MOTHERLAND-AFRIKA

       Riches of nature drew the wealthy, the powerful and the treacherous, including adventurers from all over the European nations into the continent of Africa. In the beginning, there was more to wealth than religion and civilization. Men came armed with bible, guns and legal papers, to conquer and claim ownership of thousands of acres of African soil. Where they met with coastal resistance from the natives, they would kill, capture, and ship to enslavement, their young men and women, including their children, to European countries. Subsequently, these African captives are sold into slavery where they are put directly into farms or other laborious workforce for their national economic growth.  

        Land and slavery made African Intruders wealthy. African works of arts, including natural resources were transported overseas for more lucrative ends. In many instances, sailors were rewarded with Presidential/Royal honors for each territorial colonization under their national banner. According to Alan Williams, professor of Early American history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville:

     “Land was money, and labor was money.

                  In the colonial days, land was distributed

                  By the Crown through governors. A man

                  Received 50 acres of land for each slave

                  He imported to the colony” (Virginia-The Old Dominion)

Over the years, one watch with utmost despair and bewilderment, the multitude of news flashes as presented before  the cameras in every household across the world and particularly in the United States of America, disseminated by the western media and padded by the civil unrest within the realm of few evolving African nations. These distorted information have in essence misrepresented the true nature and the genuine image of the Continental Africa and her people. Such media presentation of a few unfortunate incidents out of the Continent have continued to horrify and mesmerize the younger generation of African descent in Diaspora , including individuals and non-governmental organizations who share similar humanitarian interest in Africa.

Perhaps it would be very refreshing and enlightening for the young generation of African-Americans including other people of color in the European communities and any independent minded thinker who share similar interest in African affairs to become acquainted with the central tenet of the socio-political conflicts which apparently have contributed to distorting the proud image of this once peaceful African communities where God chose his Garden of Eden.

The exposition of the underlying circumstances to African dilemma would help void the missing gaps on how much of African problems were directly linked to Colonial mismanagement of the various territories where the European Settlers have imposed their wills upon the Natives for the many centuries of colonial occupation.

As history and social science literature would have it, it is evident that during the cold war era, sub-Sahara Africa became a price for which East and West vied for decades for political and economic control. The major tragedy of the European occupation have been the creation of countries from various geopolitical regions of Africa by the process of amalgamation. Thus, many ethnic communities who saw themselves as political rivals became incorporated into one geopolitical and larger entities .Over the years each of these groups of communities would become politically agitated and sort their sovereign power status from their colonial masters. This was the classical case of Nigerian experiment, when in 1914 under the governorship of Sir Lord Luggard of Great Britain, the southern protectorate comprising of Igboland and Yorubaland were merged with the Northern protectorate of Fulani and Housaland. The amalgamation brought into existence of a single entity, three indepen