Again, let me emphasize on one important point. The point is simply when the African countries were decolonized they did not have independence neither were they emancipated. Each country was not a nation. The nationhood must be constructed by a program of positive action to build unitary states by integrating the various ethnic groups into one nationhood. The tribal affinity and the ethnic affinity must be reworked into national affinity.
This point was also emphasized by Nkrumah, Diop and Lumumba. This lack of any meaningful nationhood has become important fault lines in African countries. Deep seated examples are Nigeria, Kenya,New Republic of Congo, Ghana and many others. Ghana under President Kwame Nkrumah solved the Ghana's problem by integrating ethenic parts and conditions of Islamic, Christian and the traditional ones.
The lack of nationhood and the existence of these fault lines are being exploited by international power blocks and imperial incumbents for resource exploitation and the maintenance of the imperial predatory system. It has nothing to do with democracy. Similarly, the domestic political and intellectual Askari, sometimes in collaboration with their imperial masters, use the same fault lines for political gains and pocket enrichments.
What problem do you think force can solve? The only way force may be contemplated is the creation of the political union of Africa or West Africa or others.
Democracy is not an ultimate gift of the Creator. Democracy requires the building and casting of democratic institutions to code it into the culture as a DNA. The notion of the use of force to kill people in other to bring democracy is a demonstration of craziness. How can one bring democracy to the dead? Killing is irreversible process that solves no problem but create more killings. This is the American model for Iraq. This model should not be used in any where in AFRICA. The responsibility of the wise is to save the living, the lives of the Africans but not to destroy them. This requires patience and wisdom.
My position to resolve the problem is simply through diplomacy.
KOFI KISSI DOMPERE.
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:39 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Mills Goofed On Cote d'Ivoire
Cheers
Kwasi
(Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng, Journalist & Communications Consultant)
Programme Coordinator, Cultural Initiatives Support Programme
Du Bois Centre, PMB CT 219, Cantonments, Accra
Tel: +233 21 770677
Please copy OFFICIAL correspondence to kgapenteng@cispghana.org
ALSO
President, Ghana Association of Writers
PAWA House, Accra
From: kdompere@Howard.edu
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:47:25 -0500
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Mills Goofed On Cote d'Ivoire
DEAR ALL
I have tried to refrain from this discussions but a lack of clarity of African modern difficulties has forced me to add my voice.
The Ghana President John Mills has wisdom. He understands the nature of war. History of terror that was brought to Ghana by the Western imperial predators with all attempts to remove Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah just for his position to serve the African masses and to create the Continental African government to protect her people and resource. The removal of Kwame Nkrumah by force set Ghana and African progress many year backward. The people that are advocating force in Cote d'Ivoire are ill informed about the modern history of Africa and the manipulations of the incumbents. Part of Ivoirians are Akans, part of the people in the North Cote d'Ivoire share tribal affinities with the Northern Ghana. It is diplomatic stupidity for Ghana to support force. Serra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire just came out of wars. The political instabilities in Guinea, Chad are present. Nobody knows what will happen to the elections in Cameroon. The violent problems in the New Republic of the Congo still faces Africans. West Africa was and is still in social instability in trying to help our displaced brothers and sisters that were victims of stupid wars. When will these claimed African intellectual learn a sense of global history, propaganda, and the modus operandi of the predators. Why do you think the imperial incumbents complain about China in Africa. Here, may I refer to my discussions on the modus operandi of the predators in AFRICAN UNION (Chapter 6) www.adonis-abbey.com
The diagram below shows how the international system is setup for resource exploitation and predation. The process has nothing to do with DEMOCRATIC COLLECTIVE DECISION-CHOICE SYSTEM. An example is what happened to the Palestinians in the Gaza. The case of Venezuela is a classic example. The IMF, The WORLD BANK, The WTO, The World Court (ICC) are powerful instruments to maintain the Western imperial system of terror, exploitation and predation. Take a look at this diagram and let us relate it to conflicts in AFRICA.
To the imperial predators, the African Organization and the set of Regional organizations are assets to be used to support their imperial incumbency. They have succeeded in turning these African organization into useless peacekeeping entities. First, they set the fire and increase the flames then call on the African organizations to go and put the fire out under some dubious name of peacekeeping. While the flame is being put out, they plan for another one and so the system of terror proceeds on the African continent. When one fire is about to be put out, they quickly activate the terror machine under the name of democracy as Fela call it the demonstration of craziness. In this way the imperial predator have succeeded in turning the African Organizations into fire brigades. Instead of these organizations planning to unite the continent to protect African people and resource, they have become useful idiots at the disposal of the imperial system of exploitation and terror of Africa and her children.
At this point in African history the fear and predictions of Nkrumah and Diop have been realized in that Africa is not only Balkanized but South-Americanized where Africa would be made up of a proliferation of litter dictator-ridden countries without organic ties one to another, ephemeral, afflicted with chronic weakness, governed by terror with the help of outsized police forces, but under economic domination by foreign countries, pulling strings through the mere presence of an embassy. As Nkrumah points out If we do not formulate plans for unity and take active steps to form political union, we will soon be fighting and warring among ourselves with imperialists and colonialists standing behind the screen and pulling vicious wires, to make us cut each other's throats for the sake of their diabolical purposes in Africa. This is what is taking place in Cote d'Ivoire, Sudan New Republic of the Congo. This happened in Angola, Zimbabwe and others. This has happened many times in South and Central America. This will soon happen in Nigeria and Ghana.
It is the understanding of these historic circumstances and their lack of relationship to any meaningful form of democracy that have guided and instructed President Mills to say no to FORCE. In fact, I am surprised that Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng, Journalist & Communications Consultant ,who should be aware of the imperialist modus operandi, will take the position of force.
Power to Mills!!!, Long live African resistance to the imperialist terror and diabolical purposes!!!.
KOFI KISSI DOMPERE.
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Abdul Karim Bangura
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 10:42 PM
To: leonenet@lists.umbc.edu; USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Mills Goofed On Cote d'Ivoire
As I reminded President John Evans Atta Mills in my letter to him, during his 1999 State of the Nation Address, he stated: "...Also, we will honour all our legitimate treaty obligations with the Commonwealth, the United Nations, and other international organizations." His refusal to contribute troops to the ECOWAS military initiative betrays his pronouncement. As I added, this issue will be raised during his reelection bid and other endeavors.Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 10:42 PM
To: leonenet@lists.umbc.edu; USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - President Mills Goofed On Cote d'Ivoire
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