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Bored? Get Down and Enjoy Africa's Beauty!

  1. Posted on Tuesday 21 October 2008 - 14:03
    Jack Meena
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    Africa is a beautiful and breath-taking continent; blessed with abundant resources at her disposal, hardworking and strong people, yet a home of the most vulnerable human species on earth! Most visitors are flabbergasted with the conditions on the ground; extreme poverty, diseases, madness, maladministration, selfishness of the haves and imbroglio politics.
    Bishop Mattew Ashimolowo has released a book titled, ‘what is wrong with being black?’. Personally, I haven’t read the book but looking forward to go through its pages and see the points he raised. A guess hints me that the many problems Africa is grappling with could be the motivation for this book.
    A friend recently asked me, “Jack are you a chagga?.” I looked at him and thought he had asked me a rather folly question. He charged, ‘what’s wrong with you, I asked you a question and you ain’t saying a thing.” I replied, “Yes but that is not important. I see myself a Tanzanian, East African and African more than a mere chagga.” “No, that’s an over reaction Jack!”
    We laughed and went about our business. Three days later he called and said he wanted to know if I knew where Mt.Kilimanjaro was located and whether I had been at the roof of Africa. The question drove home the message. Studies show that very few Africans take time to enjoy the beauty which this continent is blessed with.
    In Tanzania; the land of intense beauty- a home to the tallest mountain in Africa; Mt. Kilimanjaro, the greatest game park in the world, Serengeti National Park, home to the most storied annual wildlife migration on earth. The land of the famous Ngorongoro Crater, the world largest game reserve, the Selous, the host of the largest water bodies on earth and much more compelling exotic Island- Zanzibar! Sadly, we rarely pay attention to these things. Could this be the reason why Pastor Ashimolowo scribbled ‘what’s wrong with being black?’
    Let us all cultivate a culture of appreciating what God has blessed us with because through that we could make Africa a better place to live. Visit: www.tanzaniaparks.com

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