March 03 2024 | State Media In the recent times, one of the most regular topical issues of discourse around the world, but with particular...
March 03 2024 | State Media
In the recent times, one of the most regular topical issues of discourse around the world, but with particular reference to Africa, is DECOLONIZATION, which simply means "to free from the dominating influence of a colonizing Power".
In discussing the imperatives and expediency of decolonization, it may be compelling to highlight some of the devastating effects of colonization, which warrant and necessitate the urgent need for decolonization.
First, colonization "shared/divided" Africa as a piece of bread/cake in Berlin in 1884/1885, creating boundaries that deliberately or inadvertently tore apart homogenous peoples, and merged them with heterogenous ones, the effect of which remains the fratricidal wars that are very incessant in many African countries and communities, up to the present moment.
Again, in creating the so-called countries in Africa, the colonists carefully and systematically schemed into the foundations of those countries a mechanism of unending conflicts, by forcibly fusing or merging incompatible nations, thereby keeping them in an open jungle or cage, called countries.
This mechanism highly facilitates, enhances, and sustains the European agelong strategy called DIVIDE AND RULE.
Thirdly, the predatory and parasitic dependence of the colonial powers on their colonies, for which they skilfully and brutally impose puppets or stooges upon the so-called countries that they created, for their selfish economic interest, deserves consideration.
Now, one of the major compelling needs for decolonization is the extrication of the countries trapped in the web of colonial manipulations, for the establishment of genuine independence.
It does not need to be overemphasized that with decolonization will come genuine reconciliation among various nationalities and communities that have hitherto been at war, thereby bringing to an abrupt end the incitement that sustains the distraction by the colonialists, whereby they mercilessly plunder their hosts without mitigation.
It is only by decolonization that genuine discussions can be initiated for the reintegration of communities and nationalities torn apart by the partitioning of 1884/1885, which has fostered the cruel strategy of balkanization and divisionism.
Does anybody need to be told that with decolonization, the community synergy that can be deployed for genuine, empathetic visionary, and goal-driven leadership can be engendered, nurtured, and sustained, the result of which will be the triggering of genuine development that will not only foster competitiveness, but will equally establish the foundational platform for durable socio-political and economic structures, which will ultimately confer and retain human dignity on the African man?
Written by:
Mazi Mmadụ Awuchukwu
For: Biafra State Media
Edited by:
Obiageli Mboma
For: Biafra State Media
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: Biafra State Media
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