Gun doesnt kill top-dog.Rather, It is dog that eats dog. Dear government, please permit me to go cultural on this. May thunder fire the cause of colonialism in Africa.I know must of you have read Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness which portrays Africans as savages.What a conundrum! The whites had one time called the Sahara as the white-man- graveyard. Colonialism in Africa had a different motive entirely. The entirety depends solely on selfish interest; each region in Africa, has its own peculiar exploitation and exploration tactics. Frantz Fanon speaks of military strenght in Algeria by the white. Thus,any body that goes contrary will incur what Fanon speaks of in Angola and Congo: death and amputation. History has it that the white men returnd to their vomits, they came down themselves for the scrambles for Africas nations.They created African bourgeoisies,equipted them with little rhetoric phrases and cadet training to subjugate their brothers.there is nothing like free LAND in Kenya. You should know who said that in Kenya.This is what Paulo Freire called pedagogy of the oppressed. Freires words, the system of dominant social relations creat a culture of silence that instils negative,silenced and suppressed self-image on the oppressed. Fanon conscientizes the Africans, that, revolutionary socialism is the best strategy for gaining sovereignty.Education is the only tool, that can be used, to revolutionize near-rebels that are battle ready,with the cardinal point of freedom at their forefront.But some anti-penmanship have suggested lately that the pen is not mightier than sword and gun.The Wests have hellenized some gullible Africans through what we know as policies of association and assimilation. But in my country, Nigeria, they wanted to distroy our cultures without providing us theirs-as a compensation .Sartre confirmed this in his preface to the Wretched of the Earth: a book by Fanon.The whitewashed elites continued their masturbations after independence .Not too long, they scrapped out history from our curriculum.They wanted to erase our memory off of the slave trade,colonialism,30 months war of Biafra Vs. Nigeria. What a heck! I tell you, they can erase it from any goddam tabula rasa for all I care.But the scars will remain in our minds eyes.The streets still have our pitter patter.The seas still have our ship wreck. Mind you. Third world countries have broken tradition: they are trooping to the West to be enslaved by the whites .It is like a reoccuring decimal in a geometrical equation. Telling.. I call it self-enslavement. Africa is uniquelly isolated from other continents because of what I cross-examined as colonial quarantine But Lèopold Senghor had called for negrittude and Marcus Garvey had called for rastafarianism.United States of A has been hammering on JIM CROW laws. They have fooled us for six decades.That was myopism on our paths. It is our turn to fool them for eternity.This is foollery ,rather buffoonery on their paths.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:30:35 +0000
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