By Dan Amor
The black continent has been
reduced to a guinea-pig laboratory in which wanton denigration of corrosive
state power has been carried out in its unspoken barbarity. In no other
continent than Africa have the citizens been so
abused by the powers of the state. In their idiotic, shameless and sadistic
mentality, our rulers think that the people are destined to last, unmoving
throughout the cataclysms of the surrounding world in the face of national
usurpers and foreign conquerors. With the physical exit of the whiteman,
African rulers ostensibly formed a new generation rebellious at its inheritance
of a cynical and hypocritical legacy.
Today, Africa has
produced more treacherous dictators than any other continent in the world and
even any other race in history that could even make the Age of Antiquity and
tyranny of the Renaissance green with envy. Even as some of them now pretend to
be democrats, they still cannot cover their inner colours with their new
'democratic' skin. Yet, how do we appreciate the nebulous fancy of the average
African dictator? How do we extrapolate his consummate excesses? How do we
vitiate the nuances of his personal pride and ambition? And, finally, how do we
impugn the Johnsonian epigram about the innocuousness of corruption and the
mentality of the African dictator? It takes only serious thinking for analysts
to decode that much of the savagery connected with the African tragedy can be
explained in the violence inherent in Western manners. African leaders are
therefore hapless tools of that logic of history which leaves a minority
determined to assert itself against the majority with no choice of methods than
using terror as not merely an attendant phenomenon, but a vital function of
insurrection.
Almost six decades after gaining political
independence from European exploiters of their resources, Africa ,
easily the most naturally endowed region on the face of the earth, has been
turned into a theatre of war no thanks to the lackeys who took over the mantle
of political leadership from the colonialist. It has been a monumental tragedy
that Africa is yet to find its bearings more
than fifty years into self rule.