Den of Thieves

There is a place where we all send our representatives, people who will speak for us, we entrust them with our resources, and we invest our hard-earned taxes in the resources we commit to them.

Whom we choose through a transparent process. While there, they are trusted with the responsibility to make laws and ensure our well-being and community development. We honor this place because we send noble people and their titles change to Honorable.

Alas, The place is no longer honorable because it is now filled with thieves. When we sent them, they were distinguished, humble, and respectful, and now that they have money, they have become disrespectful and full of pride. They have forgotten us. They have turned the once called the noble house of the honorable into a den of thieves.

They fight in public to make us hate, fight, and kill one another while they dine together in secrecy. With no direction, just going with the flow, where the wind blows everybody goes, have no shame, jumping from boat to boat, and never reach the destination. Depending on who is well known to the public, loyal, and can take insults, they do not care as long as they are paid.

They just don’t care about who is lacking, cares only for their own personal interests. They come in the day, dressed like noble people, with people between them and their dreams, manipulating the minds of the youth, robbing the youth of their future. Making empty promises, giving false hopes to women and children, able-bodied men reduced to beggars of things they can easily access without anyone aiding them.

They distribute money, clothes, bicycles, and anything that can buy them a vote, with no shame.
What about my people? Why are we so forgetful? These things happen every time, these criminals come when they need us once, only when they have run out of time, and we continue giving it to them. Why can’t we just stand our ground, use our past experience to make sound judgment, teach them how to work for what they steal.


Let us use our rights. The power in the ballot is priceless. It should never be traded for anything.

External factors- Let them not define you

Life is full of complications, especially for those who cannot define themselves due to external factors. Most of the people today want to come out better than others even when they are not.
Things are not as they seem with social media, which is taking over the social life we had when we were kids, you surely will never know the truth about people you socialise.

Today, most of us are suffering from problems such as; insecurity, lack of confidence, anxiety, envy, stress, depression, doubt, anger to name but a few. All these problems are self-made. We have chosen to define ourselves based on what is trending. Social media has contributed massively to the growth in this behaviour.

Social media itself is a beautiful development which if well handled, can better and has done so to many lives, and if mishandled can ruin and has done so to many lives. Great, isn’t so? Nothing here on earth is 100% perfect, every development comes with two sides, just like we have the north pole and the south pole, or just like a magnet has the two sides no matter how big or small, for it to be a magnet, it should have two sides.

We have invested in comparing ourselves with others, so much that we can’t define ourselves anymore, our lives are spoiled, affecting our mental health, a part of health most governments have ignored to address, and most victims are left alone even to be victimised more by society. And the topic of mental health is a vital subject that deserves its own space and time for discussion. I do feel the cause is the lack of belief in oneself.

We compare ourselves with others in superiority and in an inferiority way, both have effects on our lives, simply because we let it define us.

In terms of superior comparisons, we think we are; better than other people, prettier or more good looking than others, make more money than others do, have more followers on social media, have influence, dress better, speak better, was raised better, and so much more.

When it comes to Inferior comparisons, it just speaks to the opposite of the superior comparisons, and most of us this is the life to go, but no. It is better to define oneself with your strengths. People have failed to excel in the areas where they are talented because they feel it is not as good as that of other people.

So much of our lives are off track. We don’t see it because we are blinded, we think trends are a thing to keep up with when they are not. We stop believing in ourselves and focus on the things surrounding us. We have allowed external factors to define us.

When we compare ourselves with others, we are saying; ‘we don’t know or believe in who we are, and we don’t know or believe in ourselves.’


Comparison is a killer of contentment, joy and influence. It will steal our ability to be real and uplifting to others. We will always feel we do not have enough as compared to others. It will take away our joys and will affect our influence on society. For as long as you do not have your voice, you won’t be influential.

Healthy relationships lost as a result of comparisons. By comparing your spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend to that of your friend will cause you to start doubting your choice. We have areas that we cannot base our comparisons on, like the general outlook of a person or their personality, this is unique.

Comparisons lead us into believing lies and not knowing or believing our true identity. We need to pay attention to our immediate personal needs and be comfortable in our skin. Appreciating our uniqueness and that of others will help us build personal confidence and respect others.

Come, Follow Me…

  • Come, follow me…
Mkushi Soya bean field

Come follow me! I have plenty to share with you.

There is plenty of goodness where I will take you.

You will be amused. I have this dream for you.

A dream that will change your life and all you need to do is indulge.

Let’s ride together, in this journey of words, yours and mine, to learn and grow.

We shall move mountains and part waters, defy gravity and walk on water, together.

I want to explore with you, conquer the world with you and win big with you.

If you walk with me now, I will fly with you later. Am incomplete without you.

Let us make a difference together.

And as you come with me, do not mind the bumps, the downs, the storms and pain, they are a part of the thrill that makes the journey more fruitful.

It is these storms that will make us appreciate what is ahead of us, no sweat, no sweet.

They are a part of the grill. If we can pull through these, we can handle the pleasure that await us ahead.

Moving mountains together

It is a journey for two, me and you, no matter what we go through….our dream shall come true.

Legacy-The Young Version of Me

Looking at my two kids, it gives me so much joy and a little bit of fear. Joy because I pride myself to have made it to adulthood and start a family despite the conditions in which I grew up. Fear because, looking at my under five kids and wondering what their future holds for them. Especially with the many hazards that society presents.

But here I am, a proud father of two, working hard to ensure that my kids grow up into better responsible adults, better than me. It is a promise I gave to myself back when I was just a little boy, a promise that everything that I lacked as a child, my kids won’t lack.

I vowed to give my kids the childhood I never had, to the extent that, if I fail to make it in life, I will not start a family because I wouldn’t want to raise a child who is lacking in things I lacked in. And now am here, with a duty to raise a family.

Looking at my kids, I see myself in a younger version. With this, I do not want to hurt the younger version of me. I want to give the younger version of me the best of the treatment, the best of the education, the best of the opportunity, the best of everything I never had including what I had, but in its best form, to the best of my abilities.
What I desire is a future that I dreamed of having, even though I have made it, I have not reached my desired goal, I know reaching that goal is a miracle, so I’m giving it to my kids.

It does not mean I am going to spoil them. It means that I will do what it takes to see the younger version of me surpass the current version of me. I desire to give the young me a balance of life that will not hurt them and will also not spoil them. They will have inherited an empire that they shall build on. What I will leave them with and continue growing it and pass it on to their children.

Legacy, to me, it is the best foundation for every child. And I think this is the one thing African families have failed to emulate. It is like for an African to make it, they have to start from scratch, and that kind of wealth cannot compare to that of inheritance. Most parents in Africa will die with their wealth because they did not plan for it after the demise. One who inherits wealth inherits together with the knowledge and wisdom if the parents had plans for it. A good parent will plan and train his/her kids on how to maintain and grow a legacy.

As for me, I get inspired by seeing myself in my kids and desiring the best for myself in my kids and the coming generations, caring the family name.

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