Changing the narrative

Looking around, it seems we are losing the fight, giving up on ourselves and refusing to fight when it got harder. Should we?, can we afford to look the other way and give up? what is the alternative? Is there any? . As a young African, these questions linger in my mind daily. I guess it maybe on yours too, but the most important question is what answers have we found?

 On the African continent, the young minds can no longer hide behind the old songs of failure, bad leaderships, or governments. This is not to say, it isn't our reality, however, what is the solution we can bring to it should be where our social tweets, Facebook posts and 'what's app '

writings concentrate on. Real, practical, defying solutions. No longer a pity party of the why's but deep collaboration on the how's and when. 

I do not for a moment consider this to be an easy journey,but we do not have an easy problem either. A great speaker once said, to change a problem, we must operate at a higher level of knowledge to what was used to create it in order to execute the change we need.

Yes, we are plagued, and not catching up like we should and harder still yet to be trail blazer for the world to follow. We  shouldn't ignore the problems or gloss over them, but neither should they take center stage. Perhaps, just maybe if we talk about the solutions as much as we do talk about the problems, we could in the nearest possible future get to actually start implementing them.

We won't magically start implementation, if all we reflect on is our problems. It is true, politics and leadership have power, yet what are they without the backing of the power. What we need is delayed gratification, stop thinking about our present and focus and toil for future generations. 

Never loss hope, never lose faith, never give in to the statuesque, we are still capable, we are still full of potential.  Let's change the narrative, let's look to home grown solutions. We have the minds to think it through. Tomorrow isn't written yet, we can make it right. Long live Africa.  @#suethoughts