Can't Break the African Spirit - Sam Jalloh P

It is hard for certain people to accept that we are living in a world dominated by a small number of supremacists. That everything is governed by them and focussed on the profit they make and the control they hold over the population. Once you see the interwoven nature of things that each play a part in ensuring our compliance, you cannot unsee it.

After surviving my birth in Sierra Leone, a country that continues to have one of the highest neonatal and infant mortality rates in the world, I went on to be the first boy in my family to celebrate my second birthday - unlike my three brothers born before me. At the age of six, I was adopted from my biological parents to a new home where I faced constant punishment from my adopted family...

In a small way, this is my story, but in a greater sense, this is our story. Regardless of my origin or where you come from, we are connected through history and the deeds of those who came before us. It is time we stood together and said to the supremacists, 'We see you, we know what you are doing, we accept it no more'.