African Youths are NOT the future of Africa ... But whose fault is it?

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Imagine a lion or a bird of prey that has been trapped and raised in a cage in all of its formative years and all of a sudden that lion or bird of prey is released into the wild. Do you think that lion or bird of prey will survive in the wild when it's been trapped in all of its formative years?

[00:00:29]The answer to that is no. I don't know how many of you have seen this picture or pictures of an elephant that is tied to a chair, a small plastic chair.

[00:00:42]And the plastic chair and the elephant are often side by side. So you can see the size difference and the comparison.

[00:00:49]Now, of course, the elephant can crush that chair with a little move of its leg.

[00:00:56]But the elephant mentally has been conquered. And that elephant believes it cannot leave that position because mentally it sees the rope tying it to that chair. It doesn't move. It's stuck there in its mind. Now, of course, it can do it can move, but because it's been there for such a long time, it believes it cannot move forward. It's usually an elephant, but it sometimes it's horse or cow, doesn't matter. It's a big animal, small thing, whatever.

[00:01:29]Now, you might be asking, what the hell is King Kingsley talking about? What is he driving at? Relax. I'm heading somewhere with this conversation. The analogies I just gave you is representative of the African youth.

[00:01:41]That's it. That is the African youth.

[00:01:45]And the chain, the rope that is tying the African youth to that chair represents the African boomers, particularly the African boomers that are in leadership positions since colonization.

[00:02:00]In this video, I'm going to be addressing and countering the Boomer lie, the African Boomer leadership lie that the youths are the future of tomorrow.

[00:02:15]That is one of the biggest lies that ticks me off that is told and fed to the average African youth, to the average black African youth. I'm going to go deeper on this conversation. So sit back, relax, and let's roll.

[00:02:32]>> That going forward, we must also recognize our internal weaknesses. And what is our weaknesses? Chinua said it very well. The problem of Africa is simply and squarely one of political leadership.

[00:02:48]The rank of many political leaders in Africa are thieves. Let's call them by their name. They are thieves. There are individuals who are not interested in the interest of this country and as long as we continue electing such individuals into positions of power across Africa they are going to be manipulated and the weakest link on African unity are our presidents because apparently when we become united they will lose power. So all of them are holding on to their seats. They don't want this thing to happen because it is there some of them even claimed national budgets as their family businesses.

[00:03:26]So when I was growing up, you couldn't escape politicians using this term, right? The youths are the future of tomorrow and variations of that. This statement pisses me off, guys. It really, really ticks me off because it's such a blatant lie that African leaders use. It's such an obvious and blatant lie. It pisses me off. Okay, let's delve deeper into this statement. The youths are the future of tomorrow. First off, the youth, the African youths are not the future of tomorrow mostly. Let me explain. When African boomer politicians, elites who have the power are telling the African youths who don't have the power that you are the future of tomorrow.

[00:04:19]Wouldn't that imply that the boomer class who have the power are preparing the future for this next generation of African youth that they claim are the future. But that's not the case. That is not the case. I'm speaking for black Africa right now. Okay? That's not the case. That is far from the case. Because to claim that the African youth is the future, there has to be signs that the future will be good. It's logical. It's a logical statement. And this is what pisses me off about the statement that when we look at it from a logical standpoint, it falls flat. But he keeps saying it. If I'm not mistaken, there's actually a song that is sang in schools to show you how devious this statement is. If I'm not mistaken, don't quote me on this. There is a song in Nigeria that is sung to students in their formative years.

[00:05:22]Children are the future of tomorrow.

[00:05:24]Something like that. If I find if I if I remember, I'll try and find like the audio and play it for you guys. I don't know. But it exists and I'm pretty sure it's not unique to Nigeria. It it exists across black African countries. But this is what I'm saying. Africa has the youngest population on the planet, but also Africa has the oldest leaders on the planet. The average age of the African politician, if I'm not mistaken, is like 70 or something crazy like that. The average age of the African president is like 70.

[00:06:04]It's insane.

[00:06:06]So that already destroys this Africa Africa youth are the future of tomorrow.

[00:06:12]That destroys it because you would have assumed since the African youth since Africa has the youngest population on the planet, you would have assumed that the leaders are going to be reflective of that.

[00:06:24]That's not the case. So that means you're not the future of tomorrow.

[00:06:28]Because if the average age of the of the of the black African politician is like 70 and the average age of the African youth is what? 17 or 18. There's a mismatch. So, so you see you see why this pisses me off so much cuz it's not true. So that's point number one. Point number two, when we say the African youth is the future of tomorrow.

[00:06:53]Yeah. That statement carries so much assumptions. Yeah. It assumes that the leader in this context who's saying this has created a foundation.

[00:07:06]You're assuming that there is solid health care so that the youth can be can stay and be alive, right? so that the you that the youth is alive and healthy to take charge of the future. That statement assumes that the educational system that the youth is going to engage in is going to be well wellrun well well funded well supported so that the youth can take care of the future. It also assumes that the leader who saying that statement has created infrastructure so that the youth can use that infrastructure to better prepare and take charge of that future they keep talking about right. It assumes security that the youth is going to be safe and the environment is going to be secure so that the youth can take charge of the tomorrow that they always talk about jobs and everything else in between. There's a lot more to it. So you see how that statement is such a boomer lie that is forcefed programmed into the mind of the average African youth and makes them doile amongst other things. You see why this is such a lie and such a trap that it ticks me off so much because not not only is it a lie, it is a blatant lie. The African youth is not the future of tomorrow. It's not the future because they have not been prepared to have a future. They have not been prepared. You have black African politicians and leaders who travel abroad. Like this is this is do you see how disingenous this this thing is? You have black African leaders, right, who say to the to the poor and average black African youth in Africa, you guys are the future of tomorrow. Okay. But that same black African leader flies abroad for their own medical checks. That same leader flies abroad and his family for their own holidays for the they send their kids abroad to go do school.

[00:09:13]But they tell the poor African kid who cannot afford to travel, a you're the future of tomorrow. Come on. Oh, are you guys catching what I'm dropping? So the African youth is not the future of tomorrow. They're just not. They're not the future of tomorrow because the same leaders who say that statement are not providing the foundation needed to carry the African youth into that future. It is a lie. It is a lie. The final point on this video is this. The African youth is not the future of tomorrow because every form of autonomy, audacity, inquisitiveness has been beaten, has been screamed, has been brutalized out of the African youth from a very early age. And this is a very very big point.

[00:10:11]There's this misconception that African boomers love to say to themselves that, "Oh, we raise disciplined children." No.

[00:10:18]The average African boomer does not raise disciplined children. What African boomers consider discipline is not discipline.

[00:10:26]It's fear. You you you have beaten, screamed every form of questioning from the African youth because of the African system. I am a proud black African. Don't get that twisted. But just because I love my culture and I love Africa does not mean I cannot call out the [ __ ] If you look at the average western youth and the average African youth, they're not the same people. The the westerner has more confidence. The westerner has more audacity. The western the western youth is more is going to question stuff.

[00:11:01]They question things. But in Africa, every even me almost every African can relate to being silenced. The average African youth from birth has been silenced, has been conditioned to always look at somebody just because they are older than you as the authority. That is why you see the African youth in general does not question these corrupt older politicians because it it has been ingrained in a lot of us from childhood that as soon as somebody is older than you and in a position of power like your teacher, like your boss, like your senior prefect, like your principal, your pastor, your imam, whatever. They are beyond your critique because you're not because they are better than you or because they're no more than you, but because they're simply older than you.

[00:11:54]But that is why you don't see too many Africans challenging authorities because not only that, when you challenge the authority, you're going to get beaten.

[00:12:03]You're going to get brutalized. And we even see this now in a lot of black African countries, which I understand with the African why they don't want to go pro because you could get unalived.

[00:12:12]And it's happened like you can get on a life for simply just wanting a good decent life. And these things goes back to the African boomer because you guys are in charge.

[00:12:24]You've beaten the audacity out of the average African youth. You call that discipline. That's not discipline.

[00:12:31]That's fear. Most black African kids did not, I would say, respect their their parents. We were scared of you.

[00:12:40]We're scared of you.

[00:12:41]So, how my point is, how can these same kids who you've beaten their self-esteem out of them, you've screamed at them to shut the [ __ ] up because an elder is talking. I mean, how many of us can relate to the fact that when we saw our dads and parents talking, we were told to go to our room. So do you see how these little things here and there culminate into a conquered youth, a subdued youth?

[00:13:11]Now you take that mindset, that low self-esteem mindset and you add no infrastructure, no jobs, insecurity everywhere, terrible situation, uh inse um chaos, corruption. What do you think you're going to have? You think you're going to have confident young people that are willing to go and fight and question stuff? No. You're going to have young people who are tired, timid, and will do anything to survive. That is why you see in Africa right now, in black Africa particularly, you can almost guarantee you're going to see Nash now online. You have young men and young women now over sexualizing themselves because this is probably the one of the few ways they can make a buck. Thank God for social media.

[00:14:02]That's why when I see people, you know, people criticize social media, I don't really blame them. I don't really agree with them because social media is one of the few ways the average black African youth can make some type of money.

[00:14:14]Like what do you want them to do when they when the jobs are not even there?

[00:14:18]So to debunk this statement once more, black African youths are not the future of Africa. It is a lie that black African boomers, especially the leadership class and the elite class, this is what they say to make themselves feel better, I guess, and to maybe keep the the African youth further subdued.

[00:14:41]If that makes any sense. What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below. Thanks for listening.