After a long walk around, one thing is more vivid. The ashen looks and the faces in deep concentration. What matters, i think, is what will be, the next time. The next time when i am at table, office, house, classroom, junction, generally at the next time and place. What? yes, i wish to know what will be in terms of who i will be and how all will be.
So today is, and yesterday was. yesterday, i think, determined today and today will determine tommorrow. There are those who are more in the yesterday, the good old past of our fore fathers or ancestors. They think we can go back and have the good old village and community based kind of living. Well, that sounds so nice and romantic but if the yesterday helped today to be so very different- that we are moving more and more towards capitalism and individualism- forgetting every bit of the idea that man is a social being, would it be right to romantize the past?
I am talking about the my identity as an african in the global village. I think, each and everyone is seeking on how to intergrate him/herself in the global village in a more life affirming manner. So, as an african, i wonder what my identity will be in the next 20 yrs!
In the today, it is all over, africa is notorius for its stories especially those in which the word black or bad is used as a prominent adjective.
I have heard people talking about african cultural values. Is there any likelihood that these values that are proper to africans can contribute to the process of bringing sanity in the world i.e moving towards being properly human by all that are human?