PLEASE READ ALL Swiss Kpakor Prosper May 9 . Please Read: Simple question. Are you Nigerian? Do you have constitutional rights accorded to Nigerians to participate in their democratic process? If not, I have news for you. You cant do anything about the girls missing in Nigeria. You cant. Your insistence on urging American power, specifically American military power, to address this issue will ultimately hurt the people of Nigeria. It heartens me that youve taken up the mantle of spreading awareness about the 200+ girls who were abducted from their school in Chibok; it heartens me that youve heard the cries of mothers and fathers who go yet another day without their child. Its nice that you care. Heres the thing though. When you pressure Western powers, particularly the American government, to get involved in African affairs, and when you champion military intervention, you become part of a much larger problem. You become a complicit participant in a military expansionist agenda on the continent of Africa. This is not good. You might not know this, but the United States military loves your hashtags because it gives them legitimacy to encroach and grow their military presence in Africa. AFRICOM (United States Africa Command), the military body that is responsible for overseeing US military operations across Africa, gained much from #KONY2012 and will now gain even more from #BringBackOurGirls. Last year, before President Obama visited several countries in Africa, I wrote about how the U.S. military is expanding its role in Africa. In 2013 alone, AFRICOM carried out a total of 546 military activities, which is an average of one and half military missions a day. While we dont know much about the purpose of these activities, keep in mind that AFRICOMs mission is to advance U.S. national security interests. And advancing they are. According to one report, in 2013, American troops entered and advanced American interests in Niger, Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, Burundi, Mauritania, South Africa, Chad, Togo, Cameroon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Sudan.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:14:39 +0000
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