The new world age of technology and the internet has skyrocketed the civilization of man across the globe. Industrial revolutions in Europe, America and Asia are well-known stages of life that have seen civilization take a new route.
Science and technology have consequently taken over and almost everything can be explained physically, chemically or biologically.
The world has come from a dark hole of obsolete technology and ignorance to an endless bright light of advanced technology and enlightenment.
World operations have shifted from mere hand tools to complex motor-driven devices. The new age is marked with rejection of old traditional, social and political ideas and emphasis now vested on rationalism.
Additionally, the use of the internet as media has taken over the communication sector, application of relevant technologies has made it more convenient and efficient.
A generational change has been witnessed and it is clear that the old dogs must step aside so that the young ones can journey us to the new civilization.
For the African people, the old dogs are miseducation, mental servitude, extreme wretchedness, violence and ethnicity, infrastructural underdevelopment, rampant corruption and impunity, the social plight of inferiority complex etc.
Africa must therefore journey to the new civilization, and move to counteract the old dogs that have forever made our people sick and tired of mediocrity of whatever nature.
Africa must adapt to the new civilization, and assimilate its
culture into the ways of the new civilization. Some of the notable ways to the new civilization
that Africa must embrace are;
Self-education as the starting point of the new civilization
The urge to get self-educated is the first step toward eradicating miseducation. Self-mastery however difficult a task it might be must be put to check.
The ability to gain confidence or to even stand
tall starts when you end the feeling of not wanting to do your own
research.
Failing to constantly seek knowledge outside the official education sectors like schools is the first step towards being miss-educated and forever bound to mediocrity.
Furthermore, educated Africans will be those who are able to acquire all that they need without violation of other people's rights and social and natural laws.
Watching documentaries, reading books, asking
questions, learning by apprenticeship and having ears wide open to the elders
and listening are key steps to consider when seeking an extra bit of knowledge.
Africa’s organization of capital - the opening of opportunities
The new civilization is so demanding of men who can solve problems. Man creates a lot of problems and so he must provide a solution for them.
The men of solution are the men who spare some of their free time to improve themselves by little addition of knowledge of self and that of their professions.
The capital to provide opportunities must be handled with great caution and its organization must be of definite purpose to improve the motherland.
Black people from all walks of life in Africa and the diaspora must embark on self-education if they are to avoid the adverse effects of ignorance and mediocrity.
Poverty is an enemy of Africa. It locks the continent
greatest potential, it robs the people of the necessary ambition to rise over,
knowledge of self, self-control and self-esteem.
Africa’s capital movement and organization must be aimed at the improvement and preservation of African people.
The African people must rally behind great economic/capital
organizers to do so for the African people by buying and building Africa. Africa must
take part in factors affecting their destinies.
Incorporation of peace, love and unity amongst African citizens
The new civilization which comprises people from different races is in dire need of peace and harmony. All men are equal and segregation of any nature is miss-civilization.
Men who in the past or present
fight wars, cold wars, invade, enslave or bombard other men are savages, warmongers and enemies of humanity.
Humanity is today faced with numerous challenges, among them is the security and safeguarding of people's lives and livelihoods.
Africans must
give this a closer look, destabilizations and animosity of any kind must be kept away for the
sake of the African motherland.
Africa must never take part in meaningless geopolitics
Some world states today have waged wars against other states. After the world wars, man realized that war solves nothing, rather it escalates tensions and destabilizations.
The Ukraine-Russian conflict is a disgrace to
humanity, loss of lives and property, those that might have taken years to
acquire, all because man can’t come into understanding in peace and justice.
Man has once again shown that he is not ready for the new world, the world of leadership by consent. The leadership where a people who have been self-educated take a keen interest in matters that affect their destinies and future.
African people must realize these matters that influence
their destinies. Africa must never tolerate tension escalations of any nature,
it must restore peace to humanity ASAP!
Africa must avoid wars and escalations of tensions
The China-Taiwan tension is road headed to another unnecessary war and destabilization in the Asia region similar to that witnessed in the first quarter of the 20th century.
The Israel-Palestine conflict should be solved before it erupts into a worse outbreak, which man has never witnessed yet maybe.
Therefore, African states must learn to conduct their geopolitical and cross border affairs in peace and justice without regard to ethnic differences.
There ought to be no other world, Africa being the cradle of
mankind, once destroyed by chaos, negative politics, tribalism and nuclear
bombs and several radicalized doctrines and opinions, we shall have created
ourselves a hell on earth.
Africa to involve only in friendly nuclear activities
Developed nations and superpower states today have failed to honor The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
They have instead stockpiled the
weapons and used them to drive their geopolitical agenda. Such societies are at
risk of destabilization; they are one step away from war.
If human beings were to fit into the new world of science and technology, the revolutionized world with more complex processes, they would do it through virtue and pragmatism.
Humanity must practice the highest virtue i.e. justice, peace and harmonious conduct and bring the world together as one.
Therefore,
Africa must never take the path of nuclear weapons with aim of vendetta and
destabilization, rather it must involve in peaceful nuclear activities to
earnest the full potential of science and technology associated with the field.
Africa must further sensitize environmental conservation and quality assurance
The surrounding of human being, the total environment, is the primary to our survival. Therefore, environmental conservation is a
must, every African must be taught and learn by themselves that a green
environment is a key to survival.
Pollution of any kind that is produced by us must be
handled with care, and systematic waste disposal and proper application of
technology must be employed from the household level to the national level.
Water resources must be protected and conserved to ensure their
continued supply, every African state must mobilize its resources of whatever
nature to eradicate the shortage of water supply in different regions in Africa, and the demanding civilization must be confronted with relevant technologies.
Soil quality should be worked on further, and Africa’s arable land must be enhanced, making it stable and ready to feed Africa in the new dawn of civilization.
Industrialization must be in check, and emissions of any kind
into the atmosphere must be intoxicated before release to ensure perfect air
quality.
Environmental assessments must be done with much
insight, Strategic Environmental Assessments too must be employed with a keenness for they are the issues that affect our future.
In the wake of revolutionized industrialization, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement are just but some of the golden steps that
states have developed, African states must adopt and practice such policies to
help keep check their industrialization, optimize environmental standards
and benefits and promote sound sustainable developments.
African people must take part
Above are some of the ways to the new civilization of science and technology, a new world order where the world is connected through several media.
A much more complex world and which wars, invasions, antipathies and genocides are not going to solve our struggles.
This is a supposedly well-educated
civilization where man has the capacity to reason and think, a mental free
world where power is not abused but used to govern people.
With the help of science and technology through education and virtues as the purification agencies, African people must embark on these issues, take keen note of them and internalize that which influences their destinies.
Once the people see the need for peace and harmonious conduct they
must demand leadership of definite purpose. The African people of the next
generation are the new 'dogs' to carry on civilization to the next level.
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