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Acknowledging the ‘transient nature of error’ and appreciating the ‘eternity of genius and virtue’, you will be disgusted with all vanity and uselessness. Classically aspiring only for what is good and made to last long, you will be a warrior who knows no defeat owing to your persistence, perseverance and an inflexible WILL. Impatient at all the oppression that are done under the Sun, you will be an all-powerful homo sapien, leaving fire in your wake, as you move from conquest to conquest, towards being a homo magiste (Man the Master). Yes! From the center (Sahara) to the Oceans (Indian and Pacific). Hurrah! Africa’s Prosperity! So affirms BEYONDISM.

Acknowledging the ‘transient nature of error’ and appreciating the ‘eternity of genius and virtue’, you will be disgusted with all vanity and uselessness. Classically aspiring only for what is good and made to last long, you will be a warrior who knows no defeat owing to your persistence, perseverance and an inflexible WILL. Impatient at all the oppression that are done under the Sun, you will be an all-powerful homo sapien, leaving fire in your wake, as you move from conquest to conquest, towards being a homo magiste (Man the Master). Yes! From the center (Sahara) to the Oceans (Indian and Pacific). Hurrah! Africa’s Prosperity! So affirms BEYONDISM.

Surely, it is not business as usual. Majority of the African population are terribly treading the puerile path towards DECADENCE. This will lead to further destructive scenarios and irreversible consequences in our PSYCHES which have already been considerably damaged. We must give an adequate response which may be reciprocal, symmetrical or even asymmetrical.

As AFRICANS, are we a people foully floating in the disinformation space? Are we day dreaming in the sphere of ignorance? Lacking essential maturity and necessary resolution, being emotionally callow and out touch with REALITY, what must be emphasized is that our general failure as Africans can be traced to among other things, our BLIND belief systems, as abetted by OBSOLETE mode of VALUATIONS.

Do we need a flesh flashback into the major events of our LIFE? Only after viewing our actions (characterized by derisive disillusionment) and the actual events (marred by corrosive corruption), gleaning some understanding of the circumstance of our warped behaviour, can the case of BEYONDISM be decided justly.

1. What PERCENTAGE defines the forces that militate against an African RENAISSANCE?

  • COUNSELLORS
  • TEACHERS
  • ELDERS
  • ADMINISTRATORS
  • PARENTS
  • FAMILIES
  • PRISONS

#1. A Potent Percentage of our Counselling services, are invested by charlatans, who confuses giving advise, with facilitating a conducive psychological environment, for the client to generate solution to his or her maladjustment.

Hence the myriad malaise stunting our growth.

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Counselling is NOT advising: telling the other person what TO DO or NOT.
Counselling is NOT directing, leading, JUDGING, evaluating or diagnosing.
It is NOT moralising, PREACHING, patronising, labelling, or interrogating.
It is NOT giving unwarranted reassurance, or accepting the client’s feelings.
Counselling is concerned WITH addressing and resolving specific problems.
It helps the client to make decisions, cope with crisis, work through feelings.
The aim of counselling is to help a client to live a more full, satisfying LIFE.

#2. A Potent Percentage of our Teachers in ignorance of student’s needs, fail to arouse in the young minds a sense of success, MASTERY, curiousity, understanding, originality, self-expression and relationships.

Hence the loathsome lethargy amongst our young scholars.

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Cooperative learning strategies improves both self-efficacy and academic achievement.
Students working together and helping one another, promotes self-evaluation of ability.
This guarantees higher academic attainments than do individualistic or competitive ones.
Students should be helped to establish specific, attainable, challenging short-term goals.
Performance in and out of class must be compared to the goals set for a specific student.
Comparing one student against another, or to the rest of the class should be discouraged.
Self-efficacy is the key to academic success, other activities and peace within the student.

#3. A Potent Percentage of our Elders are incompetent in arming youths with the requisite energy to deal with complexity, confusion, repetition, uncertainties and ambiguities of daily LIFE.

Hence the low level of the drive towards SELF-ACTUALISATION.

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Elders should do all they can, and provide youths with tools to be better than them.
Should be heroes who teach lessons, enhance active and positive emotional interaction.
Should teach youths to understand face reading and differentiate various emotional states.
Avoid instilling fear or ridicule which results in youngsters with inadequate ‘conscience’.
Be nonrestrictive, open, appreciative; lead by example, and be unconditionally accepting.
Inculcate competence, adventurousness, skills and confidence in expressing opinions.
Be loyal, pillars of strength, support and discipline, in order to raise well-adjusted youths.

#4. A Potent Percentage of our Administrators are unable to build the necessary motivation and engagement that is essential for removal of all scrupples, to enable a complete and productive LIFE (either for the individual or society).

Hence the daunting detachment amongst our people.

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Administration ought to be focused on benefit, protection and security of the people.
The best one is which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety.
Administrations must be built upon the rights of the people, and be entrusted to experts.
The only yardstick by which to test every major problem is: Is it good for the people?
No administration can be progressive when the future sits in the judgment of the past.
Ability to solve and deal with problems as they arise is the only measure of distinction.
Officials must be held accountable as dupes, fools, or traitors for policies that goes wrong.

#5. A Potent Percentage of our Parents use punishments which produce bitter children and unconsciously condition them to use the same mechanistic and counterproductive methods on those who may anger them.

Hence the raft rebellion amongst our adolescents.

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‘Poor Parenthood’ fails to differentiate between ‘discipline’ and ‘punishment’.
Punishment creates fear, but if the fear is diminished the behaviour will recur.
Beating is for lazy parents as it takes less creativity; needs only anger and strength.
The word ‘beat’ implies that you are dealing with an object which does not think.
Children require sound discipline which has two components; affection and control.
Control needs to be consistent if it is to contribute to a stable character structure.
Discipline as an important element in affection is fondly based on mutual respect.

#6. A Potent Percentage of our Families authoritatively imposes their convictions and ideals (though positive in their view) devoid of unconditional positive regard, empathy and consultation.

Hence the mounting meaninglessness of our interactions.

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To draw honesty from our kids, we must be honest ourselves, even when it hurts.
Barking to these little evolving creatures rather than softly talking to them, is lethal.
We tend to use strong, emotionally charged language when under great provocation.
This is to set up in them, for unconscious imitation, the memory of violent speech.
If we want children to be polite, we have to be polite; to be neat we have to be neat.
Positive responses can be inculcated to children only by ‘patiently persistent’ example.
This task involves almost the re-education, re-phasing and re-evaluation of our motives.

#7. A Potent Percentage of our Correctional Institutions (Prisons) have become colleges where minor delinquents graduates into hardcore criminals, or in one way or the other, vacation resorts for social outcast and psychopaths.

Hence the compounded crimes in our society.

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All sorts of CRIMINALISM cannot be controlled simply by imposing harsh legal penalties.
DEVIANCY implies some kind of DEPRIVATION within the home or social environment.
Rather than stigmatising victims as social misfits who should be subjected to incarceration,
We should put them in environments where their DEFICIENCIES can be compensated for.
We should embark on a large scale to prevent criminogenic situation from developing.
By building in the society, services classified in the medical sphere as ‘good sanitation’.
This is by creating a more just society in which people connect with each other humanly.

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2. What is the RATION of the factors that stands against an African RENAISSANCE?

#1. A Reasonable Ration of our Education is a painful accumulation of data and dates, in ignorance of developing individual potential capacities for the comprehension, control and appreciation of the world.


Hence the dire dumbness amongst our learners.


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Assigning to education narrow goals whose objective is absorption in the job market is deathly.
This only moulds CONSUMPTIVE members of society, as opposed to productive members.
By solely focusing on the grades, education becomes stressful, especially to younger students.
It is also self-defeatist since not all learners will really have the same ample academic abilities.
Most of our schools have only succeeded in an unprecedented spread of science without wisdom.
Accumulating knowledge without intelligence, cleverness without conscience is our unbecoming.
Not sensibility and creativity, but a mechanical adaptation to the environment, is what is taught.

#2. A Reasonable Ration of our Intellectualism is a hotchpotch and collection of long-dead fossils, with very little to contribute to the world pool of knowledge and very little new to offer in regard to the 'Spirit of Age'.


Hence the disturbing dislocation from present imperatives.


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Though the world has changed, our educational curriculum has not or has little changed.
It remotely or flatly fails to keep pace with all the rapid global and technological changes.
Students spend many study years preparing for a world that is obsolete or no longer exists.
Our learning system places more emphasis on the transmission of a heritage of knowledge.
And less on the capacity for innovation, adjustment and a taste for constantly renewed study.
It is a system lacking in the dynamic content and an incessant ability to assimilate changes.
It lacks that supposedly inherent potential for active, intelligent and scientific spirit of inquiry.

#3. A Reasonable Ration of our Scholars lacking the essential intellectual curiousity and thirst, fall short of separating facts from theory, or conjectured ideas from practical and realistic ones.


Hence the bare blindness of our academicians.


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The standard limit for human capacity should not be set by education curriculum.
It should take into consideration a person's genetic make-up, and temperaments.
The drill-and-kill teaching styles MUST be replaced by a problem-based approach.
The educational system, should develop all the potentials to be of use in adulthood.
It should have the unique capacity to broaden the imaginative terrain of the student.
In this way learners will have a thorough reflective and interrogative view of the world.
In adulthood they will see for themselves more clearly from a range of perspectives.

#4. A Reasonable Ration of our Researchers lost in myopic speculation fails to understand the essence of any problem by being unable to observe its beginnings and its development.


Hence the enervating emptiness in our innovations.


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Research as a function of development, means investigation into new or improved products:
In business and industry, improving processes and services and of developing new ones.
It is a rebuilding of industries, farming methods, companies, universities and laboratories.
It is advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge, to sustain the present mode of production.
The most gratifying research worth its name, starts by picturing what the products will be.
And then diligently ask: what technology should we be working on today to help us get there?
It is to reduce the cost of production, and then minimise the price of buying for the consumers.

#5. A Reasonable Ration of our Science, is so rudimentary and pedestrian that, in the crippleness of our creativity, defenses against the inclemency of weather and food self-sufficiency remains pathetically deficient.


Hence the constant calamities bedevilling us.


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The fastness to which situations are changing at times outpaces the former acquired knowledge.
This includes the experience accumulated in the past to serve as guidance for the future actions.
The 'Old World' was stable as the upheavals of history were ebb and flow of a changeless sea.
In today's 'New World', the value formerly attributed to experience gained has been shifted,
To handling an enormous amount of information efficiently, and applying them effectively.
Thus, the current, as well as the future mode of academic research requires a two-fold possibility:
Of accumulating the maximum amount of data, and of processing them in a real-time manner.

#6. A Reasonable Ration of our Industrialisation, has become not substitution of brawn for brain towards mass-production, but a daily toil where people are herded together in factories and farms with very little pay.


Hence the prosaic production in our factories.


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The speed of technological innovation is bringing qualitative change now and then.
In this era of IT Revolution it is apparent that in most dynamic branches of industry,
Acquired scientific information soon lags behind the current stage reached in technology.
It becomes necessary for one to be re-trained, or re-educated, through refresher courses;
If one wishes to keep up with the changes, adjust way of thinking and method of analysis.
We should appreciate the quickness in which knowledge becomes easily challengeable.
This precipitates the imperativeness of inventing our own new motions and their regulation.

#7. A Reasonable Ration of our History, is characterised by darkness, with its hysteric reaction to light (rejection of new ideas) which in our myopic rigidity we perceive to be offensive, without any justifiable reason.


Hence the reactionary reasons for Africa's underdevelopment.


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It is said that, if one does not know one's history, one will remain blind of one's destiny.
This is to mean that, what you are now and what you will be, is informed by what you were.
To know yourself without any denial, will go far in charting for yourself a bright future.
However, do not stagnate in what happened in the past, and fail to make a solid step forward.
Many of the past African traditions, cannot and will not simply work in the modern 'Times'.
And if we are to remain blindly true to the mode of valuations and thinking of our forefathers,
We will remain irresponsive to the demands of the moment; we will live a stagnant 'existence'.

3. How is the nature of the CONTENT that blurs the vision of an African RENAISSANCE?

#1. A Critical Content of our Art Industry, is full of decaying debris, with the matter-of-fact credibility gone clean out of them; devoid of any aesthetic dose of awakening the soul, and keeping it refreshed and energised.


Hence the arid awkwardness in our tastes.


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Senility is basically looking back with nostalgia; it is lack of inspiration in LIFE.
The function of real art, is to restimulate inspirations and awaken sensibilities.
Good art, is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
A great work of art, bears its meaning on its face; it is what it is and what it has.
Any authentic work of art, starts an argument between the artist and the audience.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of its creator go together.
True art, is a thing greater and fairer than whatever may exist in the external world.

#2. A Critical Content of our Theologies, are empty soothsayings, accompanied by idolatrous rites, impotent in radiating spiritual truths, vital in making us happy in this world, and to be blissful in the LIFE BEYOND the grave.


Hence the filthy faithlessness in our preachers.


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To appreciate the mystery inherent in the incomprehensible phenomenal order of Nature,
And initiate a dedicated and perpetual effort to be showered by this encompassing beauty,
To feel a sincere enriching relation and an intimate connection with the great world forces,
As a manifestation of GOD's infinite creativity, is the key element to being RELIGIOUS.
To comprehend our GOD-endowed potentials and to perpetually strive to actualise them,
Transcending all the seemingly deceptive limitations of our social or natural environment,
Is the essential and supreme mark of being GODLY; in a word, our God-Consciousness.

#3. A Critical Content of our Philosophies imprisoned in logical futilities and conceptualisations, is intended at contradicting and confuting others rather than a suitable survival strategy to be won in the service of the individual.


Hence the fanatical fancies in our purported thinkers.


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A logician is a blind person in a dark room, looking for a black hat which is not there.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation,
Is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Philosophy is clearly seeing World in a Grain of Sand, and Heaven in a Wild Flower.
Philosophy is tightly holding Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour.
Of course! The path to Heaven does not lie down in flat miles. It is in the imagination,
With which you perceive this World, and the gestures with which you truly honours it.

#4. A Critical Content of our Morality, is outmoded, as it reproaches us with the infidelity and shabbiness of failing to absorb the transiency and relativity of values, by only lionising the past without a fertile future view.


Hence the rasp rottenness in our valuations.


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Without doubt, the greatest philosophical injury was done by basing morals on myth.
For sooner or later, myth is recognised for what it is, and it is exposed, it just disappears.
Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built, and it becomes a sham.
Ethical behaviour should be based on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs -
No religious basis is necessary (sanctions imposed by religion soon becomes a mirage).
Humans would be in a poor way if they had to be restrained by fear of punishment,
And hope of reward after death, or walking blissfully in the golden streets of Heaven.

#5. A Critical Content of our Ethics, is a manifestation of the highest level of hypocrisy, owing to the fact that, in the present curse-like bastardisation of our natural vital instincts, it is impossible if not inhuman to bless.


Hence the drab directionless in our actions.


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Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast,
Is that portentous phrase pathetically used by all moral luminaries, 'I told you so.'
Labour to keep alive in your heart, that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Act in such a way as to secure the enduring love and affection of your neighbour.
Seek to have a virtue to shape your LIFE, amid the powers and chances of the world.
To be a BEYONDIST is to be a combatant, a politician, a prophet, a moral teacher.
To affirm like Martin Luther: "Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."

#6. A Critical Content of our Culture does not have within it mechanisms for survival, and its general spirit does not allow for the utmost individual search for oneself, as a veritable vehicle towards self-actualisation.


Hence the hideous haemorrhage of our society


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'Culture' is simply how one lives on a daily basis, and is connected to history by habit.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and the passion for making them prevail.
Culture is acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world.
Its progressiveness is the measure of synchronising with the history of the human spirit.
Its aim is to reckon the possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of LIFE.
The primary function of a retrogressive ritual, religion and culture is almost to stop change.
A vital and living tradition today, precisely provides the basic instruments of rapid change.

#7. A Critical Content of our Ancestral past suffices out as something null and vain; to be looked with contempt and shame, as every progressive mind becomes impatient and disgusted when a word is said about it.


Hence the African civilisation's catalepsy


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If history truly relates good things of good people, the attentive hearer,
Is highly excited to intimately imitate that which is good and progressive;
Or if it mentions evil things of wicked persons, the pious hearer or reader...
Is then more earnestly excited to perform those things which he or she knows,
To be good and worthy of God, and to perpetuate the development of humans.
Human history, without moral philosophy, is a mere string of crude facts;
And moral philosophy, without human history, is apt to become a pipe dream.

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4. To what EXTENT is the dream of the nobility of an African RENAISSANCE under siege?

  • JOBLESSNESS
  • EMPLOYMENT
  • WORK
  • ENTREPRENUERSHIP
  • MONEY
  • WAR
  • CIVIL SERVANTS

#1. To an Essential Extent, our Joblessness is just a contradiction in terms, for nobody with a sound mind can allege that he or she has nothing to do, besides having in the words of King Solomon eaten 'the bread of idleness'.

Hence the wanton wastage of our youth's energy.

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Idleness begets ennui, ennui lead to hypochondriac, and finally to a diseased body.
Lack of interest or sense of excitement, ends in weariness and dissatisfaction with LIFE.
That is why, research has indicated that no laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
A busy LIFE is far more enriching and fundamentally nobler than attending for a check.
It is richer than doing nothing for a bribe; it is prouder than rustling in unpaid-for job.
Idleness is the refuge of weak minds; Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.
If you allow your potential-to-create to fade, then propensity for destruction will ensue.

#2. To an Essential Extent, our Employment only qualifies us to be hardworking slaves, where all our efforts and energies devoid of creative investment, benefit anyone else – the corporation or government - except ourselves.

Hence the purposeless pattern in our endeavours

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Time has really come to replace the concept of having a job with having a mission.
An energetic human being willing to work, and unable to find meaningful work,
Is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality crudely exhibits under the sun.
The most visible and substantial differences between the corporation of the future,
And its present-day counterpart will not be the nature of the products they make,
Or the equipment they use — but WHO will be working, HOW they will be working,
WHY they will be working, and WHAT work will mean to them. Simply, a LIFE's TASK.

#3. To an Essential Extent, our Work is a curse and a condemnation we must live with without any sense of meaning, besides getting that pay, as the job is absolutely out of synch with our traits and temperaments.

Hence the thankless toiling amongst most workers.

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Most professions in our African society are pursued by those who are utterly unsuited.
It is the perfect application of an anti-Darwinian theory — the survival of the unfittest.
When work is a pleasure, life becomes a joy! When work is a duty, life is then slavery.
Instead of the question 'What must I do for my employer?' substitute 'What can I do?'
No occupation should be unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored.
The value of a job lies in the worker: Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Your great ambition should essentially be: To die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

#4. To an Essential Extent, our Entrepreneurship is an unjust, legally sanctioned robbery-without-violence, whereby the chief drive is a murderous desire to reap super-profits, as altruism is melted away from our lives.

Hence the pathetic poverty amongst our people.

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Entrepreneurship will become a core skill which all our young people will need to exploit,
The opportunities emerging from science and technology, culture and communications.
An entrepreneur, if there is such a thing, is a born schemer and a thinker up of things.
Entrepreneurs should be able to really spend 80 percent of their time getting customers.
Everything is always impossible before it works; that is what entrepreneurs are all about.
It is doing what people have told them is impossible, and pushing it BEYOND any barrier.
He or she revels in Risk-taking; an integral and intrinsic part of success or living a full LIFE.

#5. To an Essential Extent alot of Money in the local and foreign bank accounts owned by the few sacred cows, are soiled with the sweat and blood of plundered, exploited and impoverished peasants.

Hence the sluggish slowness of our economy.

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The one who steals money from our economy and stash it in a foreign bank,
Is worse than a rapist who destroys the fragile LIFE of his young daughter.
While impoverishing the economy of our motherland, they enriches foreigners.
In this bottomless pit, they pierces themselves through with many sorrows.
Wealth and fame are like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, and not a deity to be worshipped.
Domestic investment and philanthropy are the sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

#6. To an Essential Extent, our War is waged against ourselves and our fellowships, as we are always battering and parasiting ourselves with corruption, thus eating away and weakening a good portion of our inner strengths.

Hence the endemic extortionism in our Society.

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'Corruption' is defined as wrongdoing by those in a special position of trust.
The term is commonly applied to self-benefiting conduct by public officials.
To be precise, it is rather confused rhetoric to call a corrupt person a thief.
His or her crime is not flinching away from the safe, but betraying a trust.
A corrupt person is one whose loyalty is divided and whose motives are misled.
These motives involve the 'public interest' for which one is employed for,
And one's 'private selfish interest' which one would want to illegally quench.

#7. To an Essential Extent, our Civil Servants have degraded themselves to civil suckers by developing corruption into a high art, an efficient shadow system to the cumbersome official one.

Hence the appeasable abomination in our motherland.

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Basically, corruption is the worst threat to any society's potential for development.
As such, out of the crooked timber of our society, no straight thing can ever be made.
To avoid degeneration or drooping to a fatal decay, we have to outlive these pangs.
And ardently wax young again by casting off this old and wrinkled skin of corruption.
Once an econo-socio-political system has been corrupted right from the top leaders,
To the lowest rungs of the bureaucracy, the core problem is practically very complicated.
The cleansing has to start from top and go downwards in a thorough and systematic way.

5. What is the MEASURE of our inability to make an African RENAISSANCE a reality?

  • INSTITUTIONS
  • LEADERS
  • GUARDIANS
  • LAWS
  • JUSTICE
  • POWER
  • OFFICES

#1. To a Meaningful Measure, our Sacred Institutions – executive, judiciary and legislature – have been defiled and turned into dens of thieves and robbers, by immoral principles and wicked practices.

Hence the gruelling grievances by the populace.

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The issue of power sharing should be superseded by the question of power relationship,
Between the political center and the instrument of production – the taxpayers in general.
The question of how much power we give to any administrative or political institution,
Ought to depend wholly on how much responsibility we give to that particular institution.
It should be obvious that if we do not give it power commensurate with its responsibilities,
The ultimate result is that it will be toothless, inefficient, and also not perform effectively.
If we dole out power without defining responsibilities, it will eventually be used corruptly.

#2. To a Meaningful Measure, our Leaders have metamorphosed into pirates, who plunder our meager resources and share everything amongst themselves, reducing the majority into hunters and fruit gatherers.

Hence the fortified fury amongst the citizens.

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A leader who steals public money is worse than a thief. He or she is a fool.
With the grand opportunities all around, there is no excuse for stealing a cent.
A leader stooping too low by succumbing to the lure of a bribe or corruption,
Is not worth the moral responsibility squarely resting on his or her shoulders.
He or she can be perfectly described as an infidel with a 'punctured personality'.
Who if convicted should be made to repay amount doubly and then be forced,
To serve a jail term, besides being barred from holding any future public office.

#3. To a Meaningful Measure, our Guardians (law-makers, law-interpreters and law-enforcers) have blatantly disregarded the constitutional law, becoming open and shameless law breakers.

Hence the anarchical anchoring of impunity.

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The most crucial lesson of history is: Any system in which the fate of the people,
Depends upon the wisdom or shortsightedness of the leaders is implicitly wrong.
Any society's salvation lies not in the wisdom of leaders, but in the wisdom of laws.
Time has come when we are supposed to draft constitutional mechanisms to protect,
The gullible and anxious mass; who are taken for granted during the campaign time,
By the power mongers, political con artists, spin doctors, holier-than-thou rascals,
And silver-tongued devils, whose villainy is subtly clothed in the language of deceit.

#4. To a Meaningful Measure, our Laws only impose legal penalties, which have no force of controlling crimes, as they fall short of creating a more just society, in which people can connect humanly with each other.

Hence the spiritless socialisation amongst our people.

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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
The LIFE of any progressive law has not been logic; it has been experience.
The law embodies the story of any society's development and actualisation.
It cannot be dealt with as if it contained the axioms of a book of mathematics.
The law should be the intimate witness and external deposit of our moral LIFE.
Its history is the history of the moral development of the individual and society.
The real test of good laws is their ability to oil the wheel of social relations.

#5. To a Meaningful Measure, our Justice is an organised conspiracy to oppress, to break all the ladders for other society members to climb to high helms, such that poverty has become enforced and disillusionment prevails.

Hence the pitiful penology of our legal system.

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People should be made to be aware of the interconnectedness of desperation,
In one section of society and how this might lead to general destructive acts,
That will eventually affect them in one way or the other, directly or indirectly.
They should be made aware that no society is just and good for some to live in,
Until it is nourishing, satisfactory and a good one for every person to live in.
They should therefore be motivated to verily assert their right to safe existence,
By speaking out against all preventable malaise, without any fear or favour.

#6. To a Meaningful Measure, our Road to Power is charted through 'political organisations' and 'tribal alliances', without a unique pragmatic agenda in our manifestos, without either statesmanship or patriotism.

Hence the hallowed hope in our politics.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!
The worthiness of present politicians, has become the measure of his or her ability,
To invent some interesting and unimportant issue to divert the eyes of the populace,
From the problems involved in their daily agricultural, parenting and working lives.
Political campaign thus degenerate into the wrestling of the brawn not the brainy.
Whereas elections simply becomes a contest in fraud and farce, in noise and insults.
Sound arguments make the least sound, as empty container makes the most noise.
In all essential manifest, truth is lost in the confusion, and smoked away into oblivion.

#7. To a Meaningful Measure, our Offices are run by our smallest individuals who are subservient, amenable to discipline, elastic of conscience and devoid of dangerous originality or genius.

Hence the mugging mediocrity in our historical institutions.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!
We must design a 'Triangular Pattern' of governing any social or economic unit.
The first corner is the set tasks or prescribed goals and respective roles and duties.
The second is the institution or instrument for implementing the set tasks and goals.
The third is the system of reward and punishment for those performing specific tasks.
The constitution must be clear on the way of recalling all those hypocritical liars;
Who assumes power through deception by preaching what is 'of interest to the public';
And who might prove inefficient in failing to pursue what is 'in the public interest'.

Renaissance Hundles

6. Which is the DEGREE of our impotence in assimilating the ideal of an African RENAISSANCE?

  • HUMAN RIGHTS
  • TRADE UNIONS
  • FEMINISM
  • EQUALITY
  • MEDIA
  • NEWSPAPERS
  • MEDICALS

#1. To a Decisive Degree, our Human Rights Watch Groups, seem to obey the orders of their foreign paymasters, thus lacking the boldness and conscience to be the ‘voice of the voiceless’.

Hence the hollow hypocrisy in their advocacy.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
No person can be so stupid to deny that all humans naturally were born free.
Our greatest defense, our most overriding motives against all manner of abuse,
Is to take a solidly bold and offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness.
We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and social discrimination;
Equal and exact justice to all people...freedom of religion, of the press, of all people,
Under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected.
These fundamental principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us.

#2. To a Decisive Degree, our Trade Unions are managed by cartels, who are more concerned on entrenching their power bases, and easily earned allowances for their unnecessary boardroom meetings.

Hence the rhetorical restlessness in their demands and grievances.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
The most conservative person is a Trade Unionist when you want to change him or her.
Almost all trades unions have relied for success upon extorted oaths and physical force.
Their fault has been that they have copied the vices which they professed to condemn.
Acts as if with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, carrying a tumor of rotten principles.
To protect workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them,
Not only as equals before the law, but also in their liberties as workers, and as citizens;
To overcome prejudices and antagonism; is the glorious mission of the Trade Unions.

#3. To a Decisive Degree, our Feminism fights for the egoistic narrow self-interest of few individuals, who are hell-bent on getting free nominations or appointments, or curve cheap short-cuts to power.

Hence the dangerous deception in the affirmative action.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
A society in which women are taught anything at all but the management of a family,
The care of men, and the creation of the future generation, is a society which is obsolete.
Conventionality has curtailed feminine force by hindering healthful and varied activity.
If we aspire to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.
A progressive society should have nothing like masculine or feminine power or priviledge.
Women should never wait to be dished out positions freely, they should fight their way in.
Always knowing that, even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

#4. To a Decisive Degree, our Equality is fallacious in all aspects, for it means denying opportunities to the qualified, and imposing obligations to those who do not measure up to the required task.

Hence the dire drain of our human resources.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
It means the poorest that is in our society, has a life to live as the richest we have.
If we perceive, construe and treat people equally in all circumstances, all the time,
Then this means suppressing genius and elevating mediocrity, which is very wrong.
Equality of opportunity means equal opportunity to be unequal, in all particularity.
It means giving people a chance to express their differences in a level playing field.
It is reaping most from the variety of talents for a harmoniously integrated society.

#5. To a Decisive Degree, our Mainstream Media primarily focused on acquiring advertisement and make a quick kill, can promote any product or service devoid of all scientific considerations.

Hence the warped ways of interpreting events and issues.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time.
It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
Advertising is not a science. It is persuasion. And persuasion is an art.
It is arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any advertisement,
Than what goes into the writing of the articles, features and editorials.

#6. To a Decisive Degree, our Newspapers are written by skeptics and cynics who criticises for the sake of it, and are utterly unable to give any constructive solution to the menacing problems of the day.

Hence the disdainful distrust by the populace.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
“What if journalists write objectively without caring whether they will upset their editors?”
That is a good question to be asked, but not a wise question for BEYONDISM to answer.
Journalists would like everyone to believe that they are champions of freedom of expression.
But they themselves are not free at all to express any opinion which is against public opinion.
Bloody and blindfolded, they piteously bow down before the free play of economic forces.
The primary objective of any Newspaper worth its name, is objectively gathering of news.
At the peril of its soul, it must see that data is not tainted; comment is free, but facts are sacred.

#7. To a Decisive Degree, our Medical fraternity is haunted by quacks (whether intentional or unwitting), whose lust for money only happens to make people more sick and keep undertakers busy.

Hence the corrosive contempt by the informed.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
Most people are driven into medicine not by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
A vain, covetous physician is squarely like a milking stool, of no use except when sat upon.
Misdiagnosing a patient and giving wrong prescription is the most beastly act and nothing else.
When a doctor does wrong - having nerve and knowledge - he or she is the first of criminals.
A qualified physician worth his or her title is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ,
More even than the whole patient; he or she must view the client in his or her psychic world.
A skillful physician who is a proud professional, is better far than half a hundred Men of War.

7. Is there any THEME in the hurdles that weaken our resolve for an African RENAISSANCE?

  • POLITICS
  • ELECTIONS
  • DEMOCRACY
  • POLICIES
  • PROGRESS
  • YOUTHS
  • CONTINENTALS

#1. The Terrifying Theme in our Politics is precisely decadent deceptions and crude charlatanism, where the small minority of exclusive oligois, organises themselves to rob and parasite the larger unorganised gullible majority.

Hence the mass manipulativeness by our politicians.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly ArmourO thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
Power corrupts in the measure of the irresponsibility of those holding public offices,
Which is augmented by the low degree of checks and balances imposed by the led.
The potential for any exploitative social machinery to thrive is ‘Inversely Proportion’,
To the level of people’s social political consciousness - the ability to assert their liberty,
Be in control of their destinies; developing the ability to assimilate and direct change.
The abuse of power, the exploitation by some small minority of the larger majority,
Is in ‘Inverse Ratio’ to the intellectual development which that society has attained.

#2. The Terrifying Theme in our Electoral process, is the shameless act of raising money from the rich, in order to buy votes from the poor, and promising to protect these two antagonistic groups against each other.

Hence the veritable violence during the campaign period.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
In Africa, political campaigns have become a tragic case of mistaken identity.
Where the foxes make a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
To avert this, there ought to be a concise assignment for each elected official,
Made public and the database of their general performance updated regularly.
Their performance will have to be critically evaluated and diligently measured,
From the standpoint of the promises they made during the political campaigns,
As well as their performance on the floor of parliament or in other elective offices.

#3. The Terrifying Theme in our Democracy is the most banal lie where through tribal alliances, leaders choose voters other than voters choosing leaders, such that all our institutions are hallowed out of all meaning.

Hence the blunted blade of our social organisation.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
Low societal awakening is the fount for the difficulty of the people to agree,
In their grievances or to unite in their action; which is essence of democracy.
This timidity eventually waters down the demand for greatness or foresight,
On the elected officials, as the people are carried away by bare-toothed oratory.
In this cold atmosphere of indecisiveness, the leaders suffices out not as people,
Endowed with the creativity to govern, but to deceptively secure the approval,
Of the gullible mass for whatever policy they may have callously decided upon.

#4. The Terrifying Theme in our Policies are promulgated by ignoramuses, whose abomination is analogous to quack physicians, who would pour drugs of which they know little into a body of which they know less.

Hence the hollow hustling amongst the youths.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
It is sad that our leaders are masters of improved speech and improvised policies.
Our policy should be verily directed against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.
Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the continent so as to permit,
The emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.
The key is to alleviate the suffering of all those unfortunates who had been victimized.
The main focus is to strengthen our continental inhabitants’ faith in modernisation.
Anyone in a government who thinks major change is impossible should just get out.

#5. The Terrifying Theme in our Progress is contained in the unanimous unconscious vow, that inaction is the most perfect of all states, as our habitual inclination to useless movement has become the highest good.

Hence the stagnatory state of our general aspirations.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
Business, with its global influence and its ability to adapt rapidly to changing conditions,
Shall be one of the most effective vehicles for accelerating our self-conscious awareness.
“Commodities all the way to the horizon: There is enough of everything for everybody”.
That is how productive and rich the future continental economic social order shall be.
The whole process should creatively begin with a concentrated and radical proposition,
That the conquest of nature will eventually be going to be the top job of the modern age.
As a continent, when we will accept change as core part of our lives, we will be through.

#6. The Terrifying Theme in our Youths is being dizzy with frustrations, drowned in the deep lake of confusion, their minds riddled with arrows of despair, as their hearts burst with fury.

Hence the perennial protests in their objectives.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
Though you may have endured many ordeals, the time has come for you to revolt.
Before your powers are consumed, exhausted and extinguished by your encounters.
The time is NOW to say and assert a resolute NO; make a clean sweep in your LIFE.
Success in LIFE entails a repudiation of the current retrogressive state-of-affairs.
It means devising new ways and methods of LIFE and thought; contriving new ideals,
To meet the blind and brute forces which have infiltrated all levels of our society.
It implies saying ‘NO’, to the multitude of errors that you may have accepted as true.

#7. The Terrifying Theme in our Continental Inhabitants is living in ghettos, or somewhere along a wide curve of deep-rooted, bottled-up inexpressible anger where the smell of adour of decay is almost everywhere.

Hence the degenerative dissillusionment amongst the masses.

Therapeautic Tools to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in handling this hurdle!
Weakness of all governments boils down to the weaknesses of the governed.
Leaders are not the moon; people have to emit their own light and in its absence,
Leaders metamorphose into parasites who suck the society’s blood to the last pint.
The more the governed people expect the governors to solve their daily problems,
The more the governors will demand to be highly compensated covertly or overtly.
Demanding more might translate to heavy taxation to feed a bloated bureaucracy.
This might translate to bigger bribes, or both excessive taxation and bigger bribes.