The rise of the
continent of Africa is imminent, it is ongoing and it is unstoppable. For a
long time now, the land that is the home of the Black Man has been downtrodden,
allowed only to eat the scraps, the leftovers from the white man's rule.
This is changing.
We are seeing more
nations of Africa freeing themselves from the bondage of complete dependence
and servility to nations of Europe and the Americas. Our people are standing
tall.
But this cannot be
one man's dream. Nor can one nation go it alone in the process of gaining
complete autonomy from the rule that keeps him serving the selfish ends of
corporations.
We must unite. We
must unite not only to move forward, but also to survive. It is imperative that
the nations of Africa see themselves as a brotherhood for the black soul. One
nation alone will not survive the onslaught that is coming to anyone that dares
challenge the status quo. We have seen what happened to those who dared go
alone in the liberation of Africa: Muammar Gaddafi, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame
Nkrumah, Steve Biko, Samora Machel, John Garang, Sankara. These are men who
dared the powers that be, and they did not live to tell the story.
But our hearts will
not be cowered. Where our ancestors have failed, we must learn why; we must
take the lessons and apply them to the 21st century. We must consider all the
enemies of our development, we must take into account all those who profit from
the misery of our people: the oil companies that pillage our wealth, the
foreigners who own the most fertile of our lands, the "donors" who
perpetuate the cycle of beggars.
We must stand
together and feed our people. We must not export a single ounce of food before
every person in Africa has had enough to eat and drink. Our production should
be to meet the local demand of our people. We must take as an act of war and
aggression any nation that sells food out of Africa before our people are
satiated. And we must deal with this nation in a manner to curtail such
behavior in future.
A billion people are
enough to fulfill the needs of every major enterprise on our continent. We
should produce for Afrika. We have the knowledge, skills and technology
required for this. After all, our people have helped build the European
nations, through slavery or voluntary emigration.
We call upon all the
black people residing in Eurasia and the Americas to come back home. This is
where you belong, this is your heritage, Afrika is both your motherland and
fatherland. Afrika needs you, it needs each and every one of you if there's to
be any type of development.
Afrika must rise,
Afrika will rise!
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