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The Hare and the Tortoise are our folklore heroes; characters we celebrated growing us. All the stories our grandparents share with us under the tree by moonlights, in our kindergartens and primary schools during story times have the Hare and the Tortoise as heroes. Characters we should grow up to be like. To our parents and teachers, it was making us feel nice about the night but these stories were deforming us. For Example, the tortoise will always win a race when it can’t run against the cheetah because of it shrewdness or through tricks do the impossible and at the end of the story, the tortoise would get away with its tricks without repercussions. One of those in the Rebranding Africa group brought this to my notice and it’s absolutely true. We celebrate trickery and falsehood in our bedtime stories, and we expect our children to grow to be honest and to work with integrity. How can our bedtime stories heroes be the tortoise or Hare who always wins by trickery be the idol o

A boy’s phone charger got spoilt, and he started begging people for charger. It was very embarrassing because no one would want to give you his charger in Africa seeing that there is no guaranty they’ll have electricity to keep their phones useful. This continued for long till he decided to ask his father for money. He asked his father for money to buy charger, the old man complained how difficult it is to raise the money for him because of the economic situation he was facing but after some days his father gave him 1500# and when he got to the shop where the charger are being sold, at the entrance are hawkers selling un-guaranteed chargers at 500#. He thought of saving 1000# overwhelmed him; after all it charges he told himself. After buying the charger for #500, he lavished the remaining balance. When he got home, he showed his father what he had bought; the old man doesn’t know the difference between a good charger and a substandard one, so he was satisfied that the money was

A man would pick up a chicken in the presence of his guests and removed all the feathers, hit it hard and squeezed its leg terribly that the chicken crowed in deep pain. After releasing the chicken, he then brought out chicken food and the chicken came back to him to feed from his hands. He was trying to prove that no matter how wicked you are, people would come to you if you bring out food. He was trying to convince his political guests his strategy for wining after he was brutal to his people during his last tenure. And true to his word, he won again. What did he do? He bought bags of rice and distributed to people, promising them what he failed to deliver to them during the first campaign, accusing his predecessors as being the reason for his failures and promises to do better. Then during the voting, he shared money to them. As they vote, they get paid and thus he won and the people had to endure another tenure of horror from him. Now he is leaving after completing his two ten

Jesus the greatest prophet on earth answered this question when He Prophesied that So the last shall be first, and the first last…Matt. 20:16 some nations and continents may be leading in terms of economy and general well-being, but God has said that everyone would have his chance. The one who is first today would soon be overtaken by the one which was last. Therefore, every trailing nations has the spiritual provisions to take the lead in the economic affairs of the world even Africa. everyone would have the opportunity to take the front role in the affairs of the world. Before the leading nation were overtaken, the overtaking nation first had a revolution on how they were thinking. They upgraded their mentality and thus were able to overtake the leading nations of their days. If we must overtake the leading nations of our days as Africans, we must first have our minds renewed and change the average mentality that had set us backward in Africa. We shouldn't sit down an

had promised you earlier to share with you whether Africa is under any spiritual curse Why we are set back this much from the rest of the world. And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.  These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:  And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.  And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.  And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.  And he said, Blessed be th

There was a time some lecturers from an African university were hosted on a plane in Africa. During the cause of hosting them, they were told that the plane was built by some group of students they've lectured and it’s about to take-off for a test drive, immediately they heard it was their student who built the plane, instead of them to seat and enjoy the ride and be proud of what their student have built, they all jumped out but for one, when asked why he didn't jump out with the rest, perhaps he is proud of what the students he had lectured have built one of the host reasoned as they walked towards him to inquire, his reply sent shivers down their spines, he said, 'if this plane is built by my students, it won’t even start talk more flying'. While the above story is a fiction, the reality is true of African education system and the level of trust Africans have on it. We are being taught things that are irrelevant to the world we live in. We are building a system w

A man who whose house rent was due would keep promising his landlord, ‘I’ll pay you next week, there is money that I am expecting’ and when ‘the next week’ is around, he’ll say, ‘please give me another week unfailingly’ etc. this continued for a long time until he had lived and extra 6 months in the house without paying. The landlord became very watchful making sure he won’t pack-out of the house at night or whenever he isn’t around so that he can flee to avoid paying his balance due. Some tenants have done that to him in time past, after repeatedly promising to pay when their house rent were due but failing and when they’ve stayed long they moved out of the house without his notice just to run away from paying what they owe. He didn’t want that to repeat with this tenant, so he kept monitoring him. Fortune would smile at him one day when a lady hired him (he is a par time taxi driver) to take her a hotel that was very far from the city. While on their way, he asked her if she can pay

This was a joke made popular by a Uche Ogbuagu a jokestar. He said, a man visited LAGOS for the first time and was amazed at the sky scrapers and got lost while looking at them, one of the ‘Agbero’  (hooligans)  noticed by the way he was looking at those buildings that he was a ‘JJC’ (Newbie in town) walked up to him and charged him money telling him, those buildings cost 100 Naira to see each. The Agbero said, ‘I noticed you have looked at 5 of the buildings therefore you’ll pay #500’. He was happy to pay it and left saying to himself ‘I cheated on him, I looked at more than 12 Buildings and he only charged me for 5’. An average African wants to exploit you. Walking the streets of Accra to buy something, immediately they by my intonation suspected I am Nigerian, they hiked the price; same thing happened in Harare when I went to pay for a Hall and when I was in a cloth market in Addis Ababa. After noticing the price I bought certain things, my friends would say, it’s because they