By Isaiah Abraham
We have heard this statement from Pan African founders in the persons of Patrice Emery Lumumba of Congo, Francis Ohanyido of Nigeria, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Haile Selassia of Ethiopia, Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea, Dr. Julius Kambarge Nyerere of Tanzania and the renowned artist Bob Marley from Jamaica/United States. There couldn’t be more than just socio-political movement in Pan Africanism surge at that time, something we can’t overestimated given our diversity. Yet Africa would have gained more if it had integrated Pan Africanism principles in their daily political life of the Africans. No one at his era outside there has African future in the heart; we are de trop to many. In the earlier 1960s the West was real, but that has fairly changed. Sincerely, we are yet independence, a sad truth we can do something about it before someone finishes us economically and politically.
Africa would have been ahead by now if African leaders struck their neck out against Western interference in the affairs of the continent. President Idris Deby of Chad underscored this point last week when he paid keen attention to his conscience in his visit to his Sudanese counterpart President Omar Hassan Al Bashir in Khartoum. The West was snubbed and miffed, but Africans celebrated the angel of peace in the person of Idris Deby Itno. His feet were invigorated in the African spirit of forgive and forget, a shock to peremptory good guys who want to be seen doing something for Africans, when in fact their agenda is always different. His knew the West outmoded diplomatic failures have hurriedly killed African renaissance and progress. What a man that is (President Deby)!
