Who Fears a United States of Africa?
With access to Iraqi oil uncertain even after a projected victory over Iraq, now is the time for various leaders of African nations to unite before the inevitable, an invasion of troops into key areas of Africa for the same black gold that Bush and his oil cabinet have set their sights on since his invasion of the White House. Its been said that a crop of countries are emerging in Africa as major players in the petroleum industry. Because this is taking place in Africa is no reason to believe those players are Black.
Currently the US Department of Energy is targeting 18 African countries as the next major sources for oil. I say it’s the perfect time for American government to be taught to rely on its own resources. The United leaders of Africa stand in a position to show the world (and shock the world) that only they would make the most effective teachers. A 7/11/00 article written by the BBC’s Barnaby Phillips gives a clear view of Africa’s impressions of their own status in world affairs: “African leaders fear their continent is becoming increasingly powerless in a tough global economic environment. Many believe that unless Africa can talk and act with greater cohesion, it will continue to be virtually ignored by the richer countries.”
Cohesion is a perfect word for the dark continent, without a doubt its Africa’s scarcest resource. Since the end of colonialism, what Africa has been plagued by, is its only united front, its glut of greedy individualistic despots. A defacto dictators club, an endless number of western hand-picked Black men whose only qualification seems to be an extraordinary low regard for the Black citizens who populate their regions. Strategically placed in their positions to implement chaos as a diversion, while valuable resources are still being stripped away as the African leaders eagerly tend to the desires of the globalist leaders.
A new African union would replace the Organization of African Unity, what African leaders need is another meeting along the lines of 1955’s Bandung Conference; the first conference of African-Asian states. This particular meeting celebrated the impending end of colonialism, and ushered in what author/historian Karl Evanzz cites as “the age of Afrocentrism.” Representatives of powerful White nations were banned from attending. The idea of a United States of Africa was first officially established in 8/8/60 during an agreement signed between Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and newly elected Congo President Patrice Lumumba. The outspoken Nkrumah had already been hawking the idea of a United States of Africa several years earlier to any officials who would listen, in April of 1958 he formed the Conference of Independent African States. A year earlier he invited Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and even then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon to Ghana’s independence celebration (he denounced Nixon’s interpretation of “benevolent colonialism” as an oxymoron).
It was Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gadhafi-invoking references to Nkrumah-who called for the 9/99 series of meetings attended by 43 heads of state as well as the sons of Nkrumah and Lumumba, in order to see the need to establish Africa’s USA around a central bank, its own military, and parliament. Though this took place 4 years ago, this is one case where the needs of many African leaders outweigh the wants of many of its leaders. African success depends upon less concern about American credibility, and better leverage of its own resources to the benefit of its huge potentially prosperous population.