Africa: Destruction of an increasing craze and a field of lemon to be liberated

By Jimi Bickersteth

The African Cup of Nation kicked off last night with an array of stars both local and those lacing their boots in Europe and other far-flung places around the globe. With the concerted efforts of organising its football, the continent needs the vigour to free itself from the effect of neocolonialism.

The African continent with an area of 30.37 million km² and bigger than all of Europe, China and the USA put together at 30.22 million km². An arable land size of 60% – a cord to feed the whole world. With its 90% raw materials reserve, 40% global gold reserve, 33% diamond reserve, 80% of Coltan global reserve ( mineral for telephone and electronics production), 60% of global cobalt reserve ( mineral for car battery manufacture), quite rich in oil and gas and with the world’s richest fish coastline and a human population of 1.3 billion is home to about 30,000 medicinal recipes and herbs the West modified in its laboratories. This verifiable stats, placed on all fours, are sufficiently able to trigger Africa’s economic renaissance, boost global economic industrialization, and paved the way for Africa to own and rule the world, albeit, the continent is suffering greatly, and its affecting life and living, with its leadership and AU caged.

The opening ceremony events of the AFCON in Yaunde, the Cameroonian capital city, indeed, showcased the African continent’s cultural diversity in dance, music, architecture, sculpture, vigour, vitality, and generally, a Dramatis originality of who we are as a people, and a young global population that should reach 2.5 billion by year 2050, it represents the future of humanity. However, the European powers and their UN and its organs have made it copiously obvious that African was incapable of ruling the world. Yes, there is a legal maxim that the law will not compel the performance of an impossibility.

I was raised in the heartland of a dynamic young nation and early became an observing witness to the scene around me, with the eye and honesty that saw life in its full dimension, the virtues, the vice, the injustices and cruelty, and now, lesbianism, homos as against the straight.

I was struck by the exposed beauty of the African continent that was 60% of the world in size, natural and human resources, the endless veld, the treeless reaches of landscape, the wonderful little flat-topped hills, the unexpected enclaves with elephants and wildlife, and the great blazing sky.

A gorgeous continent unlike no other, though green and backward. But whether in the countryside or in the small towns, I have become increasingly aware that whites and blacks occupied two radically different worlds. In philosophy, psychology, sports and mien, and the differences were clearly constant, universal and almost often severely enforced.

Like a running torch applied to tinder the white ‘supremacy’ and ‘superiority’ had engulfed in a way much that remained of the African continent. Its young men had been struck down, boundaries had been swept aside, loyalties have faltered even in the African internal politics and anguish had trespassed on human hope.

The African continent have been sentenced to adversity and have endured death-like trials, and now are eager and impatient to arrive. In these hurried state, Africa focused too much on what they didn’t get, while its too easy to forget all of what they did get, their humanity.

Then, the deafeningly loud music, lesbianism and homos cameo aesthetically sneaked into the African consciousness, just when it was about coming to terms with its realities, particularly, that it needs home-grown solutions to its myriad of socioeconomic and political problems, especially the issue of an altruistic and incorruptible leadership, which have hitherto bedeviled the continent.

Let’s highlight some home truth in this treatise, in the process, the truth can make one miserable! One author says: ‘Truth can be very uncomfortable. We have pivotal moments when we’re asked to step up and say it or act on it. But I preferred the sting of truth… to the isolation of deception.

We’ve all been socially conditioned to be pleasing and avoiding making waves, so some of what we have to learn about the truth is actually a process of “unlearning”. The pursuit of truth is like a salmon’s upstream journey; we’re literally going against the current.

The world says truth can change based on circumstances, comparisons, near data and levels of experience. But ultimate truth isn’t relative. It can’t be rationalised or customised to fit our moods and preferences. That’s why the status of our heart is so important.

There is growing concern over the dangerous influence the risky choice of gay relationship and its unusual sexual proclivities, outré attitude and a plant that had been nourished with tainted water would bring to bear on the African society in later years, that’s because a generation that’s been exposed to intense immorality grows up with more acceptance of immorality. Listen to the lewd music and art and dance.

The world love experimenting, it used to be in Vitro fertilisation (IVF), fertilisation of an egg by artificial means outside the body of the mother. It went on to genetic engineering and cloning technology, to produce a plant or an animal as a clone, this, arguably, led to some ground breaking breakthroughs and furthered advancements in the sciences; and now, turning a man into a woman and vice versa.

The mere sound of the word g-a-y, evoke the nauseating smell and sight of sex, sweat, booze and smoke. It is like the wailing of the flute inseparably connected with tragedy and death, wafting in the air, that one could feel moss sprouting out of one’s ears. Here, let’s go spiritual, and do a God or science one, so as to strike a balance.

God did not make life in a simple form and allow it to evolve into more complex forms, like science. Instead, he created basic “kinds” of complex plants and animals, which then reproduced according to their kinds”. At creation, God had heterosexuality – opposite – sex romantic and or sexual relationship in mind as deluxe. Mind you, it would have cost him anything extra if He wanted another man in Eden.

Hence, this process, which continues today, has resulted in the earth being filled with the same “kinds” of life that God originally created, and, thus, supercedes, logical reasoning, rational thinking and or science. So here, there must be heterosexism – patent discrimination and isolation of homosexuals, bisexuals and asexuals. What the teeth could not grind the nail should not even contemplate.

While it is not specific how much variation can occur within a kind, as might result when animals including Man within a kind interbreed and adapt to their environment. While one may view such adaptations as a form of evolution, no new kind of life is produced. It is amazing that science, rational thinking and logical reasoning cannot answer the deepest questions of humanity.

As soon as you ask why is there something instead of nothing, you have gone beyond science. It goes further to confirm the fact that the suffering, injustices, sickness et al, as well as the crime, m breakdown, and other atrocities that have plagued mankind throughout the ages are undeniable evidence that man’s attempts to govern himself independently of God have been an unmitigated disaster and a miserable failure, ain’t the world forgetting that we are also His progeny.

Human beings, male, female, are known for being warm, hospitable, gregarious, and are by nature designed to procreate. But when such vivacious understanding and relationships is reduced to cuddling, kissing, and fondling of people of the same gender, it becomes immoral and an unusual sexual proclivities, and therefore, atrocious, wild, unpleasant, outrageous and demeaning.

The world must endeavour to apply the correct test under the rule and stop this pie-in-the-sky philosophy, and the world must stand on its feet condemning it and be condemned in the strongest of terms possible that it is a no-no. The illicit romance and sex market has brought to the fore.

The argument that the influence of the church at providing leadership at its most challenging is said to have weakened in recent years, as public opinion has ignored long-held policies on abortion, extra marital affairs, divorce, lesbianism and homosexuality. The Church concerned with its own living faith, growth and shepherds prosperity has become clueless, cold and confused. It is a sour grape in a world of mirth and mischief that the mascot for gay marriage are political and religious leaders.

We are living in a crazy, strange and mysterious world and times. A world where virtue is losing its meaning. One is aware that only puppets don’t have sexual orientations. We are human beings and any attempt to turn us into mindless puppets by pawn masters must be met with cruel rebuff. If the world needs population control, there are saner and better scientific means to so do.

In a world where our natural “default” setting ( the one automatically selected by our internal computer unless we deliberately choose another option) is always set toward a lower standard, we have continuously and consistently exemplified the flawed nature of our rebellious first human parents passed on to us.

The church got immersed in the resulting deluge of disobedience. The world they made, the world they have given society is going to hell in a hack and a hand basket. Religious and political leaders are expected to live by high standards and must exhibit piety in words and deeds and action, in a world where few would have enough to eat, not one in a thousand could travel where he please through covid19 restrictions and protocols or hear uncensored news. Meanwhile, the old killer diseases were stalking the land: malaria, influenza, pneumonia, typhoid, tuberculosis and cholera.

Jimi Bickersteth is a public affairs commentator and writer.