SCALE OF OUR INDEPENDENCE AFTER 50 YEARS

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In around 1500 AD, the social divide between Africa and Europe was almost the same. There was a feudal class, an artisan class of blacksmiths, carpenters, potters, textile makers, and then the peasant’s class. Africa had abundant natural resources, vast agricultural lands, fresh water, pastoral fields and mineral wealth.

The only problem [and probably the biggest] was failure of these African societies to agree on living under a unified political system of some sort! These political fragmentations prompted creation of many small kingdoms which were always under some sort of conflict with one another. These conflicts resulted into wars related strongly on friction between different ethnic groups; simply because most of these kingdoms and chiefdoms were made up of members sharing the same cultural identity.

In the expansion of Europe, came slave traders that acted as a medium that supplied Europe’s industrial systems with raw materials and a cheap labor force. The slave trade industry was much sustained by internal conflicts in different societies all around the world, but it was here in Africa that this trade saw much success. It was the main supply route of weapons to different chiefs and kings, but mostly acted as the main drain that plundered Africa of its natural and cultural wealth thus eroding this once a paradise of all its social progress. 

Once our chiefs and kings had been engaged in this iniquitous trade, there was no turning back. They now needed the slave traders more than ever in order to survive battles that were rapidly spreading across their lands due to the change of war craft technologies when black powder and the gun was introduced on the battle fields replacing spears and arrows.

The Europeans had strategically set themselves on all major ports along the African coastline where they waited their proxies, the Arabs and some African chiefs who constantly brought them slaves and other materials of value from inside what they considered as “the dark continent”. In fact  why would they dirt-en their hands while risking lives in venturing into a confusion of tribal wars that were operated by arrogant savages armed with guns when yet one would just wait at the coastlines for the wars to calm and reap the benefits of buying off cheaply all captured prisoners in previous conflicts in exchange for more guns!......that way the would later look at it as a black to Black-man problem and even remember (if not worship) the White man as a savior!

As a man of science, I believe in the cause and effect theory. Behind every action, there’s a cause. Colonization of Africa was a result of our inborn failure to live in harmony under a unified political system (the Roman Empire is a good example of strength of a unified political system).To this day I have totally failed to find reason as to why we seem to hate ourselves so much that we would rather live in ‘exile’ (Euphemism for self imposed slavery) than finding peaceful solutions to our problems back at home??!!.....

In 1966, Dr. Apollo Milton Obote in the quest for the Ugandan independence from its colonial rulers [the British] had forged an alliance with the Kabaka Yekka (king only) party that leaned strongly on the king of Buganda kingdom, the biggest ethnic group in the fertile central region with Uganda’s People’s Congress (UPC) that consisted of other ethnic groups from the rest of the country. This coalition had later successfully ushered in the Ugandan independence from the British colonial rulers (October 9 1962) in a more civilized manner compared to the bloody revolts that covered the independence struggle in neighboring Kenya lead by the MAU MAU rebellion. But again, rumors [believed to have originated from the British] started circulating of how the Kabaka [then first president of the new republic of Uganda] Sir. Edward Muteesa 2 harbored ill ambitions of controlling Uganda as an Emperor setting him on a head on collision course with the nationalists [like Dr. Obote]  who had fought arm in arm for the independence of Uganda, and later what followed wrecked the independence dream of a peaceful and united Uganda, a land of freedom!!!?.........

Dr. Obote was also advised to abrogate the 1962 constitution of Uganda to enforce an agreement Muteesa had signed in 1955 when he was deposed and exiled to England by the then governor Andrew Cohen after objecting plans of the British creating a federation that consisted of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanganyika, a move that was aimed at stripping the Buganda kingdom of its autonomy. In this agreement, the Kabaka Muteesa 2 became a constitutional monarch thus barring himself from participating in National politics or he would risk abdicating his throne.

Then in 1967, a republican constitution is promulgated abolishing all kingdoms the state of Uganda had found in place during the independence!……it was at this moment that everything that held us together was sent into a spin, everybody just fell back to the old spirit [every man to himself] that separated us rather than the “For God and my country” spirit that had been a core value in forging a great Nation, Uganda. The gates that had been holding the uncivilized dark past simply snapped. And Uganda has since lived to regret a monster, an evil child born from its extra-marital affair with the western agents of confusion, Idi Amin. All norms and values built over many generations were smashed into bits (which have since failed to mend) during his reign.

The independence struggle in Africa was a collective action that was aimed at flushing out the white man intrusion in African politics and an integration of different cultural entities under one unified political system equally sharing power and responsibilities through democratic processes that listened, understood and shared with everybody. Literally, it was an evolution of African systems of governance.

So today, are we free, are we united, are we independent economically and our political decisions true and original to our culture?

Are we still selling our sons and daughters abroad in the name of finding employment opportunities? Are we still buying more weapons than investing in infra-structures that will improve on our social standards, are we still prosecuting our leaders in foreign courts when yet matters accused are of a local nature as in 1955 when Sir. Edward Muteesa 2 was exiled to England by Andrew Cohen?

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WESTERN LINEAGE OF CONFLICT TO AFRICA.

During the early 1940s, Europe was fighting a war with itself on reasons that were related to the Global territorial division. The “Great Britain” and the United States of America were, as always, considering themselves as an Empire that had the full sovereign sense of governing the whole world!! So, as always, there were other sovereign states that couldn’t digest that idea of being puppets under a European master. As usual, the British formed allies to support their cause, next thing; they were counting on their assets of war (indoctrinated groups) they had developed in all territories around the world (colonies) under their control. This was considered an advantage by western political analysts to shout down their political opponents mostly in Europe and Asia in any political debates that would have been solved by a word of understanding each others differences.

If history has taught me anything, that would be the following; Loud mouths in political debates always cause scuffles thus fights breakout. So, the west had been a loud mouth and mostly a bully in its political dealings which lead Europe into a war that would have been avoided.

The western political ideologies have always been good at matters concerning political marketing. They do nice and perfect packaging to the naked eye, speed deliveries, guarantee of merchandise that in case of any damages, a refund or a fix in time is promised and mostly quality is much emphasized. But then, what is quality when it only belongs to hands of a few? This has proven a total failure in the western political ideology, the expense of their products to service required. Take this for example; in 1941 everyone used to say of how communism was bad for anyone and that it was the cause behind many suffering in some parts of Europe and Asia and that if not dealt with quickly, many people were destined to die!! But then later on down the road of WW2, history is stained with the biggest waste of property and human lives, both young and old, innocent unarmed civilians carrying on their lives are mercilessly murdered with the heat of an Atomic bomb thrown onto their cities in broad day light and even the whole event is captured on tape just because someone in the “western civilization” wants to make a point!!! And as if that wasn’t bad enough, in the process of dismantling the influence of communist Russia or the USSR around the world, two evils are born with more devastating power than communism itself. Opium that hit the highest peak during the Vietnam War on the streets of America, and terrorism whose weight is so big for the whole world as united as it can be to handle. Actually, drugs and terrorism are blood brothers who happen to be in the league of “who kills more, who’s boss” , and the whole planet is turned into a theatre where this mad drama is played!!!!??

Then again in the late 1970s, the United states of America is blinded by its own idle and selfish ideas of the so called “National interests” into sending their fat and spoilt child, the CIA to Afghanistan with intentions of supporting and building resistance against the Russians who were still holding on to some fragments or let-overs of the after math of WW2. They train and even go a stupid step further into arming the Mujaheedins, Islamic extremists! Later on the Mujaheedins give birth to their first born son; Osama Bin Laden who after maturing falls in love and even gets married to haters and the multitudes of enemies of the west in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Osama Bin Laden begets two sons, Al-Qaeda his first born and Al-shabab his last born before his erased from the terror drama at the global theatre. Al-Qaeda being senior runs and handles the big guns, Europe. While Al-shabab trains himself in East Africa to impress elder brother Al-Qaeda of how grown up and responsible he has become.

The west after being battered severely in this mad brothers’ game, it goes back to its old political tricks of proxy war faring. Using foolish and selfish world leaders under the spell of its influence to wear its battered face so to fool its enemies, who happen to be everywhere and later, maybe get a chance to sneak on them unaware.

Asia has proven its point wisely and nicely towards the west, though it was said that it used ill systems of governance to run its territories and that it was headed for an ugly down fall due to its huge populations, all has been proven to be nothing but a hoax and a cook up of the western media and spy agencies aimed at misinforming the rest of the world about success stories that would emerge from Asia and break their spell of lies they’ve used to control the world this long.

Africa too, is waking up slowing from the trance of western political hypnosis. She has come to learn painfully how the west has been using her all this long. How in times of need the west will only “evacuate” their people and live her to face and feed the demons the west had sold to her!! The genocide in Rwanda, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, Congo, Zimbabwe and now Libya; all this has awaken Africa.

We have now known the value of our natural God given resources, oil, cooper, gold, diamonds, uranium and food crops. You might fake some revolutions among ourselves just because we’ve waken up and refused your business deals, so you call us terrorists, dictators with intent to divide and rule and even steal from us, we won’t give in this time around.