Africans, we do not need more entertainers
As humanity, we’re facing a hard time. The actual crisis is something we were not prepared for.
The impacts are huge.
The world will change after this crisis. I just don’t know in which directions.
I’m naively hoping for more inclusion, more care, more generosity. This crisis is showing us that ideas that were deemed stupid, not possible, are in facts very doable. Helicopter money doesn’t sound like a myth anymore. We’re able to quickly create well-disposited funds to face a sudden emergency. We’re talking about universal income (cynical laugh in Benoit Hamon here).
But I’m also faithfully praying that we won’t stray away from the greater goods. We could have a rise of individualism. Selfishness can become the new standard. We saw landlords evict nurses. Countries are fighting each others for masks. Asian racism spikes.
Anyway, my points are that I don’t know how things will change. Not might, but will. Because they will. It could be small changes, it could be big ones. But they will change.
Foreign policies are going to change.
Industrial policies are going to change.
Monetary policies are going to change.
Social policies are going to change.
Even religious polices might change.
And at a time like this, I’m very thankful for all the entertainers. They’re helping us coping with all the stuffs we’re going through right now. Thank you girls and boys. Thanks a lot. You’re doing well.
But, we do not need more of you. We do not need more entertainers for Africa. We need more thinkers.
We need more sociologists to help us understand how we can move as communities.
We need more philosophers to help us with some African mind nutritions for the actual predicaments.
We need more economists to try to model out the possibilities.
We need our diplomats to be ready for the shifts in international diplomacy.
We need more policy makers.
We need more demographers.
We need more historians.
And so on.
As the entertainers are entertaining us, we need more thinkers to think for, and about our futur. I’m repeating myself here. But you know the saying : la répétition est pédagogique.
We do not need more entertainers. We already have plenty of them. But we need more thinkers.
We just need more thinkers.
We need them to voice out. To voice out louder, in a way we can all hear them.
We do not need to focus on stupid polemics like the trial of a vaccine. It’s like focusing on a small wound while you were at the last stage of a cancer.
We need to expand our reflexion. We need to outthink and outsmart people who think Africa can’t make it through this crisis.
So African entertainers, if you’re reading this by any chances, use your platforms, use your voices and your connections and bring out our African thinkers. Share their thoughts. Make their work more understandable to your audiences. Give them spotlights. Give them rooms. Be like Kopp. Specially you, the influencers/coachs/“leaders”/whatever you call yourself. Some people think that you’re just “internet cancer”. I’m making a bet here. Please, don’t fail Africa. As Sir CHURCHILL said, we can’t waste such a good crisis. It’s possible to leverage on it.
Disclaimer 1: I do not say we need less art.
Disclaimer 2: And more important, I’m not saying that we need less entertainers. Somehow, you’re also sharing your thoughts and visions through your contents. You’re kinda thinkers. And you should also stick to your “expertise” (whatever it is).
