AFRICAN CHILD, THE REALITY
We live in a world we know nothing about. I say this with utmost humility for I have tried to figure out my own. I believe in simplicity perhaps it’s the only way for me to reach out to all those people trapped in between what is true and what is not. Perhaps I should take you through the day to day life of an African. So you can have a feel of the real world. I say real because sometimes reality is obscured by way of life or the societies we come from. I look at my people and can’t help but grieve for them. I walk the streets and I see a child fending for herself. Barely, ten probably seven years old scraping dustbins. Hoping to find something, anything to eat. I look into their eyes and see the determination slowly fade and in its place replaced by despair, once again reality dawns there is no food. It was that way yesterday, today and probably tomorrow. The expression scary at this point there is nothing she won’t do. She wonders why life has to be so hard and people ...