50 PLUS YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE: Ghana elects a new president as Coup declared in Guinea- Will a Forward United Africa ever come? Nkrumah/Toure

I read this blog When will Africa Think? What struck me the most was the title & the word "think". If we only took a moment to actually think things thru before speaking & reacting? If we only took a moment to "think" of the benefits & consequences- long term-? A trait that people actually had the audacity to be upset with President Elect Obama for having. He takes too much time to think every action, question & answer thru - Hmmm-there's something wrong with a thinker?! I think history has shown the world many times over that being to quick on the draw can have dire consequences!

We need a new era of "Thinkers" , who lead great nations all over the world, especially in Africa. We fail to know about, learn about, remember & pass on our history as nations & as a continent! We must pass on our past glories as much as international history books & media focus on our failures. If we only see ourselves thru our failures how can we find hope in a promise of a change & a glory that we have never known? As Ghana decides on a new president & a coup ushers in new rulers to Guinea, let the people not forget the triumphs & dreams along with the failures of Kwame Nkrumah & Sekou Toure! The friendships, national & continental bonds in a dream of One Africa, in membership, unity & in one common focus of developing a self sufficient, self reliant & prosperous continent!

The world as we know it is changing around us. The global blueprints have already been written, it's a matter of the people deciding to have change , standing up for change & being change! If any government is to serve its people & to be globally recognized , then it must only be up to the people to vote them in & topple them in their lack of service or in their disservice! Checks & Balances are of human necessity! They eventually will come, the easy constitutional way or ugly hard murderous way! Power should never be seen as a permanent takeover!

Africans must "THINK" of the many years of lack of service, disservice, and dreams deferred & decide that change is now! It starts with Africans knowing, understanding & believing that Africans must also prepare for the long journey & Keep Their Eyes on The Prize! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/

Mama Africa has soared thru the flames like a phoenix thru the ashes or a fairy God mother ; she has given Africa another opportunity to make good on its many dreams deferred with hopes that we will learn from our past in understanding that "I am my brothers keeper /I am my sister's Keeper & It takes a village .. " are at the core values of Africa & Africans. Without our core or with imbalance & hypocrisy in our core, we can never be complete in our growth! We need to recognize that each of our sufferings are interdependent rather than independent of one another. If one suffers we all suffer because our independence, progress & success as nations & as a continent can easily be taken off course, when we choose not to be our brother & sister's keeper! When the people are in despair & more fearful of government than the government fears the dissatisfaction of the people who they are to serve, this can only bring revolution ,anarchy or crisis!

A fire at your neighbor's house can easily spread to your house -so you're better off to be proactive in helping to extinguish the fire instead of cowardly staying locked in your house hoping the fire burns out before it reaches your door! The Global Fusion Way (The Global Fusion Handbook of Global Etiquette)!

With abundant growth in natural resources, oil discoveries, resources ripe for the global demand in telecommunications services ( only in Africa can I walk thru the deepest of bushes & get cell phones service, while I can barely get service from one room to the other in my New York city apartment -go figure!) & lets not forget the resurrection of a Global Green movement of which Mama Africa's stars continue to Shine in bringing new industry to Africa utilizing, refining & creating a new future for Africa thru it's natural resources! !Africa as a continent is on a global rise despite the many sufferings! 2009 will be very telling of the direction of the continent thru its people , its leadership & without a doubt, thru mother Africa's gift of her resources!

There are certain traditions in history that uniquely define us as people & should always maintain & sustain our development! If your brother in Zimbabwe, Kenya,Ghana, Guinea, Congo etc. is doing wrong & bringing shame, crisis, suffering & impeding the progress of the family, then you must call the elders together to handle the business at hand in dignity for the honor & progress of the family that is Africa!

I was told by a Ghanaian cab driver in New York that "Illiteracy is a disease killing Africa & it's forward movement" There is a lot of truth to that, but lack of formal education does not diminish ones capacity to think!

When We choose to "Think" we can finally answer & challenge the global question of -How is Africa so poor when it has an abundance of natural resources that sustain much of the world?!

Africa is rich in values & resources, but poor in fiances & knowing how to maintain our books -not so different from the bailed out banking, automobile & other industries thru out this global financial crisis & the trusting or swindling who were sold a lie & chose to believe it without "thinking it thru " & lost everything for an ill thought out dream or personal greed. This a time for those who know how to get by with very little , those who desire & create their own opportunity , those who know the value of hard work & those who are natural born survivors- Africans are way ahead in all those criteria. It's time for Africans to let Mama Africa help them help themselves!

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When will Africa think?
Published December 26, 2008 Hot , politics
http://kentgh.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/when-will-africa-think/#more-144

There we go again. Another useless and stupid coup d’etat in Guinea just hours after the former president Lansana Conte died. A gang of thieves and riff-raffs in military uniforms have rubbished the supreme document – Constitution - of the West African State and installed themselves as new leaders.This is thievery at its highest peak. Instead of the wild jubilation welcoming the decision of these inexperience young military officers turned leaders, Guineans should have defended their own constitution for the right thing to be done.

This is silly and at worst primitive. Gone are the days when coup d’etats were hailed in Africa. We have come of age and such remote tactics in taking political power by force is unacceptable in 21st Century Africa. We should be talking Information Technology and Communication, infrastructure development, new media and many other positive things and not coup d’etat and power struggles.

It is welcoming news that the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) among other international leaders condemn the illegitimate act in Guinea. That is not enough. They must put pressure and tough sanctions on Guinea until Camara and his cronies relinquish power immediately. The international community should bar their representatives from attending a so called meeting called by Camara to allay their fears.

The coup junta led by its appointed president, Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, now the country’s de facto leader, has promised to stamp out nepotism and graft, hold elections in 2010 and improve living standards. Most Guineans live in poverty, even though the country is the world’s top exporter of aluminium ore bauxite, Reuters’ news stated.

That is useless talk. Why can’t Camara learn to do the right thing if he claims he stands for the well being of the same people he wants to help. He could have resigned honourably from the military, join or form a political party and stand democratic elections. The same person would hold elections in 2010, stand and rig in his favour. This is how civil conflicts begin. His actions alone are anathema to the constitution of Guinea and has made himself unfit to occupy the number one position of that country. He is a coupist and a power thief that should not be allowed to walk in the corridors of legitimate leaders.
Until we stand up against the likes of Camara, Africa would continue to remain a laughing stock to the rest of the world.


Responses to “When will Africa think?”
2 Sylvia December 26, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Great piece. I think Africans need to stand up against such crooks who just come to power to aggravate the plight of the poor. Coup d’etat is of no use in this modern world. please Guinea sit up.
5 MASALA MASAKELA December 27, 2008 at 4:48 am
SOMETIMES, WE NEED THE SOLDIERS TO SHAKE THINGS UP IN AFRICAN POLITICS, CONTE HAS RULED AS A CIVILIAN FOR 20 YEARS AND GUINEA IS STILL THE SAME WHEN SEKOU LEFT.
WITH ALL THE MONEY GOTTEN FROM RESOURCES WHAT DID LANSANA DID.
THERE WILL BE PEACE IN MAMA AFRICA BUT NOT YET. ALL CONTINENTS AND COUNTRIES GO THROUGH THESE CHANGES.
MAMA AFRICA WILL BE STABLE ONE DAY. FOR NOW LET PEOPLE EXPERIMENT.
MASALA

Waiting On the World To Change!

Waiting On the World To Change!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

I couldn't believe my ears & eyes as I viewed Patrick Winn's report below & World Focus on TV tonight. I saw the chaos outside the airport in Thailand, amongst Thailand's people- brother to sister , neighbor to neighbor. I watched the Thai airport worker apologize & try to make an American man in a wheel chair understand that the airline has no control & were not being allowed to fly out of the airport because of the uprising of her fellow Thai brothers & sisters in what they saw as their last effort to fight for their Democracy & define Thailand as a nation.

She proceeds to try to tell the passenger that the Thai people are kind, smiling people (with her kind smile in the middle of chaos), & that what was going on outside did not define them; in terms of trying to inconvenience him, rioting & preventing him from his freedom to fly. The American passenger looked at her straight in the face & said " There is a major holiday in America that you are going to cause a lot of people to miss just because you have a little riot outside" ! Wow!

It is appalling regardless of the inconvenience to completely minimize the fight for a nation's sense of democracy big or small, to having to get to a holiday which has been allowed by our nation to be advertised/ summed up to having turkey, worrying about family drama erupting (according to a Thanksgiving travel survey- family drama erupting was the top worry for Thanksgiving travelers this year, surpassing traffic & travel delays), Black Friday and the start of a retail/consumerist orgy of capital -let alone worrying about your safety & the safety of others, while parts of the world around you are erupting. On the Day before Americans are to celebrate Being Thankful & Giving Thanks- remember the being thankful part of Thanksgiving! Even someone in a wheel chair, who is physically denied certain basic freedoms couldn't have that empathy or sympathy for his fellow human!

This dude is the biggest Turkey- Well worthy of a good Thanksgiving Roasting!! Please find this clip & put it online for Americans on our day of Thanks to see why it has been so hard to root out, as Barack Obama said tonight in his statement on the attacks in Mumbai, "The hateful ideology that lead to these attacks" !


We are experiencing the first tests of Change & what could /should be the definition of good governance in the world & a redefinition of America's relationship with fellow nations, while spreading her ideology of the fine balance of a capitalist based democracy.


We all have to do our part to be part of the Change we want to see! It starts with respecting one another as global citizens. I was disappointed in the lack of coverage of the Mumbai attacks today, even on news stations. On 9/11 the majority of the world came in solidarity & sympathy for the American people in condemnation of Terrorism, despite what they may have felt about America's foreign policy. All eyes were on America with a pursuit of the dissemination of information & to show the world how a few men & hateful ideology can cost so much destruction & devastation amongst innocent people. Doesn't India deserve the same coverage with the focus of the eyes of the world, as it is being attacked by the same hateful ideology? The marketing of Thanksgiving -sticking to the usual programming- in the same way showed to be of greater importance than the "little riot" another nation faced!

No one's happiness, hardships & freedom are lesser than yours! Let's let that be the redefinition of the America Way! -GLOBAL Fusion ProductionsInc .

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AUDIO: Patrick Winn, a correspondent for GlobalPost, speaks to Martin Savidge from Bangkok.

Tuesday saw more violence in Thailand, where supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's government battled in the streets of Bangkok. The anti-government protesters also took the dispute to Bangkok's international airport, where they succeeded in halting departing flights.The fighting began when government supporters threw rocks at a truck carrying members of the opposition group, the People's Alliance for Democracy. Opposition members, who consider the pro-Western government corrupt, then fired back with slingshots and guns.

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Obama On The Mumbai Attacks: Posted by Shawn Wasson
November 26, 2008

"President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks. We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks."

Why did it take so long for the Obama team to issue this response?

GFP answer to blogger-Shawn:(Damned if he does -damned if he doesn't -as he has respectfully stated, there is only one president serving at a time- where is Bush's statement on your blog- oh i guess he took even longer or was it not interesting enough for you to post?)!

Update: At least 50 hostages rescued at the famed Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
Video: British hostage tells of his ordeal…The Google map shows the areas that have been attacked.

Flickr photos from the scene…
More on this Deccan Mujahideen:
Indian intelligence believes the Indian Mujahideen is a front group created by Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Harkat ul Jihad al Islami to confuse investigators and cover the tracks of the Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, a radical Islamist movement. The groups receive support from Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence and are al Qaeda affiliates.

The fighters appear to be young, supporting the blurb above…They were boys of about 20-25 year-olds and apparently they demanded that people with American and British passports to identify themselves.

Live-blogging from Mumbai via Ultra Brown. Here's how it's playing out in an Indian news room…
Continued live coverage from NDTV as night turns to morning in Mumbai, India.

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Forward Ever, Backward Never, Change has Come .ALL EYES ON GLOBAL FUSIONS!!

" Your victory has demonstrated that no person... should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place" Nelson Mandela

Hello Beautiful Global People,

I wrote these words a few days before election day as the dream & the wave that i was hoping to ride on election day -expecting that it would be too much to put into words if what I hoped for came true! This was how I was dreaming to introduce the movement of global fusion! November 4, 2008 - My dream was not only realized, but the ride went beyond my wildest dreams! Dreams do come true! Now the real work Begins!

Thanks for the shout out President Obama! Your sister Amma heard you loud & clear! LOL!! He spoke to us all, but he called me by name , so it was extra special!!


FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER
THE HEALING OF NATIONS! Today Change has Come -11/4//08

Today history, commonalities, differences, humanity, hope & forward movement as I see it, has come full circle!

The world watched & hoped to claim back the young nation that believed in change & freedom, & created a constitution for a democracy that welcomed all humanity with a common belief in hard work & a dream that would be branded thru out the world as, “The American Dream”!

Today I have seen the “American Dream” revived thru the eyes of the world. Today America has taken a historical step into the reconciliation & recognition of the contributions of our other forgotten founding fathers. Those who came to this land from the other side of our shared Atlantic waters, as the labor that tilled the land, created invention & innovation for the creation of the government & corporations that would develop America as a world renowned super power, that became the purveyor of the ultimate in freedom thru a dream called America, without an equally shared part in its success!

Today America has made good on the American Dream! The Dream of Crispus Attucks, who became the first casualty for the revolution. The dreams of many soldiers who fought in many wars, within & outside of our borders, to protect the dream called America, without equal claim to the dream. The dreams of Olympians, who brought America back Olympic glory, putting the nation on a global leadership stage by putting Hitler to shame, without being recognized as equally 100% American, in the only home that they ever knew, while wearing & serving the flag Proudly! The dreams of Dred Scott, the Underground Railroad, abolitionists, the movements of civil rights, women’s rights & human rights! The dream of being judged by the contents of one’s character, not by the color of one’s skin! The dreams of Nkrumah, who took the dreams & the revolution of Dr. King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Yaa Asantewaa & all those who walked the road before & after, back to the other side of the same Atlantic waters that was compliant in what would become the tarnishment & hypocrisy of the dream called America; To bring freedom & to say never again, with the coined phrase of Forward Ever, Backward Never, as a call for a continental & global movement! Today we have set the souls of our collective ancestors free with a welcoming seat at the head of the table, by the will of the collective unified American People! Today the call of the majority has been heard unequivocally!

Today Cynics, Believers & Independents globally are one in awe of a new chapter in American history. America is ready, willing & able to reclaim its global brand, where you can make it if you try! An America that speaks to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, a forward moving revolutionary young nation that welcomes all to the republic for which we stand, under one nation, indivisible, under one God of many believers & non-believers, with justice & Liberty for ALL!

Whether it is as cynical as our money that brought us together, or as euphoric as the simplicity of being a genuine class act with a message of CHANGE, that united a nation who had lost its way, to come together in understanding that despite our differences- just because things are “so” or “as they are, or always have been”, for however long – If the people decide to unite for our collective change then CHANGE can be “SO”!

The pressure & dreams of a nation & the world, with a collective desire for peace, sovereignty, economic independence, with a seat & say at the table of our global family, has been put on the shoulders of a man, who is just that, A Man!

Barack means Blessed, not Messiah! He is a flesh & bone mortal man. A mere representation & wake-up call to us all as individuals, families, nations, tribes, religions, classes, sexes, races, & everything in between , that we all have the ability as leaders to create Change within ourselves & for the greater good! Perhaps only one that is named blessed can show us all that we are all individually blessed by the virtue of our humanity!

America, in its youthful leadership, revolutionary curiosity & call for change was & is a creation of 50 states with a collection of ancestral spices that represent the world, within which we call America!

Today, Barack Hussein Obama is just as American as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronal Reagan, William Jefferson Clinton , apple pie, collard greens, mac & cheese, Thanksgiving, Chinatown, Korea town, little Africa, little Italy, little Brazil, little India, little Russia, Puerto Rican Day Parades, St. Patrick Day Parades, Columbus Day Parades, Memorial Day Parades, Caribbean Day Parades, Christianity, Judaism & Islam, under one American Dream of Freedom & True Democracy For & By the People!

Today Life as you know it has, should & can Change just from the message alone!

NOW THE HARD WORK BEGINS-CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU!
FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER! Dr. Kwame Nkrumah


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