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Great world minds gathered in Berlin to formalize and systemize the hitherto existing scramble and partition of Africa. Consequently, African nations were distributed amongst the European countries for evangelization, exploration, colonization and exploitation. During this period, the two cultures and people (Africa and Europe) came together. They experienced reciprocal culture shocks but Africans have suffered more in the process. While the French policy of assimilation made the Africans develop an inferiority complex and also a feeling of disdain for their way of life, the British indirect rule used Africans to brainwash and confuse their own kiths and kinds, just to cut it short.
In the long run, Africans became victims of white supremacists and cultural arrogance. The white superiors led Africans to believe that the only way to be liberated from “barbarism”, “savagery” and “superstition” was to swallow the western archetypes and paradigms hook, line and sinker.
Today, the colonial masters have gone but their influence on us is still enormous, I believe. They still dictate virtually every policy in Africa and influences us in almost all of our policies and programmes. One of the areas they have held Africa hostage is population control programming. This article sees this intervention as one that is politically motivated. It has both moral and demographical effects on the African landscape.
The power that is in the world has been gathering not only in Berlin but in different parts of Europe and North America to discuss how many people are fit to be born and how many are fit to be alive in the less developed nations of the world. As a result they have developed many anti-life and anti-family policies for them. There is no other way to convince them to adopt these policies than to associate their economic backwardness with their numerical strength. These policies have been euphemistically called: Planned Parenthood, Suspension of Fatherhood, Responsible Motherhood, Birth Control, and of course Population Control.
As a result of this concern, seminars and symposia have been organized intermittently where we are made to believe that the need to reduce our population is an urgent one. Contraceptive devices have been developed, advertised, encouraged and adopted with reckless abandon. The reason for this intervention is far from being altruistic. The ominous undisclosed reason behind the population control politics is western superiors and negro-phobia. Perhaps these white superemacists are afraid of the rising numerical strength of the blacks. They want to maintain a perpetual domination of the human race. In order to come to grips with this "problem," the blacks must be paid to reduce their population while in Europe women are paid to have more children.
The Euro-American shenanigans and gimmicks have really worked out in Africa where the inhabitants are already traumatized and economically impoverished. One sad thing, therefore, is to realize that this sinister work is being perpetrated with the criminal and clandestine collaboration of Africans in government and in the medical profession, who, presented with money can hardly reason beyond their stomachs in the name of NGOs.
The African Identity is against this trend, with the political independence of the African countries, there is need for us to think and rationalize independently. There is need for us to go back to our roots. This will enable us to distinguish between humanitarian intervention and oppressive intervention. There is need for us to come back to our belief in brotherhood which is the basis of our uniqueness. Let us (Africans) shun out imported fratricide and genocidal activities in the name of population control. We have to know that our problem is that of greed and misplacement of values and not that of over-population. The surest way out of this miasma of our poverty is not by clinging to anti-life and anti-family policies; rather it is the eschewal of avarice and consumerism from our system.
Finally, the clarion call for population control for Africans is an unfortunate phenomenon. No matter the puny logic, no matter the genuine reason and no matter the professed altruistic purpose, it is a product of eugenics, simple self minded idea and is cross pollinated by white superiors. This prompted Mother Theresa to lament that, ”It is a great poverty that others must die so you can live as you wish." Africans must resist this trend for the sake of continuity and the preservation of human dignity. Let us be warned!
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Henry Ekwuruke
Henry Ekwuruke is Executive Director of the Development Generation Africa International.
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