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THE
ONLY SAVIOR FOR AFRICA
LIBERATE
AFRICAN MIND
| Dr. Umez is the Coordinator of LIBERATING AFRICAN MIND, LAM: BELIEF AND THE FUTURE OF AFRICA. Author of: "Nigeria: Real Problems, Real Solutions," |
| DISCLAIMER: Dr. Umez is not a member of AFRICABIZ editorial board. This is a featured article published by AFRICABIZ on behalf of the author - January 15, 2000 -.Views and opinions expressed are Dr. Umez's. |
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| We,
the members of the LAM, Liberating the African Minds, firmly believe that the
future of Africa lies completely with the liberated and enlightened African minds.
That is, for Africa to record meaningful growth and development like other continents,
her affairs MUST be run by those Africans who have risen above and beyond the
following related fundamental enemies of Africa, namely, inferiority complex,
colonial mentality and mental slavery. Only those enlightened Africans understand,
beyond any shadow of doubts, how these three enemies of destruction constitute
the super destroyers of the present day Africa. |
| THE CORE PROBLEM IN AFRICA |
There are concrete evidences pointing to the fact that inferiority complex, colonial
mentality and mental slavery constitute the core problems of development in Africa.
They have completely destroyed and poisoned the minds, the souls and the thought
processes of over 90% of African leaders and elites to the point that the only
thing making sense to them is a total destruction of their own people. Below are
the evidences:
One indisputable evidence is the shameless and mindless
robbery of the struggling African people on a daily basis just to invest in foreign
countries (even though those countries consider our people worthless, and in some
instance, the "most corrupt" species in human race). Consider, for instance, the
Abachas of Nigeria, continuing their atrocious robbery of Nigerian people as we
write. Consider the Mobutus of Congo, continuing the wicked loot in that country.
Another indisputable evidence (of how inferiority complex, colonial
mentality and mental slavery constitute the core problems of development in Africa)
is the use of the meager resources in Africa by most African leaders to buy weapons
abroad simply to kill their own people. Consider the Ethiopian/Eritrean conflicts.
Consider the Hutus/Tutsis's conflict in Burundi. Consider the conflicts between
the governments and rebels in Sierra Leone and Congo. The list is shamefully very
long.
1. To these African leaders, the starvation of African children, African youths,
African civil servants and the masses [due to their "screwed" mental construct
that African money is better productive in foreign banks] is normal. |
| MIND IS EVERYTHING |
Fellow Africans, this mindset of well over 90% of African leaders and elites does
not define leadership; it defines total self-destruction. PERIOD!
We
understand very clearly that the mind is EVERYTHING. Specifically, we know quite
well that if "A" can control "B's" mind, "A" automatically controls "B's" money,
his wife, his children and every other thing that belongs to "B." We understand
that the minds of well over 90% of African leaders have been tragically hijacked
by inferiority complex, colonial mentality and mental slavery to the point that
they have sold their birthrights to foreigners. This understanding [that the mind
is EVERYTHING and that the minds of most African leaders are in foreign banks]
goes far beyond nominal academic degrees, certificates, and bogus titles (that
are often paraded by most African leaders and elites whose definition and understanding
of the word, leadership, stops at titles). Only the enlightened minds understand
the scheme of things in this human race and therefore act and react accordingly
in every situation.
| AFRICA IS SUFFERING IN THE HANDS OF LEADERS WITHOUT SHAME |
Fellow Africans, Africa is sick and tired of being ruled mostly by narrow minded,
egotistical, selfish and twisted brains who find it only fashionable to rob their
own brothers and sisters with impunity, with pride and WITHOUT mercy, only to
feed Swiss people and other foreigners (through their investments in those countries).
Africa is sick and tired of being ruled mostly by those who are so PROUD
and shameless to have foreign bank accounts when they know QUITE WELL that the
leaders and elites of those countries [where they heap African money] have no
penny in African banks, and probably never will.
Africa is sick and
tired of being ruled mostly by leaders who DO NOT know the importance of education.
Africa is sick and tired of being ruled by over 90% of her leaders whose
priority in life is conspicuous lavish lifestyle [tragically rooted in the mentality
that "my gold bathtub has more gold than yours," or "my Mercedes is bigger than
yours"] when hunger and malnutrition are claiming, without mercy, so many innocent
lives in Africa, when African hospitals are abandoned, schools closed for months,
roads filled with endless pits, graduates jobless, and armed robbery rampant.
| SOMETHING IS WRONG! YOU SHOULD KNOW! |
Fellow Africans, something is definitely wrong with a leader (or any man) who
hates himself and his people only to love outsiders. Something is definitely wrong
with a leader (or any man) who is totally inferior to anything foreign. Something
is definitely wrong with a leader who is so comfortable in his "gold bathtubs,"
dozens of private cars (bought with the money he has embezzled) when his people
are dying daily of starvation, malnutrition and kwashiorkor (due to his demented
mentality of piling up his country's money in foreign countries). Something is
definitely wrong with a leader who is constantly subjecting his people, his country
and his continent to pure laughing stocks.
Our brothers and sisters,
something is definitely wrong with a leader (or any man) who simply refuses to
think! A leader without shame is as good as a dead body. A leader without pride
is completely empty and useless. It does not take a course in logic for one to
understand that the primary cause of our major problems today is that so many
dead brains are ruling us. To the extent that they refuse so doggedly and without
shame to think (of their bizarre behavior of starving their own blood only to
feed outsiders) underscores this point, loud and clear. Because those dead brains
refuse to think, such African countries as Nigeria, Ethiopia, Burundi, Uganda,
Congo, Sierra Leone, etc., will continue to decay, all things being equal. It
is this bizarre behavior of dog-eat-dog or better still, cannibalism that makes
so many people wonder whether all animals are [created] equal:
| ARE ALL ANIMALS EQUAL? YOU BE THE JUDGE! |
To better answer the above question from your honest hearts, simply close your
eyes for one minute. As you close your eyes, compare the mentalities and behaviors
of over 90% African leaders and elites with the mentalities and behaviors of the
leaders and elites of the West where those 90% plus African leaders and elites
bank the money they steal from Africa or where they buy weapons just to kill their
own, African people. After comparison, then answer the question: "Are all animals
really equal?" We believe that approaching this question from a comparative perspective
is very important because without sound comparison, the mind does not know how
to proceed, especially on such questions as why Mr. A is doing better than Mr.
B or why Swiss government is doing better than Nigerian government, for instance.
What then is the real answer?
| THE
ONLY PRACTICAL, LASTING SOLUTION!
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We firmly believe that TRUE education -- the common sense - is the only key to
the liberation of Africa. It is the only key to changing the mentalities of self-destruction,
self-abuse and self-hatred. It is the only key to eradicate, once and for all,
collective ignorance, inferiority complex, colonial mentality and mental slavery
among so many African leaders and elites. It is the only key to the African growth,
pure and simple. Africa is in dire need of that missing link, namely, the common
sense/true education.
Africa is bitterly crying (and has been crying,
as a matter of fact, since the times of slave trade and colonialism to this very
day) for REAL leaders, REAL elites, and REAL men (who will stop her from being
a laughing stock in the company and comity of other continents).
We
must get rid of the number one killer in Africa today, and that killer is the
mindset that charity [i.e., African money] should be banked in foreign banks and
not in Africa. If you are a true African; if you care for African people; if you
are ashamed of seeing some dying Africans on TV screens due to malnutrition, starvation,
inadequate health care, and senseless conflicts, please join the fight to stop
this wicked, wanton and senseless robbery of Africa by over 90% of her leaders
and elites, and this is how:
| 1.
If you are involved in this dog-eat-dog madness of looting Africa only to pile
up the loot in some foreign countries, please stop the nonsense (for your action
is nothing but an act of genocide). |
| FREQUENT
VISITS TO THE WEST BY AFRICAN LEADERS: THE TRAGIC TRUTH! |
Brothers and sisters, you know, as we do, that today so many African leaders frequently
visit the West either to "learn Western political system" or to "attract foreign
business/investments."
It is obvious that these frequent trips have
become the order of the day. But how can such trips attract any meaningful business
in Africa when in actuality such trips are mostly planned to siphon African money
from Africa to Western banks and/or to open more foreign bank accounts? Put differently,
how can our banks do well when most of our funds are heaped in foreign banks during
the so-called visits "to learn Western political systems?" How can our businesses
do well when the money they could have borrowed from our banks [for businesses]
are piled up in private foreign bank accounts during such fake visits "to attract
Western/foreign businesses?" And, of course, how can the overall economy grow
when most of our leaders and elites pile up billions of our money in foreign lands?
Indeed, there are so many Mobutus and Abachas [i.e., stealers of African money]
today in Africa; it is just a matter of how much money each and every one of them
has in foreign banks. Above all, how can such trips lead to African growth when
the "visitors" refuse to learn the only fact that makes the West strong, namely,
the prudent refusal of the Western leaders to have any penny in African banks.
Those destroyers of Africa, called leaders, must know that this senseless behavior
of robbing their own people to pay foreigners can never be learned from foreign
governments. In fact, foreign governments enjoy the money, and who would not?
Common sense, which is uncommon among so many African leaders, is the only teacher;
it is the only key for growth and development in Africa; nothing more, nothing
less!
| REAL ECONOMIC SUMMITS IN AFRICA: A MUST! |
We, therefore, continue to ask African leaders and elites, especially those leaders
and elites in Nigeria, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast,
Kenya, Congo, Uganda, etc., to hold, without delay FREQUENT economic summits in
their respective countries (instead of traveling abroad to "learn" other's political
systems) to not only articulate the destructive and deadly impacts of piling African
money in foreign banks, but to stop, in a collective sense and without further
delay, such mentalities of self-abuse, self-destruction and self-hatred. African
money must be invested in Africa; it is only common sense!
| CONCLUDING REMARKS AND REFLECTIONS |
Fellow Africans, we must get rid of this destructive mindset of so many African
leaders -- the mindset that "charity" should begin abroad -- in order for Africa
to grow like other continents. We must destroy inferiority complex, mental slavery
and colonial mentality. Frankly, there is no better choice; in fact, there is
no other choice.
Please join or form groups of mind-liberators or act
on your own individual initiative, to teach and reeducate over 90% of our leaders
and elites on how to be patriotic because if leaders do not lead well, followers
will not follow well. Specifically, we learn by examples. Often, we learn by examples
set by our parents. Similarly, we learn, quite often from the examples set by
our leaders and elders. We must let those leaders and elites who are destroying
Africa know that investing [in a collective sense] African resources in Africa,
as other leaders we call "developed" or "civilized" are doing in their own continents,
is the practical definition of the word, patriotism; it is the only way for Africa
to move forward and for Africa to be respected in this world.
Respect
is earned, and to earn respect, one must respect oneself. Those involved in the
destruction of Africa must know that investing African resources in Africa is
the only way for Africa to be respected; it is the only way to prove that "all
animals are equal," after all. Specifically, Swiss leaders, American leaders,
Japanese leaders, German leaders, French leaders, among others, do not have two
heads while the looters of Africa (called leaders) have only one. The fact of
the matter is that all leaders (and all of us, of course) have one head; the only
difference, as we have been saying, is that some leaders use their heads to think
positively to benefit themselves and their countries, others use theirs to think
negatively to rob and loot their own countries. Tufiakwa!
| HOW TO BECOME AN AFRICAN MIND-LIBERATOR |
To become an African mind-liberator, you must accept the fact that without a revolutionary
theory in Africa, there could be no revolution in Africa; you must dedicate yourself
to the liberation of Africa knowing quite well that the future of Africa lies
completely with the liberated African minds; you must accept the wisdom that great
men discuss ideas and therefore be willing to discuss ideas to move Africa forward;
you must not engage in name-calling and personal attacks for these kinds of behaviors
assure one thing, namely, destabilization and destruction of Africa; you must
accept the truth that Africans are one and therefore should be willing and able
to resolve whatever differences created by artificially drawn boundaries by the
colonizers (whose primary objective was their own selfish, commercial interest);
you must be willing to discuss issues politely, professionally, civilly, friendly
for these are the only ways for progress and development in Africa; you must accept
the fact that with integrity, leadership, vision and imagination, the future of
Africa knows no bound; and you must not be a part of the "leadership" and "elite"
that is currently robbing Africa only to deposit the loot in foreign countries.
| OUR THANKS |
Thanks for sharing our beliefs and thoughts, and for spreading the word about
new thoughts and ideas of moving Africa forward. We ask God to bless you for condemning
evil [mostly brought in Africa by most of her leaders and elites who DO NOT know
shame]. We thank you for sharing the belief that the only way to overcome evil
is to do good. We also thank you in advance for being a part and parcel of the
African mind-liberators. We ask God to bless you for not being jealous of your
fellow Africans, for loving your fellow Africans, and for loving yourself!
For Africa to grow, her leaders and elites must believe that Africa matters,
hence, our motto/theory: Liberated African minds are the future of Africa.

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