Celebrating My Africanness

By Kilton Moyo

In this book Celebrating My Africanness, he looks at a continental attitude that has caused millions to waste their lives and gifts, glued to past pains and failing to move ahead with their lives. The book encourages citizens of the continent to appreciate themselves and begin to value who they are and build their lives on that. Unless you change your attitude toward you, you will not see much success. No one disqualifies you more than you yourself. You are hindered by how you treat yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Mar 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490727929

Kilton Moyo

Kilton Moyo is a teacher by profession. He is a graduate theologian and a guidance and counseling consultant. He is a regular writer to local print media on issues that affect people on a daily basis and offers Christian counseling to various sectors of the community. He is an ordained pastor and is currently working with an international NGO based in Zimbabwe and offers psychosocial support and counseling to staff and communities. He is the founder of Citizen Africa Foundation, a trust that seeks to help the family in Africa with marriage and parenting, guidance and counseling, and various other issues that afflict the current family. He is an advocate for the creation of wealth at the family level and has a great passion to see the church influence issues in the communities. Kilton is currently studying for a master’s degree in Christian counseling. He is married and has four children.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 How I see it

Chapter 2 Celebrating my being

Chapter 3 Celebrating Diversity

Chapter 4 Change your attitude towards you

Chapter 5 Africa Forward

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All proceeds from this book are for community development work through Citizen Africa Foundation. Citizen Africa Foundation is a platform for likeminded African citizens in a quest to transform their communities for God. Africa must be saved.

Introduction

Many people in life generally, undermine the power of attitude only to suffer the consequences of wrongly processed attitudes. Personal attitude has more effect on you more than other people’s attitude towards you. Many people struggle with their own personal attitude particularly towards themselves and this has cost them so much in life. It is important among all other things to take care of your attitude towards you. Many people will journey through life grumbling about what other people think about them and yet this is not as important as what they think about themselves. Your enemy is what you think about yourself. Your enemy is your own attitude towards yourself. What others think and say is secondary. What affects you more is what you say and think yourself about yourself. You are hindered by how you treat yourself in your mind and heart.

Life is about celebrating one another and not conflict. It amazes how we have taken all the God given points of celebration and turned them into points of conflict. The gender issues, the color issues, the language issues, the tribal issues and many others. These were never meant to be a conflict but we have turned them around and messed up ourselves. We are conflicting about everything and we have killed each other because you are white, black or you are not talking my language. In this book, I seek to help readers understand that God’s original plan for us was to celebrate each other and celebrate His diversity. Humanity is diverse and beautiful and must be celebrated.

Celebrating My Africanness is a powerful tool to help us re-think. It goes to the past and brings out some attitudes that have been transferred from one generation to another bringing in a lot of challenges therefore. It then challenges the reader to kick out the attitudes based on the past, understand and embrace humanity so they can enjoy themselves. People are never meant to be enemies but brothers and sisters enjoying the diversity of God. People are there to celebrate the awesomeness of God in His creation. Only our attitudes that are wrongly influenced by many things deny us the honor to live a celebrative life.

Read this little book and it will inspire you. The proceeds from this book are meant to support Citizen Africa Foundation work with the family in Africa. Unless our people change the attitude, development will be difficult. Many people need to deal with their attitudes to allow transformation to take place. Help yourself.

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How I see it

For many years now, my heart has been bleeding over the state of affairs in Africa. I have been searching for answers to numerous questions about the African’s make up. You see, there are so many things I do not understand about us Africans, blacks to be precise. Why is Africa so dirty and so poor? Why do Africans seem so unconcerned about their status quo of poverty and conflict among themselves? Why are Africans so violent towards each other? Why do we accept mediocre in almost every facet of our lives? Look at our cities. See how dirty they are. See how destroyed they are. There is no water in many of them. There is poor service delivery and poor infrastructure. Our sense of beauty is next to nothing. Littering our streets is beauty to us. Potholes on our roads are beauty to us. Plastic shacks for housing is development to us. Overcrowding is pleasure to us. Killing each other is achievement to us. Who killed 800 000 people in Rwanda? What really is wrong with us? 99% of all maternal deaths occur in the developing countries and 50% of these are in Sub-Saharan AFRICA. 7.6 million Children under the age of 5 die each year globally and 75% of these are in AFRICA. 25 million live with HIV and AIDS in Sub-Sahara AFRICA only. I have been searching and searching and I must admit, I am not yet there. I desire deeper revelation but, thanks be to God Almighty who has given me some little insights into the whole paradox which is man-made and devil masterminded.

We are a continent known for begging and yet we are so rich in everything. We are rich in labor force, in natural resources, intelligence, skills and talent, true beauty and diversity. Yet we have developed the art of begging and have made it our way of life. Begging is a natural life style of demons and