AFRiCAN OPTiMiSM iS the core element and the unseen driving force of our innate progressive African intelligensia.  It is in the nucleus of a developmental belief system. It regards the most favorable reflections of the past, the  best possible interpretation  of the present and the most constructive insights for a Promising  great future & an honorable destiny.  It is the chosen stance of conscious people destined to make great things happen.   It equips the individual with the necessary enthusiastic dexterity and  fortitude to overcome challenging obstacles of negativity and the "seeming"  failures of life situations.   It  leads to an awareness of ones personal state of being, ones consciousness, ones countenance and ones statesmanship.  It requires discipline  as it self-governs our state of mind, our state of heart and our state of being.   AFRiCAN OPTiMiSM can be identified in whatever one, as an individual person chooses to do.  It is a relative perspective based on the ability to function in ones own natural  entitled & chosen AFRiCAN OPTiMiSTiC frame of mind.