Dear Afrikans, Western and Eastern ideas won’t save us, Only ours will!

It is sad that Black people (Afrikan globally) have lost so much faith in themselves and ideas that they believe that only the foreign ideas can save Africa. This particular thought pattern has kept Africa and black community in diaspora behind and blinded for centuries.

How do you expect people who killed your ancestors and stole
your resources to ever want the best for you? How do you expect people who
still cause death, starvation, and poverty in your countries to want the best
for you? It can’t happen. It won’t happen.

If Africa must rise from the ashes, we must reduce the
influence the West has on our politics, governance, social and cultural
ideologies. We must reduce their advice, and most times, blackmail, when it
comes to issues between our various tribes. This is important because Africa’s
politics and policies are often subjected to our various tribes and ethnic
nationalities.

The problem with Nigeria today is the problem of the tribe.
Every tribe wants to sit on the throne. And when they do, they want to fill all
the positions with their tribe’s men and then subjugate other tribes, with the
help of the British or other foreign advisors and leaches.

But if African tribes reduced their dependency on the West
to solve their differences, we would be a better continent, with every ethnic
nationality respecting the other.

There are various aspects of human life where European and
American ideals can’t be imported by Africans. Some of these aspects which have
hurt Africa so bad in the past and present are politics (Democracy), religion
and civil relations, among others. Below we will have discussions on these
aspects and propose how best to save Africa from the brink of total anarchy.

POLITICS:

The idea that democracy is the “right and perfect” system of
government for Africans is wrong. From our experience the last 100years, it is
a fact that democracy has failed Africa. And this is sole because of how
Europeans demarcated the various borders of various African nations, and how
they merged tribes into countries, without negotiations and agreements between
the tribes concerned. So no matter how beautiful democracy is for the
Europeans, it will never work in Africa as the nations are currently
constituted.

When one looks at Europe, it is clear that most of the
nations there has a single ethnic nationality. Ireland is for just the Irish.
England solely belongs to the English. Scotland is country to the scots. This
is what you will find all over Europe, except for little exceptions. But in
Africa, you will find a great number of tribes bundled together as one nation.
So how will a system of government that works for a mono-tribal nation be the only
option for a multi-ethnic African nation?

Therein lies the stupidity of the African educated elite.
Their education has not offered them wisdom to understand that Africa as
presently demarcated needs a different system of government. The Chinese have a
system of government that works for them. The Saudis have a system of
government that works for them. And these nations are world powers in their own
rights.

We don’t see America and the British trying to force their
imperfect democracy down the throats of these Asians and Arabs. But daily
Europe and America are dictating to African nations what system of government
will suit Africa best.

But many of us see through their lies, deceit, blackmail and
imperfect systems. All they want is for Africa to continue to be dependent on
them so that they, in turn, will continue to milk us dry for their unending
services.

Africa’s system of governance should be unique and should be agreed upon by the various ethnic nationalities that make up every nation. African elites and leaders must reduce how much influence their diplomatic ties with European governments have on their decision making. We are Africans, and we should coordinate our nations and governance in an African way.

RELIGION:

We are bold enough to say that “If European and Arab
religions didn’t enter Africa, Black people would have a different and better
understanding of life and how to solve their issues.”

Today in Africa, we have millions of people who pray to and
wait on the European gods or the “white God and White Jesus” to save them. They
pray to the Gods of their oppressors to come to their rescue.

Africans, for thousands of years, solved their spiritual and
personal problems with their own form of religion. But even at that, not every
issue was a spiritual one. Some problems were solved through other means. But
today, we have Africans who see prayers to the European Gods and deities as the
only way to solve certain issues.

Africans have been so brainwashed that we even pray to
European and Arab Gods to come to fix our social amenities. Politicians who
should do better are bold enough to call on these deities in front of the
people when issues of incompetence arise.

Every day we keep seeing new churches spring up in different
corners of Africa. Every day they shout and call on the European Gods and
deities. But nothing changes. More people are hungry. More people are in
poverty. More and younger Africans are losing hope about their future.

If praying to European deities was enough to solve Africa’s
issues, then the millions of prayers and supplications for the last 100 years
should have made Africa a paradise. This is the sad situation we have found
ourselves in Africa, and what is most painful is that African pastors are
feeding on the gullibility of the masses to paint a false picture about an
“all-knowing and all-saving European God.”

Africa must move away from the lies the Europeans brought
about their God. Africa’s problems should be solved through African ways. The
Caucasian man and his gods can never solve Africa’s issues. Instead, they will
and have added to our woes as a people. The day Africa abandons the European’s
religion, that day, Africa will wake up from its long slumber.

CONCLUSION:

No foreign idea or principle can solve Africa’s issues. We
are a great and ancient people, and only our ways of doing things can help us
in these trying times. Let our political, religious, educational and social
elites pay more attention to the ancient principles and wisdom of our people.
Only Africa can save Africa.