Let there be a page in each weekly e- paper dedicated to current news coming out of Africa. This continent from which the ancestors of the vast majority of Grenadians came, is grossly under-rated due to the wholesale redistribution of newsfeed from western imperialist capitals which bombard our masses with their choice of selected information, disinformation and propaganda.
News is peddled to feed mainstream media in every corner of the world, whilst gullible media reps replicate it lock, stock and barrel without question. This level of ignorance must be addressed.
Why must people of African heritage be subjected mainly to feed from CNN, BBC, Fox News, AP, Reuters, DW, Murdoch or NY Times that are copied and transmitted from sources promoting blatant caucasian supremacy?
Had it not been for Al Jazeera and Press TV we would be back in the 50’s & 60’s when there were no contending narratives. However, the time has come for Traore,, AES, Mali,, Niger,, Burkina Faso, South Africa, EFF and Nigeria among others to be featured throughout the Caricom spread.
Take a page from the legendary Bob Marley who spoke of the lingering effects of mental slavery,still very much in vogue in much of the Caribbean. Let today’s movers and shakers in Africa be highlighted to allow their voices to be heard and not stifled and discredited by western media.
Case in point, GBN is owned by a Trinidadian national with the Government of Grenada holding minority shares. That Trini, in local parlance, is likened to a coconut, though dark-skinned, he carries the badge of our former colonial masters, proud to serve their interests.
Can the current managers at GBN find it expedient to feature progressive news out of Africa on a regular basis without seeking the approval from their Trini boss? Let’s see in the immediate future if they can re-programme to add African content or be forced to comply with his neo-colonial agenda.
Why should our main source of information by TV be owned by a non-Grenadian anyway?
And now to the most articulate African leader today, Ibrahim Traore … whose life has come under attack on numerous occasions in the recent past. Only because he has taken away his country’s resources from European countries which were the key beneficiaries of Burkina Faso’s (BF) mineral wealth whilst Faso’s citizens, many of whom remained in abject poverty whilst France plundered BF.
Resulting also from his astute military prowess, Traore has been able to curb the incursions of Jihadist groups Isis and Boko Haram, those so-called Muslim mercenaries who have been fooled into thinking they have the support of mainstream Islam.
In fact, these two unnoble entities were established and are funded by the enemies of authentic Islam and are not recognised and given legitimacy by the world of Islam or believing Muslims.
In the past three years President Traore has transformed his country from a state of dependence amid corruption to one of transitioning to a climate of sustainable economic independence gaining significant improvements in the quality of life for his country folks.
France, which had been draining the treasury of BF and extracting its mineral resources is now trying to find ways and means to abort his country’s impressive progress. Every plan is being conceived trying to “neutralize” him. But he is moving ahead with a grandiose vision to eradicate the colonial borders of some West African countries into what can resemble the United States of Africa, starting with Mali and Niger.
This is the best possible future for Africa’s liberation from Euro-dominance, one that will provide handsomely in benefits to African citizens instead of the people of France. In the meantime, while the life of the leader of Burkina Faso is in mortal danger, there is a crying need for the global human family to support and protect him from the evil machinations of the imperialists whose desire it is to restore their colonial past on the citizenry of Africa.
Every Caribbean person should henceforth keep his eyes trained on the immediate happenings in Africa, now that its people are rising to retake their resources from colonial vampires.
Let’s be mindful that those who try to assign the name ‘terrorist’ to some are themselves the proven terrorists in today’s world. These are the same leaders and countries speaking boldly about fostering democracy worldwide whilst their actions are hypocritically in support of genocide and apartheid with Washington, Tel Aviv, London and Paris in the forefront.
A gentle reminder to our e-paper editors to dedicate one page ever-so-often to educate and inform our populace of timely, progressive achievements in Mother Africa, as well as to positively promote its leaders who present their embolden faces to the arrogant and deceitful west.
In this new dispensation we will stand by and for Africa, bold and fearless. Long live President Ibrahim Traore as Africa continues to rise.
Amen!
GLOBAL CITIZEN