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NeoColonization

and governments down, under policies and schemes that en-
able them(these so-called supporters) to be further enriched
at Afrika’s expense or to continue to exploit Afrika in other
ways. Consequently, despite Afrika being a major funder of
the West’s, and now the East’s, development through slave
labor and exploitation of various resources and cash from its
lands for centuries (prior to and including colonialism and
post-colonialism), it is classified as poor, weak, useless, de-
fenseless and disease-ridden. It is a strange paradox indeed.

A luta continua
“Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists
divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our
pan-African concept, will seek to remove”.
Robert Mugabe, 1962.

The dawn of a new Afrika at the end of the colonial period, a
time of such hope and optimism, the vanguard nations carried
the weight of Afrika’s expectations on their shoulders, as well
as the opportunity to create something new, something beauti-
ful that would safeguard Afrika’s interests in the long run. But,
saboteurs lurked in their midst, they and their handlers who
lurked in the shadows plotted an evil thing, to ensure that Afri-
ka remained enslaved and only attained a semblance of liberty,
sufficient to create the hypnotic zombie-like state that would
be required to keep the countries running for the time being.

In the 1963 Charter of the, then, Organization of African Unity
(OAU), ratified by 32 Heads of State and Government of the
countries represented, included this in the Charter’s preamble:
“Determined to safeguard and consolidate the hard-won inde-
pendence as well as the sovereignty and territorial integrity of

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