Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Africans Without Borders: The Success of Pan-Africanism Via Free Food Projects
The African Without Borders: The Success of Pan-Africanism Via Food
By Olarotimi Olakunle Onayemi
The African Without Borders is the result of a series of thoughts and action on the eventual future of Africans, to bring us up to the stage of the Europeans as at 2009.
Food
A Yoruba adage says (in my literal translation) that when the problem of food is solved in poverty, then poverty is gone.
The latest in the stream of international institutions, democracy and dialogue, though they may be designed to help the people attain a better lifestyle do not seem to and will not help African people anywhere if the problem of food is not solved.
İ’m tempted, and rightly so, to add education, health, housing, jobs, transport and democracy, at least in a republic to the importance I lay on the provision of food to Africans but will not since none of the concerned, the government or the African citizen anywhere seem to lay emphasis on these traditional group of necessary infrastructure for the enjoyment of a basic lifestyle.
Furthermore, continued beating of the same old problem with the same stick will not yield any result, at least in the near future, but concentrating the available resources on one need, food, will surely help us.
When the African anywhere in the world can eventually say the problem of food is over, then thoughts of and belonging to a decentralised Pan-African organisation of the right kind will become a reality.
All of us should support the free provision of food in whatever community we are in.
The Trials of The African Community
The African at home and in diaspora is not being expenditious about their plans to have an effective and sustainable contact with the African continent. Many events in history and the present are to blame for this and not individual care-less-ness.
The power of the individual from the information and servıces available to him or her has been improved by technology: we can expect an effective African Community now more than ever before.
The present and future frame of contact in this regard could be changed drastically by The African Union (AU). Since this is not going to be forthcoming in the near future and İ’m not naive to think so, the people will once again come to the front in their bid to form this long awaited relationship.
We have seen in the last century, revolutionary moves from Africans in Africa and in the diaspora to forge a community in culture, human/ women/ childrens’ rights and discrimination, politics, religion, community and sustainable development, democracy, education, health etc. but more has to be done to make an impact like the Asian and European diaspora.
The future of contact in this sense can be achieved through descriptions of processes and the eventual nature of a unified worldwide African individual and organizational relationships in fictitious documentations to synthesize a synchronized AU.
Literature (now it’s the multimedia and free participation) is known to help in cases like this, just as it does in the periods preceeding a revolutionary developments in society, arts or science. Before revolutions, which is also necessary in this case since The African Problem In All Areas of Human Activity is more wild and stubborn than any on other continents (if the comparison is worth it), a preview of the future must be made in holistic and explicit terms.
When any reasonable person thinks of the African and the African citizens in the diaspora, he or she does not discriminate between the one at home and the one abroad. Africa is the target of description in group in unfriendly opionions, intellectual examinations and political reports way up to the UN, and not as individuals being affected by the same set of circumstances dating back to contact with people from other continents, slavery, quasi-freedom from slavery till date, colonialism, neo-colonialism, socialism, fascism and ever-present imperialism.
More information in pictures have to come from Africans with a positive perspective of people who have always been affected by the negatives, including poverty, racism and genocide.
The web community which is inevitable in this case is accompanied by Africans Without Borders on the ground everywhere. There are lots of volunteers for a cause like this from within and outside Africa in this group which lays emphasis on the provision of food to Africans within the framework of an eventual social assistance.
We can read, play politics, give speeches, plan, manage in a very bad way but we cannot overrule the importance of food since this is what keep both the pros and cons of the debate on the African future going.
No thanks to Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and certainly not yet to Barack Obama on the African issue. There is hope, however, in the style of Steve Biko, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti on the creation, importance and necessity being the mother of invention of The Pan-African State.
Though this is not a forum to blame or praise, the preceeding is necessary to show the betrayal of the African Reality. I have been in and lived in 25 countries, (everywhere, there is a strange underground xenophobia) people who are not of African origin ask me about the African problems and they are not impressed by the role of many of our international figures.
People like ‘Wole Soyinka, known writers, musicians and NGOs of whatever kind should embrace The Food Project, everyone can do it. We need food more than rıghts and democracy. We never get rights and our governments are anything but democratic. They are more anarchistic in the negative sense, since anarchism is peace for the individual who controls his or her own life without government interference.
Though poverty and illiteracy have made the problems of The Africans as a group, longer than is necessary; food will solve the problem of poverty and will also energize the informer and to-be-informed, not in the age-old teacher-student relationship.
The appalling situation of the Africans everywhere: Europe, America, Asia and at home (I include the Africans at home because their situation is either seriously affected by neo-colonialism/ imperialism or by indigenous fascism.
We have seen the socialist and communist tendencies of the American government all through history while they oppose the old-USSR and present Russia, leftist people, writers, singers, activists and organisations but the Bush Jr. and Obama administrations have bailed out the financial institutions: where is the structural adjustment of the IMF and the World Bank?
If bank owners who can afford to feed themselves in a hundred lifetimes run into trouble at times like this, then waht is happening to the individual?
We know that of all the African is always and forseen to be perpetually affected by poverty, unemployment and problems directly related to non-existent personal finance.
If this is so as we all agree that people and organisations in trouble must be helped, then there should be a new sense of responsibility in governments and the United Nations to start helping the prople directly and not through governments who steal the Money anyway.
Social Assistance
The necessity of social assistance is inevitable in Africa: to provide monthly assistance for people in difficulties of all kinds.
Here, I wish to make reference to a story which counts for an anecdote in this case.
In 2007, Jay Leno on his NBC (US) show said: why should you work if you live in France?
If you work, you get paid; if you don’t you get paid.
This is true.
At the time of this programme I was watching fom my home in Vernier, Switzerland.
In Switzerland, just like in France and the EU, children and adult of all ages get unemployment, social or public assistance. These are three different types of assistance though they overlap in some cases.
Social assistance will let people go on with their lives without family, genral elections or government problems, it includes legal aid.
Cover
There’s no cover for Africans at home and abroad, one must evolve and it can start with the provision of food for all. All Africans everywhere should try as much as they possibly can to provide food to the other Africans in their community and beyond. This act can be accompanied by expanding knowledge about Pan-Africanism.
In future, we shall be planning social assistance for Africans..
The provision of food: this is a reasonable start and will definitely succeed.
Olarotimi Olakunle ONAYEMI, 41, Nigerian freelance writer and journalist also edits and publish ‘The FreeWorldReview’. Apart from ‘Afrıcans Without Borders’ he also designs free websites for Pan-African, existentialist and humanistic projects. He presently lives in Trabzon, Turkey on the Black Sea with his wife and son.
By Olarotimi Olakunle Onayemi
The African Without Borders is the result of a series of thoughts and action on the eventual future of Africans, to bring us up to the stage of the Europeans as at 2009.
Food
A Yoruba adage says (in my literal translation) that when the problem of food is solved in poverty, then poverty is gone.
The latest in the stream of international institutions, democracy and dialogue, though they may be designed to help the people attain a better lifestyle do not seem to and will not help African people anywhere if the problem of food is not solved.
İ’m tempted, and rightly so, to add education, health, housing, jobs, transport and democracy, at least in a republic to the importance I lay on the provision of food to Africans but will not since none of the concerned, the government or the African citizen anywhere seem to lay emphasis on these traditional group of necessary infrastructure for the enjoyment of a basic lifestyle.
Furthermore, continued beating of the same old problem with the same stick will not yield any result, at least in the near future, but concentrating the available resources on one need, food, will surely help us.
When the African anywhere in the world can eventually say the problem of food is over, then thoughts of and belonging to a decentralised Pan-African organisation of the right kind will become a reality.
All of us should support the free provision of food in whatever community we are in.
The Trials of The African Community
The African at home and in diaspora is not being expenditious about their plans to have an effective and sustainable contact with the African continent. Many events in history and the present are to blame for this and not individual care-less-ness.
The power of the individual from the information and servıces available to him or her has been improved by technology: we can expect an effective African Community now more than ever before.
The present and future frame of contact in this regard could be changed drastically by The African Union (AU). Since this is not going to be forthcoming in the near future and İ’m not naive to think so, the people will once again come to the front in their bid to form this long awaited relationship.
We have seen in the last century, revolutionary moves from Africans in Africa and in the diaspora to forge a community in culture, human/ women/ childrens’ rights and discrimination, politics, religion, community and sustainable development, democracy, education, health etc. but more has to be done to make an impact like the Asian and European diaspora.
The future of contact in this sense can be achieved through descriptions of processes and the eventual nature of a unified worldwide African individual and organizational relationships in fictitious documentations to synthesize a synchronized AU.
Literature (now it’s the multimedia and free participation) is known to help in cases like this, just as it does in the periods preceeding a revolutionary developments in society, arts or science. Before revolutions, which is also necessary in this case since The African Problem In All Areas of Human Activity is more wild and stubborn than any on other continents (if the comparison is worth it), a preview of the future must be made in holistic and explicit terms.
When any reasonable person thinks of the African and the African citizens in the diaspora, he or she does not discriminate between the one at home and the one abroad. Africa is the target of description in group in unfriendly opionions, intellectual examinations and political reports way up to the UN, and not as individuals being affected by the same set of circumstances dating back to contact with people from other continents, slavery, quasi-freedom from slavery till date, colonialism, neo-colonialism, socialism, fascism and ever-present imperialism.
More information in pictures have to come from Africans with a positive perspective of people who have always been affected by the negatives, including poverty, racism and genocide.
The web community which is inevitable in this case is accompanied by Africans Without Borders on the ground everywhere. There are lots of volunteers for a cause like this from within and outside Africa in this group which lays emphasis on the provision of food to Africans within the framework of an eventual social assistance.
We can read, play politics, give speeches, plan, manage in a very bad way but we cannot overrule the importance of food since this is what keep both the pros and cons of the debate on the African future going.
No thanks to Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and certainly not yet to Barack Obama on the African issue. There is hope, however, in the style of Steve Biko, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti on the creation, importance and necessity being the mother of invention of The Pan-African State.
Though this is not a forum to blame or praise, the preceeding is necessary to show the betrayal of the African Reality. I have been in and lived in 25 countries, (everywhere, there is a strange underground xenophobia) people who are not of African origin ask me about the African problems and they are not impressed by the role of many of our international figures.
People like ‘Wole Soyinka, known writers, musicians and NGOs of whatever kind should embrace The Food Project, everyone can do it. We need food more than rıghts and democracy. We never get rights and our governments are anything but democratic. They are more anarchistic in the negative sense, since anarchism is peace for the individual who controls his or her own life without government interference.
Though poverty and illiteracy have made the problems of The Africans as a group, longer than is necessary; food will solve the problem of poverty and will also energize the informer and to-be-informed, not in the age-old teacher-student relationship.
The appalling situation of the Africans everywhere: Europe, America, Asia and at home (I include the Africans at home because their situation is either seriously affected by neo-colonialism/ imperialism or by indigenous fascism.
We have seen the socialist and communist tendencies of the American government all through history while they oppose the old-USSR and present Russia, leftist people, writers, singers, activists and organisations but the Bush Jr. and Obama administrations have bailed out the financial institutions: where is the structural adjustment of the IMF and the World Bank?
If bank owners who can afford to feed themselves in a hundred lifetimes run into trouble at times like this, then waht is happening to the individual?
We know that of all the African is always and forseen to be perpetually affected by poverty, unemployment and problems directly related to non-existent personal finance.
If this is so as we all agree that people and organisations in trouble must be helped, then there should be a new sense of responsibility in governments and the United Nations to start helping the prople directly and not through governments who steal the Money anyway.
Social Assistance
The necessity of social assistance is inevitable in Africa: to provide monthly assistance for people in difficulties of all kinds.
Here, I wish to make reference to a story which counts for an anecdote in this case.
In 2007, Jay Leno on his NBC (US) show said: why should you work if you live in France?
If you work, you get paid; if you don’t you get paid.
This is true.
At the time of this programme I was watching fom my home in Vernier, Switzerland.
In Switzerland, just like in France and the EU, children and adult of all ages get unemployment, social or public assistance. These are three different types of assistance though they overlap in some cases.
Social assistance will let people go on with their lives without family, genral elections or government problems, it includes legal aid.
Cover
There’s no cover for Africans at home and abroad, one must evolve and it can start with the provision of food for all. All Africans everywhere should try as much as they possibly can to provide food to the other Africans in their community and beyond. This act can be accompanied by expanding knowledge about Pan-Africanism.
In future, we shall be planning social assistance for Africans..
The provision of food: this is a reasonable start and will definitely succeed.
Olarotimi Olakunle ONAYEMI, 41, Nigerian freelance writer and journalist also edits and publish ‘The FreeWorldReview’. Apart from ‘Afrıcans Without Borders’ he also designs free websites for Pan-African, existentialist and humanistic projects. He presently lives in Trabzon, Turkey on the Black Sea with his wife and son.
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