Prof. Ali Mazrui makes some good points.

But I feel the quicker we get to the nub of matters, the better.

First, Kenya, 2008. We all know that this is an Anglo-American linchpin economically. Destabilizing this on purpose or allowing it to happen is in the pattern of their intelligence systems.

Europeans trying to counter Arabs on the east coast of Africa include heavy US bases in Djibouti and the current Somalia horror. Sudan and Chad they feel have to be subdued. As usual, mineral and natural resources are the target.

Now, the nub.

Guns, Firewater and religious books did in many African societies long ago. Africa wasn’t pure when Arabs showed up, or the Europeans that followed. But embracing the triple terrors was the beginning of prices paid today.

Here’s a quote dealing with the horrible embryo that spawns what is occurring in Kenya and elsewhere:

Excerpts from The African Slave Trade by Basil Davidson

“The Portuguese broke the monopoly of North African slave trade. Slaves were not the only commodity with which the Portuguese were concerned–gold, wrought iron, ivory, tortoiseshell, pepper, and even textiles.

[Davidson attributes] the growth of the trade to demand for labor in the New World that was not met by either native Americans or by indentured servants. Slaving became a royal enterprise in the case of Spain–a lot of money to be gained. They don’t want to enslave Black Christians or Moors (N African Muslims–make anti-Christian propaganda)–focus on Guinea Coast. There was the birthplace of the ‘Great Circuit’ in which goods from Europe were used to purchase slaves who were then exchanged for minerals and foodstuffs from the NW, which were then sold in Europe. Three separate profits were made.

The slave trade of the 16th century was essentially a Spanish-Portuguese monopoly. The Dutch, English, French, Prussians, and Scandinavians followed.

In the 17th century–trade in men is the only trade that matters for the African chiefs–the coastline was divided into regions considered slow or fast in their delivery of slaves. “African chiefs found that the sale of their fellow men was indispensable to any contact or commerce with Europe … Trapped in this unforeseen and fatal circumstance, pushed by their desire for European goods (and firearms often became essential to chiefly survival), or blackmailed by the fear that what one or two might refuse their rivals would consent to give, the rulers of coastal Africa surrendered to the slave trade.” Europeans paid tribal chief for the human goods not in coins, but in tobacco, rum, firearms, iron, copper, brass wares.”

Keep Strong,

Bankole