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AFRIKA IS GOD’S
2002 when Nigeria and Cam- lifetime when every border post that Africans were granted Afri-
eroon went to settle a border in Afrika will no longer be that can citizenship, meaning that
dispute in which both were lay- of restriction and visa monger- there should be free human
ing claim to the oil rich Bakassi ing madness, but a post where movement across the borders;
peninsular. There was a bit of Afrikans welcome with joy their an African should feel at home
tension among the people amid fellow Afrikan brothers. no matter where they are on
concerns that war was going the continent. Thirdly, there are
to break out between the two How long should we cry about more merits in dismantling co-
countries. Of note is that, in tak- the slow movement of Afrika as lonial borders than maintaining
ing the case to the International regards development, while at them." Except from "Against co-
Court of Justice, they didn't cite the same time, the movement of lonial borders: The need for Afri-
any ancient cultural claims to Afrikans that will make the de- can citizenship now" written by
the land, nor the preferences of velopment happen is restricted? Hashi Kenneth Tafira on Pamba-
the region’s inhabitants as re- Let me say this again, like I have zuka News website.
gards ancient Afrikan to Afrikan said before, the white man irre-
cohabitation and coexistence, spective of what you may think I copied the above excerpt
nor did they even cite their own or what they front as PR is not from a larger article and it gave
national interests. Rather, they your friend as an Afrikan. He strength to my thoughts about
cited a pile of century-old Eu- hates you for who you are but the emancipation of Afrika from
ropean paperwork which bears loves your natural and human the space of freedom of move-
the drawing of the forced bor- resources. He will do all he can ment within Afrika by Afrikans
ders. Cameroon won that case with all his hidden agenda-filled by the collapse of borders and
because she presented a more European/African summits to removal of visas which I had not
convincing map to show that the keep you under servitude to thought actually meant Afrikan
two European powers, Germany him. This has been proven over citizenship.
and the British empire, under and over again without fail. Before this never ending hatred
which both Cameroon and Nige- between Afrikans began, move-
ria were colonized respectively; Afrikan Citizenship ment of people and goods within
in 1913, had negotiated the bor- I am strongly of the opinion that Afrika was a major way through
der between these West African there is nothing Afrika cannot which inter-marriage, sharing of
colonies, and the peninsular falls achieve if Afrikans simply look indigenous knowledge, strength-
on the side of Cameroon. This is inward to the vast blessings they ening of the Afrikan brotherhood
not necessarily an isolated issue have. and most importantly, the con-
but it clearly shows how much See this except below: stant empowerment of the an-
the nations in Afrika are so tied "Today we are witnessing large- cient Afrikan super highways of
to their commitment to the very scale movement of people wisdom took place. In fact, as
borders that were created by the across borders. Political, eco- some old Afrikan tales puts it
colonialists without a single con- nomic and social instability concerning the life of a Doma
sideration for the coexistence of within nation-states has reached or traditionalist, a healer who
those that live around such bor- a volatile level. Concern about wants to deepen his knowledge
ders. Meaning that Afrika, after tightening of borders, national about the healing powers of
about sixty years of indepen- security and increasing fear of plants must travel so as to learn
dence, still doesn't have her own the African “Other” are now com- from other masters the identity
definition of what it means to be monplace. This paper makes and usage of such plants. The
Afrika without the laid down sig- some propositions and states old Afrikans, before the colonial
natures of the oppressors called the case that colonial borders days, understood the potency of
borders or maps which are noth- and preoccupation with territory, inter-travel within Afrika for the
ing but physical representations securitization and security regi- sake of knowledge and wisdom
of mental disengagement from mens and “sovereignty” are a sharing. There are lots of Afri-
the Afrikan unity and brother- bane to African unity. It argues kan proverbs that point to this
hood. that such impulsion reveals the thought but let me share just a
colonial nature of the so-called few.
I sincerely await the day in my post colony. Secondly, it is time *The child who travels far excels
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