WE NEED A COLLECTIVE RESPONSE

Most times, drivers are completely oblivious to highway codes; they would rather drive against traffic or drive in a non-existent lane and cause traffic hold-ups and delays. In fact, one begins to think that if things are not chaotic they are not normal. The thing that bothers me the most is that when a public transportation driver decides to do the right thing and stays on the right lane, the passengers would begin to insult and bully the driver until he/she gets off and does what is wrong to please the costumers. This also draws our attention to the fact that even leaders in law enforcement and government sometimes help to shape this behaviour.

We are at a point where those who do what is right are considered fools, where government is blamed for our personal responsibilities; cleaning our houses and offices.

 If we are ever to move from where we are to become a more developed nation, citizens would have to learn to take ownership and personal responsibility. In a situation where people don’t care about what is happening around them, things will deteriorate because life is dynamic, meaning things have to move; if they don’t move forward, they will move backwards.

Many citizens have taken it upon themselves to provide basic amenities – light and water- especially for themselves; we might as well go the whole hog until systems are put in place to have a better, more organized and developed nation.

Whatever is right and is in our power to do, we should fill in the gap until government gets its act together, probably when youths reading this book come into positions of leadership in government or the corporate world.

Citizens must move from being passive subjects that are always complaining about what government is doing or not doing to a place where they become engaged in active participation in nation building. Citizens have to become responsive to the happenings around them. 

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MentorAfrica: IT LOOKS DEAD BUT IT IS NOT; LET'S GROW IT!

MentorAfrica: IT LOOKS DEAD BUT IT IS NOT; LET'S GROW IT!: We can’t throw up our hands and give up on the only nation that truly belongs to us. There is something I always try to make them understan...

IT LOOKS DEAD BUT IT IS NOT; LET'S GROW IT!

We can’t throw up our hands and give up on the only nation that truly belongs to us. There is something I always try to make them understand and that is, no matter how we feel about our country, it is ours; whatever other country we are running to was built with the sweat of the citizens of that nation that decided to take ownership of their country. No matter how many foreigners they involved in the final actualization of their development, they had to take the initial responsibility.

This is not in any way making light of the enormity of the challenges that we face as citizens of this great nation. Be that as it may, are we going to give up and continue to abandon our homeland? What are we going to leave for future generations? It has become so bad that many private schools are opting for foreign syllabi/accent and trying to alienate the next generation from any affiliation to this nation; this is so sad but that is the reality on ground. This means that the next generation is being made to believe that this nation is beyond remedy. Parents are selling off family inheritance to make sure that their children go to where they believe the grass is greener, forgetting that the grass is actually greener where you water it!

Where do we go from here? Should we lay all the blame on governance or is there something that citizens can do?

(Excerpts from Chapter Two)

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MentorAfrica: "CHANGE" IS MORE THAN A CHANT

MentorAfrica: "CHANGE" IS MORE THAN A CHANT: Having spoken to over a thousand youths on this matter and armed with questionnaire answers to buttress this point, I feel that civic educa...

"CHANGE" IS MORE THAN A CHANT

Having spoken to over a thousand youths on this matter and armed with questionnaire answers to buttress this point, I feel that civic education is an area we need to pay serious attention to. It is a shame that the majority of the next generation are not driven by any interest in the development of this nation.

Chants of “change” are not enough to produce change no matter how long and how loud they are chanted. There cannot be any meaningful change if the youths are not educated in the ways of change.

Discussions with the youths, even the ones in secondary schools, always throw up the fearful fact that they are already walking in the crooked footsteps of the older generation. The sad truth is that these are the paths they see all around them but when you try to draw their attention to the thought that they are about to go on these same wrong tracks, you get blank stares. They cannot come to terms with the idea that it is possible to do things differently; this confusion arises because they see that what you are telling them is the truth.

(Excerpts from Chapter Two)

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MentorAfrica: WE CAN GET IT RIGHT!

MentorAfrica: WE CAN GET IT RIGHT!: There is no shortcut to success, if you will do anything great to affect your generation and society; you must dare to go where others are ...

WE CAN GET IT RIGHT!

There is no shortcut to success, if you will do anything great to affect your generation and society; you must dare to go where others are afraid to tread.

I always tell participants that life does not give us what we want, we take whatever we want from life. This is the reason why where some see opportunities and do all they can to seize them, others see obstacles and give every kind of excuse why things can’t work.

The most powerful statement you can make to yourself is that you are not just going to exist, work to pay bills and die an ordinary man. You must be determined to make your mark before you die.

 You are the only one that can be you. There is no one that can do things exactly the same way as you. It has been scientifically proven that no two people have the same fingerprints; even Siamese twins. Knowing that you have talents and abilities that the world needs is the most liberating piece of information that you can ever have.

(excerpts from Chapter One)

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