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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA
system with African High Command to ensure the stability
of Africa…with our united resources, energies and talents we
have the means, as soon as we show the will, to transform the
economic structures of our individual states from poverty to
that of wealth, from inequality to the satisfaction of popular
needs. Only on a continental basis shall we be able to plan the
proper utilization of all our resources for the full development
of our continent.” Most Afrikan leaders did not appreciate Nk-
rumah’s wisdom at that time, but the Europeans did. The con-
cept of the European Union is based on Nkrumah’s ideas, a last
laugh in the faces of those who opted out of true Afrikan unity.
Afrika has come of age to know that everything the colonialists
did as it regards the partitioning of Afrika, the creation of its
borders, the introduction of Capitalism, were all done for their
own sake, that is, to serve their own interests. Now that the colo-
nialists are ‘gone’, who do these things serve? We believe they
serve the Heads of state and Government of Afrikan nations and
the hidden cartels that have turned the governing of their sover-
eign nations into family businesses, for that was exactly the rea-
son why the ideas by Nkrumah were rejected in the first place.
Physical borders translate into mental borders and somehow
into spiritual borders. There is the need for the dismantling
of the physical colonial borders, even as we target much
more the mental colonial borders. Afrikans have been con-
ditioned to hate other Afrikans simply because of different
territorial, social and geographical origins, which are also
nothing but the fruit of colonialism. Borders are nothing
but mental and physical limitations, they must be removed.
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