[Atabong]

This question I ask myself every day. Can there be any reasonable explanation to why we Africans are so poor, so backward, so underprivileged, so left behind? So beggarly and so looked upon as bull****? Some one said to me: look if our people had not colonized you guys you’d still be going around naked and killing each other with spears.

First the Western people were here exploring and exploiting, dragging us in chains out to the plantations in the West. They created an outcry then change the method. They bring religion, divide us, and create wars, poverty, disease, ignorance, hunger and starvation and so nowadays we have neocolonialism. Our People no longer have to be carried away bare feet and in chains but flee to the West to do slave labour. Are our leaders so dumb, so inhuman, really do Black African Leaders think at all, let alone have a ‘conscience’?

The Chinese and Asians are slowly but surely seeping in too. Does black Africa have any way to protect itself from these invaders? We are gradually seeing our lands, forests, property etc bought over with the same money that is taken from our land and the proceeds pushed back to the invaders by our own leaders.

Sub Saharan Africa Economies are the worst on the planet, does it mean we cannot manufacture and consume our own products? Why do we have to starve and die in a land oozing with oil and diamonds? in fact the big powers don't even need to wage a war to get in. We pass around town and find shelved bottled water imported from Holland, France etc

We read and watch Western and foreign media, googgle out 'Sub Saharan Africa' on the Internet and we’re dumfounded with what we see. In the West, the only thing most people know of Africa is on their outright racist news channels, big billboards showing fleshless black men and women overpowered by disease, houseflies hovering over starving children. Even black people living in the West are demoralized. No body knows what to do, isn’t it time for us as Africans to portray the good we have?

Really, is Africa the Problem or the Problem Africans? Can some one say something