‎Being Young In Africa‬

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

 - Frederick Nietzsche

Being Young In Africa‬ is to dwell in a perilous condition of life. Being young is being the whipping kid. You are constantly despised for being, for demanding change, for moving too fast, for preserving your uniqueness... Youth is what African ruling elites want to amputate, once and for all. Refusing to be stupid as the rest could get you banished, ostracized, denigrated, exiled, demented, jailed and the need arises out of unclear political interests, you could be disposed of very easily.

Per se, being young is the same as being someone's hand to touch the fire the elites don't want to risk trying. In fine, being young is being disposable; for as Machiavelli said, "The end justifies the means"no matter how ignorant and viciously ill-organized the "power" struggles could be, to utilize the youth once and to get rid off it on other occasions has been the customary practice so far.

The "elites" strive to make a use and throw generation that hears and sees no evil, while putting aside the needs and aspirations of the juvenile majority. They want us to bury our nay-saying heads in the sand. To use a an expression from the movie "Oz: the Great and Powerful" our only rights are to "keep up, show up and shut up."