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CommunityISSUE 39 | JULY 2025 41When will Africa have true leaders who care about Africans? When will Africans enjoy the fruit of their land? When will Africans rise to their true potential without ever having to prove to anyone that they have one? When will Africans create their own realities, wealth, and nations without the interference of those strangers who think they own the continent? These and many other questions have been on my mind since the very inception of this magazine. And I know there are lots of other Africans asking the same questions.But the question remains. What exactly is wrong with Africa, and why are Africans considered third world? There are lots of answers to these questions, but one answer remains true and stares us largely in our faces. I speak of the lack of faithfulness to the overall purpose and vision of Africa. And this lack of faithfulness to purpose manifests in various ways and in various dimensions in all parts of the African continent and the global African community. It, however, largely manifests as corruption, poverty, ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the many other vile things that take their cue from a heart that is not faithful to purpose and calling. Faithfulness speaks of consistency, and consistency is the ability and discipline to show up and make the vision work, irrespective of what tries to stop it. Faithfulness takes its foundation from the concept of faith. And even though some Africans now think that faithfulness is some concept that emanates from faith and that faith itself is just some assumption that Christians have been brainwashed to use, especially as an excuse for rational thinking, this is a very faulty notion. Faith is not an assumption to do things based on ignorance or the lack of rational thinking, but an action based on knowledge or instruction. Faith is that which is done in response to knowledge. And it%u2019s not blind. It blinds you to that which is superficial and opens you up to that which is real. Which is the same reason why, even though ancient prophecies from ancient African seers and Shamans foretold the coming of the White man to the African continent and the havoc they would bring with them, Africans did not pay much attention to those prophecies and thus did not prepare for what was to come. So, imagine if Africans had understood that faith is actually what happens when you intentionally and faithfully work to prepare for that which you have been shown or told, they would have been better prepared for the coming of the White invaders and would not have been caught unaware.