By Njoku SaintJerry A.
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 In the book AK-47 in a Wild Why World (Contemporary African Issues – Amazon) the author was privileged to foresee some dangerous signals trailing the entire Black Africans and he put them down into a book under the caption “The Great Prophecy”.
 Our kind of politics, our kind of religious practices, our kind of social values and general life expectancy of this generation of Africans an the future. But sometimes I doubt our reading culture and ability and I am a little afraid of the future and safety of people who don’t read but love to talk, complain, argue and love to be heard all the time rather than listen.
 Today, South Africa is burning, Kenya just done burning and probably still smoking, Sudan is burning, Zimbabwe is burning, Nigeria is heating up and might explode any day – There is nothing anybody can do about that.
Take a closer look; wherever you come across Nigerians in any place in the world – they’re very angry and bitter about those who rule them and the scary thing is they’re reproducing.
 The Zimbabweans are so afraid of those who rule them so they run away from home, Kenyans have been reduced to pawns by those who rule them – they stringed them on chords of ethnicity. But it’s been always there, a ready tool of violence. Some are running away from home already.
The Sudanese are divided by religion; the Black Africans against the ruling Arabs laced up with same strange word ‘ethnic’. Group A is poised to wipe out group B and Group B is helplessly fighting back.
The people of the world feel concerned and have been effortlessly struggling to aid them stitch up the rift of hatred and ignorance that has set the entire African continent on the precipice.
Nobody can stop this except the Africans.
 There’ve been too much of talking and meetings, too much of policies and analyses across many African regions, but the people are still running, into cold places of comfort and frustration – visit the internet, there are over a thousand Yahoogroups owned by Africans, some are discussing ideas, many are having a cyber fun and have become garrulous at the privilege of electricity over their head while their home rots in darkness – They argue and argue and talk at the touch of a button while their home burns in misery and neglect.
The bitter truth is; No Africans is safe wherever he or she is hiding at while Neo-colonialist, lawless groups and criminals rule the continent at the grip of guns and batons.
 It’s virtually easy to let things run loose, it’s tough to get real people together, it’s tough to build one ideal home – everybody is shouting; “This government is unproductive, Obasanjo is evil, Mugabe is a wicked dictator, Kibaki is a typical Africans despot, Omar al-Bashir’s is running Sudan for the Arabs, they’re killing people for Allah.
They’re destroying their own homes.
The flicks of Sudanese refugees in the desert on a CCTV 4 (China Central TV Channel 4) documentary are disturbing – so many guns and so much hunger.
Couple of days behind, it was a Front-Page Headline for Guangzhou Daily, smokes billowing in thick black and red, black Africans heads clustered amidst ruins in the front-page picture; I asked the Chinese newspaperman “What’s that?” He pouted and sneered; “Nigeria”. “Nigeria what?” I asked back in ‘Chinglish’.
He replied; “Nigeria oil burning”!
 You see, It’s an environmental thing, The South Africans who’re killing and burning innocent brothers and sisters in the streets of Pretoria scarcely could tell why the hatred. The MEND rebel group locked up in the swamps of the Niger-Delta of Nigeria, threatening the security of every lives and property in the region is wielding a fierce battle against neglect and attention vehemently denied them and have found a safe heaven in the creeks and swamps with mosquitoes for comfort while those who make them rebel are hiding within a false enclave called Abuja, couple of miles away from the Niger-Delta and a sharp contrast from the environmental decay and frustration of those who’ll soon repeat the spiral crisis and struggle of the neglected people across Africa.  Visiting Nigerians and tourist from America, the UK and Europe are flooding down to Abuja to buy up outlets and homes they might never live in as the city environmentally flex muscle with some cosmopolitan cities in London. It’s a veiled city of bottled up grouse that’ll explode one day. The rebel groups are rehearsing.
 There’s a dangerous signal so many of us could barely interpret – we think we’re safe in our false hideouts in the US, the UK and Europe. Africans are running away from home to some developed environments they consider promising and safe. Nobody is asking why the mad run, what prompted this exodus?
What is happening in South Africa today is brewing in Ghana, in Togo, across other African countries. Libya is a better leading example of an African nightmare while natives of smaller African countries struggle to get out in rafts, canoes and through a donkey ride to Europe.
Our environment makes us run.
 October 2000, more than 4,000 Nigerians were fortunate to be repatriated from Libya following clashes involving the migrant Africans, especially West African citizens and their Libyan hosts, the deportees, narrated harrowing tales of their experience in Libya, anger flared up. About 500 Nigerians were killed during the attacks. The Libyans are deporting more, 163 Black Africans persons were bundled out by May 2008.
 In Asia, the people are taking a closer observation of Africans while Nigerians top the list of ‘Special Countries’ with a negative profile.
At the Departure wing of Hong Kong International Airport, the uniformed immigration officer yells. “You Nigerians” and the young Black guy replied “What”? The immigration officer replied, “Why don’t you stay in your country and get organized for once?”
 And the young man said; “but my government have a diplomatic tie with your government, do you have a problem with that?”
“The officer sneered; “which government?” Do you have a government?” Listen my friend, the day you have a government we’ll know” The young black guy smiled at the insult and went his way.
 The truth is; as the author have outlined in the first 91page section of the book AK-47 in a Why Wild World It’s a cultural thing, the kind of culture we practice automatically defines our environment. When a people’s culture is threatened, their whole life is at risk, they suddenly lost direction, they lost value for life because culture defines the values and way of life of people and once things have gone that awkward, people will resort to place of animals, it was never an African thing to disrupt the peace of our own community and hunt your own brothers like wild games – You may wish to quote me wrong on the issues of slavery – Most of the people sold into slavery before the entrepreneurs took the business serious were ‘the Charlatans, the Outcasts’ the kind of people ruling the entire continent of Africans today were the ‘first to be sold’ kind of slaves.
 For goodness sake; We do believe in the divine and you can’t afford not to give account of your stewardship; You dare not steal from the community and go scot-free, you dare not indulge in falsehood and still belong to our Africans traditional society, You dare not neglect your children and your household and walk tall among men, you dare not take advantage of the poor nor insult your people and go scot-free, You dare not take our monies contributed through ‘isusu’ (cooperative thrift) and be bold to face any member of the community.  Why all the shouts about Poverty Alleviation and Job creation and a group of people are assigned to head that institution without any visible sign of progress. And they’re giving analyses – of what?
Why all that Chest thumping of economic progress amidst dilapidated infrastructures and environmental decay that might compel some Africans to stay back at home and invest their talents in Africa and nobody is budged at such insult on the psyche of the Africans – He love to talk, he love to be heard by holding meetings, press conference and presenting phony analyses of this and that, always analyzing! He does a lot of shouting against these injustice and sheer ignorance both online and on newsprints but give him a political office, rub some stolen monies into his hand – He’ll simply change attitude!
That’s the summary of the life of a typical dumb criminal minded African.
 But the truth is nobody is safe with this kind of attitude and level of ignorance permeating through our communities, our culture and worse still, our religious practices.
Religion is supposed to reform people to sane and self-conscious individuals – at the rate we’ve had it.  Our carelessness is hunting us all, our neglect of social values, our neglect of simple education, our neglect of our own environment and discipline, our struggle with ignorance and irresponsibility to our own home is going to hunt us all down and should we dare run. Nowhere can contain us.  South Africans have come up with one prophetic example. This crisis has been brewing for quite a long time and has finally exploded.
The people wielding batons and setting human beings on fire in this age of creativity are black brothers – Africans – Not whites, Not Asians but our own brothers; a young Zimbabwean cried bitterly as his brothers were clubbed to death. “I thought I would be safe here because Mugabe is a serial killer. But these locals are just as bad,” he said.
 Why all the mad run away from home? Does this bother your sense of belonging at all? Ask a Nigerian young man why all that harrowing experience crossing the hot desert to Europe and he replies; “the government, our environment makes me run, I have no hope in the country and if I don’t run my life is useless here”  I repeat; it’s an environmental thing. If your uncles, friends and bulgy tummy Daddy’s did not ruin the system entrusted into their care, destroyed their own homes with their brazen abuse of civility and some unmatched ignorance found among untamed animals in the jungle. We sure would be far better in our homes than all these blind run to false places of hope and comfort.
 Asia has not been fascinating but the throng of young Africans in the streets of Guangzhou with Nigerians in the lead is a disturbing eyesore.  Everyone is responsible for the blood spilled in the streets of South Africa today, but the worse thing is; this animosity is spreading like a wild fire across the entire African continent due to sheer neglect to build our own homes and absorb our own people.
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 Until we all begin to disrespect the people who make us run away in the first place by boycotting them completely whenever they shuttle this same cold places of comfort they consider a safe heaven, No one is safe anywhere, not even the corporate robbers looting and destroying our homes in the name of ‘policies and analyses’ that has not been able to build one decent block of classroom and provide simple amenities.     I would counsel you my brother to find a copy of the book AK-47 in a Wild Why World-Amazon ) and find out what’s worse to come and where you’ve got it all wrong and what impact could you play to douse this flame of hate, greed and ignorance before all these bottled up aggression explode and consume everyone.
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Date:Â Mon, 26 May 2008 09:37:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:Â Jerry Njoku
Subject:Â No Safe Heaven for the African (A Must Read)
