AFRICAN CONTINENT

GOVERNANCE – AFRICAN CONTINENT

AFRICAN CONTINENT, Cameroon, Non classé

WHAT WENT WRONG ???

Today, in most African countries the citizens are way ahead, hate and fear the Presidents for Life. The corruption, lack of health, education, jobs. The dreams have turned to dust.

WHY?

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Absolute power is the cancer of absolute corruption. Government by the power clique, for the clique. Forget the people. Subjugate the poor.

Cameroon, Uganda, Ruanda… presidents change the constitution in order to stay in power. To stay alive and avoid prosecution for corruption, killing, suppressing…

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Madiba said: « Africans don’t lack in ability, they lack opportunity ».

Yeah, like 70%+ unemployment, unless Daddy knows a Big Man.

WHAT TO DO?

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GOOD GOVERNMENT CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT GOOD OPPOSITION

Winston Churchill said to an adversary: « I detest your opinions, but I will fight for your right to express them ».

African Presidents, don’t arrest, silence, kill your political adversaries. Protect and treasure them. It is they that make you think harder, think better. Serve the people.

GOOD GOVERNANCE NEEDS GOOD OPPOSITION!

 

 

 

10 REASONS WHY COLONIALISM WAS BAD, BAD, BAD!

AFRICAN CONTINENT, Apartheid, Britain, COLO, COLONIALISM, Non classé

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EUROPEAN COUNTRIES INVADED, SETTLED & FINALLY COLONISED THE ENTIRE AFRICAN CONTINENT. 

South Africa was among the first territories to be settled, by the Dutch in 1562, unseated shortly after by the British.

Formal colonial rule was, for the most part, imposed in the latter part of the 19th Century, principally by Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany…

To ‘justify’ the scramble for Africa and its wealth, a Platonic Founding Myth had to be found:

“to civilise the barbarian natives of darkest Africa.”

The so-called mission of civilisation was uniformly carried out in the following manner:

1)      Seizure and confiscation of all land.

2)      Pillaging and theft of all natural assets. 

3)      Systematic murder, (ethnic cleansing), of dissident tribes  – Bushmen & Hottentots. 

4)      The creation of the Slave Trade.

5)      Introduction of Race Laws to suppress and de-humanise.

6)      The imposition of Christianity. In name but NOT in practice.

7)      Limitation of freedom of movement and education – a.k.a. Apartheid.

8)      The pretence that the indigenous population was inferior – unter-mensch.

9)      Institutionalisation of a Baas culture, with the superiority of the White man.

10)    The lasting impoverishment, to this day, of the entire population of the Continent.

Apologists for Colonialisation argue that Europe brought to Africa: roads, transport, skyscrapers, gold mines … Yes for the white settlers, but NO for the disenfranchised.

T H E  R A P E  O F  A   C O N T I N E N T.