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The Africa I know
The Africa I know is filled with passionate and hardworking people, despite poor governmental support.
The Africa I know is filled with the best creatures the eyes have ever seen, yet we do not live with them as it is often thought. The Africa I know is dirty and clean.
You were not ashamed of me oh Africa when you carried me in your bosom so despite all the odds stacked against you, I refuse to give up on you.
The Africa I know is corrupt and poverty stricken, yet in it you can find the honest, the wealthy and well to do.
The Africa I know is plagued with diseases, yet I love her with every bit of my existence. The Africa I know has bad roads and good roads, malnutrition and suffering, but that is not the complete picture.
The Africa I know has sky scrappers and great shopping centers. It has abundant natural resources and fertile agricultural lands.
You can find the best cars and latest fashion designs all in that blessed continent.
The Africa I know is filled with young boys and girls broke as a joke, but though barefooted and with worn out school bags, tread relentlessly to school with a great thirst for knowledge and education.
The Africa I know still suffers from the vestigial remnants of slavery and colonization yet there is hope, because that hope rests on my shoulders.
The way you are sometimes portrayed oh Africa, pushes me at times to feel ashamed and want to distant myself from you, but I love you. Your children are considered primitive, you are poverty and war stricken, and it is rumored your people live on trees. What is the next thing to be said to degrade you? Some are true others not, but how does it matter to me? Our story is one of love. I know it all, I have heard it all, yet I still love you unconditionally. What is the Africa you know and how do you feel about her?
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