Peace and love to the global African family. Revolutionary greetings from the African Continental Unity Party (ACUP).
Freedom and decolonization is the spirit that animates our daily struggle, without which Africans have other centuries of oppression before being able to test freedom again. In essence, this 21st century is a century of decisive choices and actions on the part of all the oppressed peoples of the world, but above all decisive for Africans.
The fight against oppression concerns all people in the world who suffer from the marginalization and exploitation of the dominant world order. But unlike Africans, other people have a well-established and organized structure through which they can defend themselves and preserve their lives. Then this fight becomes crucial for Africans because of a generalized state of weakness and disorganization of Africans across the world which demands extra efforts, because the future of Africa is disastrous without a radical change today: the change of mentalities, political, economic and geostrategic approach to Africa; Let’s see why this is important.
Why Africa is relevant today?
First, it is now a common belief that the future of the world will be determined in Africa. One must ask why Africa is a determining factor for the future of the world, and the answer is also known to all: Africa’s resources are essential for anyone who wants to take a dominant position in the world. This is a reminder of the fact that Africa only matters for its resources, and without them, Africa will disappear from the world map. Don’t get confused on this, Africa matters today, not because of some spiritual fantasies or mysterious tales, it’s for the resources currently contained in its soil, otherwise nothing else matters, including Africans themselves.
Now we know that natural resources can be exploited and depleted, which implies that sooner or later Africa will deplete its resources. And the question is, will Africa still matter to the world when that time comes? The other question is, how far are we from seeing Africa emptied of its natural resources?
Currently, there are signs of exhaustion all over Africa. Not so long ago, a poisonous gas used in informal gold mining killed at least 17 people in the town of Boksburg in South Africa. These informal miners commonly referred to as Zama-Zama, have gone down a dangerous path, for survival reasons, as they go after the crumbs in the holes left in the earth by AngloGold and others in their wakes of depleting the gold of Azania. A little further up in Central Africa, precisely in the Congo, it only takes an hour spent at the Kasumbalesa border in the Katanga province to get all the dizziness of the world, as tons and tons of minerals loaded onto trucks leave the country to the port of Dares Salam to be shipped abroad. This exploitation leaves behind environmental degradation, poverty and a land depleted of mineral resources that once leveraged local communities and the nation as a whole. We shouldn’t wait long to start seeing new young high school graduates leaving towns in droves, due to lack of resources and jobs, to migrate to other parts of the world in search of green pastures.
Eventually, this situation will generalize to the whole of Africa, where every day more and more resources leave the continent, leaving the black continent stripped of its resources, hence its relevance. And yet, we have been reminded that overpopulation is one of the challenges of the near future, which means that resources are diminishing as the population increases. Generally, the West uses the term overpopulation when it means African population. Few European leaders have taken the courage to come forward openly and say that their wish (if not their intention) is to see an African population in decline: Nicola Sarkozy and Emmanuel Macron are among those who have a problem with African demography. Indeed, each of us must reflect on what the West, the Arabs, the Chinese, etc. will do with Africa when its resources are exhausted. If Africans everywhere are looked down upon and treated with negative prejudice when Africa matters, what will happen to Africans when Africa stops mattering? Many of us today pray day and night for God to grant them a visa for Europe or a green card for America, others cross the Mediterranean together with their children to reach Europe. Essentially, this is happening while Africa is still rich in mineral resources, it is both difficult and easy to imagine the future of an African in the world when Ghana and South Africa run out of gold, Congo’s Colten and Nigeria’s oil run out, etc. Just as abortion becomes rational today, eliminating a portion of the black population will be a viable act to save the world by striking a balance between available resources and the number of people alive. And the weakest and most disorganized groups among the living will be the first to face extinction, which is why Africans must prepare now and ensure their survival beyond the 21st century. Especially now with the scientific breakthrough, you don’t always need AK47s or a drone assassination campaign to wipe out a specific people, diseases and AI can do the job cheaply.
Survival beyond mineral resources
The process of solving any problem in life and in society is to ask questions and try to answer them. And one of the questions we can ask ourselves is, what kind of world can calmly welcome the African child whose land has become impoverished? I guess the answer is, it’s only a world that the African child has built for himself that can accommodate him/her peacefully. Because being an eternal servant is the only function justly deserved by an African living in a world created and controlled by other peoples, thus, building an African world for African children is a current requirement imposed on every African, at home and abroad. Essentially, this new African world must be built on new foundations; it is not possible on the current neo-colonial base laid by the oppressors at the Berlin Conference, which dominates Africa right trough from Addis Ababa. It requires a different education system that produces a different mindset, with which we can form different organizations to pursue a different course of action. For example, when considering economic development, the new education should be able to produce new thinking that focuses on the economy of knowledge rather than the economy of selling the raw materials. The current plunder of Africa’s resources is fuelled by rulers whose main objective is to seize power and sell the country’s natural resources in exchange for dollars they can spend, and if there is no resources, they will end up selling their people like some have done in the past for money.
In conclusion, it can be said that the world is turning to productivity, knowledge production, control of space and artificial intelligence as a means of gaining economic power and dominance. Africa is not exempt from this obligation, whether we like it or not, we must delve into these tools of the moment, because avoiding them can only expose Africa to the negative influence of those who invest in them. But the right way for Africans to start is, as Kwame Ture said, to organize; organization, organization and organization is the only formula we have left. If you are conscious of Africa, you should be part of an organization that works to guaranty the survival of the black race and the entire human family at large, otherwise your awareness is void of substance.
Should you wish to be part of an active organisation that works to achieve this objective, we invite you to join us in the African Continental Unity Party (ACUP)