I’d rather “break up” with you than live in this frustrating stagnancy.
I’d rather sever all ties now than get invested in a relationship with no future.
I’d rather settle all debts than keep investing my time and energy into something that will bear no fruit.
I’d rather cut all losses than…
So who’s the freak?
Stop and think about how you’ve treated me
Stop and think about how you hurt me.
About how I feel when you’re not near to me.
I want you to stop.
Stop trying to please me, change me, mold me.
I just want you to stop doing and saying things that cut my soul.
Stop ignoring my pain, this…
I’m cutting you out of my heart
Erasing your story from my life and
tearing the pages out of my book
I am deleting all the memories we’ve shared
the times you made me laugh til I cried and
so sad I couldn’t smile
I am pretending we never met
that your shadow never darkened my path
I’m moving on without you
to bigger better things
to a brighter future
This is how it has to be
because holding on to you
keeping you
wanting you
is only going to kill me.
I so loved @aja_monet’s tweets in this trending topic that I’m saving these gems.
~ silence is a conversation between spirits.
~ when patience is not a burden but a critical connection.
~ you don’t know what it is.
~ when a person makes necessary sacrifices to be with &there for you.
~ you…
This weekend I went to the 12th Annual Africa Business Conference. This year’s theme focused on: “A continent comes of Age: Defining a New Era in African Business. However despite the theme most of the discussions while titering on optimism, the recurring and constant theme was the constraints and problmes of the African continent. I went to three discussions
The first panel was Opportunity in Chaos: What happened to the Nigerian Banking Sector.(This was a really educational discussion.) First of All Nigerians are crazy. The banking system went from 89 to 29 banks and rose US $15-$20 Billion in funds but then crashed due to dangerous levels of under capitalization and malpractice which resulted in the government taking over 10 banks firing their CEO and top management, instituting new term limit laws for bank heads and injecting $4 billion into the market to recapitalize failing banks. The greed and corruption caused by raising mass capital, riding the stock market wave as well as declaring unearned profit further resulted in 20,000 workers being fired and salary cuts to 25%-30%. SOUNDS FAMILIAR??
Of course the room was filled with Nigerians and everyone was talking about corruption in Africa but I think the Panelists summed it up well. There is Corruption everywhere, when Bernie Madoff did what he did people lost money, people said Madoff was a bad investor and people looked at lessons to be learnt and moved on. No one said I would never invest in America, America is corrupt you can never make money in the USA. The same should be for Africa when bad investments and poor financial decisions are made and people lose money. Itis not AFRICA its bad investors and poor financial decisions. (well said). Africa is no more corupt than anywhere else.
The second panel was on Agribusiness: Africa as the World’s Next Breadbasket. This panel discussed the opportunities agribusiness provides for economic development across Africa. I wasn’t too impressed with the panel. But I think what resonated with me was that no one cares about rice grown in Malawi that is 3 times as expensive its JUST rice. Agriculture needs to be commercialized in Africa and how to do that is the big challenge and without private and public sector cooperation its not gonna happen.Developing an African cuisine is also important to the growth of African food products.
The last panel I attended was Achieving Growth Through Economic Integration. This was the most interesting just because economic integration for Africa as well as the Caribbean is of real interest to me. I wholeheartedly believe its a necessary ingredient for growth and political power which is necessary to operate effectively in this world. However despite all the evidence that supports the benefit of integration the political realities make effective integration policies an allusive goal. The panel spouted all the benefits of integration, but they still failed to address why Rich African countries like Nigeria and South Africa would really go for free movement of human capital as much as goods and why poorer sub-Saharan countries would go for free movement of goods and capital that would negatively affect their fragile economy. The political realities of integration makes integration difficult and because politicians operate to get re-elected and the benefits of integration are long term, it is highly unlikely that politicians in power will be the ones leading the charge for integration at least apart from paying lip-service to it.
