One in every three Africans have access to the little energy
which is equivalent to the gigawats produced in Spain alone according to the
world bank as they take stock of MDGs and design new ones.
This is a clear demonstration that while they thump their
chest over the minimal human standards we as the third world have barely managed
to achieve that development is a big farce. Recently reading Erhard Eppler (1971) he estimates that it would take
359 years and 1,356 years for Peru and Pakistan to catch up with developed
nations if the developed nation stagnate I realized that development as it has
been sold to Africa is both irrational and delusory and the rhetoric that
continues to surround it is misleading. Development either as a means of
catching up through miniature achievements is a carrot on the stick and the piecemeal
marshal plan in Africa is a lie what with the immense forces that resist its
industrialization sanctioning unclean energy when that is the only way we could
industrialize and the chokehold over nuclear power as witnessed in Iran, the
trade treaties that have defined our role in world economy as the raw material
supplier and sub standard goods consumers of Multinational Corporations and
developed states.
Africa has not earned its seat in the world and our reality
is grossly different from the rest of the world.
But it’s this condescending insinuation that will help
Africa develop once it sees openly that this carrot stick hope and
international conspiracy to stay in your placeism for what it really is. We do
not share you perspectives and a few minutes chatting amongst ourselves on
Facebook or following your tweets does not make the world global and ready for
global civics.
We do not have a seat in the world and our responsibility to
the citizens in the wider world is insignificant if not unnecessary. For people
who too hungry that such ideas as global sameism is beyond their rationale.
People who watch every American political debates and yet know that majority of
Americans think their continent is a country. Who when they kill five lions
after the beasts maul their families and livelihood have the world cry foul
over the lions more than them (their life is that insignificant) for people locked in constant conflict for
resources that are barely there then the global sameism idea does not sell.
Until Africa earns its seat among the world powers and share
s a reality with the rest of the world will we be able to discuss our
responsibility to other world humans or be empowered enough to claim our
rights. Not until 3 in 3 Africans can access electricity and emit as much waste
as an average American does will this global idea sell in our realm of the hemisphere,
but then again the world cant sustain that and you know that’s why it will
never be allowed to happen.
So we will continue to plant trees and balance developed
world pollution, we will continue to believe that clean wind energy will
industrialize Africa and most of all we will let you decide global civics with
your realities as yardsticks (which will take us 1,356 years to get at par) and
accept our responsibility to the world as your farmers and labour exporters and
feeding you condescending idea that globalization has created a similar status
quo around the world and we share your conditions in a global sameism
