Anti-African Immigration Riots in the West & East as Westerners & Easterners Flock to Africa for Resources-When & Where Will Africans Find Their Freedom?

Posted: January 12th, 2010

The past couple of years have seen more & more Africans brutalized & murdered in Italy & other Western & Eastern nations under the guise of anti-immigration & racism. In Italy in particular, the real core issue is the battle over wealth, drugs & territory incited by the Italian mafia. It is easy to cry racism & anti-immigration without holding accountable African, European & global governments’ lackadaisical anti-drug enforcement & implicit involvement in the economic profiteering of global drug trafficking.

West Africa has become the new hot bed transport destination for European drug trafficking. The rise of global poverty, particularly in Africa, along with rampant drug abuse globally have left many West Africans to be left with little choice but to pin their hopes of a better tomorrow in a life of drug trafficking & prostitution. War torn African countries like Guinea Bissau & many West African countries with corrupt governments have been bought to turn a blind eye to the influx of drugs trafficked thru their nations.

Africans need to start pinning their hopes of a better tomorrow in themselves, fighting their own corrupt governments, who have refused to serve the people of Africa for decades & centuries. Why risk your life to fight a war for survival in another man’s land instead of taking the fight for survival to your own governments in greater numbers of effected people, in hopes of at least giving a better future for generations to come? Africa’s hope & dreams can only be fully realized in Africa & it is time that Africans hold themselves & their governments accountable & take them to task to better their conditions in order to have the opportunity to live & thrive in their own homelands as free human beings.

Using the guise of immigration as a reason for hate & racism instead of seeing another human beings plight & burden has become the European way toward the plight of Africans immigrating to Europe in hopes of a better life, only to find out that they are far from welcomed because the European natives are also in search of their own better lives in their own countries & often times even in African nations where they find a much better life & a welcoming that is not afforded to Africans at home or in Europe. Human beings should be free to move about wherever they want to be, but often times because of the mental enslavement embedded thru slavery & colonialism, Africans never seem to find their freedom & dreams in their own homeland or in the western world, yet westerners flock to Africa and find benefit from the never ending mental enslavement that continues to plague Africans who still see Westerners & now those from the East as the ones to bring them salvation & emancipation.

I was surprised to see the large number of Asians, Europeans & other westerners flooding into Africa for business prospects & opportunity to live a much more luxurious lifestyle than they could ever afford in their own homelands, while Africans still continue to be the servants and the ones never reaping any opportunities, whether in their homelands or abroad. The only way Africans can ever find their freedom is to fight for it in large numbers by taking the fight to their own governments without the tribal & class divides because African governments have been selling their own people out since the time of slavery & continue to do so centuries later.

With all the natural resources, fertile land, oil & people capital, how are African nations still unable to provide for their people & evoke a sense of pride of being African, fighting for Africa & staying in Africa beyond just flag waving during football matches? Africans must wake up & hold themselves, their governments & the western world which needs Africa in a constant state of patheticness in order for them to thrive easily without doing much of the work in so many ways. 2010 starts a new decade that must be Africa’s decade -coming up from under the belly of the beast to rise like the phoenix from the flames, soaring over our nations & continent as the new decade Sankofa birds- returning to get what is rightfully ours! In this new decade we must learn, embody & have the desire to Feel Free to Feel Free!

“Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. We face neither East nor West: We Face Forward -Freedom, Freedom , Fredom”- Dr. Kwame Nkrumah

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..We ask ourselves -Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented & fabulous? Actually, WHO ARE YOU NOT TO BE “-Nelson Mandela