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America, Britain and their allies to wipe out all leaders that are not part of their puppetry.
Such leaders are seen as barriers blocking the exploitation of natural resources and thereby blocking the West from lining its industries with cheap natural resources or raw materials.
Africa is now deemed as the nerve centre for world economic growth as any super power that manages to control the continent’s resources – the land, the oil, gold, platinum, uranium- emerges the future economic power.
To control the resources, super powers have turned to effecting regime change putting into power loyalist governments that give them express exploitation rights.
The deal is sealed by painting Africa’s revolutionary leaders as evil dictators, very retrogressive and abusive of their own people, corrupt and insensitive to the plight of their own citizenry.
The powerful international information highway dominated by news agencies like BBC, CNN and Sky News, among a host of others, ensure that a one-sided story is repeated again and again, where lies become the truth.
Falsehoods and half-truths are turned into reality.
The African leaders are never given the chance to explain themselves and, at the end, they are quiet epitomies of evil and like the devil, they have no voices. Talk of the war in Libya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the uprising in Egypt and Tunisia.
Talk of the regime change in Zimbabwe and then put into the matrix, Africom, the United States military outfit created specifically to deal with Africa and Nato, then you know what I mean.
The Western allies will stop at nothing to remove any person they deem to be an impediment to this new thinking, which is in actual fact, subtle colonialism.
African leaders have failed to come up with military interventions in their own trouble spots and America and Europe have taken advantage of that scenario to re-penetrate Africa, where they were booted out by nationalist leaders like Robert Mugabe, Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda, among others.
The greatest shock is that even on matters that are really African, America and Britain make it a point to appear more relevant to an African problem than Africans themselves.
Questions of the future of Africa remain more unanswered than answered because the African Union is forced to play second fiddle.
Where is the AU in Libya? Where is the AU on the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe? Where is the AU in Cote d’Ivoire?
Whatever effort AU has done in Libya has been rubbished. Whatever AU has done in Zimbabwe has been rubbished, and whatever it tried to do in Cote d’Ivoire was rubbished.
The time is now. The time for AU to use those regional blocs like Sadc and Ecowas to form military outfits that can be used to avoid the use of foreign forces like Nato and Africom.
Africom is at work in Libya for the first time since its formation in 2007 and it has complemented Nato forces in abusing UN Resolution 1973.
Once in Libya, Africom and Nato no longer listen to anyone, including the UN itself and this is what they will do in every African country in future.
Targets are already there. That is, targets to hit Maummar Gaddafi and the remaining African revolutionaries should start putting their act together to bloc the evil from coming to their doorsteps.
All sorts of names will be called on those who resist this movement and CNN, BBC and other Eurocentric media will be set after the victims like vicious dogs set after a hare.
The future of Africa lies in its ability to remain in control of its natural resources, its ability to avoid wars and finally, its ability to put its act together militarily and avert relying on foreign military forces to deal with its troubled spots.
The future of Africa will be determined by its ability to elect into offices leaders with Pan-African credentials, leaders with interest in having Africans control their destiny.
It wholly lies in Africans being able to be shapers and masters of their own destiny through strategies that avoid internal conflict and unnecessary exposure of African countries to Western military interventions.
Zimbabwe’s veteran President Mugabe is one of those leaders who should be credited for avoiding European military intervention by understanding the politics of the time and manouvering the political landscape with tact and tenacity.
When they thought they had gotten him, they failed to come up with a UN resolution and now he has left them clutching a straw.
Africa needs to quickly sort out its fragmented approach and ring fence its interests by never allowing US and Nato military interventions, which are eventually abused to effect regime change and exploit its vast natural resources.
Lloyd Kent is a freelance British journalist and political commentator. This article first appeared on Day Africa.com