THE quest of every society is to thrive and identify itself within the ambit of its cultural values be it social economic or political. The development of every system is deem incomplete without a total economic transformation in the lives of its people.
The African society is a case in this context. Africa is considered as the richest continent in mineral resources however, it remains impoverished, economically poor and politically fragile. The woes of Africa cannot solely be blame on itself because the continent has suffered and continues to suffer from the deficiency of lost identity and inspired ideology which is paramount in establishing a free and prosperous society.
Centuries of chattered slavery and colonialism and more than fifty years of neo-colonial and imperialist machinations perpetrated by imperialists against progressive forces has been the greatest bane of the continent, some examples includes the gruesome murder and abrogation of progressive revolutionary regimes of Comrade Patrice Lumumba, in the Congo by the Belgians, Samora Machel of Mozambique by the bigoted apartheid system in South Africa.
Thomas Sankara by the French and the most infamous coup-de-tat in the history of Africa which overthrew a progressive pace to economic and political emancipation of the leading proponent of Pan-Africansim led by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana by prominent imperialist forces such as United States of America, United Kingdoms and their allies in the west through the collaborations of jealous local agents and moles (fifth columnists) within the government of the (Osagyefo).
This subversion of Africa,s sovereignty goes to suggest distinctively why Africa has find itself in such a misery, yet still these subversive activities continues unabated through corporations and so-called civil society organizations which by the description of the imperialists are the indicators for a democratic and free enterprise system.
Sadly, Africa is yet to abreast itself with the thoughts, ideals and philosophies of Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcom X, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon and host of other progressive leaders who sought to mentally liberate the African in the homeland and those in the diaspora from the antecedence of the exploitative elements.
The foundation of Pan Africanism is an appropriate vehicle for espousing socialism and the adherence to scientific socialism as propounded by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in establishing a base for a free society with the principles of good governance, economic triumph and the application of social justice.
Imperialism not only robs economically but endanger its victims on their political independence and cultural identity. The bastardization of ones culture leaves her without any sort of identity and the absence of this nurtures a fertile ground for exploitation which is in delight of the imperialist forces.
For example, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group and host of United Nations organisation's operations in Africa is increasingly questionable in this regard given the impoverish nature of countries and communities in Africa they claim to be serving.
These Breton-Woods institutions established their operations in Africa since the post colonial era and they still operate on the so-called economic challenges they claim they wanted to address, no World Bank/IMF prescribed economic method has worked for any African country to my knowledge, from Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP) to Economic Recovery Programmes (ERP).
All these has been monumental failure and brought untold hardship to the masses of Africa economically which inspired senseless military interventions in governance and counter coups all over the continent plunging the continent in total chaos and anarchy.
These crookish capitalistic systems infested into the African society, hatred of charismatic leftist leaders who were infamously assassinated. The very reason why some of these treasures of Africa were lost keep compounding on daily basis, it has therefore become evident that the continuous impoverishment of the masses of Africa forms the basis of the Breton-Woods institution,s nefarious activities on the continent of Africa where they plunder and reap off the resources of the already sucked people.
Real aid with no strings and outrageous conditions attached will have been to establishing a refinery and or a processing plants to where is needed, doing so fairly and justly as a form of aid package to the people given their natural resources available where they will process and manufacture their products and goods, determine the market price and production units will be an aid that Africa will accept with open arms just like the Marshall plan for Europe by America in the aftermath of the World War II. This will be an ideal aid to the African people not dead aid which is given and taken back in clandestinely.
It is therefore inhuman to ascribe to a capitalistic system such as this, one where its naked greediness in exploiting the resources of a country has no boundaries and sense of reasoning. Capitalism grabs without mercy the birth-right of suffering masses in Africa in oil blocks and on every natural resource they lay their eyes and hands on.
Nigeria produces thousands of barrels of crude daily yet does not have a refinery to refine its oil wealth to inure to the benefit of its teaming poverty stricken population, Ivory Coast and Ghana with cocoa yet do have their cocoa processing plants to produce chocolate and the average Ghanaian or Ivorain can hardly afford to buy chocolate, Zimbabwe with diamonds yet do not have a diamond refinery and no single ordinary Zimbabwean has ever set her eyes on an ounce of diamond. They mine it but it ends up as ring on the fingers of those in imperialist countries.
I believe it will be very fair that by now at least every Ghanaian should be in possession of as her own 5 ounce of gold as her birth-right for been a citizen of a country which started mining gold since independence for more than 50 years now. However, the ordinary gold miner in Ghana earns far less than a cleaner in the imperialist world. The ordinary gold miner is expose to countless work place hazards without insurance and or any safety security.
The core tenets of socialism bemoans this exploitative tendencies and sought to do contrary in the best interest of the masses of every established socialist state.
A country or any given society where citizens are not in control of the commanding heights of the economy is doom and risk accelerating into the abyss and Africa has been and is still a victim of such plunder by the neo-colonialists not because Africa chose to, but because it is masterminded by greedy clique of an invisible exploitative elements who have held it hostage since its so-called political independence which was reluctantly relinquished, and also because we lack transformational clueless leaders.
The only system on earth which clearly and reasonably acknowledges the need for economic and political ownership and control of a land for and by its people is Socialism and the foundation of Pan-Africanism is built from the thoughts and ideals of socialism, which makes it a cardinal vehicle in the quest for a free and just society.
The time has come for Africa to counter the west with its daily threats of aggressive secularism which is is inimical to us as African people, we can fight this with confrontational diplomacy as well, is time for our leaders to look into the eyes of these neo-colonial elements and tell enough is enough.
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