Opinion

Africa should 'Do' Africa

Felix Kimani
Dec 06, 2020
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Africa matters

There has been, and there will always be an uproar all over the world condemning prolonged injustices and oppression of black people especially in the United States. It is without doubt that justice is long overdue for black people regardless of where they reside in the world.

During the Second World War, United States fought gallantry leaving no stone undisturbed to eliminate the brutish Nazi Regime.

The regime was characterized by suppression, brutality, exploitation, ursapation and abuse of power which culminated with the most barbaric execution and annihilation of over six million Jews; qualities and inhumane acts that the United States viewed as, "unspeakable atrocity, tyranny and insufferable".

This prompted the United States goverment to embark on a gnarly campaign to aid its allies on a savage campaign to obliterate and to perpetually zap the German oppressive regime.

This was done by arming the allies, unreservedly, with all caliber of weapons to include foot, sea and airforce Soldiers. Potentially all ways and means that U.S could have afforded to deal with tyranny and oppression was launched.

But the hypocrisy of it all was the fact that, right in their own backyard, there was blatant, unimaginable oppression, subjugation and utter violence against African Americans who were dealing with the asinine Jim Crow rules of segregation and merciless police brutality characterized with tartarean leaning punishments.

Even while African Americans took arms, donned the uniforms and joined the ranks in the military rolling down from the Battle of Midway all the way to the victorious Battle of Bulge America did not budge. America did not ease or truly despise segregation.

Even when they were ready to give up the ultimate price, American justice system never dawned to the blacks and remove the shackles of oppression of black people without uselessly shedding their blood.

Unbelivebaly, black people suffered segregation even while in the ranks! Even while holding the weapon in the line of duty beside the white Soldier, the black Soldier was still considered subhuman!

In the days of Martin Luther King Jr, peaceful protests were met with full violent police mounted on thewy horses, armed with short and long guns, pressurized water guns, bantons and all kinds of blunt weapons to crash on peaceful protesters who held no weapons.

And what was black people asking? Equality! Basic human right.

What America hates, America meets with violence. Of course not all things that America hates is met with violence but you can't help but see the correlation. Nazi regime in Germany and all other fronts was met with all brute force and so was peaceful protests of black Americans asking for equality right here in America. After George Flyod, there were protests that were also met with police brutality.

Everytime there is a protest that is dominated by black people asking for their rights, America unleashes violence and the goverment defiantly refuses to heed their plea. At the peak of Black Lives Matter protests the President fenced the White House and ran off to the bunker. He tried everything in the book of ignorance to downplay the real issue at hand of systemic racism in America.

What else can a black man do to get justice in this World?

Africa was colonized largely, by Europeans who came and forcefully took control over Africans. They ransacked Africa's resources, disrupted their cultures, religions, dignities, and killed them like flies!

They even transmuted African names into English! I do not see the reason why a child born from the interior of an African village known as Ikolomani or Wakanda is named Henson!

Our ancestors worked for white men in the most brutish of environments. Under the scorching sun, biting cold and rain storms, they labored in pain day and night. They were thoroughly exploited in order to make wealth for the white nation.

South Africans dug potatoes with their bare hands, acreage after acreage. When one of them died in the burrows due to exhaustion, they were forced by their oppressors to bury them right where they gave up their last breath and then they would continue to dig potatoes with bare hands as if nothing had happened. In other words, black lives did not matter! Potatoes mattered!

After all the riches from exploited ruthless labor and torture made it to the pockets , black people were referred to as , ‘...monkeys incapable of learning...the negro....incapable of understanding..!’

What should a black man do to get justice in this World?

Will rage, shouts and moaning in the streets paraded by police so willing to loose firce dogs on them finally deliver justice for the black man? How much begging, persuasion or coercion is enough?

Time is up!

Time has come for black people to stop obsecrating justice from white justice systems. Time is now for Africa to quit gawping at white dominated justice systems and or reparations. Time has come for Africa to start building Africa! Time has come for Africa to build and fix their own justice systems!

For hundreds of years, African Americans have sought justice from the hands of white men, and they have never received it. Their plea have fallen into deaf ears. African Americans in the United States and other western countries need to get inside the system and fix it from inside.

Get in the system. Begin individual ramifications. Get the education. Join the police force by staggering numbers if that is possible. Be the majority in city police formations.

Change the policies from inside instead of moaning from outside and in the future it will be possible to recourse the downward spiral. It can be done. If black people continue to ignore such measures, then the clamor can continue from Kansas City to Los Angeles, Detroit to Chicago and nobody will care a tad like it has been in the past, or now and neither will anyone care in the future. In fact it is getting worse by the minute. That is why I said, TIME IS NOW!

This means more black people need to apply to become mayors, police chiefs, lawyers, doctors, teachers, and deliver justice for themselves. Vie for seats everywhere. Have the willingness and the resilience to tackle the difficult campaigns and succeed. The era of asking is over and have ushered the new era of taking whether we like it or not!

The African continent needs to retract their feeble, begging hands from western countries and for once, learn to fix their own problems! What is Africa begging for that they don't have? Why can’t Africa fix their own issues? Why do we require aids from past oppressors? And why do we think they are eager to fix our problems? We are either ignorant, passive or downright reckless. Africa should act smart and prove to the world and to themselves that they too, can get down to business!

Black on Black

It is implausible that black people are the worst oppressors of their fellow black people. It is only in Africa that civil wars, ethnicity wars, police brutality, untamed corruption which has been characterized by appalling poverty, still happens and are directly perpetrated by black politicians and the so-called leaders of Africa! The modern and worse oppressors of black people are black people themselves. Even in United States, the crimes in big cities are perpetrated in most part, by black gangs who murder their own black people in cold blood in broad daylight!

Meager politics

In order to earn respect from the rest of the world, Africa should build their own continent. Leaders of all ranks in Africa needs to stop the madness of corruption, witless politics, and doltish developments! Africa does not need planting of flowers alongside its ill drained streets or repainting of pavements, and erection of inutile statutes! Instead, significant developments in all kinds of infrastructure need to be accomplished in whatever means possible!

Africa is in dire need of visionary leaders. Ingenious. Leaders who not only see below their noses but can envision Africa a hundred years from now, and ACT now!

The politics of quarrel and useless noises that focus on who is going to succeed who and who is going to eliminate who should be buried in an unmarked grave. We need to ask ourselves: what will future generations say about us?

Dual carriage highways need to be ubiquitous all over Africa by 2030 to connect the entire continent and allow enormous trade between African nations. Electric trains connecting multiple African countries and large towns should be constructed day and night. There should be a decided effort to bring unity within our countries. Focus on practical education of our young people! Prepare them for the future or disregard their plight for a more darkest morrow.

I have a dream

Africa should rekindle Kwame Nkrumah's dream, not Pan-Africanism, but of trade that is primarily focused on Africa to Africa economic reinforcement. Africa should built a mighty African economy as a buttress against demeaning Asia and feigned concern of the West.

Obviously, this is not going to happen while uncivilized thievery of public resources continue to reign in all African governments and which made U.S President Trump refer to African Countries as, “Shithole Countries”. Instead, it should be a dedicated effort to build African economy, justice system, infrastructure with an eye focused on inexorable march to a high-quality civilized future.

Africa should do Africa

Our way of governance should not entirely be directed to emulate the Americas or the Europeans or Asians! We do not even need western or Asian freebies. We can close our boarders for renovation and reopen later when we are different, smarter, and prouder! We need to, as the slogan goes, “Do us”.

China does what China does. They do not care if United States rants and discredit their Communist way of governance! China continues, to, 'Do what China Does!’ Same as Russians. It doesn't matter whether what they do is good or bad; but they do whatever is good for themselves.

Why is Africa not, ‘Doing Africa’? Is Africa meant to drench and droop in corruption, stupid civil wars, and shameful poverty? Is that what we can say, ‘Africa doing what Africa does?’ Who will then give Africans justice? Who will create African wealth? Is it China? Who will fix African police, justice and health systems? United States? Who will educate Africans? Britain? Who will build and move Africa to become a first world? Russia? White man? Who will? Wake up Alkebulan or continue bootlicking your way to more misery, injustice, hideous future.

Felix Kimani

Am a true Kenyan patriot. I believe in Kenya's potential of becoming an economic powerhouse in Africa. I detest corruption for it has long dwarfed our potential as a country. The education, the healt...

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