| The Long Aims Of Pan Africanism Against Colonialism And Recolonialism In Africa . The Long Aims Of Pan Africanism Against Colonialism And Recolonialism In Africa .
COLONIZATION AND RECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA
Daily relevante talks of todays Politician like leaders of Africa for the Organisations like the AU ( African Union ) hardly and never talk to mention at all of Independence or Sovereignty, but only talk about Social rights, Human rights, Women's rights, Civil society and NGOs and these types of "soft values" as opposed to the OAU, which in its charter sought to defend the Political Independence of African Nations / States .
There are also a lot of rubbish talks about International Peace Keeping, and how the International Community should go and enforce order upon the Africans which simply means in the end sounds like " Let ' s go and civilise the savages again because the last time we went down there they didn ' t get it ". The theory of the Recolonization of Africa is still valid , inother words when you are hearing from the mouths of these present African leaders . Recolonisation is being freely allowed by them through like a UN Mandate System, or through Big Business being allowed to go in and do it on a private basis.It seems many African leaders therefore do not what they are saying .
Accordingly , to me , there are two big issues for the African people to see : firstly, is the Organisational situation; secondly, there is the AU and what it entails . Meanwhile the European Mentor Colonialists are quite aware , but there are the Africans of two Categories: One being category of the so called Africans who are and referred to as educated, who are supposedly to have learned to speak English, French, Spanish, Portugeese; who are sometimes called middle class ( known best Black Europeans ) .
These ( The Black Europeans ) are different in thinking with the Africans, those who have no access to foreign European languages or to other modes ; such things of European way of doing and in behaviour but only have their own mother tongue language and therefore regarded as Primitive . Really between these two categories there is a conflict. A big conflict.
The question is , are the Africans as a whole going to return to Primitivity ? Actually this is what the Black Europeans say, and they say it is best that, now, we go foreword and abandon Primitivity. You know what this means ? It only means behind the philosophy is that , the Black man and the Black African must be civilized based on European Civilisation which must continue in the modes of Recolonisation and there is no question of being ashamed of that. What European say and in their daily talk is that : of Recolonisation of Africa which is not about it , should happen . The truth is that it is already happening. The best example of this is the AU. They even said it with their own mouths: AU was founded based on European Union model. This is the plain fact . It is a return to Colonization , except this time, the African leaders willingly ; are willingly taking it in a Golden Plate and give it to the Europeans. Simple and clean.
Therefore, the idea of civil society, that of human rights are just play games being played and this time the situation is even worse than that of the 1840`s...
Africans cannot blame their Forefathers for selling themselves as slaves. Back then ( in the 1840`s and onwards ) the Europeans had to kill in order to get the Land . It was a war on Africans . There did not exist such things like taking Prisoners of War . In war all those captured either were killed or taken as slaves . Naturally , there were also some treacherous African Chiefs who benefited out of their collaborations with the foreign forces to sell their fellow Africans for whatever rewards they received . War is War where anyting can happen .
But today with a glass of wine to the President of an African country, you get the whole Land. So they can save the bullets and loot Africa at will as they ( the Europeans and others ) want. This is the worrying situation for Africa in days to come now .
The other Issue is Peace Keeping. which is just a Game. In a way this is trying to transform, to change, to rule the present African Countries, who would like to revolt and seek for Freedom and Independence therefore, you must hit them hard, so that they obey those Black Africans who are their Leaders, chosen by their European Masters.
In short , Peace Keeping is being used as an Instrument in the same way as Colonial Armies were brought to control the African chiefs and the ordinary African population. It means the same thing. Colonial soldiers or Peace Keeping . There is no difference other than one starts with P ( Peace force ) and the other one starts with C ( Colonial force ) . This is the truth Reality.
I ought to have a thought about those Africans who are considered primitive - perhaps like Mugabe of Zimbabwe – He might be one of the most " primitive " ones, but He and others in Africa are still struggling for the Land against the mighty British. He will continue to fight and perhaps through him is to learn and thoroughly well whereby Africans can succeed to maintain their Land, defend their People and achieve Freedom and Liberty in the future, in the continent of Africa.
But the homework is to be done because in the Political Arena I have come across the concept that Africa should not be free and that it should be ruled from Europe as an appendage of Europe. It is a Real Issue. There is no question about it. There is no shame to admit that the Philosophy exists. ; does Africa accept to be Slaves of Europe ? Do we accept to be Appendages of Europe ? That is the question the Africans must answer . Period. !!
What is the difference between African Union and the OAU ?
I can say it as follows : AU, which means the African Union ( formed in Sirte in Libya; as Idea and foundation but the Constitutive Act was drawn up in Togo on 11th July 2000 and completed in Pretoria, South Africa ) while the OAU, Organisation of African Unity as Idea and foundation was created in 1947 on 25th May when the King of Lado ( John Anacleto Atobua Agami) talked to the African Chiefs, saying that Africans should have an organisation of their own to bring African Unity and OAU came into being on 25th May 1963, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ( on the Birthday of this King of Atobua of Lado ) as a commomeration to him .
This Idea of OAU came about because part of Africa was French speaking ( Francophonie ) and the other part of Africa was English speaking, with headquarters in London.The Francophone Headquarter was situated in Paris. There was the Arabic speaking in the North.Africa with Headquaters in Cairo, Egypt, who are Africans too. The fourth group was the Portuguese speaking Africans such as Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, and Cap Verde. Then there was the Spanish speaking Africans: Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara, though they ( Western Sahara )are not yet independent. This was termed as Lucophone Africa.
Africa was ( and still is ) divided into these four. Groups : Anglophone, that is all English speaking people under British Commonwealth now , Francophone, all French speaking people known as La Francophonie with headquarters in Paris under France, Lucophone all the Spanish and Portuguese speaking Africans with their headquarters in Lissabon and Madrid and the Arabic speaking with Headquaters in Cairo. Finally you have the last Ladophone, the Sudanic Speaking Africans in Ladoland, known as the State of lado with its headquarters in Arua - Aru .
It is important to note that some people think Arabic is an African Language. The answer is no, Arabic is an Asian language. It is a Foreign Language and a Religious Language like Latin, which is a Religious Language and European language. It cannot be called an African Language. The Arabic peoples conquered North Africa in the 7th century ( 640 AD – 740 AD ).
Today at UN, Africans are identified either as Arabic speaking, Francophone, Anglophone or Lucophone. Africa does not exist. That is why in Africa The State of Lado through its Provisional Government ( LPG ) decides that the people of Lado are called Ladophone. So the Lado People, are not any of the four. This is is the battle today, why we are told Lado should not be an Independent and Sovereign Nation State, because we will spoil Africans.
Now, what is the real difference between OAU and AU ?
OAU was the African Souls working to achieve Unity amongst themselves. Whereas AU means a Union with the Europeans. ( Read the OAU Charter of 1963 and the AU Constitutive act of 11th July 2000 ) .
Let me just repeat to clarify: Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ) means Unity among African People – that is Francophone, Anglophone, and Lucophone. No matter what differences are in Religion, be they Catholic, Protestant, Muslim etc, or Tribe, the idea is that African people must come together as a People of Africa; and as an Entity.
African Union ( AU ) means the whole Continent of Africa united with Europeans, ruled by Europe, so it means union with Europeans. The other one ( OAU is the Unity amongst Africans by themselves, fighting for their Freedom and Liberty. This is the distinction between the two: African Unity and the African Union.
The Africans are not allowed to know that, the African Union means uniting with Europeans so another organ is created. called NEPAD which is referred now as the New Economic Partnership for African Development with Europe, which they say is based on the European Union model, that is the distinction between the two. Lado retains OAU Charter with Headquaters in Arua - Aru, in Lado. Lado shall not seek to be a full member of the AU. . AU is an outside matter in Africa .
The choice is: do you as African want to unite with Europe and be ruled from Europe, whether it is Paris, Brussels, or London or do you want the African Unity to be ruled from the African Continent by yourself ? That is in brief what it is. It is a Matter of Choice.
In conclusion OAU charter was concluded on 25th May 1963, in Addis Ababa, starting on 25th May, 1947 but picked up later by - because the leader John Anacleto Atobua Agami from Lado Kingdom was killed in 1948 on April . It was Francis Kwame Nkrumah later, was the one who organised the African Independence Conference in Accra in 1958 as He was the Secretary to the King John Anacleta Atabua Agami of the Pan Africanism . OAU took its roots from Pan Africanism .
In 1961, the OAU Charter was drawn up by three African blocs : one called the Casablanca Group, another called the Monrovia Group, and the third called the Brazzaville Group. So the three Groups formed the Organisation of African Unity. The only concerned Organisation in Africa yet , therefore still , till todate is OAU .
RONALD OKUONZI LULUA
( LADO )
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|