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Thinking of Africa.
When no newsy stories come out of another region of the Holy Orb of Mutha Eartha, one can forget they even exist.
But, when news media report wars or disasters here or there, thoughts go here-or-there. It seems a natural enough way for the mind to work.
So, naturally, for a mind trained to contemplate 'global affairs', when trouble strikes, especially in a nation or region which one has deep empathy for, so there, I go. In mind at least.
Libya! Egypt! Tunisia! Zimbabwe! Ivory Coast!
Africa!
Since the earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan struck, most of our news media have focused on the troubles of Nippon, and the amount of airtime devoted to other events around the world has been reduced, almost to insignificance.
Libya still gets a share though, seeing as it is so close to Eurape, to Rome, and seeing as it is undergoing a civil war, with ramifications which threaten still to spread wider.
For many, it may come as a disappointment that Colonel Gaddafi's forces are regaining some of the territory won by the 'Rebel' forces, and to me, similar feelings arise.
However, for a few days, I thought not about Libya's events, while things there were uncertain, in terms of who was holding the upper hand.
Also, I was slightly dilemma-d (?), because for perhaps more than a decade I regarded Colonel Gaddafi as a Champion, because of his Resistance to foreign, Eurapean forces and their colonialism.
So my Regard for him Remains.
However, I am as said, in a slight dilemma, because it seems in my nature to side with whichever Rebel forces take-on whomever sits at the top of the pile, when those leaders have either been or become closer to being tyrants, than Good Governors.
So, unusually, I look at what I'm fed by our right-wing, one-sided pro-colonialist media, and in Libya, I feel I have to regard both sides of their internal disputes equally.
As I wrote in an earlier blogpost which went to the crisis in north Africa, to my mind, Colonel Gaddafi should still be regarded by Libyans as their Heroic Leader, for driving out the colonialist Italians all those 40-plus years ago.
And, as Italy is probably the oldest colonialist power on Earth, if we place it in the same basket as the old Roman empire, or, as an extension of that old whore of a regime, anyone who can rid their Sovereign Territories of such a drain, should always be rightfully called a Hero. A Champion of the People.
However, as in previous blogposts, I make note of the hard facts that even such Heroes as Gaddafi remain constrained in how much they actually can reform their nations, post-colonialism, because outside pressure still looks down on lost territories and it's Peoples, essentially as theirs to plunder, with the rearrangement forcing the ex-colonialists to just dress themselves, and their diplomats and deals, in another guise.
The plunder still goes-on, but is made-out to be more considerate of the Locals.
Massive amounts of funds have been sunk into propaganda campaigns over time by the major colonialist powers of the world, to make them appear reformed and better 'trading partners', merely so the Locals stop or lessen their antipathy to the international thieves.
In many cases, what we know as 'NGOs', 'non-government-organisations', are created by the boffins of the major nations, precisely for that purpose.
The Red Cross, perhaps the first, but surely one of the most effective in 'sliming' the Local Peoples to accept further depletion by powerful, private first world elite corporations of Local resources.
There is hardly one Local, third world leader who is anywhere near capable of resisting such onslaughts by larger corporate nations. First world 'corporate nations' who specialise in demonising any who offer Resistance.
So it is with Colonel Gaddafi. He has had to settle for whatever the outsiders allowed him, more or less, and thus, he and his administration has been less than able to do the very best for his People.
Two generations-on, since he led Libya to it's own relative 'independence', Libya's Youth, and able Folk, have followed the lead of Tunisians and Egyptians in an attempt to replace the, to them, 'old regime' of Colonel Gaddafi.
It is a shame, perhaps the shame of Youth, that they often don't have any personal memories of how life was before such as Gaddafi rose up with his People and pushed the northern infidels out.
And sadder still, now the Youth of Libya are demanding that Colonel Gaddafi be sent for trial for alleged 'war crimes', etc.
Naturally, the northern infidels of Eurape are only too eager to ride the train of Libyan dissent, and appear to side with the Rebels, and now say they want to put Gaddafi on trial in the HOHOHO International Criminal Court in OH LOOKIE! The Netherlands!
Like so many Revolutions in third world nations, ten years down the track, many who were so eager for foreign support see things quite differently, having realised too late that those who offered support were in fact just the same old colonialist whores in new miniskirts, offering more modern 'beads-and-trinkets' to smoozh the naïve new adults to accept their new brand of foreign plunder.
Also, we witness a massive emigration by Libyans over the Mediterranean to OH! Italy, seeking asylum, and an iPod-and-fasta-pasta lifestyle or such. How may of them have serious regard for such as their own Arabic Traditions, or for the NOT-CHRISTIAN beliefs of their Wisdom Religion of Islam?
How many asylum seekers from Libya are but desirous of the 'modern western' life, with all it's hidden traps and generally degrading culture, who have lost their appreciation of the unmarketed Virtues of both Arabic and Islamic ways?
Or, how many have been fooled to believe the western propaganda?
Perhaps Libya is better-off without them?
The 'global powers' of Eurape, and the USA, seem to be holding their fire as to which side they support.
While the battle in Libya is in the balance, with no clear upper hand, it may be the best position for those powers to take, because if Gaddafi's military win the fight and regains control across the nation, things could get a bit too sticky for such as the USA, if they were left appearing to prop-up the Rebels.
Maybe? Maybe not?
However, as said above, I am inclined to support both sides in Libya, because I keep in mind that Colonel Gaddafi himself was, and I'd reckon still is, a Rebel, who took power away from the unethical, clearly racist, clearly anti-Islamic invaders from Eurape, in an attempt to give his People their Freedom.
Freedom, as much as the wider world would allow him and his People.
Over the recent tumultuous weeks, Colonel Gaddafi has offered to enact further reforms in Libya, hoping to lessen the antipathy against him and his power-base, but the Rebels, who are not all of the Libyans, have rejected this.
A bit sad, methinks. But I'm not in Libya, aye?
Nevertheless, those Rebels in Libya who sincerely want to make life better for all Libyans, might be doing every Libyan a Great and Honorable Service, were they to seek to peacefully discuss the issues of Genuine Reforms with the Gaddafi regime.
He is obviously troubled by the violence, shown in his preparedness to conciliate, and, I postulate, he might even be prepared to begin rather more serious Reforms, if the Rebels are willing to come to the table, as-it-were.
But serous reforms in Libya could not begin unless there was a wider, Pan-African show of support, entailing other African nations voicing their willingness to step-up their own national corrections to the aged and decrepit colonialist rules and trading 'arrangements'.
This brings in the issue of One-Africa.
An Africa which is ready, from the Cape to the tip of Tunisia, to assert their Sovereign Rights over the ruthless and anachronistic Eurapean powers and colonist-psychology.
Is it possible?
I have no doubt that in every 'nation' on the African continent, there are thousands of Brilliant Minds, well-capable of bringing the whole together. Strength in numbers.
From within Ivory Coast in the west, south to Zimbabwe and South Africa, and up to Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, I have no doubt that there are leaders, Wise, Intelligent and Honorable People with a deeper understanding of True Democracy than most any Eurapean or British 'whiteface', who are ready, willing and more than able to effect such imperative 'modernisations' for the sake of their massive population.
Surely, amongst Africa's Reformists, there is a common agreement that the 'laws', as imposed upon their Peoples, Traditions and Customs by the colonialists of the last... how long? One thousand years? Three thousand years??? are just a touch out-of-date, and, are clearly very unbalanced, inequitable and just plain criminal for the turmoil and carnage they have wrought upon Africans generally?
Surely, were all of that ancient continent's Peoples to address the bottomline issue, of Land Distribution together, and that the aged borders, as imposed from 'above' in plunder-happy 'divide-and-conquer' Brit-Eurape, have passed their 'use-by date', and that from here forward into the future, those old, imposed, false national borders act against the well-being of Africans generally?
Clearly, as Africa is made-up of numerous different 'Nations', Skin-groups and Cultures, peculiar traits exist, which uptil now, have not always made for harmonious neighbour-relationships.
The tragedy of Rwanda back whenever, one classic example, perhaps?
But, from what I heard, much of the carnage in Rwanda was actually fermented by foreign Eurapean clerics!
Oh yaye! The road to Hell, is paved with Catholic intentions!
'Oh! Better send in the Red Cross, old chum!'
Yeah....!
So.., weto from here? (Hyuk! A little play on the name 'Soweto', there!)
Well, first Libya.
While Egypt and Tunisia have still to sort through their own reformations, it's likely impossible for the north African nations to get together and form an Alliance, with the determination to institute more egalitarian Reforms to their overall systems of governmentation.
However, perhaps this is the most appropriate moment to do just such a thing, if only because as individual and separate nations, they are disempowered to bring themselves, and consequently the other nations of Africa into (what is not the best term, but into....) the 21st century?
Clearly right across and up-and-down Africa, there are calls for improvements to foreign trade relations.
MASSIVE improvements mostly, no doubt! And it goes without saying that this is pretty-much always an urgent matter, all things considered.
But for any such changes to be introduced and effected, all foreign trading partner-nations, from Eurape to China, Et Al, will have to be prepared to come-onboard, by giving Africans 'Sovereignty' in deciding how they release their own resources, and exchange whatever for whichever foreign aid?
Therefore, again, is Africa destined to become but a rebranded continent of colonies?
With what I see as a Progressive and more considerate world, where the ruthless and often genocidal plunder by old kings hegemonies is more-than-ever at risk of being exposed, and with the new kids on the global block, themselves with powerful memories of that evil methodology ex-Brit-Eurape, as used against them in centuries-passed, it may well be far less likely that Africa should fear a renewal of such demonic inhumane behaviour by today's foreign resource-hunters.
But, I do tend to be overly optimistic, don't I?
Nevertheless, rather than have the paranoid and reactionary Eurapeans jumping to put Colonel Gaddafi in their Dutch dock, all foreign effort should be turned to reconcile his People and his regime, by calling for Egalitarian Pan-African Reforms there, and by calling the other nations undergoing similar changes - Tunisia and Egypt, of course, but wherever unsettled situations exist, such as along the east of Africa, and over there in Ivory Coast, Et Al, a global effort should begin toward Uniting Africans, economically.
(Not that I miss the fact that Africa generally is in what may be called 'a perpetual crisis', as a result of centuries of 'northern colonialism'.)
On the 'up side', those old kings' colonialist tyrannies, of Britain, Eurape and more recently, the not-so-old-corporate USA, are all far too in debt to wage any wars on the African continent.
So, perhaps it is to be left to the likes of China, and India, themselves ex-colonies, to strike more Humane trade and development deals with a United Africa?
Personally, I reckon at least China, which is already well-ensconced in Africa, would be only too happy to assist Africa-generally, to go through the huge process of making Africa into 'SuperAfrica', with the most Honorable, Intelligent and Wise Continent-wide economic, that-is Land, Reforms.
But again, I am sometimes a tad too optimistic?
Whatever..., let's everyone, from Madame Secretary Hillary Clinton's office, through Italy's foreign affairs and trade departments, to China and whichever other nations have interests in Africa, make their best efforts aim toward working with Africans for a pan-African Agreement on Economic Reforms, and, redistribution, a more equal share, of the immense wealth contained within Her soils. Within Her Land.
Within Libya, it is not overly optimistic to call both sides to ceasefire while they weigh the causes and the prospects of and from further division and aggression.
If 'Democracy' is the call from the Rebels, then let them not make the same mistakes all budding 'Democracies' have made uptil now, of disregarding the fundamental importance to True Democracy, of Proper Land Distribution!
As said, the more African nations who can see this undeniable Truth, and who agree to work together toward such Just systems of government, the more assured they can be of success, and thus of lifting themselves out of the hole the old kings of Britain and Eurape threw them in, in passed eras.
Finally, I remember my Dad commenting once, when I was I kid, about some excess of mums, when he asked a simple question with deep and profound sense to it... “How much is too much?”
I'd put money on believing that Colonel Gaddafi's son, the one who has appeared in the media, (apologies for not recalling his name), is Intelligent enough to know that there are limits to what wealth can bring in terms of personal happiness and satiation. The almost mandatory excesses of power - opulent palaces, and investments in super-profit corporate shenanigans, most always at the expense of one's own People's well-being, surely are a thing of that dated old-kings era, and I reckon he and his siblings would know that a more even spread of the nation's wealth across the population, is the best guarantee of 'a Life well lived'?
It is, of a certainty, a safer way to live with one's own People.
And what better than living a Life secured through Wisdom! Intelligence! And Honor!
All Praise the Immortals!
All Praise the Warriors who have fallen Fighting for a Just World!
From the Traveling 4x4 Tent of
King Commo
aka Countryzen bin Eartha
aka Omaxa bin Eartha
aka Max Earth
Outlaw, for
GLOBAL
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Tax,
Housing,
Family,
Agricultural,
Cult,
Drug,
Work,
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ULURUBA
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