Being imbued with a sense of fairness and justice would empower the youth and children of Africa to seek truth about themselves, their history, and about anyone purporting to have the wherewithal to run the affairs of their country.
The tendency is to define for Africans what their “rights” are. It does not include their right to be compensated for what was done to them. Reparations are not for them.
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’s final instructions to African people on the eve of implementation of the comprehensive anti-pass campaign on March 21 1960 read as follows: “Sons and daughters of the soil, remember Africa. Very soon now, we shall be launching.
Victims of prejudice need only to prosper to break the back of racism, be the best they can be, innovate, avail out of their own creation what the world needs.