An Open Call To African Entrepreneurs

I had an old friend named Yusuf, a Turkish living in Germany. He always took pills whenever he got a warm head or a bit of a stressful day. He was so fond of it that I had to speak about it because he took wrong measures in solving his problem.

Today many African entrepreneurs are like Yusuf. They have the right intentions but take the wrong measures and choices. Today we have a myriad of startups in every domain. We have almost every one of them vying for the so called seed funding and venture capital under the canopy of making Africa a better place. We go about playing the hero and making a pity party out of westerners in the name of making better, our already better lives. The call for the fight against poverty and global warming and advocate for innovations and environmentally friendly technologies etc. keep choking purpose and need and put wants at a platter of exhibit. Being and entrepreneur first starts from understanding the evolving nature of functions of forms and causes over effects. We sure do have problems but the magnitude of our problems are not listed amongst the ones we spend time making a scene for the world to see and gaining little or nothing from it.

Being and entrepreneur first starts from understanding the evolving nature of functions of forms and causes over effects

Let’s begin by understanding functions over forms and causes over effect in a snapshot (brief). The most powerful nation today is a teenage nation founded in 1776, when a young man named George had to man up for something he believed in. This nation is not as old as the great Roman Empire, with over 600 years of existence before them or Great Britain which even held it as a colony in the days of the 13 American colonies. (N: B I’m not here to lecture on history). From George to present Trump, each and every American president came to understand the formula for wealth. Many think it is in the level of technology of inventions but these are merely functions or parts of that formula. It was and still is the power of socio-economic and political integration. I will go with economic integration for now. This entailed that someone in the northern part of the USA back then and can transmit products without heavy duties to people in the southern parts. Cars which are made in Detroit are called American Cars and every state lives in the closet of an integration armor called the American dream. The fluidity of business and idea was a factor to reckon with for the success of major inventions. In Africa, a Cameroonian spend almost as much and more in transacting within Africa as it is with transacting out of Africa. Every nation seem to pride in itself and policies and the long talk of African integration has been a talk seemingly brought up as pipe dreams. We are better than we even know it and have much to offer ourselves than the world has to offer us.

We are better than we even know it and have much to offer ourselves than the world has to offer us

Looking back at Africa there is a power within us and can be expressed by that same formula that augmented the status quo of a teenage nation to a leading power; there is power than can foster the growth and development of every city, town and clan. We have it in our hands and venture capitals of unlimited amounts will never get us there but together, we can go further. From time memorial, economic has better liaised with political than social and cultural. That’s the power of an entrepreneur, for a true entrepreneur toes economic lines. My wish is every African entrepreneur has one message at the back of the mind. “Integrating a better Africa”.

We need to stop taking pills which are not our medicine. We have failed too much to fail again and we have got a chance to quit the spot of being a failure in the eyes of generations to come for there is no better time to exercise values like an African Entrepreneur as NOW.

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