I am Cosmas Agwu and I came from Africa over 40 years ago. I came from Nigeria. I have acquired several degrees from the American university system. I have an MBA in Business Administration, two bachelor’s degrees, one in Biology, and one in Economics.
I now own my own business, I am a financial educator. We help people pay off debt, save money for the future and even help people make more income. I love this business because it lets me help people to improve their lives in an important but very misunderstood aspect of the 21st century, financial health and well-being.
The company I am affiliated with, WFG, is at the forefront of financial education, breaking away from the traditional financial planning industry and leading the world in financial education, because we work with the average person, not just the wealthy.
We want to help everyone become financially stable in a world where not even governments are stable. And believe me, there are 5 billion people who need financial education. In fact, the financial instability of today’s environment is due greatly to the instability of the world political scene.
We don’t need to get rid of the free enterprise system, we need to get rid of the system of running and choosing our world leaders, politics.
The biggest lesson the world needs to learn from this pandemic is that humans will adapt to whatever major affliction comes along. This last year we have adapted world technology to cover the pitfalls of not being able to do business face to face. As the world economy has adjusted and shrugged off the attempted limits of world governments to confine the population, the population has stepped forward and resisted the most extreme measures and still thrived.
World economic success has continued on an upward path, helping more and more people to attain the level of comfort not ever seen on the planet in recorded history. Even as the news organizations can only report the most dire statistics they can dig up, (because that’s how they make their money) the truth is far better than what they and the world governments would have you believe for the sake of controlling the population.
We, of the African community, need to take that success back to our homeland and help our brothers and sisters to plant the seeds of better government. We need to help them rise up, to offer incentives to throw off and reject these tyrannical governments and bring them into the 21st century.
We need to walk the hallowed halls of our government buildings and solicit for much needed coaching on how good governments are there FOR the people, not to RULE the people. America has its problems, sure, but government for the people, of the people, and by the people is what we need to take to the shores of our homeland. We need to root out these tyrannical dictators and have governmental pacts to offer incentives for better governance.
What can WE as African citizens of the world do? We can give 5% of our income and create foundations that offer college education to immigrants who are willing to return to our ancestral shores after graduation. In exchange for this education, we will be helping to build better infrastructure throughout the continent.
We want them to become educators to teach the population how to make an income, help other people become world citizens, and bring Africa into the light of the 21st century. No one said it would be easy, but it will be priceless. It will be worth every last ounce of energy and every last Nigerian Naira or Malawian Kwacha put into it.
Most of all, we need to help them help themselves. Give a man a fish, he will eat once, show him how to fish he will eat for life. Teach him how to make fishing nets, he will feed a whole village! Charity without consequences will only destroy self esteem. The community will not survive unless all contribute.
We cannot hold Africa down and force feed it. This is why we have the situation we have, we have to show it how to build the stairs to the stars, how to use the shovel and then grab our own shovel and go to work right along side it.
We cannot show it how to overthrow tyranny without standing there with it in the fight. We cannot ignore 1/5th of the world population. We must help it. That fight includes education. That fight includes unity. That fight requires us, who have gotten a temporary reprieve from the madness, to return and take up the plows and the swords. A great motto for our movement, could be, “If I…, would you?”
If I taught you business sense would you take it back and help your fellow countrymen?
If I taught you to be a leader, would you take it back to Africa and help build new government?
If I taught you engineering would you go back and build better houses, roads and transportation?
If I taught you how to make fishing rods, would you go back and teach the whole village how to fish?
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