…an evil form of new colonialism is upon us

FELLOW Africans beware!
A very dangerous form of colonialism is right upon us in Africa, today.
To help us appreciate the nature of this new and dangerous colonialism, let us briefly look at the way the old colonialism came to Africa.
For quite a while in the 18th century Europeans knew very little about Africa. Then bang, they were told about the fabulous riches on the continent by their explorers and everything changed!
“In 1880, the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans.
“Less than 30 years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them.
“The rest 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects (at that time) – had been carved by European powers in the names of commerce, Christianity, ‘civilisation’ and conquest.”
At this time, raw physical force was used to colonise.
The truth of the matter, however, was that the sermons about, ‘civilising’ ‘Christianity’, ‘commerce’ etc were simply meant to lull the African to think that he, the African’s interests were going to be looked after by the new European colonial messiahs.
And so when the African eventually woke up and realised that the so-called European messiahs had been busy digging and carrying away all the riches from the womb of mother Africa to Europe, he there and then began to demand and fight for independence after the Second World War which he later won after many bitter struggles.
With the winning of independence, Africans thought that it was goodbye to the former colonisers.
Wrong.
To start with, the former colonisers never left the continent of Africa.
All what they simply did was to go underground and from there worked under many guises – as churches, big commercial companies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), intelligence organisations etc.
Under this format, representatives of the old colonisers have been passing on information home almost on a daily basis on what developments are taking place on the continent of Africa.
And in recent times, those developments have made the former colonisers lick their lips and rub their hands with delight.
New technologies have done real wonders to the discovery of new precious minerals.
Massive discoveries of high value minerals are being made on the continent daily.
“Today the African continent is in an oil and gas boom.
“New producers are emerging in the form of Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania and Mozambique, while Kenya and perhaps even Ethiopia could join the list.”
And these discoveries have made the former colonisers want to re-colonise Africa once again and loot these newly discovered precious minerals. However, this time around, they are using new methods of colonisation which are just as deadly as those they used in the past if not deadlier.
And these new methods are the sponsorship of local conflicts and so-called intervention.
Below we give examples of countries that made recent discoveries of precious minerals and have unfortunately attracted those new forms of colonialism.
One writer tells us that, “Sub Sahara Africa is expected to become a more important source of Liquefied natural gas over the next decade as Mozambique joins the ranks of the producers.
“Recent exploration wells have uncovered more gas, including an estimated 5-7 trillion cu ft, on top of the previous estimate of 80 trillion cu ft.”
Besides large quantities of gas that have been discovered in Mozambique, vast fields of very high grade coal have also been discovered in that country. It is expected that these vast quantities of gas, coal and oil will be exported to China and Asia.
Now here lies the problem.
The old colonialists don’t want new players in Mozambique or elsewhere. They want to monopolise the new discoveries.
To fight off the new competition, they are now resorting to using new methods of colonisation we have just cited above.
Let us look at a few examples starting with Mozambique.
As soon as Mozambique announced that it had made huge discoveries of coal, gas and oil on its land, ‘Renamo’, an old armed bandit movement which had been created in the past to destabilise Mozambique and was funded by the old colonisers, suddenly came from the dead having been resurrected by the old colonisers to cause trouble in the very areas where the new discoveries of coal, gas and oil were made.
Yes, the whole idea why Renamo was raised from the dead is for it to apply undue pressure on the Mozambican government so that the Mozambican government itself bends backwards and in the process give a blank cheque to former Western colonisers such as Britain, America, Portugal etc to mine coal, gas and oil in Mozambique without let or hindrance.
The so-called local conflicts have also been sponsored in South Sudan over oil, and the Central African Republic again over potential oil finds Western companies and NGOs are usually the foot soldiers who sponsor these conflicts.
Then there is this other form of the new colonialism which is as devilish as the one that specialises in sponsoring conflicts.
It is called ‘intervention’.
And the devil-in- chief in charge here is none other than the present French President Mr Hollande.
Whenever he wants to control a resource in a former French colony in Africa, he sponsors trouble first, which is followed by the sending of French troops to that former French colony.
In the former colony concerned the French troops commit a lot of murder at the end of which a new puppet leader is installed as the country’s new President.
The final act of this diabolic drama is the performance by the French President himself when he goes to the former African colony where a rented crowd of women and street thugs – ‘Maboorangoma’ line up the streets and greet him as a messiah.
Many Africans on this continent of ours have been shocked to see France now and again send troops to Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and now Central African Republic.
Can anyone tell me why France sends troops to its former African colonies whenever so-called local conflicts have arisen?
Don’t forget that there is the United Nations, the African Union, Ecowas etc who are the correct organisations to send troops to conflicts of that kind.
If France are Europe’s specialist when it comes to intervening in local conflicts, why hasn’t France intervened in the trouble in Greece or recently in Ukraine?
The answer to all these questions is that France is not intervening in Africa due to its love for the people of Niger for example.
They are intervening to take their uranium which they use for their energy production.
They are using a new form of colonialism called intervention to re-colonise their former colonies.
Therefore, fellow Africans let us be aware of the new forms of colonialism that are upon us on the continent and fight them off.