The African Voltage

You want to know the African Voltage?You want to know what makes us happy people? Welcome to the Volts. The African voltage symbolizes that innate traditional way and energy of expressing what we know we own and have inherited over generations from our ancestors. This cultural heritage expresses our resolve to adhere to our traditional roots in dealing even with modern challenges. Yes, there is an evolution as the world globalizes and yes we recognize these changes but there is that natural voltage visible on the faces of our people and their resilience to challenges. The disagreements on whether states evolve or are engineered by revolutionary blends with the former are for pretentious sociologists to sort out. We have moved on with what belongs to us. In Africa it's about life in its natural state.I have gone around the world but the trip ends up back in Africa and Uganda to be specific. Despite all the hiccups of our political-economy engineered externally, despite all the pressures from imperialist interests that have diverted states from addressing their natural mandates,we have proved to be the most resilient people on this planet. Aboriginals, Red Indians have been reduced by what in modern history is termed as "the civilized" world. Ours has been a painful rediscovery from slave trade and colonial interference. There is alot that has been talked about in a stereotypical way about this continent.

But our adversaries stand on notice that we are not Aboriginals or Red Indians. We are Africans and the world has evolved as well as revolutionarized with us playing a constructive role. From a strategic stand point, we can extrapolate the intentions of the New Global Order in relation to us as a continental block.

We are just a proud people.Proud of our rich heritage,our culture,our women,our organic foods, we have tried though not enough to resolve our inadequacies. Our collective strength is through our capacity to acknowledge those flows in our African setting and working to resolve those contradictions. Yes, we are trying and full of energy and our resolve to redeem ourselves, support ourselves and work to change our sorrounding for the better our responsibility.

This continenet has a beautiful climate, the tropical forests, the magnificient sceneries,fauna and flora.We have never believed in individualism and this is not out of insecurity or may be it is,but we love our communalism. The young generations has chosen its place in the defence of Africa,we have come of age. We are now partners with good friends, we recognize ourselves as global citizens and yes we are. We have threats as ever before, but our mothers despite all the difficulties have and continue to self preserve our land left behind by our fore fathers. The young generations have gotten into the fold. Yes, we love this place, we owe everything to our great fathers who preserved it for us.

Our heritage has been the most precious piece of our ancestral past. We have walked the talk and gone ahead to preserve what belongs to us. We do look at humanity in the real spiritual sense God made us. We knew God before the coming of the Europeans and Arabs. Alot has been distorted about us as people who looked up to our grand great fathers as a source of healing. Like all civilizations we had our technology and civilization of the time. We built huts because that is what we had at the time.

We made temples and the Baganga, one of the most organized people called God Katonda;meanig the one who creates. The Abaluhya called God Omurisya;meaning the one who feeds. This was before Henry Morton Stanley came to Uganda or any other European rolled on to Africa to bring "civilization" or is it imperialism in quest for natural resource predation on behalf of their home governments. The teaching that Africans worship evil in their huts and only those in Iron roofed buildings called churches worshiped the top most God was aimed at decampaigning our technology of the time and therefore distortion of facts and undermining of our cultural-religious history. We are a forgiving people and yes we forgave our tormentors. What is called modern civilization through reliogious zealotry was an engine of establishing capitalistic interests in our midst. And ideology that emphasizes individualism to communalism.

We are the most hospitable people in the world. We are the most cultured people often with no hidden agenda.Africans embrace true humanism as a race by our cultural orientations. Manipulative collaboration has been an alien introduction and the first introductions of corruption among our people.All the struggles witnessed in Africa today are distortions aimed at preservation of our heritage. We are in a cultural struggle to self preserve our mother land and its beauty. The chinese have and yes we can. The world faces an ecological catastrophe if America's cultural imperialism is not checked by other cultures.

I am not saying I hate American, British or Chinese culture but I love African Culture more. We have done our part to trace our history. Yes we are working on documenting what we have discored. It's a process that requires committment but the young ones have come forward and showed enthusiasm. All this goes a long way to show that Africa is a partner undermined by those who do not understand how the world works. That our grand children will be true partners of the world as we; in our time work to establish our true identiy in the new global order. We re-echoe our call to the world and those who have relegated Africa to the peripheral that we are a re-awakened giant that is slowly emerging as a global player. The resources we have is all you want and previously it was Western Europe's exclusive monopoly of access, now we can deal with those whose hand stretch out to us with respect. Let no one underestimate our resolve to protect our natural resources. It has gone on for long but today a moment has come for us to prove to the world that it calls for more respect to deal with us. And you think I am joking? That is not a grave.It's an archeological excavation by an African student trying to put Africa into perspective.

It is evident our children have the resolve to. The entire continet is on a true African voltage that the world is now caught in awe. They have hope for a new future that belongs to them and those who will respect them as true global citizens.

We love them and now we are working than ever before to prepare them to take over the mantle of our destiny. We have the determination than ever before to live in diginity and to respect our women and children as true agents of change. We love our beautiful children because they are a symbol of our future civilization.