121 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

In recent years as an African of American birth, never knowing intimately my Motherland it was a long time desire to travel to Her bosom. Now, that dream has waned, bogged down in the reality that Africa is in chaos. Africa is in chaos socially, culturally, economically and politically. Most of it’s leaders are autocratic, corrupt and incompetent. In what country can I travel and feel safe? In what country can I drink the water and eat the food without fear of poisoning? In what country does not the electricity and internet intermittent and mostly nil? Indigenous African religion has become a pale replica of what it once was, succumbing to western mega church greed and pay-as-you-go falseness and phoniness. I can get all this and more staying in America yet I hear African-born natives and Black nationalists in the diaspora ‘blame the white man’ for Black mismanagement of governments, ‘blame the white man’ for colonialism, ;blame the white man’ for lack of industrialization, etc., etc., etc. Naw! Africa has to stand up on it’s own, fix its own problems…but right now it can’t get out its own way. Africa is dying and a new scramble is underway from China, Japan, India, and once again Europe (they never left anyway) Why go to Africa? A romantic notion Black folks have been fed will flush down the hard truth toilet bowl. The mythological Africa dreamt up by the John Henrik Clarkes, the Yosef Bens, ‘feel good’ lectures can’t answer nor retort the cabal of what’s going on in Africa today. A land of plenty, enough to feed the world yet laying in abject despair and desolation.