Afrika Must Unite

Is it a curse that our peculiar problems keep popping up?
Is there any deadly spell threatening the restoration of sanity and dignity of our home and hope?
So how come we are where we are now after all we have learned from our common past?

Could Kalundi Serumaga's statement that the "Three centuries of such bloody-mindedness (slave trade) and another century of direct colonial enclosure left Africa dazed, confused, and dominated by a social class bearing a wholly warped mindset?

Or did we forgot Steve Biko's advise that “the greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”?

The Ugandan born Joseph P. Ochieno once stated that "The humiliation of Africa with the help of Africans, the plunder of Africa by Africans and the torture of Africans aided by Africans sometimes compels me to wonder - 'who will save Africa from outside forces when we cannot save it from ourselves?'"

And I ask who will save Afrika?

Indeed, in his recent article: The Collaborators: An Obituary of the African Independence project, Kalundi Serumaga, a Kampala based Social and Political Commentator rightly observed that the "...traders were fully aware that what they were doing was harmful. This is the same situation at play today. Our rulers are fully aware of the damage their actions are causing, but do not care, as long as it does not happen to them or to their offspring. Or so they hope."

We cannot continue being held hostage by the greed of the few among us and sacrifice the lives and dignity of many of our people?

We cannot pretend not to know the colossal damage the unpatriotic selfish betrayed is causing us?

And as Kwame Nkrumah echoed, the only way out of this quagmire is for us to UNITE. Yes! Afrika must UNITE.

We must UNITE because no outsider can help us build a better continent if we don't take charge of our affairs.

To fulfill this big task we MUST EMANCIPATE ourselves from mental or ideological slavery and retune our minds to CARE for the little things we ought to care about.

And even as we TAKE CARE of this Charge, please let's be mindful of the mind games, and the antics of our own betrayers.

Muktub.
Greetings to you.

I am the 11th Afrikan.
I am the 11th Weava.