Obama Must Reverse Bush-Era
African Policy
2 April 2009 ( EQN ) -
The United States
Militarized its policy
towards Africa,
defended
unpopular and undemocratic regimes and undermined
United Nations peacekeeping missions on the
continent under the Bush administration, says the
Africa-centered More
African Policy
2 April 2009 ( EQN ) -
The United States
Militarized its policy
towards Africa,
defended
unpopular and undemocratic regimes and undermined
United Nations peacekeeping missions on the
continent under the Bush administration, says the
Africa-centered More
Obama's Victory Shames Africa
04 December, 2008 | by George Ayittey:
(Huffington Post) — The election of Senator Barrack Obama brought
jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as "one of their
own." His election victory shattered myths about America and caused
some discomfort among Africa's gang of "hippos" - the nasty, ornery
and unrepentant hard-knocks. Wedded to seats of power, not even
bulldozers can dislodge them. "No African head of state should be in
power for more than 10 years," declared President Yoweri Museveni of
Uganda in 1986. He is still president.
Ferociously resistant to change, they would have crushed an Obama
who dared challenge their iron grip on power. They would have tossed
him into jail the night before the elections (Rwanda); mercilessly
bludgeoned him (Zimbabwe); thuggishly annulled his election victory
(Nigeria); or threatened to feed him to crocodiles (Malawi). Their
security forces would have opened fire on Obama's supporters, killing
over 250 and hauling over thousand into jail (Ethiopia). Even in his own
father's country, Kenya, his victory would have been stolen, his
supporters used for target practice by the police, where recent elections
sparked violence that claimed over 1,000 people and dislocated more
than 250,000. Municipal elections on November 29 in Jos, Nigeria, have
claimed the lives of more than 400 people.
Such is the state of "elections" on a broken and dysfunctional continent
of shattered dreams and unfulfilled promises. Immensely rich in mineral
resources, it is mired in grinding poverty, social destitution and
humanitarian crises. It has been reduced to a wasteland by marauding
hippos -- in Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe -- enabling vulture
mercantilist countries to pick with chopsticks dexterity a platinum from
Zimbabwe, oil from Sudan, col-tan from Congo, and bauxite from
Guinea, all to the detriment and impoverishment of their people...More
04 December, 2008 | by George Ayittey:
(Huffington Post) — The election of Senator Barrack Obama brought
jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as "one of their
own." His election victory shattered myths about America and caused
some discomfort among Africa's gang of "hippos" - the nasty, ornery
and unrepentant hard-knocks. Wedded to seats of power, not even
bulldozers can dislodge them. "No African head of state should be in
power for more than 10 years," declared President Yoweri Museveni of
Uganda in 1986. He is still president.
Ferociously resistant to change, they would have crushed an Obama
who dared challenge their iron grip on power. They would have tossed
him into jail the night before the elections (Rwanda); mercilessly
bludgeoned him (Zimbabwe); thuggishly annulled his election victory
(Nigeria); or threatened to feed him to crocodiles (Malawi). Their
security forces would have opened fire on Obama's supporters, killing
over 250 and hauling over thousand into jail (Ethiopia). Even in his own
father's country, Kenya, his victory would have been stolen, his
supporters used for target practice by the police, where recent elections
sparked violence that claimed over 1,000 people and dislocated more
than 250,000. Municipal elections on November 29 in Jos, Nigeria, have
claimed the lives of more than 400 people.
Such is the state of "elections" on a broken and dysfunctional continent
of shattered dreams and unfulfilled promises. Immensely rich in mineral
resources, it is mired in grinding poverty, social destitution and
humanitarian crises. It has been reduced to a wasteland by marauding
hippos -- in Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe -- enabling vulture
mercantilist countries to pick with chopsticks dexterity a platinum from
Zimbabwe, oil from Sudan, col-tan from Congo, and bauxite from
Guinea, all to the detriment and impoverishment of their people...More
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George Ayittey:
Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's future
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