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The trend of things around the entire African people have not been encouraging, it's either wars today in Somalia, Sudan, a Political unrest in Kenya, Zimbabwe or a Headline story of fraud and crime by government people in Nigeria then ourselves against ourselves.

Everyday we wake up to change and challenges. The best change is that we are part of today-here's a difference, and the greatest challenge is to take the lead in the course of a new order, new order of doing things, a new way of life, a new style of thinking, a change of attitude and the making of a new people, a new Africa and a new life full of hope.

When I titled this book AK-47 in a Wild Why World, I think it sounds good and crazy especially when someone see the following teasers; 'The Best War Strategy-sounds like gun running and 'Jesus was a Black African' or 'Nobody going to Heaven'. But I was going to address a bigger issue that squares us face to face everyday while we playing a hide and seek with ourselves, our tomorrow, our beautiful lives and our homes and everything about us. I was going to address practical social change that should take place among us if we are to move forward without too much talking.

I considered this a challenge because that we are here in China today is because someone took a lead to usher in a change of the mindset of a people that has transformed the Chinese to a people that loves their own and make provision for them. A small group of people like we're all here today held hands together to build a new China that's benefiting every one of us here today.

It's a great challenge not too many people would like to risk a dime on. And I believe that today, we're all part of that great change that is about to sweep across our hearts, our homes, our community and complex, you see, it's a complex thing when people begin to pursue a negative lifestyle and do the same things they've always done even when it yields no positive result.

People of small minds struggle to get recognition-in doing that they resort to all forms of vices; blind chase of the illusory perks of life, the cars, the mansions, the bling-bling and all the beautiful things money can attract to such an extent that the simple knowledge of self and the environment eludes the thought process-everything attracts our fancy.

Poor people struggles to get over board so they all dive headlong to create a scene and attract some attention that gives an impression of relevance but a man of change, a great man of change walks a thin line where the majority are afraid to dare. He succeeds because all people of great minds always succeed.

We're all gathered here today because there's a change that's about to take place and I want us all to be a part of that change-We've done pray, we've done a lot of fasting too, we've been doing a lot of talking too and right now we're about to take some positive actions starting from ourselves.

The guts to dare mighty things are all it takes to establish a great change- it's a great challenge but you see; tough people make things happen, they create ideas and invest on it. Creative ideas are creating wealth for world strong economies like America, Europe and even China, Ideas grow into knowledge and knowledge creates wealth. Knowledge has no price tag, it's a privileged commodity buried in the hearts of all people but few use it and it benefits them and their environment... those who don't use it, they remain poor and run after everything that catches their fancy sometimes even at their own destruction and shame.

Change comes in small measure because life consist of small things, small people, small places, small ideas that develops into big time innovation-the traders union, the carpenters, the artist, the plumbers, the tailors, the writers, the farmers etc. these are small people that holds the essence of life - if they strike one minute, everybody will go down.

We are the small group of people that has come together to influence change, we are the small group of people that has come to invest our ideas to the making of a New people of God, a new home, a new environment and a new Africa.

The little support you give to the cause of change is all it takes to make things happen because it's people like you and me that changes things not the 'big title' people speaking too much English nobody can understand, No! Not the big fishes threatening everyone with their so called riches, No!
It's the small people like us that make things happen or make a mess of everything, Yes, that’s the way it is.

The 21st Century China was made by the small people, the peasants, farmers, wood cutters, writers, poets, artisans etc, they started somewhere down here in the South in Hunan when life in the old system was becoming unbearable for the people.

Mao Zedong did not go for the big people (People we call the big fishes) holding meeting and talking too much airy words. No! He garnered the small people with their small ideas; they all forged together and fought a cause that was not favourable to them and were able to break away from the old imperialist system that's similar to what you have in Africa today.

This is why we're all here-We can tell ourselves the truth that it has not been all fun and cozy up here though it seems more conducive and environmentally friendly but the truth is, the system back home is not favourable to so many of us seated here this afternoon-So we left probably to go back later or never.

When Deng Xiao Ping took over from the Mao era, he projected the small people to market his idea of open policy that transformed China to what it is today-He sent many of the small people from small groups and not so recognized families to overseas to acquire knowledge necessary to establish his dream of a new China everyone is enjoying today.
It was the small ideas of Deng Xiao Ping 'Policy of Reform' that produced what everyone is benefiting today including many of us business people here.

The Problem in Africa today is fueled by the small people, the crimes, the wars, the lawlessness etc because too many people don't care about the small people, from their government down to their churches, We are a churchy people and when we neglect our own they'll mess up the holy order-more church will spread and crime will multiply because we operate in a society full of neglect, they're neglected because they're too poor to fight back and very vulnerable to all forms of advances-mostly negative! Until they're pushed to the wall then they band together and forge a threat to peace and progress of the society that made life unbearable for them. The small people live in slums, in the ghettoes, they're hustlers, 80% of African immigrants littered around Asia are packs of small people fighting back at the society that made life unbearable for them.

They're fighting back neglect, they're fighting back poverty, they're fighting back everything denied them by the 'Big people', they're fighting a lowly social status and identity.
I can bet you that there is no Africa's minister's son here in China running from the police or sharing apartment with anyone, No! They're busy wasting monies their father took from his own people and run up to Europe to hide them.

When a man is a product of neglect, he resort to animal instincts, he's going to fight to get back whatsoever he felt the society has denied him, he's going to rob people if they get too rich, he's going to commit all kinds of crime and constitute a nuisance to his own society even to himself.

This is not encouraging, people, we don't want this to continue so there must be a way to affect our people and our own homes positively and change things without fighting, without throwing stones, without making too much noise about it-this is possible, God has already given us all the earth to invest in, look at China how big it is and they still go to the so called poor Africa to bring in 65% of all the resources they need to build their own society-You are not supposed to get anything from a poor region but that's where all the great world super-powers are driving at to fuel their growing economy and fantasy islands-This why such Book like AK-47 in a Wild Why World has come up in the first place, to confront our weakness and ignorance because we all here are people of change and this book is a work of change.

We do love good things and we want it, but you see, No man stands alone, any man standing alone is prone to 75% failure this is why I crave for your all support to make this book reach out to all people, it's all about partnership, no giver, no taker.

Every great business man knows about the value of partnership, he gives to the people, the society because it is certain that he can't thrive alone and if he dares to thrive alone, the people will rob him and threaten his business-we don't want this kind of madness to continue among us and in our homes-This is why I have ear-marked a 2% deduction from the cost price of each book to a Scholarship fund and School renovation and Individual Support courtesy of The Saints Awards Project.

So I seek your all support to put this book in the hands of as many people that can read because everyone who can read can think.