The breach of the African child.....

Franklin A.N.
@anfranklin784877
9 days ago

I grew up in a society where I could see the harshness of life.
There are different degrees to the harshness that life brings to the average African child.

I use the society I grew up in as a standard, it's a society that I could say kills dreams, kills futures.

I myself have found myself being pessimistic like those adults I rebuked while growing up when they laughed off my dreams or called it bluff.
I was never a believer that dreams don't come true, I had many reasons not to believe but I still believed, because I wanted the top, not to put the others down or prove anything to anyone else but to come to a place, a knowing, a realisation and a certain satisfaction that things can be better; that I can be someone better and I can look back at my reflection and see that this is who I am,this is who I've become and this is probably who I'll evolve to be for the rest of my life.

The dear African child I didn't know I would become is eventually who I became, the African child in me is screaming and reaching out to that hopeful child that she was with big dreams and the thought that she would actualize them, but now she's just being the African, like many other Africans scaling through in confusion, anger, tiredness and sadness on some days and on some days very hopeful,some days very happy that it's all coming together, somedays that it's all moving forward.

Like the trend is about the 'Nepo kids' ,I just don't wish I was one, I know I would have been one until the typical life happened for an average African child without a father; but I am an adult now, and like the 'Nepo children', my children will be them in the near or far future but they will be.
No child of mine deserves to be breached, no African child deserves to be breached in such awful and heartbreaking ways that they have to look for the meaning of life.

I am the bridge and not the beach for the next generation of African children, starting with the ones I'll have.
There's no dignity in suffering both for my children and any African child at all,no matter who they are.

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