AFRICAN EXPLOITATION (SIERRA LEONE) One of the leading causes for indisputable failure is when we unreasonably believe to be incapable of doing what others have done for economic improvement. That is exactly what the West convincingly preach to African nations in order to further push us to failure. We were forced to surrender ourselves into slavery and worked for the West in their factories, farms, gardens and homes for hundreds of years, building the foundations of development, including the technology they enjoy today. After millions of Africans were forced into slavery, some plummeted in the Atlantic Ocean to prevent overloaded ships with slaves, minerals and raw materials from sinking; the tactic was changed to a more veiled colonial hegemonic style that leaves Africans in pernicious poverty today with wars and man-made disease plaguing the entire continent. Africa is the most poverty and disease ridden continent in the world with life expectancy ranging from 35 to 55. Yet, the mortality rate is in the increase across African countries. One of the most important reasons undermining African development is to embrace detrimental growing ideas created by the West in their incessant effort to deplete African economies. We are nations with full integrity of self-governance, yet our economies are in free fall. Millions of children are denied education, thousands die of minor health problems yearly due to the lack of good medical care. The world is in its fullest pace of economic competition. Developed nations are intent to maintain their economic status built upon African exploitation and corruption. It is time African leaders examined newly formed Western economic ideas before implementing them in our frail economies. For example, the idea of PRIVATIZATION is a bid for African economy liposuction. This is an idea meant to take away the commons of the people. Initially, business men or entrepreneurs who invest in privatization need strong capital background to engage in such a lucrative business. The West invented this idea in order to help Western wealthy businessmen to occupy the commons of the people, exploit them and take the returns to the West. Of course, with 95% of privatization contracts affected on the continent are offered to wealthy Western businessmen. All institutions controlled by the government are owned by the common people. How can a government privatize what belongs to the people in the name of creating economic growth? Every government is looking for ways to improve economic figures without paying close attention to how such figures are created. When the wealth of the people is privatized, governments have showed they are impotent to managing the affairs of the state and its people. Therefore, the people have constitutional rights to demand from governments the restoration of their wealth to them. Here are some reasons why privatization should not be allowed to spread further in Africa because it augments the exploitation of African wealth and pushes people to abject poverty. 1) When water is privatized, of course one company makes more wealth, but the ordinary people die of ulcer, lever, heart and lungs problems, tuberculosis as they lost access to clean drinking water because the company owner the European or American, if I may venture, increases the price of clean drinking water with the pretext that he/she has to pay the government, workers following the deduction of their intended profit. 2) When electricity is privatized, poor people lost access to energy, their children, who are the future of the nation, lost access to modern education because their parents cannot afford the bills. 3) When government owned companies are sent down the pipeline of privatization, the youth are forced to work under tough labor conditions with less pay, as governments interests are directed at earnings received from privatization and not at the harsh conditions of the citizens employed. Moreover, when the basic sources of living for the masses are privatized, this is clearly a way of restoring colonial exploitation indirectly. In the modern age of highly economic competition, public wealth is appropriated in the hands of the rich through influence. This influence borne from obnoxious economic pursuits is creating more new poor people. When lands with valuable minerals are given to private companies, the local people lost access to farming lands which are the principal source to earning and feeding their people. Such lands are grabbed with no true compensation provided to enable these poor farmers make ends meet. Millions of our young brothers and sisters are forced to migrate from the continent in large numbers to look for where to make a better living even though death awaits them in the hands of border guards both in land and sea. Africans must not continue to accept new economic ideas without given them sane thoughts before implementation. We are nations with lands, rivers, mountains full of precious minerals and world first class resources, yet we are the most retrograded continent. Our climate is wonderful and conducive for every development, being it agriculture, technology and so on, yet we lack of the basic needs for humans. If we do not act now to change the lives of our people, our children will certainly not act tomorrow. We are the people waited for in generations to make better decisions in the interest of advancing our economies whereby everyone shall benefit, children have access to quality education, the poor are provided basic needs, the sick is afforded good health care system, and the youth have greater job opportunities, news homes are built for the homeless etc. With all humbleness, I would have the pride if you can share us your ideas on how we can improve African economies with Sierra Leone in the top of the list. Ismail Amin Tarawalie
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:09:51 +0000
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