Who are the visionaries for Africa. Which leaders will take up the mantle for Africa's development. Who will take over from the independence leaders . At independence, leaders who stood for Africa's interests were either overthrown or quickly assassinated by America's CIA, or French and British intelligence officers. Any leader that offered even an iota of fighting for the common African was quickly eliminated.
I have in mind such leaders as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, DR Congo's Patrice Lumumba among others. The leaders who overstayed in power were those who were able to sing the tune of the coloniser. I have in mind such leaders as Mobutu Sese Seko of DR Congo, and Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso.
In fact, Blaise Compaore was a compatriot of the Burkina Faso revolutionary Thomas Sankara. Sankara had changed the name of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso in a bid to localise the name. He had abolished foreign aid from the World Bank and emancipated his country economically from France. He was a threat to France's hegemony in the region and had to go. Blaise Compaore was the man who did the dirty job for France and had Sankara assassinated. Compaore returned Burkina Faso under indirect French rule for the next 27 years he was in power. It never ceases to amaze me that African prophets are always betrayed by their own.
What can young Africans do to promote the agenda of the visionaries and discard the greediness of the traitors to the African cause?
One, we must fight differently. Today's battles will be in the hearts and minds rather than in the battlefields. In the age of globalisation, the threats to Africa are ever more present. The former colonisers have regrouped and are now the new globalists, aiming to subjugate Africa just as their ancestors did. This must not be allowed to happen. Read More Articles. Click Here
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