Africa and Power

POWER AND THE AFRICAN MISFORTUNE

In no time than now has man’s private life been so violently abused by the powers of the state; and in no other continent of the world has this wanton denigration of corrosive state power been carried out in it’s unspoken barbarity that in Africa. It is indeed the only continent in which it takes a fortuneteller for its leaders to realize that something is really lacking in their own culture. They have failed to appreciate the fact that there are latent potentials in the continent- that even the backward, stagnant and inefficient average African could well compete in the field of human values, with the efficient, practical and progressive Europeans. In their idiotic, shameless and sadistic mentality, African leaders think that the people seem predestined to last, unmoving throughout the cataclysms of the surrounding world in the face of national usurpers and foreign conquers.

With the physical exit of the Whiteman, Africa leaders ostensibly formed a new generation rebellious at its inheritance of a cynical and hypocritical legacy. Today, Africa has produced more treacherous dictators than any other race in history that would make the age of antiquity and the tyranny of the Renaissance green with envy, yet, how do we appreciate the nebulous fancy of the average African dictator? How do we extrapolate his consummate excesses? How do we vitiate the nuances of his personal pride and ambition? And finally, how do we impugn the Johnsonian epigram about the innocuousness of “money getting” and the mentality of the African dictator? It takes only serious thinking for one to decode that much of the savagery connected with the African tragedy can be explained in the violence inherent in Western manners. African leaders are therefore helpless tool of that logic of history which leaves a minority determined to assert itself against the majority with no choice of methods that using terror as not merely an attendant phenomenon, but a vital function of insurrection.

More that four decades after gaining political independence from European exploiters of their resource. African easily the most naturally endowed region on the face of the earth, has been turned into a theater of war, no thanks to the lackeys who took over the mantle of leadership from the colonialist. It has been a monumental tragedy that Africa is yet to find its bearings. More that Forty years into self-rule. Before 1960, only a few countries, mostly in the NORTH Africa, had conquered their own right to national existence and participation in international life. In more than four decades after political independence, African masses are still condemned by history to a life of guinea-pig existence. The people are constantly yawning for that day when they will escape completely from internal slavery.