African Soldiers for Peace Keeping

It is about time that the African Union, the successor to the Organisation of African Unity, get serious about maintaining law and order on the continent. In almost all African countries, one sees lots of educated young men (some with college degrees) loitering around with nothing to do. Why can the African Union not recruit and train these young people for peace keeping missions? I would go so far to suggest the establishment of a 120,000 man army for West Africa and a 120,000 man army for East Africa. Recruits should be selected from all over the continent; educational qualification should be at least the minimum of secondary or high school completion. Oaths to be taken to protect mother Africa and no allegiance to individual countries. With the support of the United Nations, such a professional army could have solved the problems of Somalia and Darfur.

We Have Failed

I have been telling myself something for a very long time that has to be brought into the open. THOSE AFRICANS WHO CAME OF AGE IN THE NINETEEN SIXTIES, AT THE DAWN OF POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, HAVE FAILED THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. There is no reason why the richest continent in the world is teeming with the poorest people on earth. Our economical, political and developmental policies have failed the people who mattered most. And the answer can be traced to eurocentric styled education. In the immortal words of Dr Carter Goodwin Woodson, "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary".
In a nutshell, Africans in the position of political leadership on the continent have not learned to do right for the themselves and their peoples but rather depend on the so called developmental experts from former colonial countries. What do we expect?

Barry Lamar Bonds

This has been a very bad week: Barry Bonds is finally indicted. The question is why? I am stunned!

Beef Against President Carter

In 1945, at the formation of the United Nations, there were only two countries, south of the Sahara, representing the African Continent: Liberia and Ethiopia. The rest of Africa was under colonial domination. But then the winds of change arrived in the 1960s and the peoples of the continent were full of hope. Unfortunately President Jimmy Carter became President of the United States of America in 1976 at the height of the cold war. It has been rumoured for years on the African continent that President Jimmy Carter's administration destabilized the Governments of Liberia, Ethiopia and Somalia to protect the interests of the United States of Ameria. The peoples of those named countries, and the rest of the continent from the ripple effects, are still suffering from his actions.
If you have anything to contribute to the above sentiments, pass it on. Keep the Faith!

Political Action of Charity?

For over four decades after the attainment of political independence from the colonial powers of Europe, it seems to me that, despite the news of economic development trend moving in the positive direction, the African Continent is still suffering from subtle forms of domination by political, economic, social, military or technical means. The United Nations and its agencies - the World Bank and International Monetary Fund -have provided lots of developmental money and development experts over the years to the continent with not much to show for the expense and efforts. Most Africans still do not have safe drinking water, schools to attend, hospitals to go to when they fall sick and no gainful employment for the educated class.
I am inviting all Africans on the continent and in the diaspora, genuine friends of Africa, to suggest how we can correct the situation by first identifying the causes and proposing new ways of tackling the underdevelopment problems we face. The Struggle Continues.