The Power of the Written Word

"Free delivery worldwide on all our books."

This to me sounds like this particular company will deliver everywhere (except in places of conflict, and places without post offices) for free

And then I found this list on their website

"Countries we ship to with free delivery"

I assumed that meant this company still delivered worldwide but not free everywhere. 

And only after emailing them to ask what the price was to ship to Zambia and I was told they 'do not ship to Zambia' did I realise there claim of free worldwide delivery is definately a lie. 

So I did some math. 

They deliver to 123 countries, (Including lots of tiny islands), assuming there are roughly 200 countries in the world, that means they deliver to roughly 60 percent of the world

BUT

Africa is the second largest and most populous continent and geographically significantly closer to this UK based company than the Americas and Australia. 

And of the 54 countries there they ship to 5 (Benin, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa)

The problem

"worldwide" actually means most of the world

And even though they ship to 60 percent of the world they ship to less than 10 percent of Africa (the neighboring continent). 

Book depository you have disappointed me greatly, :(

My dream come true

It's important to  begin by saying I have a lot of dreams, and on most days I feel I am living some aspect of the dreams I dreamed in the past BUT
this was worth telling.
So I am visiting a Zambian family with my mother.
And we just finished eating a wonderful meal and everyone is lying back digesting, and barely paying attention to the children running around, when the husband turns back to the table and says, ' we could build a hospital, couldn't we'
First I explode with shock because these are the kind of conversations I have grown up having in my home, I didn't know other people talk like this AND  then take a deep breath and calmly ask, 'what do you mean'


But point being it then turned into a real discussion about logisitics and funding. He had a history in finance, and funding models. IT WAS AMAZING. And the best part was being reminded that there will be like minded people who share a goal but have wonderfully different skills. When the time is right, the people will present themselves. 
I am excited, and I am especially excited because I know that already there are Africans working in a revolutionary way and I will merely be adding to what they are already doing when my time comes.

I woke up angry today

It happens surprisingly often.
Where my brain continues to have hypothetical conversations and then it just never rests.
On  this particular topic the reason my mind won't rest is I am so passionate about it and there is so little I can do about it that I feel so powerless and so restrained right now that my mind can't help but continue going.
I kept saying to myself, 'settle down, there is nothing you can do about it, why are these thoughts percolating so much right now'
But in retrospect this past week has had a few encounters that I just ignored and worked really hard not to get emotional about and I think finally my brain just couldn't NOT think about it anymore.
Basically I woke up with thoughts that said
"Africa is extremely wealthy
we don't know it
they know it,
so they benefit."
Europe's power rested in their colonies (us),
America's power rested in their slaves (us),
and now many of their power still rests in OUR resources, our mined, grown, farmed resources, and our SPACE, they use our land for their battles.
They are poor, they have no fertile land brimming with wealth, but they understand their position better than we understand ours.
We have power, but we don't realise it so we behave powerless.'

I am taking some deep breaths and attempting to continue studying, because that's what needs to get done right now, BUT, wait for it, the reality is it's a mentality problem, and once people begin to think properly it will change.
I am confident we will see change in my generation, and we will begin to see a reversal of the diaspora, they may not move back to live there but they will begin to claim it as their own and it will blow your mind.