I Am Because We Are - Johnson Abbaly

Forbes and other agencies that track private wealth all report that the richest business people, politicians and clergy in Africa come from Nigeria. Still, institutes like Brookings describe Nigeria as the extreme poverty capital of the world using data from the World Poverty Clock. Nearly 90million Nigerians live in extreme poverty.

Someone said once "public wealth enriches everyone, individual wealth impoverishes everybody"

When we allow a few to get fraudulently stupendously wealthy at the expense of everyone else , we hurt the collective future.


When we democratize wealth- giving everyone an opportunity to succeed and achieve their highest potential- we create a multiplier effect across the breath of our communities.

If the success of a fellow Nigerian makes you breathe uneasily, you are part of the problem

If you seethe with envy when you hear of the business breakthrough of a neighbour, you are part of the problem.

If you are quick to damn the courageous effort of someone else with faint praise because their success makes you feel diminished, then you are part of the problem.

You are better off when everyone succeeds around you, they create the right energy that spur growth on every side.

The era of the "African Big Man" syndrome must come to an end. The superstar businessman, the superstar pastor, the superstar politician, the only cock that crows are relics of an era that has passed.

A great leader doesn't produce loyal followers, he produces great leaders too. If the success of your subordinate or protégé or junior pastor or your "son" threatens you- that right there is the working definition of witchcraft!.

We cannot all survive on the skills, expertise, resources or anointing of one man, we need a firmament of stars to light up the universe.

Nor can "we strengthen the weak by weakening the strong". Each man can rise. Each one should.

Because you are , we are.

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Johnson Abbaly