The ‘WHY’ and ‘HOW’ question of Africa’s independence
By Njoku SaintJerry A.
http://www.artseffx.com
 
  One beautiful thing so fascinating about the African is his ability to cope with danger and threatening social situations, his use of freedom of speech at the slightest opportunity and the strength to bear even excruciating hardship in the midst of plenty with one visible attribute among a hundred – complain and argue.

  With less room for doubting freaks, historians have dug up quite some facts on many premises; the Africans constitute the stoics of age with a natural ability and courage to fight back, the Africans constitute the bravest, the most skilled, the wealthiest, the most talented, the most advanced with a ‘wow-wow’ rating at the slightest disclosure of any archives of past events and records that has shaped world histories.

Far from the Discovery Channel flick and CNN front-page about some naked hungry scavenging weaklings horded into tents and mud houses, sleeping under bridges, gun-happy people wielding AK-47 with ease at the slightest grouse. It’s a media game. Write the story; raise a hell! – Keep the people in a prison of illusion – propaganda is the best tool of a psychological warfare. It isn’t worth a story if it’s not strong enough to create a divide, make some people feel uncomfortable and create a scene, the more negative and nastier the more fulfilling the story.
It’s an African nightmare, a relief for others and a disturbing issue but it’s worth the news once it tends towards negative, hunger, poverty, war, AIDS, famine and now religion – a possibly worse threat. The media is in for a hundred-fold harvest!

  In the book AK-47 in a Wild Why World – The best war strategy (Amazon) – the author argued on how Africans been drubbed to a helpless wet-chicken, the most educated, the bravest, the wealthiest; the most talented and skilled have been reduced to mere pawns and chickens. The paradise reduced to worse hell holes! Young people running away to hopeless zones of fascinating illusion, the Americas, UK, Europe, Asia. African leaders turned Saboteurs of a blind war, looting and aiding forces to ruin their own regions possibly without the slightest knowledge of an enormous destruction trailing the great Africa behind.

It’s such a corporate robbery in the name of contracts and child-play policies. Corporate robbery is an organized crime of the elites, the creams and men with inferior sense of morals.
 
  The question is; How did they drop this low so that the former high ratings remain shrouded only in mysterious past? What happened? Why didn’t they resist the invasion? At least the Africans possess a natural instinct to rebel. Why is everyone still running away even after centuries of the demise of slavery? Why have the children of those great ancestors, Me and You, chose to relish in petty jive talking, petty gossips and childish argument than question our sense of belonging?
  Suddenly, places of cold comfort have all turned homes. Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Haiti, and more; young Africans are rushing in into these near hell holes and many tiny unfriendly European countries for want of comfort and wealth.   The West African Mali was once the richest empire in the world.
 
  According to history, the presence of a Malian ruler (King Mansa Musa) once crippled the economy of Arabia while on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 AD. He had brought so much money into the region to an extent that the prices of gold in the ancient Egypt and Arabia collapsed and it took twelve years for the economies of the region to normalise.

  National Geographic recently described Timbuktu as the Paris of the mediaeval world, on account of its intellectual culture. From archival findings, many old West African families have thousands of private library collections that go back hundreds of years.
 
  A Nigerian city, named Kano once produced an estimated 10 Million pairs of sandals and 5 million hides for export each year in 1851.
The same media christened ‘Starving Ethiopia’ was once ranked as one of the world’s greatest empires and the third most important state in the world after Persia and Rome.   
  Ruins of a 300 BC astronomical observatory found at Namoratunga in Kenya have revealed that Africans were mapping the movements of stars such as Triangulum, Aldebaran, Bellatrix, Central Orion, as well as the moon, in order to create a lunar calendar of 354 days.
  The West African Gold-Coast known as Ghana today was so wealthy that dogs wear collars of gold and silver, people had gold plaited into their hair as a form of decoration.

In Pre-colonial Uganda, surgeons routinely and effectively carried out autopsies and caesarean operations. A writer commenting on a Ugandan caesarean operation that appeared in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1884 wrote: “The whole conduct of the operation suggests a skilled long-practiced surgical team at work.”

  Much said, It took about a hundred years and over to break the Africans from these taunting feats to such a victim and fearful individuals with so much hatred of self and disdain.

Now the question is; how did that happen? How was mere explorers that came visiting a great continent filled with wonders able to get into them and finally break them beyond recognition and stripped them off of so much humanity so that once great people descended to such lowly positions as most impoverished, most diseased, most corrupt, most backward, all the negative trends and vices the media could find useful to disorientate a people with natural talent to survive.

The fact is; if you’re able to question your sense of belonging in world socio-economic and political relevance, you might find the answer.   It’s almost over fifty years of Africa’s independence from colonial powers. About fifty years of power-shift from the explorers, the French, the English and the Portuguese that introduced grand looting and the divide and rule style with the aid of guns and bible while the locals’ watch helplessly with little resistance.   From the West to the East, South and Central Africa, the scars of slavery is still very visible, the scars of colonialism rarely healing. So much distrust, so much self-hatred and ignorance, every strange beliefs foisted on the people still manifesting a wicked grip on the victims.

The Late self acclaimed born racist, Pietha Botha said, “Let’s work day and night to set the Black man against his fellow man.” Another black critic wrote; their so-called “help” organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community. They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers and not the best doers.”

  That said; so much story and essays been written on economic development in Africa, virtually every month and weeks, African scholars have worked up different strategies and policies on how to build a new and better Africa, pull the falling continent up from the shackles of underdevelopment and neglect, reduce the so much touted crime and poverty, build functional infrastructures and equip their own with the basic amenities that will enhance collective efforts of nation building and patriotism – I have no business living overseas in the first place if I can get all these from motherland – everything overseas sucks!

Now, why don’t we execute all these policies? Why don’t we employ the so-called strategies? This is the ‘WHY’ question. What fun do people derive from all those endless meetings and airy story-telling all the time?

The little black controversial book ‘AK-47 in a Wild Why World’ (Contemporary African Issues – (Amazon) wrote;

  “build your own schools, build your own medical facilities, set up your own business and let it benefit your environment, lighten up your own darkness, build your own electricity, build your own roads and houses and let your people live in there and not ghosts; start from your communities, your villages, build your own farmlands and plot your own field so that there’ll be food, enough food to eat and not all this hunger and poverty that gives Mr. Discovery Channel something to shoot.”

  That is what it takes to be independent – at least, some qualities of an Independent Africa. As I shuttle across world major cities that should forever be grateful to the great Africa for giving them resources to survive and sustain their progressive economies, I see people building bridges, building houses to keep people away from the slums.
-the slum is the highest habitat for potential miscreants, lawlessness and crime-
I see people constructing roads to create access for networks of people, goods and services from the rural to the urban – they do hold meetings, they come up with strategic plans to implement their decisions and this is why they get very angry when they see us Africans, young and old running into their countries as ‘illegal’ immigrants doing shitty odd jobs if at all we get one because we hold a lot of meetings, a lot of analysis, we speak too much English in the meetings and design more than a thousand hand-clapping policies then do little or virtually nothing with the budget for such developmental projects that should define our independence.

  Government is business and not a Charity organization. Why should somebody take up a contract and not execute them? And he is walking free in the streets of Africa a VIP for being a fraudster – he sees the children in the streets hawking wares in dilapidated roads and shanty environment and all what he thinks about is how to kill those who speak against his stupidity and blind ignorance.
Do you carry out the late Pietha Botha’s instruction and… 

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Date:  Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:  “Njoku J.A.”
Subject:  The’WHY’and’HOW’question of Africa’s independence (A must read)