6 August 2009
analysis
In a recent symposium on the envisaged United States of Africa at the Cheik Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, President Abdoulaye Wade criticised African leaders for putting a premium on the protection of their states' sovereignty.
The downside of the recourse to sovereignty is its assumption that other Africans are foreigners against whom power must be protected. This thinking also denies African economies larger markets for their products.
"Sovereignty" also masks the weakness of Africans at a time when other people have pooled political power in vast territories like China, India, Brazil, Russia and the United States of America. The very colonial countries that were the "foreigners" against whom independent African states wished to protect their sovereignty are themselves building the European Union as a bigger source of power in the global arena.
In a twist of this thesis President Wade asserted that "in order to protect sovereign independence and be heard in the international political order, Africa must become a viable economic power" within a United States of Africa.
The subject of 'sovereignty' also led President Wade warn the European Union over its devious to plot to "take North Africa out of Africa" by enjoining North African States into a new "Mediterranean Union" of Europe, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania. An angry Wade noted that Europe was doing this despite its contradictory behaviour of hunting down, drowning and shutting out the so-called "economic migrants/asylum seekers" from Africa, while openly welcoming economic refugees from the former Eastern Europe.
Wade said he had told Libya's Colonel Gaddafi that "he should leave Libya's oil here on the continent" if he wanted to join Europe.
In the same breath, Wade told President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt that "Egypt should leave the pyramids in Africa". In the worst scenario President Wade would relocate the seat of sovereignty to vital resources.
In the Dakar symposium, President Wade was talking to a receptive generation of intellectuals loaded with disillusionment over bad governance allover Africa outside Botswana and South Africa.
Sovereignty's strongest defenders, like the Germany-based Prof Willy Jackson and University of Lagos's Prof Victor Adetula, argued for sovereignty's redefinition as "solidarity around the notion of a common good and a sharing of resources" rather than its current focus on balkanised territorial states. Prof Adetula called for a more vigorous role by the civil servants who run the African Union's bureaucracy to evolve it into a vigorous super entity to coordinate of public administration by local officials in each African country.
There were echoes in their calls of Mwalimu Nyerere's emphasis on seeing Africans as one family united beyond borders. Their pleas echoed President Wade's hunger for a rapid rush to a United States of Africa. He had, after all, proudly said that he was not an alien in relation to Nigeria.
"I have interfered in Guinea, in Madagascar and everybody will accept [that] because of the deep reality of relations between African states."
The Chairman of the Commission of the African Union, the Gabonese Jean Ping, spoke in the same vein, saying, "I told Mauritania I have been paid by the African Union to come and interfere in your internal politics." Mauritania's military top brass had thrown out of power a regime that had been "democratically elected" in elections which the same brass had supervised.
The one thing that Mr Ping shared most usefully with Senegal's Foreign Minister, Dr Cheik Tidiane Gadio, was a vigorous determination to provide a detailed and extensive explanation to the assembly of Africa's intellectuals about the workings of African international politics whenever heads of states meet.
It all sounded like a ritual of regret that a 46- years old legacy (since the Organisation of African Unity was formed in 1963), had been an ill-informed troop of intellectuals that couldn't be trusted to rush to the barricades and toss out of history and office all the renegade leaders who are dragging their feet over the creation of a United States of Africa.
The summit of intellectuals was taking place soon after President Wade's party had been badly beaten in parliamentary and civic elections. Wade's own son had been humiliated in a contest for the Mayor of Dakar. Opposition parties had ganged up to beat the lad because they smelt a plot by Wade to position the scion to succeed him as a candidate for the presidency.
As payment for their humiliation of his party, President Wade refused to have all opposition figures invited to the symposium.
That determination to exclude rivals was also reflected in the banners that hung around the plenary hall.
Not seen was a picture of W.E.B. Dubois --- the globally acknowledged father of Pan-Africanism as an intellectual and political movement. Also absent was the picture of Diallo Telli, the founding Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity. Diallo Telli held a doctorate in Law and Public Administration from the Sorbonne -- France's intellectual nerve centre.
Ignored OAU founders
It was widely reported that President Sekou Toure of Guinea had described Diallo Telli as "Guinea's gift to Africa" when he released Diallo Telli from being his ambassador to the United Nations. There was, therefore, something loudly obscene in having photographs of President Wade and Colonel Gaddafi side by side as the stars of Pan-Africanism while Dubois, Telli, Tom Mboya, Jomo Kenyatta, Nnamdi Azikiwe and others looked down in mocking silence.
President Wade's cry that "we cannot be kept into a limited space" by African leaders who are holding on to petty little states had once been made by a Chinese leader with typical oriental sneer.
China's President Ma-Ying-jeou had told African leaders that Africa had the largest number of countries inside the United Nations General Assembly while China was the biggest single member with the biggest population. It's as if the 53 African flags flapped at the United Nations building in New York with less force in the wind than China's one flag.
Wade's proposition that the symposium should urgently "establish a Committee of African Intellectuals for the Study of the United States of Africa" makes sense.
His call for each African country to put aside 20 per cent of its annual budget to create an "African External Reserve Fund" that would back a common African currency is also sensible. His warning that Africans should force their leaders to "get out of the sovereignty trap" is eminently wise.
What Wade failed to address is that odd question: "Who shall be the first and non-monarchical president of the United States of Africa?"
Many could not believe Kwame Nkrumah, even when he confided in those closest to him that his wish was that the cup of leading a Union Government of Africa should go to Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere.
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AMERICA IS THE WHORE OF BABYLON : Revelations 17 & 18 AND Jeremiah 50 & 51
HERE ARE SOME KEY POINTS :
Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 8 - 9
8: Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. 9: For, behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. . [ Their will be an exodus of nations leaving America ; returning to their ancestral homes e.g. Black Africans to nations like Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc ] [ .Get out of New Babylon America !!! ]
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 16 16: Cut off the sower from Babylon ;and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest .For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
[ 2 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 6
6: Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity. For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompence.
[ 3 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 9 9: We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 35 - 37
35: A sword is upon the Chaldeans, the inhabitants of Babylon, her princes, and her wise men; says the LORD. 36: A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote. A sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 37: A sword is upon their horses, chariots, and upon ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE that are in the midst of her; they shall become as women. A sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE What Nation Has More Different Cultures Than America ?
Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 7 7: Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand; that made all the earth drunken. The nations have drunk of her wine. Therefore the nations are insane.
10: The LORD has brought forth our righteousness. Come, and let us declare in Zion (our souls) the work of the LORD our God. [ Zion = The Kingdom of Heaven which is within us..within our souls ]
[ This same spirit of the Medes ( Arabs) is against New Babylon (Anerica) ]
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 11 11: Make bright the arrows; gather the shields. The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
[ 2 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 27 - 28
27: Set you up a standard in the land. Blow the trumpet among the nations. Prepare the nations against her. Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz. Appoint a captain against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- These three(3) kingdoms today are : a) Ararat - (Armenia / Turkey) b) Ashchenaz ( ? ) c) Minni Armenia These kingdoms are (Arabic ) Medes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- 28: Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains, all the rulers of it, and all the land of his dominion.
[ The people will stop immigrating to America; once the word gets out of her impending doom ]
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 44 -45
44: And I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45: My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
[ a) For Two(2) years shall the people [ still here ( in America) ] hear rumors b) Civil Wars will break out before the final day of Americas destruction
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 46
46: And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land. A rumour shall both come one year. And after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land; ruler against ruler. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------
REVELATIONS 17 & 18 : Also witnesses to Babylons destruction
OBAMA DECEPTIONS
Matthew 24:4 Take Precautions Against Being Tricked By Anyone [Paraphrased] * Unless Theyre Likeable ?
#1
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrpRocaEfQE]
[ http://www.infowars.com/obama-feigns-ignorance-of-cfr-nau/ ]
[http://www.infowars.com/michelle-obama-flashes-%E2%80%98el-diablo%E2%80%99 -hand-signal-on-cover-of-vogue/ ]
#2 Here is evidence of Point 2 of the Georgia Guidestones on Reproduction .
Don't be deceived :
[http://www.infowars.com/?p=7259]
Here are search result links to what the Georgia Guidestones are
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones ]
#3
BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the
United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obamas UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on
the RWANDA MASSACRE . OOOPs!!! She said.
(Heres a Search Link To Many Witnesses To THE NEW U.N. RICE MONSTER)
[http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=Susan+Rice+Rwanda&cat=web&pl=ff& language=english]
FAMILIES LINE UP FOR MASONIC CHILD ID PROGRAM ! UNCLE BEAST WANTS YOU !!!
[http://www.infowars.com/families-line-up-for-masonic-child-id-program/ ]
FRITZ SPRINGMEIER A Bold Christian Truthseeker The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73Q2_f4vKU ]
The Swine Flu Vaccination Hoax - Explained URL [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbFxV_C8Yw4 ]
[Check Out :
3) Who Brought The Slaves To America ? URL = [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzhnKy63io ] Or [http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=911]
WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS ! BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
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- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]
I .BEWARE OF THE TOWER BUILDERS
A. THE TOWER BUILDERS ??? 1. Look at the story of Nimrod and his one world crew in Genesis 11: 1-8. Nimrod was a builder of cities and a mighty hunter . He was well-known for his feats and apparently could attract a lot of people to him. He must have been extremely- charismatic. Nimrod and the people acted completely as one body. There goal was to reach Heaven via building a tower; sort of like the space programs ( known & secret ). God delayed their goals by mixing up their language so they could not understand each other. Daniel 8:10 mentions what I believe to be a reference to the Nimrod of the last days (led by D-Evil) .This verse may also be referring to the space program as one of the Towers of Babel being used to attack the Kingdom of Heaven . 2. Beware o 3. 4. f any attempts by man to unite the world as one ; for the good of all. 5. 6. Here are two examples that come to mind : Simulcasting of the song We Are The World . I believe the actual tragedy of starving Ethiopians , coupled with our common love of music was used to get the world to thinking that we can save ourselves. This was followed by mini-movements like Hands-Across America and other movements ; which I believe were trying to get us to thinking like those people were thinking when Nimrod proposed that they build a Tower to Heaven. 3.
Beware The Tower Builders ! God is Our Refuge ! Our Tower !
The Swine Flu Vaccination Hoax - Explained URL [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbFxV_C8Yw4 ]
WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS ! BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
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- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]
Well, its about time for African Elites to wake up and smell the hot burning coffee. Furthermore, its about time for those blinded Africans to reorganize themselves for the betterness of their future generation in Africa. As a proverb says, "there's NO place like home". Those ignorant and self-selfish Africans MUST dust themselves and put their brains in order; or else, they're nothing but gabbages in another man's world.