AS AFRICA PRICKS THE HEART OF G-8, LONDON EXPLODES

chichi316 - 8:05 AM ET July 7, 2005 (#3476 of 3476)

I JUST GOT TIRED OF TOO MUCH TALK ON AFRICA

Yes. I just got tired of too much talk on Africa. We have been through this road before. I

saw President Obasanjo of Nigeria on the CNN yesterday, speaking on the G-8, DEBT RELIEF AND ALL THE POLITICS OF WESTERN ECONOMICS. And there is nothing new on the agenda of the G-8.

As the leaders of the G-8 were busy brainstorming over the critical issues on their agenda, on increasing Aid to Africa and global industrial hazards, and also probably planning to play golf later, six catastrophic explosions just rocked London this morning with some deaths and scores of wounded people. When millions of Londoners are still elated in their Olympic Games' euphoria as London was still jubilating over beating Paris and other leading capitals in the world to win the rights to host the 2012 Olympic Games and millions of Londoners are still celebrating the Live 8 concerts launched by their celebrated rock music icon, Sir Bob Geldof, the crusader of humanitarian love for Africa. Then, suddenly, the unexpected happened as these shocking explosions erupted in their faces, before their very eyes and they are now gaping, moping and gasping for breath in fear and trembling. And I know that millions of people in Africa will not sleep well tonight, because the Western Union they have expected to be sent from their relatives in London today would be delayed, because of the disruptions in means of communications and transportations in London and the rest of the UK. Hundreds of other Africans will be cursing, gnashing their teeth and swearing at Osama Bin Laden and his fringe elements of terrorists and extremists for daring to jeopardize their dreams to migrate to London and the rest of the UK, as the flights to Heathrow could be delayed or suspended until further notice and the various offices of the British High Commission in different countries in Africa would probably be closed to all the thousands of the British Visa applicants.

Already, the tragedy has diverted the attention of the G-8. So, the emergency at hand is what they will be facing. Tony Blair has already pointed accusing fingers at the primary suspects, the terrorists and extremists. And he has left the venue of the G-8 meeting in Scotland and returned to London to address the emergency. Africa can wait. And I agree with them.

If African leaders still want to be spoon-fed by the G-8 and other leading nations, Africa will never grow up.

Our leaders make Africans look like a retarded people.
Who says Africa is at risk?
The poorest places on earth are not even in Africa and I challenge anyone to find out. The poorest places on earth are in Asia and not in Africa. We must reject this stigma of Africa as a poor, pathetic and miserable continent and remove the toga of poverty they have put on Africa and decide today to take up the mantle of a new Africa rising from the horizon of the new dawn.

Africa will no longer bear the stigma of the accursed.
Africa will now be known a the continent of the blessed and favoured.