Lessons from a Year of Uprisings for the African Union
If shared values of the AU are to play a meaningful role in the discourse and practice of democracy and human rights in Africa, lessons should be learnt from the North African popular uprisings.
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North Africa: Uprisings Challenge African Union (analysis)
Institute for Security Studies, 16 January 2012
The launch of 'The year of shared values' at the 18th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly later this month is taking place in the wake of unprecedented popular ... read more »
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Egypt: Diary of a Revolution (II) (analysis)
Fahamu, 20 October 2011
Gabriele Habashi gives a gripping account of her experience during the final days of the protests that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. It is the story of a people ... read more »
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Egypt: Diary of a Revolution-Part One (opinion)
Fahamu, 22 September 2011
Gabriele Habashi gives a gripping account of her experience during the early days of the protests that would eventually force President Hosni Mubarak out of power in Egypt. She ... read more »
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Libya: Fall of Gaddafi - Lessons for Africa
AfricaFocus, 19 September 2011
"That the West has always had a nefarious agenda in Africa is not news--we all remember the slave trade, colonialism, and structural adjustment. But we give the West too much power ... read more »
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Libya: What Does Gaddafi's Fall Mean for Africa?
AfricaFocus, 19 September 2011
"Whereas the fall of Mubarak and Ben Ali directed our attention to internal social forces, the fall of Gaddafi has brought a new equation to the forefront: the connection between ... read more »
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Africa: Why Africa Should Mourn Gaddafi's Fall (opinion)
The Star, 16 September 2011
According to the United Nations Human Development Index and the Africa Development Bank country profile, Libya under Gaddafi rule was rated the best place to live in Africa. read more »
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Africa: Global Nato and the Recolonisation of Africa - Lessons From the Libyan Intervention (analysis)
Fahamu, 15 September 2011
If there was any uncertainty about the real mission of the United States, France, Britain and other members of NATO in Libya, these doubts were clarified with the nature of the ... read more »
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North Africa: Containing the Arab Spring
Daily Trust, 13 September 2011
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring in the Middle East, the political foundations of the area have continued to be shaken, despite Western efforts, led by the United States, ... read more »
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Tanzania: How Africa Can Avoid - Lessons From Tripoli
The Citizen, 4 September 2011
Prof Mahmood Mamdanin, in 'What does Gaddafi's fall mean for Africa?' (Aljazeera 30th August 2011) noted that "conditions making external intervention in Africa are growing" ... read more »
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Egypt: Caged Mubarak And the Symbolic Lesson (analysis)
This Day, 16 August 2011
Last week's spectacle of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lying prostrate on a hospital stretcher inside a cage in an improvised courtroom at Cairo's Police Academy, was a ... read more »
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Egypt: Nation At a Crossroads (analysis)
allAfrica.com, 11 August 2011
"Is it enough for the King to become another citizen without any privileges, or would it be more salutary to chop off his head, so that people could watch the blood flow? - Milan ... read more »
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North Africa: Uprising in the Arab World - Lessons for the Country (opinion)
Daily Trust, 31 July 2011
Additionally, the spontaneity of its occurrence usually catches the legitimate government unprepared. Thus we see feeble but futile attempts by various governments that hardly work ... read more »
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Libya: The True Costs of War (analysis)
Fahamu, 28 July 2011
A wicked blow to Africa, the invasion of Libya has little to do with protecting civilians and all to do with strategic interests. Why are these invaders so heartless, asks Charles ... read more »
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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood - Just Another Party
Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 14 July 2011
Egypt's ruling military council has made a number of concessions aimed at defusing angry protests over the army's handling of the transition to democracy. read more »
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Africa: The Old Repression Resurfaces (opinion)
Fahamu, 23 June 2011
The situation in Egypt is increasingly complex writes Sokari Ekine, where power still lies with the remnants of the state and military, and the old mechanisms of repression are ... read more »
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North Africa: Maghreb Uprisings - Truth is 'Impossible to Find'
Fahamu, 9 June 2011
KalliophDespite all the news and analysis on Libya, we still don't know very much about who the rebels are and where their support comes from, writes Sokari Ekine. read more »
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North Africa: Terrorism After the Storm (analysis)
Institute for Security Studies, 14 April 2011
The movement for democratic change sweeping across most of North Africa, which has already toppled two of Africa's despots and longest-serving heads of state, will have ... read more »
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Africa: Why Africa is Ignored in Global Affairs (column)
The Citizen, 31 March 2011
Last Tuesday, African leaders once again proved to the world that they are useless as far as serious global issues are concerned, when they failed to attend the crucial London ... read more »
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Libya: How AU Dropped the Ball in North Africa (opinion)
The East African, 28 March 2011
By the time the guns fall silent and the bodies are counted in the Libya conflict, the African Union could turn out to be one of the biggest casualties. read more »
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Libya: Citizens Should Not Surrender Sovereignty to Western Powers (opinion)
The Star, 28 March 2011
I supported Middle Eastern popular demonstrations that some have mistakenly branded as "revolutions", until the military coalition of American and European armies attacked Libya ... read more »
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North Africa: The Problem With Africans And Arabs (opinion)
Fahamu, 17 March 2011
The way the term Arab is being thrown around these days is enough to give a person reason to pause while celebrating the victories of the people of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. After ... read more »
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Libya: When 'Civil-Societyism' Fronts for Barbarism (opinion)
Fahamu, 17 March 2011
If Muammar Gadaffi's wicked son Saif al-Islam is to be believed, we will soon be witnessing 'rivers of blood' in Benghazi in Libya to shame even the Middle East's most murderous ... read more »
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Africa and the Arab Spring: A New Era of Democratic Expectations
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- Africa Center for Strategic Studies
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- 30 November 2011
The toppling of long established autocratic governments in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya has led many to speculate whether similar changes can be expected ... see more »
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THIS ARTICLE IS MISLEADING AND INAPROPRIATE .LET US LOOK AT WHAT WAS SAID FIRST AND FOREMOST I SAW AFRICA VERY VIGILAANT AND EXPRESSIONS OF GREAT SUPPORT FOR THE TUNISIANS AND MORE THAN EVER FOR THE EGYPTIANS. LIBYA WAS QUITE DIFFERNT, WHEN THE NARRATIVE OF PEACE FUL DEMONSTARATORS BEING SHOT DOWN AND BLACK AFRICAN MERCENARIES GOING ARTOUND SHOOTING WHITE LOKKING ARABS IS DISMISSED AS THE PROPOGANDA IT IS AND THE SUBTERFUGE OF WASHINGTON AND PARIS. LET US GO EVE FURTHER THERE ARE NO REAL REVOLUTIONARIES IN LIBYA TOWARDS THE END OF THE CRISIS WHICH WAS ARTIFICIALY INCEPTED BY THE WEST WE SEE THAT MILITIAS WERE ARMED PAID AND PROMISED THIS AND THAT TO MAKE THE WEST LOOK GOOD FOR THE WORLD. TODAY LIBAY IS A MESS. THESE WAS NO GREAT LIBYAN UPRISING AGAINST GADAFFI. THJIS WAS THE STAGE OF GREAT ESPIONAGE WITH DRAMATICS OF GIGANTURE PROPORTIONS. THERE WAS THE NEED FOR THE WEST TO RID AFRICA OF GADAFFI HE CHAMPIONED THE AFRICANSELF RELIANTS AND HE ALSO SUPPORTED INVESTMENTS FOR THOSE WHO HAD THE INCLINATION TO DO SO. AGAIN I WANT INDEPENDENY T PEOPLE TO BE SENSIBLE LOOK NAT THE LIBYA OF YESTERDAY AND WHAT DO WE SEE A COUNTRY INDEPENDENT OF ANY WESTERN INFLUINCE FREE OF DEBTS FREE OF CORRUPTION THAT BESEIGES AFRICAS GOVERNMNETS PARTICULARLY THE ONE WHO HAVE MORE TO OFFER TO THE WEST. WHAT WE SEE NOW IS THE BEGGING BROTHERS ACT PART 2, WITH GADAFFI ALIVE THE BEGGIBNG BOWL WAS KEPT IN CHECK . AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS HAD TO START SEARCHING FOR SELF. TOADY THIS HAS REVERTED TO LET THE WEST DO IT WE CAN SLLEEP WHILE THEY ROB US BLIND. THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS. HERE WE STILL HAVE RIGHT AFTER THE DEATH OF GADAFFI THE SUB SAHREAN NARRATIVE BEING ALIVE AND KICKING. WE HAVE LONG SINCE ABANDONED THES SORT OF INFRERIORORITY COMPLEXES WHICH DIVIDES MORE THAN UNIFYS. WHAT WE HAD IN AFRICA ; AFRICA BEING PLURAL OF ALL MEMBER STATES THE SAME COMRADERIES WE SHARTE WHEN WE ALL FIGHT TO BE CHAMPIONS OFG AFCOM. THIS SHOULD BE THE SAME METHOD USED TO PUSH OFR STRONG GOVERNMNETS CHAMPIONING IN AFGRICA TO STEP UP AND BE THE FLAG BEARER BUT ALL DONE WITHIN THE CONFINES OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND STRONG COMPETEIVE RELIANTS ON THE PROWESS OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL STATES BUT STILL COMPLIMENTING THE WHOLE. LIBYA IS A COMPLETE FAILURE FAR FROM WAHT THE WEST PLAYS A GREAT WIN. LET US LOOK AT WHOM WERE THE LEADING CAST THE ARABS OF DETTERMINED AUTOCARCY DICTATORS WHO RULKE BY BLOOD LINE NO ELECTIONS NO DEMOCRATIC IDEALS HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE TO BEA GREAT REVOLUTION. THEN WE HAD THE WEST WHO WITH SUPERIOR AIR POWER WHO WON THE WAR IN THE FIRST WEEK AS IT WAS THEIR INTENTION TO STOP AIR FLIGHTS OVER LIBYA THEY COMLETELY DID THE OPPOSIT THEY FLEW WEAPONS SOLDIERS FROM BLACK WATER QUATYAR THE UAE THEY HAD BRITS SPECIAL FORCES FRENCH PARATROOPERS WE HAD THE WHOLE WORLD FIGHTING FOR LIBYA EXCEPT THE LIBYANS. LET US NOT KID OUR SELVES WHEN WE LOOKED AT TWO PRONGED ATTACKS SIMULTANEOUS IN TIME PRECISION TIMING FOR A GROUP OF KIDS WHO COULD NOT SHOOT THEIR WAY OUT OF A PAPER BAG. THESE ARE WHOM OVER POWERED A MILITARY THAT AHD SOME WESTERN TRAINING AND EXTENSIVE WEAPONRY COME ON THIS NARRATIVE IS FOR THE SNESELESS OR THE BRAINWASHED. LIBYA IS A COMPLETE FAILURE AS IS IRAQ AND EVERYWHEREELSE THE WEST PROPOSES TO INMTERVENE AND LEAD THE CHARGE. THE AU WITH INSIGHT HAD THE RIGHT AGENDA. PEACE WINS WARS THIS THE OBJECTIVES ATALL COST FOR ALL WARS THIS IS THE END GAEM pE3ACE !!! PEACE !!! WHAT ELSE DO YOU FIGHT FOR , SO WHY NOT CUT TO THE CHASE WHICH WAS THE INGENIOUS PLANS OF THE AU. FOR EGOTISTICAL REASONS THE WEST WITH THEIR INFLATED BUDGETS AND EGOS DO NOT WANT TO CNCEDE THAT THIS WAS A AN IMAGINED CONFLICT TO EFFECT REGIME CHANGE WHERE THEY PERMEATED STRIKES ON THE LIBYAN SECUREITY FORCES KILLING THEM STAGING RALLIES TO ACT AS IF THIS WAS SOEM GREAT NEED IN LIBAY . LIBAY AHD THEIR REEVOLUTION ION 69. THE SHOCK ON GADAFFIS FACE TOLD ME HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THERE WAS PROTEST IN HIS COUNTRY. THIS WAS ADDED BY HIS SURPRISE OF REPLYING THAT THEYR WERE ROACHES AND RATS ETC. BECAUSE HE KNEW OF THE JIHADIST ELEMENST COMING FROM AFGHANISTAN WHO WERE FERMENTING STRIFE.THESE ARE WHOM WASHINGTON ENGAED TO STEP UP THE BELIGIRANTS AND ACTS OF SEDITION THEY THEN STARTED MURDERING CITISENS WHOM THEY STAGED TO DIE FOR THE OVERALL PICTURE. WHAT HE HEARD FROM WAS LIBYANS WHO LIVED OUT SIDE OF LIBYA. THE STAGE SHOW WAS SUCCESSFUL WE THEWN HAD THE CLUSTER BOMB EPISODE THE AIRPORT EPISODE THE NUMEROUS HOSPITALS AND ALL THE ARES THAT SHOWE DLOYALTY TO THE REGIME THY BOMBED THEM MERCILESSLY. WE ALSO HAVE THE SMART BOMB SCENARIO . THSI BOMB WHILE IN FLIGHT FROM OF COURSE MANS FALLABLE ACTS OF MISTAKES THEN SETS A PROGRAM THAT IS SET TO FLY 75 DEGREES NORTH BUT GOES 85 SOUTH WHILE IN FLIGHT THE BOMB SAYS OH OH IS SHOULD BE GOING NORTH BUT I AM HEADING FOR THAT SCHOOL FULL OF CHILDREN I BETTER TURN AROUND. OR WE MIGHT HAVE HAD SPITEFUL COORDINATES FROM PISSED OF LIBYANS WHO WERE NOT PROGRESSING GIVING BAD COORDINATES OR TEH BOMB ITSELF WAS JUST NOT WHAT ITS CRACKED UP TO BE. WHILE IN FLIGHT SAYING OH WOW!! THERE ARE CHILDREN THERE OH NO THIS CANT BE RIGHT THIS ISA NEIGHBORHOOD OF CIVILIANS . SO THIS SI WHERE WE FIND THE SMART BOMB ALL ALOAD OF DO DO. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE AU ROAD MAP THERE WOULD BE STILL PEACE IN LIBYA AND THE PEPLE WOULD HAVE WON THE VOTE. TODAY WE HAVE ANARCHY STRIFE AND TOTAL DISSENT FOR EITHER SIDE OF THE COINAND THER ARE NO ELECTED LEADERS . SO WE HAVE ABREAKDOWN OF WHAT YOU THIS AUTHOUR SEES AS DEMOCRACY. LIBYA ISA FAILED ATTEMPT BY WARCOZY OBAM AND CAMERON OF GAING SOME FICTITOUS LEGACY OF GREAT ACHEIEVEMENTS. THIS ISA FAILURE IT WAS AFARCE FROM TH START AND IT STILL IS. THE MIAN ACTORS WER E ALL UNDEMOCRATIC SO THEY CANT BE FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY THAT IS A FARCE WHEN WE SEE POLITICAL REFORM IN LIBYA THEN WE CAN TALK. WHAT WE SEE IN LIBAY IS A TOTAL DISMANLING OF RICH INDEPENDENT NATION TO ONE DESTROYED WHICH WOULD TAKE DECADES TO EVEN REACH THE PEAK THEY ATTAINED UNDER GADAFFIS GOVERNMNET. THERE IS COMPLETS UNDEMOCRATIC RULE WITH WESTERN HEGEMONY PLAYING ITS ROLE AS THE BAG MAN FOR LIBAY. THE PEOLE ARE BEING USED AND TAKEN FOR ARIDE. WHEN THE AU DECIDED TO GO THER PEACFUL ROUTE THEY WOULD HAVE ATTAINED THEIR SELF RELIANCE THEY WOULD STILL BE FREE OF DEBT AND THEY COULD AHVE MANTAINED THEIR OWN HEALTH CARE EDUCATION AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS THESE ARE ALL LOSTY TO HISTORY. THIS WAS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN AFRICA THAT WAS A SHINING EXAMPE OF WHAT INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENTS CAN DO. IN THE NORTH OR ARAB SPRING WITH THE INVASION OR AIREAL BOMBARDMENT OF LIBYA AND THE RESOLUTIONS THAT INSPIRED THIS FOOLISH AGENDA WHERRE THE WORLD WAS HOOD WINKED BY THE WEST WAS THE STRATEGY OF IGNOBLE PEOPLE. THERE ARE NOSUCCESSES IB THE NORTH OF AFRICA EXCEPT TUNISIA, THEY WILL NEED SOME TIME AND THE CORPORATIONS OF OTHER LIKE MINDED STATES TO PREVAIL. WHAT THE WEST IS DOING IS RHETTORICALY AND RACIALY DIVIDING THE CONTINENT THEY ARE FORCING THSI BELIEF THAT THIS WAS ANA ARAB THING WITHOUT AFRICAN SUPPORT AND THE PEOPLE OF THE SUBCONTIENET FRIMLY BEHIND ALL THE AFRICAN COUNTIRES DESIRE TOSEE THEMSELVES FREE THIS WOULD NOT HAVE RAECHED ITS ZENITH WHICH IT HAS ALONG WAY TO GO. IF WE ARE TO FASTEN OUR SEAT BELTO THESE ASPIRANTS OF THIS AUTHOR WE WILL NOT PROGRESS. AFRICA FULL STOP IS FOR THE AFRICANS. THE WEST HAS COME INTO SUDAN AND EFFFECTIVELY CONVINCED THE BLACK PEOPLE THAT LIVE INTHE SOUTH THAT THE BLACK PEPLE WHO SPEAK ARABIC ARE NOT BLACK AND THSI SI WHAT THEY DID IN LIBYA . I SAW AMIXED RACE LOOKING CHAP I WILL CALL HIM SPEAKING OF NIGGERS WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM. THEY ALL THEIR LIVES HAVE MIXED BLOOD AS DO MOST NORTHERENRS THSI COMES FROM THE INQUISITION WHEN THE EUROPEANS DEMANDED THAT ALL ISLAMIC FOLLOWERERS LEAVE EUROPE . THE MILLIONS OF WHITE CONVERTS FLOCKED TO NORHT AFRICA AS THSI WAS THE EARLIST AND NEAREST PORT OF DISEMBARKMENMT. THESE PEOPLE THEN INTERMINGLED WITH THE BLACK AFRICANS WHO WERE ALSO ISLAMIC ALSO THE SUBJUGATION OF MOST OF NORTH AFRICA BY THE WHITE MASSES OF BEDOUINS WHO EMBRACED ISLAM THESE WERE THEY WHO CAME FROM THE CAUCAUSES IN THEIR HORDES AT THE BEGINING OF THE CETURY LEADING UP TO THEIR BEING CIVILSED ALSO WE HAVE AHD THE ROMAN INVASION THE MACEDONIAN WHICH WAS THE FIRST OF WHITES INTERJECTING THEIR DNA IN AFRICA . REMEBER THEY HAD LEFT AFRICA AS ALBINOS OVER TWENTY OR SO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. WHATEVER THE SCENARIO THEY ARE ALL MIXED BREED PEOLE OF DISTINCT AFRICAN FEATURES AND WE MUST NOT BE SO FOOLISH AS TO EMBRACE THE MONKEY SCENARIO OR ANYOTHER THAN WHAT WE KNOW TO BE HUMANITY. AFRICA IS ON THE CUSP AT THE MOMENT AFRICANS WANT TO RELY ON GENIUS TO REACH THEIR HEIGHTS THE WEST WANTS TO RETAIN THEIR STAUS QUO SO THEY USE UNDEMOCRATIC FORCES TO RELY ON TO APPEAR TO ACHIVE WAHT THEY UNDR ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES DO NOT WANT TO ACQUIRE. THEY DO NOT PRACTISE DEMOCARCY SO THEIR BEST FREINDS ARE UNDEMOCRATIC . WE SE THIS IN ISRAEL WHO RUNS THE BARBARIC PRIOSN ENSLAVEMENT MILE STRIP OF WHAT IS GAZA. THIS WAS THE IDEOLOGY OF THE THIRD REICH THEY ALSO GHETTOISED THE JEWS IN EUROPE BEFORE EMBARKING ON DASTARDLY MURDER SPREE OF MILLIONS OF LIVES. THEY DID THE SAME THINSG BUILD WALLS TO KEEP THEM OUT AND KEEP THEMIN THEY DIDINCURSIONS OF MURDRS AT WILL WHENMEVER THEY FELT BLOOD THIRSTTY. THEY ALSO DNEIED THEY WERE DOING NOTHINH WRONG. WHAT WE SEE IN THE WEST SI THE CONTINUATION OF HITLERS SUPREMACIST IDEALS BEING RUN BYT THE SAME CHILDREN OF THE SMAE MURDERERS. DO NOT BE FOOLED THE WEST IS NONE OTHER THAN THE FOURTH REICH. THEY WANT TO OCCUPY ALL THE MINERAL RICH COUNTIRES THEY GO TO ANY ETREMES TO OBTAIN THIS IGNOBLE MISSION . THIS IS ALL BOUND TO FAILURE IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER YOU WANT TO BELIEVE THE THEORY THAT "GOD2 IS ALIVE OR YOU WANT TO BELIVE THAT HUMANRIGHTS COMPRISES OF SODOMY RACIAL SUPERIORITY ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND WARS OF COMPELLING MURDERS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. WHAT WE SEE TOADY IS THE WEST PREPARING TO EFECT A WAR OF DESTRUCTION ON THE PALNET THEY SEARCH AND KILL PEOPLE WHOM THEY PERCEIVE TO BEA A THREAT THEY LIVE IN A STATE OF PARANOIA THEY CONVINCE PEOPLE THEY ARE IN MORTAL DANGER WHILE AT THE SAME TIME DENIEING THESE SAME PEOPLE THEIR FREDOMS THEY INVENT TALE OF WOE TO ACCESS MORE DEADLY MATERIALS FOR WASR. THEY HAVE ENOUGH DEATH TO WIPE THEMSELVES ONLY FROM THE EARTH IN ALL THEIR DESTRUC TIVE ELEMENTS THEY CAN NOT DESTROY THE EARTH NOR CAN THEY DESTROY ALL LIFE . HISTORY AND SCIENEC PROVES THAT THE WHITE SEED ALONE WOULD NOT SURFICE THIS DESTRUCTION. AS THEY AHVE PROVEN IN TH SOLOMAN ISLANDS OR ONES NEAR TO IT WITH THEIR NUCLEARV RESEARCH THEY EXPLODED MANY DEVICES WHICH WOUL AND LATER PROVED TO HAVE DONE MORE DEAMGE TO THE WHITES WHERE THE BLACKS THOUGH SUFFERING FROM NUCLEAR EFFECTS THAT CAUSED BIOLOGICAL AND SOME GENTIC FAILKURES AT THIS POINT AHS RETURNED TO NORML WHWERE AS THE WHITES THAT PARTICPATED HAVE ALL BUT DIED. SO THEY KNWO NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IS FRUITLESS. AFRICA MUST STAND UP FOR AFRICANS THEY MUST ELIMINATE THE CORROSIVE INFLUINCE OF THE CANCER KNOWN AS CORRUPTION LET US LOOK AT HWERE THE GENE STRAIN LIES IT LIVES AND BREEDS IT FORMS IN WESTERN GOVERNMNETS AND BOARD ROOMS THEY COME INTO AFRICA AND INFECT THE PEOLE WITH THIS CURSE . THEY PRETEND TO WANT TO WANT TO SEE ITS DEMISE THIS IS FALCAY IF THEY DIDI THEY WOULD HAVE WELCOMED GADAFFI THEY WOULD BE GREAT STRUCTURAL IMPROVEMENST IN AFRICA . THE PEOPLE WOULD BE FED WITH TECNOLOGY AND SCINEC WE WOULD ALL BE ON A PAR . THIS S NOT SO THE CONTIENENT IS THE MOST NEGLECTED BY DESIGN THY CONTINUE TO SPOON FEED THIS DIET OF DIVISION . THE NEW THING IS CHRISTIAN VERSES ISLAM . THY HAVE THESE IGNORANT PEOPLE FIGHTING OVER ORGANISED RELIGION . CHRISTIANS DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS CHRIST STOOD FOR THE ISLAMIST BELIEF THEY MUST TAKE UNPRECEDENTD LIVES AND WAGE THIS FALS WAR OF ATRTITION AGAINST OTHERS. THESE RE ALL CONFUSING IN WESTREN COUNTRIES YOU FIND THAT ISLAM JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY HAVE NO PLACE FOR ANY TRIBLA DIFFERNCES IN THEIR PERSPECTIVE COUNTRIES. SO THSI IS A PLOY TO MANTAIN ECONOMIC SUPERIOR POWER OVER THE REST OF THE WORLD. THE WEST IS ON TOP BECAUSE OF THEIR SUPERIOR NUMBERS OF DEADLY MATTERIALS IN CLUDING BOMBS AND BIOLOGICAL WAR FARE. THEY RESEARCH MOST POISONS AND NOTHING THAT IS READILY AVAILABLE TO SAVE LIVES . WHAT WE MUST ALSO RECOGNISE UNTIL THE ADVENT OF THE IMPOSITION OF THE WEST INTO AFRICA DISEASES WERE RELATIVELY UNHEARD OF CRIME WA NOT TO BE FOUND AND WHEN IT WAS FOUND VERY ISOLATED AND FAR IN BETWEEN. THERE WAS NO NEED FOR POLICE FORCES THE WEST AND THEIR CORROSION HAS SUBSIDED TH WORLD AT LARGE WITH THEIR PERMISCUOUS INSENSITIVE PRACTICES OF LUST ABNORMALITIES AND THE REST. AFRICA MUST NOT EVEN BE SWAYED BY THESE FELONIOUS PARES OF NONSENSE POTRAYING LIBYA TO BE A SUCCESS WHEN ITS QUITE THE CONTREARY. AFRICA CAN GLOAT AND SAY I TOLD YOU IT WOULD FAIL LOOK ATWHATS GOING ON NOW. WHAT HAS ALSO HAPPENED IS THATTHEY TRIED THE SAME SCENARIO IN SYRIA TO A BE COMPLIMETEDBYA DISMAL FAILURE. THEY HAVE HAD THE BLACK WATER TRAINING DURING THE LIBYAN CAMPAING WHOM WERE THEN INJECTED INT NLIBYA AT ONE STAGE THE LIBAYN FIGHTERS SPOKE NEITHER ARABIC FRENCH OR ENGLISH THEY WERER SPANISH. THEY AHVE BEEN PRACITISING HWO TO FERMENT AREVOLUTION WE LOOK AT THE SYRIAN SPOKESPEOPLE THOSE WHO HAVE THE MOST TALK THEY ARE ALL BASED IN THE WEST . THIS ALLEGD SYRIAN ARMY DEFCTORS ARE MOSTLY THESE BLACK WATER SOLDIERS WHO CAME T UAE TO TRAIN REMEBER THEM IN 2011. YOU MUST ALWAYS BEAWARE OF WHAT TAKES PLACE ON YOUR DOOR STEP. THESE ARE THEY THE SOLDIERS OF THE BLACKWATER CIA THEY HAVE BEEN THE PROTAGONIST IN SYRIA THEY ARE THE ONES YOU SEE COVERING THEIR FACES. REVOLUTIOBARIES DONT HAVE TO HIDE FROM ANYONE . REMEBER REVOLUTIONARIES ARE DOING WAHT IS NEEDED TO EVOE CHANGE FOR THE BEST. THESE PEOLE ARE WORKING FOR WESTERN HEGMONICAL PRINCIPLES THEY WORK FOR BIG CORPORATIONS THEY SELL WAR THEY ARE WAGING THIS MULTIBILLION DOLLAR WAR. WHQAT I WILL SAY TO THE AFRICANS THEY CAN NOT WIN WE HAVE FAR TOO MUCH RSOURCES WE CAN OTU LIVE THEIRN LITTLE MONMEY ALL DAY IF WE STAND FIRM STCK TOGTHER THEIR MONEY RUNS OUT THEY END UP NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY FOR THEIR WARS . THEWSE MERCENARIES WANT MONYE. WE CANTURN THE SNAKE ONTHE HEAD BUY THEM OUT NOT NOW BUT WE WILL COLAPSE THEIR ANTOGANIST BEHAVIOURS/. THE AU MUST DEFND THE CONTINENT MEANING ITS PEOLE INCLUDING EACHAND EVERY PERSON FROM AFRICA. WE MUST ALSO SEEK TO IMPROVE THE AU TO ITS MOST USEFUL PORSSITION AS HEAD OF ALL GOVERNMENT INWSTITUTIONS WHICH MEANS THAT WE SEE THE FEDERALISED GOVERNMNET AS THE SEAT OF GOVERNMNETS WE NEED TO BRING ALL THE PEPLE UNDER THE PROTECTIVE UMBRELLA OF ONE AFRICA ONE PEOPLE . WE NEED TO TAX THESE FOREIGN CORPORATION SWHICH ARE BLEEDING THE CONTIENENT DRY. WE NEED EDUCATED UNIVERSITY GRADS TO ENHANCE THE PLACE THSI SI WHY WITHOUT INTELLIGENT PEOPLE THE COUNTRY WILL STAGNATE. WE NNEED GREAT ACADEMICS IN ARAES OF MATEHEMATICS WHO ARSERIOUS ACCOUNTANTS WHO CANTRACK THE STAGGERING AMMOUNTS OF MONIES BEING DEFRAUDED BY THE WESTERN CORPORATION STHESE HAVE TO EB AN AGENCY OF THOUSAND S WELL TRAINED WHICH WILL PUT AFRICA ON IT FOOT. IT WILL ILLIMINATE POVERTY AND EDBT BURDEN. THE CONTIENET CAN SURVISE WITH THESE FEDERAL PROGRAMS WE ARE NOT SEEEKING MILITARY MIGHT BUT WE CAN ASSIMILATE A STRONG MILITARY CAPABILITY ON OUR OWN . WE DONT NEED NUCVLEAR BOMS ISRAEL HAS ENOUGH IN THE REGION FOR THRE QUATRES OF HERE AND ASIA. WE MUST ASPPIRE TO SEEK WIZE INTELLECT WE MUST STAND FRIM BY EACH OTHER EVEN WHEN WE KNWO THAT IT SHOUDL HAVE BEEN DDIFFERNT LIKE RIGHT NOW IN LIBYA WE CANT AFFORD TO LET THEM DIESCEND INTO ANARCHY. SOMALI THE SAME SUDAN THE SAME DRC THE SAME WE MSUR HAVE STRONGUNIFIED ARMED FORCES . THE EGYPTIANS THE ETHIOP[IANS THE SOUTH AFRICANS THE ALGERIANS THE ANGOLANS THE NIGERIANS THESE ARMED GIANTS IN AFRICA SHOULD COMPLIMENT THE STARTEGY OF ONE AFRICA COMMAND NOT THE ONE INTIATED WITH TEH PENTAGON AS THE OVERSEER WE DO NOT NEED THAT WE NEED FRE INDEPENDENT STARTEGIC PROWES IN OUR OWN LANDS WE NEED TO THE DISSENETRS TO KNWO THAT THEY ACNOT REIGN HAVOC WE ALSO NED THE WORLD TO KNWO WE DONT NEED BIG BROTHER IN THE AREA THIS CAUSES TOO MUCH CONTENTION. AFRICA IS CAPABLE WE HAVE TOO MNAY SOLDIERS TO BE COUNTED THAT NEEDS TO BE FOCUSED AT LOVE OF COUNTYRY AFRICA WHICH WOULD PROVIDE WORK AND KEEP OUR SEAS AND BORDERS SAFE. "AFRICA SAFE AND STRONG LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS AFRICAN CONTIENENT, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS ONE LOVE ONE HEART ONE ASPIRATION"
What are the so-called "norms" of democracy? That is definately a myth by the writer. There are basic principles of democracy, but not necessary the norms. By norms I assume the writer seeks African states to follow the western world to the letter..But, which western country and why? Democracy should serve the people and follow certain "norms" of that particular culture and traditions. Copying western democracies with their way of life and culture really is not the right way to becoming a democratic society.
The USA democracy is heavily influenced by the super rich white Americans, is that the norm we should follow? I dare say that most African states are having this conversation of how they can formulate their own version of democracy, which includes their own culture and norms. There is no boiler plate for democracy. Africa will get there, but on it's own terms or thru military coups
NO MY BLESSED BROTHER I HAVE NO LOVE FOR THE WST AND I WAS POINTING OUT HOW THEWY HAVE COOPTED THE ARABSPO CALLED SPRING THEY INTERVENED WITH THEIR GUNS ADN AIR PLANE BLAZING TRYING DESPERATELY TELLING US THEY WIN A WAR. THEN WE SEE THE FALSE REVOLUTIONARIES WHO FOLLOWED BEHIND THE WICKED AIREAL BOMBARDMENTS TO THEN KILL THE WEAKENED PEOPLE. WHEN THEY KILLED GADDAFI HE WAS HALF DEAD THERE IS NO HONOUR IN THAT. THEY DID NOT WIN A REVOLUTION BY MERIT. THERE WERE SO MANY SOLDIERS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES THERE WERE ALSO BLACK WATER CIA SPEACILIST WHOM ARE VERY RACIST. MY BROTHER WHAT I AM SAYING IS AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS.WE MUST ESTABLISH LINKS OF GOVERNMENSTINSTITUTIONS THAT GOVRNS ALL AFRICA . WE MUST REMOVE THE ARMIES NAVY AIR FORCE FROM THE INDIVIDUAL NATIONS SO THEY AE ALL ATTACHED TO THE AFRICAN UNION UNDER THE CAPABLE HANDS OF MILTARY CHIEFS. THE PEOPLE MUST NOT BE SUBJECT TO INTIMIDATION BY ARMIES THY MUST NOT BEBULLIED. IT IS WE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE TRUE GOVERNORS OF TRULY DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY WE ELECT THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO REPRESENT WHAT IT IS THAT WE WISH TO BE MADE LAW OR OBJECTIVES THAT WE THE PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE. TAKE FOR INSTANTS WHEN A PERSON VOTES IN SAY ASLUM THIS PERSON IS VOTING BECAUSE THIS PERSON WANTS CHANGE THE PEOLE WOULD LIKE MAYBE SOME TYPE OF WASTE FACILITTYTHAT WOUILD RID THE SEWAGE IN THE AREA THEY WANT CLEAN WATER THET ELECTRIC THAT DOES NOT GO OUT. THESE ARE SIMPLETHINGS WHEN WE HAVE A STRONG AU ONE THAT IS UNITED UNDER THEAUSPICES THAT THEY ARE NOT THE SOLE LEADERS OF THEIR LANDS BUT ARE PART OF NOT JUST SOME BOY SCOUT TEAM BUT THE AFRICAN UNION OF NATIONSWHERE THEY ARE BEHOLDEN TO THESE POSSITIONS AND THEY MUST ABIDE BY THE FEDERAL LAWS OF THE CONTIENENT. THERE WILL BE NO EXUCESE FOR ANY DICTATOR STYLE GOVERNMNETS THERE WILL NOT BE EXCESS OF STAYING IN GOVERNMENT TOO LONG. THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE RECOURCES WHICH WILL DENY THESE SORT OFNEGATIVITIES. WHAT I SAY IS IN ORDER FOR HTHESE THINGS TO BE ABLE TO SUCCEED WE NEED HONESTY BUT MOST OF ALL RIGHTEOUSENESS THIS IS KEY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA. THE AFRICAN BY NATURE IS NOT AS DECEPTIVE AND MURDEROUS AS OUR EYUROPEAN ORWORST OUR US FREINDS THEY LIVE FOR CONTINMUAL WARS THIS A MADNESS. WE ALSO NEED TO ESTABLISH SOEM TAX AND FINACE SERVISES THAT ALLOWS ITSELF THE PREVILEDGE TO ACQUIRE ALL THE DEALS TAKEN IN ON THE CONTINEENT AMND SEE WHAT THE RETURNS ARE WHICH REQUIRES TRASPARECY FROM THE WEST SO WE MATBE ABLE TO TAX THEM ACCORDINGLY. AFRICA IS LOSING OUT ON TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS TAXES YEARLY . AFRICA IS STILL BEING EXPLOITED SO THIS HAS TO END. WE NEED A STRONG AFRICAN UNION WITH STRONG DEMOCRATIC IDEALS I EQUATE THAT TO RIGHTEOUSNESS WE NEED THAT WE NEED TO NOT DOUBT BUT HAVE A STRONG PRIDE AS AFRICANS TO BEW BENIFGACTORS TO EACH OTHER WE NEED HONOUR AND STRONG SCINCE MATHEMATICSTECHNOLOGY. I WILL GIV YOU APOINT WHILEW GADAFFI WAS ALIVE HE FORBID TOO MUCH RELIGION ITS NOT THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE . WHAT HE WANTE FOR THE PEOPLE TO BE SELF RELIANT WHICH THEY WERE THEY WERE ABLE TO FEED THEM SELVES THEY WERE ABLE TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES AND ALSO THEY HAD FREE HEALTH CVARE THEY ONE OF THE FREATEST SOCIAL SYTEMS IN THE WORLD . . EDUCATION IS A MUST AND THE WEST HAS BROUGHT RELIGION INTO AFRICA TO DETER THE PEOPLE FROM ATTTAINING THE WEALTH OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SO ON THEY CONFUSE THEM WITH TOO MUCH ORGASNISED RELIGION, THIS TAKES PLACE WITHIN CHRITIANITY. ISLAM IS MUSCH THE SAME THE QUARRAN DOES NOT LIKE FOR ITS READERS TO DEPART FROM THE QUARRAN SO THESE TWO ORGANISED RELIGION HAS AND CAN THWART THHE DDEVELOPMENT IF WE DO NOT THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. WE MUSTY STRESS FOR THE WISER YOUTHS TO PURSUE TECHNOLOGIES IN HOW TO DEVELOP MINING MACHINES SO WE CAN OPEN FACTORIES WE NEED TO PROMOTE NEWER TECHNOL;OGY LIKE WIND FARMS WE NEED TO KNOW HWO TO BUILD THEM THESE DRIVS TURBINES THAT POWER INDUSTRIES WE NEED ALSO SOLAR WE HAVE THE SUN IN ABUNDANCE WE NEED TO STOR THEM IN SOLAR PANELS. WE ALSO NEED TO UNIFY THE ARMED FORCES LOYAL ONLY TO AFRICA AND ITS BORDERS NO CONCENTRATION ON CRUSHING THE PEOLES WILL;. WE NEEDE STRONGER INSTITUTIONS THAT MEMBERSTATES CAN NOT PROVIDE FOR THEMS ELVES WE MUST APPLY THESE LAWS AND THOUGHST TO THE AFRICAN UNION WE ALSO NEED A STRONG JUIDICIARY WHO HAS TALK IN AFRICA . WE ALSO WANT IT STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING ANY FOREIGNER TO BOOK INCLUDING WESTERN POLKITICIANS AND THEIR CORRUPT CORPORATIONS THIS WHAT I AM SAYING. THE WEST IS FALLING "TODAY FOR YOU TOMMOROW FOR I" STARIGHT!!! THEY ARE IN DECLINE I AM NOT GOING TO MOURN THEIR LOSS WHAT I SAY IS "AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS "ONE LOVE ONE AIM ONE HEART ONE DESTNY" THIS SI MY AFRICA STRONG INDEPENDENT AND NOT BEGGING FOR A PENNY . W MUST SEARCH FOR GOVERNMENST WHOM ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT AFRICA AS THE ONE ENTITIY TO INCREASE THEIR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THEY MUST ALSO GIVE US THE CPAPCITY TO DEVELOP MEDICINES THAT REALLY ARE KILLING OUR CHILDREN AND SHOW US THE WAYS TO INSURE WE HAVE OR OWN INDUSTRIES. LISTEN TO THIS BROTHER AFRICA CAN NOT LOSE SHOULD WE INSPIRE MORE DEXIPLINE AND MORE LOVE FOR THE CONTINENTUNADULTERATED LOVE JUST THE ONE LOVE THEN WE WILL NOT LOSE. "MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD" OF ALL CREATION GUIDE AFRICA TO ITS DESTINYPEACE AND LOVE"
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