“Growing up as a kid, my late grandmother would tell me tales by moonlight under a huge Iroko tree at the village square.

“Growing up as a kid, my late grandmother would tell me tales by moonlight under a huge Iroko tree at the village square.

It was one of the few happy moments I had as a kid growing up in Kéra Bondokuy, Mouhoun Province which was marked by hardship and poverty.

Those moments were marked with so much love to me and other kids, as we played under the crystal moonlight of mother Africa Burkina Faso not realizing the task ahead of us to save Burkina Faso… we were just kids trying to be happy!

After every moonlight tale, before we dispatch to our various houses, Grandma would end her tales with; “May The Great Pyramids of Egypt Grow In You”

I memorized those words in my memories, she didn’t watch me grow up to ask her the meaning because; she would leave this world before my 15th birthday!

But growing up to understand Africa, I realized how deep grandma words were.

The pyramids remain the biggest proof that wealth and civilization started in Africa!

They couldn’t l00t/lift it to Europe to be kept in their museums as Artifacts!

But it stands there ahead of time, from the very moment it all began, to remind you as an African, wherever you are that; Greatness started from you!

Wake up Africa and take back your glory!”

Afrocania #IbrahimTraore