unHappy Africa Day

Oh how much I want to be like everyone, scream, shout and sing Happy Africa Day, how I am tempted to post pictures, put hashtags on, enjoy likes and Retweets.  How I wish I could pretend even if it was just for a moment that Today is Africa’s Day of awakening, day of unity. But then the usual messages of denialisms from those who caused Africa to bleed, to thirst not only for water but the blood of fellow brothers and sisters, those who caused Mama-Africa to miscarry brings me back to reality and my voice fails to be audible in saying Happy Africa Day.

I quickly remembered the condemnation of those that tell me how much brilliant mind I have everytime I say what they want to hear and call me to order and stop doing business with me the minute I am brave enough to tell the truth as I see it. So I went to my naughty corner to correct my behaviour as I was taught. I tried again, I thought of recording a video to sing and speak about a Happy Africa but the screams of the murdered grannies, mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, friends and colleagues cried out too loud deep from the graves dug by the African men who were meant to protect them, I thought I should wake up and smell the roses but the smell of the mutilated, raped bodies of African women overpowered any smell of roses they hoped to receive while they were still alive and  my voice failed to be loud enough to say Happy Africa Day.

I remembered to be politically correct and not try to be a feminist because I am trash like all of them, I was reminded that I am not clean and not better than any of those men so I shut my mouth too. I do my business the same way I was taught. So I then thought of doing what I was taught by those who have been in the game longer than me, pay my way out of justice but the underdeveloped malnutrition bodies  of Africa’s infants used to demonstrate the philanthropic nature of the West filled my mind and I lost my ability to make out words to say Happy Africa Day.

So let me be not the spoiler of your fun, let me not waste your valuable celebration time because you need to finish so you may go back to your master, work awaits you. Tomorrow is back to the normal unHappy Africa

The impact of COVID19 to the 4IR

So forget 5G stories, the conspiracy theories and all. But what is the real impact of COVID19 to the 4th industrial revolution? 

No question that the  battle with COVID19 has had a very bad impact to the economy globally, but what impact has it had to the introduction of the 4iR into the global economy? The truth is that it has actually fast tracked the progress. Companies had to close doors to prevent human interaction and with it the spread, this has impacted these companies financially and otherwise but also teaching them to do things differently. 

So many have been forced to continue operating even though it was digitally, meetings held virtually, which will ease the flow of traffic when this has become a way of life. Many organizations have had this ability to operate virtually but were never encouraged to do so and with this pandemic the leaders of such organization have now been introduced to this ability. I have always since the early 2000 spoke about the benefit of some jobs being performed remotely, we don’t need some administrators to wake up in the morning get stuck in traffic both morning and afternoon loosing over 4 hours in traffic only to come work for 3 hrs at the office when they could have done more at home. Companies have realized that they don’t need as much office space as they had occupied prior. The banking sector through the use of mobile apps has shown that the is probably no need to go to the bank. 

Service sector could have done better if they had robots serving people, health sector as well. Deliveries using drones, virtual PAs, virtual classrooms for schooling, the cleaning industry could use robot cleaners, etc. The traveling and tourism could have benefited greatly  through virtual tourism while people were at home during lockdown, this would have assisted in also assisting many deal with the depression caused by a lockdown. so after this we definitely now have realized how we less of an impact our lives could have experience if we were in the middle of the 4iR.