Why stay weak, when we could be strong?

[RWalker]

(In commemoration of yesterday's anniversary of the assassination of Brother Fred Hampton by the fascists...)

If Africa had created it’s own centralized source of policy decisions, as advocated by Pan-Africanists, it would not be in the vulnerable position it is in today. Indeed it would be among the most powerful states in the world and thus in a position to assist its fellow human beings suffering from imperialism in the rest of the world, the western hemisphere, the Middle East, Asia as a whole, even in Europe. It would be in a position to make the world a better place for all humanity, which is a win - win position.

Can it be proved? Of course it can look at this simple explanation of the impact of a unified policy decision-making process on African commerce and the general economy.

As the world we live in is one of imperfect competition, due to restrictive trade practices existence of firms that dictate price, price inelasticity when the supply and demand for a good do not alter because of changes in price, we must excel in the area of quality (quality controls, quality as surance, training of human factors, quality of nonhuman factors), cost impact on price (cost of factors, sources and nature of supply, process of production, risk management, general management, administration, planning, transportation, storage, and so forth) and proper communication of the quality of the products (advertising, product service branding strategy, promotions, public relations, advocacy advertising, for example.)

These things are not mere technical systemic matters they are also questions of sociology, psychology, philosophy, and generally speaking the application of social science to commercial and economic matters.

Political policymaking facilitates both the technical systemic needs and the social science needs of Africa’s economic and commercial (as well as monetary, fiscal, financial) functionality. With a unified political strategy, the whole of Africa, with all of her unorganized, but potentially extremely powerful factor market strength (continental wealth in natural resources and her global human resources), if organized, would be a dominant element in the global economy. Africa could use outsourcing in a creative way to utilize all her human factors across the face of the globe. It could use digital systems, guided by Enterprise Architecture syst ems defined by the characteristics of the African Personality, and analytical engines based on dynamic statistical objects such as those in fuzzy logic and similar formulations of data. This would give Africa a computer system that closely reflects, approximates, the dialectics working within the real African cultural milieu. Such information process would also provide African decision makers with effective data and material for analysis for the rest of the world. All these are critical to doing business. And making a sizable profit.

With a unified policy structure and policy making apparatus, it could readily concentrate its comparative advantage in critical mineral, energy and other areas as a continent, which is infinitely more potent than anything any of the disparate countries can do on their own. With no political clout we are powerless. That means we are powerless when it comes to financial, commercial and related areas. Compare this powerlessness to the great power that a Union Government, based on socialism, would give Africa and the world’s African people. You are right, there is no comparison.

And we would never have to suffer the indignities and crimes that the fascist, racist imperialist system impose on us ever again.

[Langalibalele]

This is great. RWalker discusses the very phenomenon anticipated by Nkrumah and Fanon. The African microstate is an unstable apparatus which exists only to facilitate raw materials extraction.

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If Africa had created it’s own centralized source of policy decisions, as advocated by Pan-Africanists, it would not be in the vulnerable position it is in today. Indeed it would be among the most powerful states in the world and thus in a position to assist its fellow human beings suffering from imperialism in the rest of the world, the western hemisphere, the Middle East, Asia as a whole, even in Europe. It would be in a position to make the world a better place for all humanity, which is a win - win position.

However, my brother, you cannot make any assumptions. The Imperialists invaded Congo to maintain its destabilization. They were on Charlie Rose last night discussing ways to intervene in the four-, five-, six-way conflict which has flared up again. Make sure you surf to the PBS website and try to catch it. Them honkies will make your blood boil.

Dont' forget Kagame and Musaveni and the pigs at the top in Zambia are using their armies to press gang Africans into the mines. The interhamwe is still operating there and Nkunda, a Congolese Tutsi working for Kagame, is using that as a pretext, while doing his part to destabilize the Kivu region. Serbia had sent an army to help maintain Mobutu back in like 1997 but they were routed, then joined Laurent Kabila, whose son currently struggles to build a central government. The Serbs were rapists and torturers in their own country, what do you think they are doing in DRC? The Imperialists destabilized Congo to rid themselves of one of Africa's greatest patriots. The destabilization of the Congo, its partition by the black faces of Imperialism, and the extraction of its rich raw resources serves nothing except the bloodthirsty interests of monopoly capitalism.

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With a unified policy structure and policy making apparatus, it could readily concentrate its comparative advantage in critical mineral, energy and other areas as a continent, which is infinitely more potent than anything any of the disparate countries can do on their own. With no political clout we are powerless. That means we are powerless when it comes to financial, commercial and related areas. Compare this powerlessness to the great power that a Union Government, based on socialism, would give Africa and the world’s African people. You are right, there is no comparison.

And we would never have to suffer the indignities and crimes that the fascist, racist imperialist system impose on us ever again.

Most African leaders do not want this. While you're at PBS, look up Wole Soyinka. Look at what he says about Nelson Mandela. Soyinka, who has made a career as an opponent of the Nigerian despots, plays the role of Mandela's praise singer while South Africa sinks into an economic and political abyss that Mandela ignored. Soyinka says nothing about how Mandela set the tone for derailing the peoples struggle and how Mandela set South Africa on the same path as Nigeria. Every so-called leader on the continent has links to Imperialism. Every one. Most of them are megalomaniacs who want maximum power and control, while still functioning as stooges.

There is only one way that the dream of a unified African socialist state will ever exist, and that is for revolution to begin in a few countries and spread thru out the continent. Sadly, it will take more violence to end the bloodshed currently taking place on a daily scale across our Motherland. However that is the reality and no amount of praying or wishing or dancing and singing will change that. African people are the most forgiving people in the world, and we don't deserve the government we have in Africa. Only when we stop forgiving our enemies and demand justice will we be able to overthrow despotism and betrayal.

[RWalker]

Which is precisely why the only solution is an all-African union government that is socialist as Nkrumah and Ture, and Lumumba, and Sobukwe and so many others understood