My name is A. Fasu Kanneh and I live in the Netherlands for over two decades. I am a philanthropist and a businessman.

Truth resides in every human heart and one has to reach out and search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it fit. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to one’s own blend of truth.

The decision that all marginalized segments of humanity must make now, is whether they will give their allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs, laws, religions or to the ethical demands of the universe. As people, we owe our allegiance to truth and ultimately to a Higher Power rather than to man and his forkways.

Only when people themselves begin to act, the rights on paper are given life. A catalyst is needed to inject life experiences into legislative and judicial decisions by the persistent exercise of those rights until they become usual and ordinary in all human conduct. Remember, it is necessary to maintain a creative balance between a legal action and a direct action. In reality, a direct action and legal action complement each other, when skillfully employed; each become more effective and efficient.

As I see it, women are the future. We must learn to appreciate their point of view to enable us realize the millennium goals and other developments together. Women must be consistent, be systematic, be inclusive, be analytic, be synoptic, be active, be open to alternatives, be critical, and be very decisive. Coherence is a synonym of reason. Power is in acquiring excellent and proper knowledge. Then one becomes liberated and ready for a good fight. No one is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator and men have dominated in all arenas for many centuries.

I can fully appreciate the stereotypes of discriminatory expressions, but hello, this is no tea party that you are coming to, this arena has no mercy, "this is just politics" as men can say, human life hangs in the balance. I understand that in some parts of the world, women are not to break out of the ego cage of the "ministry of domesticity". If one did, one will have to accept all the condemnations. But why should you care, the subject matter here is to police equality with whatever measures that might come forth for a fair game. You can't eat a cake and have it all by yourself. However, women have the moral obligation to fight against injustice as anyone else.

That eminent visionary and freedom fighter of the human saga, Dr. Kwame Nkruma, first Prime Minister and President of Ghana said, "Our independence is meaningless unless it is link up to the total liberation of the African Continent". He and others didn't give up that dream and today at least we have liberation. Is the entire continent totally independent, politics, justices, economics, social and all the baggage that are supposed to be attached?

Dearest mothers and sisters,

men are the necessity in your endeavors for political, socio-economics, and justice, equality. "The secret to happiness is freedom, the secret to freedom is courage". - Thucydides.
In affirmation, courage is to have the determination to do the right thing in the face of fear. Can we really be liberated?

Thanks for your valuable attention.

A.Fasu Kanneh
Chairman,
New Liberian Development Foundation