Ndey,
all you have said is quite true and the reason for this state of affairs is
because our so-called leaders spend all their time and energy trying to
refine the art of stealing what little assets we have and how to disguise that art
while also refining how to lie to the people instead of really taking stock
of the state of the country and devising ways to move the machinery of state
in the most efficient manner and in a way that best serves the populations.
In other words, the job of African governments is seen by those in charge as
an opportunity to form a mafia colaition with all willing participants and
rob the country with a few crumbs trickled down to the suffering masses every
once in a while and to treat this token as a personal gift of benevolence
from the despotic leader. These days, they have even learned the art of saying
the right things to deceive those with genuine good will in the international
community. Our leaders in Africa have surpassed their colonial masters in
the art of deception and economic rape of their people and the more despicable
a dictator the longer they will stay with a pat on the back from those who
would never get away with or condone such behaviour in their own countries.
African dictators are rewarded by the few opportunists at home who benefit from
their illegal and illegitimate activities and those abroad who also benefit
by their presence because they can lend more money at higher interest rates
and have the upper hand in access to the natural resources of Africa. It is the
most heinous crime in human history and people are getting away with it
because of the long line of collaborators on our continent ever willing to
participate in the economic enslavement of their own people so long as they make a
few bucks from the process. Witness Darfour if you will and ask yourselves
who are the major players who buy oil from Sudan and those oil contracts are
far more precious to them that the lives of Africans, and that is why despite
the outcry of the decent people in the World, these same governments are
engaged in empty rhetoric on the subject because they must do all they can to
maintain the status quo so that their partners in crime in the Sudanese
government stay right where they are. Instead, they send food aid with a lot of press
coverage while pushing for U.N troops to go in and once they go in, the U.N
being the tool of the super powers nations that it is today, these troops will
stay in and their mission will be to make sure that Bantustans are
maintained to keep the masses marginalized while the leaders of these nations and
their partners continue with the business of conducting their lucrative trade
while once again on the African continent, the people of a resource rich region
continue to wallow in poverty.
Jabou Joh
In a message dated 10/7/2006 5:25:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Omar,
This is really heartbreaking when one seat helplessly watching our people
taking desperate measures to get themselves out of this poverty circle. The
song has turned a fresh page of the realities back home. This deadly and
unfortunate situation is a clear manifestation of the failure of our nation
states because they can no longer deliver positive political goods to our
people. Our governments have lose legitimacy and now illegitimate.
Governments exist to deliver political goods security, education, health
services, economic opportunity, environmental surveillance, a legal
framework of order and a judicial system to administer it, and fundamental
infrastructural requirements such as roads and communications facilities to
their citizens. In the reverse most of our governments honor these
obligations in the breach. They increasingly forfeit their function as
providers of political goods to warlords and other nongovernment actors. Our
governments are no longer able or willing to perform the job of a
nation-state in the modern world.
They are unable to provide security the most central and foremost political
good across the whole of their domains. Citizens depend on states and
central governments to secure their persons and free them from fear. But
most of our states are unable to establish an atmosphere of security
nationwide.
Couple with this our institutions are weak and flawed it is only the
executive institution that functions. If legislatures exist at all, they are
rubber-stamping machines. Democratic debate is noticeably absent. The
judiciary is derivative of the executive rather than being independent, and
citizens know that they cannot rely on the court system for significant
redress or remedy, especially against the state. Bureaucracy has long ago
lost its sense of professional responsibility and exists solely to carry out
the orders of the executive and, in petty ways, to oppress citizens. The
armed forces are highly politicized. Infrastructures are destroyed or
deteriorated, thus the more potholes or main roads turned to rutted tracks.
As our people continue to use these deadly routes to Europe for a better
leaving our rulers siphon funds from the state.
What does the feature hold for such a people, nation, countries, and
continent? This is a question that I always asked myself. Looking at my two
boys I asked myself what their generation will be like. Will it be better
than ours or is Africa going to be worse?
The Struggle Continues!!
Ndey Jobarteh
>From: OMAR DRAMMEH <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: SV: "SunuGaal"/ Behind this trade there are Europeans involved and
>well paid.
>Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:13:29 +0200
>
>
>Sidibeh/Oko/Bailo,
>
>I hope the SOPI Coalition is listening. The song is pregnant with meaning
>giving a vivid picture of the harsh realities not only in Senegal but in
>many African countries. We don`t have to look far away to see that. The
>level of deprivation is alarming and having to take such a risk on those
>rickety fishing boats on such a perilous route shows how desperate the bulk
>of the people are.
>
>Bailo pointed out the valid point of the failure of political independence
>and it makes me wonder whether this mass exodus of African migrants is not
>a form of reverse colonisation; the coloniser being colonised by its former
>subjects. Is it a case of the chicken coming home to roost? And the
>situation is made worsening with the level of organised crime as Oku cited.
>
>Happy weekend.
>
>regards,
>Omar
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: oko drammeh [[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 2006-10-06 14:32:06 CEST
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: "SunuGaal"/ Behind this trade there are Europeans involved
>and well paid.
> >
> > This is prophecy/ not an overstatement.
> >
> > If you need what Africa has,
> > and you can't do without it
> > and don't want to pay for it.
> >
> > You will create problems for thoes people only to make them weak and
>maintaining them in the clutches and machenary of exploitation and inhuman
>treatment.
> >
> > It seems like Africans are still under the conspiration theory of the
>CURSE OF HAM (decendants of black race) by his father prophet Noah in the
>Abrahamic religions.
> >
> > RELIGION RULE THE WORLD
> > That Denial of peace and prospertity to the Black Africans and the
>punishment sent to them said by most religions is an order of god. This has
>cause poverty, wars, deaths and an unsettled Africa. This is the root of
>all our problems. It is holy.
> >
> > Be wise Africa,
> > you are the richest continent
> > but yet with the poorest people.
> >
> > You have been duped !
> >
> > Oko
> >
> >
> > bailo jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Omar,
> >
> > Thanks for sharing this moving clip of a song that is spot on for the
>reasons of the desperate quest of young able bodied Africans to reach the
>shores of the promised land. As reflected by the song, it is primarily
>because political independence from the yoke of colonialism have thus so
>far failed to fulfil the hopes and aspirations of Africans. In other terms,
>we, Africans have been failed by our political class, i.e both those in
>civvies and uniforms. They seem to only take care of themselves.
> >
> > Very sad indeed!
> >
> > Bailo
> >
> > bailo jallow wrote:
> > Testing, testing, just testing.
> >
> > Bailo
> >
> > OMAR DRAMMEH wrote:
> > Fols,
> >
> > Thought this might be of interest. It portrays the plight of the African
>migrant including Gambians in their journey to the "Promise Land".
> >
> >
> > http://www.studiosankara.com/sunugaal.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > Omar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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