POSITIVE ASPECTS OF NASILIAN CULTURE IN BLOSSOMS OF THE SAVANNAH

WHY THE UNITED STATES OF FRICA WILL REMAIN A MIRAGE

       It all was conceived by the Pan-African movement of 19thC with like minded individuals outside Africa like Marcus Garvey, Booker T.  Washington, W. E B Dubois and George Padmore.  The movement was later joined by African contingents’ led by Kwameh Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Haille Sellasie and many others. This shows one thing, our brothers whom we sold to slavery, never forgot their origins and if they tried to, they were reminded by racism, and other kinds of ‘–isms,’ where they belonged; in Africa.

       Pan-Africanist movement aimed at uniting Africans from Diaspora and those who remained. It showed that we were not only united by the colour of our skins but by the suffering we underwent.  Just like anything that begins in the West, Pan-Africanism took ages to suffice or be conceptualized on the soils of Africa. But all the same, the idea was launched in Africa in 1958 in Ghana.

       This was followed by the birth of Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1960. OAU was seen as the only tool to materialize the birth of a united Africa. OAU was to come up with strategies and policies which will conceive the unity of African states.  Half a century later the prospect is still a mirage. Hopeless and vision less. It is whispered about in the media and laughed at whenever. It has had its blows and still the dreams survives being taught in school and just like traditional myth, it has been handed from generation to generation.

        The first true African warrior to visualize a united Africa was, Kwameh Nkrumah born and bred on African soils, seen the trials of Africa in colonial era and primarily set his goal towards archiving Africa from slavery which begun by the Trans-Saharan trade and Trans-Atlantic trade. This slavery had taken the form of colonialism and later was in the making of a neo-colonialist Africa.   He started a Kwameh Nkrumah Ideological Institute. He believed in drumming pan-africanism and the unification of Africa. Later Nkrumah was ousted from office in 1966 while away, which led him to suffer in fear of the West and it’s superior intelligence. He lived in exile in Conakry Guinea as the guest of Ahmed Sekou Toure and later died in 1972 of skin Cancer, marking the end of one of the founders of Pan-Africanism, OAU and a strong promoter and believer of United States of Africa.

           Haile Sellasie, with the birth of OAU in Addis Ababa under his watch, marked a roadmap that gave passionate leaders like Kwameh Nkrumah a glimmer of hope. The OAU was seen as the emblem of hope to restore the African Independence and usher in a one Africa, one man, united by the colour of the skin and common suffering on slavery.

       Jomo Kenyatta in his frequent tours to Europe, made contacts with African enthusiasts in Europe, he too shared the same thought but not much passion as seen in the eyes of people like Nkrumah and Muammar Ghadafi.

          Talking about Muammar Ghadafi, the last of the leaders who carried Marcus Garvey vision of a united Africa, I am inclined to believe that his death marked an end to that dream of the merger of Africa politically. Many viewed his attempts to unify Africa as his personal ambition. Being christened as, ‘ the king of kings of Africa,’ Muammar was isolated and his ideologies and suggestions scrutinized by his fellow African leaders. He called for union of Africa in 2000, June 2007 and Feb. 2009. This was not the first time Ghadafi failed, earlier he had called for the union of the Arab world but his plans failed. He turned now with vigour on building USA. This move can be viewed as tactical since the concept had been there and the pain of Africans at the hands of the West was almost the same. Ghadafi equipped with this, saw an opportunity to drum up the realization of what was stated by those Africans in Diaspora. He saw himself as the carrier of the ideas shared by the likes of W E B Dubois, Henry Sylvester Williams, Marcus Garvey, Kwameh Nkrumah and many others. He saw the supremacy of Africa reigning supreme. But just like his predecessors, Ghadafi was ousted out of power and died a shameful death marking an end to another era of struggle towards the unity of Africa

          Critics may view the Late Ghadafi as an opportunist, someone who wanted too much and one who had been possessed by the desire to rule a bigger world, but if you carefully look at his endeavours, you will realize that he was just trying to make what future generations would enjoy. His struggles were that of mapping up an Africa of Africans. He wanted to see the joy, the pride and the patriotism of Africans to Africa and not to the villages we are now mapping in the guise of making new nations: Eritrea, Djibouti and presently South Sudan are just but examples.

        The dream of a one Africa will forever remain that, ached in our minds and forever running away as we draw closer. The main reason: reading mischief in whatever efforts anyone tries to implant to achieve it. In Nkrumah, he was accused of regarding international interests over those of the nation and not paying attention to the well-being of the people. Ghadafi was accused of self imposing himself to power and committing crimes against humanity.

         As we continue accusing our leaders the West is laughing at us. Africa has forever remained a puppet to be played. Her ideologies confer to those of the West as conditions dictate. She forever curves her policies on dictation by the western powers. 

       In all the attempts made by Africans to unify her, one thing has played a role in tolling them down; one by one the leaders with the agenda of unification have suffered ridicule by their nations with support from the West. The last attempt was by Muammar Ghadafi, his death left a void so large that it could be felt reverberating on the few African patriots. Therefore, as long as the west still has her strong grip on Africa and Africa still clings on Western bourgeoisie the fate of Africa united lies in the near distant, mirage that runs whenever the grip is about to. Thanks to the ineptitude of africa’s leadership who have taken into being western stooges and well sculpted individuals who spearhead the colonist idea, divide and rule.

       In my view, as longer as Africa still supports the western Ideologies, capitalism and inclined democracy so shall Africa divide, if you think it’s a lie, ask the former SUDAN.



References
-www.panafricanperspective.com
-wikipedia
-and other internet sources