One of the most popular phrases,

If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.

The statement I am quite familiar with was recently harked back by one of the most popular African bloggers is Hash aka Erik Hersman of White African who actually grew up in Kenya & Sudan.

I think this statement as well as Hash’s AfriGadjet showcases the African ingenuity & persistence.

I sometimes feel like I lack real African experiences but sometimes I am dubious about my uncertainty thankfully by my social interactions. I am not the worldliest persons but I at least appreciate the fact that I am connected to Africa everyday through the internet.

Of course my route here at bernos has been not only a creative outlet by a link to my Afrocentricity.

But reading blogger’s like Hash makes me really sad because I feel like as Africans we tend to refrain from sharing real world social experience. There is a huge gap in the amount of socially relevant literature, media outlets and even in the form of art.

At the end we African are to blame because most of us that are lucky enough to have an extra minute or two after the struggle for survival tend to worry about life from a limited perspective.

We educate ourselves in western values! And easily dismiss our own social culture, art, and talent. Thus artists, craftsmen, and authors are discouraged to continue to struggle to share their life through their art.

I envy those westerners that appreciate Africa and African culture and art more that real Africans, because their lives are the better for it.