The worst twin-evils of human history are slavery and colonialism, those who committed or perpetrated slavery and colonialism were and are the first terrorists, they committed the worst acts of terrorism, they were those who snatched and enslaved Africans, those who killed, maimed and brutalized Africans, those who branded Africans as if Africans were of less value compared with farm Animals.
Who in the world has not heard of Africans tossed off slave ships so that ship attains equilibrium? Who has not heard of Africans being hung on tree branches lynched and or burnt alive?
Those are the same people today, whose descendants pretend to be unaware of how Africans and people of African descent got to be the way we are today.
We have had these altruistic snakes, benevolent vipers and pythons with false claims to good faiths, broke our knees, just as they challenge us to a marathon, Marathon, for which we were unprepared, due to no fault of our own; but what is worse? Those who broke our knees are constantly mocking us, jeering at us, ridiculing our best efforts, with broken knees, psyche and all.
Slavery destabilized Africa, broke families, culture, religions and taboos, colonialism caused the extinction of languages, local brewing and bastardized the definition of brotherhood and citizenship in colonized societies, you are for example, either a British citizen born in England or you are a British subject (something less) if you are born of native peoples in the colonies and protectorates, and the offshoot of all of these, in modern day Nigeria, these pejoratives of classifications so inherited, becomes, indigene, settler or citizen in that conundrum sorts of order
Slavery, colonialism with their attendant brutalities, indignities and horror of terrors, demeaned Africans and peoples of African descent, and the sad truth is, the concerted efforts at devaluing Africans and peoples of African descent have not ceased
The suffering of the people of Haiti is a case in point, for daring to rise against the French and other foreign terrorists, Haiti was compelled to pay billions of dollars in today’s terms in reparations to France, and this wrecked the hitherto bounteous Haitian treasury and buoyant economy, the crises in Haiti, the first independent peoples of African descent has continued ever since, and it is not remarkably different from the usurpation of the constitutional government of Haiti last February by a bunch of outlaws and murderers, who were urged on, by foreign supporters with unsavory utterances and pronouncements, coupled with strategic winks and nods, and assistance with money and weapons for the criminal elements in Haiti, which now spirals out of control as a failed state
Outside manipulations in the affairs of Haiti, is not in any significant way different from the outside manipulations that were perpetrated against Africans by invaders who entrenched slavery, colonialism and deprivations, our tormentors are studiously at work!
Outside manipulations have not really changed in matters of African affairs, fifty years ago, purposeful African leaders such as Patrice Lumuba of the Congo who was assassinated and replaced with a puppet called Mobutu Sese Sekor, who then did the bidding of his manipulators, and he was used and dumped by them!
In Ghana, the purposeful Kwame Nkrumah was eliminated after being undermined, so was Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria, and so were our brethrens in the United States, our sons, Dr. King and Malcolm X were cut down, for daring to advocate freedom and equalities for our people
Revisionists now ask us, why, we do not have genuine purposeful leadership? Why do they first break our knees and then proceed to challenge us to Marathon races and then mock our best efforts? Why do they denigrate us after wounding us so deeply, depriving us of healing, even as our wounds, sores fester and our scars remain? Why do they hate us so much?
John Perkins who wrote “confessions of an economic hit-man” informed us, through his book, that obsolescence were planned for Africans and most of the developing world, planned by outside manipulators. loans are given, but money in practical terms never really leaves the loan giver and projects are never really executed.
Monies are looted from public treasuries, say in Africa, looted resources are received and retained with the active connivances and collusions of American and European governments and institutions, such as banks etc
The highest courts in these lands of America and Europe, may deliver judgments, but such judgments are consciously disregarded by the Americans and Europeans, all and sundry outside of Africa. For instance, the highest court in Switzerland gave legal victory to Nigeria, but the Swiss introduced ancillaries and extraneous elements, outside the laws of their country and outside common sense, as the Swiss now gave Nigeria some new grounds, as new conditions for obeying their own laws, even as interpreted by the highest courts in their country! And the conditions is the requirement that Nigeria cede Nigeria’s political independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, by allowing the Swiss to monitor, or read, to supervise, the expenditure of the recovered loot in the coffers of Swiss Banks! Surprisingly, some Nigerians do not find this Swiss proposition offensive, but instead support the idiocy!
In real terms, this means, that the Swiss who are significantly and substantially liable and ought to be ashamed for being in connivances and collusions with public treasury robbers and looters, the Swiss, whose feet we ought to hold to the fire and furnace, are now seeking to play God and overlord, over Nigeria, Nigeria whose property was stolen!
Switzerland is and has been the repository of stolen goods and the keeper of stolen wealth, with full knowledge of the crime of the theft or loot, Switzerland is as liable as the principal engaged in the direct thievery! President Bush told the world after September 11, 2001 that those who provide safe harbor for terrorists are themselves agents of terrorism, just as I must say here, that those who provide respite, protection and succor for looters of Nigeria’s resources, are as guilty as the direct participants perpetrators themselves.
In the United States where I live, monetary transactions of ten thousand dollars and above attracts attention of banks and government agencies, including the internal revenue service; Banks and other financial institutions in the US, therefore, routinely report lodgments of five to ten thousand dollars at a time, to the relevant governmental authorities or agencies, for them to cross check, to determine whether such monies are connected with or to, terrorism, money laundering, drugs and narcotics trafficking.
More particularly, monies and resources owned by individuals and organizations, even with the most tenuous of connections with Muslims and or terrors suspects, were summarily frozen and embargoed, until the legality is established, (as guilt was presumed, until innocence is proved) America and Europe acted arbitrarily, automatically and spontaneously after September 11, 2001, and without recourse to due process, fair hearing or the rule of law or any democratic pretense
Conversely, billions of dollars are allegedly looted by Nigeria’s and Africa’s prodigal sons, and lodged in American and European banks and institutions, these monies are not arbitrarily, automatically and spontaneously frozen or embargoed!
The looters are not required to establish the sources of their lodgments of these trillions of dollars, no enquiries are made to determined whether these monies are profits from successful candle making factories or beer breweries, no one in American and European governments and institutions, banks etc, seem to care ever, about best business practices, when known stolen and looted public treasury or national resources from Africa are lodged in American and European financial
institutions
And then, when these monies are discovered by reformists and reform minded African governments, their efforts to retrieve these monies are fiercely resisted and thwarted every step of the way! Case in point, Nigeria successfully sued to retrieve looted funds from the Swiss banks, Nigeria paid stiff and extraordinary legal fees, and at the end, the Swiss would not adhere strictly to its own legal documents, legal system, due process and the rule of law, they are still refusing to relinquish the death defying hold, unto Nigeria’s rightful ownership of looted resources, instead, the Swiss audaciously and arrogantly say, they want t o supervise and monitor how we spend our money? And yet, America and Europe would lecture us all, about corruption in Africa?
How many Nigerians feel insulted by these condescension, disrespect and the indignities that Nigeria is being subjected to for our own properties, when the Swiss, should be accountably ashamed for conniving and colluding with the thieves in the first place!
But instead, the Swiss with a straight face want to disregard or abridge our political and economic independence, our sovereignty and territorial integrity, just so they can monitor/supervise how we incapably spend the recovered loots? This would be hilarious, if it was not so screamingly insulting! And screamingly obvious in its patronizing spat and affront it commits against Nigeria! Sadly, some invertebrates or spineless Nigerians agree with the Swiss!
Nigerians and Africans should and must imbibe lessons of how the world works!
We ought to demand a universal rule, method or procedure regarding anti corruption crusade, we ought to demand specific agreement or protocol. We ought to demand single method or procedure that will be made known to all, for the fights against illicit or corrupt monies, whether such monies are drugs or narcotics trade related, or money laundering or monies in connection with graft and corruption, or monies derived or connected with terrorism as well, all governments, all banking and financial institutions worldwide, ought not make profits or look the other way, while retaining monies gained by some individuals through illegal means. We ought to point fingers at the thieves and their bankers, who provide safe haven despite full knowledge of illegalities involved
The Swiss knowingly helped criminals to conceal our properties, doing damage to us in the process, the pains and degradations which are still visibly with us Nigeria has more reasons to invade Switzerland than President Bush had for invading and occupying Iraq!
What is the population of Switzerland, compared with Anambra or Bauchi states?
They break our knees and challenge us to Marathons just as they proceed to mock our best efforts at such race? If you thought the above references to slavery and colonialism, Nkrumah, Muritala Mohammed, Patrice Lumumba and Haiti were ancient history? How about Mark Thatcher? Son of Margaret Thatcher, erstwhile Prime Minister of Britain, Mark Thatcher who planned and took significant and substantial steps to accomplish the commission of treasonable felony, to wit; violently overthrow the dejure/defacto, hence legitimate government of an African country of Equitorial Guinea for that African country’s oil? He was tried in a lackadaisical manner was given a slap on the wrist upbraiding and allowed to jet to freedom to his wife in America! Just imagine for one moment, if Mark Thatcher was a Nigerian, African or an Arab man who treasonably tried to violently and undemocratically overthrow American, European government? Such African or Arab will receive trial as a formality, with penalty that will be possibly worse than the death sentence! As such Nigerian, African or Arab will be summarily castigated as a terrorist in today speak; What precisely is Mark Thatcher, if he is not a terrorist?
They interfere in Africa or Haiti or Grenada or Panama or Iraq and they go scot-free! They create chaos and anarchies, just so they will collect our resources petroleum oil, our diamond or uranium for free and we are not angry, but instead, we actually seem to participate in their illogic and revisionisms.
As they proceed to inform us that we have no contributions to human history and economic or cultural development, even as they strip us of such opportunities and resources, they sprightly inform us that we are incapable of sustainable developments and some us shout amen! They inform us, that we are the cause of our own deprivations, pains and sufferings, our plights and predicaments, and sadly enough, some us are complicit gullibly agree to these erroneous assessments
America ostentatiously, eloquently and repeatedly describes the challenges of poverty, disease and underdevelopments in Africa and among peoples of African descent, even as America and Europe continue to send their assistance, their support elsewhere.
Recently, the veritable newspaper, The New York Times, published an editorial by way of a research finding, which indicated demonstrably well, how governments in America and Europe, particularly in America, are apt to make loud pronouncements in connections with financial help for Africa, this spin doctoring, have in turn led to the false and erroneous conclusions by most members of the public to conclude that the bulk of foreign aid goes to Africans, but The New York Times pointed out how less than a tenth of a percent of what is believed is actually the aid amount in real dollar terms!
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While i think the write-up is well thought up and have no doubt in the ability of the writer i do think some of is arguements are just cliches of "ESCAPEISM" which africa and africans tend to use to justify their hideous position in the system of things.ESCAPEISM – is more or less like the blacks of the west who play the race cards when they see themselves in position they themselves are causes of. Mr. Ajudie SLAVERY ended over a HUNDRED years ago And COLONIALISM ENDED Over 0 years ago. IF ASIA after colonialism and EASTERn EUROPE After many years of oppression by the soviet system could in 15 years can achieve what they have then you ESCAPEISM theory is just CRAP(sorry for the language). BAD and easily corruptible INTELLECTUALs are the core of our problems NOW and not SLAVERY AND COLONIALISM. HELL! AFRICANS can't even unite under one policy in the UN- reforms debate. The leaderscna't firmly take decisions when injustice is seen to be done is that the fault of the WEST
KUDOS to you MR. AJudie but i think you got it wrong this time. "THIS IS MY OPINION THOUGH" ALL THE BEST IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVOURS.
the white man is evil the white man is greedy the white man is immoral yari yari yari yari yari. look let me tell you something the white man steals from the dumb poor nations but at least when he steals the wealth the indigenes of his country all have a fair chaance of getting their hands on that wealth provided they fulfil certain laid out protocols to a better life like education etc. can you say the same for black people in africa. what has the govt ever done for the people of africa. in england if you are unemployed you get free housing free money to spend so that you dont starve(giro) free health care so you dont die if you are sick and free educuation. do you get any of this in africa. the only way an african like me can get a piece of the african pie is by the west stealing it from africa and then by me who resides in the west getting it back in all kinds of benefits and opportunities to better in my life. in africa unless i was heavily connected to the guys on top i wll not lay my hand on one kobo of naijas wealth our so caalled land. look let me teell you the wwhite man is veryyyyyyy evil and bad but he is fair. the black man on the other hand is evil and bad and he is not fair. i will take my chances with a white man first before i try with a black man.
Sound like its from a college professor. Great job
God Save Africa in Jesus Name.
We are however conscience of the four hundred years of massive exploitation of African human and natural resources four hundred years of colonialism the four hundred years of mismanagement of its economy is partly responsible to the inhuman living conditions of many African people today.
The needs to re-organised reconstruct the continent after a long odyssey of ill-treatment and mismanagement of her both natural and human resources the leadership of this new independent continent was forced to ask for money from the financial clubs of the west. What we know today is that most of these funds borrowed went to private pocket of representatives of the western financial institutions and the representative of our continent. Corruption was then officially introduced into the political life of the Africa people.
The world bank the G8 the united nations and all the countries responsible to making life miserable for the people and governments of the third world countries should investigate to find out on what conditions the money was borrowed what project the said money financed and how much of this money has been retuned through services of interest. The entire continent of Africa should not be hold responsible for the money siphoned by a handful of selfish idiots on the preteens to help promote the continental infrastructures that had since been longed abandoned…
Its unimaginable that after four hundred years of explortation Africa was left without roads schools or public infrastructures like offices where a country can be govern road for the distributions of goods materials and services. The Roman Empire was a complete opposite. she did lights up the entire world with her civilization especially in Europe and north Africa her legacy of roads schools architectures and modern social attitudes where ever presence were she stepped her foots. This article is not justifying the massacre her leaders perpetrated during wars campaigns but trying to show lights on some of the contributions of that Empire to the modern world development.
Unsatisfied with the 400 years stay of killing and of looting in Africa the continent is enslaved through economic bondage; the real amount of money borrowed has since been retuned five hundred times more through services of interest.. They choose to still want more for selfish purposes or God knows why. It appear that many coming generations of African children will pay part of this dept. Unless a drastic decision is made by African people themselves to break lose the chain of Economic and social bondage just the way the colonial bondage was broken. It is logical that the west will not be willing to let go her victims it is left to the supposed weak to decide to breath a fresh air of freedom by breaking loose from the gripes of the blood souckers or go ahead to be her victims for ever. The fear of Economic blockage is one way Africans are obliged to servicing with 80 of our total income depths that these generations knows nothing about.
I am confidence that if the entire African continent put together her resources she can survive far more than taking cover under the oak tree that is overshadowing her future that reminds her constantly of her inability insufficiency and lack of resources to pull herself together. After many years of constant exploitations by the very same vampires that is socking her blood to the bones.. The western government has been using her strategic economic and military might to perpetrate corrupt leaders to the disadvantage of the later. This is the worst of problems in Africa and many third world countries.
I will rather like to use this medium to appeal to the African Americans not to close their eyes in the waak of the unfair tretments the west are malting on the African people.The HIV virus was a product of the western laboratries and it is cauing epidemic in Africa.
Like we all know Europe is a tradictional refuge and home of the yellow Americans while Africa is the tradictional refuge and home of the brown Americans.After the divastiting war in Europe a plan marshal was promolgated to rescue Europe of it's messMy question is what plan is been made to rescue Africa from it's mess
We are awear that our brother's was told that we sold them and I have ment with many African-Americans here in Spain that has accused me of this horrable sin and to be honest many brothers in diaspora are still not happy with what happened some or about 500years ago.
When they first came to our shoresome brothers went with them to lean their language for easy comunications.Than comunication was slow and information was difficult to reach us. How on earth could we have known that many of our children were being used as slaves.Howeveri sincerlly apologies on behalf of Africa and we sincerlly hope of a strong link with the two Africa.
Africa at home and Africans in diaspora.
congratulations Mr paul.