Africa: Time To Resist NATO's New World Order

By Honourable Saka

US Federal Reserve Chairman: Ben Bernanke, leaving the 2008 Bilderber Conference

The Bilderberg group: the group which currently owns many governments around the world, through its puppet politicians, has been the main brain and the sponsor of the most talk-about One World Government, often referred to as the New World Order. The cabal has once again held a secretive meeting, this time at the Mariott Westfields Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia. According to the London Daily Mail, oil baron David Rockefeller, the patriarch of the famously wealthy family plus Peter Thiel, a billionaire, Facebook investor and co-founder of PayPal, are among the key figures in the Bilderberg Group. The official full list of the 2012 Bilderberg attendees can be found here (notice there is not even a single leader from Africa, Latin America, nor Asia). 

The list however includes an interesting personality: Garry Kasparov, a leading opposition candidate in Russia. Kasparov is a Chessmaster who is playing pawn to Western policy designed to unseat President Putin, as Putin is one of the leaders currently standing against NATO and the New World Order. "Kasparov is meeting with the elusive and notorious Bilderbergers under the guise of discussing “the Future of Democracy, Russia, China and the Middle East,” according to the group’s official website. Clearly, any winning strategy to defuse Putin’s power and destabilize him is desired. The implications for inflaming tensions with Russia are clear– and stark", writes Aaron Dykes, a journalists writing for PrisonPlanet.com.

The group comprises leaders from many secret societies, powerful families, CEOs of international banking institutions, billionaires, representatives from the US Federal Reserve, the IMF, ICC, UN, NATO, the mainstream media and a few puppet politicians from North America and Western Europe. 

Bilderberg appoints many political leaders in secret before those leaders are actually ‘elected’ by the public.

A recent WorldNetDaily article detailed a few examples of this phenomenon:

“George H.W. Bush attended Bilderberg meeting in 1985. He became president in 1988. Bill Clinton attended in 1991; he became president a year later. Tony Blair attended in 1993; he became prime minister of England in 1997. Romano Prodi attended in 1999. Later that year he became president of the European Union Commission. In 2004, Senator John Edwards spoke to the group. He was later anointed the Democratic vice presidential nominee by presidential candidate John Kerry”. The list goes on and on...

The American Dream, details a few lists of the big names that have for the past "few years" attended Bilderberg:

Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Prince Charles, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Rick Perry, David Rockefeller, Herman van Rompuy, Jean-Claude Trichet, Jeff Bezos, Chris R. Hughes, Eric Schmidt, Craig J. Mundie, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Richard Perle, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Hillary Clinton Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

About one-third of the members are from government and politics,  and two-thirds from finance, industry, labour, educational institutions and head of telecommunication industries. Meetings are closed to the public.  In August 2010 former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote an article for the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma in which he describes the "sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists" manipulating the public "to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self.

They usually meet during crucial periods like: US election year, before the appointment of heads of “international” institutions such the IMF and the heads of many educational institutions. Four years ago when rumors circulated that it was determined at a Bilderberg secret meeting that Barack Obama would be the Democratic presidential nominee; not Hillary Clinton. Then two days after the event, Hillary bowed out of the race.

David Rockefeller is a key adviser in the Bilderberg

Since its inception in May 1954, the Bilderberg group has been blamed as the main sponsors of the wars in the Middle East and many other wars that were fought in the 20^th century. Many people have suggested that Bildgerberg has already developed the blueprint for World War III and will be implemented at the appropriate time.  Bilderberg is also concerned that the world is currently over-populated and that drastic measures need to be taken in order to wipe out about 70% of people from the surface of the earth. As a result: homosexuality, wars, strange diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, SARS (Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome), H1N1, H5N5 (coming soon) and austerity measures in the developed world are some effective ways to carry out this agenda.

It has been established that before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bilderberg group held a secret meeting during which the official blueprint for the war was imposed upon the puppet politicians. Now they have held another secret meeting as the invasion of Syria and Iran is just hanging around the corner. The Bilderberg group controls the leaders of many countries and are often responsible for many of the draconian economic policies imposed upon citizens of many countries, forcing them to tighten their belt in favour of wars and any more wars. In the media circles, they’re often referred to as the 1%, though their actual number is around 150 individuals from North America and Western Europe.

After having stolen so much oil and other mineral resources from the countries they've invaded in the past and also through puppet governments around the world, it is estimated that the group own more than 60% of the world’s wealth, they own the military industry, the UN, all major international institutions, control the mainstream media, and are the secrete rulers of the world. Because of their love for secrecy, they usually hide behind their puppet politicians to advocate their policies to the world. Whether such policies are acceptable to the ordinary people or not, they would be implemented anyway. After all, those who vote for such laws do so in obedience to Bilderberg; not their citizens as we're often made to believe. Our governments, owe their allegiance to Bilderberg. This is the main reason why many presidential candidates (or prime ministers) in North America and Eastern Europe are able to raise all those billions of dollars for their political campaigns all the time. A few African candidates also travel around Europe and America in search for such financial supports before standing for elections. Out of desperation, they sign all sorts of agreements with these sponsors which are against their national interest. Every major candidate is bought and paid for to implement the agenda of their sponsors.

The Illusion of Today’s Democracy

Since its inception, democracy has been defined as government of the people, by the people and for the people. Well, that was the 19^th century. Even the 20^th century might have had a better experience when it comes to democracy. However, the meaning of democracy as far as the 21^stcentury’s experience is concerned has nothing to do with the people, wisdom, knowledge nor patriotism. It is all about money, corporate interest and the agenda of some powerful families: the Biderberg Group.

Today, democracy is the government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.  The people have no say whatsoever as far as any major policy-making is concerned. Leaders of powerful countries and international institutions like the IMF, World Bank, the UN, are first selected in secret Builderberg meetings, by powerful lobbies from a pool of puppet, corrupt politicians who are ready to serve the agenda of their puppet masters. Therefore when these political leaders finally “win elections” or become leaders of their various portfolios, as we’re made to believe, they’re unable to fulfil their campaign promises to the people. Those who promise jobs end up with austerity measures: pension cuts, laying off more workers, astronomical increase in school fees, increase military spending.  Those who propose “hope and change”, end up with wars and many more wars, bank bailouts and police state. Those who promise credible UN and ICC end up with selective justice, corruption. The UN, which is officially supposed to be a peace-making institution has now turned out to be a war making body. Thanks to these puppet leaders.

It is now widely understood that the banks are the institutions that write the laws of many nations. The banks, the military industrial complex, the prisons industrial complex, are responsible for formulating all economic policies and all domestic laws, whiles the politicians are merely there as puppets to implement the agenda of their financial sponsors. Many parliaments and congresses have become mere rubber-stamps. Any bogus ‘Big Brother Bill’ that enters parliament houses or the congress, is guaranteed to be passed without any hesitation. The people can protest, and protest until Heaven comes down. Whether it is a bill in support of more wars, bank bailouts, educational cuts, health cuts; increase in fuel prices or sanctions against nations who refuse to bow to the New World Order. The outcome is always the one that suits the global elites. Recently, the IMF imposed its wishes on countries across West Africa, which almost threw Nigeria into civil war. Now it is gradually pressurizing Ghana to follow suit. What the majority of our people say really doesn’t matter. After all, the political establishment is not meant to serve the people but the corporate lobbyists. Those who protest such policies risk being classified as domestic terrorists.

As I have already indicated elsewhere and on my article: “The Myths About Capitalism”; the concept of democracy, however interesting the corporate media presents to the people, is nothing but fraud. Well, it seems to me that the American people and many in the EU are finally waking up to this reality. Perhaps, the interesting part is the idea that changing a presidential candidate or a political party in office, is the same as voting for a ‘change’. Well, I believe America under Obama is a clear example of the “change that never came”. Very soon, those in France may have a better understanding of this argument. Having won the elections, Obama did not only endorse Bush’s wars of aggression and the illegal drone strikes against civilians but has rather expanded the wars from the Middle East to Africa.

After Libya and Ivory Coast, the recent Kony 2012 hoax and the Nigeria’s Boko Haram fraud are clear indications of many more “humanitarian” missions to come. With NATO’s open support for the Al-Qaeda’s rebels in Libya and now in Syria, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who is behind those Boko Haram rebels in Nigeria. According to Finian Cunningham, the Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World Society. The strategy has always been the same: rebels are sponsored from abroad; they’re then armed to the teeth, ordered to cause chaos wherever NATO has an agenda. Then the media, through its proxy NGOs and the so-called ‘human right’ organisations, beg for military intervention, which will only lead to tens of thousands dead and a country that is completely reduced to rubbles; with cancer, babies born with deformities and all forms of diseases to follow. 

There is also the interesting argument that the elected politicians represent the people. Well, I believe now it is clear that corporate lobbyists and powerful establishments like Bilderberg, appoints leaders of many nuclear powered nations before they’re actually ‘elected’. Therefore anybody can easily figure out whose interest these puppet politicians are s'elected' to serve. Their influence on politicians is gradually spreading across Africa. With the Bilderberg, having finally been brought to the spotlight by those whom the mainstream media hitherto referred to as "conspiracy theories", the unspoken agenda is now clear for everybody to behold. Those who haven't yet woken up to the real secrete rulers of this planet, those in the third word countries, who still have no idea what NATO's New World Order is all about, had better wake up now or never.

The New World Order Is Here

African Beauty, Threatened By Western Civilization

Photo: An African child shows her
beauty in a traditional Ghanaian outfit

Our `most cherished values` begin to end, the moment we become silent over the things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr. 

By Honourable Saka 

Africa Is Unique

Africa is a continent that is very rich, not only in natural resources but also in cultural diversities. Africans are arguably the most diverse people on earth. Most people on the continent are quite diverse from country to country and from region to region. Thus, the Francophone African countries are slightly unique when compared with the Commonwealth African countries. More than 3,000 unique ethnic groups are recognized in Africa. African traditions, customs, languages, and culture are unique and also vary from country to country.

In spite of the diversities, the ultimate African identity as portrayed by the colour of their skin is what makes Africans all over the world, one one people, with a common destiny.

In the light of this, Peter Tosh, an African reggae legend from Jamaica, said this to Africans all over the world:

“…Don't care where you come from; as long as you're black, you're an African. It doesn’t matter whether you were born in Cuba, Portland, France, Brooklyn, Brixton, Canada, Germany, Russia; you’ve got the identity of an African. Don’t mind your nationality. Never mind your religious denomination because it is only a tool for segregation. Whether you’re a Methodist, a Catholic, a Muslim; whether you go to the Church of God or whatever your religion; there is no rejection. Even if your complexion is high or low, you’re still an African. Be proud of your African identity...”

By this, one can clearly understand that the African identity goes far beyond mere nationalities, place of birth and religious denominations. As far as the African identity is concerned, there cannot be and should never be expressions like: African-American, British-African, Afro-Latino, Franco Africana, etc. The African is and will always be an African regardless of where he/she was born.

African Culture

Culture can be defined as the way of life of a people in a given society. It is characterized by beliefs, traditions, customs, religions and others. A people’s culture can be seen in the food they eat, the kind of clothes they wear, their music, dance, values (what is acceptable to them as a people) and to some extent, their perception of life.

Like other cultures, the modern African culture places emphasis on personal appearance.  Beads, jewellery and other similar items, remained an important personal accessory in the life of the African woman. Many pieces of such jewellery are made of cowry shells, wood and similar materials. African cultures are diverse and varied; not static, and like most of the world have been impacted upon by external forces.

Dignity was paramount for African marriage

During the post-colonial era, African women and African fashion played an important role in showcasing 

Africa’s beauty in what was then referred to as “The pride of the African woman”. As the African fashion 

gained momentum, African women demonstrated the pride of their beauty, by dressing with dignity and 

making sure that all sensitive parts of their bodies were adequately covered. Practices such as indecent 

exposure; exposed cleavage, naked tummy, the exposure of all other sensitive body parts were completely unacceptable to the African woman who placed her dignity far above anything else.  As a result African 

women were highly respected by society because dignity and respect were very essential requirements for 

them to find a responsible man for marriage.

Many African girls are influenced
by powerful musicians like Beyonce

However, the advent of western civilization: hip-hop music, R&B, and indecent dressing portrayed by fashion, has recently cast a dark shadow over the pride of the African beauty. African women of today, both young and old can shamelessly walk the streets virtually naked in the name of fashion. Some even go to church improperly attired: luscious boobs exposed, transparent dresses, mini skirts and all manner of extreme body exposure that only seek to harass their male counterparts. 

They watch movies where such lifestyles are considered to be “hot” and “sexy”. Therefore the African woman thinks that it is alright to expose her precious assets for the world to behold even if it means risking her dignity. Little or no attention whatsoever is paid to human conscience. After all, being “sexy” is all that matters.

  

The Cost of Africa's Inferiority Complex 

According to one estimate, African girls of today spend more money on fashion than what they spend on books and food combined. From pedicure to manicure, skin bleaching cosmetics, hair relaxers, wigs, weaves, eyelashes, nails, among others. Many women in the universities even go to the extreme: they blow part of their school fees on items that will make them look sexy.

Take Nigeria for example, it is estimated that Nigeria has a population of about 155million with about 56% between the ages of 16-54 years old. Out of these age group women are more than 40million. The details are as follows:

Male = 44,296,228 Female = 42,534,542

Source: CIA’s World Fact Book.

Therefore with over 40 million women in Nigeria, if each one of them spends at least $1 a week on any of the above items, how much will that be? At least that is $40million dollars per week; making it about $150/month. Mind you this figure just applies to Nigeria only. What about the women across all the 54 African countries combined?

Every day, Korean and Brazilian families thank black women for giving their countries $16.4 million dollars each. The low self-esteem of African women is making them very rich and they’re happy about that.

Throughout Africa, women spend billions of dollars every week, to import Brazilian hair, Peruvian hair, Korean hair, Asian hair, European wigs, weaves, eyelashes, artificial nails and many other stuff, all because the African woman does not appreciate her God-given natural beauty anymore. She bleaches her skin and spends so much on her hair because she wants to look Asian, a European or American. She believes that is sexy! The result: cancer and other numerous untold consequenes. This is so because the African woman has been brainwashed to look down upon her identity and to boycott her natural beauty for someone else’s. Our women have disposed their natural beauty and are rather paying so much for Asian and Western fashion. In fact, it costs African women hundreds of billions of dollars every year to keep their artificial make ups, their artificial hairs, the nails, and all the fashion they have blindly copied from other societies at the expense of their God-given beauty.

At the same time, the African fashion has been thrown to the dogs. Africa therefore spends all these money to create jobs for Asia, Europe and the Americas, whilst unemployment and poverty is becoming the destiny of the African people. Most African relationships are unstable because African women of today would demand all that their partners may not be able to afford. Africa needs mental revolution.

Bob Marley warned Africans to emancipate themselves from mental slavery, yet Africans wouldn’t listen.

If African women are throwing their pride, natural beauty and their culture to the dogs, whom do we expect, to cherish and to promote the natural beauty of the African woman?

What About The Young Men?

The strategy of poisoning young black minds

The problem of indecent exposure, is not only limited to the ladies. A very common practice with boys of today is 'Pant sagging'. It first became known in Ghanaian parlance, as “Otto Pfister”.

'Otto Pfister' is a kind of dressing in which the youth, especially boys, deliberately pull their trousers/shorts down below the waistline to the extent of almost dropping off and exposing part of their buttocks or their boxer shorts.

In West Africa, “Otto Pfister” became popular in 1991 after the Black Starlets, Ghana’s Under-17 soccer team, won that year’s trophy in Italy. The then German Coach, Otto Pfister, who led the team to success, was fond of dressing that way.

It is believed that “pant sagging” actually originated from prisons in the United States, as a way to display homosexuality. Therefore the male inmates had little or no difficulty in identifying the homosexuals in their midst ‘if the need be’.

The practice is very common with hip-hop artistes on stage performance as well.  Africa’s young men of today have allowed their minds to be poisoned by hip-hop stars and gangster movies. This is a dangerous development.

The Role of The Entertainment Industry

Western style music such as R&B, Rap, Hip Hop, and others are gradually having negative influence on African youth. Of course the music and the movie industries have offered opportunities to many Africans. It has created jobs for many and in some cases projected African countries on the positive spotlights. South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, the Congo are a few examples.

However, the danger is that most of the artistes involved are blindly promoting the indecent lifestyle in a manner that sharply contradicts the African norms and values. The entertainment industry in Africa therefore has a huge responsibility to promote African values, especially the dress code which showcases the pride of the African beauty. The movie and the music industry must join forces together to fight the moral decadence in the youth of today. For instance, fighting corruption cannot be a mere political exercise. The movie industry could showcase scenarios in movies where a few responsible politicians are able to stand firm and resist acts of corruption and demonstrate their obedience to the law as well as promoting acts of patriotism.

There is no doubt that many public officials are corrupt in Africa. However, there are also many others who have been able to stand up for what is right and resisted all forms of corruption. The music industry should also check and ensure that their video clips are not dominated by acts of violence and unnecessary sexual scenes. Such platforms should rather serve as opportunity for the artistes to promote African values. We cannot allow the scenes on our screens to be dominated by acts of violence, corruption and unnecessary indecent exposure. Something seriously needs to be done about this before African beauty disappears from the system in the near future.

Appeal To The Youth

Dear sisters and women of Africa. Most of you have collectively already spent so much trillions of dollars to keep the business environment in Asia, Europe and Latin America alive. At the same time, the African industries that produce the fashion that suits our culture are gradually collapsing. I believe such  money could do a good job here in Africa and create job opportunities if only you could cherish your African beauty and patronize African fashion. Your African beauty, if well nurtured could attract women from all other backgrounds to celebrate you and make you proud someday.

Martin Luther: Black is beautiful

Martin Luther King Jr. one of the most respected personalities in history has demonstrated 

the pride of black beauty by calling on Africans around the world to cherish their identity. 

Therefore the "Black is beautiful" cultural movement aimed to dispel the notion that black people's natural features such as skin colour, facial features and hair are inherently ugly. The movement is responsible for the popularity of the “Afro” hair style. It gave a generation of Africans born in America, the courage to feel good about who they are and how they look.

African lady with a natural Afro hair

African women please cherish your African pride.  Do not bleach your skins. Keep your complexion because black is beautiful.  Sometimes you could keep your Afro as well because it is beautiful. 


You only need a change of mind-set and the world will celebrate your beauty and accord you the pride that is rightfully yours. Do not expose yourselves unnecessarily. You are unique and your natural beauty is beyond what you can imagine. Never allow a few musicians elsewhere to brainwash you.

For all you know, they probably have no idea what it means to be an African.

Finally, to the guys I say be disciplined. Show some dignity for African values in your dressing. Let us cherish our values because that is the only pride we have as a people.

Long live Africa,

Long live the African diaspora.

About Honourable SAKA

The author is a regular writer and a political analyst on African affairs, and a well-known social commentator in Africa. He is the editor of “The Doctor’s Report”, your most reliable source of critical analysis on African affairs. He is a strong Pan-Africanist, a youth activist and the founder of the “Leaders of Tomorrow”, a transformational and inspirational group of possible future leaders. Please visit his blog at:www.honourablesaka.blogspot.co.uk and reach him by Email at:honourablesaka@yahoo.co.uk  

Multi-Party Democracy In Africa: An Imperialist Tool For Conflicts, Divisions And Civil Wars

Battles broke out between protesters and soldiers
 in Nigeria's northern city of Kano as President Goodluck Jonathan
was declared the winner of the 2011 elections

By Honourable Saka

Case study: Kenya, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Ethiopia… 

The 20^th century saw many conflicts in Africa, breaking out along ethnic divisions. For instance, according to an African researcher Abdalla Bujra, it took only the Ibos to start a major civil war in Nigeria – a highly fractionised  society. The Ibos were cohesive and well organised. Besides, the civil wars in Uganda, the Sudan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone were and are being carried out by rebel movements which are organised across ethnic lines. Therefore the influence that tribalism and ethnicity have had on many conflicts in Africa some years ago, cannot be in doubt. Yet, many researchers hold different views about the true nature of conflicts in Africa today.

Dr Anke Hoeffler, a researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, at the Oxford University suggests that from the 1990s, Africa has seen a reduction in the prevalence of civil war and that some countries with long and devastating civil wars are now at peace. Angola, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Rwanda are said to be such examples.

However, in the past few years, conflicts and bloodshed are beginning to show up their ugly heads across the continent once again. The causal factors have been attributed to the search for “democracy”, the holding of political elections, bad economic policies, boundary and territorial disputes, among others.

 Some causes of conflicts in Africa

It is believed that political and economic development failures have been the root cause of Africa's political instability. Others also suggests that the rising conflicts in Africa are as a result of bad economic policies which are often imposed and directed from abroad, notably Washington, London and Paris.

Oil in flames: Thousands of Nigerian protesters clashed with
 police during a fuel subsidy removal protest that led scores
dead and many others wounded

An example is the recent IMF imposed policies of fuel subsidy removal which almost threw Nigeria and other West African countries into chaos. Although the situation was finally put under control at some point, it can be remembered that the clashes between the people and the security forces left scores dead and many others wounded.

Conflicts have also broken out between many African countries as a result of the artificial boundaries created by the colonial rulers which often put some neighbouring countries at odd with each other. Some examples include: the Eritrean–Ethiopian War that took place from May 1998 to June 2000. The tension between North Sudan and South Sudan, Africa's longest civil war, where countless people have died is another clear example.

In spite of these, the globalist and their corporate mainstream media, also try hard to link conflicts in Africa with climate change. The BBC recently reported: “Climatic factors have been cited as a reason for several recent conflicts. One is the fighting in Darfur in Sudan that according to UN figures has killed 200,000 people and forced two million more from their homes”.

Even though some of the above-listed views regarding conflicts in Africa are to some extent credible, they are just a tip of the iceberg, especially when one critically looks at the emerging bigger picture: wars of democracy and electoral disputes in Africa.

 The Bigger Picture

For the past 15 years, the most dangerous and most frequent cause of conflicts, divisions and wars in many peaceful African countries have not been as a result of tribalism nor ethnic divide as the media would have us believe.

Ouattara's rebel forces massacred an entire
 christian community at Duekoue, Ivory Coast, 2011

However, many of the civil wars recently seen in Africa have been as a result of “democracy”, electoral disputes and political clashes which often left tens of thousands of people dead and many others wounded. A few list of the countries which has experienced electoral disputes/clashes  where many people were reported to have lost their lives are: Ethiopia (2005), Kenya (2007), Zimbabwe (2008), Burundi (2010), Guinea (2010), Ivory Coast (2011), South Sudan (2011), DR Congo (2011) Uganda (2011),  and many more.

Nigeria's elections that were held in April (2011) were hailed by many as the fairest in the nation's history. Yet, at least 800 people were killed in campaign violence. The presidential election set off rioting amidst sectarian killings in northern Nigeria that left more than 800 dead. Also in Rwanda, intolerance of political opposition was unchanged since the 2010 elections. Many were reported to have died as a result of the electoral violence.

Obama, a strong force that stood behind his
cousin Odinga in the 2007 Kenyan elections

Recently in Liberia where the elections were boycotted by the opposition, many feared that the situation could even give way to civil war again.

Although the elections in South Sudan  (2011) was relatively peaceful, government forces attacked civilians in the disputed border area of Abyei and in two other states that lie north of the border with the South (Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan). The Sudanese government was again accused of attacks on civilians in Darfur. This is one of the reasons why President Omar al-Bashir currently faces an outstanding arrest warrant from the "kangaroo court" ICC- the  International Court of Criminals.

Election violence in Kenya left thousands dead

Meanwhile the thought of the clashes in Kenya and recently in Ivory Coast sends a cold shiver down my spine. The images were too gruesome and very disturbing. But these were as a result of the so-called democracy. After the Kenyan massacre, it took the mediation process, facilitated by the then Ghanaian President and African Union Chairman John Kufuor, and Kofi Annan, then UN Secretary General to end the bloodshed, with a power-sharing deal that saw Odinga become the prime minister and Kibaki serving as the president.

What about the Congo? Ethiopia? Even that supposed success story for African Democracy, Senegal, saw blood in the streets.

Wars That Sought To Establish Democracy:

Apart from those wars that broke out in the mist of elections disputes, many brutal and more aggressive wars have been launched in other African countries under the guise of establishing democracy. There was the Mozambican Civil War (1977), Liberia (2003), Uganda (1990s), Libya (2011) and many more. These have resulted in untold deaths, destruction of societies and to a larger extent the destabilization of Africa.

Take a look at Libya where over 100,000 people were slaughtered by NATO all in the name of “Multi-Party Democracy”.  After completely destroying the   jamahiriya system, what has been the result? Are the Libyan people better off? What aboutthose suffering in cages and the chaos that will forever follow the periodic elections?

Those who propose Western multi-party democracy as the way out for Africa have argued that it promotes peace and stability, and fosters national unity at the same time. However, Western “democracy” in Africa creates just the opposite. In Kenya, the Kikuyu, an ethnic minority installed in power by the departing British Empire has to win the election or risk losing everything to their larger tribal rivals, the Luo. What was the result? Elections were held, thousands died and hundreds of thousands displaced. This upcoming election may see even worse, writes Thomas C. Mountain an independent journalist reporting from Eritrea.

Africa, What Are Our Priorities?

The  concept of democracy  has been given a misplaced priority over other more serious and important human necessities in Africa, whilst African indigenous democracy such as that in the Libyan Jamahiriya, are brutally opposed by Africa's former colonial occupiers.  Take a look at Liberia and Nigeria; they have Plenty “democracy”, but No electricity. Poor African countries spend billions of dollars every 4 years on political elections, yet they don’t have billions for healthcare, education and other social needs. 

Guiniea worms, malaria fever and many diseases are killing our people because “there is no money”, yet billions are always available for democracy. Our healthcare systems are in complete jeopardy because money is not available. As a result, even our leaders, who are the major stakeholders of our various countries, have NO confidence in our healthcare. Many of them therefore always travel overseas to seek medical treatment and some of them even die there. 

Take a look at President Umaru Yar'Adua the former president of Nigeria who passed away in Saudi Arabia (2010) whiles receiveing medical treatment. Again, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa,   the third President of Zambia died in France (2008) whiles receiving medical treatment. Also in Ghana is the former finance minister, Honourable Kadwo Baa Wiredu, who passed away while receiving medical treatment abroad. Many of the women also travel abroad just to have their babies safely delivered because they have no confidence in the healthcare system. Yet, whiles we continue to cut the budget on healthcare and education, the amount allotted to holding elections continue to increase every year. What are our priorities?

Even in Ghana where the people were hailed by the Obama administration as a shining example of democracy, the country was on the brink of civil war when many opposition leaders threatened incited their supporters to rise up and occupy the electoral commission. Members of the opposition were directed to arm themselves with machetes, cutlasses, and all forms of weapons and be prepared to turn Ghana into “Kenya”, if their expectations of winning the elections were dashed by the outcome of the official results. Thousands besieged the electoral commission's head office with anger chanting war slogans.

The AFP puts it:

“Dozens of angry protesters (in Ghana) wielding machetes and sticks attacked passing vehicles and local journalists after partial results from the run-off vote gave the opposition candidate a lead”.

It took the maturity of the then political leadership to put the love for the nation ahead of political aspirations, to help prevent a potential civil war.

In fact, the coming 2012 elections in Ghana is an exercise that poses a serious threat to the peace and security of Ghanaians as a whole with some opposition leaders already declaring war in the country. Therefore the question that needs to be asked is: what kind of system is it that always puts African nations on the brink of civil wars every 4 or 5 years? For how long must the ordinary Africans continue to die as a result of election conflicts because of political differences, and for the benefit of some corrupt, puppet politicians who seeks to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses? How could these cycles be avoided and to ensure national unity?

Nkrumah’s Proposal: a One-Party State Democracy

After considering the case of Ivory Coast where election contest ended in war, one point became clear: If Gbagbo and Ouattara were both members of the same party (one-party state), any competition for president would have unlikely led to a war. Because regardless of whoever wins, their party would emerge as the winner and the followers of either candidate would see themselves as members of the same party. The situation would be exactly as Republicans in America, voting to elect a leader. Whether the winner is Ron Paul or Mitt Romney, will never result in any conflict among the supporters. The supporters would always emerge united because they would see themselves as members of the same party. But in the case of the current multi-party system, the competing sides see themselves as  two opposition groups or “enemies”. Also, the current practice of “winner takes all”, makes the competition a do-or-die affair. Therefore when one candidate wins, the losing side can easily mobilize his people against the winning side as was the case in Ivory Coast, Kenya and currently Russia. In such a situation, it also becomes much easier for any foreign influence to manipulate the opposition groups against the winning side. After all they’re different candidates, different parties and with different motives.

However, if Ivory Coast were to be a one-party state, the conflict between Gbagbo and Ouattara would not have happened. Because as members of the same party, they would always find a way to work together, regardless of whoever wins. Also, their followers would see themselves as the same people with the same vision. They would see the bigger picture: like soldiers of the same army. Each candidate may have a different ideology, but at the end of the day, the people and the party are one.  Under such a system, national unity can easily be forged better than the current multi-party system where the people have been divided along political differences. The members of the same party cannot easily be fighting among themselves as they would with an opposition party. This system, according to Kwame Nkrumah is what Africa needs; not the current multi-party system which has brought about divisions and conflicts between different political groups which takes the entire nation on the brink of war every 4 to 5 years.

Therefore in his book "Consciencism" (pg.100) Nkrumah states:

A people’s parliamentary democracy with a one-party state system is better able to express and satisfy the common aspirations of a nation as a whole, than a multiple-party parliamentary system, which is in fact a ruse for perpetuating, and covers up, the inherent struggle between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’.

The globalists and their imperial powers know this fact. Therefore they used the old tactics of divide and conquer strategy for their imperial objective. First, they divided Africa into many smaller and weaker nations. Then they divide the nations into many political groupings, manipulating one group against the other. There is no doubt that multi-party democracy is the new strategy that is been used to promote this "divide and conquer" strategy. But in the case of Africa, the division is becoming bloodier and much more dangerous. Africans need to wake up to this reality.

Qaddafi’s Proposal: a No-Party State Democracy

On the other hand, Libyan revolutionary leader Mu'ammar Qaddafi, who drew on the experiences of other revolutionaries before him including Kwame Nkrumah, proposed a more traditional style of democracy, in fact completely doing away with political parties. Instead, in 1977 the Libyan people were all given local People's Congresses where they themselves became the legislators, thus also doing away with politicians.  Government administration and departments were replaced by People's Committees, which were nominated from the Congresses and accountable to them. All proceedings were broadcast live across the nation, long before the west dared to broadcast the embarrassing images of their politicians who misbehave and make a mockery of those who voted for them.

"The Green Book" was penned by Qaddafi to explain this original concept of direct participatory democracy, and a new word was invented to describe the "self-governing masses society" or "state without a government" or "people's authority": Jamahiriya. These ideas are taking root among many not only in Africa but around the world, with anInternational People's Conference Organization providing information on this "jamahiri" democracy, and an International Green Charter Movementadvocating it along with other rights and freedoms which were originally legislated by the Libyan people in their People's Congresses during their June 1988 sessions.

No matter whether one advocates "one party" or "no party" democracy in Africa, both are clearly more suited to African history and culture, where consensus and participation are traditional values in society, rather than delegation and representation, which are the pillars of the more remote style of "democracy" which European colonial powers developed and then imposed upon their former colonies around the world. Even now in European countries, the people have apparently had enough of the spectacle of this style of democracy, which excludes them whilst essentially serving elites: the recent political developments across Europe are testimony of this.

They too are looking at alternatives, some advocating "one party" democracy under the ideology of communism, with others (greens, anarchists, and a wide range of other ideas) advocating a "no party" democracy. So far, both groups are united on protests against the state, which is seen as benefiting wealthy elites at the expense of the masses of the people, leading to increasing instability in Europe.

 NOTES:

1. Kwame Nkrumah (1964) "Consciencism". Panaf Books: London
2. http://notunprojonmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/African-Conflicts-Their-Causes-and-their-political-and-social-env.pdf

Honourable Dr Saka

The author is a regular writer and a political analyst on African affairs, and a well-known social commentator in Africa. He is the editor of “The Doctor’s Report”, your most reliable source of critical analysis on African affairs. Please visit his blog at: http://honourablesaka.blogspot.co.uk/  He is a strong Pan-Africanist, a youth activist and the founder of the “Leaders of Tomorrow”, a transformational and inspirational group of possible future leaders. He can be reached on Email: honourablesaka@yahoo.co.uk