Page 68 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 6

ECONOMY
consider to be backwardness, is
our constant saving grace. The
second wave of effects follow-
ing a crash would be for most
countries outside of Afrika to fo- couple of French doctors think
cus on stabilizing and rebuilding
their own economies, meaning
that Afrika would likely see the
backs of their heads in areas of
investment and foreign aid for
a time – unless we had some-
thing they needed in which case
they would try get it on terms
favorable only to them.
In an evidently vulnerable world
system, made more so by the
current situation, the same
world system that Afrika has
been trying to emulate and con-
form to since ‘independence’
six or so decades ago, having
modeled its economies on the
rest of the world’s standards...
what, will Afrika do if there is a
crash added onto the tail end
of this crisis? Will the worn out,
overused begging bowls come
out again?
You already know that the
whole world (Afrikans includ-
ed) was waiting for the entire
continent of Afrika to fall sick,
but now they have also claim
that Afrikan countries are facing
what Quartz Africa calls ‘the
very real possibility of economic
collapse in the face of a global
recession’. No one out there
seems to believe that we can
weather any storm. Very few in
here seem to as well. Afrika, in
the eyes of the world, is the pa- blessed continent and it’s time
thetic, desperate, helpless thing
that always needs bailing out.
Sixty years and billions of dol-
lars in cash, raw materials and
Afrikan brain and muscle power
that we have given to the world
and their perspective remains
that we are pathetic. It doesn’t
help that our own leaders keep
going out to beg for what we
already have and can sort out
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between the approximately
1.2 billion of us internally. And
because of the brush they
painted us with as Afrikans, a
the continent’s only value is to
be used as a giant lab to test a
poisonous vaccine and Chinese
people are now being fed and
eagerly consuming the lie that
the black people are the cause
of Corona Virus and are en-
gaged in racist acts against our
people and our governments –
well, they’re trying to preserve
their relationships with China
– and the British and Kenyan
government think that Kenya is
a suitable testing ground for a
potential vaccine. That, my dar-
lings, is the icing on the cake.
Our ‘friends’ are not our friends.
We’re on our own and we have
to face it and make a plan.
Dump Capitalism
In a famous quote attributed
to Vladmir Putin, certain pain-
ful truths are laid out, I have
picked a small selection of what
was said, “Africa will never be
independent because they be-
lieve in Europeans, Americans
and Chinese more than them-
selves.” The quote continues,
“They are their own enemies.
They hate each other and this
gives their colonial masters the
opportunity to continue explor-
ing their resources.” And, “As
far as I know, Africa is more of
God’s chosen continent, it’s a
for Africans to realize they are
in a place where Americans,
Europeans and Chinese are
jealous of and wish it should be
them there…You can’t compare
African weather with any other
weather…African soil can feed
the whole of Europe, America,
and Asia but their problem is
just one, their leaders. As far as
I am concerned their best pres-
ident ever was Gaddafi”. He’s
right. According to the World
Economic Forum (2016) Afrika
has 60% of the world’s unculti-
vated arable land, yet it is a net
importer of food, grapples with
food security and undernourish-
ment.
Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao,
former Permanent Represen-
tative of the African Union
Mission to the US was relieved
of office for what we all know
were political reasons. It is my
view that she was just what the
continent and the AU needed.
A fearless voice, willing to spill
all the beans and tear away
the veils of lies that had been
used to keep Afrikans trapped
in a neo-colonialist gaol for the
life sentence of having what
the world wanted and decided
to take by force. Among other
things, the doctor revealed the
evils of the continued econom-
ic oppression of francophone
West African countries by
France and the weaknesses
in the foundations of the OAU
(now the AU) when the ‘found-
ing fathers’ could not agree on
the right road for Afrika to take
that would lead her to true liber-
ty. Countries instead chose the
road of Capitalism and self-in-
terest which has led us here! To
this place of continued weak-
ness and compromise, where
our own people would rather
dump the continent of Afrika in
pursuit of a pipedream in Amer-
ica that sees many of them turn
into slaves to a system, work-
ing multiple jobs just to scrape
by, yet unwilling to come back
home to build. Because they
feel there’s nothing here worth
building.
Capitalism is controlled by a
few people who want to ensure
that the rich-poor gap between
nations and individuals remains