AFRICA lies behind all continents when it comes to economic performance.
Take note.
I have avoided saying ‘economic development’ because this concept, in its current usage, is borrowed.
The West has gone a long way in setting the false ideal for Africa and indeed the rest of the world.
You can describe the condition weighting down the world as epistemological or ontological hegemony.
Everything is defined in terms of how the West defines reality, and yet what the West preaches or rather prescribes for its injudicious admirers, is not what it practises.
They preach hollow and limiting education for Africa, an education that teaches Africans to shy away from producing anything let alone beneficiating the natural materials available to them in abundance for their own needs; rather they are taught to fold their arms or put on suits made elsewhere, in someone else’s design, and sit on a table made by someone else using wood from Africa then proceed to eat using the white man’s cutlery or the Chinese sticks or any other such stuff as long as it is exotic.
The African’s love for things foreign is miasmatic.
Filled in the tummy with things foreign, African family members part ways for either the school or the church or the bar.
At the school they imbibe the whiteman’s ideas that galvanise their alienation from home.
At the church they are made to replace their parents with new ones real and unreal. They cast away the African ‘demons’ in them as they are ‘born again’.
New Bible names take over retrogressive African names.
At the bar they drink the witeman’s beer to wash away memories of who they had once been.
These willing victims are not satisfied with being physically colonised; they cherish mental, emotional and spiritual subjugation as well.
Yes, they hunt for everything other than their own all because the mindset that drives their lives is not theirs.
Theirs was systematically battered over years of physical and mental torture.
They now have borrowed mindsets.
Borrowed operating systems.
Borrowed appetites.
Borrowed ways of knowing.
This mindset does not train them to move forward.
No.
Sophistication for them is not consensus, but difference and dissonance.
That is why in all their deliberations they concentrate on individualism hidden under the bushel of a façade called ‘democracy’.
You hear them saying, “In my opinion,”; “It depends,”; “From a Marxist perspective,”; “From a deconstructive perspective,”; “According to,” etcetera each time citing someone else (preferably a revered outsider), never themselves; and this kind of intellectual bootlicking is valued as scholarship or academia.
Yes, the standard for passing the test of Western academicism is behaving like a faithful dog; quoting as many Western scholars as possible; proudly stating, “So-and-so argues” or “posits” without ever showing ability to argue or posit anything informed by their own African centre.
They remain vicarious intellectual ‘bee-tos’, never masters of their own knowledge systems; neither inventors/discoverers nor dreamers, but perennial consumers of other people’s dreams.
Do we wonder why Africa is underdeveloped and underdeveloped?
We have been immobilised into waiters, waiting for answers from elsewhere.
Alas poor Africa!
This thinking is manufactured for you.
The so-called education which we have inherited including the processes and practices of its content creation and delivery does not encourage us to think independently.
To ‘think independently’ does not mean thinking independently of our primary values.
It is not about thinking without a box.
It goes beyond rejecting other people’s boxes.
It is about embracing your people’s box.
Correctly understood ‘thinking independently’ should mean
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thinking independently of other people.
That is to say thinking like your people, your forefathers; that is, thinking with them, not unlike them.
Take heed fellow Africans.
There is no such thing as democracy.
It is never practised as it is taught in the US, UK in Europe and even in China.
It is a concept manufactured for fools.
The US is ruled by a military- industrial complex, the powerful financial elites who control literally all institutions in the US.
They control the politics, the education, the media, the religions and the economics.
That is why to date the Federal Reserve Bank is a private company.
In fact all the institutions stated above may appear to oppose each other on the surface, but they work in unison for the same dictator (the secret society).
It is called contrapuntal unity.
The apparent ‘democratic’ opposition is all meant to dupe people who have been trained to believe that democracy exists.
Not all institutions that oppose each other in public are enemies.
They are only selling dummies for ready believers.
There is no democracy; not even in Heaven.
Have you forgotten your scriptural myth which says that Satan was punished for trying to be like God?
In practical terms democracy is anarchy.
It is an illusion.
It is an instrument which super-powers use to deny democracy in other countries. You know too well that when it comes to protecting their greed for oil and other minerals, the US knows no morals.
In fact the United Nations Security Council, the International Criminal Court, conventions and constitutions are created for others to follow; the US is an exception.
Remember it is not even a signatory to the ICC; meaning it can perpetrate heinous international crimes with impunity while Africans are sent there as a punishment for trying to resist American and European’s global excesses.
Likewise, elections in Europe and America are legitimising processes.
The leaders are chosen by the military-industrial complexes and the duty of the media is to rubber-stamp the favoured candidate.
And if directed voting fails to yield desired results, the courts do it all to keep the facade of democracy.
And even if the courts fail there still is no cause to stir – all the political parties take instructions from the same boss anyway.
You have seen how Obama, the Democrat has appointed Republicans into key positions of security and government.
And yet we still think that democracy exists in there.
Did you not hear David Cameron saying on his instalment, “I have been to Her Majesty, the Queen, and she has allowed me form a government.”
Is this not enough to show you there is no democracy there?
When will you tire of importing and accepting manufactured lies?
Properly understood, democracy should be understood by Africans as consensus, otherwise in its current form, for all purposes and intents, it encourages anarchy and anarchy means the ‘tower of babel’.
It means immobility.
Value consensus comes from a shared past, shared culture, shared present and shared future.
It means maintaining unhu/ubuntu.
As one Chinese once said, “The secret of our success is doing things our way.”
The challenge for Africa is one; changing the mindset, rejecting the borrowed one and putting on your own with Africa as the centre of your world.
That is the full essence of – Africa – centeredness.