The selfish Ninjas
These guys are the most selfish and
wicked people on the planet. And ninjas
because it sounds cool. I used to be
one of them. They are the guys who
will never help anybody unless they’re
getting something in return; despite
having the skills, and material
necessary to do so. As a matter of fact,
they would watch Game of Thrones
rather than helping a friend in need.
They just won’t help if they don’t gain
anything from it. Their services are
basically for sale. Please do not confuse
them with the typical worker that works
to earn money as these are two
different contexts.
The Travellers
They deny their own land and migrate
to ‘wealthier’ areas because they think
their motherland doesn’t have enough
money to make them happy. I am
talking about the thousands of brilliant
Africans that leave their beautiful
continent each year in the pursuit of
money. By doing so, they strip the
continent of its best assets, them, and
slow its development. I am conscious of
the difficulties that come with
unemployment or low salaries in Africa,
but if young Africans do not stay home
to develop their motherland, who will?
The Subconscious
They are my favourite! I describe it as
subconscious intellectual prostitution. I
believe most young people;
especially young Africans, are affected
by this type. What makes it worse is that
most of us are not aware of it. This kind
of prostitution is similar to the second
category in the sense that young people
invest most of their time and energy
reading and learning about leaders
and scientists from another land when
they know almost nothing about their
homeland. I believe this is a direct
effect of post-colonization.
We constantly get the impression that
western products are automatically
better than African products, so we
don’t even bother to learn about
African scientists or great leaders.
Indeed, most of the great leaders’ we
know are non-African. We often
paraphrase European and American
scholars who were most likely
negro-phobic. Most of us do not know
that the first ever Mathematicians and