African Union Address

Presidents/leaders are elected by the proletariat on the predication of service. When leaders serve, honour their words & pledges, constituencies & lives are changed. When leaders serve & know they are servants of the proletariat accountability, transparency, upholding of constitutions & human rights become second nature, no entreaty. A succor spirit births virtues within a being, humility & empathy. Judging by the socioeconomic state of the continent we clearly have leaders/presidents & not servants. The proletariat, neglected, haggard, living in abject poverty & abused. You cannot serve a people you're cleaved from, a people whose reality is alien to you. If we could have servants at the echelons of power, Africa would be a completely different continent. Are you servants? Whom do you serve? A time will come when we will have to account for our state of affairs. We cannot lament colonialism forever. We have the resources. The AU has become a band of elites that hoard & protect their power at all costs, condone atrocious human rights violations by their silence. If any, the efficacy of the organization has been blighted by the corrupt modus operandi of elections synonymous with internet shutdowns, blood baths, women & children raped, endorsement of stolen elections & feigned statements of shock almost always too late. We have seen it across the continent from Ethiopia, Chad, Gabon, Cameroon, Zimbabwe & as we speak Sudan burns. The AU is a phantom, when Africans need voices & advocates she is silent the most. We need you to stand for those who have their voices stolen, those who are raped & maimed, for the child soldiers. We need you to be servants, to remember your oaths, to remember those that have their hopes in you. We need you to be accountable, wake from the slumber of greed & apathy, remember your mothers teachings. There is a reason why blood resides behind skins & water is not red revere human life. Those that did not fight the colonial wars are Africans too & we are not born free, we are still oppressed, by you. So much for millennials being intitled. Change is the only constant. A generation of new politicians is sprouting but being thwarted & prosecuted as you look on habitually. It is the way of nature, the new always replaces the old, bow out gracefully. Pass the button & whatever virtuous lessons you can, you cannot fight the future. We do not need succession plans, one human one vote, let the proletariat vote & respect their voices & choices; enshrine the ethos of democracy. Step aside from your regal thrones, shed your many titles, walk human; remember what it is, walk the sidewalks your constituents walk, sleep in the shacks they do, walk barefoot where they do, watch as their cherubs scrap for food in garbage cans, maybe your wits will come about. Maybe you will remember the almost 1.3 billions souls you ought to be leading. Maybe you need to start meeting in the townships & not the high-rises, padded seats & 5-star accommodations. We need to be an accountable people. Serve the continent and her people. It's the 21st century & we still do not have running water, electricity & basic necessities. Whose agenda are you pushing? Step away from myopic greed actuated thinking. Stop selling our continent for personal gains. Plan for the future, expand our resources in short, medium & long term plans that will benefit the youths & future generations. Think of the cherubs. Invest in technology, clean energy, production & refinery & climate change. Empower the proletariat, give their voices back, invest in education, agriculture, healthcare & infrastructural development. Be servants of the people, be human. Create a dais were women's & human rights, equality can be a possibility, a dais were the indelible perception of Africa being dark, poverty & pestilence ridden can be changed.

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