Possibilities and Probabilities in Africa

How would one describe the ‘bottom line’ in terms of Africas' underdevelopment and escalating poverty level? Is it just the same thing as was experienced by todays' industrial worlds? Could there be the same possibilities and probabilities?

I think so! Africa is a lying/sleeping giant. A land of great possibilities and higher probabilities. For Africa, it is as if each of us live in a room that is completely dark. However, we are not alone. The room is full of possible events & circumstances. It is the room of possibilities and probabilities. In one corner may be an ugly monster or all the things we might associate with this such as poverty, underdevelopment, sickness, depression, failure and loss of every kind. In another corner might be all those things, events and circumstances that represent to us the things we most desire, such as joy, happiness, prosperity, health etc. In fact, the room is filled with every possibility imaginable, both pleasant and unpleasant.

In this room, we are given a flashlight. Some of us have very powerful flashlights and some have very tiny flashlights, according to our consciousness. We are all given the freedom to shine the beam of our flashlight (our attention) on anything in this room that we wish. Some decide to focus their light (attention) on the ‘monster corner’ with all the unpleasant possibilities. Some decide to focus their attention on the ‘joy corner’ with all the pleasant possibilities. Some focus somewhere between the two and some just keep shining their light back and forth between the two.

And guess what? Once our attention is focused in a certain direction, all of the possibilities in that corner cease to become just possibilities and become probabilities. Whether or not they actually manifest physically in our lives, depends on how focused we are on them and how much energy we give them with our thought and language.

We Africans need to focus on the idea that our attitude, beliefs and thoughts are the building blocks of our experiences. If we wish to change the outer circumstances in our lives, we must first change the inner reality of our consciousness. For this inner reality is what causes us to focus our attention in one area and not another. Those who truly succeeded economically are not just the ones who have simply strictly followed certain number of economic policies found in some good macroeconomic text or even learned good management skills. They are those who are learning how to deliberately create the life of their choice and no longer feel themselves to be the victim of fate, luck or circumstance. These are especially the kind of leaders that we need at this juncture in African history, in every facet of life, to provide the visionary leadership for taking us to the next level of human development and planetary transformation.