Why are African heads of state in London to meet with Boris Johnson, the British prime minister?
Is Africa so poor that they have to wait for Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, who wrote racist and condescending statements about Africans in the spectators newspaper, before he became prime minister , to invite them in London to raise funds to educate Africans?
Recently, the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni lambasted his fellow Africans for their “dependency on others for everything” The president was addressing a conference on COVID19 vaccine with the Ethopian director of World Health Organisation,WHO ,in attendance and scribbled notes as the president gave his speech.
At no time has Africans dependency on others, for their survival, become more glaring and dispressing than in accessing the COVID19 vaccines.
The Ugandan president said the fact that Africans have to receive COVID19 vaccines only after others have been vaccinated is a wake up call for Africans. “Africans sleep too much” Museveni said But he also blasted: “Africans are a disgrace to ourselves ” Why do we have to depend on others for everything ,he asked.
As I write , presidents from Africa are in London. Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, had summoned them to a fund raising conference to educate children in Africa.
This is at the centre of Boris Johnson’s policy to put more focus on Britain’s diplomatic and trade interests in commonwealth countries now that Britain is out of European Union.
Recently, the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni blasted his fellow Africans for their “dependency on others for everything”
It was an usually frank statement from one of Africa’s longest serving president.
The president was addressing a conference on COVID19 vaccine with the Ethopian director of World Health Organisation,WHO ,in attendance, who scribbled notes as the president gave his speech.
At no time has Africans dependency on others, for their own survival, become more glaring and dispressing than in accessing the COVID19 vaccines.
The Ugandan president said the fact that Africans have to receive COVID19 vaccines only after others have been vaccinated in the first world is a wake up call for Africans. “Africans sleep too much” Museveni said. “Africans are a disgrace to ourselves ” President Museveni blasted. Why do we have to depend on others for everything ,he asked.
As I write , presidents from Africa are in London after been summoned by Boris Johnson, the British prime minister to a fund raising conference to educate children in Africa.
Under the theme the global education, Boris Johnson’s aim to solicitate Britain’s diplomatic leverage and favourable trade interests in the world and funding education in the commonwealth is a critical component of his foreign policy now that Britain is out of the European Union.
African leaders will always remain international beggers with no independent initiative to be self reliance and free their continent from dependency.
Even when they killed themselves during insane wars, Europe has to invite them to travel and hold conferences to raise funds for them to resettle the victims of war and rebuild the
infrastructure destroyed in war.
Boris Johnson has to summon them to London to raise funds to educate African children.
How about AU holding a conference of this kind to raise funds on behalf of the continent to finance the education of the African child.
Or better still AU to hold a conference on how to create jobs to stop their economically active youthful population drowning at sea daily and sold in an open market as slaves in North Africa as they attempt to cross to Europe.
Watching these horrific news on western media on daily basis ,of pregnant African women with their children drowning in the ocean,as they flee from poverty, wars and human rights abuses in their countries reinforce the very notion of white racism.
Africa is richer than Europe. But its vast wealth in minerals and natural resources are invested in the first world, whiles leaders of Africa siphoned trillions of dollars in hidden offshore banks and clandestine investments outside the continent of Africa.
How many people in Sierra Leone, for instance, who had shares in London mines that operated in Sierra Leone, which was listed in London stock market?
The following statements were made by Boris Johnson when he wrote for the spectators column. It is a shame on these African presidents who have arrived in London on the invitation of Boris Johnson to raise funds for the education of Africans feeding into the dependency of Africans that the president of Uganda had warned against.
” No doubt the AK 47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh,and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayers funded bird” Boris Johnson
“The continent may be a blot, but it is not a blot upon our conscience. The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge anymore ” Boris Johnson
” It is said that the Queen has come to love the commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag waving piccaninnies” Boris Johnson.
Who is right? The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni who called Africans a disgrace for their dependency on others or Boris Johnson who said because Britain is no longer in charge of Africa is the problem. Should Africans ask the British to come back and govern them?
Was Boris feeding into the central philosophical theory that the white minority use to justified the apartheid regime which was that blacks are incapable of governing themselves, as his second quote is saying that because Britain is no more in charge, that is why the continent have problem.
It is the same as saying blacks are incapable of governing their own affairs.
The writter is Yankuba Kai-Samba, Chelmsford, UK.
26 July 2021
