AFRICAN YOUTH ARE TODDLERS; NOT FIT FOR LEADERSHIP!

"Any society that neglects the strength of its youths, call for weak leadership and truncates its own future." - Soul'e Rhymez

This could be the situation currently faced in most African countries. 
If you look at the age range of people leading prominent African countries, you will agree with me that the youths are nowhere to be found, it's as if they don't exist.

However, the older generation is not to blame, African youths are the problems of themselves! 
We are just not equipped, we are not ready to lead, we still want to be fed like toddlers by our parents and no sane parent puts responsibilities in the hands of a toddler.

African youths are toddlers; not fit for leadership!

Whether the above statement makes sense to you or not, whether you are guilty or not, it doesn't stop the fact that it is the way our parents, who currently occupy leadership positions in our various countries see it. They don't just trust us and we have not proven that we are trustworthy enough to take over from them.

Earlier this year, I sent a quote out condemning the way youths concentrate much of their energies on sex and sexual related stuffs, urging them to divert the same energies into something productive.

A lot of people criticized me, but that's just one major thing that takes the time of African youths and I think it is the same in other developing countries too.

The major problem of African youths is that we love to be entertained.

Most of us are spectators, we love to sit down and analyze situations, criticize as much as we can, but never willing to be a part.
About 2 or more years ago, I discovered that “those who love to be entertained all the time are those that go through life as failures.” This is very true of African youths.

“Whenever the desire to be entertained supersedes the desire to learn and put into practice what is what is learnt, failure is inevitable.”
This explains the precarious situation of African youths in the leadership of their countries.
We don't learn, most of us know nothing about the government of our countries, all we care about is to be served right, to be entertained. It is such a pity!

More recently, I have read series articles condemning BBN reality show, the writers blame sponsors for pumping money into it and I wonder why they are surprised.
These are business people, they don't pomp money into it because it is BBN; they do so because people watch it. This show has a lot of audience and it will sell their products and services.
Oh, you want them to sponsor a show that people don't watch? Think again!

The popularity of that show testifies to the fact that African youth value entertainment more than learning.
I remember when one of the female housemates was said to have gone naked by mistake, the guys where I live talked about it for more than a week, wishing they could get a taste of her, that testifies to the fact that they concentrate more of their energies on sex and sex related stuffs. These same guys have never watched any educative program on TV, talk less of news, how can those crop of guys lead a country?

Most African youths are not as courageous as their predecessors.
We want to be superstars and live free lives, we want to be in the good books of everyone, we want to obey all the time; we have not grown to the extent of taking our own destinies in our own hands. We do not want to be responsible for anything that will present us as rebels, but until we reach that level, our predicament continues.

We need to stand up for what is rightfully ours, but before we can change anything, we have to change ourselves first.
Most of us can't succeed as WhatsApp group administrators, so how do we lead a country?
We need proper knowledge of what it takes to be in position of leader,
We have criticized enough, any fool can do that, let us get to work!

Let us concentrate more of our energies in something better, other than sex and comedy,
Let us learn, and put into use those things we have learnt,
Let us make ourselves available for the position of leadership by equipping ourselves with necessary knowledge of leadership and attainment of power for the benefit of all.

If I will recommend, I will recommend we rebel against any policy that does not favour us!
No one has achieved exceptional success has done so without rebelling against certain rules made by men.
If you obey all the time, even when it is not beneficial to do so, you will always remain a puppet without any significant success.
The fear of being tagged rebels has crippled a lot of youths; they will obey and concur as long as they get peanuts for it.

AFRICAN YOUTHS ARISE; IT IS YOUR TIME TO LEAD!

Written by Soul'e Rhymez
Poet & Public Speaker, based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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