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Ndugu ALLIMADI and UAH folks,
CLEARLY, in what I may term as 'satirical analogue' you have made, I think you are completely on point. Historically, we (African countries) continued to be under these pathetic political conditions because of the brutal colonialism interferences in most of our mentioned countries by Trump lately.
SADLY, I know some of our folks in this UAH forum are quite negatives about my over constant reminding ourselves on the historical events as far as your latest 'satirical analogue' has shown. Let us not forget how Patrice LUMUMBA, of Congo Kinshasa (today DR Congo) was murdered by the West World political games during the Cold War era which brought Congo to the current political rots we are seeing it is under.
LASTLY, that brutal political interferences by the West World had continued in the whole African countries from the Cold War era to tomorrow unabated. The whole West World political leaders and players know their destructive political games in Africa and in Latin America are real. Our Uganda politics had been brought down to its knee today because of the complete political interference of both UK and US, which made us not move forward for the betterment of our political situation.
RIGHT, from OBOTE ONE government both the UK and the US sabotaged that government by their solid supports to monster military regime of AMIN. We are under our current deplorable political situation leaderships of the NRA/M7ism regime because of the massive moral and economic supports by both the UK and US for the continuous 33 plus years and still counting.
Ocaya pOcure
Den söndag, 14 januari 2018 8:30 skrev Milton Allimadi <mallimadi@gmail.com>:
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On Saturday, January 13, 2018, Milton Allimadi <mallimadi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, January 13, 2018, Milton Allimadi <mallimadi@gmail.com> wrote:
My piece in The New York Daily News on #Trump's @realdonaldtrump
racist comment about Haiti/AfricaTrump's racist 's--thole' remark is far cry from the real Africa
President Trump wondered aloud why immigrants from "shithole" countries flocked to the United States.
(CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES)As a Ugandan immigrant, I wasn't surprised by President Trump's reference to Haiti and African countries as "shitholes."He launched his campaign by referring to Mexican immigrants as "criminals," "rapists" and "drug dealers."I'll use Trump's racist outburst as a teachable moment.Most students in my Contemporary African History class at John Jay College have little knowledge about Africa. During the first class, I ask students about the first thing that comes to mind when they hear "Africa." Invariably, answers include "diseases," "poverty," "killings" and "jungle." Translation: Shitholes.Bayanda, or brick sellers, in the Congo push bikes piled with bricks that will earn them an average of two dollars a day. Congo's per capita income is only $1,529, while that of the U.S. is $57,466.
(JUNIOR D. KANNAH/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)Students are stunned to learn that Congo's estimated resource endowment is $27 trillion; yet Congo's per capita income is only $1,529 while that of the U.S. is $57,466. We explore the reasons behind African impoverishment.My students learn about ancient African civilizations including Great Zimbabwe from Basil Davidson's "Africa — A Voyage of Discovery." They learn of Samori Toure, who resisted French imperialism, and of Empress Taytu and Emperor Menelik of Ethiopia, whose soldiers destroyed an invading Italian army, killing about 5,000 soldiers and capturing more than 2,000 in the Battle of Adwa on March 1, 1896.They learn how the U.S. and European countries became industrialized by plundering resources globally and exploiting labor, including of enslaved Africans, by watching Philippe Diaz's documentary "The End of Poverty?" They learn how demand for resources and markets for products after the 1760-1820 industrial revolution led to the partition of Africa by European powers during the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference in Germany. The invention of the Maxim gun in 1883 broke African resistance.Farmers work at a cotton market in Soungalodaga village near Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on March 8, 2017. African countries continue to export raw materials to Europe, the U.S. and China, while importing expensive manufactured goods.
(LUC GNAGO/REUTERS)Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" shows students how European powers then deliberately destroyed indigenous African industries to eliminate competition. People in Mozambique were forced to grow cotton, which was shipped to Portugal. It was turned into clothes and sold back to Mozambicans at inflated prices.Students learn from Kingsley Moghalu's "Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's Last Frontier Can Prosper and Matter" that even after African countries won nominal independence in the 1960s, the economic structures established during colonial rule were maintained.African countries continue to export raw materials to Europe, the U.S. and China, while importing expensive manufactures, such as vehicles, pharmaceuticals and electronic products.Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was executed by a firing squad in 1961.
(AP)Students learn that African leaders who've tried to break off dependency pay a heavy price. In Belgium's former colony, Congo, Patrice Lumumba was murdered, with CIA involvement; the CIA also was involved in overthrowing Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. The French didn't like it when Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara urged African leaders to collectively renounce heavy debt burden, including some inherited at the end of colonial rule. Robin Shuffield's documentary "Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man" shows how the French undermined the African leader, leading to his murder.Students learn how youth in Uganda, Congo, Sudan, Togo and elsewhere continue to struggle against tyranny and for accountable leaders who don't plunder the continent's wealth in cahoots with some Western corporations.My John Jay students can see that poverty isn't a permanent condition in Africa.Milton Allimadi, publisher of Black Star News and history professor at John Jay College.
(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)The words I hear from them about Africa at the end of the semester include: "resistance to dictatorship," "industrialization," "ending neo-colonialism," and most importantly of all — "hopeful."This is a far cry from Trump's view of Africa.Allimadi publishes The Black Star News and teaches at John Jay. He's writing a book about Empress Taytu for young readers.Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails
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