A lot has been said and written in the last years about Africans and  Africa. Most times, it is either that we are not human enough because we are black or that we are not capable of running our affairs. The school of thought that propounded this ideology and implemented it in the colonial era has reigned and faded. This thus, had deeply affected our  African people in different ways. Most often, we tend to appreciate and worship achievement of other races and treat with contempt and condescension on our African men and women who have equally in their capacity as African have achieved equal fame of counterpart degree.

Now is the time for the African man to forget and cast behind him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start out immediately to create and emulate heroes of his own. We must canonize our own martyrs and elevate to positions of fame and honor African men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our African history before and after the colonization of Africa.


Julius Nyerere is worthy of sainthood alongside of Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Jomo Kenyatta, Albert John Lutuli, Chike Obi, , Tafawa balewa and Ken saro-wiwa etc. They are all entitled to the halo of martyrdom and sainthood with no less glory than that of the martyrs or saints of any other race. Nelson Mandela, Philiph Emegwali, Wole Soyinka, Mohamed El Baradei, Kofi Annan, Ahmed H. Zewail, Naguib Mahfouz, Wangari Maathai, Anwar Sadat, Desmond Tutu, Max Theiler, Allan M. Cormack, Nadine Gordimer, Sydney Brenner, F.W. de Klerk, J. M. Coetzee, John Kufuor, Emeka Anyaoku, Margaret Ekpo, and Jakaya kikwete’s brilliancy as educators, politicians, peacemaker, scientists and statesmen entitled them to the highest place as heroes among men.

In recent years, Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose luster and bravery outshines that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves? As we condemn without reservation bad things happening in Africa today. We must equally inspire a literature and promulgate a doctrine of our own without any apologies to the powers that be to speak about our heroes and heroine. The right is the Africa man's and Africa's. Let contrary sentiments and cross opinions go to the winds. Consistent negative reporting of mainstream media and failure of our own politicians recently is just a weapon of the enemy to defeat the hopes of emerging and young energetic African statesmen and we must say no this ideology and practice.

Time has come when we need to speak for ourselves and create our own reporting that serves us right. We are entitled to our own opinions and not obligated to or bound by the opinions of others. As an African, do not think that you are inferior. Race is just an idea. It has been proven that it does not exist.   If others laugh at you return the laughter to them; if they mimic you return the compliment with equal force. They have no more right to dishonor, disrespect or disregard your feelings and manhood than you have in dealing with them. Honor them when they honor you; ignore them when they vilely treat you. But do this without violence as Martin Luther our great African hero taught us during their civil right campaign in the 1960’s.  Remember that such people who mistreat you or see you as subhuman are suffering from some kind of complex and their arrogance is but skin deep and an assumption that has no foundation in morals or in Law.

You must remember that we are not aliens in this world. Every other race have sprung from the same family tree of obscurity as we have; their history is as rude in its primitiveness as ours, their ancestors ran wild and naked, lived in caves and in branches of trees like monkeys as ours; they made sacrifices, ate the flesh of their own dead and the raw meat of wild beasts for centuries even as they accuse us of doing. Their cannibalism was more prolonged than ours; when we were embracing the Arts and Sciences on the banks of the Nile, their ancestors were still drinking human blood and eating out of the skulls of their conquered dead.

When our civilization had reached the noon-day of progress, they were still running naked and sleeping in holes and caves with rats, bats, and other insects and animals. After we had already unfathomed the mystery of the Stars and reduced the Heavenly Constellations to minute and regular calculus they were still backwoodsmen, living in ignorance and blatant darkness.

The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our Arts and Sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves? Their modern improvements are but duplicates of a grander civilization that we reflected thousands of years ago; without the advantage of what is buried and still hidden, to be resurrected and reintroduced by the intelligence of our generation and our posterity.