While it is fun to sit and watch TV or "catch a movie" as many folks wish to call it of late, there is nothing as powerful as reading. I had little love for this activity until lately but tell you what, reading can best be described as an air ticket to the undiscovered planets. I would rather be in a the company of a book than....... you can help me complete this (thank you)I am currently reading a book entitled "The World is Flat The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas L. Friedman. Its first chapter indeed describes what most of us have been or are going through. This is the title of the chapter "While I was sleeping".
Indeed majority of us have been and are sleeping amidst the waves of globalization 3.0. Too much useful information and discoveries are going on around us and if we are not quick enough to wake up to these changes, we may find ourselves jobless if not homeless in this global planet.
The Information Communication Technology era presents us with so many opportunities contained in several hard and soft publications. Our biggest opportunity which we have ignored to seize is to read the content of these publications and apply it to solve the challenges facing us today.
It is never too late to start and compete or better put "it is not too late to wake up and discover our places, roles and passions in this global world."
Africa can be better if we shared our passions and collaborated with our colleagues in world over. Different generations, children, youths, middle age and the senior citizens can come together courtesy of the factors that have made the world flat. Leaders no matter the category can best enforce policy or inspire our followers through reading and discovering the means. Men and Women can best discover how to co-exist instead of competing in the name of emancipation through reading more and understanding.
The spirit of Ubuntu (i am because you are and you are because we are) can best be enforced if people read and had a better appreciation of how it works.
You and me can only get the best out of ourselves if we invested at least 30 minutes of our time every day to read and discover new knowledge and power. The power to choose lies in our hands and remember suffering is one of the consequences of choice. So choose to read and you discover how flat the world is and the many opportunities that are before you and me in this globalized world.
