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Africa is the richest of all the continents on planet earth if measured by natural resources. It possesses rich reserves of platinum, diamond, natural gas, gold, oil, uranium among others in abundance. Despite its endowment of mineral wealth many of the African states are some of the poorest in world. The story of how Africa’s soul and culture were stolen by the Western world is a matter of record, hundreds of years later the legacy lingers.

It has come as no surprise to some to witness how a few of the world’s developed energy starved countries have returned their attention to the African continent. In order for China to sustain its economic super power status it has to feed its industrial appetite for fossil fuel. The United States of America is the military super power of the world, in a post 911 period it has carte blanche to deploy its military might anywhere it deems a terrorist threat may rear its head. Africa’s proximity to the Arab World and rumours that some African countries maybe giving cover to terrorist activities is an invitation which the Americans cannot refuse. An American presence in Africa gives it the opportunity to access the rich reserves of oil on that continent.

In October 2007 the USA launched AFRICOM on the recommendation of former Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld to the then President George W. Bush, the dynamic duo. According to Wikipedia the mission [of AFRICOM] will be diplomatic, economic and humanitarian aid, aimed at prevention of conflict, rather than at military intervention. The dynamic duo of Bush and Rumsfeld do not have a track record of resolving conflict  through the use of diplomacy. The motive therefore behind the establishment of AFRICOM can easily be questioned.

Barbadians are not expected to be interested in the geopolitical machinations of the USA in Africa which has given rise to AFRICOM. The Fourth Estate in Barbados is very busy looking in from the outside as the international press takes charge of the media space in our backyard. Zimbabwe’s The Herald probably holds no credibly with the Barbados media because Mugabe’s Zimbabwe has been demonized by the Western media. Perhaps the Financial Times holds more sway this part of the world.

Hundreds of years later we see the return of the Imperialist to Mother Africa.

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36 responses to “Could We Be Witnessing The Recolonisation Of Africa? Enter AFRICOM”

  1. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    Will Hopi be leading the exodus from Barbados back to Africa?

  2. X-MAN Avatar
    X-MAN

    “The mission [of AFRICOM] will be diplomatic, economic and humanitarian aid, aimed at prevention of conflict, rather than at military intervention”

    As the indigenous people of North America allegedly said “White man speaks with fork tongue”. The euphemism above is commonly referred to as double speech.

    New decade, same old tricks. Let’s hope that our African brothers remain vigilant.

    Are you aware that the French government has numerous army bases in its African ex-colonies?

  3. X-MAN Avatar
    X-MAN

    Slightly off-message – but relevant

    China returns fire against US in Google-war

    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6998017.ece

  4. kiki Avatar
    kiki

    Whole World Is Africa

    Black Uhuru

  5. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Could we be witnessing the continued colonisation of the West Coast of Barbados and now St.Lucy.

    http://www.nationnews.com/news/local/LEAD-coming-in-to-land-up-north-copy-for-web

    So under the DLP we are to get a second marina on the west coast, a new airport for private jets in St.Lucy and possibly a man made island off-shore. Hopefully I will soon get my income tax refund.

    I also see that PM Thompson is trying to rehabiltate Forbes Burnham’s image. He probably hopes that will placate Negroman as he allows the illegal Guyanese to stay in Barbados.

  6. WildyCoyte. Avatar
    WildyCoyte.

    http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-and-a-timeline-of-cia-crimes-and-atrocities/

  7. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    “Hundreds of years later we see the return of the Imperialist to Mother Africa” – last sensence in the above BU blog, January 21, 2010.

    Until we realize that there has been a mistake in BU’s leaving off the “s” from Imperialist in the last sentence just quoted above, we have to take issue with the last sentence which clearly suggests that the Imperialist you refer to in the title of the above blog and that you refer to throughout the tenor of the blog, is the government and the nation of the United States of America, and that therefore this Imperialist, the USA, went into Africa at some point in time earlier and left Africa sometime later only to return recently under AFRICOM via George Bush/Rumsfeld. Well, if we were to follow this kind of argument, it would mean that we could only deduce that it is an entirely false one, primarily because the United States Government or United States interests, or many private or multilateral global institutions organizations working in and representing the United States’ interests, have NEVER at any time left Mother Africa since the time United States began to be involved in the TransAtlantic Enslavement trade in the 18th century. NEVER!!!

    Also, as you, BU, would know, there have been over the last two to three thousand of years or so, many different times in which the governments of several imperialist nations – almost all white dominated – the Greeks, the Romans ( Italians ), the Arabs, the British, the French, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Germans, the Belgians, the French, the same USA, the former Soviet Union, and very recently now, the Chinese and Indians, have all been from different reasons – political economic racist religious – seriously involved in the brutal or non-violent colonization and imperialization of Africa and the African peoples.

    Even the governments and peoples of some European countries, e.g. the Swedes, the Norwegians, the Switzs, that have not been described by us – the PDC – as Imperialist governments/nations, have substantially benefitted from
    the colonization and imperialization of Africa and the African peoples, even though they have NOT pillaged and looted Africa like some of the others – these Imperialists governments/nations. For those readers on BU who have NOT yet read Walter Rodney’s monumental text: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, reading it is a necessary as it shows how all of Europe benefitted from the TansAltantic Enslavement Trade and the Enslavement of African peoples by European nations.

    So, none of those governments/nations which existed in older days, and none of those governments/nations which presently exist but which altogether were or have been very wicked to Africa and the African peoples, deserves the appellation: the Imperialist, any more than the other, BU. Since, all are or have been Imperialists in relationship to Africa. We doubt, though – having read the above blog properly – that you have made a mistake by leaving off the “s” from Imperialist. It was intended to be left off!!

    Nevertheless, what is disturbing, to say the least, is that ALL of those nations which colonized and imperialized Africa have, today, either remained substantially in Africa and therefore have been helping to carry on the systematic destruction and pillaging of Africa, or have somewhat reduced their general interests in Africa – when contrasted with many years ago – but have left many terrible legacies and scars in Africa and on African peoples – The British on the Nigerians, the Ghanians, the Bantus, the British and the Dutch on the South Africans, the Zulus, the Italians on the Ethiopians, etc. millions of original African artefacts, gold and other things stolen by them during their reigns, with some still preserved in some of their museums, and other different long lasting damaging effects, so much so that just recently there have been for the umpteenth time in Nigeria within the last 50 years violence involving Christians and Muslims.

    From the days when the Pope of the time ( in the 15 th century ) lent his authority to the partitioning of the world among certain colonial powers, like the Portuguese and the Spanish, and which led to their and some other vicious European conquests of native peoples across many parts of the world, and from the time of the Berlin Conference (19th century ) which denotes another scramble for Africa, there have been and up to now continuous European political domination and exploitation of the rest of the world – peoples, resources, etc.

    Very importantly, however, it must be little mentioned too that in the colonization and imperialization of Africa and its peoples by so many governments/nations, there would have been collaborations between the particular European conquestors and the particular African collaborators across Africa, just as you have today some African leaders still helping to sell African interests out to many European governments/nations.

    Mr. Sekou Nkrumah, Chairman of the Pan African Improvement Organization and an organizer for 28 years in the Pan African Movement, makes this point very well in his pamphlet – Obama’s War of Deception in Africa, and in which itself he deals a lot with AFRICOM and some of the reasons for it. In it he states, “how African presidents are selling out Africa’s resources in this war of deception ( meaning what he calls Obama’s war of deception ), the same way the African people’s were sold by many of the chiefs during slavery. The current neo-colonail African puppets president’s capitulation to capitalism is a continuation of the class of vassal chiefs who sold land, resources, and people’s labour during colonialism”.

    However, in closing, the issue is NOT one of the Imperialist having returned to Africa, but is certainly one that centers around IMPERIALIST REVOLUTIONS, and that is about another scramble for African people’s energies and skills, their resources, this time around involving a greater level of Chinese and the Indian Imperialism – involving countries too that, ironically speaking, have already been colonized and imperialized by Europeans ( this is the essential point about IMPERIALIST REVOLUTIONS), in this era of the intensification of globalization ( another form of imperialism or another way to describe imperialism.

    PDC

  8. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    @Anon…….I see you ahead of the pack early this mawning, so you must have your FIRST CLASS TICKET in hand and ready sail! Ya had any brekfuss yet, cause we don’t serve food on these voyages, we serve up some cold, unfiltered reality and self-KNOWLEDGE. So you might have to wait for the next one out.

    @PDC…….This is one of the few times you have been succinct and that has made for a very comprehensive post on your part and I will say that I do AGREE with everything you’ve written.
    [Not that you needed Hopi’s 2 nickles anyway].

    ******************

    THE BEAST has NEVER left AFRICA!

    @David…. You can’t always trust wiki..

    AFRICOM is Zbigniew Brzezinski’s wet dream. [Can’t quote you chapter nor verse now, left his ‘Grand Chess Board’ at home in which he also outlined the current war strategy that’s unfolding before our eyes]. AFRICOM is Not Rumsfeld nor Bush’s.

    And now you see coming clearly into sight, the main REASON why they chose a melanated MAN at this pivotal juncture. Everybody wanted change. They hoped and prayed for it and they got it. Almost the whole world was eagerly awaiting this Messiah.

    Its curtain time! Round of Applause!

    Enter BARAT HUSSEIN OBAMA!

    Tall, dark,handsome [except for the ears], pizazz.. seemingly eloquent [with tele-prompter] you name it they were in love with him.

    Oh he can do no wrong!

    The kind who will embrace you with a nice warm smile while he daggers you.

    Now you see why they needed to get someone in position to DECEIVE AFRICA one last time? This BLOOD-THIRSTY BEAST is going in for the KILL.

    IT knows that its time is coming to and end and it will be a violent one. Hence we see all types of WAR…Weather Wars, Economic Wars, Oil Wars, Water Wars, Phony Terrorism Wars…you name it, this is all controlled demolition!

    And in the meantime the US Military is laying down its stakes on that once Sovereign Haitian soil while it removes the Natives.

    Why?

  9. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    Does anybody know a Voodoo High Priest, where I can go and learn that science?

  10. Sylvan Greenidge Avatar
    Sylvan Greenidge

    David and BU it is my firm view that Looking Glass should not be allowed to post anything else on this blog ever again.

    BU and other agencies involve in the dissemination of information are obligated to it’s audience to ensure that the information given can withstand public scrutiny. It is expected that if the information put out is found to be untruthful every effort should be made to correct it. We owe it to our people. A intelligent nation is a healthy nation.

    That Looking Glass has failed to come back to this blog and defend the lies written in his post on January 10, 2010 is proof that he deliberately indented to mislead fellow bloggers and Barbadians as a whole.

    He has now lost all credibility and can longer be trusted to tell the truth. Any information he puts on this blog should be taken seriously. I stand by the information written in my post and can defend it to the hill. Why can’t Looking Glass do the same?

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @PDC

    The singular use of the word Imperialist was made in the context of the blog which highlighted the creation of the USAFRICOM and its potential role. It does not preclude our recognition of ‘others’ operating on the African continent.

    @Hopi

    Not sure whose brainchild it was but what we know is the dynamic duo who rolled it out. Do you have a link which speaks in the imperative to who conceptualized Africom?

  12. Christopher Halsall Avatar
    Christopher Halsall

    @BU.David…

    Let us assume that:

    1. Africa is the richest of all the continents on planet earth if measured by natural resources.

    2. Africa was the birthplace of the human race.

    And I personally believe these two statements to be true.

    So then I have to ask:

    3. Why are those native to Africa the poorest and least developed (on a per-capita basis, as sampled on a contentical basis) of all of the world?

    Is it because of:

    4. Exploitation?

    5. Lack of education?

    Following from this…

    6. Can the immediate above point #5 not be solved relatively easily?

    7. Can the above point #4 not also be similarly solved by solving point #5?

  13. Mobutu Avatar
    Mobutu

    Why are people so uninformed? Africa is NOT the richest continent in the world for natural resources. Gold and diamonds do not make a society rich because they occur only in small quantities, even in Africa. In fact, except for South Africa, per capita revenues from precious metals are trivial, except where the population is small (e.g., Botswana).
    Societies need energy resources to get rich, since this provides the fuel used to run machines that multiply the amount of work that can be done. Coal and oil are particularly valuable, because they have additional uses as raw materials in manufactured goods (coal is an element of iron and steel; oil is used for fertilizers, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and many other products). It is probably no accident that European countries rich in coal and iron ore were the first countries to get rich. Africa has little high-quality coal, and much of its relatively modest petroleum reservoirs are deep off-shore and expensive to mine. There is considerable hydro-electric power potential in countries like the Congo, but exploiting this requires huge capital outlays tor construction and maintenance of dams.

  14. Christopher Halsall Avatar
    Christopher Halsall

    @Mobutu… Welcome to BU. Your input is welcome.

    @Mobutu: “…coal is an element of iron and steel

    Um… No…

    Coal might contain the element iron. But mostly it is dirty carbon, with a bit of hydrogen…

    Steel is not an element.

    Please do try to keep informed…

    @Mobutu: “There is considerable hydro-electric power potential in countries like the Congo, but exploiting this requires huge capital outlays tor construction and maintenance of dams.

    This is true.

    But does not Africa also have a great deal of solar energy input most days?

    And let’s not even start to talk about the geothermal opportunities….

  15. Mobutu Avatar
    Mobutu

    Listen up, Christopher. Coal is used to make coke, which is combined in a blast furnace with iron ore to make iron and/or steel.

  16. Christopher Halsall Avatar
    Christopher Halsall

    @Mobutu: “Coal is used to make coke, which is combined in a blast furnace with iron ore to make iron and/or steel.

    And the by-product from this reaction are what. Exactly?

    CO (carbon monoxide) or COO (carbon dioxide) per chance?

    What happens to these products?

    Exactly?

  17. Mobutu Avatar
    Mobutu

    You are such a dunce, you are trying to recover from your effing blunder.

  18. Christopher Halsall Avatar
    Christopher Halsall

    @Mobutu…

    If you say so…

    On the other hand, some might be interested in the fact that Africa might be more wealthy than you give her credit for, as demonstrated with this brief exchange.

    “Carbon Credits” anyone?

  19. Technician Avatar
    Technician

    http://www.balajicoke.com/pro.html

    Now kiss and make up !!

  20. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    @David…….No, Can’t give you an imperative link now. But AFRICOM has been in the planning stages before these two stooges.

    Look the dead has risen to let us know that Africa is not a ‘RICH’ continent, but won’t tell us how much of her wealth they took to the grave with them.

  21. Christopher Halsall Avatar
    Christopher Halsall

    @All…

    To be proactive…

    There is *huge* money in Carbon Credits and Clean Energy.

    I recently observed a BBC documentary which showed a few rich English persons paying a few dollars (pounds) to “offset” their carbon emissions to some Africans for their vacation flights.

    The few English paid for this out of their wallet because it felt good…

    The many Africans spent a year on treadmills, pumping water manually rather than using a diesel pump.

    Hmmm…

    Wouldn’t it be cool if Africa could instead offer the “Developed World” Clean Electricity?

    And “Carbon Credits” which weren’t off the backs of the People?

    Just putting that out there….

  22. kiki Avatar
    kiki

    Bad Card DubPlate

  23. kiki Avatar
    kiki

    Rat Race Dubplate

  24. The People's Democratic Congress Avatar
    The People’s Democratic Congress

    @PDC…….This is one of the few times you have been succinct and that has made for a very comprehensive post on your part and I will say that I do AGREE with everything you’ve written.
    [Not that you needed Hopi’s 2 nickles anyway]

    Hopi,

    Thanks for the comments.

    We will continue to read many of your posts no matter their length because many of the points you raise in them are logical and consistent.

    BU,

    Again, the point that we have raised has little to do with THE USE of the singular Imperialist in the context in which you have used it, but has far far more to do with the allocation of a particular and definite linguistic DESIGNATION ( THE IMPERIALIST ) to describe greater somethings about the country that you so by referred to in the blog, and to which denotes differentiation from those lesser somethings which are or have NOT NOT been done by the other imperialist countries sufficient to justify the particular definite DESIGNATION – THE IMPERIALIST, which if we may add is NOT appropriate when one considers many of the times of formal imperialism by say the British, the Spanish, the Russians whose imperialisms at their highest included the conquests of far greater people, land, resources, than the US has ever conquered and ruled, and which if we may further add is NOT so appropriate even in the sense of AFRICOM – as that this AFRICOM PROJECT cannot (on its own) define who is this IMPERIALIST referred to by BU.

    Furthermore, let us also simply add that this particular definite DESIGNITION is certainly NOT appropriate – if you, BU, understand the full import of the sense in which you did or did NOT DESIGN its use in the blog, that it could and does NOT engender the thought of it being an appropriate part of the collocation intended and realised in the last sentence, given the MANY REAL AND GREAT HISTORIES of many imperialist nations.

    PDC

  25. David Avatar
    David

    @PDC

    Understand your point.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    For those who want to listen to an African perspective on Obama’s foreign policy in Africa listen to the analysis. Consensus, nothing has changed.

  27. Hopi Avatar
    Hopi

    Well Ms. Woods knows what time it is but for Mr Blab Bah, by the look of his face alone one can tell that he is still asleep!

  28. kiki Avatar
    kiki

    Can africa stop it’s tribalism
    Can africa trust the west
    Can africa educate all it’s children
    Can africa utilise all it’s resources
    Can africa get fair wage and pay in
    the world markets
    Can africa develop
    all within one generation?????

  29. kiki Avatar
    kiki

    ♩ Quarter Note ♪ Eighth Note ♫ Single Bar Notes ♬ Double Bar Notes ♭ Flat ♮ Natural ♯ Sharp

    Back To Africa

  30. Saying Nuttin Avatar
    Saying Nuttin

    I find it interesting that this article reports the return of the coloniser. What was russia and the USSR for the last 35 years in africa?

    What has china been doing for the last 10 to 15.

    Any nation which seeks to go in and “aid” in the political administration and Government of a country in effect manipulating that country so that they can have access to raw materials; geographical influence by way of ports and bases and any other economic benefits that you can think of is a coloniser. The colonisers never left they just changed names and ethnicities. If you rush to call the US a coloniser because of Africom then have the balls to call Russia and China the same.

  31. X-MAN Avatar
    X-MAN

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pq946/Lost_Kingdoms_of_Africa_Nubia/

  32. freewilly Avatar
    freewilly

    http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200973-AFRICOM-Latest-U-S-Bid-to-Recolonise-Continent

  33. freewilly Avatar
    freewilly

    http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200397-Zionists-Use-Divide-Conquer-Tactic-in-North-Africa

  34. John Robert Walsh Avatar
    John Robert Walsh

    All you politically correct liberal sheep always bang on about how Africa was raped by imperialist nations like Britain which was the biggest, no one is in denial about the horrors of slavery but that ended 150 years ago ( get over it) after which colonialism brought benefits as well ,such as stable government , well run and prosperous farms, relative rule of law, full employment for those who wanted it.
    Africans now in their old age often speak effectually of the days of white rule compared to what they have now under their own people after 50 years, half a century.
    The English colonists in British America after they won their independence from Britain managed to go from a quaint little group of farmers to a massive world hegemony in less than 200 years.
    How comes the natives freed from European whites in Africa still can’t put together even a stable government let alone an economy of any sort, year on year they take massive hand outs from western countries who run TV shows by the score to promote the horror which exists in Africa like live aid and Bono etc etc and even that is not enough to give them a kick start.
    You can go on forever if you like with the bleeding hearts , my poor country was raped by those wicked whites while begging them to come to your aid , people will only say sorry for so long before they begin to ask themselves exactly what they are saying sorry for,
    The world has moved on a long way since even your independence and you have achieved NOTHING except allowing millions of your people to stave die of aids and face death in endless useless tribal wars like some big spoilt brat kid of a continent forever crying I want I want I want from the rest of the world!
    I have come to the conclusion that Black Africans together as a national unit ruled by Black Africans is impossible you were running around in grass skirts before imperialism during imperialism and are only a tad better now in 2010 despite the web, globalisation and massive aid.
    Your best bet in the end is to import for yourselves Foreign White and Black only government and political parties say from America and Britain in which no Native blacks are allowed , Native blacks will be allowed to vote but will be banned from government posts other than as civil servants under European White/Black politicians, over the next 50 years they can rebuild the infrastructure of all African nations, attracting large scale investment from the west and the new tiger economies, regulate the rule of law and get people back to work farming the land and working in the new industries that outside investment creates and train an educate a new brand of Native Black politicians perhaps even some already in America and Britain who would be willing to take on the task.
    Get a motion put forward for this proposal in the next meeting of the union of African Nations and when passed start lobbying experienced western black & white politicians who are brave dedicated and morally sound enough to apply.

    O f course this is never going to happen in reality, so I’d give up now if I were you and all go back to mud huts and hunter gathering before you kill anymore of your poor people

  35. unknown Avatar
    unknown

    http://youtu.be/wb5IAEV_juM

  36. unknown Avatar
    unknown

    http://youtu.be/WNYemuiAOfU

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