“And so they called the Berlin Conference in Germany, at that time headed by Otto Von-Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm, attended by the same United States of America who tells you that they had nothing to do with this scramble for African. It is the master lie of them all. At the Berlin Conference they gave another ‘Christian civilizer’, King Leopold II, the biggest and richest half of Africa they thought at the time. Leopold decided to keep the Whole of Mani-Kongo, which they later called the ‘Congo Free State’, more than many times the size of Netherlands and Belgium included. You could place Germany and the Netherlands in Mani-Kongo, carry it across the place with an airplane, and it would still not touch the borders. This colossal estate he wanted to exploit, so he travelled in Europe, to England, and all over the United States of America and started what they called the ‘Congo Free State’. They decided that it was here that ‘International Law’ was going to take place. There were African nations at the time of the Berlin Conference in 1884/86. There were Haiti in the Caribbean Sea, Liberia in West Africa by 1847, and Ethiopia on the East side of Africa; they were not invited to the Berlin Conference. It was strictly England, and the twelve European states along with the United States of America. Thus when the United States of America says she had nothing to do with the ‘partition of Africa’ she is lying, because the representatives of the United States of America at the Berlin Conference was John A. Kasson, and at the Brussels Conference, Edwin H. Terrell. Both of them carried the title, Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador Extraordinary. You can find this in the second volume of Sir Edward Hertslet’s official documents on the Berlin Conference and Brussels Conference.” “King Leopold II had Mani-Kongo. The other powers started to realize that Leopold had got the best part of the deal and so they tried to steal it from him. Leopold therefore, called a second conference at Brussels; and there at Brussels the decision was made to start an international system of law to govern the world under the control of England and the twelve European colonial powers with the support of the United States of America which had by this time made attempts to take over Liberia. (They supposedly started on humanitarian basis during the rule of President Monroe, after whom the capital of Liberia is named—‘Monrovia’. In 1847 the Africans who came back from the United States of America decided they had had enough abuse from these people who were supposed to bring them ‘into civilization’ again. After the United States of America had given two naval frigates to mow down the indigenous Africans at home, those Africans who had returned from slavery in America eventually killed off their European teachers of civilization from America and established their own independent Republic in 1847. Of course, later, France also tried to take over Liberia’s customs on the pretext that Liberia owed her some money; and therefore she took control of Liberia’s export and import.)” “That scramble for Africa established the basis for Woodrow Wilson, the United States of America’s President in 1918, to start another fiasco called ‘League of Nations’. After Kaiser Wilhelm and others had realized that they were going to be left out, they started fighting not only for Togo but also for Cameroons in West Africa and Tanganyika in East Africa. The Germans went to West Africa, then on to East Africa with Dr. Karl Peters and others, where they took Tanganyika. In the meantime a very sick man from Scotland suffering with tuberculosis, one Cecil John Rhodes, came to Africa to get better. An African woman came to his aid and gave him all kinds of potent medical mixtures Europeans called ‘witch doctor concoctions.’ They called it that, but it saved him. Rhodes was to survive and attempted to create what England wanted, the Cape to Cairo railroad, only to be frustrated by the Ethiopians and the people of Uganda, the Baganda Kingdom of that time which was still United.” Article by Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan title “The Real Story of the Scramble for Africa” Book title “Our Story: A Handbook of African History and Contemporary Issues” Edited by Akyaaba Addai-Sebo and Ansel Wong Page 32
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