Borders in Africa that separated one country from another, as we understand today. Our kings and chiefs called it regions. But each land was respected by its own culture and language, equally respected. It was thus that permitted people to speak their own mother tongues and remained heard by others of another culture.

We were believers but we worshiped God in our own way, God was never brought by anyone in our continent, but always had been in the centre of our lives, respected as the highest being. The mixed marriages that took place in the frontiers of our land, are nothing but a proof that we are a non-violent race that hopes to live in peace with others. We were not educated as the term is comprehended in our times, but yes, we were educated in our own terms hence we could ask our elders to guide and educate us about life. We had no doctors as in the present day, but we lived a healthy life that needed not a medical doctor, but a traditional doctor.

Our skin colour was not black nor brown, but African. There was no money but we traded with what we had. We were never rich because no one knows what that means, but yes, we were rich with our own fortune. There was peace, harmony and love among us, but all that was replaced by turmoil and hatred, anger and jealousy and I tell you even corruption dominated. A neighbour was treated like a relative, and not like a stranger.

Africa was treated like the last loaf of bread in the bakery shelf that those who are hungry for it would 'Scramble for Africa'. In the age of time, we were called barbarians, monkeys, baboons, hotentos and even niggers and Negros. It was then that we were colonized, and our wealth and resources got looted to build other non-African lands. Because of our skin colour, we were tamed to be evil and cruel, inhuman and inferior. Above all in the eyes of the perfect we were a 'freak of nature' that came to existence as a result of a mistake. The aim of the oppressor was to kill and depopulate, so as to ease the process of looting our resources. Intimidation was part of the aim, as to have us spies of the oppressor so that they know the acts of our brothers and sisters who were trying to do good for us all. All these democracies and independences, did not come alone, but unemployment and hunger mounted on us.

All these, poverty and crime, droughts and corruption are proofs that something went wrong. Our Africaness was polluted and converted even suppressed. We support everything that comes from the West, and even forget about our own. We cry out for help to those who showed no mercy during our times of struggle, because we fear the unknown. Africa is rich in everything, but again we would not rest until we ask for help from the West or Europe. Today we fight against each other's languages and treat them as old school because we have learnt how to speak English properly, even though we cannot, why worry? What went wrong? What changed? We were not using permits to cross borders to those who are neighbours, but we used our existence and appearance. Today we have African refuges whereas in the past we would have visitors, but also non Africans would be referred to as tourists, while we are refugees.

Why do African fight each other, why do they hate each other, why would Africans be more welcoming to non-Africans than Africans? Who is controlling the economy of mother Africa? Who is an investor? Who owns land in Africa, why Africans migrate to non-African countries? Today we need non-Africans to solve our own problems.

I would not have said anything if I don't refer to Ethiopia, who in her troubles managed to keep Africa rising. The defeat of Italy in Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa is an evidence to this. When you look at the past, you may look at Africa being colonized, but watch, Africa colonizing Europe, the Europe of tomorrow. Ethiopia not rising, but Africa rising. The invention of Ethiopia was too rapid, too precipitately undertaken, everywhere around the world Africans were treated like cattle to be branded with the owners' mark. Italians had been not less courageous or even less enterprising than others but rather made up its mind a little too late. So when they went to Africa to take their share of the fortunes of Africa the easily accessible regions were all been taken up, which left them with no choice, but to touch the untouchable. In all these countries, were news traverses the marshes and the desserts as on the wings of the wind, you may be sure of the wind, you may be sure that some, that from one part of Africa to another it is already known or it will be so in the near future that Africa has conquered Europe and colonized the Europe of tomorrow.