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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

der the thumbs of those deceiving them or threatening them.

The Chinese approach to neocolonialism appears to be a sneak
attack under the guise of development infrastructure project
loans and technical expertise. Recent reports of Afrikan and
even other Asian governments failing to pay back loans to the
Chinese and having to cede control over public infrastructure,
like ports, to the Chinese are an example of this. The oriental
country appears to have made the determination to play the
long game of debt ownership, not just in Afrika and Asia but in
the US and other countries as well. They must be aware of the
principle that God shared, and that Afrika ignores despite there
being ample proof of it, that a borrower is slave to the lender.

Imperialism, on the global scene, is taking on
new shapes and forms, and the one continent that
seems to continuously lose in this game is Afrika.
Compromised political ‘leaders’ in Afrika continue to sell
Afrika’s inheritance to outsiders in order to line their pock-
ets, just like they or their fathers did at Afrika’s faux-indepen-
dence, all the while they speak loudly against corrupt prac-
tices in their lands. As Samuel says in the same article, “I say
the chase after corruption is meaningless because it is abso-
lutely nonsense to say you are fighting corruption when you
yourself are the king over the empire which the gains from
corruption built. How sick is it that men deceive themselves
in the name of being leaders and then think all other men
are foolish. It’s in Afrika a common man who was raised to
the position of leadership by the votes of citizens like him-
self suddenly becomes a god when he gets into position.”

This is what Nkrumah and his fellow pan-Afrikanists were

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