By Gloria DULAN-Wilson
Hello All!
Whenever one of our Brothers or Sisters says or does something profound, positive that will be of benefit to us all, I try to post it in my blog, along with any additional salient points. These are brilliant points or concepts that don't make the mainstream media, or, as Rev. Michael Beckwith calls it, "Paid advertisement masquerading as the news." You know what I mean - the kind of bogus journalism that spends the first 10 to 15 minutes extolling T-rump's most recent load of garbage, while pretending to be critical of it - when what they're actually doing is giving him free publicity for his poisonous propaganda in order to psych our subconscious minds into thinking he's the winner when he's a threat and a liar!
But, I digress...
My Lincoln University Classmate and all around Genius, Joseph Reed recently shared a video that deals with Africa's future and the necessity for Africans beginning to trade with other Africans, as opposed to importing crap from other countries. We are the creative geniuses many of the technological wonders were stolen from in the first place. So building quality circles, exchanging ideas, and keeping the money on the continent, and in the African community is something that could have a major impact on building their economy, and unifying the continent.
The article may or may not reach the African heads of state, many of whom are stuck on stupid and have become prey to neo-colonialist Chinese machinations, and residual eurotrash dictatorships that have them so obligated it may be another 400 years before they actually run their own country.
Dr. Arikana Chihomobori-Quao, former head of the AU in DC had advised African intracommerce as a measure of autonomy six+ years ago, and was censored and eventually fired for her efforts by sycophants tied to their previous eurotrash colonial monsters. Now the recommendation is being brought into focus once again; let's hope they're not so under the heels of China that they can't activate it and begin building the strong economy they deserve for themselves and the people of Africa.
Brother Gene "DINIZULU" Tinnie had some interesting remarks - again the kind you don't see in the NYTimes - that I thought might be constructive; so I'm sharing. Hopefully you on my mailing list of African, African American, and African Caribbean heritage will both read and share with your family, friends, and associates.
The link to the video is below, after his remarks:
"Asante sana, Gloria,
Stimulating, informative, and inspiring, including in some ways that might not have been predicted by the producers.
These
are most timely and welcome insights and statistics, which confirm all
that we have been knowing for some centuries now, and which was summed
up by one of Kwame Nkrumah's most famous aphorisms: "Africa is the
richest continent and has the poorest people."
It
is no secret that the African World comprises some of the most used,
abused, and exploited lands and peoples on the planet (something which
we in African North America, the materially richest country on earth in
terms of manufactured Things -- to buy, to have, to do, to be -- and
monetary wealth, fully understand in the historical context of
Indigenous genocide and African slavery), but, as a result "We are the
ones whom History has forced, obligated, challenged, and blessed to be
truth knowers, truth keepers, and truth tellers." When everybody around
us is going nuts in the pursuit of dollars as the means and definer of
wealth and survival, We are the ones, at least collectively if not
individually, who have maintained clear vision and have seen through the
whole nasty game for what it is.
The video
strongly suggests that Industrialization is the path to better living
and greater prosperity in Africa, along with much more rational
logistics of trade, travel, and communication -- the existing
infrastructure for which is largely inherited from the colonial era,
geared far more to facilitating exports of the continent's riches
(mostly raw materials) from coastal ports than intracontinental
exchanges, as in the glorious days of ancient Mali, for example.
It
is hardly a coincidence that the foundation of this export-driven
network was established to enable the extract Africa's most valuable
export by far, which was captured people, for a period of more than four
centuries (just considering the Transatlantic human trafficking routes
established by European newcomers to the networks that had already been
well in place northwared across the Sahara desert and eastward across
the Indian Ocean).
From these origins
came the all-too-well-known results with which we are living today in
the global geopolitical economic and social order (or disorder) that is
directed by multinational corporations (with no loyalty to any nation's
laws or well-being) and the global banking cartel. The connection
between the enormous profits that were made from slavery at all three
points of the trade Triangle -- the commerce in people themselves, in
the products of their unpaid forced labor, and in the finished goods
made possible by those products -- and the resulting accumulation of
financial capital that made the Industrial Revolution possible in
western Europe has been famously documented by the late Dr. Eric
Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad and Tobago,
in his classic study of Capitalism & Slavery.
Dr.
Williams' analysis did not only reveal the seminal role of Africa and
Africans in making the Industrial Revolution possible, bearing in mind
that the "slave trade," in turn, through depopulation and disruption of
established economic patterns, "softened up" the continent, so to speak,
for actual invasion and colonialism to have more direct access to the
land and its resources, using the remaining Indigenous population as a
quasi-enslaved labor force for extracting and exporting those riches.
What
also became even clearer from Dr. Williams' study was the fact that the
Industrial Revolution was (and continues to be) capital intensive,
meaning that it requires a huge concentration of capital wealth in a few
hands in order to industrialize. What this video refers to as the
'informal" sector -- individuals making their living from what skills
and resources they have through trade and barter with other individuals
-- can never bring together the amount of capital required to build a
ship, or a railroad, or an automobile industry.
So,
with whatever might be said about other countries', like South Korea's,
rise from a "rickety" economy based on agriculture to an industrial
powerhouse, it has to be recognized that this also entails both a
necessity for great disparity in wealth between the wealthy capitalists
who can build factories, and the masses of people who get drawn to
working in those factories, for wages that make consumerism possible,
and away from their previous, more self-sufficient lives in the rural
countrysides.
The consequences of that
transformation have been the launch pad for endless work by economists,
sociologists, therapists, novelists, poets, songwriters, artists, etc.,
with no end in sight.
We the
global Africans, who see through all of this, have to lead the way to
new thinking about what "economy" and "development" and
:industrialization" even mean at all. We do not have the option of
creating and depending on an enslaved class in sweatshops, or raping our
Mother earth for the mioneral raw materials and child labor that make
this communication with you on my convenient laptop in air-conditioned
comfort possible at all in the first place.
We
cannot afford an "economy" that is dictated by the marketplace of
outsiders. It is too costly to our people, our lives, our children, our
land, our livelihood for generations to come, not even to mention the
disrespect of Ancestors for which we know there is a horrific price to
be paid.
So the need for Africa to trade
with Africa has never been more compelling, but this is not only a trade
in goods and services (like our familiar 'informal sector"), but also a
trade in cultural and spiritual values that inform what our business
here on earth really is, and chasing the dollar is not it.
There
is no simplistic, one-size-fits-all judgment or analysis of
Industrialization as being "good" or "bad" that will serve our purpose;
we have always been too intelligent for that. The question for us is
how to reestablish that intelligence and harmony and take control of our
lands and resources based on OUR (which always ends up being
everybody's) best interests.
This very
well-produced video is just the beginning of our very timely, very
necessary Pan African and Pan Human and Pan Life thought process for
recovery and healing from the last five centuries of spectacular living
amidst unprecedented human population numbers which have come at an
enormous price which we continue to pay.
Just some random hasty reflections on what it all means.
Plz Xcuse any typos, etc.
DGT"
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The challenges of improving dismally low levels of intra-African trade
are immense, but a new wave of interest in regional integration is
gaining momentum.
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NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria DULAN-Wilson
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