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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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