Where there is gold, expect a gold rush, no one fetches from a dry well. All through time, there has been wars culminating in chaotic takeovers of towns, villages and communities whether via tribal or communal wars or just expansion of territories by larger nations. Kings have showed an unquenchable thirst for territorial expansion; invasion and occupation of neighbors. The level of chaos generated depends on the willingness of the victim to succumb peacefully or fight for its right to exist independently. Its never good for the victim. Cultures are exterminated, lives of youths lost, land, wealth destroyed and the self belief of the victims crushed. Life is never the same.
The Romans, Egyptian, African, Greek dynasties know what this is about. Whether colonialism, or more crude manners, societies have always succumbed to the higher stronger military powers. Economies have been crushed for the obsession of military states overtaking lesser societies resources.
In todays’ Africa. We are experiencing an economic colonialism and elimination of our Africa, identities, cultures, ways of life and pride. The self esteem of the African is aft an all time low, the roads, bridges, businesses in Africa are carried out by international contractors leaving little for Africans who pay for these projects. Capacity building of Africans is being limited to creating a market for Asian, American and Europeans products and technical expertise. African governments and international brands are very interested in limiting the ambitions of the African and reducing the aura of possibilities that an African should believe he can attain.
We are not a dark continent, We have never been happy savages, no one should be called such derogatory terms. We can partake in drilling our own resources in mining, oil exploration, manufacturing and production, training and capacity building; we can write and study our African customized curriculum, we should be given a level playing ground in our own Africa to develop for us on our terms and by our own Africans.
Africa has never needed Aid, that is a psychological weapon used by the international community and some bad elements within Africa and Caribbean to set up a mental blockage that Africa couldn’t function on its own and for itself. Not with the resources human and natural that nature bestowed on us. Not with the education Africans have hard, not matter how flawed the curriculum is. We have to find the confidence in the true fact that we can find the solution within. Malaysia, Singapore, China and other Asian Tigers have done this and made progress for themselves. Why cant we, why wont we.
The answer is in our motivation to maintain our culture, and an appropriate custom education to the African endeavor. It has to be purposeful, visionary, structured and enforced. It must be drilled into our future leaders from the time they stop weaning as a means of our continents preservation.
Our fear is that we would be asked to give more, take less, sacrifice more; we fear that the exploiters will become more conscious about our awakening and make graver demands of us, the whip becoming more painful, our will being continuously broken, generations to come will be targeted from birth, structural manipulations greater, the worst of our people will continue to be handpicked to mislead us. It would cease to be just about resources but more about erasing the last of our traditions, keeping our unborn from learning of their cultures, mental colonialism, destruction of the African values and the African tomorrow.
Who will own Africa, will be the Sly Europeans, the War loving Americans, the cunning Asian Tigers or the true heirs of the African kingdom; the Africans. We are truly endangered species, our lands needed by predators; we must awaken to international invasion and exploitation and stand not for us the living but for even the unborn. This is a clarion call. Awaken Warriors, Intellectually supreme, physically dominant, spiritually endowed; no race tougher than you; no color deeper than thee; its time like never before to come into your own and own thy own. @Kev_Diggy
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