There is little doubt that, politically, the DA is the ultimate beneficiary of the government of national unity.
Africans, once politically educated, can begin to carry themselves as diverse nations with different languages and cultures, not tribes that cannot co-exist under one flag and sing one national anthem
It must be brought down from political and intellectual towers to the ordinary bread eaters and water drinkers of Africa in the towns and the villages
It looks like a truism that Africa exists in world history as a ‘thing’ that has never acted on its own but has always been acted upon by global powers
As long as Africans that hold different mother tongues continue to look at each other as tribes, aliens, and outsiders in Africa, the integration and liberation of the continent will remain elusive
It is a piercing indictment to African liberation sensibility when, like some biblical Jews in the long desert to Canaan who demanded that Moses returns them to Egypt, Africans begin to loudly express the wish to return to the colonial days
Un panafricanisme libre devrait avoir les moyens de mettre fin aux guerres civiles en Afrique et de protéger les Africains contre les tyrans corrompus et génocidaires qui utilisent encore le nom de libération de l’Afrique pour monopoliser les économies et les politiques de leurs pays à des fins d’enrichissement personnel
How Africa’s grand dreams of liberation from colonialism collapsed into post-colonial nightmares of economic un-freedom, poverty, and deep unhappiness must worry us
There is little doubt that, politically, the DA is the ultimate beneficiary of the government of national unity.
Africans, once politically educated, can begin to carry themselves as diverse nations with different languages and cultures, not tribes that cannot co-exist under one flag and sing one national anthem
It must be brought down from political and intellectual towers to the ordinary bread eaters and water drinkers of Africa in the towns and the villages
It looks like a truism that Africa exists in world history as a ‘thing’ that has never acted on its own but has always been acted upon by global powers
As long as Africans that hold different mother tongues continue to look at each other as tribes, aliens, and outsiders in Africa, the integration and liberation of the continent will remain elusive
It is a piercing indictment to African liberation sensibility when, like some biblical Jews in the long desert to Canaan who demanded that Moses returns them to Egypt, Africans begin to loudly express the wish to return to the colonial days
Un panafricanisme libre devrait avoir les moyens de mettre fin aux guerres civiles en Afrique et de protéger les Africains contre les tyrans corrompus et génocidaires qui utilisent encore le nom de libération de l’Afrique pour monopoliser les économies et les politiques de leurs pays à des fins d’enrichissement personnel
How Africa’s grand dreams of liberation from colonialism collapsed into post-colonial nightmares of economic un-freedom, poverty, and deep unhappiness must worry us
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more
