The Metamorphosis of Africans’ problems: Dinka (Kiir) and Nuer (Riek), the promoters of the other people’s prosperity (part two).

 

I believe this letter will find its way to your desks; as you start your daily duties, remember the content has something to do with our situations. Or this letter may miss you at all but remember, the information giant (internet) will record and preserve it for future reference. My dears, I take this letter as such: a true story for you my leaders. Our country owns fortunes in oil reserve, fertile lands and much water in our swampy areas, this means we (South Sudanese) possess riches in resources but poor in politics.

 

My dear leaders, you and a number of people would wobble their shoulders as they read this letter and dismiss it as a long gone history with nothing to do with the sufferings we witness now (2013-2014), however, human’s minds control both the impossibilities and possibilities of human’s successes, and ethic of these successes, occupies another level.

 

 

Two phases of humans’ civilization, agricultural and industrial revolutions, drove Europeans and Americans to commit the horrible atrocities in the universe. As a human’s nature, people judge others with negligible mistakes, so not surprising for the super powers, which represent Americans and some Europeans’ countries to attack other nations for the urge of saving humanity. However, economy controls these moves. Their ambition to revolutionise the agriculture that jump-started industrialisation justified their decision. For 244 years, slavery dominated the minds of the forefathers of those who call and kill for ‘humanity’ today.

 

The triangular slave trade fuelled the agriculture revolution; the business minded plantations owners sent their agents to Africa for slaves. Conflicts exploded in the land of plenty; big kingdoms/chiefdoms invaded the small ones for one reason, to obtain prisoners of war (POws) whom the kings/chiefs sold into slavery for useless commodities such as salt, sugar or rice. How much do these items cost today? They cost less regardless of their quality or quantity. But no doubt that Westerners made fortunes because 20 pounds a month for a slave then, in Britain, would equates to 40,000 or more pounds today. While Arabs such as those of Omani or Mahdi’s family could buy a slave from Africans’ kings/chiefs for as little as a kilogram or two kilograms of either salt or sugar.

 

So when one man studied God in private and convinced himself that God exists and that He has immense power over all things, that Him alone created the whole universe with everything in it; and that He produced all humans with equal rights. With these revelations, Abraham Lincoln declared slavery inhumane and made it illegal in America. For this reason, Americans dived into a civil war; Lincoln (unionist) won the war but he lost his life!

 

My dear leaders, if we could die for a righteous course, if we could reject the notion of making billions of dollars for a good course of humanity, heaven will extent the lifespan of the universe. Or put it another way, if the goodwill shines over the will of making money, then evils will disappear in our country and in the world as a whole.

 

Nevertheless, evils drive the world so a century visited and left in America after Lincoln abolished the slavery on the basis of God given-equal-rights; but the daughters and sons of Africa continued to wallow in an intense   heat of discrimination because of the colour of their skins.

 

For centuries, Europeans submerged in economical and territorial wars; so turning to Africa for cheap labour, though a ruthless and an inhumane move in the humans’ history, became valid. Economical competitions in Europe among the British, French and Germans led to scramble for Africa. Providing raw materials such as cotton for mushrooming industries, Europeans viewed Africa as a propeller of industrialisation. In addition to this, as economical wars escalated to political rivalries, they (Europeans) considered Africa as a battling ground so whichever country controlling more strategic areas such as ports and mining/fertile lands like the Nile basins (for cotton farming in Egypt) in Africa, controlled the political pivots at home (Europe).No doubts, first world war sieved out of this mentality.

 

So dear leaders, the west still thought of Africa in the same way as they did in centuries ago; though the tactics changed but the same games, any country within Africa with a “problem”, her former colonist spearheads in what they reflect as “solving the problem”! You saw it in Libya. My dears, you could ask who would be our colonist because we separated from North Sudan; which doctor did the caesarean birth of our country? If you know the answer, then that doctor will take the lead any time from now.

 

My dear leaders, let’s come to this century. Does it sound /look similar when you saw the lights of Africa extinguished whether in cold bloods or with an intention? My dear leaders, take Libya with Gadhafi as an examples.  Why Libya with Gadhafi? And not Zimbabwe with Mugabe? You could argue that Libya with Gadhafi lives in isolation in the North Africa, where countries such as Egypt, North Sudan, Tunisia, and Morocco hate Gadhafi, whereas Zimbabwe stands in mighty South Africa (region).

 

And I salute you with this argument, however, the super powers with the France leading, extinguished Gadhafi because of many reasons; the vast oil in Libya triggered the attack, the France then president owed Gadhafi’s money, Gadhafi towered Africans’ pride to own their satellite, their Monetary fund (AMF) that will wrestle out the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and he already championed the funding of African Union (AU).

 

My dear leaders: still, didn’t it surprise you when Mugabe treated British residing and owning lands in Zimbabwe like trashes but no military intervention from the West? I tell you why! Your Excellency (you both) got the region as a reason right but I will qualify it this ways:

 

 

You may argue that our region (Eastern Africa) matches the South Africa and you got it right as well but you refuse to listen to them; they opposed the first intervention but if you keep missing the deadlines, then the second call from the UN and super powers may go through!

 

To finish, my dear leaders, economy and politics cause lots of worse sufferings than does the religion; the drives of some people to make money for their comfort, put the theory of evolution, the survival of the fittest to the test. Humans’ ambitions cause time and lives, and less fortunate people, mostly in the third world countries e.g. our country, witness their wealth in terms of resources such as (minerals) diamond, gold, uranium and silver shovelled by the first world countries into their banks. Channelling or draining oil of the undeveloped countries become normality for super powers; so any mistake in choosing the oil buyer, results in either from within or from without conflicts. Conflict from within, where some citizens pushed by the suppose buyer, complain of “human rights abuses” or “lack of democracy”! Thus attracting the intervention of a super power (that suppose buyer), which controls the resources of a country like ours. Conflict from without, where a neighbouring country aggresses the oil-rich country like what happened between Iraq and Kuwait; the super power came into rescue of Kuwait; whichever conflict, benefits the super powers.

 

My dear leaders, reason and plan beyond yourselves or even beyond this generation and sign peace for millions of South Sudanese yet in their in parents’ blood.