Look at this tweet:
“Africa has failed. Should be fully recolonised and used as a giant Australia-style deportation destination.”
Has Africa failed? Probably, yes. Should it be recolonized and used as an Australian-style settler colony, or worse, dumping ground? Eh? Should it?
Consider this other tweet, speaking about one possible outcome of the trouble in Ethiopia:
“It would end up being divided between Turkey Israel and Iran with Israel moving into a syncretism with Islam that is natural to it (Islam is a variety of Judaism)….”
This tweet is part of a conversation that concludes “Africa is full of dumb people who like fighting”. Imagine that!
The fact of the matter is that since the second world war, Africa has enjoyed a prolonged period of time in which it has been free of “direct” colonisation by anybody – probably because of the so-called Pax Americana. There are many reasons to believe that this is coming to an end. Soon, Africa might be facing way more than just indirect neo-colonialism. If I may be so bold as to make a prediction: the old colonial powers, and maybe even some new ones will be back (to Africa) before the year 2050. From the above tweets you can tell that some are already thinking along those lines.
And what is Africa doing about it? You know what immediately popped into my mind when I typed that? “Don’t say Africa, name the country!” There is, of course, nothing like a collective African will, it is every African country for itself. And probably all are failed countries, in my view. This is to mean that “Africa” is doing absolutely nothing about what’s coming. Instead of lamenting our 400 years of humiliation (think Chinese century of humiliation), we are leaving the door open to more humiliation, shame, and slavery.
Worse, we are led by an elite that is blinded by greed and their proximity to power and who are knowingly or unknowingly doing the very things that make it easy for us to be taken advantage of again. One might even say that our elites are facilitating and have always facilitated our recolonisation.
What can be done about this?
