Thursday, January 24, 2013

AFRICA AND THE NEANDERTHAL MINDSET

DIAMONDS ARE CUT IN BLOOD

Almost half a century later, we are still blaming the white man for our incompetence. News flash; the whole world at some point, was under some kind of foreign power and the moment you finally get to raise your post independence flag…time to stop with the excuses. Nobody gives a hoot anymore.

Civilizations have gone to the moon and back and we still can’t feed ourselves to save our lives (Pun intended). It’s shocking and saddening that the world’s richest continent in terms of natural resources should still languish is such abject poverty, so many years on.

60% of the world’s arable land is in Africa but one thing I will guarantee you is that the second scramble for Africa has started and if we continue with business as usual, others will be feeding us for years to come. If you think the Berlin Conference was bad; try Part Two of the tragic-comedy of ‘Africa Never Learns’. (Coming soon to a theater near you.) Let the new age presence and settlement of foreigners in Africa bring the point home. When will it hit you dear motherland, that THIS IS the next frontier after Asia? This is the continent of the future but we still live in the here and now notwithstanding the reality that the rest of the world is light years ahead.

A continent so full of promise and we still cannot mine and refine our own minerals without heavy reliance on international entities. The moment the colonialists took our culture, religion and language, we fell into a terminal form of mental slavery that we will possibly never recover.

Africa  can no longer afford to look for its sense of self worth from the Africa that existed before we even got to the Homo Sapiens stage of evolution (a bit of hyperbole but you catch my drift). This persistent search for self confidence by referencing the achievements of ancient African Kingdoms such as Egypt is really quite sad to say the least. It simply proves to the rest of humanity that we never evolved with it.

Coup d’etat!!? Mali really. What year is this again? When humans are communicating via holograms we are still having COUP D’ETATS!!?  Not to mention those presidents we carried over from the lower Paleolithic period are still sitting in their thrones. Until when dear Africa?

Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea…the list is endless; we could have had these countries’ economies for dinner and then some by now but development is not part of our plan is it? Heck; even desserts like the UAE are way ahead of us in basic things like food production.

In this day and age we have our people dying of malnutrition, malaria and cholera.  Most parts of our gorgeous continent have no access to water and electricity. And whenever we want to defend dictators who will not relinquish power, we cry sovereignty; yet we are quick to appeal to the international community to feed us when famine hits. If you cannot put food in your mouth then forget you ever fought for any form of independence.

Mental slavery; this inherent belief that we are incapable has got to be done away with. We cannot hold on to past achievements if they won’t inspire us to reach for greatness in the modern era. We had better wake up because the history of the African and his contributions to mankind cannot start and end in the pre-historic era.

So enough with the blame game. The primary law of nature dictates that if you do not evolve, you die. If you are stupid enough, your tools and means of survival will be taken away from you. This world is a jungle and it’s either you hunt fast enough or run fast enough to ensure the survival of your species. Choose; if you should to live as the lion or the gazelle. And should the lion catch you and have you for brunch, don’t blame him for outsmarting your Neanderthal ass!

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