In principle, it is up to Africans to promote their essence and generate admiration from the world outside the continent. As it stands, the views about Africa and African people are those generated by outsiders who know next to nothing about the continent and its people but only motivated by exploitative greed to twist reality. This trend encouraged slavery and remains the fountain of negative mindsets that undermine human relations, as reflected by supremacist ideologies professed in western Europe and Americas.

It is obvious that Africans failed themselves in accepting the colonial perspective and submitted to being conditioned to rejecting their natural beauty, strength, and wisdom, and adopting colonial values to define social trends. For instance, the African female trims off her graceful curves, abuses her skin by applying chemical toners and wears straight hair in apparent denial of her natural endowments. A wig of blond straight hair should not be a fashionable trend among people of African descent, most especially in tropical Africa, the original home of the black race, since Halloween has no valuable reference in Africa

Understandably, women of African descent who emerged from slavery had looked up to Caucasian social values and accepted them as the approach to perfection in a system that rubbished African characteristics, from the graceful dark skin and woolly hair to her creative intellect which the system either exploited or stole by colonial manipulation. The impact has rendered African governments reluctant in questioning the motives of former colonial authorities, since none achieved the envisaged economic emancipation, given the mindset that presumes benevolence on the part of these authorities. This is the core of the relationship between African nations, other third-world counterparts, and their former colonial rulers. Only China has truly freed herself from this trap of colonial indoctrination promoted by the gang-up constituted by the western alliance and which remains the underlying factor in shaping relations at the United Nations, given the biased considerations in allocating veto privileges and security Council membership, as regards the so-called third world, i.e., the Afro-Asian block. This block has no say in world affairs because constituted authority holds on to apparent privilege posted in the operating Democracy by the Powerful for the Powerful, which subjects global equity to ridicule in the abuses proliferated in world affairs.

A continent that sacrificed her values faces insignificance in a voided posterity and apparent subjection to corrupting influences posted by unfriendly alien cultures, and therefore, losing the hope of sustaining her essence. Her religious cultures have succumbed Christianity and Islam, none of which is native to the continent. In the same manner, Africa’s traditions have been subjected to lewd interpretations by the foreign philosophy which seeks to devalue the African context, despite the realistic links to nature’s physical and spiritual ambience. The status quo has reduced the African to an avid consumer of external products and constrained Africa’s currencies to persistent devaluations in the ensued struggle to pay up importation costs.

African leaders play up to western democracies for recognition when priorities should favour self-sufficiency in the basic needs at home. They clean out national coffers and take the proceeds to safe western financial havens, from which African nations borrow to sustain the harrowing indebtedness that perpetually keeps the continent on her knees. In the home front, respective polities are plagued by undying ethno-religious sentiments which undermine governance and political leadership; a fact, widely known, but exploited to retain political power rather than strengthen nation objectives. In truth therefore, African nations, such as Nigeria exist only on paper and sustain relevance for selfish politicians. This explains the regrettable lag in the nation’s achievable development. She is a toddler at sixty and has nothing but lost opportunities to celebrate; it cannot be said she is fortunate, but still I am her citizen and must pray for negative sentiments to fade out of recognition.

Africa is awake to her destiny in the new dawn and will take her place in global affairs as a united continental sovereignty projecting the African voice; no longer the mini polities manipulated to ridicule her essence. This prospect threatens global power structure, which reacts by deploying machinations designed to undermine the prospect, knowing that African unity stands to cut off further access to easy wealth. A united Africa will have a permanent seat at the United Nations security Council, backed by her enormous economic and human capital; only then will the Black and Brown of the world earn the deserved acknowledgement at top levels. The global continents each deserves a permanent seat in that arena, and It is only a matter of time, therefore, my motivation for writing. I expect to share these views and impact well-meaning Africans and people of African descent, propagating African Renaissance and its true meaning. Having gone this far, I urge to visit our website, dektacc.com and access the books on display: 

1.) Social Dilemma in Nigeria. An account of the development profile of a young rural kid as affected by the nations socio-political orientation of his time; and,

2.) Designs of Human Nature. A collection of articles which reflect Nigeria’s state of the nation and the applicable solutions to the challenges of nation building. They all make interesting even for the neutral observer.

Thanks for looking in.

Eta Agbro.