Questions that real African leaders must answer individually

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

A few questions for the Jibrin Ibrahims, the Auwal Musa Rafsanjanis, the Biko Agozinos and the panel that will be discussing Trump and Africa this evening 

Forwarded many times at WhatsApp and forwarded to me by my Pan African Ghanaian Black Power Radical:

I ALMOST CRIED WHEN I UNDERSTOOD WHY TRUMP DIDN'T INVITE ANY AFRICAN LEADER AT HIS INauguration. 🚨UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING NOW At a press conference held in Washington, at the White House, Trump made profound statements against African leaders. Donald Trump explains his statements against Africans: If after 50 years of independence you have not built the necessary infrastructure for your people, are you human? Donald questioned. If you sit on gold, diamonds, oil, uranium, iron, copper, silver, magnesium, crude oil, gas, if your people die of hunger, without health and with nothing to live on, with terrible education, do you feel human? - Donald said. If you stay in power, you buy weapons abroad to kill your own citizens, are you human? If you despise and shoot your own citizens like nothing, who will respect them? If you become a thief in your own country, stealing all the resources destined for your country, while most of your brothers are miserable, starving and living very poorly, is that being human?

[Dr. Oohay]

Every culture borrows and has (in general) borrowed from other cultures but whether the borrowing culture makes it or not usually depends CRUCIALLY on the NATURE 

of what precisely has been borrowed— so the question AIN’T whether culture B has borrowed from culture A, but WHAT specifically culture B has borrowed, for what PURPOSE and WHY. Professor Lumumba somewhat captures indirectly the spirit of what is at stake culturally when culture B borrows the wrong thing from culture A. The guiding foundations of culture A and culture B may be very similar BUT always note a fundamental difference: culture A AIN’T culture B. The mind of the “oppressed” would be more productive if it focused on the cultural development of its B culture (instead of being forever preoccupied with the mind of the “oppressor”). Stop being a monomaniacal “Ahab” 

… — and remember, first remove the mote in thy individual eyes before trying to make a mega Pan Africa.

Oohay

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