Welcome to Africa

From the horn of Africa in Somalia to Cape Verde, from Cairo to Cape Town. If you were to ever criss cross this continent you would have toured 53 countries. In doing so you would have met 6000 tribes or ethnic tribes and heard 2000 languages. This is the home of diversity. This is where 900 million people call home.

Over the last 500 years Africans have been the backbone of every major wave of change.
Africans were the backbone of the industrial revolution, feeding plantations with human labour. Today Africans are the backbone of the growth age, feeding the worlds industries with natural resources.
This level of Africa’s generosity remains its greatest strength and yet its greatest weakness. For in serving the world it has not served itself and in helping to develop the world it has not developed itself.
That was the story yesterday.

Today there is a new story.
Africa today offers the highest return on investments than anywhere else in the world. Millions of its young people are highly educated and belong to a rapidly expanding middle class and a whole lot more are expanding the frontiers of entreprenuership.
Hope has been found on a continent that is beginning to tell its own story. Faith is alive in the hearts of millions that this is the dawn of a new Africa.
This is the kind of Africa you do not see because this is the kind of Africa you do not look at.
Look again, and you will see the Africa I see. The Africa we should all see.

Like I read somewhere the other day, “hope is hearing the music of the future and faith is dancing to its tune today”. To all who dare to look Africa’s way, I say, come let’s dance.