By Dr Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura

AFRICANS are one people, not a rainbow nation. Africa belongs to them, not to all people of the world. No land belongs to all peoples of the world. No land is owned by all races of the world. Africans do not own Europe or America. Africans who think they do are simply being used as slaves to advance white interests against Africa.
Enslaved Africans were used against their will to advance white interests. The so-called icons of Africa created for Africa by whites are doing so by their own free will for the prize of money. All their talk about rainbow nations in Africa is just a myth.
Since when has the hyena grazed together with the sheep? Since when has the dog played together with the hare? Since when has the lion lived together as friends in love with the cow? Since when has the Devil supped with the Lord? Since when has a free people, ever practised multiracial ownership of their land except under colonial duress?
Every land belongs to a people as a race, not a rainbow nation. Europe belongs to Europeans as a race, not a rainbow nation. There has never been multiracial ownership of land in Europe in human history. Britain has always belonged to the British and the Queen. There are many races in Britain including Africans. There has never been multiracial ownership of land in Britain in recorded history.
France has always belonged to the French. There are many races in France including Africans. There has never been multiracial ownership of land in France in human history. Germany has always belonged to the Germans.
There are many races in Germany including Africans. Multiracial ownership of land in Germany has never been known in human history. Everyone knows what happened to the Jews concerning multiracial ownership of land in Germany. There was a holocaust.
Africa belongs to Africans as a people or race. It was colonised by Europe and divided among whites as a race. Africans were shared among Europeans as a people or race. They no longer lived their lives together as a people or race.
Some became colonies of Britain. Some became colonies of France, Spain or Portugal. Colonies of Britain were coerced to speak English and become ‘English’. Colonies of France were taught to speak French and to become ‘French’.
Those who were under Spain or Portugal were taught to speak Portuguese and Spanish and to become ‘Spanish’ and ‘Portuguese’. Africans were deemed to have become multicultural as a people and a race. Their cultures became ‘British’, ‘French’, ‘Portuguese’ or ‘Spanish’.
Multiculturalism among Africans refers to the boundaries that Europeans have drawn to divide Africans as belonging to England, Portugal, Spain, and France. Africans who assimilated the cultures of their colonisers condemned their own African cultures and languages as the cultures of a backward and inferior race.
The majority of Africans continued to live and belong to each other as a people even under colonialism. The educated ones among them formulated ideologies such as Pan Africanism to continue to remind African people that they are one, not diverse or a rainbow nation. Their destiny is one, not diverse in spite of the boundaries created among them by whites.
Their worldview and values are one, not diverse. Their philosophy of life is one, not diverse. Their idea of family and marriage is one, not diverse. Their idea of life, birth and death is one, not diverse. Their idea of God is one, not diverse.
Their interaction with nature and the environment is the same, not diverse. All these things that bind African people together as one are what they refer to as their culture. They are developed or ‘cultured’ on land by Africans as a people, not a rainbow nation.
Multiculturalism is an artificial creation of colonialism. Its purpose is to persuade Africans to come up with constitutions and laws that allow foreign cultures to settle on African land and make Africans fight each other as if they were diverse peoples or cultures.
The ultimate vision of a rainbow nation is to divide African people and weaken their resolve to fight together as one people and one race against continued plunder of their land and all its wealth by other races especially whites.
The same is true of multiracialism as a constitutional requirement for African countries. The idea is to coerce Africans by force of law to accept other races, especially whites as former colonialists and racists to come back to Africa and settle among Africans on equal terms with Africans and enjoy equal opportunities and rights as Africans to access and use African resources both human and material to enhance the lives and destiny of whites on African soil.
Africans should therefore never allow themselves to be fooled into thinking that Africa belongs to all races of the world that have come to live in it including whites as colonisers and conquerors of Africa who continue to look down on Africans as their slaves.
Whites themselves never practise multicultural equality in Europe, let alone multiracial ownership of land even in the countries they have colonised such as Australia or New Zealand. Africans in America have no land to call their own although they are called Americans and contribute so much to American global ambitions to subdue the whole world.
The story is the same of Africans in Europe. They have no land to call their own in Europe although they may be called citizens of Europe and fool themselves into thinking that they are indeed Europeans and are entitled to equal rights and opportunities that Europe offers to whites as the real owners of land in Europe.
Every race has its land. That is the bottom line in the real world we live in. Africa is for Africans as a people or race, not a rainbow nation.