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ISSUE THREE | NOV/DEC

invested. That’s what can happen
if Afrika will sit at one table of truth
TWO SIDES OF A COIN and sincerity and make out selfless

plans that will rewrite the Afrikan
narrative. Simply put, let Afrika
stop defining herself from the
stigma of slave trade, colonialism
etc., those are old stories only fit
for the dustbin.
know that my wife too had paid 1960. It was during what China A while ago I saw these statements
attention. For the minute I started called The Great Leap Forward online. They are believed to have
typing a few things about their Period, created to activate been spoken by the Russian
conversation in my note pad, I Chinese Industrialization, in order President Vladimir Putin. I do not
saw my wife doing the same in her to remove China’s dependency on know for sure the credibility of
phone. Obviously, she was also the Soviet Union. The report had this statement, even if it’s not him
interested in the comments about this to say: who said it - it captures something
the SGR train. “Economic development under about the Afrikan reality that we
I sincerely have no issues with the the People’s Republic of China must change. It says...
Chinese man’s comment or joke government started with about 150 “Africa will never be independent.
and neither do I have any issue development projects planned, Africans believe in Europeans,
with the train being slow or old tech, financed and staffed by the Soviet Americans and Chinese more
at least it’s one of the few that is Union. When political ideological than themselves–they don’t trust
working in Afrika. And I am grateful differences between Mao Zedong themselves at all. A white man
for that. I am however concerned and Nikita Khrushchev led to a split, will commit crime in Africa but
for Afrika and my Afrikan people. the 15,000 Soviet engineers and no action will be taken because
You may likely guess where this staff on the development projects African authorities view us as
article is going, but I really don’t were withdrawn and the blueprints semi-gods, far from the truth. A
mean anything harmful to anyone. for the projects destroyed. China black man can be abducted in
I always have this question. What’s did not have the technological and Europe, get harassed or even
wrong with Afrika? What’s wrong financial resources to complete killed, but no African authority
with Afrikans? What’s the use of these projects on its own and will question. Africans present
having so many educated people Mao Zedong was made conscious themselves as weak people with
in Afrika without much change of how vulnerable China was in no hope especially when dealing
happening? The list of questions depending upon outside aid, even with Europeans and Americans.
bugs my mind. However, the most from communist regimes. It was They are their own enemies. They
important question I ask myself then that the conviction developed hate each other and that gives their
is; how did China, as a nation, with Mao that China would colonial masters power to continue
move from being a downtrodden, industrialize on its own, pulling exploiting African resources.”
aid-receiving, broken government itself up by its own bootstraps, so “When an African becomes
in the ‘60s, to being a world to speak.” rich, his bank accounts are in
heavyweight superpower in 2019, I am sure many don’t know this Switzerland. He travels to France
while Africa which saw most of her fact, but that project failed and for Medical treatment. He invests
nations gain independence in the that failed project coupled with in Germany. He buys from Dubai.
same 60s is still crawling and still the famine that followed took with He consumes Chinese. He prays
begging for aid? I can’t put one it no less than 20 million Chinese in Rome or Mecca. His children
answer to this. But as Kenyan lives. That’s like a combination of study in Europe. He travels to
Professor PLO Lumumba puts it in two nations in Afrika. But not one Canada, USA, Europe for tourism.
one of his speeches, “China simply aspect of that failed project defines If he die, he will be buried in his
gave her people true leadership.” China today. Why? China simply native country of Africa. Africa is
And then I asked myself again, had a sit down, rewrote their just a cemetery for Africans. How
what is wrong with the leadership narrative and took the position of could a cemetery be developed?”
of Afrikan governments? I will servitude towards other nations ~Putin Asks!
leave you to answer that question for a season, while they used that Afrika has come of age to
yourself. time to improve their technology determine where she should be in
I read something online as I and by extension their economy. the overall picture of things. She
wrote this piece about China. Today, I do not think there are a just needs to see her own picture
It speaks of what happened in lot of nations on the earth where clearly and then make it happen
China between the years 1958 to China’s money has not been for real.

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