In neo-liberal era, human
worth is measured by its relative utility and contributions to global
consumption and productive cultural indices. Some people were able to provide
services, innovations and products that maintained economic activities of Man, promoted
government programmes and ensure food production. They were able to create new
programmes, innovative ideas and competitive value-chains.
John Logie Baird (1888-1946),
and Guglielmo Maroni (1874-1937), excelled by inventing electricity powered
Television and Radio system respectively. Alexander Graham Bell known as the
father of the Deaf, having a deaf mother and wife is reputed for his invention
of the telephone in 1876.
At the dawn of the age of
discovery in Europe, the culture of industrial revolution prompted and provided
the platform for positive achievements in the aviation, maritime, and architecture.
Other areas of achievements, include literature, engineering and communication.
It was a civilization that
was absolutely low in secular, on the surface, but deeply cultural in the
foundation. It was not only characterized by socio-economic stability and
advancement but also progress in technology and value equilibrium. Though, the
obnoxious trade in human beings pervaded the African landscape, the rest of the
world enjoyed agricultural boom and super abundant raw materials,
socio-economic balance and growth.
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By implication the continent
of Africa and the Africans were dominated, fragmented and misgoverned within
the focused period. As a matter of fact, the specter of colonialism denuded and
destroyed the African socio-economic architecture and led the foundation of disintegration,
loss of identity and sense of urgency, to chart a new course to replace despair
with hope, to generate mechanisms, and to put in place lasting structures and
ideologies for the transformation of African society.
The Africans were relatively
undisturbed and placed little or no value to real human development. As a
consequence, Africa and her indigenous inhabitants emerged, accumulated and
retained barbaric self-destroying procedures, formalities and aesthetic
discomfort. The centrality of the discomfort presents the foundation for the
prolonged visible features of permanent crises of inadequacies in intellectual,
medical/health, scientific, technological and diplomatic flux, to date.
The intellectual life in
Africa is fascinated with antiquity of African history and subversive colonial
mentality. It lost a hold of planetarium and aesthetic projection, organization
and management of Africa’s richly endowed internal and external philosophies,
arts and rhetorical potentials. In the area of linguistics, Africa, not on her
own volition, was made to sacrifice her indigenous languages to the theater of
foreign languages: medieval Europe, Arab and America.
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In the face of a shattered,
battered, decimated, neglected and abandoned African culture, morals and
values, and the forceful imposition of a borrowed culture, what is witnessed in
Africa of present, especially by the overlords, (the African leaders), and the
elite is the emergence of a culture of impunity, and disregard for rules and
established protocols.
For the ordinary citizens the
story is not different, disrespect, ridicule, taunting, defaming, abusive,
hateful and malignant utterances, statements and prejudices, of irritability in
every form and magnitude are common occurrences, day in day out.
While the leadership deploy
the established media platforms of the old to project, propagate and
disseminate falsehood; releasing to the general public what they (the leaders)
want to hear, the younger generation, the accepted representative and defenders
of the masses, have perfected in the art of rumour peddling, and engaged the
principles of fill in the gaps, suspicion, pull him down, no dull moment, and
other tools of image destruction, using the alternative medium offered through
the social media.
Carrying on with emotion and
sentiments, will only divide instead of uniting efforts. For Africa to survive
and meet the level of socio-economic expectations and position effectively in
the world arena it must rediscover the missing links of ethical and moral
rebirth. It must develop options, policies and all inclusive strategies to
provide the basic necessities, structures and environment for fiscal
consolidation and economies of scale, innovation and broad based framework for
integration of all necessary factor inputs. Africa’s liberation and socio-political
survival will ensure real economic independence and true emancipation from
colonialism and Aids dependency.
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