Best United
The Young Yearning for Absolute Change

INTRODUCTION

Back in the 1960s, African countries had shared interests in their quest to find independence from colonial power. This is sadly not the case anymore; today a once revolutionary movement has derailed many African countries. The focus has changed, causing these countries to bend their rules in order to be considered as investment destinations by Western states and their organizations. It has led Third World and Developing nations of Africa to look at the rest of Africa with contempt because they have received international monetary and loans from the World Bank. A South African does not feel for a Zimbabwean or Somalian and this is exactly what the colonizer wanted in the first place. He wants us to be divided by diversity and for individuals to hate each other because the last time that Africans cared for each other, the colonizer was thrown out the political window. It is also for this reason that the colonizer will hand out as much sweets and chocolate as they possibly can, to continue having puppets and worshipers in high ranking of every nation in Africa.

African Unison movement is not a new approach but Unison action against injustice, the most important thing is, whatever we do, we do it together at the same time. Even those who sell out the continent for their personal gain know that unity and unison action is fireproof and once initiated, the west and their puppets will be chucked out of the window and the people will achieve the economic freedom that was never delivered during the 60s. This is not the independence we fought for back in the 60s. Even if we won, it was like an empty vessel floating on a stormy ocean of poverty. The victory lacked the economic independence that would hold us as an anchor holds a ship at the harbour. Almost 100 years into the false belief that we are free. We can look at how every disease and hunger hits us like a turbulent storm to know that we are far from being free. Many African nations have sunk to the depths of poverty, others are drifting from here to there because we are not free to protect ourselves. We thought that an organization like African Union would bring the economic change we longed for but instead it became a liability and a stumbling block. The result being that for the last 56 years of its existence, it has been reduced to a begging entity.

We are still living like slaves in our countries and organizations such as the United Nations and African Union have done almost nothing when we needed them the most. We fought hard to get freedom and unfortunately the independence that we received was empty. This time, we need to fight harder and we will be required to also fight our own people who have benefited from the West. This is without a doubt a fight worth fighting. The west will probably use the United Nation Security Council power to threaten us as it did all those years ago but we need to forge on. Crime is crime and it should be brought to justice. Even if a billion years passed, no amount of time can lapse, which can squeeze that crime into the box of nothing. Criminals and beneficiaries of crimes must be brought to justice sooner rather than later because without social justice the world will continue to grow apart.

Poverty, crime and terrorism bred by prolonged crime must come to an end through the process of Reconciliation. Those involved in breeding injustice, slavery and colonialism should be willing to participate in repairing the damage caused. This process of reconciliation should seek to repair the damage caused by centuries of injustice. The world cannot be a better place whilst beneficiaries of past crimes use their blood accumulated wealth to continue controlling Africa and the rest of the world. They cannot continue to instruct the wounded on how to address their past hurts.

Having the lives of Africans being determined by those who were once slave masters and colonists through the United Nations and other bloody institutions of the West is nothing but the past dressed in a different suite. It is similar to having salt rubbed into a yet to be healed wound. South Africa amongst other African states has become a battleground for European thieves. For centuries, the British and Dutch as foreigners have made themselves leaders of stolen land by marginalizing the natives. They have made policies that suit their agenda and turned South Africa into their land. This is an injustice that needs to be addressed. South Africa belongs to its people and the rest is dependent on their generosity and the humanity of the people.
The leadership of the thieves and their descendants over marginalized natives has for centuries caused physical, mental and spiritual damage and in some cases the damage caused is beyond repair. Today an African is considered more of a foreigner in South Africa than a European living in the same country. It is sad that amongst the two foreigners, one Black from an African state and one white from Europe, one of them is likely to be killed over xenophobic attacks because they are considered different.
South Africa still suffers from past depression and the terrorism of western exploits and this has become a barrier towards embracing diversity. The country has embraced a single sided diversity in which white minorities are accepted simply because of color and social status whilst the majority of black foreigners are neglected. This is not diversity at all, it is racism which springs from unhealed wounds of the past. South Africans cannot be taught about reconciliation and embracing diversity without looking holistically at their healing. Addressing past wounds needs to look at how they suffered in the last 50 years of struggle and the impact of white settlers since the 1500s. As a result of this, South Africa has failed to retain its graduates or even create employment for its people. This is a result of a past that has not healed and years of black people being brainwashed and made to believe they are inferior to their white counterparts. This has led to South Africa being used as a pipe connecting the west to Africa in officially looting human and natural resources.
The legacy of the west and their descendants was ill-gotten, it was achieved by killing, torturing and stealing from Africa. It’s also that same wealth that’s haunting them like a ghost and they don’t know what they are suffering from. They turn to drugs for comfort, the more money they have the more expensive the drugs they take but they get no comfort. They suffer from psychological damage because a human being was never created to live with the memory of killing and torturing another. The victims and their descendants in Africa suffer the same kind of psychological damage. The effects thereof are seen in how they also consume drugs, in the education system, their leadership and decisions they make. Many Africans default to available and easily accessible drugs; among them being sex and alcohol because they are affordable. Partaking in child marriage and immature decisions taken have contributed towards unwanted pregnancies and this led to depressed families living beyond their means. Many Africans are having babies like queen bees and expect miracles to happen when they need to take care of those children. They expect God (mostly understood from a western perspective) to take care of them. Divorce becomes rife as a result of poor decision making, single parents are on the rise creating parents who struggle and suffer to raise their children. These are also the same communities infested with gangsterism and poverty. It’s a ripple effect, from slavery to colonialism which caused physical, mental and spiritual damage. Under these conditions, Africans continue to make poor decisions which further perpetuate their state of poverty.

Many of the families who inherited perpetual poverty fail to stay afloat amidst the country’s economic turbulence and sink into an ocean of poverty in which depression and anxiety drive many to drugs, as I stated, among them being sex and beers which are affordable and they breed babies like no one’s business. Many of these families become hell-like and they attract nothing. Men spend time in bars and children become street kids while mothers stay home depressed wondering if god exists or not. Children have decades in front of them to recall and relive the hell that was the homes they grew up in. Growing up in such homes is tough, and it gets worse when relationships do not work out and marriage becomes like a forest in which spouses become like beasts and prey. The children suffer the most in these cases, as Dr. Francis Cress Welsing (1974) said; “behavioral aberrations tend to develop when children grow up in unstable homes”.

No matter what the past might have been, we must make survival decisions. Decisions which are in our best interest because if you are to change, then life is the foundation on which change can be built. Our people need to understand that even if they are divorced or come from a single parent household, they are still able to live out their dreams. One’s past doesn’t have to determine the future they will have. Yes, life may never be the same but in the long run, the changes can be appreciated. However, people may become crippled by their past and decisions, sitting in a dark tunnel and not seeing a way out. When someone is in this dark place, moving on may seem impossible and unlikely.

Some end up taking their own lives, whilst others take the time to mourn their past so that they can heal. Some engage in the use of substances, looking for an escape, a way to numb their pain of the past. These conditions make it impossible to attain economic growth. That growth can only be achieved if people change from the inside and heal. The decision to move on is a wise one and one that any individual can make even people who have faced catastrophe. It will not be an easy task but making the decision to move on provides an unshakable foundation from which a future generation will be appreciated.

It requires discipline to handle a fractured life, in a fractured country, all this in a lagging continent. It requires knowledge of self and improving one’s emotional intelligence with improved education. Our people need to become self-reliant and find what they are created to do, their purpose and not what society has told them to be over the years. Irrespective of the choices that were made for you prior, i.e. becoming a child soldier, prostitute, gangster etc, if you are ready to change, it can be done. Changing and moving on requires digging within yourself and being able to move past the damage caused by the past. One has to develop and use their resilience to finally live as a creature who is financially independent despite their past. The ability to do this, enables people to create the future they desire and to challenge wrongdoing. Moving on means man and woman who live out their values and stand for humanity rather than race.

It’s futile that Africans continue to cry about the past and the damage incurred and yet still allow bloody institutions of the west to use them and sanction those they do not like. Those who favour humanity must move forward in unison movement and create United States of Africa. They need to act on behalf of fellow humans and their primary goal should be Africanism. This is inevitable, with or without African Union.
African people are ready and fed up with the past and current western manipulation. They are in need of someone to steer them ahead of a revolution which will bring about economic freedom. Africa is longing for someone who can steer them in a unison movement that will give birth to the United States of Africa. Even if the west refuses to reconcile with Africa, we must ensure that justice is handed down to the criminals and their descendants who still cling to the past. We, the people of Africa cannot afford to keep criminals in the powers of the United Nations. USA, UK, Belgium and the list goes on, those countries implicated in human trade and colonization. They must be stripped off their power and face the arm of justice.
Africans are already awake and they know the facts; that for the last millennium, those coming from the West were not coming to Africa to hand out hand cloths, Bibles and condoms. They were coming here to trade for what they did not have. They were coming here because we had something that they lacked. They needed our human and natural resources and they got these by preying on us, not through fair trading. They did it through slavery, through colonialism and now they are doing it through the United Nations and monetary institutions. Vesting into human rights or religion or humanitarian organizations will no longer work because the people of Africa have been awakened.

This book is about mobilizing Africans in a unison movement so that they can be part of the world economy. Irrespective of age, young and old Africans alike are called upon to be united because once united, Africa will have economic power. They will have the financial muscle to alleviate poverty as well as the bargaining power to trade fairly with the rest of the world. Trade that doesn’t put Africans in a position to beg. I question the existence of African institutions and their roles in moulding Africa into a desired and competitive economy. I question the credibility of western institutions which are only staying afloat because of their bloody gains and yet still claim to operate within the frames of human rights.
This book makes use of events in Rwanda and South Africa because I am an African born in Rwanda and I have lived in South Africa long enough to be familiar with its struggles. My time in the country has exposed me to a lot of things, not all pleasant. These two countries have had alarming events: The Civil War in Rwanda and apartheid in South Africa, both of which ended in 1994. Though what occurred with these events is in the past, they continue to influence our lifestyle and choices today.

This book is controversial to the west and its institutions, controversial to the African Union and its institutions and also controversial to African men and women as individuals. My aim is to ensure that individuals are awakened and make a move to form a unison movement and create United States of Africa. This movement should then challenge the wrongdoers despite their color and find its way and position among the world economies without enslaving, colonizing or killing anyone.

We need a unison move which will create United States of Africa and destroy western inventions which were designed to weaken us such as borders and divisions in Africa. To destroy any sort of sovereignty which tends to oppress people. Like a herd of Buffaloes chase the lion preying on them, so shall Africans together with those who favour humanity chase away poverty and crime. We need to create our own systems which will accommodate our own culture, religion and understanding of how things work. We must create our own systems that we can look back at with pride. These systems will optimize our successes and survival for ages. In future we will be able to look back on and confirm that we have built systems that optimized our success and our survival for the ages.