African rulers shivering, trembling and fretting nervously at the announcement of US aid withdrawal. What a shame!
Trump pretending not to know that Liberia was the creation of the US state when tens of thousands of freed slaves were sent from America. Seeing Trump talking at(not talking to) the Liberian president who responded in a head-nodding yes sir to the emperor, sad sad sad.
Africa is rich in minerals. What we lack is the strong mentality, the right capacity to be our own.
America and colonial imperialist west has always found ways to infiltrate and install their puppets as our leaders in order to get us maintained, contained, controlled. We have everything there is on earth to make us live and thrive except that important ingredients without which we are destined to be capitulated for eternity. We lack the capacity of thought and of behaviour and also the capability of making good things happen for all our peoples. Any time an African ruler is left alone to manage their own affairs, it means the imperialist are getting what they want. No need to upset the apple cart.
Not long ago, in one of my dispatches I wrote and predicted that eventually, African leaders will trek individually and in small groups to the west, mainly to the US. There not to negotiate with the makers of the troubles we face on this continent. Not there with any degree of strength or authority. Our inferiority-complexed* rulers, usually with bald shining heads would fly to go beg for little relief here and there, just like Ramaphosa’s pathetic behaviour the other time and now the disgraceful spectacle of the Liberian president saying and nodding, “Yes Sir” to Emperor Trump. Jesus Christ! Africans!
Our continent, ever since our ancestors thought they’ve found friendships in people whose origin was alien to them. Since the time we somehow developed one-sided love affair with Europeans, our common destinies seems to have been taken away. Removed from our control almost with mutual understanding and acceptance from all sides.
Europeans somehow worked out our psyche and understood rather quickly that we knew very little of what we possess on our continent and more worryingly, they quickly became aware that we placed very little value on the wealth we should have had control over. With this in mind, colonial imperialist Europe with big daddy America have in diverse ways maintained their strangulation of the African continent.
Few weeks ago, we witnessed a meeting of minds from that part of Africa which had never known peace ever since the Germans, the French and the Belgians became aware that the mineral wealth in that Congo basin alone could make the European continent richer for the next two to three hundred years. Emissaries from Congo and Rwanda met emperor Trump to discuss peace in that part of Africa. A disturbing public theatre of peace negotiations which the clever and purist amongst us has tagged as Peace for Mineral Wealth Control. (If only we had the Trump-like leaders in black Africa. But we don’t. Shame). Trump isn’t a fool as many suggest.
He wants all the mineral wealth in Ukraine for America and as for those in Africa, he has already got it in the bag.
Whenever Trump is showing composure and satisfaction, it means other people have relinquished their rights to sovereignty and with it, their mineral/natural resources. How African societies with their political rulers have failed to appreciate this ongoing geopolitical concepts and dynamics is depressing. In our black Africa today, the most important consideration of many of our folks is religion and religious affiliations.
In many countries in Africa, my country Ghana is fast becoming the spearheader in religion culture. Religion participation has become the highest badge of honour in Ghana today. We have relegated the true and real essentials for life on earth, ie, the quality of existence which is derived from high knowledge in natural earthly sciences, we have relegated science-based knowledge and replaced that with high knowledge and beliefs in devine concepts. While others are feeding and maintaining survival on the freely available sciences, we feed on the belief that others can take away what belong to us and leave life’s needed solutions to the supreme divine authority. In Ghana we trust in God will provide and God knows best and he will intervene in our favour.
From the first flattery gestures to our kings by the first European arrivals to our shores. From slavery to land grab, to colonisation, neocoloniasation they’ve achieved this largely by conquest, brainwashed education and by imposed strict adherence to religion and to faith. In Ghana, religious fanaticism has got to that ridiculous crescendo so much that in my country Ghana, top celebrities are religious leaders and priests. It is an unwritten taboo not to any association with a type of a religion or the other unlike in other parts of the world where high achievers are sports people, serious entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists and war heroes. In Europe and elsewhere, a person whose businesses provides employment for tens of thousands of people are the true heroes. In Africa a pastors with tens of thousands of worshippers is the top celebrity. Now you gerit?
Africa, we must agree that after the emergence of the early freedom fighters, today’s remnants, we have been and continue to be humiliated. At this stage it will be fair to call for the dissolution of Africa’s organisations and groupings including the AU, ECOWAS and the rest. They serve little or no purpose. All decisions are well and truly made for us from afar. AU and ECOWAS and the rest have very little value now with no foreseeable prospects for improvement.
Truly, if our rulers in Africa cannot use or rely on AU or ECOWAS to solve any of our problems, then why have and keep them. This might seem simplistic and even naive but better to treat every concept in the right context. Otherwise we seriously need a knowledgeable, resilient, capable leaders to reinvigorate and reconsolidate the pan-Africanist ideals, ideas dreams, and concepts. Africa and Africans need strong-minded, capable people at the world’s high tables. Africa needs people who have the capacity to stand tall, true and square to global dynamics for this continent of Alkerbulan. This is profoundly necessary.
