• I dream of the day when these, the African mathematicians and computer specialists in Washington and New York, the African physicists, engineers, doctors, business managers and economists, will return from London and Manchester and Paris and Brussels to add to the African pool of brain power, to enquire into and find solutions to Africa's problems and challenges, to open the African door to the world of knowledge, to elevate Africa's place within the universe of research the information of new knowledge, education and information -Thambo Mbeki, former South African President
  • They therefore concluded that “the findings of this (and other) surveys indicate that coverage of Africa, by the leading sources of American media is, at best, dismissive of the continent’s progress and potential, and thus leading to continued ‘exotification’ and marginalization of the African continent. At worst, coverage disregards recent trends toward democratization, thus betraying an almost contemptuous lack of interest in the potential and progress being achieved on the continent.”

Above excerpt is from a writer: Gbemisola Olujobi

  • By Gbemisola Olujobi - The Africa You Need to Know - Posted on Nov 28, 2006 See Full Article above

Why is the African image so negative?

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Extraordinary Possibility.

There are no extraordinary people, just ordinary people doing extraordinary things with what they’ve been given.
— K. Bradford Brown Ph.D, author and theologian

That means i've gotta keep doing what I'm doing. Keep working hard and being the best wife, mom, friend, sister, daughter and auntie. Its unbelievable how many times I have shoved aside great ideas, revelations, good ideas (u can talk to God about that) tips, and convictions to do more. I think of how many times I have ignored that person because they didn't look good enough, or didn't talk well, or didn't dress well. How many times I did not stop to offer a smile to someone in need of one and more recently (weird) how many times I passed a police officer, while feeling the need to encourage and appreciate them...and I did not!!. I even remember having an extra 10 dollars I could have sent to help feed and educate a girl in a Kenyan community..but i did not. Now that i don't have that $10, I'm kicking myself...which I shouldn't be doing. Again...i devalued what could have helped someone, what could have been a life-changing moment.

Recently, I have been meeting with people and situations from the past in an almost surreal way. See, I used to be ignorant, underestimate people and I also used to be the kind that would at first glance, assume that someone had nothing to offer me with the little that they had - a horrible mindset, that I regret having, but I'm working on it.

I have grown up by the power of the Almighty God, and I am now at the age of recognizing the need to stay connected and networked with like minded people, folks with ambitions, dreams and an "extraordinary possibility" to reach to the highest of mountains.

At this stage of my age and time, life is too short to lack ambition, a drive or just one thing to call my own. My dream, my niche or ambition and something I will look back to one day and say "Thank you Lord Jesus, for waking ME up".

If a man has not identified a cause worth dying for, then he is not fit to live. - Martin Luther King Jr.
(i just had to throw that in there)
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