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A Confuse African: Countrymen
by SayWho Camara
A Confuse African: Countrymen
I am an African with a western education. Meaning I have heard both sides of the story about my people. I am more confuse today as a college graduate than I was before I could read or write. The history books in Africa taught me that white people captured and enslave my ancestors. On the contrary the history books in the land of the White Man taught me that my ancestors betrayed one another and sold their own into slavery. My point is, no matter who was captured or sold into slavery, does this make it right or any less wrong? I was going to RANT about my disdain regarding slavery and the injustice dished out to my people, until I had a reality check.
I am from the smallest and one of the poorest countries in the world and home to the most famous slave, in Kunta Kinteh.. Sitting here today in my centralized air-conditioned apartment, the same land my ancestors came to as slaves. I attempted to fool my conscience to find someone to blame for all of Africa's troubles but my morals will not let me, then the lights went up in my head.
Why am I in AMERICA? Why are my countrymen risking their lives by getting on canoes/boats trying to sail their way across the Atlantic Ocean into Europe? Why were my countrymen (in the early 90s) hiding in cargo ships in trying to smuggle, dodge ships, into Europe and many ended up dying? Why is it that almost every African in Africa today is either trying to travel to the Western World or have already been to the Western World?...The story is no longer about who did what to us but rather what we are doing to ourselves.
One thing the history books have in common is that my ancestors did everything within their power to avoid the journey across the Atlantic. Some of them took their own lives, committing suicides by jumping off the Slave Masters ships into bottom less oceans. They fought their captors with every might they had. Today, my generation is willing to sacrifice almost anything to escape the horrors of the place we call HOME just to become second-class citizens in the West. What are we running away from? Pan African leaders are preaching Pan-Africanism while their children are all western citizens. We have convinced ourselves with lies that Mama Africa is beautiful, yet many of us will leave for the ugliest western country in a heartbeat with no remorse. Who are we kidding?
Dont get me wrong; I am not blaming us for coming/wanting to come to the West. My Lord is my witness I am not faulting anyone. Who wouldnt? My high school economics class taught me that the first step towards solving problems is recognizing and defining the problems. Am not finger pointing, and nether am I suggesting a silver bullet solution. I am only looking at myself in the mirror and seeing our CONTINENT for what it is and nothing more.
For anyone to comprehend why are Africans deserting/abandoning the LAND we all claim to love so dearly we must first understand what we are running from.
Wars:
Western people called them conflicts; we are not even good enough for them to call our domestic massacres wars. But the truth of the matter is there are more than 9 million displaced refugees due to conflicts or whatsoever names we/they may chose to call them. And to be honest, I am not even sure if Africa experienced wars before, because even wars have rules. Soldiers fight wars and they protect the civilians. A soldier loves his family and protects his nation. Wars have treaties and conflict resolution mechanisms. Soldiers kill enemies only on the battlefield but do not prey on the innocent weak one's when they are defenseless. Wars claim casualties only during engagements. Wars are something Africans dont do. What Africa had been experiencing and still does is nothing but pure EVIL and CRUELTY. We took away books and pencils from the hands of our children and traded them for guns and bullets. We took them out of classrooms and force them into becoming child soldiers. We stole their innocence and turned them into killing machines. We rape our women and kill innocent children. But dont take my words for it; let me take you on a tour around the not so beautiful Africa.
The Liberian Cilvil War:
The first crime committed here is calling a war civil. I am officially changing the name to the Liberian Uncivil Cannibalism. Liberians committed one of the biggest crimes against their own citizens. I cant think of any form of devilish demon that can overcome a person or hypnotize him/her into drinking the bloods of their fellow human beings and eat their hearts and flesh raw. I am still haunted by those images. They do not only kill people but they also drank their blood and feasted on them. As a devoted Muslim I may not be able to give you any scientific prove that Allah exist outside of faith but I can proof to you without any reasonable doubt that there is a Devil and he existed in Liberian during those horrifying months and years. The Liberians says it best themselves, You killed my mother and father and i'll still vote for you. Voting for the same man who was responsible for the murdered of their love ones was the price they had to pay for peace and save their own lives. And ICC tried the man, Charles Taylor, responsible for these crimes for his involvement with the Sierra Leone un-civil war but not for his crimes against Liberia and its people. Is this a misunderstanding or what?...I really don't want to know the answer to that question.
Rwandan Genocides:
To look at your own countrymen in the eyes, claimed that they are not worthy of your bullets, instead they should face the most brutal form of killing. You take a machete and cut them into pieces just because their ID card read Tutsi instead of a Hutu is beyond human comprehension. And to have the audacity to conveniently convince yourself that you were not killing humans but rather cockroaches is sinful and satanic. 800,000 innocent men and women (including children) were massacred within 90 days just because they came from the wrong tribe. These killings were deliberate and executed with passion and hatred. This was the most senseless war in Africa's history, not saying that any of them ever makes sense, to me.
Cry Freetown:
Diamonds last forever but at what cost? More than 70% of Sierra Leone people have never seen a diamond in their life. Majority of the victims of Cry Freetown dont even know why they were killed or the worth of a Diamond. One of the worlds richest diamond was found in Salone but little did they know it was going to cost them their arms and legs, literary. They were not only killed but family members were made to watch these killings. They raped mothers and force their husbands and children to participate. They force children to kill their own siblings and parents. The killing and caricature of the victims was unimaginable but chopping of people limbs and allowing them to relive the horrors over and over again is overbearing. How can you reason with a rebel group who pledged to Operation no living Soul? I had promised myself that I wouldnt cry (watching Cry Freetown: the documentary) because I am no cry baby but I couldnt help but imagine having to choose to kill my Mum or be killed. No child deserves to go through such malicious experience and dilemma.
Sudan, Darfur:
In Sudan, the biggest oil well is station in a city call Unity State. Ironically, Unity States happen to be one of the poorest and divided states in Sudan. Funny right .? Wrong, it would have been funny if babies where not thrown into wildfires when their parents refused to evacuate the oil station areas. The entire Sudanese nation only keeps 2% of the oil revenue they sell to the world market, 98% of the revenue heads to China. I know the Chinese where not involved in colonizing or enslaving Africans but is this not equivalent/worst than modern day slavery/colonialism?... Dont blame them for this is a very common practice in third world countries endowed with natural resources. They dont even hire Sudanese to work on their own oil factories; they import workers from...yep you guess right, China. But they are getting killed and starve to death just because they happened to be born on the wrong land that has useful natural resources. Sometimes it makes me wonder if the lack of meaningful natural resource in the Gambia is a blessing after all. For only 2% of an Oil revenue, which less than 2% of the population enjoys they almost wipeout 98% of the (suppose to be) real benefactors. I dont know if this is Greed or just pure Evil.
Guinea Bissau Cope D'ates:
OK this one is a little bit funny but dont laugh too hard because innocent people are still dying nonetheless. This is the only country that never had a democratically elected president completed his/her presidential term since independence (1975). They are either killed or over thrown by imbeciles in Uniform who called them selves soldiers. Any fool who owns a gun and a couple of buddies thinks he can become a president. By the way this seem to be the case for many African countries. This country manifests the true ignorance and lack of democracy in the continent. You dont even have to be a citizen of that country to become a president. Just be a good killer or murderer and seek for funding for weapons from drug lords in exchange for pushing a few of their merchandise across the continent. The fact that they never had a president completed a presidential term alone says a lot. The Columbian Mafias and the Casamance MFDC determines presidential term limits in Guinea Bissau. The more cooperative you are the longer your term limit.
Democratic Republic of Congo:
I think this country should be called the Undemocratic Republic of Congo. 80% of the world resources used in the manufacturing of cell phones and other smart devices come from Congo. Because of these economic gains, Belgium, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and the Congolese them selves pledge to never allow peace in that land. Think of any form of precious stone you can imagine and you will find it in Congo. And the price for such wonderful blessing from mother nature is 5 million deaths and still counting. The sound of gunfire is music to their ears. The only constant source of employment is jumping from one rebel group to the most lucrative rebel group. One of the richest man in Africa and in the world, Jean-Pierre Bemba, was (and still may be) the leader of the most organize rebel group in Congo. A billionaire Congolese, out of all the great things he could have done for his people he choose from the goodness of his heart to fund a rebel group. And did you know that Congo experienced the deadliest war since World War II but it still manages to be the most silent and least talked about war? And the man responsible for many of those killings was later rewarded a vice-presidency position as a peace treaty between the rebel groups and the government. Was that another misunderstanding or....?
Greedy African Dictators:
Soldiers defend nations but African Soldiers for the most part choose to defend individuals. They defend individuals who treat their own people worst than the slave masters treated our ancestors. They own everything that belongs to their people, they take away their human dignity and often claim to be Holy men sent to rescue their people. They live above the law and they are the law. Dictators are worst than wars because they watched their people die slow deaths and they pretend like they are the best things that ever happen to mankind since potato chips. They often engage in self-aggrandizing and self-entitlement with gravy titles. They bestow upon themselves phony academic, military, and other noble accolades they can never achieve with their academic and professional integrity alone King of Kings, President for Life, The Redeemer, The Conqueror, The Seer, The Savior, The Teacher, The Man of you fill the rest. Their actions are not mistakes; they are very well calculated and deliberate. They preach democracy but silent any one who dares to defend the same democracy that they preach. Dare challenge them and sees the wrath of what they can do to you and yours. They handicap the structure of governance during their kingship thus making the post dictatorship even worst. African countries with dictator regimes can never win. If you let them rule they keep their people in bondage for eternity. If you challenge them they slaughter their entire population in the name of love for country. And if the peoples prayers are ever to be answered by the Gods of our ancestors and change happens for whatsoever reason, they leave their nations in chaos and total anarchy. Choose your poison or should I say lesser evil.
There are many other issues that may contribute to this self-exodus of Africans from Africa. Diseases, poverty, political low IQ, illiteracy, poor social conditions, economic reasons, but all of these issues can be over come in the wake of PEACE.
Before any wannabe Pan African jump all over me with their every country/continent have their own problems excuses, please hold up. I am not saying that the rest of the world is perfect. What I am saying is that there is a reason why Africa is the worst continent in the world and why its citizens continue to flee. And simply blaming everything on colonialism and slavery is a very easy way out. Most of our problems today are self-inflicted. Our continent is infested with crimes of demo-nation and humiliation. Killing and feasting on the flesh of our own kinds, chopping off the limbs of our own siblings, chopping our own children into pieces, witch hunting and jailing our "political enemies", and raping our own sisters are all self inflicted. Fixing it will become a collective responsibility by all people who benefited from Africa and its resources including the western world.
Speaking of the West. When are we Africans going to learn that the West is not going to save us? I mean as sad as we look when on TV begging for Western countries and the UN to come and rescue us is also pathetic. Like Bill Clinton said in 1994 during the Rwandan Genocide, The US will not send military aid to nations we dont have interest in. There has to be some sort of political gain on the side of the West and the UN for them to sacrifice their sons and daughters. But like I said earlier, I dont blame them, am not blaming anyone. I am only preaching the gospel to the choir. The best thing the West may offer us may be pressuring our leaders to convict our so-called war lords in some funny tribunal (name withheld to avoid personal sentiments).
The tribunals are trying but when it comes to saving human lives by preventing re-occurrence, trying is not enough, in my opinion. Convicting someone for being responsible for the killings of hundreds/thousands/millions of people either directly or indirectly sounds very noble. Putting them in a free housing, call it jail if you want, with free meals, free healthcare, free books to read, free gym to work out when they want is an extended vacation in my opinion. I mean this sound like a dream vacation except that it is paid for by the same people they victimize. Call me a Republican if you think I sound like one but there is something wrong with this picture. I am still not blaming/faulting anyone. However, I have a very strong feeling that if you gave that innocent baby from Liberia, the baby who had her heart ripped out of her chest and consumed by her murderers an option to go to the tribunal or endure the pain she experienced? I think she will choose the former. I may be wrong but I doubt it.
I know I have taken you all around the world and back and I may have even lost you a couple of times along the way. Now, back to my main point .why the self willing exodus? I cant tell you exactly why but I am guessing you now have an idea. It may be very easy to just chill under a baobab tree in Africa and call every African in the Diaspora a keyboard hero or a coward for leaving anytime they complain. Or to sit at a Starbucks in Madison Square surfing the internet and label every African back in Africa as a Coward for not standing up and defending the continent while you are an absentee. But the truth is we are all victims for the most part. Here is my verdict .If choosing to remain/staying in Africa helps you sleep well at night then sweet dreams my brother. If choosing to stay in the West helps you feed yourself and your family back home then may God bless you hustler. If choosing to go back home to contribute your two cents makes you feel patriotic then we all salute you sir. We can all do a thing or two more than we have done. But pointing fingers and wagering Holy Wars against each other will not cut it. You do your part and hope that everyone else does the same, if everyone did Great else shame on them.
And my final words: the idea of a United Africa sounds like a very nice fairytale, but lets focus on building united villages first, then United countries, and then may be Just may be a United Africa where the Hutu and non-Hutu can all live happily ever after.
by SayWho Camara
A Confuse African: Countrymen
I am an African with a western education. Meaning I have heard both sides of the story about my people. I am more confuse today as a college graduate than I was before I could read or write. The history books in Africa taught me that white people captured and enslave my ancestors. On the contrary the history books in the land of the White Man taught me that my ancestors betrayed one another and sold their own into slavery. My point is, no matter who was captured or sold into slavery, does this make it right or any less wrong? I was going to RANT about my disdain regarding slavery and the injustice dished out to my people, until I had a reality check.
I am from the smallest and one of the poorest countries in the world and home to the most famous slave, in Kunta Kinteh.. Sitting here today in my centralized air-conditioned apartment, the same land my ancestors came to as slaves. I attempted to fool my conscience to find someone to blame for all of Africa's troubles but my morals will not let me, then the lights went up in my head.
Why am I in AMERICA? Why are my countrymen risking their lives by getting on canoes/boats trying to sail their way across the Atlantic Ocean into Europe? Why were my countrymen (in the early 90s) hiding in cargo ships in trying to smuggle, dodge ships, into Europe and many ended up dying? Why is it that almost every African in Africa today is either trying to travel to the Western World or have already been to the Western World?...The story is no longer about who did what to us but rather what we are doing to ourselves.
One thing the history books have in common is that my ancestors did everything within their power to avoid the journey across the Atlantic. Some of them took their own lives, committing suicides by jumping off the Slave Masters ships into bottom less oceans. They fought their captors with every might they had. Today, my generation is willing to sacrifice almost anything to escape the horrors of the place we call HOME just to become second-class citizens in the West. What are we running away from? Pan African leaders are preaching Pan-Africanism while their children are all western citizens. We have convinced ourselves with lies that Mama Africa is beautiful, yet many of us will leave for the ugliest western country in a heartbeat with no remorse. Who are we kidding?
Dont get me wrong; I am not blaming us for coming/wanting to come to the West. My Lord is my witness I am not faulting anyone. Who wouldnt? My high school economics class taught me that the first step towards solving problems is recognizing and defining the problems. Am not finger pointing, and nether am I suggesting a silver bullet solution. I am only looking at myself in the mirror and seeing our CONTINENT for what it is and nothing more.
For anyone to comprehend why are Africans deserting/abandoning the LAND we all claim to love so dearly we must first understand what we are running from.
Wars:
Western people called them conflicts; we are not even good enough for them to call our domestic massacres wars. But the truth of the matter is there are more than 9 million displaced refugees due to conflicts or whatsoever names we/they may chose to call them. And to be honest, I am not even sure if Africa experienced wars before, because even wars have rules. Soldiers fight wars and they protect the civilians. A soldier loves his family and protects his nation. Wars have treaties and conflict resolution mechanisms. Soldiers kill enemies only on the battlefield but do not prey on the innocent weak one's when they are defenseless. Wars claim casualties only during engagements. Wars are something Africans dont do. What Africa had been experiencing and still does is nothing but pure EVIL and CRUELTY. We took away books and pencils from the hands of our children and traded them for guns and bullets. We took them out of classrooms and force them into becoming child soldiers. We stole their innocence and turned them into killing machines. We rape our women and kill innocent children. But dont take my words for it; let me take you on a tour around the not so beautiful Africa.
The Liberian Cilvil War:
The first crime committed here is calling a war civil. I am officially changing the name to the Liberian Uncivil Cannibalism. Liberians committed one of the biggest crimes against their own citizens. I cant think of any form of devilish demon that can overcome a person or hypnotize him/her into drinking the bloods of their fellow human beings and eat their hearts and flesh raw. I am still haunted by those images. They do not only kill people but they also drank their blood and feasted on them. As a devoted Muslim I may not be able to give you any scientific prove that Allah exist outside of faith but I can proof to you without any reasonable doubt that there is a Devil and he existed in Liberian during those horrifying months and years. The Liberians says it best themselves, You killed my mother and father and i'll still vote for you. Voting for the same man who was responsible for the murdered of their love ones was the price they had to pay for peace and save their own lives. And ICC tried the man, Charles Taylor, responsible for these crimes for his involvement with the Sierra Leone un-civil war but not for his crimes against Liberia and its people. Is this a misunderstanding or what?...I really don't want to know the answer to that question.
Rwandan Genocides:
To look at your own countrymen in the eyes, claimed that they are not worthy of your bullets, instead they should face the most brutal form of killing. You take a machete and cut them into pieces just because their ID card read Tutsi instead of a Hutu is beyond human comprehension. And to have the audacity to conveniently convince yourself that you were not killing humans but rather cockroaches is sinful and satanic. 800,000 innocent men and women (including children) were massacred within 90 days just because they came from the wrong tribe. These killings were deliberate and executed with passion and hatred. This was the most senseless war in Africa's history, not saying that any of them ever makes sense, to me.
Cry Freetown:
Diamonds last forever but at what cost? More than 70% of Sierra Leone people have never seen a diamond in their life. Majority of the victims of Cry Freetown dont even know why they were killed or the worth of a Diamond. One of the worlds richest diamond was found in Salone but little did they know it was going to cost them their arms and legs, literary. They were not only killed but family members were made to watch these killings. They raped mothers and force their husbands and children to participate. They force children to kill their own siblings and parents. The killing and caricature of the victims was unimaginable but chopping of people limbs and allowing them to relive the horrors over and over again is overbearing. How can you reason with a rebel group who pledged to Operation no living Soul? I had promised myself that I wouldnt cry (watching Cry Freetown: the documentary) because I am no cry baby but I couldnt help but imagine having to choose to kill my Mum or be killed. No child deserves to go through such malicious experience and dilemma.
Sudan, Darfur:
In Sudan, the biggest oil well is station in a city call Unity State. Ironically, Unity States happen to be one of the poorest and divided states in Sudan. Funny right .? Wrong, it would have been funny if babies where not thrown into wildfires when their parents refused to evacuate the oil station areas. The entire Sudanese nation only keeps 2% of the oil revenue they sell to the world market, 98% of the revenue heads to China. I know the Chinese where not involved in colonizing or enslaving Africans but is this not equivalent/worst than modern day slavery/colonialism?... Dont blame them for this is a very common practice in third world countries endowed with natural resources. They dont even hire Sudanese to work on their own oil factories; they import workers from...yep you guess right, China. But they are getting killed and starve to death just because they happened to be born on the wrong land that has useful natural resources. Sometimes it makes me wonder if the lack of meaningful natural resource in the Gambia is a blessing after all. For only 2% of an Oil revenue, which less than 2% of the population enjoys they almost wipeout 98% of the (suppose to be) real benefactors. I dont know if this is Greed or just pure Evil.
Guinea Bissau Cope D'ates:
OK this one is a little bit funny but dont laugh too hard because innocent people are still dying nonetheless. This is the only country that never had a democratically elected president completed his/her presidential term since independence (1975). They are either killed or over thrown by imbeciles in Uniform who called them selves soldiers. Any fool who owns a gun and a couple of buddies thinks he can become a president. By the way this seem to be the case for many African countries. This country manifests the true ignorance and lack of democracy in the continent. You dont even have to be a citizen of that country to become a president. Just be a good killer or murderer and seek for funding for weapons from drug lords in exchange for pushing a few of their merchandise across the continent. The fact that they never had a president completed a presidential term alone says a lot. The Columbian Mafias and the Casamance MFDC determines presidential term limits in Guinea Bissau. The more cooperative you are the longer your term limit.
Democratic Republic of Congo:
I think this country should be called the Undemocratic Republic of Congo. 80% of the world resources used in the manufacturing of cell phones and other smart devices come from Congo. Because of these economic gains, Belgium, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and the Congolese them selves pledge to never allow peace in that land. Think of any form of precious stone you can imagine and you will find it in Congo. And the price for such wonderful blessing from mother nature is 5 million deaths and still counting. The sound of gunfire is music to their ears. The only constant source of employment is jumping from one rebel group to the most lucrative rebel group. One of the richest man in Africa and in the world, Jean-Pierre Bemba, was (and still may be) the leader of the most organize rebel group in Congo. A billionaire Congolese, out of all the great things he could have done for his people he choose from the goodness of his heart to fund a rebel group. And did you know that Congo experienced the deadliest war since World War II but it still manages to be the most silent and least talked about war? And the man responsible for many of those killings was later rewarded a vice-presidency position as a peace treaty between the rebel groups and the government. Was that another misunderstanding or....?
Greedy African Dictators:
Soldiers defend nations but African Soldiers for the most part choose to defend individuals. They defend individuals who treat their own people worst than the slave masters treated our ancestors. They own everything that belongs to their people, they take away their human dignity and often claim to be Holy men sent to rescue their people. They live above the law and they are the law. Dictators are worst than wars because they watched their people die slow deaths and they pretend like they are the best things that ever happen to mankind since potato chips. They often engage in self-aggrandizing and self-entitlement with gravy titles. They bestow upon themselves phony academic, military, and other noble accolades they can never achieve with their academic and professional integrity alone King of Kings, President for Life, The Redeemer, The Conqueror, The Seer, The Savior, The Teacher, The Man of you fill the rest. Their actions are not mistakes; they are very well calculated and deliberate. They preach democracy but silent any one who dares to defend the same democracy that they preach. Dare challenge them and sees the wrath of what they can do to you and yours. They handicap the structure of governance during their kingship thus making the post dictatorship even worst. African countries with dictator regimes can never win. If you let them rule they keep their people in bondage for eternity. If you challenge them they slaughter their entire population in the name of love for country. And if the peoples prayers are ever to be answered by the Gods of our ancestors and change happens for whatsoever reason, they leave their nations in chaos and total anarchy. Choose your poison or should I say lesser evil.
There are many other issues that may contribute to this self-exodus of Africans from Africa. Diseases, poverty, political low IQ, illiteracy, poor social conditions, economic reasons, but all of these issues can be over come in the wake of PEACE.
Before any wannabe Pan African jump all over me with their every country/continent have their own problems excuses, please hold up. I am not saying that the rest of the world is perfect. What I am saying is that there is a reason why Africa is the worst continent in the world and why its citizens continue to flee. And simply blaming everything on colonialism and slavery is a very easy way out. Most of our problems today are self-inflicted. Our continent is infested with crimes of demo-nation and humiliation. Killing and feasting on the flesh of our own kinds, chopping off the limbs of our own siblings, chopping our own children into pieces, witch hunting and jailing our "political enemies", and raping our own sisters are all self inflicted. Fixing it will become a collective responsibility by all people who benefited from Africa and its resources including the western world.
Speaking of the West. When are we Africans going to learn that the West is not going to save us? I mean as sad as we look when on TV begging for Western countries and the UN to come and rescue us is also pathetic. Like Bill Clinton said in 1994 during the Rwandan Genocide, The US will not send military aid to nations we dont have interest in. There has to be some sort of political gain on the side of the West and the UN for them to sacrifice their sons and daughters. But like I said earlier, I dont blame them, am not blaming anyone. I am only preaching the gospel to the choir. The best thing the West may offer us may be pressuring our leaders to convict our so-called war lords in some funny tribunal (name withheld to avoid personal sentiments).
The tribunals are trying but when it comes to saving human lives by preventing re-occurrence, trying is not enough, in my opinion. Convicting someone for being responsible for the killings of hundreds/thousands/millions of people either directly or indirectly sounds very noble. Putting them in a free housing, call it jail if you want, with free meals, free healthcare, free books to read, free gym to work out when they want is an extended vacation in my opinion. I mean this sound like a dream vacation except that it is paid for by the same people they victimize. Call me a Republican if you think I sound like one but there is something wrong with this picture. I am still not blaming/faulting anyone. However, I have a very strong feeling that if you gave that innocent baby from Liberia, the baby who had her heart ripped out of her chest and consumed by her murderers an option to go to the tribunal or endure the pain she experienced? I think she will choose the former. I may be wrong but I doubt it.
I know I have taken you all around the world and back and I may have even lost you a couple of times along the way. Now, back to my main point .why the self willing exodus? I cant tell you exactly why but I am guessing you now have an idea. It may be very easy to just chill under a baobab tree in Africa and call every African in the Diaspora a keyboard hero or a coward for leaving anytime they complain. Or to sit at a Starbucks in Madison Square surfing the internet and label every African back in Africa as a Coward for not standing up and defending the continent while you are an absentee. But the truth is we are all victims for the most part. Here is my verdict .If choosing to remain/staying in Africa helps you sleep well at night then sweet dreams my brother. If choosing to stay in the West helps you feed yourself and your family back home then may God bless you hustler. If choosing to go back home to contribute your two cents makes you feel patriotic then we all salute you sir. We can all do a thing or two more than we have done. But pointing fingers and wagering Holy Wars against each other will not cut it. You do your part and hope that everyone else does the same, if everyone did Great else shame on them.
And my final words: the idea of a United Africa sounds like a very nice fairytale, but lets focus on building united villages first, then United countries, and then may be Just may be a United Africa where the Hutu and non-Hutu can all live happily ever after.