Africa remains a profitable chessboard. Subtle checkers with defined outcomes constitute the constructs aimed at keeping the continent perpetually colonised. Conjectured as the grandest of global wealth by virtue of her abundant raw materials, and constructed in far too many ways by the ‘advanced economies’ to remain so, Africa’s political and economic free reins means untold aches in the heart of the ‘civilising continents.’
Sub-Saharan Africa remains fundamental to the global prosperity of the advanced countries. And Africa’s role is that of a raw materials producer. The Western world would never allow Sub-Saharan Africa to escape this centuries-old programming. Any subterfuge, any economic policies, any military threats – almost anything that’ll keep Sub-Saharan Africa where it is, and forever impoverished – is most welcome and done with relish. This is absolutely vital for the prosperity of everyone else – but never Africa. We need to be clear about this. Every deck of cards dealt Africa is meant to shunt its free rein further in the rungs of misery and unserviceable debt burden.
By implication, all the economic structures, all the global institutions, and all the economics taught to everyone on the continent is all designed to keep Africa exactly where it is: poor and beggarly; and whether it’s Europe or USA or now China, the game is one and the same; colonialism in a different guise. They need Africa to remain poor and beggarly. Because they need Africa’s raw materials, and they need them dirt cheap.
This does not aver that Africans can do nothing about it. Of course, there is. There are so many ways to take a marauding dragon. But this loop in our socio-economic framework is what it’s all about…perpetual subjugation of the rich continent. If Africa dares to do something different about this tangential conditioning, rest-assured that the living standards of all those in Europe, North America and Asia will fall drastically be by any standard. That’s a big price for the West to pay. And they will never allow that to happen without a big fight.
So, the job of many Western academics is to convince Africans that they have to keep doing what they’re doing. They have to be content seeing the bigger picture of things but never striving towards those upward paths. And to show Africans that it’s their fault that they’re poor, propaganda is unleashed on the pysches of the people. It’s never the fault of the West as churned out by these propagandists. This is what they do in their academic institutions. They know the basic forces that have caused this underdevelopment in Africa. They know it is the fruits of colonisation, but they cannot afford to allow Africa to industrialise and start producing manufactured goods. That’ll mean fiat for economic competition. So they’ll do everything to stop the continent from reeling forward progressively.
How the West actually succeeded in blocking African industrial revolution is simple. They helped engender rapid East Asian industrialisation processes. So, in the early period, they had Japan do its thing in Korea and in Taiwan. A rapid growth ensued, sucking in raw materials from Africa, driving up the prices so ridiculously high, making it impossible for African leaders to resist the tempting offers. After those East Asian countries finished industrialisation, then Sub-Saharan African growth rate again fell; because Sub-Saharan Africa is condemned to this role, just a supplier of raw materials other than a manufacturer.
The currencies in many Sub-Saharan African countries are collapsing. It’s an inherent part of the new wave programming. After colonisation ended, they needed new structures to keep these African countries where they were, and the first of those were aids. They give African countries aid. Aid for what? They give African countries aid to keep repressive regimes in power. When there’s repressive regime, the humus for continued Western dominance is championed vicariously. That’s all there is.
All the hypocrisy about transparency and democracy in the modern world and all such bull shit is all bull shit really. Then in their sinister agenda, they go to country after country offering loans, and if any president refuses to accept the loans, such gets killed. It’s just mere economics at play. It’s an economic warfare; the rich declaring war on the poor. It happens everywhere. It happens within countries too. The rich control the government. Of course they do in leaps and bounds. There are shadow governments in every clime. These shadow governments are the rich. They’re the multinationals. They’re the puppeteers on the reins of governance.
Do you really believe you have democracy in Africa? Come on, grow up. Democracy is a farce. It never works on the continent. Who has and enjoys all the subsidies and income support? USA and its European allies. The largest budgets in the world for supporting their farmers stem from the US and Europe. So why can’t African leaders do the same?
Because the West is keeping Africa dependent; they’re keeping Africans in a strait jacket, beggarly and wretched. So the next schemes of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) – like its corollaries the IMF and the World Bank – are designed to block Africa’s manufacturing power. The policies are designed to block anyone else getting on top of the ladder. Africa has never been a true player at her power dynamics.
This encapsulates the grim dilemma of a fledgling continent. Here lies too the work that must be done to liberate the continent from the forces bent on perpetuating the second wave of colonialism. It’s an ongoing whirl-storm, more devastating than the first incursion on our shores. African leaders are deaf and blind to the stratagems. Those who dare are caught in the crossfire of gross ambitions. The continent is the worst for it.
We need a democracy that is peculiarly ours in concept and execution. We need not depend on foreign aid if we desire to get over the hump of neo-colonialism. We need to shore up the local capital by being productive on all fronts. Knowing the gambits at the other’s disposal allows you to plan the next line of attack. Like Sun Tzu says, hit the enemy at the centre of his gravity.
The enemy is our inability to be maximally productive. Our inability to be a manufacturing country and not one dependent on importation of even essential commodities is our greatest undoing as Africans. It’s the scariest part of the second wave of colonialism.
