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Opinion                                                                       The Mensaist©







                    ROTTEN TO THE CORE: A POLITICAL CRITIQUE OF THE BLACK
                                              AFRICAN RULING ELITE





                                                 completely sold out to            thoroughly scrutinized
                                                 the enemies of the                they reveal themselves
                                                 prosperity of the Black           to be nothing more
                             ooking at           people.                           than some deeply
                             Black                                                 subjugated entities.
                             Africa              At this highly decisive
                             nowadays,           moment of the                     From the political and
                             one can't           historical process, they          economic aspects of
                             help but            neither represent the             the Black African
                             realize the         ideals of Black                   tragedy, to its most
               total state of absolute           liberation nor can they           intimate spiritual
               political powerlessness           bring about our total             manifestations, the
               that the Black                    liberation from the old           Black African ruling
               continent displays                rusty shackles of                 elite is totally out of
               constantly on the                 oppression.                       phase and incapable of
               world scene. Black                                                  bringing about a new
               Africa clearly doesn't            Indeed, this total                era of prosperity for
               have a voice. The                 failure of the Black              our people.
               current leading powers            elites worldwide is
               of this world unjustly            nowhere more visible
               decide our destinies.             than on the
                                                 Motherland, where all             LACKEYS OF
               Our sovereignty is                governments and I                 GLOBAL
               non-existent or at the            mean every single one
               very least totally                of them is totally                IMPERIALIST
               meaningless. Sad fact,            compromised.                      FORCES
               which in itself
               constitutes an insult to          In all vital aspects of           Politically at this point,
               Black dignity, but the            Black Africa's survival,          the truth is that there's
               masses are too                    as an entity, the                 not one Black African
               mentally enslaved to              current governments               republic that is not
               realize the gravity of            have sold us out. None            under control of one
               the situation.                    of the contemporary               foreign imperialist
                                                 Black African                     nation or another.
               The main reason for it,           republics is totally free         Since our Motherland
               is that the Black elites          either materially or              has been turned into a
               in Africa and the                 spiritually. As a matter          playground where
               diaspora have                     of fact, whenever
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