The “African Union” forces are paid for by Paris, Berlin and Washington DC.
As Europe and the USA and the UN work furiously to present to the world the polystyrene reasoning for massive military entry in Sudan, it is clear that there are a heap of lies.
Six decades ago, titan sociologist and activist scholar W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in his book - The World and Africa [An Inquiry Into The Part Africa Has Played In World History]: “There is a story that a Berber king overthrew one of the cities of the Sudan and all the black women committed suicide, being too proud to allow themselves to fall into the hands of white men.”
The point is, no people wants outsiders to enter their area to settle regional differences.
Imagine Zimbabwe demanding by invasionary force that Russia settle its wars with Uighurs and Chechens. Gordon Brown of the British wouldn’t hear of Namibia telling him Welsh people, or his own folks, Scots, being sovereign nations, much less bringing troops up the Thames river to London.
Most people know that Sudan is larger than Western Europe and its couple of dozen countries. When Europe was plagued with disease and burning women as witches, places such as Sudan had long been centers of commerce, learning and technology a century or two ahead of Europe. Currently, taxpayers of the EU are supporting a military rush to nations such as Chad and Central African Republic and next month, Darfur. In fact, already pledges for hardware (guns, mines and more killing machines) and vehicles have not been honored by the ones supposed to bring stability. This is part of the horror—war to Europeans means business. When it comes to African people, Europeans in the profit-any- cost take their time and strategize how to gain resources like oil in Sudan, never mind millions displaced and almost that number dead.
A worldview that says that Europe only wants good for Africa cannot possibly help people learn anything about Africa.
Still they try, the politicians and capital seekers posing as missionaries with compassion for humanity. That was tried in Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia and Sierre Leone in recent years.
A discussion on learning what must be done to decolonize minds recently brought forward some guidelines on the many countries and peoples of Africa.
First, the source for nations and lands should come from the people on the land. Go there. Ask questions. Can’t go? Who created the situation?
The second alternative is the chance to speak with a person from that locale wherever they are in the world.
Third, speak with a person who visited there to compare what has already been shared.
Fourth, read a book by someone born there or who lives there or who has had to flee.
Fifth is another book.
Sixth is another book.
Seventh is to view a movie produced by someone who is from the countrytelling a personal story.
Eighth is viewing a movie from someone else, including the corporations, NGOs and other organizations with lots of resources from the West.
Ninth is to go and discuss this with the person born there or who lived there.
Tenth, if possible go there.
28 September 2007
From Exile,
Bankole
www.geocities.com/exiledone2002
REFERENCES:
1. New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa’s Renaissance (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)
2. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda.
3. Colonialism and Underdevelopment in East Africa: The Politics of Economic Change, 1919-1939 (Modern Revivals in African Studies)
4. Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
5. Discourse on Colonialism
6. A Dying Colonialism (Fanon, Frantz)
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