Obi Nwakanma
1 November 2009
opinion
Lagos — IN 1890, the French statesman Jules Francois Camille Ferry wrote, "an irresistible movement is bearing the great nations of Europe towards the conquest of fresh territories. It is like a huge steeplechase into the unknown...whole continents are being annexed...especially the huge black continent so full of fierce mysteries and vague hopes."
Jules Ferry basically foreshadowed what later became known as "the scramble for Africa" by the great European powers in the 19th century, whose exploitative work, is signaled fundamentally by the legacy of King Leopold in the Congo, and generally of the entire colonial system in Africa.
Three important books, to me, are must reads for any one wanting to understand the context of that history and its impact on Africa: one would be Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, the other would certainly be How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney's classic excursus on that subject, and another would be Thomas Pakenham's felicitously written book of the title, The Scramble for Africa.
Pakenham takes us particularly on a tour guide of the terrain of the nineteenth century and the shenanigans of the European powers, some acting out of misguided charity, others out of sheer greed, and others by a combination of both, and whose efforts not only raped Africa, but powerfully turned her face towards the abyss.
Many Africans today increasingly connect the situation of internal wars, ethnic cleansing, and even amputations, to the colonial legacy, and that indeed is quite true. It is reminiscent of King Leopold's methods in the exploitation of the Congo; an unfinished business which continues today, and which has rendered Africa, and one of the world's potentially wealthiest nations, the Congo, into a geography of chaos, instability, and mastery.
Pakenham also gives us an insight into how the usury laws especially caged the Egyptian Khedives, already vassals of the Ottomans, and ruined their moves towards economic modernization and independence in the 19th century, through a trap-door loan for the construction of the Suez Canal. They took a loan, derived neither benefit nor satisfaction from it, but became burdened by a debt overhang.
The method is classic and has since been put to use for newly decolonizing African countries who were given or forced to take toxic loans from the powerful Euro-American global finance and political alliance, as a means of containing, it now seems, any African political and economic exuberance in the postcolonial era.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have done extremely remarkable jobs of doing this dirty business for the west, and the impact of its usurious relationship with Africa has crystallized in the quarter century that former European colonies in Africa were given what now amounts merely to symbolic or gestural independence in the 1960s.
Africans and other people in the world who have read that terrifying book, Confessions of an Economic Hit man by the American John Perkins, now understand, but only in part, the methods of the west in dealing with Africa and many other of the so-called developing nations, and in playing that "game as old as empire, but one that has taken new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization." Much has gone on between Africa and the Euro- American west, and it has not been quite pretty.
Some Africans now wonder what indeed went on at the council of Yalta, at the end of the Second World War, where negotiations fully materialized it seemed in a new world order that retained Africa in the margins, while offering them the Greek gift of independence from late in the 1950s.
There has arisen in Africa especially, and perhaps more acute among this generation of Africans, a growing skepticism about the west.
The US government for instance often speaks volubly about its "charity" in Africa, but it is often left-handed charity. The images of Africa that it continues and conspicuously, and continuously retails is of a dark, primitive, sick, and corrupt continent, that requires the "feeding bottle" and doses of American aid packages. Nicholas Sarkozy once came to Africa to declare that Africans were not yet in history.
They are trapped in the pagan cycle of time. They require their colonial big brothers to "help" them. Africa - ancient and brooding with rage and incomprehension at these insults - is continuously infantilized in the cultural unconscious of the West that is clearly not in tune with the reality of its dynamic and mobile population; its vast resources; its capacity for consistent self-renewal; the mystical fount of its cultures.
Conditions placed before newly independent Africans by the West, and this is only in part, have made it difficult for the true leaders of Africa to settle to the serious business of creating prosperity and organizing the post-colony. In places like the Niger delta, the greed of Western multinationals aided by their home governments have turned these places into a cauldron of conflict.
This is how Africans see it. Africans have seen these, and so comes China into Africa, speaking a different language.
While China does not send haughty and pretentious emissaries to African capitals to harangue African political, economic and intellectual leaders about their "responsibility," they enter into mutually beneficial deals: in exchange for developing the much needed infrastructure in Africa, they are getting access to Africa's natural resources.
They are building roads, hospitals, research facilities, telecommunication links, etc, and they are not forcing African governments to take usurious and unpayable loans. They are not hanging the threats of assassination and fear on those who do not play ball.
They are showing some respect and understanding to people like Mugabe, whom many in the west still fail to comprehend, maintains symbolic weight in Africa.
China therefore poses a challenge to Africa's traditional Western alliances, as indeed more Africans look towards China, and as they see the new scramble for Africa, and as they anticipate what may indeed become a vast military conflict on the map of Africa.
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Life Is A Game. Have Fun . Luke 18:17 - Isaiah 11:6
[Daniel 11:14 ]] And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT THEY SHALL FALL !
John 10:10
The thief (D-Evil) comes to steal,kill, and to destroy: I (Jesus Christ) have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
[Daniel 11:14 ]] And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT THEY SHALL FALL !
INFERIORITY = UNEQUAL EXCHANGE ANY KIND OF EXCHANGE MUST BE AS EQUALS
Currency Exchange is designed to puff up certain peoples and nations over others. The numbers are constantly telling some that they are inferior to others. The problem intensifies when those being manipulated by this financial scam buy in to this wicked scheme.
What’s the solution to INFERIORITY CURRENCY EXCHANGE ? Stop giving away our souls one piece of money ( dollar , pound, franc, rand, deniro, rupal, euro, Chinese renminbi, rupee, Russian ruble,etc..) at-a-time .
Do research on what price your product gets in the so-called First World countries. And demand that price. This will not work unless people at the local areas do this together. Form Co-Ops and agree to charge the prices you deserve.
2) INFERIORITY = Pay by Time
There is another system used to oppress people that feeds the business owners with a lust for MORE profit. One year they may have profits of 50%, the next year they may have profits of 100%, the next year their profits may only be 75%. The system in the world will consider that going from 100% profits to 75% profits is bad for business.
How is that bad ? Profits are profits ! Many businesses have different levels of pay for the same workers.; levels such as :
a) Top Salaries – Private and only known to each individual workers b) Medium Salaries – Private “ “ “ “ c) Lower Salaries – Private and only known to each individual workers d) High Hourly Wages e) Medium Hourly Wages f) Minimum Hourly Wages
I suggest that EVERY WORKER SHOULD BE PAID A LIVING WAGE. The Minimum Wage is like a financial ball and chain ; only giving those receiving it just enough to live to see the next day.
The Living Wage allows workers to live, invest, spend, save, and thrive. We can dream about having our own businesses , then wake up and attain our dreams. This is great for the businesses that pay Living Wages. For this creates new customers and new generations of customers.
As long as the system of Living Wages is in place, there will be a thriving economy and a blooming world full of optimistic activities. But it will only happen when business owners see the benefit of paying more pennies to make more dollars ! Which of you business owners will have the insight, recognition, roots, understanding, initiative, moxy, & compassion to make the step most are afraid to make.
John 10:10
The thief (D-Evil) comes to steal,kill, and to destroy: I (Jesus Christ) have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
[Daniel 11:14 ]] And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT THEY SHALL FALL !
INFERIORITY = UNEQUAL EXCHANGE ANY KIND OF EXCHANGE MUST BE AS EQUALS
THE TRUTH ABOUT DIAMONDS –
Did You Know That The Robbers Have Warehouses Full Of 55 Gallon Drums Each Full Of Raw Uncut Diamonds ?
The Wicked Are Using The Same Schemes On Us. : 1) They Hoard Riches ; Controlling The Supply So We’ll Think The Supply Is Low 2) This Scheme Helps Them To Get A Higher Price & Deceives Most Of Us Into Believing That Things ( Such As Diamonds, Gold, Oil, Etc..) Are In Short Supply & Even Due To Run Out.
Diamonds Are In Abundance And Their Supply Is Being Controlled By Persons Under The Control Of Spiritual Wickedness In High Places (Ephesians 6:12) .
We Saints Serve An Infinite God, What He Placed Here On This Earth For His Children Is Also Infinite. When You See A Volcano Or Magma ; The Liquid Land Flowing Out Of Volcanos, Think Of Growth. The Earth Is Steady Growing.
Once God Settles Things With The Rightreous & Un-Righteous . [Definition – Righteous Means The Desire To Do Right ]
Diamonds Are In Abundance And Their Supply Is Being Controlled By Persons Under The Control Of Spiritual Wickedness In High Places (Ephesians 6:12) . [http://janineroberts.org/]
1. The Bakken Oil Field Find
2. 55 gallon drums fulls of unprocessed diamonds.
* These are just a few of the suppressed world riches this beautiful world created by God (Jehovah, Father of Jesus Christ)..
3. Minister Lindsey Williams has known for 30 years of a major oil find in Alaska.
* He says that he sat in on meetings of the rich and powerful. These men decided not to use this oil to help America.
* Beware Africans, the wolves of deception are always around riches.
* Hosea said we perish for two reasons. Most people only remember one reason why we perish.
- Hosea said MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
- AND…because they REJECT KNOWLEDGE
- In other words, they DON’T KNOW & THEY DON’T WANT TO KNOW !!!!
4. For those who want to know I suggest you guys who can get the Internet do these things :
a) Listen to broadcasts like : Alex Jones (Infowars), Derry Brownfield, The Power Hour
(Joyce & Dave), Jeff Rense, and other broadcasts on the Genesis Communications Network.
b) Here’s an appetizer of information on the subjects I have just written on :
• Do a search use IX Quick search engine .They don’t record your computer’s address ; protect your privacy [ http://ixquick.com/]
• Here are three(s) separate subjects that I mentioned that you can search for
(i) – Bakken Oil Field Find
(ii) – Lindsey Williams (YouTube videos)
(iii) – Janine Roberts :Glitter & Greed : The Secret World of The Diamond Cartel
ANOTHER SUGGESTION IS FOR THOSE LIVING IN THE CITY TO POOL THEIR RESOURCES TOGETHER AND MAKE NEIGHBORHOOD COOP GREENHOUSES . HERE YOU CAN GROW SOME KIND OF FOODS AND NOT BE TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON GROCERY STORES.
Our only enemies are in Hell , waiting for their life-sentence of damnation.
You are in my prayers. Pray for each other too
Have Faith in God and Love for each other. May The Lord God Bless You real good
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Life Is A Game. Have Fun . Luke 18:17 - Isaiah 11:6
[Daniel 11:14 ]] And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT THEY SHALL FALL !
* 16 European Nations . Met And Plotted On How They Would Rob Africa Of Its Riches.
* They met during two(2) Periods of time in two(2) places
* The General Act Of Berlin Conference (Nov, 1884 to February, 1885)
* Brussels Belgium to finalize SECRET agreements ( Nov, 1889 to July 1890)
* The Book “King Leopold’s Ghost (1998) by Adam Hochschild documents some of This information.
The following Nations (Households) - Planned how they would divide among themselves our AFRICAN Riches.
1) Austria-Hungary - Francis Joseph I Charles - August 18, 1830 -
2) Belgium - King Leopold II – April 9, 1835
3) Denmark - Frederik VIII -June 3, 1843
4) France - Marie François Sadi Carnot – August 11, 1837 -
5) Germany - Wilhelm II -– January 27, 1859
6) Great Britain - Queen Victoria (Hanover) – May 24, 1819 – British Ruler – 2nd
7) Holland –William III – February 19, 1817
8) Italy - Umberto I - March 14, 1844 -
9) Norway - Oscar II [Oscar Frederik] – January 21, 1829 (Also Sweden)
10) Portugal - Carlos I – September 28, 1863
11) Russia - Alexander III Alexandrovich – March 10, 1845
12) Spain - Alfonso XIII – May 17, 1886
13) Sweden - Oscar II – January 21, 1829 (Also Norway)
14) Turkey - Abdülhamid II, - September 2 or September 22 - 1842 -
15) United States - Benjamin Harrison – August 20, 1833 -
16) Persia (Iran) - Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar – July 16, 1831 –
For centuries Black Africans have been exploited and exploited in the name of Islam. Then with the coming of the Portueses (so-called Christians) to Ghana around the 1440s , the so-called Christians started their exploitation.
We Black Africans are puzzling. We have a bounty of riches around us, yet we persist in allowing outsiders to steal them; while we fight each other over trivial matters.
Just in case you're wondering, here's some Black Africans who have done wondrous things to change the way we live in the world.
For example : Garrett-Augustus Morgan invented the Traffic Signal to CURB (no pun intended) TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS !!!
* Buridge & Marshman - TYPEWRITER
* George Carruthers - X-RAY MACHINE
* George Washington Carver - PEANUT BUTTER - PAINTS – PAINT STAINS – ETC
* W.A. Dietz - SHOE
* Charles R. Drew - BLOOD PLASMA STORAGE SYSTEM
* Michael Harney - LANTERN
* Augustus Jackson - ICE CREAM
* H.A. Jackson - KITCHEN TABLE
* Isaac R. Johnson - BICYCLE FRAME
* John A. Johnson - WRENCH
* Frederick M. Jones - DEFROSTER - REFRIGERATION CONTROLS – AIR CONDITIONER
* Jones & Long - BOTTLE CAPS
* Lewis Latimer & Nichols - ELECTIC LAMP
* John L. Love - PENCIL SHARPENER
* Tony J. Marshall - FIRE EXTINGUISHER
* Alexander Miles - ELEVATOR
* W.A. Martin - LOCK
* Garrett A. Morgan - GAS MASK - Traffic Signal
* Lydia Newman - HAIR BRUSH - Nov 15, 1898
* W.B. Purvis - FOUNTAIN PEN
* L.P. Ray - DUST PAN
* W.H. Richardson - BABY BUGGY
* G.T. Sampson - CLOTHES DRYER
* .W. Smith - LAWN SPRINKLER
* J. Standard - REFRIGERATOR
* T.W. Stewart - MOP
* Maxine Snowden - RAIN HAT - 1983
* Paul E. Williams - HELICOPTER
* Granville T. Woods - Roller Coaster
* Granville T. Woods - Telegraph Transmission Devices - Dec 2, 1884 Patents # - 308, 816 (7)
Thanks to The Black Inventors Museum P.O. Box 76128 Los Angeles , Calif. (90076) Phone (310) 859-4602)
Director : Ghanaian Mr. Hamza Salifa
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Life Is A Game. Have Fun . Luke 18:17 - Isaiah 11:6
More Power to Africa !!! Unity and development is the MOST
IS AFRICA FOR SALE ? 1) I’ve heard that one African country made a 99-year deal with an Asian country to lease a part of their land. 2) How can anyone make a deal for the next generation ? 3) What can we do about it ? 4) Organize and get those crooks out of office or any position of power.
5) Pray to God For insight and divine intervention.
6) Africa Is being targeted by many who are not respecting Africa.
7) We must stop selling ourselves and respect ourselves, our families and God.
Daniel 11:44 But NEWS OUT OF THE EAST (CHINA?) AND OUT OF THE NORTH ( RUSSIA ?) shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forward with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many Revelations 16:12 And the 6th angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water of it was dried up, that the way of the KINGS OF THE EAST might be prepared.
[Daniel 11:14 ]] And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT THEY SHALL FALL !
WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS !
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- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]