Nairobi — In January this year, an organisation calling itself the House of Traditional Elders of Kenya held court with Libyan strongman Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Led by its chairman, Mr Kamlesh Pattni of the Goldenberg infamy, they presented a Sh100-million proposal to the now embattled president.
It is, therefore, not surprising that the organisation's vice-chairman, Mr Riaga Ogallo, has condemned the ongoing bombardment of Gaddafi's forces by Western powers.
According to www.allafrica.com, when the organisation was formed in 2009, its other officials were Phares Ruteere (secretary general), Vincent Mwachiro (treasurer), former Ol Kejuado County Council chairman Daniel ole Muyaa (organising secretary), Haji Ahmed (deputy secretary), Peter Mumia (national coordinator), Julius Nyarotso (deputy treasurer), Mwangi Thuita (deputy organising secretary), and Sam Muumbi (deputy coordinator).
With rebels pushing towards Tripoli, thanks to an unrelenting bombardment of the loyalist troops by a coalition of European powers, arrangements such as the one Gaddafi has with the Kenya elders could go up in smoke. And that would be the case across the continent.
Corporate and individual fortunes could change drastically if the Western-backed rebels shoot their way into Tripoli and overthrow the colonel, who has been in power since 1969.
After the Arab League ignored Gaddafi's quest to lord it over them, the self-declared "emancipator of humanity" turned his attention and petrodollars to poverty-stricken sub-Saharan Africa.
In a bid to entrench Libya at the economic and political heartbeat of several African regions, the Libyan despot established several investment vehicles using the country's petroleum revenues.
Under the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the country's sovereign wealth fund believed to be capitalised at approximately $65 billion (Sh5.5 trillion), the North African nation has established numerous subsidiaries whose tentacles embrace hotels, oil exploration, mining, tourism, agriculture, and infrastructure in at least 31 countries.
Subsidies under LIA include the Libyan Arab Foreign Bank (LAFB), the Libyan African Portfolio for Investments (LAP), the Libyan Arab African Investment Company (LAAICO), and Tamoil, whose African operations run under the OiLibya brand. According to a leaked US diplomatic cable, from 2010 the scale of investments in Africa is in the region of $5 billion (Sh415 billion.)
These companies avoid investing in labour-intensive processes and instead prefer putting their money in state assets undergoing privatisation. Where this rule is overstepped, the conglomerates enter into partnerships with local companies.
In Kenya, for example, what used to be Mobil is now OiLibya, while the hotel formerly known as Grand Regency is now Laico-Regency.
United States of Africa
Alongside the economic alignments, Muammar Gaddafi has been trying to push for a United States of Africa through the AU and later through a group of traditional leaders which he had assembled under the auspices of the Forum for African Traditional Leaders (FATL).
As part of his agenda, Gaddafi used to host members of FATL in the now rebel-held city of Benghazi every year, where he lavished them with gifts and promises of development funds.
As a vote of thanks, this congress of chiefs and tribal leaders crowned their flamboyant benefactor as the "King of the Kings of Africa" in 2008.
The prospect of losing access to Libyan oil dollars is perhaps the reason Toro kingdom Queen Mother and FATL secretary general, Best Kemigisa, is one of the most aggrieved women in Uganda.
Gaddafi spent millions of dollars in renovating the palace of Toro King Oyo Nyimba at Fort Portal. He is also said to have paid for the 19-year-old king's education at a prestigious London school.
The Queen Mother, who describes Gaddafi as a revolutionary pan-Africanist who has led from the front in financing development projects across the continent, is also appealing to African members of the FATL to support Gaddafi in crushing the rebellion.
"He needs us more than ever before. As cultural leaders we should not sit and just watch him being hurt," Kemigisa explained in an interview with Uganda's Sunday Vision. "He has always been there for us and supported cultural institutions. We need to do something to help him resolve the crisis."
Kingdom of Buganda
Gaddafi is also said to have close ties with the kingdom of Buganda, where he channelled his handouts through Prince Kassim Nakibinge.
Apart from money pumped in through the traditional leaders, Uganda is one of the countries in Africa that have benefited the most from Libyan largesse in recent years.
However, the fate of Uganda's relatively robust economy is in no way tied to Gaddafi's fate, in spite of sizable Libyan investments there.
From investments to philanthropy, Gaddafi's footprints are evident in Uganda. In March 2008, the Libyan leader visited Uganda amid huge fanfare to open a multi-billion dollar mosque, famed to be the second largest in Africa with a capacity to accommodate 15,000 worshippers. Of course, he had financed its construction.
Perched on Old Kampala Hill, Gaddafi Mosque remains one of the most poignant symbols of Libya's geo-politics in Uganda.
With the flamboyant leader having promised to finance the refurbishing and maintenance of the mosque for the next 10 years, there is uncertainty about what will happen if Tripoli falls.
"May Allah protect and help our brother (Gaddafi) emerge victorious because I don't know whether we shall be able to maintain the mosque without his support," Meddie Akhram, a worshipper, was quoted as lamenting.
According to the Sunday Vision, the Ugandan Muslim community says the construction of a Gaddafi-sponsored Islamic university was mooted after a committee headed by Dr Badru Kiggundu acquired land in Mukono. But with the current situation, the project does not seem to be feasible.
The paper estimates Libyan investments in Uganda at $375 million (Sh31 billion), and these have provided thousands of jobs for locals.Some of the companies in which Libya is said to own substantial shares include Uganda Telecom, Tropical Bank, Laico Lake Victoria Hotel, Tamoil East Africa, OiLibya, House of Dawda, Uganda Pharmaceuticals, and Lake Victoria Hotel Entebbe.
Oil pipeline
The Libyan government is also said to be laying the groundwork for the construction of a $300 million (Sh25 billion) oil pipeline from Mombasa to Kampala.
Libya also owns 60 per cent of Tristar, which exports garments from Uganda to the United States under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, as well as 49 per cent of Uganda's largest real-estate developer, National Housing and Construction Corporation.
Although Gaddafi's dalliance with traditional kingdoms and his push for a United States of Africa have created a rift between him and his Ugandan counterpart, President Yoweri Museveni has come out strongly in defence of his ally against the UN-sanctioned pummelling by American and European forces.
Gaddafi funded and armed the bloody Amin regime, but he later switched sides to support the rebel army that brought Museveni to power in 1986.
As a sign of their friendship, the two men have exchanged high-sounding honorific. While Gaddafi awarded Museveni the Al-Fatah medal -- the country's highest honour -- in 1988, Museveni reciprocated in 2004 by awarding Gaddafi the Order of Katonga, Uganda's highest military honour.
Ironically, Uganda was among the first countries to enact the UN sanctions against Libya. The Ugandan government announced its takeover of Uganda Telecom Limited in which Libya holds a 69 per cent stake; and Tropical Bank, where the Libyan Foreign Bank owns 99.7 per cent shares.
According to Kampala, the move was aimed at disconnecting Gaddafi from Libya Africa Investments, the umbrella under which the assets in Uganda falls.
Libya has also pumped millions of dollars into the economies of Chad, Niger, Liberia, Sudan, Central Africa Republic, Mozambique, and many other countries, all of which are bound to feel the pinch of a Gaddafi departure.
"If Gaddafi falls, I can see repercussions for a couple of countries," says Isaka Soure, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa. "The new government in Guinea, for example, had banked heavily on Libyan funding for some of its developments.... If Gaddafi funding does not go through, it could have a serious impact."
Relations with Monrovia
Since President Ellen-Johnson Sirleaf took over, Liberia's relationship with Libya has blossomed. The two leaders have visited each other several times in recent times. In 2008, LAP, in partnership with the Foundation for Africa Development Aid (ADA), invested $30 million (Sh2.5 billion) in Liberia's rice production, the country's staple. The project is meant to make the war-ravaged country food-sufficient in the next few years.
Other notable LAP projects in the West African nation include the establishment of a $15 million (Sh1.25 billion) rubber processing plant in Bong County, renovating dozens of schools affected by the war, provision of hundreds of scholarships to Liberian students, and the installation of large power generators for the restoration of electricity to Monrovia.
The Gaddafi regime has been a major player in the conflicts going on in the Horn of Africa and the surrounding countries. Therefore, his departure could drastically realign the region's power structures.
From propping the governments of Niger and Chad to supporting the rebels in Darfur, the self-declared "Brother Leader" has been a patron saint to many regimes around the Horn. Lack of Libyan support, military or economic, would leave some of these states vulnerable to internal turmoil.
The departure of Gaddafi would also make uncertain the fate of the thousands of sub-Saharan Africa immigrants who reside in the country in the hope of making a run for Europe.
Arming Darfur rebels
The Gaddafi regime has also been accused of arming the Darfur rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) with rifles, anti-aircraft guns, satellites phones, vehicles, and fuel.
In May last year, Libya granted asylum to JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim, prompting a rift between Tripoli and Khartoum. The fall of Muammar Gaddafi would not only mean the expulsion or arrest of Khalil, but JEM would also have to seek support from elsewhere, and this would end up dragging more players into the Darfur conflict.
However, one of the biggest losers in the continent if the Libyan demagogue is deposed will be the AU and its peacekeeping missions around the continent. Libya provides 15 per cent of AU funding, which translates to $40 million (Sh3.4 billion) annually.
Losing this funding will have major repercussions for regional stability since the AU and UN-supported 20,000-troop peacekeeping mission in Darfur will be greatly hampered, which might weaken the peace efforts.
The same fate might befall the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia, whose 8,000 soldiers are crucial in the battle against Islamic radicals in that country.
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I OWE THE AUTHOR A SINCERE APOLOGY FOR MY EARLIER COMMENTS. WHAT HOW EVER IS TRUE HAT GADAFFI IS INDEED INSTRUMENTAL IN THE CONTINNENTAL DEVEL;OPMENT WHICH HAS CREATED INDEPENDENTS AND FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAY AFRICANS
MY AIM IS FOR PEACE IN LIBYA BUT I ALSO FEEL THAT THE REBELS CAN INSURE THEIR POSSITION BY MORE REASONABLE WAYS COPNSIDERING WHAT THE IMPLICATIONS ARE FOR A DEVELOPING AFRICA. THEY FAIL TO REALISE WITH THEIR UNDERMINING THE REGIME TOTALY IS FUELING THE AGRESSION OF THE EUROPEANS WHO DON'T WANTY TO SEE A AN INDEPENDENT AFRICA . DEMOCRACY IS ACHIVEABLE IN LIBYA ; WITH FAIR ELECTIONS AND THE LEADER STEPPING ASIDE THATS FEASIBLE. WHAT THEY NEED TO KEEP IN MIND LIBYA DOES NOT HAVE A OUPPET LEADER WHO WAS PUT IN PLACE BY THE WEST WHICH IS THE SCENARIO THRUOUT ALL AGFRICA MID EAST INCLUSIVE. THEY ARE BEING FUNDED BY NON DEMOCRATIC REGIMES UAE ARE AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS WHICH IMPLIES WHY THE WEST IS SO DETERMIONED TO PUT ON BOARD DICTATORS WHICH IS CONTRADICTORY TO THE REBELS WHICH LEADS TO THE QUESTIONWHAT ARE THEY REALLY AFTER.. OUT OF EVRY REVOLUTION WHERE PEOPLE ARE DYUING THEY KEEP PROCLAIMING THIS FAITH IN THE WEST EVEN AFTER WHAT THEY HAVE JUST WITNESSED IN COT D' IVOIRE WHERE THE GOVERNMENT WAS DEMOCRATIC ; SO THESE REBELSNEED TO BE SURE WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO ACCOMP;ISH ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT.. AFRICA IS FREE AND NEEDS TO STAY FREE AND MANY AFRICANS WILL DIE IF THEIR WAY OF LIFE IS BEINGTHREATENED BY THE COLONISING AMBITIOONS OF THE WEST. THESE AMBITIONS ARE BEING FULLY NOTICED BY THE WIDER COMMUNITY THEY NOW SEE THE HYPOCRISY OF WHAT FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN ARECPERPRETATING SO THEY NEED TO REMIND THEMSELVES THE DAYS OF COLONIAL COERCION IS LONG GONE. AFRICANS HAVE REGINED THE ABILIOTIES TO PROCESS EDUCATION AND ITS A DRIVING SPIRIT IN ALL AFRICA SOPMETHING THAT UNDER COLONIANISM HAD NO BENEFIT AND WITH THEIR UNANATURAL PURSUIT OF THEIR NATURAL RESOUIRCES AND THE CRIPPLING GOVERNMENTS THEY COMMITTED THEMSELVES TO FOR THEIR SELFISH BENEFITS ALONE . WITH THE EDUCATION THATS SWEEPING AFRICA THESE INCONSIDERATIONS WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN THAT AT THE EXPENSE OF A LIFE THE WEST CONTINUED TO FASCILITATE DEATH HUNGER AND STARVATION JUST TO KEEP THEIR PRODUCE AND ITS PRICES CHEAP SOCHEAP THAT IT BENEFITED NO ONE EXCEPT THE DICTATOR HIS CRONIES AND OD COURSE WESTERN GOVERNMENTS.
THEIR CON TINMUAL UNDESERVED FREINDSHIP IS NOT A QUESTION ITS A FACT AS WE SAW IN IVORY COAST THEY WILL DO EVRY THING TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENTS AT THE DEATH AN DEVASTAION OF MANY AFRICAN LIVES THEY WIL LIE LIE LIE ; LIE LIE LIE LIE AND THEY DONT STOP"
TO BE FAIR TO THIS AUTHOR I HAVEN'T READ YOUR ENTIRE PIECE WHAT I AM GETTING FROM YOU IS GADAFFI IS THE SOLE PROTAGANIST FOR AFRICAN UNITY DONT YOU FIND YOURSELF BEING ABSURD . PAN AFRICANISM WAS BORN EARLY 20TH CENTRY THE BEGENNINGS OF THIS STRUCTURE WAS FOUED BY THE GREAT MARCUS GARVEY FROM JAMAICA WHO HAD AN ORGANISATION IN 1911 THAT COMPRISED OF 22 MILLION AFRICAN S AND THE DIASPORA THRUOUT THE GLOBE IT WAS KNOWN AS "THE UNITED NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSSOCIATION".. THRU OUT THE 60S WHEN MOST OF AFRICA BECAME INDEPENDENT THEY TOO EMBRACED PAN AFRICANISM BUT TO PUT YOU STRAIGHT THE FOREMOST TEACHER OF PAN AFRICANISM WAS" HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE THE FIRST KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS COUNQUORING LION FROMTHE TRIBE OF JUDAH " AND HE WAS AS YOU ARE WELL READ WAS THE INIATOR FOR A L;EAGUE OF NATIONS THAT WAS THEN BROUGHT TO FRUITION AS THE UN WE KNOW TODAY. THE OAU WAS THE PREDESCER TO THE AU WHICH WAS IN FACT THE UNITY OF AFRICANS BROUGHT TO AFRICA BY HIS MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE THIS IS WHY ADDIS IS THE CAPITOL OF THE AU.; WITH NEED TO IMPRESS UPON YOU THAT THE GREAT BOB MARLEY WAS ALSO A GREAT PAN AFRICANIST; SO WHAT PUZZLES ME IS HAS GADAFFI DONE A WRONG THING IN YOUR MIND BY EMBRACING AFRICA AND WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING; THAT SHOULD HE FALL THE AFRICANS HAVE TO FALL WITH HIM ? THATS PLAIN STUPIDITY FOR ONE THING LIBYANS ARE AFRICANS ALSO SO IF THEY WANT TO CONTINUE THE SAME PARTNERSHIP AND CONTINUE TO GROW WITH AFRICA I AM QUITE SURE THEY WILL BUT THEY WILL NOT ALLOW FOR GOVERNMENTS TO COLLAPSE BECAUSE GADAFFI INVESTED IN AFRICA WHERE EUROPE DIDNOT; YOU HAVE ALOT OF CHEEK !!! THERE IS AS MUCH INVESTMENT IN EUROPE AND AMERICA AS WELL, YOU ARE COMMING ACROSS TO ME LIKE A BLACK HATER AND A DESIRE TO SEE THE FALL OF THE AFRICAN UNION" WHY IS THIS? AFRICA AS YOU KNOW HAS BEEN EXPLOITED BY THE COLOINANMIST FOR CENTURIES AND YOU SPEAK AS THOUGH YOU KNOW WHERE HISTORY STARTS IN AFRICA YOU TAKE AWAY THE MISEDUCATION THE POVERTY THE LACK OF EDUCATION THESE THING EUROPEANS HAS DELIBERATELYLEFT IN AFRICA. THE INSTALLATION DICTATORS THRUOUT ALL AFRICA INCLUDING THAT WHICH THEY CALL MID EAST ; THE IMPORTING OF A NEW STATE ISRAEL WHICH IS THERE TO KEEP A STOP OR PREVENTING A UNITY OF THE ENTIRE REGION WHICH IS IN FACT ALL AFRICA IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT YOUR MAP OR GLOBE SO DONT GET CARRIED AWAY. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS WAS FORMULATED BY HIS MAJESTY TO ERADICATE FACISM AND DICTATORSHIPS TO ENCOURAGE A COMMON GOAL FOR HUMANITY TO LIVE IN PEACE ;A UNITED AFRICA WAS ALSO CONCEIVED THESE IDEAS . 1938 WAS THE YEAR HIS MAJESTY BROUGHT THE IDEA TO ROSEVELT THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF WWTWO WHEN ITALY INVADED ETHIOPIA A SOVEREIGN STATE GADAFFI HAS DONE GREAT THINGS FOR AFRICA SO DONT COME WITH YOUR COLONIAL TALK ABOUT SUB SAHARA AFRICA. AFRICA COMPRISES OF ALL AFRICA AND THE RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH OF THE SAHARA WAS EXPLOITED ENMASSE BY EUROPE N AMERICA LETS NOT SPEAK OF THE GREAT HUMAN TRAGEDY THAT WAS KNOWN AS THE SLAVE TRADE . HOW GREATER A CRIMINAL BARBARITY TO HUMANITY THAN THE DESTRUCTION OF A CIVILISED ANCIENT PEOPLE REDUCED TO WHAT WAS CALLED CHATTEL SLAVERY ; WHEN THEY REACHED LOWER LOWS WAS THE DEHUIMANISATION OF ALL AFRICA WHEN THE IMPERIALIST DECIDED TTHAT AFRICANS WERE 3.5 HUMANS WHAT NONSENSE AND THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF WIPING OUT THE GREAT LEGACY OF THE THE BLACKMAN FROM THE PAGES OF HISTORY TOTAL ERADICATION EVEN WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SPHYNXS' HUMAN BRAIN WASHING ON THE CONTINENT WAS BEING INTRODUCED AFRICNS WERE FORCED TO BELIEVE IN A WHITE GOD IN JESUS ALTHOUGH MANY AFRICANS WERE MUSLIMS THEY WERE FORCED TO BECOME CHRISTIA. ISLAM WAS A GREAT PART OF AFRICANE FOURTHS OF EAST AFEICA AND PARTS OF THE SOUTH THIS WAS REPELLED BY THE EUROPEANS AND FORCED TO ACCEPT CHRISTIANITY AS INDEED IN THE AMERICAS AHERE THEY HAD MILLIONS OF CAPTURED AFRICANS WHO THEY FORCED INTO SLAVERY. THE TRAGEDY HAD JUST BEGAN NOT WERE THEY WHO CONSIDERED THEMSELVES CIVILISERS THEY HAD FOR GOTTEN THAT IT WAS INDEED THE BLACK AFRICAN WHO RULED SPAIN FOR 700 YEARS IN THE IDENTITY OF THE MOORES WHO WAS SO INFLUENTIAL THAT SHAKESPEARE LEARNED AND MIMMICKED THEIR GREAT ART OF POETRY AND THE WISENES OF THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE WAS INTERPRTED ION THE GREAT POETIC STYLE OF MOORISH WRITERS WHO INFLUENCED SPAIN IN THEIR CIVILITY. SO DO GO TO THIS DISCRIMINATORY WAY OF UINTELLECTUALISING BLACK PEOPLE AS IF ONLY GADAFFI COULD HAVE THOUGHT OF AFRICAN UNITY BECAUSE THE BLACK MAN IS INDDED GRATEFULL TO THE CETURIES OF ABUSE AND SECOND CLASS CITIZENRY EVEN IN HIS OWN LAND AND ITBWOULD TAKE SOME ONE ELSE OTHER THAN BLACKS THEMSELVES ; WHAT YOU FAIL TO RECOGNISE IS THAT FOR MANY DECADES THE WEST HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN KILLING AND OVERTHROWING EVERY GREAT POLITICAAL REFORMIS MOVEMENT IN AFRICA UNTILL RECENTLY ALL THE LEADERS OF AFRICA NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST OTHERT THAN THE ETHIOPIANS AND MUGABE WHO FOUGHT FOR HIS TITLE ALL WERE INSTRUMENTS OF THE WEST PLACED IN POWER WHETHER BY FRANCE THE US OR THE UK. DICTAORS WERE INSTITUTIONALISED BY WESTERN FACIST ; TODAY THEY ARE A DYING BREED MOSTLY STILL INPLACE IN THE ARAB LANDS AS ITS BEING REFERED TO. DICTATATORS ARE AN WESTERN EMPOWERED FORM OF GOVERNMENT UDSED IN AFRICA TO DESTABLISE EXP[LOIT AND KEEPTHE POPULATION IMPOVERISHED SO DONT CAST ASPERSIONS AS IF THE POLARISATION AND SEGMENTATION SEGREGATION IS AN APPRECIATED FACT IN AFRICA ONLY TO HAVE BEEN SEEN AND DISCOVERD BY GADAFFI AND TO BE RUDE ENOUGH TO THINK THAT BECAUSE THE ARABS DINT WANT HIM HE RAN TO BLACK AFRICA FURTHER TO YOUR INSULT MUBARAK MUST HAVE BEEN THE SAME HE INVESTED HEAVILY IN AFRICA AS WELL SO DONT COME WITH THESE LITTLE FALSE SCENARIOS AS IF AFRICA IS GOING TO COLLAPSE WHEN OR IF GADAFFI GOOES AND MOST CERTAINLY THESE ORGANISATIONS WONT STOP FUNCTIONING ; I DONT SEE WHAT YOY ARE INSINUATING HERE AT ALL!
FROM YOUR OUTLOOK AS AUTHOR YOU ARE PREDICTING THE FALL OF GADAFFI BECAUSE YOU THINK HE IS TOO BENEVOLENT TO AFRICA AND THE WEST SERVES BETTER AT THESE TYPE THINGS YAH? YOU SEEM TO DREAD THE OUTCOME FOR THE ORIGINAL AFRICAN IN POST GADAFFI SINCE THEY SEEM TO BE SO RACIST IS THIS YOUR VIEW? OR IS IT THAT GADAFFI HAS GALVANISED AFRICANS WHICH INCIDENTLY HE HAS BEEN DOING FOR DECADES ; I, REMEBER WHEN HE DECLARED THAT HE WAS NOT LIVING IN ARABIA HE IS AN AFRICAN AND HE WANTED TO TRULY EMBRACE THE AFRICAN UNION WHICH I AM SURE YOU KNOW WAS THE GREAT SELASSIE FROM ETHIOPIA WHO ALSO FOR GENRAL INFO WAS THE REMARKABLE MIND BEHIND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONMS HENCE TODAY THE UNITED NATIONS A DYNAMIC AFRICAN KING WHO WAS LONG IN DESCENDENCY FROM AFRICAN ISRAEL TRUE AFRICAN HERITAGE. PEOPLE WHO LIKE YOURSELF HAVE THIS WESTERN MIND SET WHICH YOU MUST REALISE IS ALL BULL YOU KNOW THE REST. LETS TALK AFRICA AND WHO AFRICANS ARE THE FIRST IS THE "THE FIRST MAN EVER " THE FIRST SCIENTIST THE FIST MATHEMATECIAN FOR WHICH ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE ARE BASED. CIVILIZATIONS EVERY CVONTINENT YOU SEE GREAT HIGH DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATIONS WITH MONUMENTS IN TOWE TO DECALRE PROMOTE DECREE WHO THESE BUILDERS WERE . RECENT TIME AFRICA HAS SEEN CHANGES OF FACES SINCE DIFFERENT FORMS OF MAN HAS STARTED WALKING TH E EARTH. WE MUST NOT FORGET THE NEADRETHAL; WHO WAS THAT ? HE WAS A FACSIMILE OF MAN ONLY FOUND IN EUROPE ; SUGGESTING THAT INDEED MAN DID HAVE INTERCOURSE WIH BEAST MONKEY WHATEVER; THIS IS RATIFIED BY THE ENOURMOUS AMOUNTS OF THESE THINGS FOUND. THIS IS WHY MANY EVOLUTIONIST ATTRIBUTE THEIR BEGINNIGS TO THE APE. THE BLACKMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE LIFELINE OF ALL RACES ON THE PLANET AND HAS CONTINUED TO BE THE CARE TAKER OF THS PLANET SINCE OUR CREATOR AND GUIDE AND DELIVERERE HAS TAUGHT THE BLACKMAN TO BE VIGHILANT TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THE TRAVELERS AND THE BANISHED FROM THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION ALL AFRICA INCLUDING THE MID EAST. SO HENCE YOU SEE IN EUROPE NOT THE ROMANS WHO CAME TO ELEVATE BUT THE MOORS NOT THE ARABS THE MOORS WHO WERE DISTINCTIVE IN COLOUR WHO WERE LATER JOINED BY THE ARABS ; NEVER FORGET THE ARABS AT THE TIME OF THE MOORS WERE ANTI BOOKS HENCE THE BURNING OF THE UNIVERSITY AND LIBRARY OF TMBUKTU. THE NEED FOR AFRICA TO UNITE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE RULE OF AFRICAN LEADERS NOT THE EXCEPTION AS YOU SUGGEST. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THAT DICTATORS WAS THE WAY FORWARD WITH ALL IMPER IAL POWERS SO THEY HAVE COMPLICITY IN M,URDERS AND MANY ALMOST EVRY COUP THRU-OUT THE AFRICAN REGION WHICH YOU CALL ARAB STREET. THESE AREAS BEFORE COLONIANISM WAS INDEED MOSTLY HELD BY BLACKS INCLUDING PALESTINE. TJEIR ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN PALESTINE DO NOT KNOW HOW THEY ARRIVED THERE SOME VERY CLEVER PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO TELL THEM THAT IT WAS VIA SLAVERY QUITE UNTRUE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE CONFLICT THE ZIONIST MADE IT THEIR DUTY TO ELIMINATE AS MANY AS THE BORIGINAL MAN AS POSSIBLE. SO DONOT GET IT TWITED AFRICA IS FOR ALL AFRICANS THIS IS THE LANDS OF THE ORIGINAL MAN AND OUR BROTHERS WHO ARER STILL OUR BROTHERES IN RIGHTEOUSNESS WE WILL FIND ETERNAL SOLUTIONS TO ALL AFRICA . PALESTINE SHOULD BE EMBRACED AS PART OF THE AFRICAN UNION. LOOK AT THE COLURS OF THE FLAGS OF AFRICA RED BLAK GREEN ARE THE TRUE COLOURS OF ALL AFRICA; THOSE COLOURS ARE ANCIENT AS IS RED GOLD AND GREEN. WE THE CHILDREN OF THE BUILDERS OF THE PYRAMID AND WHO BROUGHT THE EARTH TO KNOW GOD SO THEY CAN FIND THEMSELVES." I SAY PRAISE "GOD" THE HOLY "ONE" OF CREATION " THE RECIST BEHAVIOUR OF THE UK AND FRANCE HAS BEEN NOTED AND NOT TAKEN LIGHT HEARTEDLY TOU DONT KNOW BUT THE OIL THEY SEEK WIIL ILLUDE THEM WHY?ALL THE DECEPTION AND MURDERS IS NOT GOING UNNOTICED. THEY COMPLETELY DEMORALISED A SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENT IN COTE D' IVOIRE, FOR ALL THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND DEMOCRACY AND WHAT SOVEREIGN MEANS; IT CLEARLY MEANS THAT ALL COUNTRIES WHO HAVE A CONSTITUTION HAVE THE RIGHT THRU THE CONSTITUTIONAL JUST ICES ; ARE THE TRUE AND ONLY ARBITRARS IN GOVERNMENT AND ITS VOTE.MEANING THERE IS NO LEGAL MONICKER THAT CAN BE USED TO UNDERMINE THIS DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE.THIS IS RECOGNISED WORLD WIDE BUT AS WE SEE ONLY IN WHITE COUNTRIES. AFRICA WILL UNITE AND LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES THEY KNOW WITHOUT QUETION THAT THE WHITES ARE PROFOUND LIARS AGGRESSORS AND THIOEVES COPRRUPTORS TO ADD THE UNENDING LIST OF INAPROPRIATE BEHAVIOPUR THAT CONTRAVENES ALL CODES OF ETHICS A ND GENTLEMAN RULES OF LAW .WHICH THE KNIGHTS WAS AN AGFRICAN PRINCIPLE GIVEN TO ENGLAND VIA AFRICA . WOW !!!!!!! SO MUCH TO LEARN