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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

should be cancelled on the basis of the economic effects and
the increased debt burden that Afrika is now faced with as
a result of Covid-19 and its handling by that country of the
rising sun or maybe “fading sun”. This is a time for bold and
decisive action. Afrika should be confident enough to calcu-
late the economic costs of the decisions made by other coun-
tries that have impacted them negatively such as, the US war
on terror which has hit East and West Afrika hard with the
increase of attacks against the nations that hosted American
bases, the assassination of Gaddafi and the economic de-
struction of Libya, the economic destabilization of the DRC
done purely for the extraction of mineral resources and so on.

Afrika has suffered for the choices that ‘developed’ countries
have made and should boldly demand- not request- compensa-
tion for these instead of timidly tiptoeing around these nations
and kowtowing to their every demand for a few coins that need
to be paid back on the backs of future generations of Afrikans.
Afrika is under the burden of a falsely generated and falsely
substantiated debt.

It matters not that they went and signed loan papers requesting
the money, it matters that they did not claim back what was lost
in socio-economic terms to the continent and use that to de-
velop and grow. It matters that they were conned (or not) into
taking terms that were unjust and unfavorable and discrimi-
natory. It matters that they continued to subjugate their coun-
tries to the same colonial policies in the name of rule of law
and development instead of truly setting their countries free.
Afrika is on the verge of a major shift away from the path
chosen sixty years ago, but this shift will be impossible without
the participation of Afrikans at home and in the Diaspora.

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