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grace omoshaba

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Jul 22, 2021, 6:38:43 AM7/22/21
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It’s heart-wrenching seeing Africa fall apart, says Falola - Punch Newspapers

Harrow, Kenneth

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Jul 22, 2021, 1:21:02 PM7/22/21
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there's a bit of a paradox here. the very resources that provide immense wealth in africa also provide the heart-wrenching toyin alludes to. if south africa didn't have those mines, how different it would have been. no one is fighting to the death for "peanuts," actually the major crop in senegal where the litany of corrupt and oppressive presidents seen elsewhere has largely passed them by. (i could say a lot more on this, but will button my lips).
in rwanda and burundi now, since the genocide of 94, things have calmed down., one country has an authoritarian govt, but the president aspires to something like plato's philosopher king, although he's not afraid to use the gun, and used force in the drc that resulted in vast fighting. in burundi an uneasy truce between hutu and tutsi parties, at times more repression and attacks, resulting in vast migration. but with the new president, i have hopes for much improvement.
but cross the border into the land of timber, coltan, diamonds, gold, and all sorts of minerals, you can see maybe 126 or more militias, there to fight over their piece, or to take others' pieces. there to import the guns to enable them to rule. and who gets the wealth? the indonesians? the chinese? israelis? east europeans? the list keeps shifting; the fighting in the kivus goes on forever; last year 2 million people displaced! the govt and monescu incapable of imposing the rule of the state. truly, what toyin falola said, it is there that we can see this anomy clearest, a season that has not ended, now going on a quarter century.

ken

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Gloria Emeagwali

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Jul 22, 2021, 2:16:49 PM7/22/21
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Who says Africa is falling apart?
There are reconfigurations and in the case of South Africa a declaration of
resistance to poverty and state capture by ex- apartheid oligarchs
and their supporters. In the case of Ethiopia, well the challenge to ethnoregionalism is in order and could be for the better. 


Gloria Emeagwali 


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Biko Agozino

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Jul 23, 2021, 11:45:00 AM7/23/21
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Tell them sista Glo. Who cares about state capture by one man when the continent and indeed the entire globe plus outer space has been captured by imperialism-racism-sexism with impunity?

Biko

OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Jul 23, 2021, 12:57:43 PM7/23/21
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Well, Oga Biko:
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All these 'isms' are abstractions.  They  require several generations for perfection and they are capable of being unpacked by unpacking the logic behind their constitution.

One man power capture as even in Putin of Russia let alone  African despots, is simply atavistic, crude and barbaric.

Of course global imperialism and racism as tangentially referenced by the essay has had a role to play in propping up despots in order to access African resources and sexism has had  a role to play in the brutal zero- sum game of survival of the filthiest which has been the ultimate goal of African politics across the continent.

That was why the First Lady of Ekiti State reiterated the staple of political arithmetic, that in African politics 2+2 is not necessarily 4!

So one man power capture and  the instigated upheavals for its sustenance is the low of the lows of bestiality in communal organisation that truncate the manifestation of communal will.

OAA



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Tell them sista Glo. Who cares about state capture by one man when the continent and indeed the entire globe plus outer space has been captured by imperialism-racism-sexism with impunity?

Biko

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Biko Agozino

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Jul 23, 2021, 1:12:47 PM7/23/21
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Olayinka,

First of all, prove the allegation that one man, Jacob the patriarch, captured the state of Democratic South Africa. Where is the proof?

Biko

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