How do we explain to the children that we have lived a borrowed and fake
culture all our life? An African adage implore we must not throw the
baby out with the bathwater. We pride ourselves as International Boy or
Girl v. Local Boy or Girl!
The language we speak with children is not ours, the Religion in which
we baptized them is not ours, our Political-economy was not taught by
Nkrumah, Nyerere, Luthuli or thought out by African brains. But are
dictated by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. They are
designed to keep African economies as raw material suppliers at
subsistence level of survival so that we can be indebted to Developed
countries. If you cannot believe it, you can accept that you are living
it. As long as some leaders live well from crumbs that gave foreigners
advantageous relationships, they drag the African masses along. Preached
it as the only way to achieve economic prosperity.
Where do all these leave us today since we cannot differentiate the good
qualities of our Culture, Arts and Science from the worst form of
cultural adulteration. The worst comparison is that Rome was not built
in a day and the United States evolved to this stage after Independence
(as if they are governed by angels). Well, Africa was not born
yesterday. Our civilization is older and the fact that we were turned
into the Dark Continent does not mean we cannot revive within instead of
groping for ideologies far offshore or well-done products at any cost.
If anything, recent experience of Africans outside our Continent is a
demonstration that those evil forces against Progress and Civil Rights
of Africans have never given up. They have been “Amending” Civil Rights
since 1800. Promising future prospect.
Indeed, they are looking for more conquests and succeeding by converting
land and employing more slave labor to enrich themselves. It started
with Pope Nicholas V blessing order to Portugal in search of fortune and
slaves for European Markets: the treatment of black Gentiles was
addressed in 1452 and 1455, when Pope Nicolas V issued a series of papal
bulls that granted Portugal the right to enslave sub-Saharan Africans.
https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/
[1].
Promises of Independence and the end of slavery did not come out alone
from the good hearts of some oppressors or colonial masters but out of
demand, agitation and when it became too risky to their lives and
illegally trade or business. The Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe
turned to empty promises in Africa. Political Independence spitefully
turned Haiti into the poorest Country in their hemisphere. If they can
exploit Haiti to wretchedness because of leaders like Bookman, why would
they love economic Independence thousands of miles away in Africa?
If Africa is so bad, it would not have survived after all these years of
exploitation or even attract all these foreigners still looking for a
killer profit here. Now the Asians are coming for a piece since Africans
are still easily receptive as soft targets. While consolidating their
oppressive hold on Diaspora Africans, they no longer need more of us
abroad when we can be employed cheaper at home to boost their profits.
We must cut off our sweet tooth addiction of opium on their readymade
products and build ourselves up from scratch.
African countries are arable, not the Desert where the children of
Israel blamed Moses for starving them, claiming they were better off
under slave labor. Most of us counsel and prevent our loved ones from
going back into abusive disadvantageous relationships. However, if that
is the only source of sustenance in life for us and our children,
chances are we go back to the same toxic jobs, the same house and the
same environment for another paycheck for fear of starving: disregarding
our strength and talents. No, better die at Home fighting to protect
what foreigners want from us, where we belong than being snuffed out
abroad under a knee of desperado like a subhuman.
Our dependency on strange land that our forefathers had explored on
adventure later turned into slave plantations we did not expect, abused
and forced into servitude. Our first generation of leaders that studied
abroad and our soldiers that fought to rescue Europe during World War I
& II saw through the hypocrisy of fighting for Freedom they did not
enjoy at home.
Somehow, these struggles were lost in a new generation of leaders that
refused to learn history or got mis-educated. They put their salvation
in the hands and goodness of slave masters looking out for their own
best interests. Even worse they passed the same indoctrination to their
children that were encouraged to shun their Cultures and languages.
This is why our economy is “rated” on how much of their foreign
currencies we have in our Reserves to patronize their products and
services for six months to a year. It has got to the point where almost
everything we live on were dictated by these foreigners. We thought we
were so rich in a few African countries by earning their printed
currencies as credits. Indeed, foreign currencies are just printed
pretty promissory notes to discourage, devalue and displace our local
currency. If we had no way of printing money we spend in exchange for
our addiction to foreign goods and services, we must accept their terms.
We have adapted to foreign tastes in order to be seen as “civilized”.
But first, we have to use impact decoupling against their finished
products rather than our raw materials “refined” abroad and sold back to
us with their foreign currencies. Shey you get?
Therefore, if we do not have their currencies, printed at their
pleasure, we do not have an economy! Action must be taken to reverse
most trading in goods and services outside Africa to spur production at
Home. You can only circulate money or pay those you do businesses with.
It gets worse as the Ports of some African countries are used to sneak
in banned foreign goods.
When Africans create an environment where their own children can no
longer live proudly at home or in peace abroad, it is time to listen to
our uncomfortable loved ones like sick patients under the care of
psychiatrists. No place like Home.
Links:
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https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/