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The African ‘Che Guevara’.

Born in 1949 in a small village in the then Upper Volta to Mossi and Peul, Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara would later become the most outstanding face of the African Revolution. Most refer to him as the Upright man after renamed his country to 'Burkina Faso' translating to 'The land of the Upright man.' The young boy whose father wanted to become a priest would have destiny push him to become the country's savior at a time when it needed him the most. So outstanding and Unique he was that most of the leaders during that era became his natural enemies for the mere fact that they feared he would criticize their exploitations. Sankara’s progressive ideologies were built at the Military academy of Kadiogo in Ouagadougou. He met a civilian professor Adama Touré, a renowned progressive ideologist who instead remained unexpressed to the public's eyes. Sankara was among the best students in his class, making him one of the few chosen students. They would discuss politic...
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How Digital Divide continues to sideline Africa in the Technology Evolution

 


For centuries the Continent of the black man has always been seen as inferior in many aspects of global change. When Europe was at its peak of Agrarian revolution the great land in "perceived deep slumber" filled with "bushes, wild and rough life" but were we? It is this land that provided the labor, raw materials in abundance that would see Europe grow tremendously in 200 hundred years of SLAVERY.  It is painful to think about it but the truth and facts remain standing " Our most energetic men were captured away and helped them build their world" not ever to be spoken about!

Things have been this way since we started interacting with the West powers, Africa continues to be sidelined even today as Technology takes control of the World. It is within our continent that we still have "Inaccessible remote villages" where even electricity is a dream yet to be realized. Our continent is still labeled the DARK CONTINENT. Yes we are indeed the dark continent both by our skin, our poor technological infrastructure and our slow development and change!

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