NIGERIANS AND AFRICANS SHOULD WAKE UP AND THINK TO DEFEND ITS INTERESTS AND FUTURE WELLBEING AGAINST THE DECEPTIONS AND INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN POWERS
September 10, 2020 | News
I often said that these foreign developed societies of America, Europe and China, are not really interested or after the development of Nigeria and Africa.
NIGERIANS AND AFRICANS SHOULD WAKE UP AND THINK TO DEFEND ITS INTERESTS AND FUTURE WELLBEING AGAINST THE DECEPTIONS AND INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN POWERS
I often said that these foreign developed societies of America, Europe and China, are not really interested or after the development of Nigeria and Africa. And I will keep singing this song of advocacy until the message and awareness sinks into the hearts of African leaders, so that they will reappraise, review and be very mindful of their diplomatic relationship with these foreign developed super powers. In other words, it is high time our political leaders stop making excuses and start using their ‘thinking faculties aright’ in developing this nation and get it out of the league of Third World countries in no distant future.
I recently saw a short video online of a Ghanian woman who was being interviewed by a white journalist, and her name is Ama Ata Aidoo (nee Christina Ama Aidoo), who is a Ghanian author, poet, playwriter and academician. She was the Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings administration, and in 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation to promote and support the work of African women writers. In her words: “Since we encountered you people (referring to the White people) five hundred years ago, look at us. We have given everything, and you are still taking. It is true. I mean, where will the whole Western world be without Africa? Our Cocoa, our Timber, our Gold, our Diamond, our Platinum, our Oil…everything you are, is us. I am not saying it. But it is a fact. And in return for all of this, what have we got from you – nothing! Anti-personal indoctrination against ourselves.
“If you go and cook your horrible diseases like AIDS, you will say it is us. You brought us tuberculosis. We didn’t have such cough until the White people came here. In exchange for Africa giving the Western world Five hundred solid years of our people to work in your sugar cane farms, to dig our gold for you, diamond, peanuts, palm oil, everything. In exchange for that, we have got nothing. And the White folks look at us as monkeys. It is true! It is in your Literature. Some of your best thinkers have said this about Africa.”
When she was asked by the White interviewer: “But don’t you think that this is over now?” Ama Ata Aidoo responded with: “Over where? Who said that AIDS came from the green monkey? Is it over?” The interviewer also asked: “Do you think you can ever forgive us?” Ama replied with: “It is not a question of forgiveness. I have nothing against you. My point is that what you did, and are still doing for your survival. We cannot blame you for that. The fact that we did not do enough for our own survival, that is not your problem. Everybody God has created has a sense of survival. And until we develop it, we cannot blame White people. You came here because you needed these things for your survival and development. You took gun powder from the Chinese because you needed it to shoot people…”
This again reiterated what I have often repeated severally. That, no foreigner can effectively and efficiently develop our Nigerian country for us, and indeed the entire Africa. That onerous task, no matter how challenging it might seem, only belongs to us as Africans, and can best be done by us. This reminded me of a similar circulated shot video online, which I had mentioned in a past write-up of Raymond De Souza of the Human Life International (HLI), who was part of the discussants in the program Candid Africa, and spoke on the United States of America (USA) Henry Kissinger Report Policy on Africa’s population control: “This was produced in the 70s when Henry Kissinger was US Secretary of State. And it explicitly states, to this day it remains the official policy of the American Government, it has not changed. It may not be implemented by Donald Trump. But it remains the same. The purpose of this policy in Africa, was to reduce the population. So, in giving aids to Africa, it is not to help them with clean water, schooling, and all of that. But it is to encourage contraception and abortion. To shrink the population of Africa because they have enormous mineral resources there. At that time, Henry Kissinger and those involved, wanted to shrink the population of Africa, and MAKE SURE THAT AFRICANS DO NOT DEVELOP AND DO NOT USE THE RESOURCES ON THEMSELVES BECAUSE WE IN THE STATES, WE NEED THEM.
“There were concerted efforts of foreign powers to control the population of Africa. Africa is a huge continent. It could feed thousands of more people. But the policies of the West, especially in Europe – for example, between 1990 and the year 2000, US, Canada and Europe contributed about $6billion in contraceptives. Not to help the people in Africa with clean water, clean food, fight malaria, and so on. Left for us, ‘LET THEM DIE’ – that was the whole idea. So, in our work in HLI, it is TO MAKE THE AFRICANS AWARE, AND TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN POWERS.”
When asked if it was just the US, or if he believes China is also involved in this reap-off of Africa, Raymond said: “China is playing a major role because China is buying property in Africa. For example, in Mozambique, which is a Portuguese speaking language country, when Portugal was in charge, they used to export rice. Now, they are importing rice from China because they cannot produce, as their capacity to do so has been wrecked by the Chinese Government that is buying their farms. In fact, almost Third of Mozambique belongs to China. It is the same reality in South Africa. The Chinese are buying property, buying lands in Africa. They send their own Chinese workers. They don’t employ the people of that place. They send their own people to populate and live in those places in Africa.”
It is sad to note that, despite the fact that the Chinese are practically trying to come to take over parts of Africa to secure their economies and future population’s interest to Africa’s detriment, and as our African Governments allow this to happen; the Chinese themselves maltreat Africans in China as if they are rodents and pests that deserve no human face. Call it a double-edged sword, or another form of neo-colonialism, it is without a doubt that the existing diplomatic and economic relations between China and countries in Africa, which includes Nigeria, is more of a manipulative, discriminative, unbalanced and exploitative-relationship that benefits China more, to the detriment of Africa and its people.
The truth of the matter is that, THE WORLD AS IT IS, HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. So, Nigeria and the rest of the countries in the African continent, cannot afford to remain docile and a ‘feeding-farm’ for the rest of the developed worlds. No matter how we look at it or try to justify it, the countries in Africa, really do not have any iota of excuse to be where they are presently - as nations that are replete with all kinds of problems which are making life daily miserable for their common citizenries. The bottom line is that it is high time our political leaders and all African citizenry as followers, stop making excuses and start using their brains to THINK in developing their nations. That can only happen when we stop depending and relying on foreign developed countries to do things for us – be it in technology, science, medicine, infrastructure construction, etc. Agreed that no country is an island, and that every country needs the inputs of others to achieve some level and measure of transformation. But when a country’s/continent’s dependence on others is on the roof top, then something is intricately wrong. That is not a healthy bilateral-relationship at all angles.
Zik Gbemre.
September 10, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
I often said that these foreign developed societies of America, Europe and China, are not really interested or after the development of Nigeria and Africa. And I will keep singing this song of advocacy until the message and awareness sinks into the hearts of African leaders, so that they will reappraise, review and be very mindful of their diplomatic relationship with these foreign developed super powers. In other words, it is high time our political leaders stop making excuses and start using their ‘thinking faculties aright’ in developing this nation and get it out of the league of Third World countries in no distant future.
I recently saw a short video online of a Ghanian woman who was being interviewed by a white journalist, and her name is Ama Ata Aidoo (nee Christina Ama Aidoo), who is a Ghanian author, poet, playwriter and academician. She was the Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings administration, and in 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation to promote and support the work of African women writers. In her words: “Since we encountered you people (referring to the White people) five hundred years ago, look at us. We have given everything, and you are still taking. It is true. I mean, where will the whole Western world be without Africa? Our Cocoa, our Timber, our Gold, our Diamond, our Platinum, our Oil…everything you are, is us. I am not saying it. But it is a fact. And in return for all of this, what have we got from you – nothing! Anti-personal indoctrination against ourselves.
“If you go and cook your horrible diseases like AIDS, you will say it is us. You brought us tuberculosis. We didn’t have such cough until the White people came here. In exchange for Africa giving the Western world Five hundred solid years of our people to work in your sugar cane farms, to dig our gold for you, diamond, peanuts, palm oil, everything. In exchange for that, we have got nothing. And the White folks look at us as monkeys. It is true! It is in your Literature. Some of your best thinkers have said this about Africa.”
When she was asked by the White interviewer: “But don’t you think that this is over now?” Ama Ata Aidoo responded with: “Over where? Who said that AIDS came from the green monkey? Is it over?” The interviewer also asked: “Do you think you can ever forgive us?” Ama replied with: “It is not a question of forgiveness. I have nothing against you. My point is that what you did, and are still doing for your survival. We cannot blame you for that. The fact that we did not do enough for our own survival, that is not your problem. Everybody God has created has a sense of survival. And until we develop it, we cannot blame White people. You came here because you needed these things for your survival and development. You took gun powder from the Chinese because you needed it to shoot people…”
This again reiterated what I have often repeated severally. That, no foreigner can effectively and efficiently develop our Nigerian country for us, and indeed the entire Africa. That onerous task, no matter how challenging it might seem, only belongs to us as Africans, and can best be done by us. This reminded me of a similar circulated shot video online, which I had mentioned in a past write-up of Raymond De Souza of the Human Life International (HLI), who was part of the discussants in the program Candid Africa, and spoke on the United States of America (USA) Henry Kissinger Report Policy on Africa’s population control: “This was produced in the 70s when Henry Kissinger was US Secretary of State. And it explicitly states, to this day it remains the official policy of the American Government, it has not changed. It may not be implemented by Donald Trump. But it remains the same. The purpose of this policy in Africa, was to reduce the population. So, in giving aids to Africa, it is not to help them with clean water, schooling, and all of that. But it is to encourage contraception and abortion. To shrink the population of Africa because they have enormous mineral resources there. At that time, Henry Kissinger and those involved, wanted to shrink the population of Africa, and MAKE SURE THAT AFRICANS DO NOT DEVELOP AND DO NOT USE THE RESOURCES ON THEMSELVES BECAUSE WE IN THE STATES, WE NEED THEM.
“There were concerted efforts of foreign powers to control the population of Africa. Africa is a huge continent. It could feed thousands of more people. But the policies of the West, especially in Europe – for example, between 1990 and the year 2000, US, Canada and Europe contributed about $6billion in contraceptives. Not to help the people in Africa with clean water, clean food, fight malaria, and so on. Left for us, ‘LET THEM DIE’ – that was the whole idea. So, in our work in HLI, it is TO MAKE THE AFRICANS AWARE, AND TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN POWERS.”
When asked if it was just the US, or if he believes China is also involved in this reap-off of Africa, Raymond said: “China is playing a major role because China is buying property in Africa. For example, in Mozambique, which is a Portuguese speaking language country, when Portugal was in charge, they used to export rice. Now, they are importing rice from China because they cannot produce, as their capacity to do so has been wrecked by the Chinese Government that is buying their farms. In fact, almost Third of Mozambique belongs to China. It is the same reality in South Africa. The Chinese are buying property, buying lands in Africa. They send their own Chinese workers. They don’t employ the people of that place. They send their own people to populate and live in those places in Africa.”
It is sad to note that, despite the fact that the Chinese are practically trying to come to take over parts of Africa to secure their economies and future population’s interest to Africa’s detriment, and as our African Governments allow this to happen; the Chinese themselves maltreat Africans in China as if they are rodents and pests that deserve no human face. Call it a double-edged sword, or another form of neo-colonialism, it is without a doubt that the existing diplomatic and economic relations between China and countries in Africa, which includes Nigeria, is more of a manipulative, discriminative, unbalanced and exploitative-relationship that benefits China more, to the detriment of Africa and its people.
The truth of the matter is that, THE WORLD AS IT IS, HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. So, Nigeria and the rest of the countries in the African continent, cannot afford to remain docile and a ‘feeding-farm’ for the rest of the developed worlds. No matter how we look at it or try to justify it, the countries in Africa, really do not have any iota of excuse to be where they are presently - as nations that are replete with all kinds of problems which are making life daily miserable for their common citizenries. The bottom line is that it is high time our political leaders and all African citizenry as followers, stop making excuses and start using their brains to THINK in developing their nations. That can only happen when we stop depending and relying on foreign developed countries to do things for us – be it in technology, science, medicine, infrastructure construction, etc. Agreed that no country is an island, and that every country needs the inputs of others to achieve some level and measure of transformation. But when a country’s/continent’s dependence on others is on the roof top, then something is intricately wrong. That is not a healthy bilateral-relationship at all angles.
Zik Gbemre.
September 10, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes