Africa’s Pharaoh’s must Fall!
Across the African continent today, the growing cries for change amid rising hardship, misgovernance, and economic despair mirror the ancient pleas of the Israelites under Pharaoh’s oppressive hand. As the people groaned under burdens they could no longer bear, their anguish rose like incense, drawing Divine response. In that season of bondage, it was not diplomacy nor reform that shook Egypt—it was disruption. Under the leadership of Moses, Egypt was confronted with a cascade of plagues, each a Divine Judgment, each a strike against Pharaoh’s stubbornness, each a corrective blow to enforce the needed change until Pharaoah was completely subdued!
Today, Africa faces its own Pharaohs: corrupted, poor performing, and repressive leaders who refuse to release the potential of the African people into the wilderness of nation-building so they might reach the Promised Land of their developmental destiny ordained by the Creator. Pharaohs who refuse lead for the welfare of their people and who greedily cling to power while their countries languish.
This reflection posits that, like Egypt, Africa may require the corrective force of its own form of “modern plagues” by its citizens—strategic social upheaval, activated pressure of civic reawakening and bold action, even economic or generational rebellion…. to compel a transformative shift and the emergence of a new generation of visionary African leaders and nation-builders who, guided from above, are ready to serve with pure volition for the welfare and progress of the African people! For true liberation never comes without cost.
The time for passive hope is over. A new Africa demands a new type of leadership and citizen engagement.
Onward & Upward!
~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
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