a non-viable espousal of defective
defunctionalism. If the continent is going to be of any use to
its self, it must begin to unwind itself from the lure of under-
development and face the more difficult task of how to
create relevancy for itself that keeps it abreast with its
needs and their provisions.

If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor

he too will cry out and not be answered.
Proverbs 21:13.
The poor have closed their ears to their own cries, they
have attended with barely suppressed excitement to their
leaders, wishing to hear the proclamations of hope amidst
the gloom of despair, and all they hear is their own faltering
heartbeats.

Between the blazing flame

and the freezing cold
there is only one certainty
a chill that burns to the bone.

People wanted so much to give something of themselves to

the emerging societies, the nameless, faceless individuals,
spread across the landscape of the transitional society
were ready to be patriotic even when the fatherland was
lost in transition between primitive traditional society and
post independence meaninglessness. The leaders in
response, not only vacuumed the limited wealth of
relevance, but sucked the aspirations out of the populace
by creating intense vacuums of functional indequacy in task
definition and perfomance. Without regret and without
pause they have created instituitions of famed
incompetence. Thus, while there could be pride within the
continental community in the little that has been done so
far, in the light of the gapping lapses and incoherent future
outcomes, unanimous pride in societies actually developing
have converged on individual achievement, while the
system frameworks unsteady at best, often times topples
over in many places, plunging an already dismal state of
affairs into seeming oblivion. There is sequestered
displacement of nonavailable funds in debts that have
sated the wane appetites of selfish ineptitudes who have
tossed the common inheritance in games of dice and
brought heartaches to their 'sorrowing sibblings and
infantile responsibilities', both sets of dependents are
inavoidably totally dependent on a social system that by all
indications is incapable, not by natural limitation of
endowed nature, rather by willfull exempt or total
inadequacy in appreciating comprehensively, system
potentials and capabilities in its fullest and most effective
applicatory engagement. There has not been evidenced
any significant variations in patterns of effective social
organisation in any trans-continental social grouping within
any defined geographic configuration, that being the case,
the essential role of government as the influential orienting
core of viable system development and sustenance is
unobviated and unnegotiable. Government and central
leadership role in the continental groupings will remain the
determining factor in ultimate realisation of the individual
aspirations and desires, and until the leadership role is fully
awakened to the full responsibilitites of their role
requirement, the lopsided ongoing social development
process will become a future catalyst for social dissolution.

From a wider perspective of the continent within the scope

of other cultures and social systems. Internally weak and
undeveloped structures, create a potential accpetance of
the infusion of projected inadequacy that in gaining
widespread acceptance will instuitionalise failure as a
continental realiity, rather than internal inadequacy that
need be isolated and resolved. The external societies have
by dint of variations in socio-environmental pressures taken
a jump leap in development and mind state development, it
offers for the feeble start off the continent myriad
advantages, the strongest being that, earlier stated, of
learning from the mistakes of the pathfinders, while not
neceassrily walking in the exact same tracks, the will
inevitable head and are headed in the same direction. That
of constantly improving the state of human existence
through the development of applicatory enhancing
procedures and products to improve states of existence
across the social stream. The continent can look to the
external social systems, but there is no hard and fast
approach that decrees a mandatory obeyance to these
external societies. For the continent, competitive growth is
not the way forward, while complementary development is
recommended, in terms of the development of broadplans
to improve the existing states of social organisation. Just
like a giant multinational corporate with enough financial
resources to control and significantly influence its
environment, no matter how powerful it becomes, such a
behemoth is constantly recreating and seeking from
smaller entities the cutting edge knowledge base to remain
an agile giant, rather than a lumbering dinousaur. While the
continent is like a complacent elephant savouring the
afternoon sun, baking its tough hide. It is about time there
is a recourse to borrowing the social ideologies of the
efficiency of the ant's social organisation skills, which
necessitates a role for each and every member of the
society, in ensuring a viable and self sustaining ant hill. The
elephant counts on its individual strength and ability to
forceful obtain from its environment, to cater for its small
group. The ant is commited to social dependence and joint
effort to ensure its sustenance. Excessive capitalism, in a
society in transitional transformation, just like excessive or
all out socialism, lives far too many human detritus in its
wake. These uncared human social consequences of
ineffective social organisation, are much too expensive and
unaffordable in terms of wasted talents and human
resources. Indeed no single human life is discardable,
much more so on continent where so much remains to be
done. The individual effort to prove their human intellectual
capacity and productive labour, falters in the face of the
lack social support at the higher levels of leadership, thus
excessive labour and mental effort is severely
shortchanged.

"Because of the oppression of the weak

and the groaning of the needy,
I will now rise," says Jehovah.
"I will protect them from those who
malign them."
And the words of Jehovah are flawless,
like silver refined in a furnace of clay,
purified seven times.

O Lord, you will keep us safe

and protect us from such people for
ever.
The wicked freely strut about
when what is vile is honoured among
men. Psalm 12 :5-8

The mind activities that lie beyond the materialism that has
stunted activities on the continent are the zones where
there can be unlimited expansion in the range of human
activities. When the material requirements that money
economy facilitates has been met, there remains the
greater and barely touched blossoming of creative
intellectual capacities displayed through the exercise of
wide ranging individual interest exploration, involving the
application of physical exertion to the realisation of higher
intellectual activities. Thus, even governments that
provides all the needed infrastructural requirements of
modernity, have to grapple with the greater, yet fully
unrelsolved task of putting into place system structures
designed to facilitate the awakening of the fullest
exploration of ideas emanating from citizens in comfortable
positions of daily existence where attention has shifted
from the 'money motivated struggle' to sustain basic
existence to explorative exploitative states of teasing mind
creative abilities to generate dual purpose human
enhancing effects, with the greater weight being on the
non-materialistic derived satisfaction of adding value to the
self and more importantly to society. A situational zone
realised within amenable social configurations but intensely
individualistic, personally realised, self satisfying, but
dependent on organised social systems, where after the
fundamental material needs have been sustainably
engineered into the daily stream of social existence, the
mind is enabled some reserve energy to engage in creative
thinking that attempts to realise what starts out as idealistic
musings, to wishful thinking and eventually additive
inventory leading to discoveries that supplement nature's
provision to enhance and expand the scope of existing
human activities. These idealistic musings in one instance
or the pressured pursuit in search of diversity or
competitive urge with a finacial interest are all a step above
the existing search for sustenance that grip the masses on
the continent. There are pockets of 'cultivated mind activity'
centered around formal designated arrangements, that by
their very nature, are gripped within the restraints of
traditional forms of task realisation and thus by commission
self-defeating groupings of sustained frustration, (until in
despair they allow their intuitive curiosity and search for
diversity, unexploited and untested, to dissolve into the
sweltering pool of tropical ease and acceptance). -but- This
minor sector for the larger part is caught firmly in the grip of
imitatory and subservient mind discovery processes with a
thinly veiled layer of local authenticity. Like all other
previous systems, and as mentioned elsewhere in this
essay, their approach to discovery is an adoption of
promiscous borrowing. A tactical combination of existing
knowledge with a view to situational definitiveness that is at
once unique and reformationally introductory in being
instigants for diversity. There is a need to create inherent
quality in local production, taking the manufacturing sector
as an example, that builds trust and respect for continental
initiatives, a not so easily realisability. The assumption that
'certain things' are naturally occuring in society and social
organisation processes is an effective deterrent to
progress, inasmuch as whatever is naturally occuring is
predicated on well-thought out plans instituted with clear
cut expected outcomes, structured to definite ends. Thus
whatever the continent desires begins and ends with deep
commital at the higher mind explorative state. A gradual
de-emphasising of external preference and an incremental
preference for user emergent products is a free choice
realised by through leadership effort to create conditions for
its realisability. While the process will naturally realise itself,
it must be structured with a definitiveness that will be
realised within the social millieu by leadeship acting
strategically. To get to this point in significant measures,
there must be set in place, the social guidelines and the
provisions that liberate the active mind set to shift from
primary survival states mediated by money and material
needs across the wider social stream, thus liberating the
mass mind capacity to be creatively engaged with
purposive intent to be imaginatively productive with an
intent.

A social system can, by some flimsy, formally grounded

free uncoordination process with a thinly veiled pretense of
formal planning yield all the temporarily desired benefits of
the desired expectations, but like a poorly built house with
a beautiful façade collapse when unpredictable forces of
powerful storms descend suddenly upon such a structure.
Thus, the hitherto expressed need to sewn a tenous
linkage through the existing system variable components of
continental systems, is meant to ensure a thorough
rethinking of constituent core component varible dynamic
states to ensure social sustenance, and a required
reanalysing of aspects of the grand social computational
process to identify, rectify and correct glaring and hidden
faults, that left unresolved become future menaces of
embedded structural defects exposing existing social
system to a sort of layering, delusional progression that
attempts to enhance system defects by ignoring them
creating unaviodable threat to future stability and uniform
development, within the existing near failure.

The difficulty of evolving from the existing reality a firmly

grounded directive articulate expressibility or sets of
patterns of thoughts that reach deeper than short and
medium term development plans, debt relief and economic
plans, and from such deep seated foundation enabling a
worthwhile projection into desired future states, belies the
reality that there are no easy remedies. But like all things of
such seemingly complex nature the best approach is the
adoption of simple, directly relevant themes, that by their
responsive adaptiveness become thematic mind stimulants
instigating sector relevant self definitive idealisations in
response to system requirements. The existing problems
are least likely to find solution through existing knowledge,
much as the dramatic departures through extending the
flexible mind states are rooted in past preparedness of the
mind to be capable of radical departures in seeking
extreme responses grafted to meet ailing and stagnant
system needs. The most difficult path to negotiate in the
existing continental transformational shift process is the
flexibility for diversity in unitary pursuit of commonly held
desires mutually realised for each and every one.
The majority of the masses are circumstantially configured
individuals acting out improperly understood role occupant
positions with pretentious bluffy self assuredness of
underserving or deserving inheritors of progress or misery
as the case may that, they have come into. In most cases
the past has little to do with the present nor does it define
the future. In other cases the past is a straggling hindrance
bogging down the future in the present. The momentum of
developmental shift is not a totally irrational uncoordinated
social upheaval. Understanding this truth is essential for
the appreciation of the idea that 'the radical' is often times
highly controlled, modulated and strategically realised.

One inconvertible truth that continues to haunt generations

of radical forward thinkers seeking to spark off the great
mind shift that will usher in the true independence of the
continent from restrictive and destructive traditionalism, one
that has been mentioned heretofore, is the seeming
dependence of the continent on outside systems. No
matter how conceived, it must be acknowledged that
dependency and its consequences are consciously
manipulable essentialities of the developmental process,
where better organised and by coordination stronger social
systems, having gained economc ascendancy and by
creating value out of the non-material mind state position
themselves to be transiently powerful determinants of the
outcomes of weaker systems. Weaker systems are by
natural designation opportunity social organisms, playing
dumb, snivelling, borrowing and improving upon their
existing positions, with a hope and a pursued aspiration to
improve upon their existing states. Social systems are multi
component dependent composites, the componential
constituents are varied by role importance, but the
wholesomeness of the whole organic being involves the
well being of all constituent elements, even the vestigial or
seemingly irrelevant. It is a basic assumption, that any and
every leadership role must integrate into its organising
scheme to sustain system viability. The extent to which
leadership on the continent attempts to play this non-partial
supportive sustainable role without discriminatory favour of
providing the nourishing provision that disseminates
unhindered to be utilised as each and each component is
disposed to utilise the determines the eventual outcome
state. For the continent, having discarded the earlier held
assumption, that just by dint of their positional role as
financial-economic regulators and controllers, outside
system have the last say on continental outcomes, next
comes the more important responsibility of how to position
the leadership practices to lock into these superior social
systems and project to continetal desired states. As
changing global realities deemphasise the prior pursuit of
one up policies that favour deliberate stemming of self-
emergent growth effort, the glaring inadequacies or general
non existent of the philosophic grounding of designated
social frameworks will reveal the dearth of inadequacy in
leadership ruling strategies where existing vacuous states
and aspects of leadership virtually crumble and collapse
due to exiting blocks of excuse that propped up defects in
the continetal social organisation system, these blocks that
propped up inefficiency did so, by providing easy and
uncontestable escapes for leaders that were and are out of
loop, one thus defers failure to some unverified external
grand conspiracy. Even if there exists a grand conspiracy
to frustrate the aspirations of the continent since cultural
absorption is dynamic, one expects leadership processes
to nimbly find full realisations within new expressions of old
patterns. Thus how about boosting local eco-agro products
like 'brukutu' by transfering and transforming informal social
meeting places into informational dens. A state sponsored
cybercafee joint with a slightly different slant, will enable
people to enter 'watering holes' to utilise technological
gadgets that keep them in touch with their parliamentary
representatives, while continuing such ageold activities as
meeting informal to socialise. The idea is to break new
grounds but not necessarily distorting social semblance
more than is necessarily. For even positive changes can be
rejected if they are out of sync with the natural flow of
social activities. Thus, in another instance while city
planning and infrastructural provisions are intensely
desired, it is irritating to merely build beautiful apartments
that are not occupied because the people most in need of
accomodation cannot afford them, or people in working age
will be frustrated to distraction if they are provided with all
creature comforts and are then deprived of opportunities to
make honest living through the expending of their energy.
What must become a constant awareness to the leadership
is the fact that every social construct is a deliberate attempt
to make nature accomodating to human needs, that being
the case, for the most part as said elsewhere, the activities
of government, which in recent times have focused on
profitability, in a renegotiated definition of reality, must shift
back to primarily creating social relevance and when
efficiently run, self maintaining. Thus while the earlier push
towards industrialisation expanded the economic base over
and above traditional agriculture, creating social relevance
through providing employment, most of the industries failed
for reasons that can be reconfigured as an inability to
balance the desire for independence with a sustained effort
to establish the environments within which growth is
additive. That fundamental lack of a directional philosophy
has not been filled because for the most part the
governments have been unstable bunches peddling petty
inconsistencies of either no relevance or short term
relevance. Leaving the larger complex task of linking the
growth chain through the systemic whole and drawing the
whole system along the growth path. Societies are
extremely complex and there are no short cuts to
consistent well formulated guiding principles to direct the
course of their developments. The existing social agenda is
lacklustre at best and nonexistent at worse, excusing that
vacuum by extolling capitalist market economics as an end
solution to all social ills will only further distort an already
vague scenario. Thus there must be a matching of physical
provisions with subtler inconspicuous needs to enable
complementarity that extends from physical provisions to
balanced emotional and mind states for sustainable social
coherence. Benevolent despots have marshalled
redundant and passive humanity resigned to a listless
existence of inconsequentialities, set definite tasks that
extended for their life times and built society's that have
become models worthy of emulation at some levels, or
have engaged abundant energy in meaningless bloodlust
and wasted precious life and stilled social progress. For the
continent, there is the benefit of hindsight, which in being
overlooked has created a strange repetitious cycle which
needn't be of wasted lessons. (The circuitious speech
patterns of traditional societies, was a mark of great
wisdom which kept certain discussions to deeply discerning
individuals of the elderly class, they spoke with deliberation
and a seeming lack of haste, indeed, traditional society
recognises the need for thoroughness in arriving at
decisions, they matched thorough deliberation with clarity
of thought to link decision making as an exercise in higher
mental faculties. Thorugh deliberation is so important in
traditional societies that haste is recommended to be
embarked on slowly, to emphasise this aspect of social
comportment, they recommed that never interrupt a man in
the middle of a meal to deliver warning of an imminent
invasion by marauding enemies. Certain things need to be
thoroughly elaborated, but deliberateness is no excuse for
conspicuous lapse.) The essential point being made here is
that while the appreciable acquirables will invariably
permeate society, there is a need to structure responsive
social systems that will facilitate the easiest saturation of
growth provisions without unnecessary social upheaval
calling attention to problem areas and areas in need of
attention. That this has not been the pattern does not imply
that it couldn't be achieved if the right minds are set to task.
The social change phenomenon is in some cases
inevitable or going to be inevitable, the implication being
that general society is not going to wait for segments to go
through the same developmental stages with the same
faults to approximate existing states, rather, with the
appropriate framework, innovative infusions will make ever
deeper inroads into the social fabric. Presently, even the
very nature of that 'social fabric' apart from its being in
tatters, is yet to be fully analysed to yield its intricate
constituent components and the weave pattern(s) that
holds the fabric in place. Thus the argument being made
here is that, one can dye 'the fabric' or patch it, but the best
alteration can only be undertaken if one has acquired a
fairly deep appreciation of not only how the existing fabric
is intergrated and interconnected, but also how in
reweaving this colorful social garment, the threads of varied
qualities are brought together to recreate a perfect
harmonious blend of complementing qualities. Thus, even
after technological hardwares of information technology
and the masses of available information is made accessible
by the benign provisions of the information age to all
without exception, a perfectly crafted social philosophy is
needed that directs the application and directive influence
upon which turns the palpably feasible instrument into
creative tools for regenerating active minds with a
responsive agenda, rather than another means of stiffling
growth. The reason that a flexible philosophical advocacy is
being touted instead of the strait laced developmental
policies format hitherto preffered is that (such
developmental plans are specified time related constructs
to realise materially mediated ends, that often get bogged
down and keep the social progress in negative time lapse
'provision-need' mode states, as against real time
developemental variable states, where on the contrary
there is a 'quick jump' social organisational orientation that
enables 'graft jumps' to enable adept response potential
capabilities matching social provisions to the exigent states
in real time.) the appropriate response is mainly the need
for flexible responsiveness in totally progressive systems
with an all inclusive 'block segment' shift adaptiveness.
The 'block segment shift' enables a society to progress
through blocks of changes where each block is a segment
in time with specified ends being approximated for the
whole society and as massed variables that determine
system require another 'block shift' the whole society is
ushered into the next phase of growth. This stands in
contrast to disparate stream change processes, where
individuals within the society by dispositional preferential
location of states of ability enjoy a certain advantage, which
became a desired pursuit for the rest of society who are
then pulled along. Pure capitalist economic states reflect
this type of change, they are expositions partially focused
on a segment of the society and on wealth generation
within that section, a process stripped of the emotional
reality that society is made up of people who must be
positioned to take full benefits of whatever human
enhancement provisions that society makes available to its
constituents. Whereas, the 'block shift' change evolves in
social systems strongly structured around social
inclusiveness as a society's mode of social organising
principle, every major social progression thus is a
wholesale orchestrated movement that by all its
inclusiveness nature moves society en mass.

The unresolved dilemma, one that needs to be re-

assessed, is who takes responsibility for those who
have been bypassed in the unrelenting emotionless
passion of the rapacious competitiveness that pits the
overindulged strong against the deprived weaklings?
What kind of society is the continent evolving, when in
the house of poverty and deprivations, in the arms of
hungry mothers, the cries of the deprived do not
nudge the leaders awake from somnolent
overindulgence, touching their minds, pricking their
emotions and setting their passions alight to establish
foundations of hope on the strength in the midst of the
weakest of their composite composition and by so
doing raise foundations of growth that will never
crumble because they are established on the light of
pure minds borne by the higher states of full insight
sensitive to the accumulated pains of the generations,
pouring forth as the prolonged wails of the masses
quietly being bled to their slow deaths? Let the
leaders be constantly conscious of the sea of the
masses of suffering humanity in the midst of so much,
let them toss and turn in the 'sweat of their failures'
and in the soaking comfort of their beds of pinful
failure, beds metaphorically, dripping with the blood of
the wasted lifes dripping to waste because of their
failures and the collective torment their failures visit
daily on the innocence lifting its head looking for
succour where there is none, let their restlessness set
them to task seeking for a way out of the misery, the
times are disproportionately aligned with the needs of
the people. Out of the emotions aroused, let the
 leaders arise to the greater and truer task ahead, set
their collective mentality and work out a plan, instead
of excessive preoccupation with base material
pursuits with limited benefits.

The continent cannot ever evolve self sustainability by

depending on an economy that is structured around the
benevolence of the outcomes of others economic well-
being, a dependency mentally that is incontrovertibly of
critical concern, especially, when the "supposed
benefactors" are themselves attempting to grapple
imperfect systems to sustain their viability as productive
society, generating values for their inhabitants. Much as the
existing situation may seem inevitable, it is again a
bondage of the mind that must be freed of its dependency
mentality and seek for refreshing basis for continental
sustenance, idealing and instituting economies that are
grounded upon continental determinancies. The outside
world will remain a treasure trove for hunting worthy
knowledge with a selective bias, but the desired outcomes
of the continent can never be fully attained if they are
largely determined by forces beyond the control of the
system. A weak, fault ridden internally controlled system
can seek for assistance to remedy its fault, but by allowing
its self to become manipulable pawns, their essential
relevance will be a consequence of forces seeking to better
their own societies. Such external systems have conditional
concern for the well-being of the continent. That there is
little lee way for economic independence more than
anything should give room for joy, for it implies that the
leaders have manifold unrealised tasks that will occupy the
existing generations and the generations to come with full
employable activities. It now only depends on the
continents leadership to define and elaborate the nature of
their tasks and set in motion the means to engage the rest
of the society to be employed in fulfilling these great
assignment. A position that will spring forth hopeful joy from
the midst of the masses as they toil to build a future, even if
its full realisation is beyond their brief span of individual
existence. The leaders cannot and should not be
complacent, attempting with painful failure to resort to
minimal mind exertion with maximal brutishness to build a
future out of the existing ashes of past relevance. There is
a need to pursue a course of redefining fundamental
variable states, to forceful eject energy into dormant states
and push the limits and the barriers of existing futility, by
forging out hitherto untrodded paths, by carving reality out
of the parched deserts of knowledge and bringing
fulfillment to the masses hungry with unsatisfied
expectations. The undefinability of exactly what passes for
appropriate leadership task behaviour, no doubt, reflects in
the lack of concreteness in even the expressions extolling
change. Change is all desirable but what, how and by what
means, remain as the stumbling blocks. The blocks must
set upright and surmounted, and in being overcome the
new beginning sought for will begin to take shape and
discernible form. Basic and difficult questions are
necessary, more important is seeking across the span of
soceity for answers and practical solutions. The most
primary needs are material needs, and here the most
vexing problem is that why is it, even within the continent is
there an adoption of inferior quality as a conditional
embellishment of poverty. A poor society must be geared
towards high quality and durability, so that limited
resources have equitable usage. In anycase, wealth
derives from society and the source of creative wealth
generating lies unexplored in the continental social
systems, held in postponnement while the continent is held
in tow by trans continental power bases whose primary
concern is anything but the people who sleep while their
farms breed weeds. The society is responsive to the
actions of its directive forces, and its outcome is inevitably
linked to the mental dispositions of its leaders and
management bodies. A nation in Africa, compared to an
individual, has more resource bases to create, within the
dictates of the times, a succesful organisation, which in its
yield has social relevance over and above monetary gains,
but many large wholesome communities are without a
single employment source, this is basic, even if it is a
community centered agricultural effort with an emphasis on
individual drive and ambition, many places are just deserts
of imaginary poverty gripping the masse in the irrelevancies
of the past and holding them in place and time. The people
have a clear mind as to what they want, they have a
misplaced sense about how it is to be achieved, and they
have accepted their existing despair as their reality. The
leaders are supposed to clear the mental cobwebs of the
past and seek for greater clarity in improved states of being
for the continent. Everything begins and ends in the social
organising realm with humans, God has adequately
equipped humans with the capacity to achieve their own
exalted and edifying forms of existence, otherwise man will
not be so bent. The existing challenges that face the
continent and its leadership is exactly the expected and the
norm, the challenge is needed to spike the workers to be
creative in meeting the obstacles the ask poses. That we
have been created with a mind that is curious, seeking to
find meaning and consistency in the befuddling existing
realm is undoubtable. Humans at all points in time, are
limited by their own insights, the future has been
established in consistent patterns waiting to be discovered,
the rest of the world have made some inroads, but in the
infiniteuos planes of reality to be accessed, there is so
much more that Africa can realise for itself, itself being the
people, the constituents and the landmass. The people
seemigly lost in a haze of uncertainties must awaken to
their responsibilities, they have been allotted as caretakers
of an ignored great responsibility, when they awaken to the
reality of their actual task, then they will blossom forth in
beauty, the dung of present degenerative self deprecation
will begin to make way, in the light of the concern for the
weak, bringing expressible beauty that uplifts the human
spirit, Africans are a God fearing people, even if at times or
through the times, their worship has been misplaced
through idolatry. The essential focality of God and the
principles of decent social organisation that His word
demands have and will remain at the centrality of
acceptable social organisation, inasmuch as human create
social relevance and utility by expanding that primary
knowledge base, society is on an even keel. That primary
knowledge is built up from the mundane moral ethics that
regulate social co-existence and tolerance for others other
than the self. At its centrality is social justice. From seeking
to improve the basic states, knowledge pushes beyond self
satisfactory imaginative engagement in the lull between
basic instinctual behaviour and self preservation and
survival concerns and seeks to provide expanded basis for
enhancing the quality of social existence. When the
continent is incontinent with despair the flushing out of the
effluvia of disreputable behaviour is an act of required
contrition to enable the creative mind set to be engaged in
an athmosphere of honesty and trust, where by the uplifting
of all, the fear of falling into the mire of misery is completely
eradicated. But there is order and consistency already
within creation, thus all it requires is to push beyond the
existing reality and a beginning to redefine reality in a
manner that edifies the whole of humanity.

Our people have sort relief in reality

In reality there was only despair
 They turn to their ancient past
But they found only suppression
They turned outside seeking relief
But they suffered affliction and oppression
Their very spirits are shedding tears of
hopelessness
They have sought for meaning but reality is
meaningless
The have turned to God
In Christ reality is cast in benign humaneness
Out of the stiffling despair and desperation
A new world of hope is being crafted.

From a self-confessional admittance acknowledgement of

severe lapses and inconclusiveness in problem delineation,
hopefully, a philosophy of development begins to take
shape, from simple, but essential considerations such as
what passes for such mundane considerations as, a public
housing policy; why should anyone incapable of not putting
standardised residences not be denied a place to live, to
reasons such as why individuals desirous of ownership but
incapable of meeting housing standards must denied from
littering the land with the inadequacies of structures that
stress the human sense beauty and value. In other words
value and emotional laden considerations in opposition
must be compromised with general and out of centrality to
individual interests such that the evolved laws are
responsive to individual philosophy that becomes infused
into the guiding principles of what a society desires and
how it should be accomplished. Out of diaphaneous,
seemingly unrelatedness, a linkage of harmony is
established that fuses hitherto conceived inconsiderate
legislation as only normal self-regulation that defines states
of disciplined existence. In the individuals action in
providing a place of residence should the housing and
building regulations be strictly enforced or overlooked, and
how current are those regulations with the existing trends?
By taking one infrastructural need area and deliberating
and articulating on core and fundamental principles of
human normalcy a theme is evolved that is an
underpinning of social evolvement and transformational
shift realisation. (For example society could begin by
specifying that a member of society up to twenty years of
age, up to the first univerisity degree level or unemployed is
deserving of a single room, with toilet facilities and a
kitchenette, unless that individual is capable of self
provision over and beyond this all applying regulation; a
married couple need two rooms and a guest quarters and
or a study room, and families must be provided with
accommodations needs commensurate with their needs,
has set into motion the initial deliberation process which
stretches across a wide range of related issues until it
comes down to how to realise our normal needs in a state
of low creativity, and crosses over and reaches into
unrelated or broader issues of settlement developments,
employment accessibility, thus the chain of social linkage
earlier mentioned is being forged through creative
intellectual idealisations to be transformed into structural
realities, a process that places the philosophy over time
and changing governments, legislations and rules and
regulations, but the expectations of that society have been
set in dynamic deliberation which the lesser more concrete
expressions realise and regulate. This the socially oriented
philosophy to underpin social transition and evolvement,
that the transitional continent lacks and by is its lack, in a
state of constant turbid uncertainty that must begin to be
addressed. The people must have a reference source for
affirming their rights, the idea has been within the collective
mentality, but is lacking expressive clarity of articulability
and thus has remained at the fringes of the individual mind
(and central to their needs) and the society, coming forth as
the constituition in a minimal form and developments plans
in attempted incomplete resolution at a structural level,
issues that have not been defined in detail at the massed
mind level of collective conscience articulation, beyond
place, time, individual and segmented interests, yet is
inclusive of all these and more, in establishing principles
conceived within social reality that is all considerate. The
constituitions are regularly suspended and have little
meaning for the definitional reality of daily existence of the
masses, development plans are appendages of the military
and their wild and incoherent interruptions in the governing
process and their inconsistent administrative processes.
The verity is that, anyone from any section of the society
can lead, but their failure is guaranteed in that their actions
are 'hiccups' and strangulating forceful ejections of 'fits of
coughs of implemented actions' in response to larger and
deeply permeating problems being dealt with superficially,
when in reality it should be one prolonged 'uninterrupted
song' punctuated with tactical deliberate pauses, with a
repetitive chorus. This is why in a way, while a part of the
appreciating mind acknowledges that developing the village
of the head of state by unilateral decision has added some
infrastructure, it is an act out of place by some fully
unexplained reason. That reason is the elaborate
delineation of the mind set of this diverse land mass
defining in clear and simple terms what it is that, they, are
deserving, as individuals realising themselves in a society
in dynamic transformational shift transition, attempting, as it
were to find yet unresolved realisations, to enable a full
settling into a new social reality from the previous agrarian
society where the focus was more on the individual ability
to a new and unsettling state where into the forseeable
future the individual is held in check by society's
amenability to concede to the individual desires. The
individual's desires no matter how high minded and noble
are conditional to social permissiveness, social
permissiveness is under leadership ability to not only
express it and engineer society to realise it, but conceive it
as ideals. The leaders like the people are just ordinary
people in more than ordinary situational settings; the
crossroads of societal transitional shift, how they act has
far reaching consequences, sustaining hope or sinking all
into despair and futile existence. The old ways have
finished their purpose, they are merely of use as historical
references. The new way ahead must be forged taking into
consideration the past, the present and the undiscerned
future. It requires bold initiatives and concern for the weak
and the poor, the very ones who by being uplifted will
eradicate the scar of past inadequacy in leadership
abilities, without taking the individual initiative and the
individual drive to achieve unhindered by social restrictions,
for this there are no existing models in previous social
systems to be followed. The poor, socially isolated and
denied weaklings, whose position has been established by
some inconclusive monetary and economic manipulation of
social organisation must be at the focus of the continental
leadership task, forcing a need for an earlier expressed
concern, the reconfiguration of the monetary economics
rather than individual focus as the ultimate determinant of
social outcome and expectations. Since this has been a
thorny issue at the core of continental organisation, much
as there would seem no way around that problem, it is by
that very difficulty that minds must be set to task to redefine
that issue and derive some more generally satisfying
arrangement, rather than stupidly and inanely following,
passively in the leash of acceptance of inadequacy,
passing for sophisticated aproximation to inadequate
system configurations that have been the bane of the
continent's insufficiency. The poor and the sidelined are the
very ones who in being catered for will enable the
emergence of some of the most beautiful expressions of
the malleable human mind in concrete productive
production. Since every human activity involves mind
activation procedures, one begins to wonder why there is
so much emphasis on "the mind state", the reason is
simply that, the continent's future outcomes does not lie in
the existing patterns of social organisation and the
repeated failures they have occassioned, the required
social organisation and its forms are beyond simply
importing foreign ideas of one 'ism' or another which by
themselves are not pure forms, and in their applications
have failed in many and some of their aspects. The
continent requires an untried radical model or sets of
hitherto untried agendas,which will require the application
of existing forms of knowledge with pure mind
manipulations of effecting an expected end using non
existent ideas to bring into being concrete reality of desired
ends, realities that have long been expected but have been
denied because the continent has not been able to 'jiggle'
itself out of the ruts of existing possibilities. The existing
has been birthed by bold leaders and thinkers refusing to
conform and to strike widely, seeking for solutions in
strange places within the malleable mind. These strange
places are strange only because they have not hitherto
been accessed by deep thinking and creative ability, as
pressure mounts in the concrete reality, the push change
instigates responsive solution seeking from deep functional
thinkers in rebellious isolation to the accepted norms and
'ways of doing things' that in being inadequate to the
society's needs and increasing problems have become
abberations. The existing 'normal' is its past contextual
realisation 'extremely unusual', in providing the desired
solutions they have become normal through acceptance or
tolerance and in their nonadaptability to changing
circumstances, restricting. There is the assumption being
made that the governing processes over the years has
lacked depth and perspecuity, and certainly there is a
broad assertion being made that the solutions reside in
revisualising the problems from unexplored solutional
perspectives. There is a vast difference between a social
structure that ensures that every child is accounted for and
eased into a school system, and stating compulsory
education as a right; and excusing children loitering in the
market place as being due to national economic malaise.
The difference is as far apart as seeking to find solutions to
putting all the children in school and seeking to update their
educational support material needs and infrastructural
lacks as against first seeking to provide all these needs and
then putting the uneducated children into provisions lagging
far behind their needs. Thus problem perception, innovative
solution seeking and radical transformative decision
making are related. If the problems are not set within the
appropriate perceptiveness the attempted solutions are
unlikely to yield the expected solution. The educational
policy is priority issue in all the continents various societies,
however, there remains the unresolved dilemma, as to
whether, partial solutions in such sensitive and far reaching
affairs as human devlopment and the future of the
continent deserves the lacklustre insignificance it assumes.
Indeed if there is one sector of the continents
developmental effort that should be pursued by
approximating and superceding the rest of the world, it is in
the area of education. The continent is unable to proceed
beyond simple and crude initiatives that throws resources
into unappreciative or 'post-training ignored' brilliant youth
who then spend the rest of their miserable lives toiling for
other societies. The rest of the world seems to appreciate
the value of the continent resources right from the natural
to the human resources more than the leadership of the
continent. An especially difficult to comprehend reality,
since if there is any sector of the world in need of high
quality human resources to work under primitive conditions
to abridge through innovative social organisations
processes and structural provisions, with an aim to improve
the states of being of its people, it is Africa. Thus though
the individual African acknowledges their positional location
in their hiearachy of nature, their leaders in a strange,
difficult to comprehend process, have been caught in a
limbo of incompetence, that not only distances them from
their own people, but set them, by their very acts in
oppositional destructiveness of most absurd kind, against
the very societies they have been role positioned to lead.

The sins of some men are obvious, reaching the

place of judgement ahead of them; the sins of
others trail behind them. In the same way, good
deeds are obvious, and even those that are not
cannot be hidden.
1 Timothy 5:24-25.

The act of realising the social collective expectations

enabled through the directive influence of leaders, can
variedly be construed as an excessively complicated
process of working through dimensions and layers of
differing variables to realise miniscule insignificancies,
which by their ends need to disguised under equally
complex explicatory defence or failure (the path of deceit
the continent is extolling with brazen display of faked
adequacy.) Or it could be a streamlined process of clearcut
unambigous focus on common-ends realised without
compromise to all the social constituents. The factor
around which the difference between the two processes
differ, is the seeming inconsequential moral concept of
'honesty', mentioned in passing in an earlier chapter. There
are probably tomes written on such concepts of morality,
but the central concern here, as far as leadership and
continental outcomes are concerned is that, social
organisations that operate around the survival instinct and
fear, create incipient chaos, that puts the individual interest
above social responsibility, not as selfish interest but a
survival response. The approach to problem definition that
occassions such social malaise that occassion the social
survival primitive transferred response of instinctual
survival reactive responsive reaction to threat to protect the
self by any means when under threat, even at the expense
of the species, may assume any of a variety of complex
theme oriented theoritical expressions, but like everything
that has made existence a maze of hazy fear, when a
length of string would have served as means of
reassurance, they with the agility of arcane magicians
evoke all arguments but the simple truth. Every complex
process is a conglomeration of simple, single building
blocks, to understand the complex is perceive the
constituent building blocks. Thus before thinking about
solutions the threat scenario should be eliminated to create
reassuring athmosphere of stability, where the leadership
in full control are able to demystify assumed crisis of
imminent disaster based on prior evidence of social
concern and caring.

The ability of a leader to redefine existing reality and match

to an expected common well being, is one of the critical
axis on which the direction of the continent' s future (will)
swings (s). To be able to see through the made belief
reality of incapacitated dependability will require a lot of
prayers for God's intercession to grant leader to enable
wisdom to the leaders. It also require leaders at least
indicating a leeway of hope in their pre-determinancy
positions as continental leaders. That, against all
expectations of normal behaviour from intelligent humans,
even the people have sustained their leaders charade of
pretense, have extended into the meaningless emerging
democratic cornerstone of the transformational shift of
elections or acceptance of potential governments with no
clear agenda other than trying to prop the existing
inadequacy of economic systems draining the strengths
and the resources of their societies and chanelling it down
a narrow tube of frail sustainability into the abyss of
despair. The economy is critical to social organisation
because it is the theme around which social distribution of
commonly held resources, managed by governments
revolve. The economy is not a complicated
incomprehensive processual manipulatory tool understood
by a select group and modulated by events far from the
continent, much as that is the configuration that prevails.
Yet sight must not be lost of the fact that that which is
presently accepted and defended is itself a dying ligament
of the colonial heritage, and once the external world has
developed resource processing capacity where their
dependence on base materials in inconsequential to their
peoples welfare and the stability of their societies, like
slavery (Africans offerring themselves for pittance in the
outside world have lost their value as sources of labour and
are derided with a humiliatory rejection that is bruising the
unused mental capacities that their ineffective leaders have
failed to activate), what the inept continental creative
leadership mind deem unegotiable variable in their
development goals agenda, will be made redundant after it
has served its use to its designers. Thus there is a choice,
the continent must as a unitary collective of poor and
mentally sef incapacitated pathetic excuses looking up at
some surreal master class, wake aand begin to farm its
resources with creative and focused intent. At least the
have the benefit of others travails aong the same path and
can easily avoid some of the inevtable pitfalls of the trail.
What the leadership fails to realise that the actual realisors
of the hope long buried of this potential prime continental
asset, are not within the leadership, but the leaders by
creating the conditions where all the potential talents are
tapped and active in the social systemic whole, enable a
means for those talenetd potentials to apply their God
given gifts to building a whole new societal dimension
realised in concrete reality. The new Africa will be very
much unlike anything previously existing and that is
inevitable, what it is awaiting to be birthed are the
appropriate conceptual minds to set into motion the
mechanics of its realisation. It is also inevitable that as the
society enters the phase of the second awared leaders,
akin in their stalwart unselfish determinacy to usher in a re-
oriented social organisation, the consequent openning of
the society to accomodate and ease its human resource
potential into mind awakening and quickening avenues,
while lead to the longer more sustainable period where the
African continent will be guided by high collective
idealisation realised through well conforming social
arrangements that includes all, in the dynamic improving
nature-human sustainability social equation paradigm. This
is the future where the diversity of the complex formats
made available in that age and time, evokes of a distal past
of communal social agrarian communities, thus bringing the
cycle to closure. Enabling another upward whole system
transformational shift. But while the future waits to be
discovered, the path therein lies in the here and now, and
some bold efforts to break the cord of self imposed
inadequacy and forcing needed change along the muti-
dimensional folds necessary to achieve the expected ends.
The two major systems met for a chat over
coffee:
"So, we hear talk you don't want to tow the line,
ehm?"
"You may be right you may be wrong, we just
don't know for now."
"You don't really know anything, do you?"
"I wouldn't be so sure, we are learning."
"It'll take time, for the time being, learn to be
obedient, that way, we would threat you like good
children."
"We are bumbling adults, not innocent children.
We know your tricks."
"I woudn't call them tricks, it is the way things
are, first you learn to crawl and then attempt
some fumbling baby steps, then you begin
walking, and one day you may find the way. Hm!"
"Maybe, maybe not. We are capable of
determining our own affairs."
"Are you? Are those not the same infamous
words, that has plunged into your existing
mess?"
"Ehm, it is a position we are yet to regret. Much
as we regret our existing state of being, but you
have made that a sure outcome."
"How so? We have always propped you up,
when you falter, haven't we? Where would you
be without us, eh? Still hopping branches
probably."
"No insults, we are all humans."
"That's what you say. We don't dispute that, we
realise it for ourselves."
"We are trying, too."
"No, you are deceiving yourselves, show all of us
something to back your verbosity."
"Its not exactly like what you are acclaiming is all
that exceptional, its fault ridden."
"Yes it may be so, but you don't have anything to
replace it, ahh! You are just a bunch of overfed
lazy goons, and insensitive too."
"Not so fast, we are not the ones, fighting major
wars."
"We are not engaging in any speculations, you
are not exactly tame lapwardogs."
"Whatever, we are still maintaining our stance."
"What stance, C'mon boys, lets just admit, you
have fallen on the wrong side of the human
equation, we'll cheer you up with some petty
cash to set your house in order. One of your
proverbs, you have so many of those apt snap
wisdoms, what you need to do is to stretch and
widen their scope."
"You may laugh but we are serious about
establishing our own system."
"Worthy idea, worthy idea, but its a long way
from saying to doing, if you know the difference,
that is."
"Coffee is too strong, care for palm wine?"
"Even if you can come up with that type of wine
the occassion is inappropriate for it."
"Who determines appropriateness, our culture
says otherwise."
"You tell us, who determines that."
"Well, will you grant us the loan then, our bridges
are collapsing and our railways are in need of
refurbishment."
"Ohh yeah? Any local technological input? we
 could add some technical support with the loan,
we mean for managing the loans, not the
technological content of your problems."
"How about those?"
"You were just mouthing off about self
assertiveness, that's a good starting off point to
make your stand, ehm, Don't you think so?"
"Well it is afterall a global village, we need to
help each other."
"Yeah sure, we know, we invented the concept,
didn't we?"
"Dire straits!"
"The rock band? It is ours too."
"No, the reality, we perfected it."

A man stood before the parliament house, he raised a

'gong-gong' struck it thrice and in the din of the awakening
silence, presented his case.

"Corruption and greed are powerful forces emerging

from individuals with devastating social
consequences. - albeit, society is the medium within
which validation is sought for and affirmed for these
and all social ills- These two indications of severe
moral lapse and the total lack of honesty, has been,
over the course of history in other trans-continental
cultures, been at the root of wicked acts perpetrated
to the detriment of societal progress and well-being.
Corruption is like a diseased nut that infects the good
nuts and causes all round putrefaction, that poisons
communal spirit of supportive social co-habitation.
The underlying basis for the existing differences
between global communities can be traced to greed
and selfishness, which measures out relieve with
malicious intent and makes believe it is good hearted
assistance. It is the acceptance of false faith that
accounts for excessive dependence on these external
systems, when working and forging harder, may
enable incremental self dependence, building upon
the independence effort. That independence effort
was more of an emotional release, which at this latter
stage must be complemented by actual executions
that establish firm social foundations for social
development. The actual process and the resources
both material and immaterial-vis knowledge and
information-can be freely accessed, as and when
available, and needfully, intensely sought for, with one
primary intent to build consistent system self-
dependency, while complementing external co-
existence with trans continental systems. That this is
not being realised on ground, validates this bitter
social commentary. Major social systems have
collapsed and against all the accumulated wisdom of
the past, the wicked intent of coarse and insensitive
leadership wasted lives to build sandcastles of
deceptive worthiness and then corruption and greed
blasted away any remaining hope after the waters of
time had dissolved the sandcastle of grand social
artifactual system designations. The continent has a
unique disposition, that for many years had been a
painful awareness that in this age one would have
assumed would have ensured ultimate commitment
from the leadership. The colored man can only find
self acceptance and social recognition among his own
people. But at the dawn of a new time cycle, all too
sadly, our leaders have found thin, vague acceptance
in other people's toils and tears, and are ridiculed,
among their own people, their acts have left bitter
aftertastes of disgust. The taste lingers, long after the
despicable failures that have tainted the seats of such
high, honourable and sacrificial positions of leadership
that society accords them, whether, they forced their
ways into the positions or it was bestowed on them.
Worse still and more frightening is the behaviour of
aspirig leadership, not only do they lack a philosophy
to share with society but they have devolved the
honour of vying to offer the self for sacrificial leaderhip
roles, but assuming low and unhonourable
approaches of verbal abuse and vaccuous
accusation, seeking to undermine their opponents
instead of focuing on effectively articulating what they
can marshal society to achieve in their directive roles.
These are sad times, when the dawn of change
should be occasioned by the winds of change,
blowing with strong gusts of hope, we look to the
recent past and in its failure there is reflected more
hope than the undiscernible future. Our children
languish in strange places, pleading their cases
before unconcerned courts of social ridicule, our best
minds are lost in the deceptiveness of solace that
consumes our creative tools leaving us hopeleesly
incapacitated.

Meaning is lost when men are sharing the spoil before

the hunt is over. Today the primary item on the
agenda is allocating cars to parliamentarians. These
are expectant representatives focused on important
issues. The years of toil in the political game is about
yielding fruit, these are no times for highvaunted
philosophising. There is a time for everything. Today,
is the time for failure. Life is short and wealth is
comforting, so what if all cannot have it. That's life,
 keep the good times rolling. Its just another day.
Paradise will come on earth and then men can think
of equality and social justice. For those who have it so
far so good, for those who don't its just 'bad karma'.
'Ride the storm and let the good times roll.' No
amount of long winded philosophising, criticisms, calls
for change or pretense at intellectual posturising will
change existing reality. "My Brother, this is the way
things are, accept or die. You've got to be tough to
make it through this life. It is a tough, tough ride down
this alley, its just a slice through time, an
inconsequential slipstream in the grand universal
infinity. We can't know all things, so we do the best we
can and hope for the best. Better than hope we just
live it to the full." And the rain pours through the
broken roof on the lifeless bodies down below.

The reality lived, worthy of emulation, has been the

outcomes of serious minded determination to realise a
worthy existence. It is not the outcome of presumptous and
passive indifference. It is the concerted efforts of bold men
and women, complementing God, the Creator, by engaging
the mind capacity, activating the gift of wisdom and
intelligent minds to grasp at reality between the light and
the dawn, and finding in the wildest, unmapped regions of
the wide vistas and untouched plains of hitherto
undiscovered mentalscapes, a reality so impressive as to
be unbelievable, but they were and still are men of faith,
delighting in the things hoped for and yet unseen, they are
men in control of their present as they carve out the future
in simple lines to realise the deep complex three
dimensional reality constructs that birth hope. For all things
that are conjuctured out of the creative mend, are
accomplished by acts of faith that apply knowledge and
ability to change th existing reality to conform to some
desired expectation. For the majority of the people on the
continent, their desperate situations, the wretched poverty,
and their general lack, will be remedied by leaders
believing in a better, realisable reality and persisting in their
determination to birth that desired reality.The slant of
human nature and the gradually emerging social
disposition being forced upon Africa by the forces and
influences, foreign to the culture, but that in finding easy
accomodation indicates a continental disposition to such
attitudes, is that, only the rich are worthy of consideration
and the poor can be ignored, better still be turned into
lesser beings to adulate the cultivated 'smooth plunderers'.
But the truth is that the society has provided a medium
where the endemic poverty is becoming instituitionalised
instead of being dealt with as a social problem and
gradually diminished, in looking outwards for direction, the
problem is becoming entrenched instead of being solved.
This is frightful, especially, considering that every African
leader or any individual in leadership role bears the guilt of
the past and the failures of the present. The leaders, be the
Chiefs or rogues, had in the memorable past plundered
their own people, people just like them, and condoned to
turn them into slaves, the leaders of the present in their
failures have pushed the brave young hearts into foreign
fields of torment, to seek for the meaning and fulfillment
that their own societies have failed to provide, to configure
them into. Together the past and the existing guilt rests
upon every single person who assumes any role of
leadership, right from the village chief to the continental
chairman. Until by their actions, they begint to heal the
open sores of the past dripping with depressing anguish
into the present and begint o close the gap, they are like
their past accomplices in the leadership roles, responsible
for the woes of this most worthy of habitable places in the
knwon universe. The people know that they are responsible
for their own outcomes, they know in their hearts that it is
possible to forge a better state of existence out of the
existing misery. But their leaders have failed them and
continue to be painful reminders of 'hopes cheerished held
in ransom and gradually being destroyed.' What a pity that
this proud people have become'unworthy entities, dropping
their failures on the pearls of unlimited possibility and
blaming themselves, when it is the leaders that should be
blamed, when it is the people themselves, who by
accedding responsibility and power to pussilanimous
cowards unable to force out of potential reality and dim the
hopes of the led. How the truth hurts! and how much more
assuaging the healing is, when a cure is discovered. The
song has been sung and will be sung again, over and over,
till there is an awakening, in this gloom of despair.
Just because evil has assumed the disposition of normality
thus not justify its acceptance by discerning minds. In
Africa the successful and the wealthy are together in one
impossible situation. The individual wealthy does not make
a society and the failures of the individuals in positions of
great responsibility, exact widespread human cost.
Together they are a bunch of miserable consequences of
their combined ignorance. But even if there is any
wickedness in inefficiency and lacklustre wisdom, it is
wickedness that can only be blamed on the leadership.
There (as has been stated) nothing wrong with being rich
and the creating of enabling conditions for success among
peservering individuals is actually a sign of good and
capable leadership, that is why for the most part, the
people positioned to rearrange the social realisation
process stand accused, for the rest of society that is
woefully, inadequately catered for. It is not that the public is
oblivious to efforts being made, it is just irritating for most
people that for what the efforts that the leaders seem to be
making, it will not torch their lives directly, probably not in
their lifetimes anyway. This is where the discontinuity in
structural linkage of system compositions impacts failure
most significantly, and for so long as the leadership is
considered an elite class, instead of matured and capable
individuals, sacrificing with honest intent for the well being
of their own, the issue will remain central to the weak
system configuration. The deliberate ignoring of endemic
failures it must repeated will not automatically resolve the
consequent problems. Thus in improperly structured
systems, haphazard attempts only create additional
problems inthe long run. Without a carefully patterned
social remoulding outline of ideas and ideals, underlying
the direction and expectations of realisations of the
inevitable transformation process in progress, the executed
solutions, partially realised, cannot guarantee social
stability. Deeply underlying social change, many of the
problems currently, being superficially explained and
partially solved with the seemig end solution of market
economics of external dependency remain, sated and
congealingly resistance to change increasing in accretive
strength at the societal level as the society struggles blindly
against the massed forces of sources lost in the
bewildering energy of the stormy social circumstances
within which meaning is being sought for; while only
partially, miniscularlly addressing the core issues
underlying societal defects, which defects will reemerge as
larger complex problems at a latter period if left unresolved.
The presently touted economic idealism of captalist market
economy is only a weak, defective, partially, system
sustaining effort, that opens the societies up for the
required interaction and exchange along commercial
grounds of partial interest, leaving unresolved, the larger
problems of realising social relevance and meaningful
existence in acceptable social environs, the interface of
painful reality between social forces and individuals ends,
in a miserable setting of delusions, despairs and fears
undefined.

The anger has long given way to a resigned

observation of this vain futility that is inevitable in
its expression and bitterly distasteful in its
realisation. Compromised resignation has barely
left the collective bereft of seeking for meaning
and of lifting up the covers of darkened
ignorance seeking insight. The discovery of
meaning has left many bewildered because
understand is incomprehensible, they cannot
understand the centred existence on
individualism in the midst of the need for
concerted social effort. They cannot understand
the depth of the width of the scope of this
massive failure when the individual will is waxing
so strong for definitive establishment of meaning
and hope in the midst of the emotional wasteland
of hopeless existence. They can least
comprehend the adulation of petty roguery
gowned in the deceptiveness of material wealth.
They experience and can appreciate the gnawing
reality of the need to satisfy the non physical
hunger eating away at the middle of the lives of
their times and turn to the side in the presumed
secretiveness of their glaring emptiness to wipe
away their tears of painful shame at their total
societal failure, at the hardiness of the formative
aggression tempered to countenance the
necessary social dependency of this tormented
horde of angry beings cavorting a wild existence
on the edge of civility, a civility they had no hand
in definning, one they covet and seek to posess;
of the futility of their weak and weakened effort in
the midst of the enormity of their problems,
enormous in their portentiously simple
resolvability. But it is the conflict at the meeting
points of changing reality marking this grand
social transformation that is impressive in its
incredulous effect on an unacceptable
resignation to irresolvability.

Collectives of frail hopes in clustered gatherings

of futility, seeking and often failing to find hope in
ordered scatterings of seeming chaotic spread
castings of identifiable groupings, spread in this
tepid grip of endless consumptive finality in cold
places. Living the lies of self sustenance in the
enduring struggle to hold the dissolving self in
this ordered meaningless existence of brief
pauses of joy in the stiffling sadness of the
lingering grip of postponed achievements.

These are the people who have perfected the art

of social posturing, deferring social re-
organisation beneath the grand pretense of
individual success. These are the people who
build white houses of gilded monetary
achievement in the sucking dampness of
putrefying filth of the decadent poverty of
hopelessness beyond individual failure, that
layers-in the landscape, making pretend
everything is fine, they sweat the tears of labour
in the coldness of relentless taskmasters and
harden up like the sweet soft waters of raindrops
falling unto frozen landscapes, -10 and below.
Their callousness had long superseded the
pretence of images of assumed hardiness
adorned to protect their soft sensibilities from the
harshness of unwelcoming homes, the reality
has seeped into their undefended sensibilities, till
hardened, they play along, cheating and being
cheated together with glee, in the bright new
world. The strangers leaving in a strange world
have defined meaningful existence within the
larger framework of economic realisability and
self sustenance in the organised world of
structured existence within defined parameters
restraining in its economic liberating capacities.
Standing in awe under the awning of this
sheltering of pain beneath the massive
overwhelming edifice of some vague
achievements edified in stone, they stand aghast
at once at their presumptuous hopefulness in
these fields of seeded bitterness ready to flower
their flowers of consuming wrath. They have the
craftily carefully cultivated agility of alley cats,
exposed to constant danger and numerous
hiding places. These miserable pretences of
freewill chained and constrained by the bread
chains of daily existence and materialism live on
the harsh streets of these cosmopolises of taut
anxiety wasting away in waiting or overuse.
Absorbing the inciepeint seepage of despite that
worms its way through their carefully crafted
fabrics of desensitised sensibilities, reactions in
reverse and under tight control, they have
lingered in these domains of despicable despite.
The hold of the empty futility cultivated in the
vacuum of failure sowing the deserts of
meaningful aridity clamping tighter the economic
collars of uwanted ever tighter on slumping
necks, my people, these are the veracity of the
failures they are made to believe. Their laughter
is raccous mockery of mirth on the emptiness of
the broad boulevards of fitfully granted pleasures
in the world where they are the shadows on the
background of the fast pacing masses, stretching
long and dark into the darkened alleyways. And
they are the lucky ones. Finding release in the
confines of this 'iron lungs' of civility and
debasement. They are sustained by a need for
self sustenance, a belief to create their desires
on a small scale on their own piece of their God
allotted place on this gift of a pace, a life rooted
in some faith, hoping and realising aspirations
grounded in the simplicity of a purpose by a
creator. This random meaningfulness constantly
expressing itself in predictable outcomes is a
rehearsal of the greater reality predicted on the
smaller scale of wavering belief and sobering
doubt. The goodwil on undiscerned hope
sustained on faith decisively accurate in its
expression of love; that meaningless relevance
that epitomises human fraility in strength, and
harsh bravado consonlingly sustaining in its
strength. The purity of religious philosophy
sustainable nurturing and all pervading in its
defining of the social organisation consideration
of putting one person in unselfish consideration
of ones own pursuits, in its crudity has refined
the Godly principle in all.
In between the waitng period, waiting for the
completion of that transformational shift that will
redefine reality, ushering a new system on the
continent, the terse exasperation of the million
sullen shadows caught in between worlds in
transition have found pressured outlets of
glowing spurts of individual expressions.
Expressions of elegant achievement measured
on the scales of unrelenting merchants of
depreciation. Expressions of suppresed violent
volatility of destructive urge in response to the
seeming excessively long waiting period, the
burning frustration of imposed restraint
immobilising the driving individual initiative. The
slow burning fury providing a fuel of hope that
propels the individual will into a hopeful zone of
belief in first the self and the people, as a
collective set apart to seek, to find identity,
resolve differences and set a course of definite
solutions. Yet the weary tears of despair and
forlorn hopelessnes waters insufficiently the dry
savannahs and the forageless unsustainable
deserts of cruel acquisitiveness, holding in a
tenacious grip the unrealised hopes of the
people. The tenacity of the faith of the massed
belief that has held together this severely frayed
social garment of 'tossed and trampled garment'
passing for a continental system, is the micro
sub-atomic blooming of the expected times
undiscerned far beneath this arid surfaces, yet,
the flowering of this seeded desire sustained by
faith in the collective constructive will to see its
manifest beauty, pushes anticipation with a verve
and a hope that transcends normal social
interactive rationality to an undefined race
consciousness bothering on extreme fervent
spiritual experience of sober and deep
reflectiveness that is unnerving in its
contemplative calmness in the turbidity of the
ravenous times. There is a calm resolve in the
midst of the turbulence that is critically analytical
and painfully realistic in its expectations, a
contemplative resolve that in its resolution of
ends and new beginnings, absorbs the pain of
the momentary sufferings with an irritating
contenplative ease, yet the labour of the
labourers is an absorbing engagement of
dissolution of the self in the consumptiveness of
the task that opiates and shuts of the unease of
the seeming finality of obvious certainties
frightening to accept in its firm constancy in
layers abounding.

I saw the tears of the oppressed-

and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their
oppressors-
and they have no comforter.
And I declared that the dead
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.
But better than both
is he who has not yet been,
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiates 4:1b-3. (RSV)
 The funeral of the great man had proceeded well
past the wake keeping, it was a few hours before
the funeral cortege set off for the burial ground,
through the narrow streets of Keta. Thousands
had come from far and near, for this was a man
of substance, who had sent his children to the
universities of Europe. He had established his
name into the future. In that sudden lull in the
milling crowds, where a silence of impressive
proportions descend and grips all in instataneuos
unrehearsed awareness, a short lithe character
wearing pointed red cap, his small face reflecting
the commanding reminder of harsh experiences
or a flowery life, spoke, he sung a strange dirge,
a strange plea, "there is one among us here, a
short man in pointed caps who has a portion, an
ancient knowledge, a herb of immense powers
that could have waken this great man from his
sleep of death, but alas, the wicked little man, he
would not give life to this fallen giant." At three
thirty the cortege winded its way down the
narrow streets, the casket was bedecked with
flowers and ribbons, laying half exposed at the
open backs of a large American car. The people
stood silently along the walls and watched the
slow winding parade as the worthy children of
this little coastal town send off one of theirs.

Then he had one of his dreams. A real nightmare of

tormentous anguish that pushed sweat sprickling out of the
pores of of his sweat glands leaving him clammy and cold.
And the heat never relents.
The crowded cage of bamboo held many people
in a sweaty prison, their arms reached out
through the slits and waved in the wavering hot
air above the red lateritic earth. A lonely figure
hurries by in dismay, casting furtive glances of
fear and wonderement at the strange spectacle,
seeking to escape the fate of this strange people,
along the way away from the frightening
spectacle, he wonders how they came to be their
and while not knowing what lay ahead of him
was grateful not to have been entrapped in that
hideous prison. -The lock is outside the paddock,
out of dread from tainting the self in the cretinous
mud lashig out desperately from within reaching
out with flailing arms into the air, the passer-by
flees in haste, a pretentious self enhancement of
righteousness in the setting for the emergence of
the hero. They thrash and trample, wriggle and
squirm, shout in outrage and weep hot tears of
humiliation that cascade down cold lifeless
cheeks of resignation in the midst of the burning
overwhelming crowdiness, their rage echoes in
hollow tones of absorbing rebounce amidst the
clamminess of offensive flesh, the light is all but
a teasing haze beyond the shifting haze of
congealing mists of moist breath rising i this
pulsating animated mass of desperation. Even in
the futility of the cagey existence, there is always
a desire that hooks hope to life. This hopeless
existence of expired aspirations waiting to
passover, in the interim making sure of a
certainty of continuity, a new breed of fanning
and expanded minds capable of greater
exquisiteness in their appreciation of this havens
 of picturesque ineventuality where the oceans of
deciphered and exquisitely calibrated
despoialtion of humaness lap at the feet of the
new born in multiple layered multiplicity of
directionless all-encompassing reality of gradual
realisation. The insiders have gained access the
outsiders, the outsiders are the unending
constriction of unmitigated woes, birthing sorrows
in the lethargic heat, warm embrace of suffering
entangled with the cold clasp of death in a gentle
swaying rhythmic dance of life.

As collectives, representative of our congealed definitive

characteristic, the human being is all-together sceptical,
sarcastic, mean and unkind. There is a sustained tendency
to consolidate friendship by scathinghly taking sling shots
of scarring slangs at others. A repulsive attempt to cut
'them' to the individual's despicable moral size. The deeply
satisfying inner smirk of 'one more down', in a way humans
have a broad and deeply evil nature that permeates their
whole thought system and personality, a disturbingly strong
and cleaving aspect against which rational and moral
behaviour struggles to find expression and definition, an
aspect that forms the huge dark canvas against which
some concerted directive effort manages to create a
pattern of 'good' in the all permeating evil, yet humans were
the very essence of all that is good. Through it all, it is the
speaker, the actor, the artist of spite, rather than the
intended object of spite, who reveals their deep seated
inner dissatisfaction with the manifest blessings of beings
thinking and capable beings, set at the very top of earthly
creation. The high positioning of mankind is self-repudiated
by the savagery with which each glimmering day of
abundant hope and beauty is diminished by the darkness
of the souls that refuse to be lighted and visit the wild
unruliness of their unsettled minds on creation. The depth
of wickedness and complacency to dissociate from
goodness that underlie human suffering is
incomprehensible, when the freewill of humanity to make a
choice to pursue a positive value laden existence or
nagative self destructing existence is fully appreciated
against the choices mankind often makes, be
they aggressors or victims. Pictures of gloom in the
pretense of glimmering hope fully realised, narrowly
demarcated and provincially defended, in the true spirit of
the darkness lying just below the surface and running deep.
Or maybe, on the offset, inconceivably true, intense noble
lights of goodness suffused in sarcophagal sheets of
contaminanting evil. The persistent parochiality of the mind
sets that rule, propound upon the limitations humans have
imposed upon themselves and project it forth as a
message of certainty, the certainty being that in the
independency of dependency as individuals, the social
coalition of unnmediated dependency is the basis for
independency, and the extent to which that social
responsibility is managed and realised will determine the
individual need satisfaction.

There is a sublime awareness that change that transfuses

the collective benefits of cultural-will one way or the other
permeate the masses of the continent, sometime. The
issue of redefining and upgrading the individuality that
constrains the collective interest will however remain barely
scratched at the higher leadership level, because the
essential theme of 'living the words you preach' may very
well be unattainable. The hoarding behaviour is seemingly
addictive, but worse than that, as one individual collects, he
wishes and will manipulate to deny others access, here is
the human mind at its most devious cunningness. Heroes
are deviants who sacrifice their worthy beings for an
unappreciative participating audience.

The human being, it would seem, has a sublime nobility, a

nobility that at the individual level contains the consumptive
rage and the crippling despair from becoming explosive
forces of destruction or disassembling dissolution,
emanating from the self to the collective, providing instead,
a somber reflectiveness to seek for a solution and a faithful
hope sustaining experimentalism for alternatives, ejecting
at times, forceful, resolute unmalleable contrivancies of he
active mind, powerful transformational manifestations of the
interphase between the individual and collective minds
resonating to yield values that re-enact the social drama for
mutual benefit. From the margins of isolated individualistic
active mind sets, fighting, resiliently refusing to yield defeat,
the overwhelming urge of 'the lash out' of that one final
cataclysmic self anhilating destructive response in which
society finds rebirth and continuity is tempered to yield
sustenance. Reposing in the individual is the hope of the
society, that even in its shattered dissemblance nurtures in
its collective embrace the definitive configuration of the
individual reality upon a social background of fervently
vague hope.

The 'great man' stood up with the manly air of the

warrior. His coil of dark hair had long gone an
ashy gray, now it was cut a low crew cut . His
white 'agbada' embellished his impressively
massive structure, his hard eyes, took in the
view; packed all over the large public space, in
the bright, African sunlight were row upon rows
of dark skins glinting with briiliance as of light
cast off precious stone. The silence was awe
inspiring, every eye was focused on the leader, a
worldly man of rich experiences, he overcome
the odds of individual afflictions and for many
years dangled expectant hope like carrot before
a donkey before an expectant and hungry public,
the bait had been taken, the populace believed in
the dream and nurtured hope through hard,
abbrasive task, nation building is a delicate task
of unimaginable robusity, this day as he stood on
the podium, before this crowd of church goers,
assembled for a national day of prayer,
something in the air, an incomprehensible force
of the massed faith of thousand upon thousands
singing praise and praying prayers of faith, in an
ordinary day of unsual circumstances triggered a
part of his being that he never even knew
existed. He had been known to depart from his
carefully scripted speeches to give vent to his
annoyance and anger, at what he considered
others weaknesses. But as he began speaking,
the speech fluttering in the stiff breeze, his words
had a source, that commonplace as it was,
astounded first the assistant leaders and then the
gathering:- "When I was a child, I spoke like a
child. When I became an adult . . ." words
spoken many times in the christian
congregations, but coming from the man of such
deep seated worldly reputation!?

He stood, at the edge of that gathering, hearing

the words roll like thunder through the voice
magnifiers making an impact on all
notwithtanding, and in a way it was not altogether
strange that when politics and feeble
industrialisation had failed to deliver meaningful
existence, the substitute hope that seemed
capable of rectifiying the foibles was religion. The
cycle in an upward loop. . .

There was no peace then, and there will be no

peace now, or ever, in any place through time
where justice and consideration for truthful
existence gives way to greed and selfishness.
The words of the events of the past are branded
into immortality in the secret and sacred places
of God and given unto men, that they learn, yet
how miserable are men in their own founded
knowledge and tainted wisdom. Thus they repeat
the past errors and sure enough they reap the
grapes of wrath. The fathers have eaten the sour
grapes, sure enough, and the children's teeth are
set on edge.

"But as for me, I am filled with power,

with the Spirit of Jehovah Almighty,
and with justice and might,
to declare (to this present day)
Jacob his trangression,
To Israel his sin. (wrongdoings)
Hear this, you leaders of the house of
Jacob,
you rulers of the house of Israel,
who despise justice
and distort all that is right;
who build Zion with bloodshed,
and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Her leaders judge for a bribe,
her priests teach for a price,
and her prophets tell fortune for
money.

(You rain down misery upon your weak

and fatten yourself in the anguish of your
people. You exalt wickedness and perfect
wrongdoing.)

Yet they lean upon the Lord and say,

"Is not the Lord among us?
No disaster will come upon us."
Therefore because of you,
Zion will be ploughed like a field,
(Sown with misery)
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
(Established on your injustice and disregard).
The temple hill a mound overgrown with
thickets.

Your land is your Zion, you are the leaders and

Jerusalem is your earthly crown of glory.
You sit on your seats of rulership like priests in
temples, unheeding of the torment your actions
wrought.

Like the prohets who led that nation astray

Our leaders proclaim peace to those who bribe
them, and wage war against those who seek
justice. Therefore night has come over them and
they lack vision, they are without visions.

The voice of the people is the voice of God. All

they desire and ask is that you act justly, with
mercy and love.
But it seems like the godly have been swept from
the land; and not one upright man remains in
leadership. They have all become greatly skilled
in doing evil, they demand gifts and accept
bribes, shamelessly. The powerful dictate what
they desire- they all conspire together. The best
of them is like a brier, the most upright worse
than a thorn hedge.

But, some, like the prophet Micah, speaking unto

time without place or boundary, but a concept of
attitude and social despair, intone "But as for me,
I watch in hope for Jehovah, I wait for God my
Saviour; my God will hear me."

. . .And the leader said with deep conviction, "I

do not believe in religion, but I believe in God.
Naturally, of course, adversity draws man nearer
his creator. . ."

He visualised with that clarity that only people

like him were capable, the astute observer; the
wispery white cladded inspired prophet, standing
at the juncture of time flowing in unbroken stream
of eternity, the wind of unheralded change
blowing the flimsy apparel of hand crafted human
effort clothing him and clinging to the lean
hardened structure, faced raised, voice raised,
his eyes blazing with the seemingly vacant
preoccupation of a holy man, standing
conspicously on some naturally enabled platform
lifting the spirits of a dispirited people in some far
off past times, speaking unto a future
undiscerned and incomprehensible. The prophet
spoke the words, as enabled him:-

"Behold, I will create

new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.

"Never again will there be in it

an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his
years;
he who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere youth;
he who fails to reach a hundred
will be considered accursed.
They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their
fruit.
No longer will they build houses and
others live in them,
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
¨ so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
the works of their hands.
 They will not toil in vain
or bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the
LORD,
they and all their descendants with them.
Before they call I will answer;
while they are still speaking I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
but dust will be the serpent's food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,"
says the Lord.

The vision was reassuring of some better times

in the foggy future, he was a practical mind and
knew that while waiting for the grand fulfillment,
humans will have to scratch and hatch, expand
and push their creative intellects and work to
improve on their existing dismal reality; as well
as pray for direction in this murky misty swirling
of profound despair and heraldic breakthroughs.

His fertile mind set to work, envisioning a time when great

leaders will call forth for the millions of Africans locked in
the prisons of diasporic existence and in the actual prisons
of the worldy prisons. These are the bold, rebellious and
angry, kept under lock and key, bidding their time and
wasting away. They must be secured and brought home,
their anger dissipated in the motherland, these stalwart
'madmen' and uncontrollable women must link hands to
rebuild the ancient homeland. . . . And the whole land
moans under the burden of the incapable task masters.
Deep down in those nether regions of the
subconscious, is a nudging thought,
an awareness that is profound.
No matter how much man tries
he always comes short.
The answer is not in concrete designs
though it thus help-
True peace is yet realised,
it is beyond the limitations of man,
all mans effort is a constant reminder
of what is left undone-
Still, there is nothing wrong with trying.