Black COLONIALISTS !!

Black colonialists
(Written by Modibe Modiba)

Who said colonialists came from Europe only? Seeing our own African brothers and sisters fleeing their own land through extreme means in order to find a better life abroad makes me sad, I'm reminded of all the slavery and colonial documentaries I've ever watched, where our fellow Africans would be sold and shipped abroad to their masters but this time, our own brothers and sisters are shipping themselves away from their own people.

Black colonialists are certainly on the rise in Africa and instead of radically correcting the injustices caused by colonialists in the past through the political power they've been given by their own people, they've certainly emulated their oppressors and have become black colonialists. These black colonialists just like those who held the Berlin conference do not have the interest of Africans at heart, instead all they care about is their own selfish interests at the expense of their own.

Now unlike those who took part in the "scramble for Africa", these black colonialists have been in most cases democratically voted into office by their own people, they've lived most of their years on the African continent and know the struggles of their fellow countrymen more than anybody else, they look like their own people, speak the same language as their own people but yet portray a lack of urgency and will to transform the lives of their own.

These black colonialist portray such power and could easily pass radical legislation, ensure true economic freedom and free their countries from those seeking to exploit our resources and colonise us yet again, but continue to keep their own people deadlocked without any true taste of economic freedom and political freedom in some instances. These black colonialists govern countries which are blessed with mineral and natural resources yet remain relatively poor, unlike European colonialists who never acted as if they care about us, these black colonialists go around as if they care but do the direct opposite.

Now, it's no lie that one of the successes of colonialism was indoctrinating the African man In order to hate himself or anything associated to him, a success which is still very alive even today. Now it wouldn't be fair to single-handily blame this on colonialists, although the foundation of this problem is rooted deep into colonialism. Our own leaders are to be blamed.

When African girls were abducted in Nigeria did our black colonialists urgently meet or funny enough hold a march in Nigeria the same way some of them attended a march in Paris during the whole Charlie-Hebdo killings? When 34 innocent miners in Marikana were brutally killed by their fellow countrymen did our black colonialists urgently meet and demand answers?

 When an African head of state violates the constitution and demands a third term in office are any of them condemning their counterpart and calling him to order? When minorities own more land, run the economy and control the wealth while the black majority remain poverty stricken why don't they reverse such an undemocratic thing, were the majority are certainly not the rulers and implement radical economic policies which will benefit fellow Africans first.

These black colonialists need to wake up and understand that whatever they do, should firstly be beneficial to their fellow brothers and sisters before anyone else.