UN 66th General Assembly - Call Ffor 21ST Century Ethical Contract with Africa

Sept. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- Date: 18th September 2011

THE COUNCIL FOR AFRIKA ITERNATIONAL renews its call on leaders meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 2011 to declare a 21st Century Ethical Contract with the African Continent and the African People, overseen by an Africanist Caucus within the UN, as the victims of the most sustained, barbaric and grotesque collective human rights abuses in the form of the African Holocaust. In the interest of global peace, stability, sustainable prosperity and progress, it is imperative that the United Nations demonstrates principled leadership by rising up to confront the continued and entrenched injustices that are perpetrated against the majority of the African peoples and the security of the African Continent, which includes a vicious anti-African regime of mortgaging the future of Africa’s youth through a web of sustained exploitative and supremacist constructs of centre-periphery dichotomy and Global North-Africa divide. Such Ethical Contract must entail the immediate declaration of a ‘state of emergency’ that recognises the intense and agony of the majority of the African people and the breathtaking rate at which re-colonisation of the Continent and renewed enslavement of its people is taking place through anti-African, questionable, unethical and criminal activities of some foreign financial capital.

Africa is the scientifically-proven origin of mankind and cradle of human civilisation, the second largest continent on planet earth and one of the most natural and human resource richly-endowed but tragically also the most exploited and institutionally marginalised, often with eye-popping impunity for centuries to contemporary 21st Century. In consequence, the majority of the African people are impoverished and abused a toxic catalogue of hostile factors including the unfair international trade, racism, afrophobia, anti-Africanism, exclusion from industrialisation, record capital flight, unethical foreign investment culture, misleading dependency economics, refusal to atone for colonial crimes and continued economic crimes of humanity against the African peoples, imperialist foreign sabotage of the sovereignty of the African Continent and not the least the UN’S own disenfranchisement of Africa[ns] by persistent denial of Permanent Membership and Veto the international body’s Security Council. After half century of post-colonial systemic marginalisation, it is time for the world, leadership of the UN and African Leaders to act either as genuine friends or foes of Africa and its Peoples.

Africa must be able to boldly declare a non-dependency model of economic advancement driven by Reparations-resourced Reconstruction Model, human rights-centred Ethical Foreign Investments and a complete embargo on arms importations into Africa, as bedrocks of a 21st Century African Revolution to stem the tide of the economic genocide, anguish and torment experienced by Majority Africans.

Dr Koku Adomdza, President of the Council for Afrika International reflects that “Africa is at the crossroads and the 21st Century is the decisive for Africa’s breakthrough to total justice. Centuries of sustained African Holocaust is unacceptable because it has been very bloody indeed in Africa and for Africans worldwide. The UN’s record on African Liberation is very appalling indeed, so we need a 21st Century UN Ethical Contract with Africa and the African Peoples NOW, should the UN intend to be relevant to the Mother of all Continents. It took it decades to recognise that blood-spilling Eurocentric Caucasian supremacist apartheid in South Africa was a crime against humanity at colossal human and economic cost, and the institution has remained non-responsive to the inclusion of Africa onto Permanent Membership of its Security Council with Veto Powers, making it institutionally racist and afrophobic. Left to its diversity-hostile culture and patronising traditions of window-dressing minimum Africans into mainly un-influential positions, it would take the UN the next century to recognise the African Holocaust, Afrophobia, Resistance to Reparations to atone for Colonial Crimes and Economic Crimes against the African Peoples as Crimes against Humanity and make violations of human rights by foreigners in Africa punishable by law. We must muster the courage to call a spade a spade. From the perspective of the long-suffering multiply disenfranchised Majority Indigenous Africans, a lot of privileged officials have African blood on their hands and consciences which must be cleaned up, to prevent the already precarious and uninhabitable conditions of the Continent deteriorating further into a fireball of the African Resistance. As we have said on other platforms, the un-dignifying and humiliating impacts of abject poverty and economic injustice have radicalising potential and created a recipe for disaster given the chaos, instability, helplessness and hopelessness they have inflicted on Majority Africans and Africa’s Youth.

“That is why an unflinchingly loyal and Progressive Patriotic African-centred Caucus win the UN has become not only reasonable but expedient. Africans who enjoy the privilege of leadership must not forget the barbaric nature of imperialism, cartel slavery, colonialism, apartheid and post-colonial marginalisation and escalation of economic genocide against the African Peoples and Continent. The physical chains of cartel slavery and the physical brutality of imperialism may have taken a backseat, but are effectively in vogue in disguised but ferocious forms that send thousands of Africans to their death each day. The consequences of ruthlessly grotesque economic slavery ubiquitous across the length and breadth of the African continent, affects the majority of the African Peoples. If after half-century of African self-rule, hunger, draught and starvation afflicts the Horn of Africa, including Ethiopia where the headquarters of the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa are located, then in the interest of peace and stability, radical approaches for justice to prevail in Africa have become imperative.

“For instance the Economic Commission for Africa [ECA] was established in 1958 by the UN’s ECOSOC to promote the economic and social development of African, facilitate inter-regional integration and mobilise international cooperation for Africa’s economic development. Fifty years on and with millions of resources poured into it, Africa remains deeply entrenched in the tentacles of abject poverty and desperation for its majority citizens. Simultaneous with this unacceptable drudgery, record economic crimes including record illegal capital flight out of Africa takes place in the knowledge of the ECA and other regional authorities, and senseless dependency mindsets and models stifle the restoration of justice to the indigenous citizens of Africa, whose human rights are violated ceaselessly. Africa bleeds and the wails of her soul could be heard clearly over the roars of the restless oceans, it is time to raise the African Liberation flag again. Or is there not a cause and a course?

“Regardless of the adverse impacts of post-traumatic slave syndrome, post-traumatic colonial syndrome and post-traumatic neo-colonial syndrome, the harsh realities of imposed, intolerable and unjustifiable impoverishment in Africa and amongst African communities in the Diaspora including African Haiti, are too visible to be ignored. The agenda of leadership in the light of overly-violated and acutely-exploited Africa, is not personal comfort and dependency on Global North’s manufactures, for such would be treasonable towards the martyrs of the African Liberation process, whose bloodshed sacrifices offer the rights Africans enjoy today, not excluding the privileges of leadership."

         KokuAdomdza
Signed: Dr Koku Adomdza FRSA, DPMSA
            President, Council for Afrika International

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