Qadhafi's Overhead Kick

Qadhafi's Overhead Kick

The chief of Libya, Mr. Muamar el Qadhafi, is a grand man. Like the Ayatollah of Persia, his prior aim in power was to take back the nation (from the parasitic state) to the citizens. And he did it.
He took Libya back to Libyans and gave them pride of citizenship. Libyans inside and outside Libya exhude a measure of confidence in their nation rarely found in other peoples. But Qadhafi is in love with power. He is so used to being in command, nowadays, he often excercises his influence with some dose of arrogance and rashness. Every music he enters, he causes to assume his tune and tone.
Recently, he added some faggots to a fire he had always kept: he wanted to unite the states of Africa.
A union of African states was conceieved in modern time by late Mr. Kwame Nkrumah. He wanted an Africa that is united in outlook even if diverse in looks. This had been an attempt at doing the work of Hercules.

But Qadhafi is not a conventional gentleman. His unconventionality is too abrasive. And he is beginning this project at the ending.

Qadhafi should re-examine his intention, and question himself if he is actually pro-African. He should do his best to see Africa(ns) through African scope, not through arab scope. Unless he wanted to achieve only ceremonial unity; or at most, organisational unity; or even another direct enslavement of Africa. But a unity without relational meaning is meaningless, even harmful.



Africa is like a live broken bone; live but in pieces. She cannot be united by haphazardly shovelling the pieces into a bag. They must first be scanned and sorted well according to which piece is fitting rightly with which.

Unlike in other places, most of the states in Africa { now} were neither products of unity nor do they nurse it. In Africa, many of the peoples, on their own, are alright, progressive, according to their endowment and and world view. They have deeply internalized religio-social ways that work for them. When mixed with other peoples in externally engineered statehood or nationhood, this well-doing people assumes the posture of victims or victimizers. In otherwords, people who would certainly be better neighbours were packaged into bitterly disharmonious room-mates. Oraganisational unity without relational unity. This is the state of many African states and nations. There are democratic structures; but those in power use them in practicing tyrannical monarchies and kleptocratic presidencies.



If Africans are to be united, and not just to be in a union, the 'Uniter' must go, rearward or for(e)ward, from this colonial-Africa to Africa. Africa is even deeper in colo'slavery now than She was during the so-called colo-' era. Because of the incompatibility of African room-mates (nation-mates). ...They expend their energies in keeping one another down instead of striding forward as a nation.

What is the meaning of the sparking frictions in Guinea between Peulh people and Susu and Malinke peoples? What about the conflagrations in Congo-Kinsh'? The explosive furnace in Sudan? The smouldering furnace in Nigeria (a country not at any defined war, yet thousands of its citizens and others are will-fully destroyed annually by their fellow citizens...justice is dispensed on the basis of ethnicity, religion or political-party affiliation…)? And Angola? Rwanda (between Hutu and Tutsi and Twas)? SierraLeone? Liberia? The slavery nations of Mauritania and Morrocco? What will a united African States mean to the ordinary Somalians? How does a US of Africa harmonize with the heartbeat of Sahrawi people of Western-Sahara?

Whereas many religio-cultural ethnicities, each on their own fare well in individual and national life, they become victimizers or victims when mingled into a nationship with other peoples without their consented agreement.



Anyone who wants to unite Africa should begin at Africa, not at AU (African Union), otherwise it will be a contraband unity. Unless AU can effectuate this: I suggest: the releasing of peoples from state victimization by disbanding the present nation-states, excepting harmonious ones or ones who of their own Will would agree. Let people return to their primordial nations and establish their own states, even if a thousand nations would emerge. Then those of these groups who wish to belong in the larger group such as US-of-Africa, would do so from their Will and perception of world realities.

To how many Africans is the AU (L'Union Africain) a reality? Even among city dwellers where literacy is highest, Au is a distant thing. Among villagers, it is Kalmomin Turawa ne (vocabulary of Europeans).

Unlike EU (European union), AU is not a practical, living reality among ordinary Africans. EU regulates (moderates or commands) many elements in the life of its constituency. It even affects the prices of goods and services among the people and peoples of Europe. It also intervenes for social and inter-state justice.



Perhaps, Qadhafi wanted to do something genuine. But he is kicking it over the head of Africa; he is not participating with Africa; he is commandeeringly off-touch with the heartbeat of Africans.