AFRICA, FOR HOW LONG WOULD YOU REMAIN A BEGGAR?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 8.NO 324. 27th October, 2019.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!

AFRICA, FOR HOW LONG WOULD YOU REMAIN A BEGGAR?

[Lamentation Over Africa:  Pride of the Black Race Across The Universe!]
Africa, O Africa! How have you fallen disgracefully to the ground?
From grace to grass in the miry clay to lose your prestige, albeit, first estate;
Through greed, thou wast ravished by strangers for filthy lucre,
Your children orphaned, scattered in White man's land;
Enslaved, disparaged, disillusioned; how did we get here?
Africa, O Africa! You must rise from the ashes, regain your pride of place!
It is not late, it will never be too late to regain lost ground!

Historians have failed to dispute the fact that civilisation was first noticed in the North Eastern part of your vast and richly-endowed landscape, before it debuted in other lands of Medieval/Modern Europe and your sister continents of Asia, the United States and Australia!
Geologists and anthropologists have proved that early artifacts of letterings, writings, sculptures of Africa, were found in its various countries not limited only to NE but also in the West's Nok culture, in Kaduna, North Central Nigeria - notable for Iron deposits and a population named after the Ham Village of Nok; also gold/tin mineral deposits in Zamfara, North West; works of art, architectural designs/constructions, metal works, canals for waterways, artesian wells, the pyramids, mausoleums, etc, were commonplace in Alexandria, Egypt's southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; Philistia (present day Palestine), which had rich deposits of lime, chalk and alluvial deposits from streams; not forgetting the mineral resources of the Lebanon Region, the Transjordan and the Dead Sea (an inland body of water, 50 miles or 80.46 km. long and 10 miles or 16.093 km. wide), full of very rich mineral deposits; Mesopotamia (Western Asia), within Rivers Tigris Euphrates waterways, and Democratic Republic [DR] Congo (formally francophone ZAIRE), is one of the richest countries in natural resources with untapped deposits of raw materials estimated to be worth in excess of US $24 trillion dollars), in Central Africa, etc, etc.!
QUESTION 1: What happened to your arable agricultural lands/ farms produce, animal husbandry projects, abundant milk, fura de nunu, green vegetables, peppers, tomatoes; cotton/jute industries, large stocks of timber woods, merchandise of gold, expensive ornaments and vestures; innumerable natural mineral deposits of iron, steel, copper, silver, uranium, deposits of lime and chalkalluvi etc, the sea/faring ships and your daring voyagers?
QUESTION 2: How did you suddenly become the most-backward continent among the rest, that you now have to go cap in hand to beg for virtually all the basic amenities of life from UK, USA, EU, CHINA, JAPAN, GERMANY, ARAB NATIONS, G8, G7, COUNTRIES, etc, and now RUSSIA in spite of your enviable tropical sprawling lands that enjoy abundant sunshine and rainfalls at their unfailing seasons?
QUESTION 3: Why would you be described as backward, poor, illiterate, raw, uncouth, unhealthy, UNDER-developed despicable etc?
QUESTION 4: Why do you catch cold each time one of these advanced countries sneezed?
QUESTION 5: Do you know who or where the next Summit will hold? - Maybe on the MOON?
QUESTION 6: How did you get to this harrowing level to BEG for their workforce to come and build your strategic structures, bridges, hospitals, refineries dams and for their finances to feed your children?
QUESTION 7:  Don't you have your own AFRICAN workforce? How would you expect them to transfer their technology/intellectual property to YOU? Don't you have any shame? Have you ever thought of technology acquisition?

ALL 55 AFRICAN UNIONS (AU), COUNTRIES ARE FREE - AREN’T THEY?
The United States of America fought bitter wars to become the greatest global economy, China did the same and the Russian Revolution of 1917 open rebellion, succinctly supported by the armed forces against the ruling overlords headed by strings of very powerful and domineering TSAR title holders, brought to an end bad governance and ushered in "communism" - the doctrine of commonness, i.e., common ownership of all property which progressed gradually from 1917 into revolutionary socialism which was based on the writings of Karl Marx - a German social economist of Jewish origin whose ideologies also influenced governments of Poland and China! All EU Countries have gained independence in similar fashions - not on a platter of gold, - but unlike their Asian, European or American counterparts, their leaders adopted neo-colonialist attitudes of illegal acquisition of wealth/properties to the detriment of the masses of freedom fighters - many of who lost their lives in the process!

BUT THE EQUATION MUST CHANGE NOW! AFRICANS WILL EAT WHAT THEY GROW; WEAR THEIR MANUFACTURED CLOTHES; DWELL IN HOUSES THEY BUILT; AND RIDE IN CARS & TRUCKS THEY CONSTRUCTED! THEY MUST SHUT THEIR LAND BORDERS LIKE CHINA IN THE YEARS OF STUBBORN PATRIOTISM, AND ACHIEVE ALL-ROUND SUFFICIENCY, IF NEED BE!

The 21st Century stampede by World Powers for the abundant natural resources massively studded in the belly of Africa is reminiscent of the MAD GOLD RUSH of 19th Century which swept through Continents of Australia/United States; New Zealand, Brasil, Canada and South Africa!  In the 15th Century, before World War I, the civilized World powers described Africa as a DARK CONTINENT, because little was known of its interior as British and Portuguese seamen and explorers only established trading ports around the coastal areas especially of the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa!

Now in the 21st Century, swarms of expatriate geologists, economists, industrialists, engineers, scientists, technologists, information communication experts, technocrats, portfolio investors etc, are clustered in the 53 African nations determined (this time around), to "legitimately" explore, exploit and harness the immense mineral resources outside of CRUDE OIL, and all economic opportunities available within the bowels of black continent! Of the Seven geographic global continents, AFRICA, is the most divinely-blessed with the greatest number of natural resources and also the most-endowed with friendly climatic condition, predictable weather and virtually devoid from all ecological calamities/disasters that beset Asia, Europe, United States like, devastating landslides, earthquakes, storms, tornadoes, tsunamis; massive forest fires, etc, constitute regular affront to safety of lives and properties in those continents!

Therefore, the alien invasion/aggressive occupation from Cape to Cairo; Freetown to Addis Ababa; DR Congo to Libya, etc, by G8, G7 and EU entrepreneurs, including the United States, the Asian Tigers (China, Japan, Koreans etc,), and now, the re-entry of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION, in all areas of trades, industries, manufacturing, and investments especially is therefore not surprising, cannot be overemphasized, nor wished away!
Most prominent among the contestants are the United States (acknowledged as the global economic giant), the Socialist Republic of China, ( the second largest economy after the US), and now the Russian Federation, just concluding, "The Russia African Summit", held at Sochi, and attended by over 50 African Presidents/Head of States, including Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari.

RUSSIA,S PRESIDENT VLADMIR PUTIN IS A MAN TO WATCH VERY CLOSELY!
In some bi-lateral agreements with Nigeria, Mr Putin will ensure completion and commissioning of the AJAOKUTA STEEL ROLLING MILLS, which construction began in 1979, but aborted along the line by a Russian outfit! He will support war against crime, corruption, insurgency, supply Nigeria with military weapons to end Boko Haram terrorism etc, etc, improvement of the Oil Sector through upgrading NNPC Refineries and a Russian-based Oil & Gas Company, and to develop Nigeria's gas facilities. Russian engineers will build and deliver the 1,400 km. railway line from Lagos-Calabar and construct NUCLEAR PLANT for Nigeria which should start immediately and also renew Nigeria-Russia military cooperation, not forgetting collaboration in Security, Education and Agriculture, according to the deals!

ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY!
Since the USSR was voted out by the Supreme Soviet on 26th December 1991, and its 8th and last President Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned about 26 years ago, the Russian Federation had remained s shadow of itself and could only play the opposition in global security affairs with whatever remained in its arsenal! Current President, who had made all of the above promises is a man to monitor very closely because he had been involved in many controversies across the globe –
He was fingered in some expansionist ambition both in Poland and Ukraine through renegade Russian soldiers;
Accused of masterminding the shooting down of a Malaysian Airline Flight 17 (MH17), commercial aircraft Boeing 777 - 200 ER from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, on  over the Eastern Ukraine/ Russian border -283 passengers and 15 crew were killed in that horrible incident, but President Putin denied any involvement!
He was also accused of collaborating with Turkish rebels who tried unsuccessfully in the state capital, Istanbul, to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July 2015; he also denied; and
President Putin's Russian army, was also deployed to support the oppressive government in Syria, headed by Bashar Al - Assad since the beginning of the Syrian conflict 2011 - with at least 400,000 death recorded as at 2016!

ALL OTHER CONTINENTS PUT TOGETHER NEED AFRICA MORE THAN AFRICA NEEDS THEM!
It is most gratifying to note that these developed nations have realised that they could no longer stand aloof and dismiss Africa as a DARK CONTINENT or under-developed, when their industries could actually run aground without continual replenishment of their warehouses from the inexhaustible natural mineral endowments that abound all over the  blessed lands!

Prior to this period of economic advancement, the British and French Administrations took early steps to secure sovereignty over their colonies in Africa shortly after World War II, for three strategic reasons:
To assert authority as colonial masters;
To protect the colonies from unforeseen invasion;
To grow their economies which were severely devastated through wars, with natural mineral /agricultural deposits that were in excessive abundance in those colonies!
They adopted a very simple strategy through language diplomacy which encouraged closer affinity and were so classified as Anglophone/Francophone Colonies until the attainment of self-rule or independence!

A cursory glance at the map of Africa will reveal startling facts that virtually all countries of the black continent were at one time or the other (apart from Ethiopia and Liberia), colonized/enslaved by some superior forces! Their fears were not misplaced after all in view of the present trend of the economic battle for the SOUL OF AFRICA - but this time around, MUST not be by foreign predators or taskmasters, BUT by equal project partners working together to achieve mutual economic goals beneficial to both sides. 

Nigeria' foreign policy of non-alignment since independence would surely give the nation a comfortable leverage to chose its friends or allies with the good leadership already exhibited by MR. INTEGRITY, President Muhammadu Buhari! "A stitch in time saves nine"!

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