PAN AFRICAN NARRATIVE


The International community has supported and fronted the new framework to peace building which is the Responsibility to Protect. The prevention of genocides and several other crimes against humanity through joint effort. In letter, this is an exemplary goal with a Westernised print out. I do not intend to exclude the African input to the international community setting but the failure of the procedure initiates a –who is the actual owner of it- thought. It is then that I will be able to compare and contrast, between the sponsoring faction and the silent owner.
Kwame Nkrumah spearheaded African liberation from colonialism, Malcom X and Martin Luther King were at the centre of the battle abroad. The old black guy was married to the people and the ideal of freedom. What aroused this enthusiasm was actually the responsibility to protect, in an old capsule. Kwame reminded us of the power of a united Africa that our priorities subscribed to, rather than the state formula. We got a charm later on that defined our borders and statecraft.
The Maasai of Kenya have been used as reference in its inter-clan and other community relations. Conflict and wars cannot be wished away and even then, this community fought amongst itself and against others. Genocides existed but the scale and magnitude was different. Pacific means prevailed because it was at the interest of the pastoralist to trade with the cultivating fellow. Ethnic cleansing was carried out but the women easily de-escalated it through the inter-marriage clause of the Pan-African doctrine. Closer to the village, disputes were easily solved by elders who led a council with no veto power but decisions made on the principle of the greater good for the greatest number. During the Purko war with their closer brothers, Ilarinkon, peaceful means were applied until the leader of the latter defied human imagination through his demands. He wanted a metallic toothbrush. The real embodiment of an alpha male.
Did he ever imagine that pipeline fights could displace millions today?
Response to perpetuation of violence was simply under placement of an outcast, which the consequences materialized. Presently, the evil caucus has a vague label which no one can define and understand. The sanctions that would throw them to the test is all dependent on haggling and bargaining.
Libya has gone to the dogs, Syria is worst off while the “pocket veto” flourishes. The original owner of the responsibility to protect should come out of hiding. Burundi is ailing because of the capitalist imposed sovereignty.
Dispose off the veto with an overriding power of the members-that-support in the United Nations, sit around a fireplace and let the narrative of humanity and communal prosperity be tabled. The difference is in the action. The defence is in the knowledge of the subject. Africa should project its intellectual energy.
Oltetia Pere


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