The Biggest Lie Sold To Diaspora

The biggest lie sold to Diasporas is that America will SAVE us.

Author: Daphne Aketch

Build something as an African, for Africa, and if an opportunity comes where someone wants to buy what I have created, well, then that could be an opportunity to sell it for high price.

This is a story of a conversation in my mind. It is fueled by the fact that sometimes I feel like I am the stereotypical Diaspora – a hypocrite if I can be brutally honest.

I say this because I believe there are so many Third World Countries that have experienced ‘Brain Drain’. Even after all this, I still hide behind the security of a country that I did not even participate in building.

I must be the best at what I do!!! I should have my wits about me. I should be able to support people with my content and knowledge. I must have high belief in MYSELF.

If someone else comes along, who is better than me, and after I have fought, then I can concede because they are better AFTER I HAVE FOUGHT. Don’t ask for business because of PITY. Get business because you are great at it.

Be one in a million. Have a passion that burns. There are few Diasporas who are passionate about home.

The biggest lie sold to Diaspora is that America will SAVE us.

We should stop thinking small. We have to start doing the small things to then do the big things. People need to stop looking for the easy way out. It is easy to be employed in America at a low skilled job than investing in your home country.

America gives Diaspora the formula and tells us what to do, what to believe, how to think, where to work, how to manage my time, and then the system takes my money after I have wasted the best of my strong young years giving it to something and someone who is not going to build me.

There is no inter-generation wealth if I am just giving money to the American system. I wish Diaspora would take the money we make after education in first world nations, start something, then if we fail, we can be honest about it but we need to keep trying.

• The Kenyan Freedom Fighters went through discomfort and hell to gain freedom for me.

• Nelson Mandela did jail time to gain freedom for South Africa.

• MLK marched to gain equal rights for ALL black people in America.

• Moses, the Jewish Prophet did it to free Israelite slaves from the Pharaoh of Egypt.

• Jesus did it for us all.

We, Diaspora, need to do the same thing which is to just keep doing the hard work, right?

This is so much easier said than done.