Amazing Ghanaian painter Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey sketches the fishing coast of Senya Breku from the slave fort. I'm happy to see Africa re-find her voice; proud to see that even though we were brainwashed in hot tropical classrooms with stories of Snowwhite and London Bridge, we have grown up to see the beauty and strength and all that makes us a great people, and we are falling in love with ourselves again. They can keep calling each other fancy titles: "expert", "expat", whatever- and sit in fancy spaces outside the continent, pretending to know us. No, we know you. There was a time when the colonized African measured her worth based on affirmations from the West. This generation, my generation, is the first in a long while to say: "I don't give a hoot what they think or say, what they praise or condemn. I know my truth. I love and cherish me; and that is enough ". We're waiting for the day our politicians will catch up with us, so together we can revive and restore this cradle, this paradise that Africa is. So together, like all great gardeners, we can properly protect our seeds and yields from the parasites who seek to destroy it to their gain and at our loss. Photo and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah (www.nkacquah.com) @africashowboy (Copyright: 2017). #ghana #senyabereku #sonyrx1rii #sonyrx1rm2