America is a nation that is blessed and rich.When people say "Am travelling to America".They sometimes mean "Am not coming back".It's because they go in search of greener pastures and America has fathered the good,bad and ugly.No doubt they have super structures that was established by the founding fathers.Someone like Martin Luther King junior who fought for the right of blacks.He died for the good black Americans enjoy today.Although the present state of America is questionable.The current president of the United States is a man known for many things.One of such is his denial of climate change and his idea that coal is better.
Recently in Florida at the Stoneman Douglas school,a young man killed 17 people(both students and teachers) with a riffle and on March 14 2018, students of that school marched as a form of protest.That same day the NRA tweeted a picture promoting the right to decide the use of guns being personal.We see several loopholes in America.From immigration to gun control and trade.What kind of a country legalise the use of weapons?.We understand that values and culture vary but then has civilization not become a menace?.If we make guns and people have to shoot them,haven't we thought of measures to keep the use of this guns safer.If the world were so global as we claim why do we make this guns to kill ourselves.
It baffles me that a country like Nigeria where i come from is seen as a giant and her leaders are crude and corrupt.Jobs are not available and the inequality gap is real.Inequality is a problem in America but the average man can boast of meeting his needs compared to people living in Africa.We can learn lessons from the West.Most African countries don't have good structures.Structures are imposed by laws and a good justice system.Africans should not just copy the logos of the West and claim them as 'ideas' but should inculcate accountability,transparency and good governance.What makes a nation lies within this four factors:Good Education,Security,Healthcare and Economy.Without consistency this four cannot be attained and to thrive one needs to be knowledgeable,safe,healthy and happy.
We see what happened in Libya where Nigerians were killed.They left their country to find a better life in Europe or Libya as the case may be forgetting what they need is in them.In Africa poverty is so alarming that the people are poor in mentality.The middle East is not omitted.It's so unstable that it makes headlines in the news.Watching the news this days has become very depressing.On the screen would be dead men and women,injured children and starving babies.Terrorism is now so normal that the leaders of the world pretend like they can't solve it.Have the people asked themselves who arm these terrorists,how they get funds and why the governments have not come together to end violence.The reason is violence sells.Guns need to be sold and so they make more weapons.If they don't make them they can't sell them anyway.
It's not like this people dying are aliens so why kill them with guns during this avoidable wars.The solution lies in us.The West is troubled by the adverse effect of technology and sophistication.Africa suffers from mediocrity.Although blessed with great resources most African countries can't boast of a successful industrial revolution.The lesson to be learned is that man is man's biggest problem.We think aliens will stop us from killing each other but we forget they are stronger and smarter.They will only exploit us because even the strongest of humans do this to the weak ones.We must get wiser.If this planet will remain in a good state,it needs to be preserved and that preservation includes nature and humans.Only humans can subdue the earth.So we must learn to love and rebuild broken bridges.
