When the outrage & endless media coverage started about the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, all I could think about is nothing ever changes because no one seems to care that these recklessly ruthless oil spills brought on simply by greed has been occuring in the Niger Delta years on end with little to no press, governmental regulations and compensation for the many lives & livlihoods lost & now it has reached the almighty America & made the world take notice.

“The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates. The oil pours out nearly every week, and some swamps are long since lifeless. Perhaps no place on earth has been as battered by oil, experts say, leaving residents here astonished at the nonstop attention paid to the gusher half a world away in the Gulf of Mexico. It was only a few weeks ago, they say, that a burst pipe belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the mangroves was finally shut after flowing for two months: now nothing living moves in a black-and-brown world once teeming with shrimp and crab. Not far away, there is still black crude on Gio Creek from an April spill, and just across the state line in Akwa Ibom the fishermen curse their oil-blackened nets, doubly useless in a barren sea buffeted by a spill from an offshore Exxon Mobil pipe in May that lasted for weeks…”READ MORE

“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery.” Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonisation -Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

America now has a government grand standing with tough talk in Congressional hearings saying never again to the wild wild west style of freedom to destroy, perpetuated by Oil companies, global banking institutions, pharmaceuticals companies & corporations in general who will continue to be the real governance in power all over the world until elected governments stop taking bribes, campaign donations, corporate gifts etc. No matter what you want to call it, it’s all the same pay to play campaign that allows very little separation between government & corporations , the same pay to play practices that allow those in power all over the world to turn a blind eye or look the other way , deregulate, not regulate and create a global environment where money talks & can buy you anything even the souls of any given leader & nation regardless if they tag themselves as a Democracy, Communist, Socialist, Conservative, Liberal, Independent, Christian, Muslim, Jewish or agnostic. All around the world is the same song as we all sit back & watch the grand standing with little to no substance toward any type of real change that any of us everyday people can believe in.

Most of the unrest, displacement & wars in Africa (Congo, Somalia, Rwanda, Nigeria, Sudan etc.) are all because of the same players who started & continue the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, but in this new era the commodity is no longer the physical trading of people but rather oil, diamonds, weapons and all of Africa’s natural resources which started the original scramble for Africa that created the Trans- Atlantic slave trade to begin with & still continues to be coveted by the Dutch, the English, the Americans with additional modern day players added from Europe and Asia. African governments & leaders still continue to conspire & be complicit in the selling out of their people & any hopes & dreams they may have for a better future in a new Africa that is peaceful, free, without corruption and beneficial to their personal & continental progress. African leadership has been a disgraceful failure for everyday Africans for far too long & it is time that Africa as a continent Wakes Up, revolutionizes, unites and demands our respect as a people from the world & from our leaders.

We can longer be the dumping ground for European garbage, our land & waters can longer be polluted to serve the economies of the world as our own economies are destroyed & forced into dependency on those who do not want to see us independently moving forward because that would mean they can longer stand on our backs,necks & shoulders to attain their wealth. We can no longer allow the world to perpetuate the idea of the African savage pirates without looking at the reason behind their desperation to defend & take back their waters. “Africa must wake up, the sleeping sons of Jacob. For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come,Yesterday we were kings, can you tell me young ones. Who are we today? ” Those words from Nas & Damian Junior Gong Marley’s song “Africa Must Wake Up”  are the prophetic battle cry that must manifest to fulfill the modern day African personality that Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Ahmed Sékou Touré & so many great global African leaders of the past who understood the need for independence , unity & real leadership as the only way to save Africa not only from our former colonizers but from ourselves. How long must we sleep, suffer & smile as more and more of our people die of helplessness & hopelessness? As we all gather together & wave our flags at the World Cup let us truly examine & question the state of the world & every individual nation’s position & truly call them on Substance!

Africa nations have been doing too much talk talk talk for far too long with no substance behind the talk. The leaders of Pan-Africanism put the blueprint in writing giving the direction for the future of Africa.  Africa must realize it is time that we open the books & take heed to the blueprint in order to build on the design. Africa is the Beginning & the Future & only Africans can determine what that future will be.

Just in Case We Forgot- Take heed to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s words below & adhere  & fulfill the blueprint in order to come out of darkness to enjoy our  light!

“By far the greatest wrong which the departing colonialists inflicted on us, and which we now continue to inflict on ourselves in our present state of disunity, was to leave us divided into economically unviable States which bear no possibility of real development.…”

“...We must unite for economic viability, first of all, and then to recover our mineral wealth in Southern Africa, so that our vast resources and capacity for development will bring prosperity for us and additional benefits for the rest of the world. That is why I have written elsewhere that the emancipation of Africa could be the emancipation of Man.” Speech OAU Summit Conference Cairo 7/19/64 can be found on pages 282-4 of Revolutionary Path

“Something in the nature of an economic revolution is required. Our development has been held back for too long by the colonial-type economy. We need to reorganize entirely, so that each country can specialize in producing the goods and crops for which it is best suited.” Neocolonialism The Last Stage of Imperialism

“We have the blessing of the wealth of our vast resources, the power of our talents and the potentialities of our people. Let us grasp now the opportunities before us and meet the challenge to our survival. ” Address to the National Assembly. 26 March 1965

“We shall measure our progress by the improvement in the health of our people; by the number of children in school, and by the quality of their education; by the availability of water and electricity in our towns and villages, and by the happiness which our people take in being able to manage their own affairs. The welfare of our people is our chief pride, and it is by this that my Government will ask to be judged.” Broadcast to the Nation. 24 December 1957

Is One Man’s life still worth less because of his Color?

We must break the circle of a life that keeps us in a repetitive circle that never allows us a way out of the maze to move forward in true freedom!

I made it quite clear that from now on – today -we must change our attitudes, our minds, we must realise that from now on, we are no more a colonial but a free and independent people…you are to stand firm behind us so that we can prove to the world that when the African is given a chance he can show the world that he is somebody! We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world…We are going to see that we create our own African personality and identity. We again rededicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa; for our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent Dr. Kwame Nkrumah