By Osoro Nyawangah
The
OAU was an organization set up by flag independent African states in 1963 with
very clear objective of liberating the remaining African nations from direct
colonial rule.
When that objective was more
or less achieved, OAU’s forward mission became vague and even confused.
The situation necessitated the
setting up of a new organization with clearer mandate. Soon, the African Union
(AU), mimicking the EU was born.
Unlike the OAU however, the AU
lacks bold and convincingly achievable mission.
‘Bringing Africa Together’ might
be a realizable slogan for the likes of Ethiopian Airlines, but converting this
motto into actionable programs on a continental level is bound to remain a
daunting task!
AU’s catchphrase for the year
(2020) is ‘Silencing the Gun’, another utterance of commendable import. It
seems the union has a knack for such political jingles.
On the ground, however,
Africa’s tangible reality is far from the slogan’s aspiration.
For instance, the Sahel Region
remains highly destabilized; the situation in the two Sudans remains
precarious, some central African states exist only in names and the Horn of Africa
condition is unsettling, to say the least.
After the ‘humanitarian
bombing’ of Libya, the real intention of empire is now quite clear. See the
article by the deep state on page 36.
Empire’s position on Africa
seems to be: No ‘independent’ or ‘sovereignty’ aspiring African state will be
tolerated to pursue its own interests/ambitions!
To this end, the US Africa
Command has established around 70 military bases on the continent.
All AU’s rhetorical niceties
aside, Africa is, in actual fact, back on the leash! Recall the Berlin
Conference of 1884-85.
AU is an organization that
depends on the powerful states of the world system even for its operational
budget. Worse still, it doesn’t have Afrocentric ideology to help it stir around
the sophisticated manoeuvring and manipulation of the dominant and oppressive
global order.
That says a whole lot about
the sincerity of the organization as well as the politicos steering it.
One must be very clear as to
the very essence of the AU. The AU is not an organization
that is answerable to the Peoples of Africa, it is an entity set up by the
African states for the states!
Therefore, putting high hopes
on the AU is not really warranted, despite the continuous pontification of its
revolving political honchos.
Its structure hardly allows
the various voices of the African peoples to be heard and their summits do not
mean much to the people of Africa!
By design or default, the
union is a component of global organizations whose main objective is to uphold
the interests of transnational capital.
The various rules and
regulations, norms or mores, be them in trade, investment, politics, culture,
religion, sports or entertainment, are all devised to further the penetration
of transnational capital in the sphere of Africa’s wholesome humanity.
Free trade areas,
‘globalization’, blah blah, are mere institutional tools, effectively employed
to disfranchise Africa from its resources!
Incidentally, the Brexit
popular vote, in its core, is also a challenge to the preponderance of
transnational capital that has no consideration for the welfare of its human
base!
By and large, Africa’s current
elites are oblivious to their own concrete circumstances. Many of our elites
have no clue as to the consequences of abandoning their own ethnography
(history, geography, culture, religion and art).
Self-hate has found, perhaps
its highest expression, in certain camps on our continent. In some places our
hyphenated elites have transformed ‘self-hate’ to an art form.
Tanzania's President, Julius Nyerere (L) with Samora Machel (Mozambique) and Zambia's president, Keneth Kaunda (R) |
As the overriding lifelong
ambition of our current ‘belly thinkers’ is only to impress the old masters, to
secure crumbs, the African sheeple must, per force, look for its salvation
elsewhere!
When the so-called
‘democratization’ was launched in the 1980s, the old teacher had a premonition
about Africa’s ‘dependence craving’ elites at the service of empire.
He characterized the unfolding
situation as ‘The Scramble for Africa Round Two’ (Mwalimu Julius Nyerere)!
What is our salvation? The
African people need to set up a loose continental organization at the grass
root level, which will be committed to the betterment of the African people in
all spheres of existence.
These social movements rooted
on the nation-states mass organizations should avoid the ‘political party’
format.
Political parties are
susceptible to ethnic-ized politics, capture by criminal oligarchs, prone to
pressures from the rich and powerful states or resource limitations.
So far the political party
trapping has only brought Africa corrupt megalomanias with myopic visions.
To continue depending on our
highly compromised states will only facilitate the entrenchment of misery and
dissatisfaction.
Our credentialed elites, who
are (by and large) irredeemable idiots, do not have what it takes to salvage
our humanity from the dehumanizing trajectory they are programed to pursue.
What Africa needs is another
crop of leaders in the mould of the old freedom fighters!
Legalistic and choreographed
humanity that obtain in the highly industrialized nations of the world system
should not be our model.
The continuously declining
interest in procreation is the ultimate proof of the anti-human nature of the
prevailing global order.
Africa must be the vanguard in
the struggle for pro-life and attendant human emancipation, comprehensive
liberation! Our still lingering spontaneous humanity must be leveraged to save
modern man from his follies.
The destructive global matrix
that worships at the altar of the techno-sphere must be challenged. We believe
this is a worthwhile project that needs to be pursued by all humanity,
irrespective of our exaggerated superficial differences!
Martin Luther King Jr., once
said “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever
affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
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