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Re-Education

racy by themselves. How unjust is and my Africa.
history when the brute colonizers
are granted the right to civilize the Currently, the former colonizers are
already oppressed by branding them trying to intervene in the internal
uncivilized. I wonder whether the affairs of Ethiopia, a land they
real brute and uncivilized is the one failed to ever conquer. Nations who
in bondage or the one who puts committed historic crimes and who
chains on sentient humans. Verily, still deny it cannot be expected to
it is barbaric to commit continental have the moral righteousness to
genocides, to ship precious humans even speak of other nations. More-
into slavery, to rape their women, over, they never bothered when our
lynch the men, and systematically nation was squandered away for
make them poor. As if this has not about three decades by TPLF; but
been enough, the very same coun- now they want to intervene. In the
tries are not on a mission to domi- past, their ‘humanitarian aids’ have
nate the world, or as they like us to fostered dictatorships, because the
believe, to democratize the world. money was going into the pockets
In the 21st century, former world- of corrupt African leaders, whose
class brutes and colonizers have reign ended either by natural death
made another strategic shift and or revolution. To be clear, our
labeled themselves liberal demo- democracy is our own national
crats. Sadly, liberalism only tolerates experiment, to be nationally won
the ‘white’ nations while illiberally and fashioned. As to the foreign
terrorizing the rest of the world. interventionists in Ethiopia and
Africa, the truth in James Baldwin’s
The so-called western protectors of statement still stands: “All of the
democracy have dismantled histor- Western nations have been caught
ical nations by calling their foreign in a lie, the lie of their pretended
invasion a protection of democratic humanism; this means that their
rights. Just look at Libya to recog- history has no moral justification,
nize the truth behind my statement. and that the West has no moral
You will see how Westerners left authority.”
this historical nation in endless civil
war by claiming to defend freedom There is a lesson for Africans to
of speech, women’s rights, and/ be learned from this cruel history.
or human right. Is current Libya The relentless efforts of former
a place of humanity or, rather, an colonizers and slavers to physically
epicenter of humanitarian crisis? We and mentally control Africa through
can observe this tyranny of ‘democ- economics and political manipula-
racy’ from the puppeteer role of tions is a testament to an undeniable
France in Mali, when they directly fact – Africa is a continent of abun-
intervened and fought against the dance, and they want it. Our true
Tuareg people of Sahara, who have independence can occur only after
historically refused French colonial we, Africans, realize our wealth in all
attempts. The US and Westerners spheres of life. Divide and conquer
continually extended their hands was the way of the colonizers, which
to play this democracy card so as Africans continue to accept for the
to conquer the Middle East, erase benefit of our oppressors. A united
its rich culture, and control the oil. Africa is bound to be powerful. We
If this is what the vanguards of must own and utilize our own land
democracy aim for the rest of the and resources for the benefit of
world, I do not want them to inter- Africans. The unity of Africans and
vene in any affairs of my country a united Africa is our only hope.

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