Cry; my beloved Africa

[Timtom]

Cry; my beloved Africa.

With the Holy Bible in their hands, the first white missionaries came
to Africa, attracted by the continent’s vast mineral resources.
Without much knowledge of their intention, the illiterate chiefs
trusted them and accepted them. They ask the chiefs and the
people (Africans) to close their eyes to say the Lord’s prayer. At
the end of the prayer, when they opened their eyes, they found
the missionaries Bible in their hands and Africa lands in the hands
of the missionaries. From that time, the Europeans have looted our
gold, diamond, manganese, silver, etc. to Europe.
When the chiefs detected that they are being robbed and
confronted them, they quickly changed their minds and provided
them bottles of assorted whisky to intoxicate them. Africans were
not stupid, some of them like Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah,
Julius Nyerere, Sir Milton Magai’s mounted efforts to procure
independence for their countries. Their success ended the looting
of Africa’s mineral resources abroad. Now some of the countries like
Ghana achieved their independence, the colonial masters neglected
the African continent as they could not trick us into selling our gold
again.
Africa, for the past four decades has not known peace. Not a
single day passes without hearing of a civil strife, ethnic conflicts,
religious wars.
This escalated trend of conflicts have brought untold hardships to
her people, causing thousands of deaths and refugee crises.
The root of Africa’s problems is both internal and external. It has
been the habit of the military to seize power for their voice to be
heard, knowing perfectly well that they cannot run the affairs of
the state.


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