On the outside, Africa is portrayed as a ‘jungle’ that serves as a habitat to a barbaric multitude. The amusing part of the story is that some Africans agree with this postulate. But we, the enlightened Africans, know that the beauty, glory, and potential of our continent are bursting out the seams. We know that if we do not speak up about the true image of our motherland, the world will be oblivious of it. Africa, home to the cream of the global society, is a continent formed on the foundation of love, happiness, unity, loyalty, sacrifice, morality, and hospitality. Africa cannot be said to be a backward continent; ‘developing’ may be acceptable but definitely not ‘backward’. Moreover, when a continent is said to be ‘developing’, it paints a picture of room for further improvement, but when a continent is said to be ‘developed’ it means a different thing. Such a continent can be related to a ball thrown up in the air: once it gets to its maximum height (‘developed’ stage of continents), it has no where else to go but DOWN. Africa has been made an object of ridicule because for so long, it has been developing. If we noticed as in the medical field, a foetus usually takes an expected estimated period of nine months before it can be said to be ready to exit the protection and support arenas provided by its mother. A child that is born premature usually has almost everything premature i.e. most physical features are premature, but a child that takes the adequate time to develop or longer usually has an unarguable edge over the one that ‘rushed’ out. This paradigm is used to explain the reason Africa is taking so long to join her peers in the league of developed countries.