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An Exploited Mother
By M. Quinn
Enormously atrocious and barbaric "crimes
against humanity" continues to sweep across the continent of
Africa, where millions of indigenous men, women and children are
needlessly dying from starvation, malnutrition and a host of
diseases that we in the industrialized world would survive.
The absurdity to this entirely overwhelming loss of human life, is
that mostly major European companies continue to extract millions
of metric tons in food, minerals and natural resources from the
continent of Africa while give very little, or nothing at all in
return toward assisting Africa’s indigenous people - Black folk.
According to an article published in August ‘2005 by Dalatou
Mamane of the Associated Press in the San Jose Mercury News;
countries such as Mauritania, Niger and in many other African
communities, inhabitants are needlessly dying in record numbers.
These events are undoubtedly a manifestation of the exploitation
to “Mother Africa” by European industrialized nations.
This catastrophic event in human deprivation and anguish has
prompted visits to the continent by such dignitaries as UN
Secretary, Kofi Annan along with an entourage of more than 100
officials, journalist and like-minded people. Kofi Annan has gone
on the record publicly stating that the food supply in many
regions has become too expensive for the poor people of Africa to
purchase; which in fact has left countless African families dying
from malnutrition and starvation.
To date, the regions of the continent of Africa from the Congo to
South Africa still produces more than 80 - 90 percent of the
worlds known natural resources. These include diamonds, gold, and
the strategic metals needed to supply the industrialized world;
not to mention the world’s food supply.
It is a well-known fact, that Africa has been historically called
the breadbasket to the European world; and if not for the food
supply and natural resources extracted from the continent of
Africa, the European nations (and the rest of the industrialized
world, including America) would not have reached the political and
economic zenith that we bear witness to today.
In the early 1950's one of the world’s largest diamond mining
and distribution companies "De Beers" established its
headquarters in South Africa and continues to extract billions of
dollars in diamonds from the continent annually; while poverty,
disease, and death runs rampant on the indigenous people.
Why is it that, a continent that produces hundreds of billions –
if not trillions of dollars annually in gold, and diamonds; not to
mention the minerals and natural resources, such as; cobalt,
titanium, manganese, zinc, copper etc. (that continues to be
extracted daily by European companies) can’t seem to find enough
wealth, nor food to feed its own native inhabitants? Exploitation!
The relevant question that remains is this; how
can the professed moral nations of the world remain silent and
allow the unrelenting raping of the richest real estate on the
planet, while starving its native people and producing
homelessness, poverty, death and countless orphans in the process?
In the early part of the twentieth century, the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated that Africa is the cradle of
civilization; and represents the progenitor of all human
existence. Subsequently, Archeologist such as Dr. Louis Leaky has
substantiated this claim. Africa remains the respective Mother of
all the world’s nations.
How much longer will we as a people allow our
respective mother to be abused, misused, raped, and marginalized
in this fashion? To say nothing about the dehumanizing treatment
of its native people – Africans.
It is time that the Black political leadership
– if they can be found, clergy, activist and all the moral
citizens of the world, demand that all the nations that are
bleeding Africa and its people to death of its natural resources,
from this blatant form of exploitation, present themselves in
front of the United Nations to answer for these crimes against
humanity. It is imperative, that we come to the aide of our
exploited Mother "Africa", and bring an end to the
abuse, misuse and degradation of her land and people.
As we proceed into the twenty first century, it
is critically important that we begin formulating strategies to
correct the blatant "human rights" violations
perpetrated upon our land, Africa; and our people - Africans
worldwide.
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Urgency of a Pan African Consciousness
All rights are reserved by Author ‘2005 / San
Francisco, California / October 13, 2005
posted 16 October 2005 |
