The first task that shall face each African seeking to understand the truth of our existence is the sacred and spiritual need for self-identification by a process of self-discovery. A seeker's major concern shall be to determine which side of the leadership spectrum does he/she belongs - a leader or a follower. Am I a good leader or good follower? Am I a bad leader or bad follower? Each African with a living soul must seek and search for answers to these questions. They are not issues that anyone can stumble into accidentally; they are the fundamental issues that each person must consciously confront before a spiritual evolution or rebirth can take place. The leadership talent is not a cheap commodity, as the executive management propagandist schools will like to make us believe. You cannot buy it in the education market as alleged by the education systems of the world. The leadership talent is the result of an evolutionary development of the soul. Each soul in its eternal life journey grows and matures until it attains enlightenment. Therefore, until a soul has come into maturity and has become reborn in a particular physical life, the body or the carrier of the soul known as a person cannot be a true leader.

In other words, true leaders are those who have been reborn by knowledge, truth and spirit because only the spirit of truth has the divine duty to nurture a soul into maturity. Until the spirit of truth gets involved with the education and training development of a person, the best that most articulate and educated persons can achieve is book education. Book education or certification is not synonymous with wisdom. Book education or certification can make a person smarter, cleverer, craftier, sleazier, more ingenuously and cunningly brilliant and more extraordinarily mendacious but it does not make a person wise. Wisdom, and I mean true wisdom, is a gift of Heaven. Socrates, the father of western philosophy says, "Real wisdom is the property of God…. The wisest of you men is he who has realised, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is worthless…. Human wisdom has little or no value…. It is [real] wisdom that makes possible courage and self-control and integrity or, in a word, true goodness…" I tend to agree with Socrates that only Heaven can bestow the precious gift of wisdom to those who are worthy to receive and protect it and who are prepared to use it judiciously.

Hence, self-identification starts from an intuitive awareness that you are a lost soul in the journey of life. Each person must come to a point of consciousness that life on earth is not normal as it should be. The next step that a person whose soul is uncomfortable with the world and eager to be re-born will take is for the mind to raise questions and to begin the true search for answers. It could just be simple questions like: What is wrong with my world? Why is anything wrong with my world? How can anything be wrong with my world? When did it start going wrong, if anything is wrong with my world? Who shall bear the blame for what is wrong with my world? How can we right the wrongs in my world? Moreover, who shall be responsible for the task of correcting the wrongs in my world?

These question and answer processes will likely lead the person far and wide. It will definitely raise issues about creation, about the creator, about the purpose and the goal of life. These and several other questions shall be begging for answers. The desire to know is the only invitation the spirit of truth needs to get closer with a seeker and to begin the fruitful task of teaching and revelation. The procedure will normally vary from one individual to another since nature designed each person uniquely and created each person differently. Normally, the design of each divine training manual is specific and tailor-made for each individual enquirer and seeker of the truth of life. To my understanding, this is the only procedure that can hasten the evolutionary development of humankind.

However, the age of a soul will also affect the speed of rebirth of a soul. It is a biological fact that a child must crawl before he/she can walk, must grow teeth before he/she can chew and must attain puberty before he/she can become a parent. Similar growth processes also take place with respect to the soul. The growth of each soul takes many life cycles to mature. Each life cycle deals with particular segments of the training and education of the soul that will eventually lead to the final goal of creation. This is the bringing of every creation in life into a state of perfection.

The result of the last few millennia on earth has convincingly shown that the mature souls on planet earth seem to have reluctantly refused to take control of our world. On the other hand and may be in their desire to teach some valuable lessons to the immature souls, they allowed a host of the so-called leaders who belong to the baby souls to take control of the wheel of the journey of life for a season. Because of this intentional divine plan by the senior souls, the baby souls succeeded in hijacking powers and the leadership positions of our world. Since the baby souls are foolish and immature, they have recklessly led humanity unto the path of destruction. Unless these baby souls in their spiritual nappies are 'checkmated', the apocalypse prophesised for planet earth by a host of ancient wise men and women would eventually come true.

This is why this particular period in history is a revolutionary crucial moment for the world. It is the season of a great changeover, of revaluation and of rewriting a host of values, beliefs an

d attitudes. There are going to be earth-shaking changes from warfare to peace-fare system, from injurious attitude of hate to a caring attitude of love, from ruthless competition to friendly cooperation, from racial prejudice to universal tolerance, from proud patriotic nationalism to humble selfless universalism, etc. Heaven has already positioned those involved in setting the pace and standards for this revolution at designated places in the length and breadth of planet earth. In case you are one of the elected ones, the revelation in this essay would have opened your eyes to the filth under which you were born and bred. It would hasten your awareness about the unnatural state of our world. In addition, it would quicken your understanding as to what your personal role shall be in the work of redemption of planet earth that is about to begin.

Heaven has foreordained the awakened, the enlightened and the redeemed, indeed the true leaders of this generation, to lay the foundation for the spiritual and social revolution on earth. The task ahead shall start from the review of the various conventional global philosophy of life presently in place. The philosophy underpinning religious practices, economic and political institutions, civic societies, cultures, social organisations, education and of every other gamut of beliefs must attract the attention of these true leaders. Particularly, the true leaders shall reject the entrenched popular concepts and practices of leadership that sowed the seed of idolatrous belief, which placed the redemption of humanity and societies on the shoulder of a prince or knight in shining armour or in any other tyrannical attire.

The history of our world has shown time after time that every scoundrel in the world rode into power under the illusion of being a self-appointed social redeemer. Any African by now who cares to use his/her senses ought to have realised that the power lovers of this world are never friends of freedom, equality and justice. The lovers of power are only happy when they are the one offering the precious gift of freedom to others, when they are the one making the laws for others and when they are, implicitly or explicitly, held higher up above everyone else in the polity. They rubbished and portrayed as undemocratic, unrealistic and inapplicable any proposed social, political or economic arrangement that is different from the present global perversion.

In the distorted logic of power lovers, democracy can only mean government of themselves by themselves and for themselves. They understand power sharing to mean, when the whole polity is forced or conned to come under their leadership as servile subordinates or powerless citizens or as oppressed subjects. They cannot bear to share power as equals because of their sick obsession with a larger than life ego. All power lovers live and prosper in darkness and wickedness. They are experts in double-speak with a classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde personality. They are the natural born chameleons of every civilized society. They cannot bear the light of truth because all their motives are driven by a visceral hatred of other beings and their works are designed to perpetuate slavish superstition, fear and evil.

In short, the Dishonourable Africans like their international counterparts are the psychopaths - the type that "fits into cluster B, the group which includes antisocial, histrionic and narcissistic personalities." These are the personalities found among all lovers of power (priests, monarchs and politicians), all lovers of money, and all lovers of naked force. Every person, regardless of social class or vocation - husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, friend, etc. - that desires to dominate others or derives pleasure when others are dominated either within a family or a community is also of this dangerous breed.

Therefore, as lights of the world, the true leaders are bound to shine their lights into every manifestation of darkness as they rebut the irrational, oppressing and dominating fears of fabricated superstitions and fears born of ignorance in their worlds. In addition, as salt of the earth, the true leaders must endeavour to enliven and to quicken their societies for the spiritual and social revolution at hand. The task ahead shall entail gigantic challenges of teaching and debating the true meanings of the truth of life, as well as confronting at every level the lies, the hypocrisy, the wickedness, and the selfishness of the Dishonourable Persons of our world.

The true leaders must be prepared to lay bare the antics of the Dishonourable Africans so that even the most pessimistic doubting Thomas can see and understand their ruinous shenanigans. They must teach the simple hearted to recognise and to distrust forever the spin and con tricks of the Dishonourable Personalities and their followers. They must reveal and display the identities of the Dishonourable Eminent Persons of every society in their true colours so that these hoodlums would no longer have easy and free ride into our hearts, our lands, our pockets, and our souls anymore.

This writer will like to mention that the promises made by heaven in the past to take away the age-long powers of the Dishonourable Persons are still firm. We must remember that the economic, civic and political powers exercised by the Dishonourable Persons of our world are born from the spirit of hate and nurtured by the seeds of supremacy, the rights of might and intelligence, and the sadistic desires for brutality and wickedness against fellow humankind. However, heaven in its characteristic merciful disposition is ready to help any repentant Dishonourable Person who is prepared to learn new basic values that will accord genuine respect to other fellow human beings. Heaven shall also give any penitent Dishonourable African a new spirit that shall naturally and willingly embrace the virtues of humility in thoughts, words and deeds. These are the challenges ahead of the awakened, the redeemed and the enlightened ones, the true leaders of Africa.