Africa!!! 
Hatred,  pains and envy. 
Our ego makes these things invade. 
Beautifully made but we smoke our potentials away. 
If it can't be me then it can't be you, we likes it that way. 
We've killed our tradition and uprooted our roots.
Repeatedly tell lies that have now become our truth. 
But i know Africa,  you will surely rise. 
There will come a day when you will put the differences aside and wipe one another eyes. 
My cry will be your cry,  when you rise I'll rise.
Together will both will walk and see the light at the end of that tunnel. 
Africaaaaaa, we shall rise.

Your way to success is determined by the way you use your time.
~Mc-Arthur Charles Mantein

If death had informed Liberians about its plan to visit the country to claim one of its talented acts, some people - both young and old would have volunteered their lives in place of this special one.

 

Quincy B

The sombre mood of bereavement in the nooks and crannies of Liberia may never be lightened up even if the Federal Government embarks on a money-sharing jamboree amongst all its citizens.

This might confirm the saying that "money can never buy happiness". Late recording artist, Quincy L. Burrowes commonly known as Quincy B, 23 who died in a fatal road accident on Friday night - the 3rd of March, 2017 gave massive succor to the people through music.  He offered the ears and minds a rare blend of value and treasure which financial strength couldn't beat or match up with.

In a country where 64 percent of the population live below the poverty line, of whom 1.3 million out of 4.294 million people live in extreme poverty with poorly developed social safety nets, 41% of people affected with food insecurity and high rate of chronic malnutrition according to the World Food Programme;  Quincy B provided a therapeutic feeling bigger than entertainment. His sonorous voice and deep lyrics healed people and rehabilitated others.

Quincy B was widely loved by both the young and old folks. His music was like an eraser to the hurting scars of the first and second civil wars in Liberia between 1989 - 1997 and 1999 - 2003 respectively.

TORI NEWS monitored the Liberian media space in coverage of Quincy B's funeral rites and the magnitude of national or even continental attention the event attracted could be likened to the death of the President of the African country.

With evergreen hit songs like 'Put Liberia First', 'We Don't Talk Anymore', 'My Dream' featuring Scientific, 'Tumba Tumba' and his latest single titled 'I Pledge', Quincy B make his breakthrough in the music industry since his emergence in 2013 and so much consistency has kept his enviable career afloat.

Reports revealed that Quincy was from a very humble home and he had just built a house for his parents before his shocking demise. Quincy's parents fled Liberia to Ghana during the civil war. The young lad schooled in Ghana up to the university level where he reportedly studied Music Education in preparation for his destiny and later returned with his family to Liberia in 2012 during which he ignited his musical career of rapid success.

Late Quincy B and his parents

Quincy B might have left Liberians untimely for the celestial world but going by the belief of 'life after death' he could be in a better place with the likes of talented acts across the world like Christopher George Latore Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G, 'Tupac' Amaru Shakur, Aaliyah Dana Haughton, Michael Jackson, Da Grin and a host of others whose death reverberated across the world like the imagined sound of rapture trumpet.

Nigeria lost Da Grin, - Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun  one of the pioneers of indigenous rap music (Yoruba rap) on the 22nd of April, 2010. The young lad who was alleged to be 22 almost like Quincy B drove into a stationary truck under the influence of alcohol and later died in the hospital after slipping into coma

Wake up world!!! 
I've seen blacks been marginalized, 
I've seen white supremacy, 
I've seen kids going to bed hungry, 
I've seen people strickened by poverty. 

I know people are seeking refuge in other areas because of war,
They can't live in their homes because of pestilence,
Some are held hostage because of diseases,
Some face discrimination because of the lifestyle.

Believe me or not but while you were reading this, a girl got raped
While you were reading the previous line, a child added the infant mortality rate up
While you were reading the words before this, that hungry kid died of malnutrition
Oh, another child just got married. 

That food that you spoilt right now, someone is hungry for it.
You are in school and you are not ready to learn, check the amout of kids that are wishing to maximize that opportunity.

I didn't write this to make you feel guity but I wrote this because.....  Oh, hmmmm,  she just got pregnant and shes a teen.

Wake up world!!!


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My Blackness,  My Pride! 

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Future,  Tomorrow; Uncertainty?
I find my way to school everyday.
Through the storm,  rain, sunny and cloudy.
Sometimes it appears to be a daunting task but I'll make my way.
One day someone stopped me and asked,  why are you into schooling ?
I smiled and said,  I'm preparing myself for the future,  I'm preparing myself for tomorrow.
Suddenly,  i asked myself:
Is tomorrow a promise ?
Am i certain that i will live out this future?
Hmmmmm uncertainties.
But i looked back at myself and told my conscience...
There will always be uncertainties and you must be certain for the uncertain.
Therefore i must prepare today for tomorrow,  just in case tomorrow comes,  i will be prepare but if tomorrow never comes, at least i am prepared for today!!!

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Introduction

In the wake of youths involvement in Liberia's transformation,  this blog has been created by Mc-Arthur Charles Wondor Mantein to show case writings by African Youths.
You are welcome to join me and lets support this blog so that dreams will be fulfilled.