The obvious and the undisputable fact is that all humans are possessive by nature. We enjoy every bit of anything that projects us better than others. Oftentimes we pose in arrogance even at the displeasures of others. Then our struggle for survival becomes an instrument to subjugate others.
It’s only that all human race at a point in history has suffered prejudice, slavery, torture, and other forms of barbaric treatments including the white of this age.
What really makes the difference is that, other clans have put their past in the archives of history, to embrace a more noble course of self-awareness, self-consciousness and self-projection geared towards self-development and the actualization of self-will. That is the more reason why every other races apart from Africa, are far ahead in terms of development, inventions and leadership styles.
For Africa, we have never left the corridors of blame game, our inward man was actually strong, agile and vast in all human endeavors, but we have consciously allowed our indoctrinated environment to limit us at that corridor of self-pity to get sympathy around the globe. We have allowed our past unfriendly events to becloud our thinking faculties, hence we beg for arms on daily basis in the name of foreign aids.
He that blows the piper dictates the tune, we have forgotten that nothing goes for nothing, the aids given to us by the white supremacists is not for free, they must get something in return from the black man. This is an ageless re-occuring event, but Africa will never learn because we have never stopped begging for arms.
Like I said earlier, every kingdoms, clans, tribes and empire in the history of the world have suffered slavery, it might be case of the victor, the victim or the vanquish, the bottom line is that men of the lesser power were captured and subjected to slavery. But the case of Africa, especially in my own clan appears a bit different.
History has it on record that my own people sold their kinsmen to the Whites to receive guns, mirror and other worthless materials. As a matter of fact, slavery was a booming trade between African rulling class and the White Supremacists. Why then should we blame the White for all our self-inflicted misfortunes?
The African elites in this dispensation have not learned any lesson, they are of course riding on high horse of honour, with sumptuous meal in their bellies and their pampered bodies resting in golden castles that have no eternal value. Yet their kingdoms and citizens are modern slaves subject to neocolonialism of the twenty-first century. Should we still blame the White Supremacists for this?
Supremacy and domineering trait is inherent in every human, black dominates and enslave fellow black, White dominates and enslave fellow white, history of human ideology of survival of the fittest is there for us all to consider.
From the Zulu-Bantu conquest in the southern Africa, to the Fulani-mai supremacist in the sub-sahara Africa, the kanem-bornu conflicts, the Benin-Yoruba war, the age long scottish-british supremacy conflicts, the Ireland versus England acrimony, the racial supremacy of Germany in the early twentieth century, the India- Pakistan tribal war, the Chinese-japanesse and the Chinese -Singapore aged conflicts, the American conflicts of the seventh century, the current unresolved battle for supremacy between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the timeless boundary war between Israel and Palestine. All these are evidence of human inherent quest for supremacy and domination.
It is high time Africa began to harness her potentials for self-development. No one can develop Africa better than Africans, we will always be the architect of our own fortunes and our own misfortunes. We must come to the realization of our past errors and the need to correct it all with measure that goes beyond the corridors of self-pity and begging for arms. We must domicile our knowledge and skills for internal development. Our leaders must be crusaders of black realization, sensitizers of black populace on positive values, and we all must be engaged in mass publicity of African projection into a more productive ventures that will usher us all to our deserve position in the global space.
We cannot continue to “JAPA” and expect to earn respect in the global space,
we cannot continue to blame other folks for our own misfortunes and expect the world to take us serious,
we cannot as well continue to beg for arms and expect the Whites to bow before us.
Israel was ravaged by holocaust yet she rise up from her ashes to build a formidable wall around herself. Now she is a global figure to reckon with despite her challenges.
Africa wake up! enough of arms beginning, enough for sympathy seeking.
staronthenile 