Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred.
The creative energy for nation-building that has been given to the current generation of Africans, fills our souls as a great impulse for collective action.
However, most people are not focused on and committed to nation-building, but personal advantage, economic self-interests, and mundane comforts.
Thus, the intensity of this creative energy is just transferred into other indulgences, and expresses itself there.
Observe the intensity and almost fanatical interest in international league football, in the flamboyance of parties and much other social extravagances. The potent energy there.
Participating in these activities are not in themselves bad and the issue, rather the issue is the intensity of focus, interest, and importance given to them that reveal a misdirected energy.
A misappropriation of the creative force meant to prioritize nation-building, instead is used to prioritize lesser things to the exclusion of nation-building.
Majoring in the minor and hailing the golden calf of transience instead of focusing on the higher order. All indulgences should still operate within the collective action of nation-building.
It is time to redirect the creative energy to its original use, so that when two or more Africans are gathered, reinforcing sparks always fly about nation-building.
…Then afterwards other enjoyments can follow.
~Dr. Ikenna Q. Ezealah
Nation Upbuilding 