Africans and Native Americans Never Invented
a Wheel or Moved Above the Stone Age
Mediterranean, European, and Asian Culture Were the Only Inventive People
on Earth
AFRICAN BASKET CASE
Welcome to Africa
Does the Chaos of Post-Colonial Africa
Hold Any Lessons for America?
by Kevin Alfred Strom
American Dissident Voices
Published On Internet, April 17, 1998
What is it like to live in Black Africa? Let's find out. I got a small
taste of the reality of life in Africa when
I did research for an engineering firm that was about to bid on a contract
to build a radio network in
Liberia.
I discovered that in Liberia the roads between the national capital,
Monrovia, and the provincial capitals
were not maintained and were passable only for a few months every year.
Its comic-opera, one-party
state was dominated by such giants of political thought as the "True
Whig Party" and Sergeant Samuel
Doe. Not so comic was the fact that the current government had been installed
after its opponents had
been taken care of by the nice expedient of taking them down to the beach
and blowing their brains out
with pistols. I discovered that the standards of sanitation and safety at
hotels and restaurants were so low
that all travelers were advised to check with a trusted local resident (meaning
an American or a
European) before deciding on a place to stay. I found out that the country
is a sink-pit of diseases of
every description. I learned that government officials and those claiming
to be government officials
demanded bribes at almost every stage of the process of entry or movement
of people or goods into or
through the country. I learned that it is advisable to be present when the
goods for which you are
responsible arrive at the shipping dock or the airport, for gangs of armed
thieves will steal them instantly
if you are not. For a suitable fee, of course, you can hire one of the gangs
to protect your goods from the
other gangs and hope for the best. I advised the firm I was working for
not to bid on the contract.
Since I did that research in the 1980s, a prolonged civil war has broken
out among several armed factions
in Liberia, travel to many parts of the country has become nearly impossible,
and even in the capital city
most of the water, sewerage and electric lines have been inoperative since
1989.
After the European colonizers and civilizers were forced to leave due
to internal subversion in the 1950s
and 1960s, nearly all of sub-Sahara Africa has been gradually sinking back
to the level of savagery that
preceded the arrival of the Europeans. South Africa and Rhodesia, were,
of course, shining exceptions to
this rule. Both maintained a very high level of culture, industrial efficiency,
scientific and technical
progress, and the good quality of life that goes along with these things.
That is, they maintained these
standards until recently. When the New World Order elitists that rule the
so-called "Free World" forced
Rhodesia to capitulate to the Black Communist guerrillas, she quickly became
a nominally Marxist
dictatorship, changed her name to Zimbabwe, and began a precipitous slide
downhill. Many of the White
Rhodesians, abandoned by their kin in America and Europe, fled as refugees
to South Africa. Many of
those who did not make it were slaughtered, but you have never seen tributes
to that holocaust on your
television or in your movie theaters. Now that our hidden rulers have succeeded
in imposing a multiracial
Communist state on South Africa, it will only be a matter of time before
the blood begins to really flow in
earnest, and the great nation built by the Boer pioneers will either be
resurrected as a White separatist
state, or will disappear from history as South Africa declines into savagery.
In Rwanda, the state machinery built by the French and handed to the
natives during the anti-colonialism
madness three decades ago, has expired in rivers of blood. Aid workers there
estimate 500,000 people
have been killed by the militias and government troops since the fighting
began there on April 6, 1994.
Piles of rotting corpses fill most villages. When the troops arrive
in a village, their mission is simply to kill
as many people as possible. The killers have not spared children and several
times have attacked
orphanages. There is no Geneva Convention in sub-Sahara Africa. Rwanda's
rivers are swollen, but not
due to floods. Observers report that the rivers are distended by blood and
heavy with thousands upon
thousands of bodies. Huge numbers of bodies have washed up in Lake Victoria,
hundreds of miles away.
And the Rwandan refugees, fleeing the warring forces, visit a kind of
destruction of their own upon the
landscape. As they sweep across the countryside, looting everything they
can lay their hands on, they
leave it bare, as if stripped clean by locusts. Lt. Col. Jacques Hogard
of the French Army stated, "The
refugees passing through are taking everything the original inhabitants
left behind when they cleared out."
Whole villages have been taken apart and stolen, brick by brick. Grand lakeside
villas built by the
Belgians in the 1950s have literally disappeared overnight.
How many times have we seen this pattern in Africa? This isn't the first
time there has been a bloodbath in
Rwanda; it happened six times in the 1960s alone. In more recent times,
Liberia, Somalia, Angola, and
Mozambique come immediately to mind. Remember Biafra? Remember Katanga?
And it isn't only the process of political change in Africa which presages
a return to the jungle. Let us
look at what was once one of the most prosperous and productive colonies
in Africa, when it was called
the Belgian Congo, the country of Zaire.
Keith B. Richburg of the Washington Post Foreign Service, who can hardly
be described as a White
supremacist, describes Zaire's current condition as follows:
KINSHASA, Zaire – The once elegant, European-style boulevards
of
this capital are overrun with debris. Largely abandoned government
buildings are obscured behind elephant grass and overgrown trees.
In a perverse reversal of the usual development maxim, an opulent
colonial capital is being overtaken by the bush. Kinshasa was
carved out of the jungle. Now the jungle is coming to claim the
land back.
Richburg goes on to describe the government corruption and incompetence,
the economic decline, the
disease, malnutrition, and lawlessness that appear endemic to Black Africa.
"In state after state, public
institutions have collapsed, health care has diminished, infrastructure
has fallen into disrepair, and poverty
has deepened. . . ." Why has Black Africa had so little success in
statecraft? The article ends with a quote
that gives one reason.
"These countries are artificial," said Michael Chege,
a Kenyan
scholar at Harvard University. "They have to be. What else do
you
do, with all these tribes and linguistic groups and so on? ... We
might have to consider adjusting boundaries - or at least put it on
the agenda."
I find it very interesting that we have to get such a gem of truth and
wisdom, appearing in the
Washington Post no less, from the mouth of a Black African. But he is right.
The only hope for any
people to have any kind of stable or just or successful society is for each
ethnic group to control its own
affairs and live under its own government.
American Dissident Voices, April 16, 1998
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