Jan 21, 2014

Stealing Africa (again)






"The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. It implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one's will by any means available. In relations between peoples, the question of power determines maneuverability in bargaining, the extent to which a people survive as a physical and cultural entity. When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society, that in itself is a form of underdevelopment."
- Walter Rodney

Africa has some of the richest natural resources in the world. Yet the majority of its people have been impoverished by decades of policies imposed by international finance institutions and northern governments. These policies have enabled corporations to accumulate vast profits while dispossessing the people and the continent of its riches, often subsidised by public funds in the form of ‘aid’. But from Egypt to Gabon , South Africa to Tunisia , African people have been resisting. Most people in the West don't have a clue about what's happening in the world beyond what their junk-food news feeds them on a daily basis. Africa to them is a dark, no-man's land always in conflict due to themselves alone. This level of ignorance & false sense of superiority can only be countered by education in the form of books, documentaries and lively discussions with folks who know what's going on. 

OneLove

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