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Imperialists never tire

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IT looks like Western imperialists never seem to tire of treating Africa as a continent fit for unmitigated abuse.
First it was the slave trade, followed by random partition and now it seems non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have a special task to destabilise African Governments.
There is the obvious danger of singling out some European countries as the main culprits.
We will have gone astray.
For they have been competing to outdo each other for centuries.
There is no saint.
With the slave trade we are more familiar with the exploits of the British as our erstwhile colonisers.
We might think that because they treated us as third-class or inferior beings it was them alone who were like that.
No.
All European powers who were involved in the slave trade had the same dim view of Africans.
It is unfortunate that this inhuman prejudice by a people who put the Holy Bible in front persists to this day.
This includes the trans-Atlantic slave trade giants like the Spanish and the Portuguese, who had flourishing settlements in the Caribbean and Brazil respectively.
And these flourished because of the slave labour of God’s creatures from Africa, who, because of their skin pigmentation, were turned into beasts of burden.
It’s mind boggling to imagine some of these imperialists became filthy rich by simply capturing Africans from the interior of Africa and bringing them to the coast as objects for sale.
The cruelty is indeed too ghastly to contemplate.
It was not only individuals in this unrestrained disregard of humanity.
The Dutch, the French and the English institutionalised it by treating the sale of blacks from Africa as business that invited stiff competition.
You would have expected a remorseful Europe when slave trade was eventually abolished.
This was not to be.
No sooner had they reluctantly agreed to the ban than they thought of another evil.
Again on Africa.
A continent whose occupants they had long considered to be subhuman was soon up for grabs.
‘Scramble’ is the appropriate word to describe the way the imperialists divided among themselves the otherwise rich and beautiful continent of Africa.
The whole exercise was hurried and clumsy.
No African leaders were involved.
No consideration was given to ethnicity in the partition of this vast continent.
Kingdoms, villages, kraals and families all were randomly demarcated.
This explains the awkward shapes like that part of the DRC which protrudes into Zambia or that funny piece of land called the Caprivi Strip.
And the problems related to this unstructured separation of brothers and sisters continue to haunt Africa today.
But then we thought when they had granted us independence be it through negotiations or the barrel of the gun, they would live us alone.
No, they would not.
They have now flooded the continent with NGOs, most of which, with a pious outlook but very evil intentions.
Now that Africans are ruling themselves, they want to continue exerting their influence by installing governments they control.
They want black governments in name but with the imperialists continuing to control the economy for the benefit of Europe.
And of course quislings are always in abundance.
That is why countries like Sweden, although never known for their colonising prowess in Africa, are now at the forefront in dishing out cash to promote groups bent on propagating regime change heresy.
This is all under the guise of a ‘culture fund’.
These European countries want us to revolt against our cultural beliefs, so that we become culturally empty.
What else would explain recent threats by Norway and Sweden to cut off aid to African countries that did not recognise gays and lesbians?
Why does the Netherlands sponsor an NGO by the name HIVOS that claims to be champions of sexual and reproductive health rights?
Yet we know that its primary objective is to defile our culture by promoting homosexuality.
And we have already talked about that Trojan Horse called Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA), a festival earmarked to promote regime change.
It’s no surprise that countries like Belgium, Norway and Sweden, among others, are available to sponsor NGOs that support theatre groups that try to influence people to revolt against the Government. We don’t’ know what is next.

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