UNITY BETWEEN AFRIKAN LEADERS AND PEOPLE
The last dimension of Afrikan unity is the unity between Afrikan Leaders and people.
There is a big gap currently between Afrikan leaders and the people and the people of Afrika are crying out because:
The leaders are rich and the people are poor;
The leaders are powerful and the people are powerless;
The leaders are on the side of the colonial while the people are yearning for freedom;
The leaders make plans without the consent of the people;
The people do not know how the wealth of the nation is going: no accountability at all
The leaders are carrying out policies that do not reach to the common people
The leaders are living in the best of houses, with security while millions of the Afrikan people are homeless and being killed everyday
The Chinese are buying up Afrika and the leaders are selling Afrika out to them, the people are the ones to suffer it, this is unacceptable
The people of Afrika are yearning for unity says Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and it is true but the leaders do not have plans for that because they are already comfortable
We want leaders that will feel our pain like Sankara and do something about it till every one is fine
We want leaders like Nkrumah who had the burden for all the people.
We want to see our leaders walking freely on the streets without fear of being mobbed to death because they no know they have nothing to fear;
We want our leaders to carry us along in every program, to sacrifice for us and not sacrifice us to colonisation, hunger and disease
We want our leaders to be humble, caring etc like they are during the election periods
Our leaders should not be like the colonisers who lived large, rode big cars, lived in big houses at our expense.
We expect our leaders to be different since they are our own brothers.
Only people who have the burden for people should be in leadership. They are the ones who would build the people and build the nation
They are the ones that wouldn't be comfortable living in gigantic palaces with steady power while their people are squatting 3 in a room with zero power supply.
The Unity between Afrikan leaders and people is when
1. The leaders and the people have one heart and one vision
2. When the leaders carry the people along in all the programs of the nation.
3. When the people have access to the leaders as much as the people have access to their fathers and mothers.
4. When the leaders and people suffer the same poverty, pain and scarcity together, or better still enjoy the riches of the nation together.
5. When the leaders work for the people using the resources of the nation.
6. When the leaders use the same roads, hospitals, schools etc that the people use rather than flying private jets while the people trek, or being treated abroad while hospitals at home are in ruins, or send their children abroad for education while schools at home are badly substandard.
7. Finally, it is when the leaders listen to the grievances, wishes and wills of the people they represent and act according to them.
When the leaders and the people are one, the leaders can die for the people and the people can die for their leaders than see them hurt, the resources of Afrika wouldn't develop Europe or America or the bank accounts of Afrikan leaders, but the resources of Afrika would develop Afrika and there would be peace, justice, love and progress all across the Afrikan Family worldwide and the people of Afrika shall no longer be the least people on earth but the greatest in the world.
So be it
The Unity between the leaders and the people of Afrika must be developed as a new ground of Afrikan unity and fully attained so that the leaders and the people wont continue to move at opposite directions.
Failure to unite Afrikan leaders and people = Bloody revolution
Eze Afrika
