Africa, let's build a wall of solidarity and a code of responsible behaviour against Corona Virus.
Thank you all for reading, commenting and sharing. As
long this today lasts, let's keep encouraging one another. We are our strength;
our unity is our strength.
The other message was my first public statement on Facebook. Until now, I have been quiet. Not even the ambazonian crisis brought me out of my silence and hiding. But I couldn't stay quiet in front of the eminent threat and the grave and grim consequences that Corona virus represents to the world as a whole and to poor communities like ours in particular. I couldn't stay quiet because I saw the ravages of HIV-AIDS in our communities in the 80s and 90s. As a young High School leaver and primary school teacher back then, I was one of those who volunteered in the Diocese of Bamenda to be trained as counsellors and to bring the message of hope to the homes of the sick and dying. I know therefore, from first-hand experience, the untold hardship and suffering that a calamity of this calibre can be for our people.
I know and you know that in difficult moments, we Africans have made it through thanks to our collective efforts.
While Europeans and the Western world count on their social security systems, most, if not all Africans count on their families, friends and local community solidarity. That is our unfailing security, solidarity is our hope.
Now more than ever, we have to be solidaric but above all responsible towards each other. We have to create a solidarity code of conduct. We have to avoid all risky behaviours that put our lives and those of others at risk: not washing our hands, traveling unnecessarily, not washing our fruit and vegetables, etc. Staying at home, knowing how to cough or sneeze in order to avoid infecting others and other such conducts, are simple but lifesaving gestures.
You know as well as I do, that we don't have enough hospitals and medical staff to take care of us. You know that given our poor infrastructures even hospitals and special units can become places of mass infection for others and for the staff.
You know that no insurance will take care of us.
You know that no government will take full care of us. Europe and the West are too busy with their own people now that they won't be able to "help us"...and you know that even when money is given, it ends up in private pockets while people are left to die. The world will never be told the exact number of people who died in Africa. Many people will not even go to hospital because only those who can pay will even reach the hospital.
We are our only hope. Our responsible behaviour will save us. And God will not will not abandon the poor who call to Him with a changed behaviour. I will even dare to say that besides a clean heart, God is asking all of us during this Lenten Season for a clean body, our Lenten effort has to include personal hygiene, social hygiene and responsible behaviour. Now more than now ever before it is visibly true that Cleanliness is next to Godliness!!
The other message was my first public statement on Facebook. Until now, I have been quiet. Not even the ambazonian crisis brought me out of my silence and hiding. But I couldn't stay quiet in front of the eminent threat and the grave and grim consequences that Corona virus represents to the world as a whole and to poor communities like ours in particular. I couldn't stay quiet because I saw the ravages of HIV-AIDS in our communities in the 80s and 90s. As a young High School leaver and primary school teacher back then, I was one of those who volunteered in the Diocese of Bamenda to be trained as counsellors and to bring the message of hope to the homes of the sick and dying. I know therefore, from first-hand experience, the untold hardship and suffering that a calamity of this calibre can be for our people.
I know and you know that in difficult moments, we Africans have made it through thanks to our collective efforts.
While Europeans and the Western world count on their social security systems, most, if not all Africans count on their families, friends and local community solidarity. That is our unfailing security, solidarity is our hope.
Now more than ever, we have to be solidaric but above all responsible towards each other. We have to create a solidarity code of conduct. We have to avoid all risky behaviours that put our lives and those of others at risk: not washing our hands, traveling unnecessarily, not washing our fruit and vegetables, etc. Staying at home, knowing how to cough or sneeze in order to avoid infecting others and other such conducts, are simple but lifesaving gestures.
You know as well as I do, that we don't have enough hospitals and medical staff to take care of us. You know that given our poor infrastructures even hospitals and special units can become places of mass infection for others and for the staff.
You know that no insurance will take care of us.
You know that no government will take full care of us. Europe and the West are too busy with their own people now that they won't be able to "help us"...and you know that even when money is given, it ends up in private pockets while people are left to die. The world will never be told the exact number of people who died in Africa. Many people will not even go to hospital because only those who can pay will even reach the hospital.
We are our only hope. Our responsible behaviour will save us. And God will not will not abandon the poor who call to Him with a changed behaviour. I will even dare to say that besides a clean heart, God is asking all of us during this Lenten Season for a clean body, our Lenten effort has to include personal hygiene, social hygiene and responsible behaviour. Now more than now ever before it is visibly true that Cleanliness is next to Godliness!!
Don't go to the temple, maybe
this is the time to learn to worship in Spirit and in Truth. Stay at home and
your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you. Together we
shall overcome!
-T.V.King
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