Point on Africa: Hold those scapegoat horses young people

Hold those scapegoat horses young people

Posted by catch up Tuesday, 5 January 2010 20:32
Labels: Fellow Youth

True, disillusionment is all over the place. We as the youth complete school; Primary, High school or College, with little or no hope. Schooling is now as basic as wearing clothes - not for money but to avoid sapheadedness. If something MEANINGFUL and POCKETFUL was there to occupy our minds, perhaps we would not commit the crimes we do today.

Well, in as much as there are limited opportunities, I'm yet to agree with some of the youth, though being one of them, on this front of "crime because of no chances."

Who really creates these opportunities that some of us wait for? People create them, don't they? Not aliens, not gods, not ghosts. Can we be these people? Do we have to wait for ready-to-use stuff? Are we as the youth beyond invention stage? If my father has a peice of land, why can't I ssek to buy my own piece elsewhere, such that the inheritance will just be an addition to my personally acquired property? Do I have to bank my everything on an inheritance? Do I have to hunt that tongue of piece of land like it was life?

Young people, not just in Africa but all over the world, need to consider themselves as "alone". Lone mountain men and women out to discover, create, inspire, acquire and build. We are not children anymore to depend on our kin even when we can do better.

When I read history books, even on events as recent as 1900s, I get very ashamedly challenged by the age of some movers of things. People who left home, went and observed the world, fought against despair, never gave up, marked their own territories and went back home on front pages of the local daily to tell tales, at an age when our mothers today are still reminding us to wear coats because it might be chilly in the evening and they ain't gonna spend any more money on cough syrup!

Fellow young men and women, we don't need a clean world to survive. We can clean the dirty one we have and live. Where is the pride of some of us?

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成人色情漫畫卡通 11 January 2010 11:01
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Highest CD Rates 24 January 2010 11:46

I agree that it is not at all bad to study but it is really bad that even after completion of our studies we don't get enough opportunities to earn our livelihood. So, I would say that if government can arrange for education opportunities then it is her opportunity to at least create few opportunities to employment as well.
Saldanha 16 March 2010 17:08

Who creates opportunities? True it is not gods or some nebulous entity called fate! it is us! true we ought to be alive to the opportunities that tend to lie hidden. true also that we ought to think outside the box to be able to move from our coccoons or comfort zones. but there is one thing that you are overlooking here. there is this primary factor that we overlooking when considering the variables that come into play to create opportunities. and that variable is environment. Abraham Boeing, Andrew Carnegie, J.D. Rockerfeller, Samuel Morse, etc were who they were because of a greater part played by the environment they were in. if environment is conducive to nurturing of talents, then we can have as many Edisons and Fords as we can. but we could also have an environment that smothers creativity. now in Kenya, we have institutionalised grand larceny to a point whereby things like merit is being treated as pigswirll. hard work long gave way sarcophancy. so if when a youth - God forbids - ends up engaging in some not so social activities, dont just heap vindictions on him/her, think of all the factors at play. man our fathers messed when founding the nation, and we are the sins of our fathers yet we have the unique capacity to thrust our dearly beloved country forward. we stand at the cusp of greatness. lets leave behind a legacy, regardless our country Fathers. this is our time, lets grab it because it will never be handed onto us in a silver platter.