Hello Africa! It’s business unusual. Black History Month is the time to tell ourselves some hard truths, not just listen to praise songs.
Mental chains or mental slavery! It’s the root cause for today’s crisis of leadership in Africa, for our culture of dependency & mediocrity, and for our beggar mentality.
It’s the reason we willingly allow others to exploit us to advance their own personal, political, ideological, theological, economic and racial agendas.
Mental chains. It’s we who allow others to chew our food for us and spit it into our mouths to swallow. Think about it!
Our mental chains are the reason we shamefully sell our own selves, our people, and our resources for the lies, flatteries, and cheap bribes of opportunists and adversaries who pretend to seek our interest. And it’s why we then stupidly & hypocritically claim we’re victims!
Our mental chains are the reason for the new slavery, colonization, and scramble for Africa.
It’s the reason we vilify our true heroes when they are alive, and then build monuments for them with the very stones we use to stone them to death!
Africa, we’re our own problem—whether on the continent or in the diaspora!
Let’s stop the denials, excuses, and blame games. Let’s quit the self-pity syndrome, the “they-did-this-to-me” or “I-have-suffered-this” excuses. Let’s start taking full responsibility for our destiny.
Our MENTAL chains must come off, just as much as the METAL chains of slavery and colonization.
We need mind liberation. Freedom to think, freedom to do, and freedom to be. Freedom from the mediocrity of sin to the excellence of mind renewal. “Be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2). “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).
Africa, let’s unchain the Elephant! It’s our MINDSET! Africa must think! Africa must do! And Africa must be! Then we shall celebrate Black legacy, not just Black history.
—Samuel Koranteng-Pipim
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SAMUEL KORANTENG-PIPIM,PH.D. , is a US-based Ghanaian author, inspirational speaker, leadership trainer, and an advocate for youth empowerment. He was trained in engineering and systematic theology, and has authored more than twenty books. They include his bestselling works Hope Through the Dark, Six More Chances, Healed Wounds but Ugly Scars, and Patience in the Midst of Trials and Afflictions. Dr. Pipim currently directs two Centers for Leadership Development known as EAGLES (Empowerment & Advisory Group for Leadership, Excellence, & Service) and ANANSE (African Network & Advisory for Needed Services & Excellence). www.EAGLESonline.org. He also serves as a special consultant on Bible projects for Remnant Publications. 