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| Trump meeting African leaders at the G7 meeting in 2017. |
Spitting fire and fury over
his dislike for Blacks and other non-White people, the unrestrained political
mongrel in the name of Donald Trump bluffed that immigrants from ‘shithole’
countries in Africa including Haiti and El Salvador are not welcome in USA.
Nobody would have imagined
that a president of the so called world’s superpower state would utter such
racist and divisive sentiments. But then, it isn’t a surprise since the 45th
occupant of the White House is a man terribly short of insight with a
delusional penchant for courting attention.
Facing economic, social and
political despondency for decades, African states and other poor non-African,
non-White countries ashamedly carry along the ‘shithole’ tag.
Precisely, the nature and
behaviour of most of the African governments make it prime for the ‘shithole’
classification to ideally define the African governments. Why ‘shithole’
African states?
Look around the continent and
realize how African states are infested with corruption, poverty,
socio-economic inequalities and disparities, political injustice among other
challenges which majority of the states have deliberately refused to address or
pretend to be addressing.
Decades after gaining the
oft-exaggerated political independence, the filthy majority of the African
states are facing the same socio-economic and political problems they sought to
effectively deal with at the time the cunning colonialists ‘declared’ them
politically independent.
But most people often forget,
or at least pretend to forget that African countries would be miles ahead
socially, economically and politically were it not for the colonization and
neo-colonization of the Black man’s continent.
Who are responsible for
colonization and neo-colonization of Africa? The foreign powers, with their mad
rush to Africa premised on the classical rivalry between the Western and
Eastern hemispheres of the world, though the greedy African political
leadership is also to be blamed.
The West has been led by USA for
years following the crumbling of the British Empire. Taking advantage of the
historical and apocalyptic fall of the British Empire, the USA subsumed in
pretence the world’s leadership with her hegemonic global agenda fueled by the
much famed ideology of American Exceptionalism and the Cold War.
During the Cold War, African
states were vulnerable to the antics of the world’s superpowers at that time,
the USA and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), before the
latter’s cataclysmic disintegration. African countries were enticed by ‘gifts’
from the capitalist axis led by USA and communist axis under USSR’s leadership.
Neo-colonialism, which
Africa’s former colonial masters had institutionalized, intensified as a result
of the Cold War. Foreign powers offered financial and technical assistance to
African states that cooperated with them with some going to an extent of
facilitating the toppling of governments.
Of particular concern is the
role played by the notorious USA and nosy France in overthrowing legitimate
governments across Africa.
USA, for instance, was
instrumental in engineering the military coup in Ghana then under the
leadership of the charismatic pan-Africanist, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. The aim
of the coup in Ghana was to trigger a stream of chaos or put in place a puppet
regime so that USA could get as much cocoa as possible at extremely cheaper
rates.
Across Africa’s Great Lakes
Region in the lush Congo Forest, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly
known as Zaire) was not spared either by the covetousness of Washington. The
USA government was behind the ousting of the influential pan-Africanist Patrice
Lumumba who was captured, tortured and executed.
Lumumba was replaced by the flashy
dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, whose puppet regime went to bed with the USA
government to loot the minerals at the expense of the Congolese citizens,
majority of whom are poor.
Disguising herself as the
champion of democracy across the world, the USA didn’t bother to promote
democratic principles in DRC, choosing instead to confidently support a
dictatorial regime led by the despotic Mobutu. Currently, USA’s multi-national
corporations walk into DRC, collect minerals and walk out in fashion under
protection of DRC’s authoritarian regime and the USA government.
Nigeria also endured a lengthy
period of political instability characterized by coups that the USA partly
orchestrated. They saw the oil and voila, they triggered chaos in Africa’s most
populous country. Washington shipped the oil as poor Nigerians wallowed in
poverty.
In dubious fashion, the USA
government continues to be hell bent in supporting non-democratic regimes in
Africa and interfering with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other states.
Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya,
Djibouti and other states that have non-democratic governments continue to
enjoy the support of Uncle Sam. Ethiopia has a terrible human rights record but
Washington cannot advocate for the rule of law to be observed owing to the fact
that the former is a strategic military partner to the USA government.
Having mastered the art of
double-standards, the USA cannot condemn the authoritarian regime of East
Africa’s longest-serving despot, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. In Kenya, the USA
government is supporting the corrupt and rogue Jubilee administration without
showing utmost concern for social and political injustice brought to light
before, during and after the electioneering period.
By the way, I’m exasperated by
the dictatorial antics of the despotic Jubilee administration that rekindles
the memories of the anti-democratic KANU regime. Kenya’s democratic gains have
been eroded under the Jubilee administration and unapologetically, Kenya is
acquiring a peculiar statehood of being a shithole of shitholes.
Washington, the champion of democracy, would pretentiously ignore this.
Uncle Sam wouldn’t raise a
finger and condemn Djibouti’s strongman, Ismail Omar Guelleh as the tiny Horn
of Africa nation plays host to the former’s military base. Apart from the USA,
Djibouti has allowed France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and
India to set up military bases.
Libya is experiencing a civil
war as a result of the invasion by the USA-led NATO forces dating back to 2011.
Libya, then under the able leadership of Brother Leader Muammar Qaddafi, was
peaceful with the Libyan people guaranteed of access to high quality social
amenities with the country not having any foreign debt.
Because of her voracious
appetite for oil, USA orchestrated the fall of Libya by arming militants and
crafting evil conspiracy theories that Libyans were tired of Qaddafi’s
dictatorial regime and were demanding for establishment of democratic systems
and structures.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and
Yemen have been ravaged by wars instigated by USA in the name of “War on Terror”.
America’s destruction of Afghanistan began after the 9/11 attack with
Washington riding on the paranoia that the Taliban was cooperating with Al
Qaeda in promoting terrorism. USA invaded Afghanistan when the 9/11 attackers
were from Saudi Arabia!
Iraq was destroyed by USA
because the Washington government was eyeing the former’s oil. George W. Bush, then
serving as the 43rd USA president, lied to the world on how Iraq had
‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’.
Unknown to many, Iraq had a
stockpile of these weapons but destroyed them in 1991 and ceased all its
nuclear and biological weapons programmes in the same year due to pressure
exerted by USA and her allies. Since then, the Iraqi people are strangers to
peace and stability with puppets regime established by the USA. And by the way,
if Iraq had such weaponry, would the USA have invaded her?
Syria and Yemen are war-torn
states with the USA drooling at the oil fields of these countries. But the
shithole USA government claims that the Syrian and Yemeni governments are
unpopular with the masses and they must fall. USA financed destitute militants to
hold anti-government demonstrations in Syria and Yemen, a similar case with
Libya, in the wake of the contorted and highly skewed Arab Spring.
Crafting of propaganda and
hatching of conspiracy theories is USA’s well-mastered game. Having faced
moments of non-cooperation with the Libyan, Syrian and Yemeni governments, the
USA government played the opportunist card, triggered chaos and siphoned the
oil while lying on why ‘democratic’ governments must be established in these
countries.
The double-faced USA
government cannot condemn whatsoever the undemocratic regime in Saudi Arabia.
The cooperation between USA and Saudi Arabia dates back to February 1945 when the
then US President Franklin Roosevelt met with King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia
aboard a US warship.
Roosevelt met with King Aziz
on his way to the USA after attending the Yalta Conference on the future of
Europe following the end of the Second World War. Since then, USA and Saudi
Arabia have been close allies with geopolitical interests and oil being the
agenda of the American government.
Saudi Arabia is used as a
proxy by USA to generate political instability in the Middle East. Through her
military partnership/cooperation with Saudi Arabia, USA finances militants to
fight legitimate governments in the Middle East with the objective being to
cause confusion and steal the oil. Saudi Arabia has a dubious distinction and distinguished
notoriety of arming militants, case in point the current civil war in Yemen.
But USA is silent.
Closer home, South Sudan is
muddling through a civil war that erupted in December 2013. Recently, the USA
denounced South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and declared him as an ‘unfit
partner’. But nobody is questioning the role the USA government has been
playing in fueling the civil strife in South Sudan. Remember USA is siphoning
oil in Africa’s youngest state.
I bet a deal between USA and
Salva Kiir has gone sour and Washington has made an about turn on supporting
him and is hell bent on deposing Kiir and establishing another puppet
government. Folks, it is the oil.
What do you call a state that
interferes with the sovereignty of other states, supports dictatorial regimes
and promotes war in the world as a divide and rule strategy to loot natural resources?
You call it shithole! Never mind that Africa is shithole but my mother country,
Kenya, is the shithole of shitholes.
And by the way, at the recent African
Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, African political leaders shelved the idea of
demanding an apology from the not-so-well read USA president after he sent them
a letter expressing his respect for Africa! African political leaders are
compromised and intoxicated by neo-colonialism. But, don’t you see both are
shitholes?
