Happy New Year

Its 2018, time for the new year, new me all-time famous cliché. Well, it is a new year, that’s true, but just like any other day, nothing much, nothing new. Human beings have been meant to believe so. 

I purposefully blame the people who developed the calendar. I have nothing against them, honestly. But the human generation have always been put at crossroads when it comes to the manipulation of the mind. Well, that could be an endless discussion, so am out.

Back to the new year frenzy. A lot transpired. . . A lot. Celebrations were all over the world, people laughed, some got drunk, some danced through the night, some had family re-unions, exchanged gifts, shared stories, wrote new year resolutions, basically, everybody had their own way of celebrating the new year. For some other people in various parts of the world, it was business as usual. Either someone was at work meeting deadlines, or either found themselves in awkward situations, maybe there was nothing to celebrate, nothing at all. You see, the way the world is set up, we are all of different races, religion, personal beliefs and affiliations. But that notwithstanding, we are human beings. In my Christian religion, (that I would talk about in my next blog) I was brought up to believe that we are created in the image of God. The only thing I have never known is, what race God belongs to. But that is not important. We have to celebrate our differences in diversity and what makes us human beings.

As at now, I believe the dust has settled and most people are back to business, doing what they have to do. The human race is always poised for survival, and that is what keeps the world moving, back home, we term it as matters of the stomach. Life is set up in such ways that people would do anything to survive. Basically, the struggle is to see the following day. We all know of someone or rather a friend who is or has done unthinkable things to survive, maybe it could be us, or even our relatives, but that is not to say we are saints and they are sinners. No!

They have just been caught up in the vicious circle of life, the never-ending circle. I may be judgmental, we all have been judgmental towards such kind of people, but none of us has stepped into their shoes. Well, this year, I guess we should all mind our businesses. The life we have is ‘short’ as most people term it. Me thinks, we have enough life to do what we have to do. If our life ends, or if it’s a loved one, we have very little control about it, I guess it’s just destiny, because we are all on the same path, the vicious circle. This is the year where changes have to be made, sacrifices too and a lot more. Basically, every new year comes with its own resolutions, but fact is, towards the month of December, we often come to a realization that the more things change, the more they remain the same.

But as human beings, we all have an obligation, let us try to create a better place for all mankind. I think that is the sole purpose of life. This year, try and be the reason someone smiled. Try and be the reason someone got a job, be a reason someone got promoted, be the reason, someone walked out of the hospital bed with all bills cleared. Be the reason someone did their end semester exams with fees cleared, just do something that will impact on the life of someone else. Maybe you think that is too much to ask for, maybe you think you don’t have enough money to handle such kind of situations. Well, if that is too much to ask for, why don’t you start by saying Hello to the person seated next to you in a bus or train, or even in the meeting room or at the place of work. Happy New Year 2018!!!

RESOLUTIONS

I’ll begin by wishing all my readers a happy and prosperous new year. The dust has settled in 2017 and I can now confirm that everybody is back to their normal selves. From my side, I’ve been procrastinating a lot especially towards the end of 2016 and this year I have vowed to stop. It’s been a while since I wrote something but this year, I want to be posting an article every week. That should be in line with my new year resolutions. I believe that most people have resolutions that are never fulfilled either because of the magnitude of its requirement to accomplish or just normal human procrastination of basic things.

Time is a factor that everybody has, as a matter of fact; we all have 24 hours a day. Time is one of the most overlooked resources that we humans tend to ignore or rather not pay attention to. What most people do is assume they have time. In one of my father’s usual lectures on parenting, he likes quoting to me a simple fact that, it was just yesterday that I met your mother, and it’s not long ago. That’s the time I look at it both from a literal and logical perspective, and I realize that time is an essence that I cannot afford to waste.

Every minute counts and I guess what separates successful people and the non-successful person is their dispensation of the precious commodity that is time. I want to believe that there is still time to make a resolution for those of you that have not yet made one. And while at it, use your time wisely. I made a couple of resolutions that I won’t mention here. They are very scary but it’s a risk am willing to take. Life is like a jungle and the law of the jungle favors the brave. I need to be either where I need to be or halfway, but gambling is dangerous. Multitasking is quite essential and I would recommend it for you as well as I will need it.

While setting your New Year resolutions, please observe all spheres of life, which includes your happiness, personal space, relationships, family, work, career and businesses. For those of you who are religious, make time for your creator and be thankful for everything around you. There are people out there wishing to have even half of what you don’t need. Life’s bolts are tightening every day and the economy is not as friendly as it used to be in the past. It’s that moment in time where you need to take care of your finances. Make sure you don’t spend before you earn. Am not yet an entrepreneur but I understand the ethics of saving, earning, spending and investing.

To those getting into business, I wish you nothing but success. To those reading my blog, I thank you sincerely. The ethics of life is to start doing whatever you have wanted to do. I’ve come across a quote that says; do whatever you can with what you have. So I chose this path, I hope one day someone will be reading a book written by me. If you are reading this, take charge of your dreams, goals and plans. Go out there and make it happen. Happy New Year to you and your family.  

My definition of poverty.

Most of us have at some point in their lives have come across the infamous cliche' that says, ‘time is money’. Well, that will be the foundation of my write up today, as I seek to re define poverty from my own perspective. Poverty in its semantic definition is the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount, or rather, the state of being extremely poor. Back in my country, we define poverty as the state of living below a dollar per day. Hard to believe? Well, it’s true. We have people living below a dollar a day in Kenya, while sad situation is an understatement to explain that, I would rather say it’s a catastrophe, but since there is very little I can do about it, fast forward, my topic.

A friend of mine sent me the video on this link ( Humanity Video Link) thanks to one Brian Acton and Jan Koum’s invention of whatsapp. The video touched me so much; I had to write something about it. Everything described in the video is true, critical views notwithstanding. The world is changing, while we all know that the world is changing, seemingly Charles Darwin was right, evolution is still going on, but instead, it’s on the reverse gear. We are increasingly redefining the word primitive. While early man paved way for the entry of the word primitive into the dictionary that was in respect to his language, culture and tools. We are slowly evolving into a primitive generation, I will explain that shortly.

A sneak peek into my video, which starts with a gentleman seated in a room and a highlight in the foreground that notes, big house; small family. A little ahead, more degrees; less common sense followed by advanced medicine; poor health and the point that touched me the most comes next, touched moon; neighbours unknown and lots of virtual friends; no real friends to hangout. The rest is attached on the video. Much as I would love to dwell on each of the highlighted themes on the video, I would pick on one that is very relevant to my topic above, costly watches; no time.  Rewind, my introductory statement, time is money which is logically true, but again in the video, it states that we have no time, and since I can equate the time with money, we have no money. I hope I convinced you as to why am re defining poverty.

Our lack of time is what brings in the issues of poverty. We hardly ever have time for each other, while that may be understandable, the sad truth is, and we lack time for our families. I wouldn’t have a problem if a friend had no time for me, but in family, it’s a whole lot of a different story. Both way, we lack time for everything and that’s where poverty comes from. We have more humans and less humanity, it’s true, and it’s a very sad truth. Am not trying to judge but it’s quite sad that we meet a lot of people along the streets, in the train to work, in a bus, sometimes at work and hardly ever talk. When I joined my company where I am today, it was an abomination to go to a different department and even say hi. I used to do that almost every day, and my colleagues used to tell me, I talk too much; I should restrict myself to my area of work. Which I found a little absurd. To cut the long story short, today everyone is talking to everyone. I managed to change the situation.

Imagine a workplace where you come and do your stuff, at the end of the day, you close your business and head home, the next day will come, same process and life goes on. I would be damned if depression doesn’t hug you tight enough to make you feel the last grip. We are human beings, we have to show humanity. Am one hell of a totally outgoing person, my colleagues will tell. In fact, those that hated me when I joined are now my number one fans. I sometimes start random conversations with people in the streets, sometimes in the metro and I have realized something, people really need it. Since we lack humanity, we ignore. In Dubai, you can stay in an apartment for two years and vacate that apartment without meeting your neighbor literally, leave alone talking. And if you meet, people never talk. They’ll look at you and sigh, then go ahead with their agenda.

It’s a very sad situation, and from my random conversations with strangers, it’s evidently true that people really need such kind of conversations, they are just afraid to walk out of their ego and strike a conversation. That’s why in the video, it states that we have costly watches but no time. Saying Hi to a stranger in a bus is quite harmless, I don’t think the police can arrest you for saying hi to someone. If they don’t want, leave it. We are ever on our phones, but we never talk to our families and friends, and you wonder what the phone’s purpose is. We are literally poor in everything. Humanity is losing taste, in fact it’s tasteless. I have shared a couple of conversations with some of our guests at out hotel and quite a couple have told me they came to have a peace of mind, some really thank me for sharing a conversation with them, citing they have family members in different parts of the world and it’s been years since they met and shared as a family, and that they stay alone and it’s sad because there is no one to talk to, so they come to the hotel, at least we will share a moment at the reception and laugh our lungs out. PEOPLE NEED THIS!!!

This is the point where we are losing it. There are so many cars in Dubai, and sometimes, there is traffic build up. It’s quite ironic that three out of ten cars stuck in traffic may be from people who are neighbours in the same apartment. While you can foster a relationship with your neighbours so that you can agree on a way to carpool to work, we rather as twenty five people in an apartment have our twenty five cars and head to work in almost the same place. We lost it. I can’t change that, it’s quite hard to get out of this quagmire, and am not trying to change it either, am just one person.  I would rather we meet people along the streets and say hi, extend some generosity and buy a drink, in Dubai, beverages are quite cheap. Personally, I have met people who are looking for jobs dropping CV’s at various places and some asking for direction to some places. In my perspective, it’s more than just a direction someone is asking. I offer my time and move with this particular person to a nearby restaurant, purchase some affordable meal or snacks, depending on the time of the day. That alone is enough to restore someone’s soul.

I once met a Pakistani guy while looking for a job, the U.A.E way. I didn’t know him, he didn’t know me. I was just seated somewhere next to Dubai Internet city and he came and joined me. We talked with this guy for almost two hours, he bought me lunch, and I needed it, in as much as I didn’t want to show it, but I really needed it. We talked like we had known each other for long, and that’s what most people need. After that, we all said nice to meet you and I thanked him for the treat and he wished me good luck in my job search. That’s why I don’t find it hard to return that favour to somebody else. That’s what makes us human, the human instinct that should separate us from animals. People have time, they just rather sit alone with their phones and get depressed silently and die slowly. The Pakistani guy I met spared two hours, a whole two hours for me. How many of us have more than that? Cutting out five minutes of your time to share with that person seated next to you in a bus, or train or the person in front of you in a restaurant is no big deal. In fact if you are in a restaurant and someone is sitting alone, request to join them and spark a conversation. That is enough to restore humanity. But since we have expensive watches and no time, we may as well die poor. . . .

The Higher You Go, The Cooler It Becomes.

Way back during my schooling heydays as a young African boy, inquisitive of almost everything the teacher said. One thing that has kept me racking my brains to date was a statement made during one of my usual Geography lessons which is my topic for discussion. This is a geographical principle that states that when one moves to a higher height, temperature generally decreases. This principle is called temperature inversion. Temperature inversion says that with every 1 km one moves above sea level, temperature decreases by 1ºC. On the extreme, when one climbs to a height of between 8km and 16km or 5 miles and 10 miles, temperature decreases by 6.5ºC as you move higher by every 1km.

I was made to understand that as you go up in the atmosphere from the surface of the Earth, it becomes cooler. This is because of motions of the air, and the way that heat from the sun moves around in the atmosphere. The air is transparent at most wavelengths where the Sun is bright. Therefore, most sunlight goes through the atmosphere, hits the ground, and is absorbed, heating the ground. The ground heats the air near the ground, and warms it up. When it gets warm enough, it rises. But the air higher up has lower pressure, so the warm, rising air expands and then cools. The atmosphere is mostly heated from below, and in equilibrium it becomes cooler and less dense in a smooth way as you go up. That was a whole lot of explaining to do.

I never imagined myself anywhere near the stratosphere, so I didn’t take note of that at all, until most recently when this phrase hit my head and I was trying to figure out how it applies in real life. I came to a realisation of the truth in that statement, not in Geographical terminologies but in societal dimensions. In my perspective or any normal human being’s perspective, a cool life comes when you have a quality summative of cash. You may not be a billionaire but there is a certain amount of money that guarantees a good life.

Some people are born into a wealthy family; some have to work their arses off and sweat to achieve that. In a typical company or organization, there is always a rank, from the least paid employee to the C.E.O. The pay scale is never the same for all employees, as a matter of fact, those that do most of the work are the least paid, while the credit goes to the top helm of the company’s rank.  That is why there is the aspect of promotion so that according to your productive nature and input-output ratio, you may be considered for an elevation.

Your comfort as an individual increases with your rank in that organization. From an entry level, say you are at the lowest rank, you will feel the ‘heat’. The intensity of the heat depends on your company and your manager. Some managers will exercise extreme authority on you while trying to massage their managerial ego on your entry level position. The kinds of managers who want to see you sweat literally as they keep demanding that you work, even if there is nothing to do, they will always find an errand for you. Some will want to use their presence to create an atmosphere of guilt and fear within the work of environment. These are the situations that I term as the ‘heat’ of the low altitude. No wonder volcanoes emanate from the earth’s crust.

The moment you go up one level, the heat goes down, you take another upscale step, the heat goes down. A few steps up may be at a supervisory level, the heat drastically reduces. Every step you take towards the top, the tension, anxiety and stress goes down. One day if you are smart enough and find yourself as the C.E.O of your company or an organization. You’ll hit the ozone. .

Why I don’t trust good people.

This may sound absurd, in every meaning of the word. But in my opinion, I sometimes find it quite difficult to trust good people. Everyone is good by default, till they do something bad, but come to think about it, there are people who have been perceived as infinitely good such that if someone came up with an ideology of an offense they did, no one would actually believe. This is my bone of contention.

Being good in all situations is in itself a requirement, as a matter of fact, those that are entrusted with certain utilities due to their nature of being morally and socially accepted are the kind of people the society needs. But come to think about it, human beings have shortcomings, others call it weaknesses, but I prefer using the word shortcomings. Some of these good people may take advantage of the trust vested upon them and use it to their advantage or for malice.

 Picture this; you have a wife, girlfriend, fiancée, husband or any member of the opposite sex in which you may be having a romantic or intimate affair with. All that time you two have been together, they have truly displayed the notion of the best and loyal partner ever. You fully trust them, because at the back of your mind, they have created an image of a noble stature, the image of a straightforward person. You trust them too deep, ocean floors cannot summate to the depth of trust you have vested in them.

Someone comes out of the blues and one day tells you that your significant other is cheating on you. Hard to believe, right? Well, that is the moment someone may decide to take advantage, in such kind of delicate situations. ‘Am too god to be bad’ that is the notion running through their minds. This is the moment good people often use to twist situations to their advantage.  Their goodness is so much magnetised on you trust such that you may easily brush such kind of allegations. “I wouldn’t believe such a thing” you tell yourself. Well, what you don’t know doesn’t kill you, right? Well, learned friends came up with a combative retaliatory cliché that counters that and they said, “Ignorance is no defence”. What you don’t know eventually kills you.

The moment the truth finally hits you, it breaks you down to your last body cell, may be to the centre of its nucleus.  These are the times your nervous breakdown hits your central nervous system. When reality finally hits you in situations like these, you may become a retarded psychopath. You may have a negative attitude towards people. I think murderers, misogamists and serial killers are born out of situations like these. If you take a thorough scrutiny of such people’s lives, you will realise that the genesis of their retarded psychology was as a result of a trusted individual disappointing their trust.

And these kinds of situations cuts cross all spheres of life. It does not just happen in relationships alone. Parents have lived with rapists thinking that they have innocent sons in the house only to be hit by reality when they are called up to assist in investigations. Some of you people have lived with thieves who they perceived as innocent people. The ultimate truth eventually comes out and that is the time you start formulating hypothesis no one can fathom.

In my honest opinion, I’d rather people get to know the real me than just the perceived me. This makes it easier for people to get to know who I really am, such that in the event of a stunt, people don’t get surprised, since they know my negative capabilities.  Pretenders are the worst and pretenders are worse than murderers. That’s why I don’t trust good people.

INFINITE REALM

There ain’t nothing I can’t do,

No sky too high, no sea too rough, no muff too tough

Everything worth doing is worth overdoing

Moderation is for cowards.

Shane Patton – Lone Survivor

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are a fan of movies and have watched the infamous 2013 movie, The Lone Ranger, then probably you will be familiar with the excerpt above. Am not going to delve much into the movie, I will only use its excerpt above to bring my article to life. And I would advise those that have not watched the movie to try and watch it. Reason being: it has a lot of leadership quotes you can learn from.

Fast forward, my topic above. We, human beings are the most successful animals in this planet, owing to our brain structure and the way God created us. We have achieved tremendous goals and still have plans to achieve more. From the time Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon to the discovery of outer space, the invention of the internet, exploration of the deep ocean, inventory of robotics, surgery, medicine, these amazing discoveries, I have to say that it is overwhelming to its every detail. All these things have been achieved, not only by our intellect as humans, but because somebody dared to dream.

There is an infamous cliché that goes, ‘What we think, we become’ Man thought of going to the moon, we all know what happened. Steve Jobs had his own thoughts, today we delight in holding his dreams in our hands in the name of I phone. We all dare to dream, some achieve their dreams, some dread even trying, either because the dream is way too big, or the technicalities of achieving it are too cumbersome. But success is not for the faint hearted. Man couldn’t conquer the moon if he were faint hearted. The same rules of exchange apply in trying to achieve our dreams.

I pose a question, what would you do, if you were not afraid? It’s a rhetorical question, so you can keep the answer to yourself. In becoming what we think we are, fear is something that should not stand in our way. As it’s said, fear is quite contagious and the moment it rents a space within your brain cells, trust me, you are not going to do anything, not even trying to accomplish it.   Our capabilities are beyond measure and it all waters down to our belief system.

In my perspective, I believe anyone can do anything on earth. Our limits are only set by ourselves. A time back I was talking to my colleagues and I told them that today if someone appoints you to be the CEO of this company given a few weeks of training, then probably you may even run this company better than the current CEO. Some of them looked at me as if I was drunk despite the fact that I was drinking a jug of milk, literally (no pun intended). I then gave a little explanation to my utterances and they started seeing the sense as they were nodding in affirmation. Logically it’s possible, ethically, someone may say you need this and that, you need some experience and some qualifications and a hullabaloo of explanations. Which may be right or wrong, it depends on perception. But come to think of this, what if everyone was given equal opportunities, what will the world become?

We are where we are as the human race, basically due to the fact that our systems have brought us to where we are. I am one person who thinks differently because I believe we as human beings could do more. We didn’t have to wait till 1969 to set foot on the moon. If a nuclear bomb was dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki way back on August 6^th 1945, why did they have to wait till 1969 to land on the moon, while someone could just use the theory of nuclear physics to come up with a high powered rocket and may be land on Mars. Anyway, I have little knowledge of space exploration and rocket science, so I won’t argue much. But in my thoughts, I deeply believe that if everyone was given equal opportunities then we as humans would have gone a lot more steps further.

There are no limits to human intelligence; we just don’t have the chance to display them. Some of the best ideas the world has never seen are either buried 6 feet deep or have been cremated depending on a society’s rituals and culture. Some of the best books never written, the best songs never heard, the poems never recited, the vehicles never invented, the movies never watched, the architectural designs never envisioned, the aerodynamics never invented, the best presidents never elected. All these are deep in the ground, because someone was too afraid to try, so they died with their dreams. No wonder it’s said that the soil is very fertile.  I am for the opinion that it’s better to die with a memory than to die with a dream.

The dreams we have, are never our creation. They come in our minds and thoughts from a higher being and as a staunch Christian; I believe they come from God. He puts them in our minds because he trusts that we can achieve them. Dying with them would be a great offense to him. We just need to identify what was put in us and exploit it. If man can dig deep into the ground to discover diamonds, why can’t they dig into their minds to discover their dreams? Which is easier, digging a hundred kilometres into the ground to mine gold or digging ten centimetres into your mind to discover ‘diamonds’?

Your abilities are never limited and as my sister Lupita Nyong’o in her acceptance speech as an Oscar award winner, “No matter where you come from, your dreams are valid” Just fall into the sphere of the infinite realm and discover your purpose on earth. As Mark Twain puts it, there are two most important days in a man’s life, the day you are born, and the day you find out why, so I pause the question, why were you born?

 

 

WHY I AM A SOCIALIST

Socialism is a system that encompasses everyone and if I were a ruler or some sort of a president governing a nation, I would ensure that as a leader, I embrace the ideology of socialism. I believe it takes too many a task to ensure that you have a government that caters for the need of each and every individual. Of course some people have to complain, irrespective of how good the government is. But come to think about this, having a socialist kind of government that cuts across all social classes and caters for the need of everybody. Well, in my viewpoint, if someone has to complain, I believe someone will, then it will be a very minor issue given that the complainant can access over 50% resources that he/she needs.

I have never believed in capitalism. It may work for some people but I believe that if capitalism works for you then you are a greedy individual. Most African countries have capitalism as their system of governance. Someone may be of the opinion that it works for them but in my opinion, it kills the whole system. A majority of African citizens, by demography are poor. And Africa is the richest continent in terms of natural resources. I don’t have a vivid or in-depth understanding of mining, but from my simple understanding of mineral distribution in Kenya only, I am for the opinion of that Africa still remains to be the richest continent on earth.

We have been exploited, our resources misused and also used to develop Europe and America. If you look back in History, during the times of trans-Atlantic trade, many Africans were taken into slavery by the white people to go and work in American fields. During the European invasion of Africa, our black Nation was colonized and our recourses were taken to Europe to go and develop Europe. The Omani Arabs too used to indulge in trade along the east African coast as they captured Africans along the coast of Zanzibar who were taken into slavery by the Arab people.

This is why I believe that Africa stands out to be the richest continent on earth as people from other continents came to Africa to exploit our resources. Since they met a lot of resistance, they were not able to take up everything, being that our resources are endless. The current problem with Africa is our leaders and the system of governance, bringing me back to my viewpoint on socialism and why I am a socialist.  

Socialism, by definition is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. This is the very reason why socialism should be embraced by African leaders. There is no reason for the government to advocate for the distribution of resources based on the sole trust of certain individuals that will ensure that the channel of distribution of such resources is short-changed. Corruption works in a capitalist state, but never in a socialist state. Most African countries have corruption as a major enemy to their progress and development.

It is ironical that Africans travel abroad not as tourists but as job seekers trying to make out a living while in real sense, they are developing those nations. On the contrary, Europeans and other white people come to Africa as tourists. Our governments cannot see any problem with that. Resources are trusted in the hands of few individuals who instead of distributing such resources to the very people who need it, oftenly distribute these resources in their ‘stomachs’. This stalls the development of some of these African countries, and that is a government by capitalism. If our country’s resources were entrusted with our citizens and the means of production was equally distributed, then perhaps most of our citizens would be employed and that we will be travelling abroad as tourists and come back home.

In my country alone, ever since the last election way back in the year 2013, logically nothing has transpired, save for billions of shillings that were unaccounted for. What worries most is that, some people have no problem with that, which brings me to the second problem Africa is facing as a capitalists continent, Ignorance, but that is a topic for another day. Ignorance comes as a result of few people accessing education due to Africa’s first problem, corruption. The moment someone is ignorant, they cannot see that the government is messing their lives and to add salt to the wound, their future and that of their children.

There is an all-time cliché that says, ‘God cannot give you everything’ which of course is true. God gave Africa almost everything the world needs, the only thing he never gave us is good leadership, and that is what Africa needs the most. Our leaders, to say the truth are rotten to the core. They are corrupt, manipulative and tyrant in a negative deviation. Most of them have acquired wealth through corrupt means and invested in some of the wealthiest western nations. They rarely care about the lives of their citizens that they govern. All they ever care is about themselves and their families. The deteriorating condition of the African economy is something they never mind neither care about. That is how capitalism works.

None of the African citizens would be complaining if jobs were created and they are in a position to acquire most basic needs. Personally, if we as citizens were capable of taking our children to school and able to afford basic needs as well as enjoy part of the national cake, I wouldn’t have a problem with the president owning a real estate abroad nor renting a room in white house. What hurts Africa the most is the accepted effect of capitalism that marginalizes the citizens into two social classes, the rich and the poor. It’s very sad that ethnicity makes this gap grow day by day, as some people would rather have their person in parliament doing nothing rather than have a different individual out rightly working and developing the nation.

For as long as capitalism exists, personally am against it. It may work for certain countries but in Africa, ever since independence, it has failed. Africa is labelled poor or third world because capitalism has totally failed to take effect and transform some of these African Nations. I am a socialist and will die with my beliefs as a socialist.