Africans In China

Accra, Ghana - The idea that the moment the western leaders start to roll the red carpet for black president, dine and wine with him, then the black president is sacrificing the interest of his people to serve the interest of the western world is real. And today no one can mistake their motive to keep Africa down.
And it is sad that the black president does not feel guilty and uncomfortable when he is being praised by his white colleagues. He refuses to understand that he is doing things that are really against the interest of his own people who voted him into power. Instead of being ashamed of himself, he is proud to associate with the white leaders. There is no doubt that the life of the African is a war and some of our presidents have been traitors, spying for the enemies.

This attitude of our presidents has a constant puzzle which lies unanswered in the back of our minds. Like their white colleagues, they are suppose to be men of substance, of flesh and bones, fibre and liquids who possess minds. But the black presidents have been reduced to fighting for the interest of the whites as if they are living with their heads in the lion’s mouth.

The black president would jump at the idea that American soldier cannot be questioned anywhere outside U.S. for committing the most horrible crime against humanity. The black president would support the western world to invade any country to remain in their good books.

MUGABE

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was in their good books until his land reform policy that made some whites loose lands to the blacks. Today for attempting to do something in the interest of the blacks, the western world has slapped sanctions on Zimbabwe which has brought unthinkable suffering and hardship to the blacks. They hated the Libyan president, Mummar AlGathafi because it was virtually impossible to get him to serve their interest but now they are softening their stand because they believe they are succeeding in getting Gathafi to listen to them. Thanks to years of sanctions imposed on Libya.

KOFI ANNAN

The American and British leaders had problems with Kofi Annan then the secretary - general of the United Nations because he did not agree with their plan to invade and occupy Iraq. They insulted and cursed him. They cursed themselves for making it impossible for Kofi Annan to occupy that enviable seat.

MOBUTU

They loved a black president like Mobutu Seseseko of Congo and projected him as the most sensible black man ever born. Mobutu could break international laws and even abused his own people’s right. The white leaders turned a blind eye to his actions which made his people had no dignity. They found themselves asking the same question that Louise Armstrong asked in one of his songs, “What did I do to be so black?”

At times it is both disgusting and shameful to be so black. We often doubt if we really exist. We wonder whether we are not simply a phantom in other people’s minds. We ache with the need to tell ourselves we do exist in the real world. We sometimes curse and cry to be recognized but the actions of black presidents make it seldom successful. So we think the only way to recognise our humanity is to run to the western world to join the white man but like a poet has put it,

I went to the hills To hide my face The hills cried out No hiding place There is no hiding place up here!

BLACK PRESIDENT

Infact the attitude of black president is a painful reminder of the slavery days which projected the black man struggle for self-definition and support for his dignity. And to affirm our own dignity our leaders are aiding those who despise us, forcing us to accept our situation as hopelessly devoid of meaning. A choice tantamount to rejecting our own humanity.

The black president himself has accepted white supremacy. Other than that what explains why it is so easy for the white leaders to use black presidents to destroy what is good for their own people. Indeed black presidents have proved to be easy ground for their fellows white leaders to plant their dangerous motives in.

DEVELOPMENT

It has taken human beings like us to build countries such as China, Malaysia and South Korea. It took leaders with appetite to build quality life for their people. These were leaders who would not allow themselves to be used by their colleagues in the western world against the interest of their own people. They are building their

Unfortunately, the black president does not have such appetite. The appetite of the black president is for him to be seen by western leaders as a good boy. The definition of a good boy is: the black president who uses his head to desperately serve the interest of the western world and leave the African destitute.

NATURAL RESOURCES

The natural resources that African countries have cannot be equalled by China, Malaysia and South Korea. Even though we were matching them boot for boot in the late 50s and mid 60s, today we are nowhere near them. The resources available to the black president is enormous that they have no excuse for our present situation. In the midst of plenty we live in abysmal poverty and distress. Africa remains the poorest continent in the world. And the black president cannot escape the biggest share of the blame. It is therefore annoying to see a black president feeling so good when he is being praised by the white leaders even though he cannot recognize himself in the picture the white master will make for him.

Human existence, it is said, has value only in the perspective of truth, of grace and of the future glory. What Africa needs are black presidents who are not only thinkers, visionaries and orators, but also doers who will take action and with guts stand up to the intimidation of their white colleagues.

NKRUMAH’s PLANS SHUTTERED

It is on record that Britain’s first motorway, called MI was only a few years older than Ghana’s first motorway. And Nkrumah’s plan for a ‘Golden Triangle’, of motorways to link up the major cities and towns was put to sleep by the 1966 coup leaders on the advice of an IMF team that came to Ghana just after the coup. Britain has added new motorways to its network. The western leaders are still convinced that the fortunes of Africa will not be in the interest of their people and their countries.

MUSEVENI

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, wrote in his autobiography, “there is now evidence to show that the frustration of Nkrumah’s African Unity project had the backing of American and British imperialism. It was so easy for them to use African leaders themselves to destroy the Unity project.”

It is a fact that the western leaders are not ready for a black country on the march and respected. They want to see Africa still continue to be a source of raw materials and a dumping ground for all kinds of surplus goods. They have therefore gotten so involved in our world, so responsive to its challenges, so intense participants in the events and decisions of our world. The world is dangerously over armed because of their agenda to preserve their interest. They are spending millions of dollars every five minutes on weapons of mass destruction while in Africa about 30 children die every minute for want of food and inexpensive medicine.

BLACK PRESIDENTS LACK CONSCIOUSNESS

Africa is still struggling against poverty, disease, tyranny and war. Unfortunately black presidents lack consciousness which will tell them that there is something wrong and there is the need to destroy it and build a new one. It is this consciousness that has built America, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and China. Consciousness cannot be willed. It comes out of the realisation for a struggle for human identity.

Power can also be defined as ‘a man’s control over the minds and actions of other men.’ This is the power the white leaders have in their hands. They have used this power to condition the black president to take misrepresentation of reality as the reality. Their education and experience have only succeeded in getting them to glorify their white colleagues. They are therefore ready to contribute to the opulence of the

To free ourselves from the grip of the western leaders, the black presidents should not be too afraid to tackle the bull by the horn. They will have to set themselves so many tasks. They will have to discipline themselves so rigorously, drive themselves mercilessly for the improvement of Africans. They should be so impatient to see their people happy. They should always be conscious of the poor and not to send them into oblivion. They should be black presidents with a dedicated purpose. And they should never loose that sense of dedication.  - Ghanaian Chronicle