AFRICAN DIASPORA AND CONVENTIONS

Africans love conventions
Young women conventions
Old women conventions
Old boys’ conventions
Old girls’ conventions
Young men conventions
Old men conventions
Town union conventions
Town disunions conventions

These are yearly or biannual events
Conventions held in top-end hotels
Redeemed pledges cannot cover expenses
Is this stupidity—Yes
Why not a yearly contribution
Contributions that go to specific causes
Instead of billionaire hotel owners’ coffers
Ask Africans and not Africastallestman

Africans in the diaspora
Billionaires do not need your money
Yearly Zoom conventions and
Physical conventions every 3 years
In a church hall with indigenous food
Is preferable to glitzy conventions
Organized for megalomaniacal purposes
Which results in a deficit of funds

Will they listen—No
How do you show your Rolls-Royce
How do you show your gold
How do you show your titles
Oh, I forgot the Mercedes-Benz
African megalomania may be GENETIC!

https://africastallestman.com/2018/06/04/the-lost-igbos-of-america/