The information I discover through research at times forces me to change some prior strongly held views. However long or short anything I write is, I have to do some research on the issue I am discussing. But through writing this book, and the many articles I have written for my blog and publications elsewhere over the years, I have learned to become even more so. My father had to break the cycle for me to escape that trap. Of the sixty children who were in my primary school class in Boadua, I was the only one who made it out of the village to go to secondary school and beyond. Because the other parents in the village had that fatalistic mindset, their children went nowhere. Without him, I wouldn’t be where I am today. He worked tremendously hard and made unimaginable sacrifices, often risking his personal safety, to break the vicious cycle in which our family was caught at the time. The example of my father, which I write about in the book, is a perfect illustration of this point. And once that happens, it creates the vital platform upon which current and future generations of children in a family lineage then stand on to harness whatever talents they are blessed with. In the case of the parents, there should be a recognition that while the cycle of poverty and outright doom will always seem vicious, it often takes just one selfless person to step up and break it.
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