What Others Say

Mrs. Rebecca Nganga is a Communication and Culture lecturer at Daystar University in Kenya. She is also a motivational speaker and has for many years been invited to various institutions to speak on various issues.

Below is a letter that she wrote to the team encouraging us to live the African Dream. This is a motivation to most of us as we have been able to interact with her in a lecturer-student way.

As you think about Africa we are also hopeful that you will be motivated by her words as much as we have been. Africa will always be what we think of it and not what others make us think of it. It is time for us to live the noble dream that Africa has carried all this years.

Note that we are welcome to any comments and any words that you would love to share with the rest of Africa and the world.

Oliver M. - Editor

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Dear Peter and friends,
Sorry that I could not get to you earlier. The dream of Africa is very good. It is excellent. Yes there is need for children of Africa to express the beauty and depths of love that flow from the great and rich continent that seem to be unexplored.

Foreigners have seen Africa from their perspective and sometimes from great culture shock and that has given the continent an image that is not correct. It is us who know the breath of Africa and its technology that can speak it out for the world to hear and for ourselves.

Miriam Makeba of South Africa said,'When I look at a stream, I see myself, a native African woman, irresistibly moving over hard obstacles until they become smooth and one day disappear'. Africa Alive is a move against beliefs that are imbedded in people that see poverty, disease, unnecessary fights, illogical people etc, Africa Alive has to remind us that ignorance, poverty and disease is not our second name.
Peter you have the seed in you that can become a forest of beauty , wealth and health of Africa.

Another student said "My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure it out." That is what I feel of Africa. Africa has a superb cast and all we have to do is figure it out. That is what I hear you doing.

Peter as you mine the gift of expressing through poetry what you so ably see, clarify your source of authority if possible. Is it God or ancestors and history. If God which one? That is what Daystar was meant to instil in you. However if it is not clear just leave it out but the expressions will remain hollow. Those Rwanda characteristics that resemble Sawi cannot be eradicated by just knowledge.

Rebecca Ng'ang'a (Mrs)