Mawira Mtuamwari what say you about this #ChurchofAfricanStagnation? Conquering the roots of Stagnation Ever so often we look around and we see organizations and even Nations that have stagnated. They are dealing with the same problems year after year without a solution in sight. What is the root, the nature and the implication of stagnation and where does stagnation come from? Stagnation is the expression of minds that refused to let go of the old and imbibe the new. Stagnation is the expression of minds who found such comfort in the past that they chose to live there. Stagnation is un-human and people that wallow in or permit stagnation are practicing death. One of the characteristics of living things is growth. Stagnation is therefore the practice of death. In many areas of our continent and in many organizations they have even moved from practicing to perfecting it. I think of all that used to work that’s now dead! The African economy of the 70s and 80s were promising forces to be reckoned with but what happened? Death perfected. How a people so endowed could allow themselves to be led into such dimensions of death is what beats me. We complain about leadership but our biggest problem is psychopathic clueless followership. The followers give permission for stagnation by the people they follow. As long as African leadership is based on my people your people our turn your turn we will remain in this practice of death. We compromise brains for tribes and development for appeasement and we wonder why we are stagnant? No entity be it a person an organization or a Nation can advance beyond the mental capacity of its decision makers. if in an organization the decision makers are stuck in their thinking then the people have no choice but to practice death and remain stagnant. As a continent we boast of having so many PHD holders but it will do us no good as long as we follow the mentally stuck. In the church of African Stagnation clueless tribalised visionless leaders are the pastors and we are the congregation. We subscribe to that church by keeping quiet and nodding our heads like agama lizards because we don’t want to rock the boat. A generation that does not bequeath a better standard of living to the next is a failed generation. As long as we are members of the church of African stagnation we are sure to be remembered as a failed generation. Stagnation is not a cause. It is an effect. It is the effect of minds that did not move over time. Stagnation is not a sentence. it is a choice. Africans chose stagnation when they subscribed to a state of mental status quo. They only read academically and throw learning away after school. Do we continue to blame the past or do we look forward and make our continent work? The past is dead, the future is unborn. We cannot change the dead but we can shape the destiny of the unborn. it’s time to unlock our brains from the shackles of mediocrity and stagnation. we stagnated because we chose to revel in the past instead of questioning the negatives and correcting them. If we do not question the negative parts of our history we are destined to repeat it. it’s time to open our minds to discuss and learn how to move forward and birth a land where dreams are fulfilled. The end of learning is the beginning of dying. When Nations refuse to learn then they begin to die. Until we have leaders who humble themselves to learn we will continue to practice death as we remain stagnant. Learning involves accepting that we do not know and this is part of the problem of the African big man – too big to learn. Some African big men have been deceived to think that accepting you don’t know and learning from others is a mark of weakness. Weakness is not in learning. it is in thinking that wisdom is synonymous with age or title. Weakness is in thinking that pot bellies and posessions are what make a person wise. I wonder how far we would have advanced if we paid half as much attention to feeding our minds as we did our bellies. Mentally weak people cannot lead us to strong destinies. it’s now time for the African Big Brains to take the continent into new frontiers that the African big man does not know exists. [email protected] twitter@Waleakinyemi - See more at: powertalks.biz/conquering-the-roots-of-stagnation/#sthash.sQzfpnkS.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:22:02 +0000