A BIG BLOW TO PAN-AFRICANISM
Traitors In Our Midst?
It is quite disheartening to any Pan -Africanist to hear what some of our present African leaders have recently said concerning the initiative towards a United States of Africa. With the neo-imperialist carrot of military aid and debt cancellation dangling before their eyes, they have mortgaged away their countries and agreed to throw out prospects of a United Africa. The most unexpected in the team being the hitherto revolutionary Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda.
It is reported that President Yoweri Museveni, was heading a seven-country African Union (AU) commission that was exploring Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi?s proposal of 1999 for a United States of Africa, in which Africa was to become a United Nation with a centralized government with one army, more like the United States of America. President Museveni is reported to have said that we (Africa) cannot go on with building a United States of Africa as we are still in a balkanized state.
It is clear that all this is happening alongside with the cancellation of debts for some African states, and promises of increased military aid. The very same strategies that were used in the sixties against then Ghana?s President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Congo?s Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba are being used against the present day African leaders, including those whose ascendance to power came through their articulation of the revolutionary teachings of Dr. Nkrumah and the other founders of African independent states.
Once again, the ?debts?, which we should not be paying at all because we have already paid and overpaid for, have been used to slow down the momentum of African integration towards a United States. It has also been dished out to kill or slow down the initiatives towards regional economic integrations like the East Africa Federation by leaving out Kenya, one of the main players, from the debt cancellation register, thus making Kenya an unlikely trading partner with the rest of East Africa. It has drastically changed the regional economic position and the balance of trade tariffs that is required as a pre-requisite for the federation to take off, and that is one of the imperialist?s method of slowing down African integration.
The really embarrassing part of it is that some Heads of African State have been used as tools for these imperialistic purposes. They have been forced to sign agreements exempting U.S. soldiers from being tried in the international courts for atrocities that they have committed against humanity and those that they will commit in future. They have done this in order to receive the G8 cancellation of debts, and also to keep military aid flowing and increasing from America. They have signed the anti-terrorist bill that is written in a fashion intended to harass, imprison and take possessions of people arbitrarily, much in the fashion of the ?theft inspired? Byrd Amendment that was bad enough to be rejected even by America?s close allies in the west. They have given permit to the most garrulous filibusters to run roughshod in their countries as they helplessly look and do nothing about it. They have sold their sovereignty to the dogs of war, anarchy and destruction.
We must stand up against such sell-out leaders and begin getting more involved in the defense of our states and sovereignty at all levels. We should not allow leaders from other states to tell us who our good leaders are, for good leaders to them are those who have agreed to further imperialistic agenda. There is no imperialistic agenda that is to the benefit of Africa. To line up a few African leaders and describe them as the only democratically elected leaders in Africa will not do much because the politically enlightened African, who are growing in number day by day, will straight away know who is or has been selling their freedom to the neo-colonialists. We must therefore support leaders who have refused to subscribe to these recent imperialistic machinations, leaders like Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and all others who have preferred sanctions and aid cuts to neo-colonial and imperialistic insubordination by global filibusters.
Forward ever, Backward never.
Ochieng Ombok
It is reported that President Yoweri Museveni, was heading a seven-country African Union (AU) commission that was exploring Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi?s proposal of 1999 for a United States of Africa, in which Africa was to become a United Nation with a centralized government with one army, more like the United States of America. President Museveni is reported to have said that we (Africa) cannot go on with building a United States of Africa as we are still in a balkanized state.It is clear that all this is happening alongside with the cancellation of debts for some African states, and promises of increased military aid. The very same strategies that were used in the sixties against then Ghana?s President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Congo?s Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba are being used against the present day African leaders, including those whose ascendance to power came through their articulation of the revolutionary teachings of Dr. Nkrumah and the other founders of African independent states.
Once again, the ?debts?, which we should not be paying at all because we have already paid and overpaid for, have been used to slow down the momentum of African integration towards a United States. It has also been dished out to kill or slow down the initiatives towards regional economic integrations like the East Africa Federation by leaving out Kenya, one of the main players, from the debt cancellation register, thus making Kenya an unlikely trading partner with the rest of East Africa. It has drastically changed the regional economic position and the balance of trade tariffs that is required as a pre-requisite for the federation to take off, and that is one of the imperialist?s method of slowing down African integration.
The really embarrassing part of it is that some Heads of African State have been used as tools for these imperialistic purposes. They have been forced to sign agreements exempting U.S. soldiers from being tried in the international courts for atrocities that they have committed against humanity and those that they will commit in future. They have done this in order to receive the G8 cancellation of debts, and also to keep military aid flowing and increasing from America. They have signed the anti-terrorist bill that is written in a fashion intended to harass, imprison and take possessions of people arbitrarily, much in the fashion of the ?theft inspired? Byrd Amendment that was bad enough to be rejected even by America?s close allies in the west. They have given permit to the most garrulous filibusters to run roughshod in their countries as they helplessly look and do nothing about it. They have sold their sov ereignty to the dogs of war, anarchy and destruction.
We must stand up against such sell-out leaders and begin getting more involved in the defense of our states and sovereignty at all levels. We should not allow leaders from other states to tell us who our good leaders are, for good leaders to them are those who have agreed to further imperialistic agenda. There is no imperialistic agenda that is to the benefit of Africa. To line up a few African leaders and describe them as the only democratically elected leaders in Africa will not do much because the politically enlightened African, who are growing in number day by day, will straight away know who is or has been selling their freedom to the neo-colonialists. We must therefore support leaders who have refused to subscribe to these recent imperialistic machinations, leaders like Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and all others who have preferred sanctions and aid cuts to neo-colonial and imperialistic insubordination by global filibusters.
Forward ever, Backward never.
Ochieng Ombok
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