Mental Decolonization and South Sudan Political Struggle.
3 min readBy Morris Mabior Awikjokdit
Colonization is the establishment of political and economic control over a foreign territory as the American administration under Obama came out clearly with an intention to loot South Sudan natural resources and control the country economic as well as the leadership. Most African countries were in one way or the other colonized by a country from the West, who were mainly interested in enriching themselves and imposing their culture and lifestyles on us. Obama administration in America caused incurable headache to the whole world by influencing wrong politicians to destabilize African nations and that is his first priority to seek power in second term of office. The whole world especially African continent will not yawn enjoying her lasting freedom like the rest of the continents should Obama still to continue for third term in power as American president. The whole world will be burning and remain a hell.
Africans leaders need to be mentally de-colonized and take a firm stance by going back to our culture, which we inherited from our forefathers. It is a matter of fact that we should minimize eating the food that our colonial masters are exporting to us. We have to be mentally strong and refuse some of the food exported to Africa including the present of the UN peacekeeping Mission across the continent because they have gone out of their mandate of maintaining peace and order in war affected countries, which may be unhealthy to us. Before the advent of colonialism, Africans were living much healthier and longer lives without suffering from most of the political diseases that we are now faced with today. Peacekeeping mission forces in South Sudan become war keeping mission as they rally behind Riek Machar deadly rebellion by providing him with heavy machines guns and ammunitions to destabilize South Sudan sovereignty and its sustainable peace and unity.
As South Sudanese in particular we have a moral obligation, to reflect our minds on the dangers some of these food might have on our health. We have to maintain our culture, diets, and traditions to make the West know that we are no longer in the era of colonialism and can now live independently politically, economically, militarily and Agriculturally.
It is true that we don’t know the content of some of the imported food items, which we consume daily without having a second thought about the dangers they pose to our health. We are not saying that Western food should not be consumed at all but there is need to reduce their consumption for the betterment of our health.
Globalization of Africa should be in the minds of all Africans and all patriotic Africans need to be mentally decolonized for the economic liberalization of the continent.
The author is a freelance opinion writer and a professional experience teacher based in Warrap State- Kuajok. You can reached him by email: morrisawikjok@yahoo.com or contact +211912646306
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