#NeoColonialism
As long as Afrika is still committed to holding onto the borders given
to it by The Colonial Berlin Conference of 1885, more than it's
commitment to African trade and African integration as an important
aspect of African economic liberation. We should quietly continue under
the brace of western hegemony, white supremacy and neo-colonialism
because that is the choice we have made.
In 1956, Kwame Nkrumah,
the first Afrikan leader to liberate his country Ghana, wrote a
brilliant strategy on how African countries could fight and liberate
themselves from colonialism. This strategy was so successful that it saw
the whole of Africa successfully liberating itself within a short
period of 38 years. However this great strategist went on further to
write another book that outlined that African liberation would not be
complete until African countries had brought down their Berlin
Conference borders. These boarder were designed to limit their growth,
and until Africans began to trade with each other to build economic
scale, savings to industrialize and break the last legs of colonialism,
she would never be free.
What is interesting though is that even
though African leaders had gained liberation by following Nkrumah's
liberation strategies, none of them were willing to follow the equally
smart strategy to totally bring down colonialism by serving a fatal blow
to neo-colonialism, why?
Until we are willing to form a supply
cartel for our resources, until we are willing to open our boarders
& trade amongst each other and until we create our own financial
institutions, African currency, we will forever be plagued by the
disadvantages inbuilt into the neo-colonial system to disadvantage
Africa and to keep it uncompetitive.
Bon appetit Africa.
As long as Afrika is still committed to holding onto the borders given
to it by The Colonial Berlin Conference of 1885, more than it's
commitment to African trade and African integration as an important
aspect of African economic liberation. We should quietly continue under
the brace of western hegemony, white supremacy and neo-colonialism
because that is the choice we have made.
In 1956, Kwame Nkrumah,
the first Afrikan leader to liberate his country Ghana, wrote a
brilliant strategy on how African countries could fight and liberate
themselves from colonialism. This strategy was so successful that it saw
the whole of Africa successfully liberating itself within a short
period of 38 years. However this great strategist went on further to
write another book that outlined that African liberation would not be
complete until African countries had brought down their Berlin
Conference borders. These boarder were designed to limit their growth,
and until Africans began to trade with each other to build economic
scale, savings to industrialize and break the last legs of colonialism,
she would never be free.
What is interesting though is that even
though African leaders had gained liberation by following Nkrumah's
liberation strategies, none of them were willing to follow the equally
smart strategy to totally bring down colonialism by serving a fatal blow
to neo-colonialism, why?
Until we are willing to form a supply
cartel for our resources, until we are willing to open our boarders
& trade amongst each other and until we create our own financial
institutions, African currency, we will forever be plagued by the
disadvantages inbuilt into the neo-colonial system to disadvantage
Africa and to keep it uncompetitive.
Bon appetit Africa.
