Africom is the Recolonization of Africa by the U.S.

If an Africom base is allowed to be established in Africa, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Mugabe, Sam Nujoma, Nelson Mandela, Jules Nyerere, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Kaunda, Agostinho Neto and Samora Machel, among others, have fought wars of liberation in vain.

Thousands of Africans who died in prisons and in the colonial war fronts have shed their blood in vain if Africa is re-colonized.

Why should the current crop of African leaders accept systematic recolonization? What have they learned from the bondage of colonialism, apartheid and racism? Why won’t the current crop of African leaders treat the U.S. administration on equal terms and tell the prized one that they do not need a foreign army, since the African Union is preparing its own army?

African leaders do not need prophets coming from Mars to know that the American fascination for oil, the war against terrorism and the army will now focus on Africa after the adventure in Iraq.

* Tichaona Nhamoyebonde is a political analyst and resides in Cape Town, South Africa

Source: www.vermelho.org.br

Translated from the Portuguese version by:

Lisa KARPOVA

PRAVDA.Ru