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portant. Unfortunately, Africans
including the elites are ready
to accept anything, if it has a
western label.
Perhaps, the greatest nega-
tive, psychological impact of
colonialism in Africa is colonial
mentality and inferiority com-
plex, which plagues the entire
continent. Christian missionar-
ies were also viable collabora-
tors in killing self esteem in the
African. Missionary education
and tutelage did not emphasize
self-confidence, creativity and
adventurous spirit. There is a
lingering myth that the black
man cannot aspire or compete
favorably with the white man.
This is a misconception based
on Eurocentric propaganda and
brainwashing.”
The systematic denigration i.e.
defamation, sullying, staining,
‘blackening’ of Afrika’s repu-
tation, cultural beliefs, spiri-
tuality , education, economic
and agricultural practices by
the colonialist led to the infe-
riority complex and ubiquitous
low self-esteem that you find
in Afrika and Afrikans conti-
nent-wide, who now believe
that everything that the con-
queror believed was superior
to what they had before. But it
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never stopped. Generations of
Europeans, Americans, Asians,
Australians and even Afrikans
continued to and continue to
be taught and acculturated
to believe that Afrika is poor,
weak, dirty and disease-ridden.
That is why, in the midst of
Corona Virus madness-demic
you will have Chinese throw-
ing Afrikans out of homes and
ships and denying them access
to shops. That is why you will
have Americans wondering why
in an Afrika with ‘poor hygiene’
we do not have more cases of
Corona Virus infections. That
is why you will have French
and British scientists talking of
using us as lab rats… which
actually they have been doing
for generations. That is why
the Kenyan government would
approve of Britain’s suggestion
while ignoring the fact that other
Afrikan nations are already way
ahead of most western nations
in the fight against the virus.
Why not just get help from your
Afrikan brothers and by that
create a new positive narrative
for Afrika? For if Senegal a tiny
West Afrikan nation is already
producing testing kits for 1Dol-
lar and ventilators for 60dollars,
why on earth are other afrikan
nations still importing testing
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kits for 60 Dollars and ventila-
tors for 60,000 Dollars? And
if Madagascar already has an
official indigenous cure to this
virus, why are we still waiting
for China or America? Who
bewitched us in Afrika?
The truth is that it is a psy-
cho-spiritual warfare being
waged against the Afrikan
which led to the hero worship
of the oppressor which contin-
ues today in the worship of the
heads of multinational corpo-
rations who receive red carpet
treatment and are welcomed
into presidential palaces and
mansions across Afrika, to the
detriment and corruption of
Afrikan economies. But this
is not new information. Lone
voices in the wilderness have
been shouting about this for
decades. The question is…
are we, as Afrikans, planning
to continue under this spell for
another 6 decades? Or are we
going to come out from under
it and chart a new course for
ourselves and the generations
to come? We have looked to
the East and to the West for
development assistance and
solutions and all we continue to
get are the same murderous in-
tentions. They wish themselves
well, not us. They will continue
to use us for as long as we
allow it… and our governments
will continue to play along for as
long as it lines their pockets.
It is time for Afrikans to gather
the lessons of the past and
present and put them to good
use, for Afrika’s sake.
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