What is unique about Black Africans is about what we eat locally and about our local herbs we use for medications; it is about the climate we find ourselves in and about our culture, which also goes with that unique way of bringing up a child: he or she, even though born of one woman and comes from one family, actually belongs to the whole community and can be straightened up and nurtured for the good of the society. All this is certainly about God, who we fear, revere, and love in the many forms we find Him in.
Today, God is telling us that we can make it if we turn to what He has given us, the gifts of human and natural resources, and the love for one another and for society. So with what God has given, Madagascar found a cure and WHO rubbished it. This world health institution, which is now losing lots of credibility, first attempted to bribe the Madagascar administration to spike the organic medicine with poison, but that failed, thanks to President Andry Rajoelina.
Covid-19 has this message for Africa, especially Black Africa God created us out of love and has destined us to be on top of the world. We cannot reach that height if we decide to hate our brother and wish him evil by pulling him down. We cannot reach that height by engaging in internal and external conflicts.
We certainly cannot reach that height by taking bribes just to push Africa into the background, and President Rajoelina has proven to all Africa that even though $20 million could see him comfortably through life, rejecting it will enrich his poor nation, which is the sixty-third poorest in the world. With the mass production of the CVO, Madagascar can move into the vicinity of a second world country. President Andry Rajoelina’s exemplary conduct should be what all leaders of Africa must strive to achieve.
Madagascar was all along without any Covid-19 death since the pandemic entered the country on March 13, 2020, and it took two months before it recorded its first casualty. Considering that the country has a cure, it makes one to wonder how come some people should have died – two deaths at the moment. Could it be that the Pasteur Institute in Madagascar had taken sides with enemies of progress and deliberately come out with wrong diagnosis, thus resulting in the death of the two Covid-19 patients? (Ref: rfi.fr/en/Africa/20200516-pasteur-institute-in-madagascar-admits-error-in-its-covid-19-analysis). Did money change hands somewhere? I do not know, just asking?
This is one major problem hindering development in Black Africa, lack of patriotism. Here in Ghana, a locally manufactured drug called COA FS has been on the market for years with people given evidence of its powerful curative qualities. A daughter of a late friend of mine said her father used to take that drug, and the doctor who conducted the last surgery on him, said he was amazed he had lived that long. We hear that the Chinese saw its potency and pre-financed its production and shipped containers to China. Could it be the reason China is suddenly so low in actives cases with very high recovery rates? Meanwhile, our local FDA claimed it saw some problems in the drug’s ingredients and ordered it to be withdrawn from the shelf.
We have allowed the West and other advanced countries to write the rules for us. For example, when any African leader does something which these powerful nations do not like, they will place sanctions on that country, and institute a travel ban on the president and members of his cabinet. In the worst scenario, they will do their best to get him unseated and then drag him to the International Criminal Court. To date, all the thirty-four high profile cases in the ICC are against Africans, including the indictment of President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya.
Meanwhile, USA’s President George Walker Bush and UK’s Tony Blair went to war in Iraq against the UN’s decision, and committed serious crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression, which qualify them to face the ICC, and yet, they are walking free.
Another obstacle to our development is to do with those international trade agreements we are forced to sign. We are made to import food, stale food, from the advanced countries and forbidden to subsidise agriculture in our own. During this Covid-19 crisis, US dairy producers could pour away thousands of kilolitres of fresh milk into the drains, and crop producers could destroy crops on the farm because the market had dropped. And these farmers will be paid fully for their losses.
Black Africa should go back to the negotiation table and re-negotiate existing agreements, including loan agreements, and even back out of those that will not help us. Covid-19 has proven that they need us more than we need them. We can feed on our local boiled cassava and koobi sauce, eba and egusi stew, wash them down with fresh palm wine, and get up very fine and stronger.
If we can survive for over three months without direct aid and assistance from the advanced countries; if our health, apart from Covid-19, is in no threat and thus we do not need to travel abroad for medicare, then it shows we can perform better when the West and other advanced countries are off our backs.
After Covid-19, we must hit the ground running and show to the world that God created us to be leaders, and we shall do so without any acts of racism, without stabbing backs, without misleading peoples and nations, and without inviting conflicts into the weaker countries, so that we can effectively divide them and rule them.
We shall lead the world according to the Holy Will of God and bring in the Heavenly Peace which is beyond human understanding to take root in this planet.
God has endowed us with so much blessings and Heavenly gifts, and He gave us the right nutrition for our growth and health through the food He provided for us. We shall not be deceived that our local diets are unhealthy for us, because those were what our ancestors ate and led healthy lives. We must bear in mind that when we started eating foreign diets, we started encountering diseases like stroke and cancer.
God has put in the plants around us potent medicines to cure any ailments. There are areas in our land where broken bones can be set and tied in herbs, and the bones will become as it was before, with no trace or indication of fractures.
We shall not be deceived that our local medicines are not good, just as the West, through WHO, is attempting to do by refusing to acknowledge Madagascar’s CVO, the ultimate cure for Covid-19.
God has endowed us with knowledge and wisdom, and we have among the global best in administration, academia, manufacturing, invention, technology, arts and religion among others, a host of Africans. One Black African rose through the ranks to lead the UN, and he was adjudged as one of the finest Secretary Generals.
We have Black Africans manufacturing aircraft in South Africa; Black Africans manufacturing mobile phones in Rwanda, some are manufacturing vehicles; solar powered hand sanitisers; ventilators; Covid-19 test kits; and automatic sanitising door-ways among many others.
Black Africa can rise to the summit if only we shed off any form of negativity among ourselves. We can rise to the top when we start trading among ourselves and create capital within Africa.
We can rise to the top when we break communication barriers between our individual nations. For, is it not outrageous that a call between Ghana and neighbouring La Cote d’Ivoire should be extremely more expensive than a call between Ghana and the UK or the USA?
We can rise to the top when we boldly take the decision to manage ourselves and our resources, and engage in fair trade with the outside world. We, and not the buyers, must dictate the price of our products.
We can rise to the top, when our Francophone countries break that chain of bondage that links them to France and manage their own affairs.
Covid-19 is speaking to us, and may be alerting us that we should not lower ourselves to others, because we are more than conquerors.
Africa is so special to God, and Maria Prean read out the following from another quote on social media that Africa played very major roles in God’s plans for salvation of mankind:
It was in Africa that Abraham enriched himself, and it was in Africa that Isaac and Jacob were richly blessed. It was in Africa that Joseph became a Prime Minister and used that position to shelter Israel from the great famine.
It was in Africa that Moses was born and led God’s Chosen People out of bondage. It was in Africa that the people of Israel amassed so much wealth in gold to build the Tabernacle.
It was in Africa that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ took refuge when Herod wanted to kill Him, and it was an African who helped Jesus to carry the Holy Cross, the very Cross through which our redemption from the bondage of the Evil One became manifest.
Africa has touched the Holy Cross and so we are entitled to its benefits, for all Africans carry in our bodies the marks of Jesus Christ.
We must, therefore, rebel and reject any negative things labelled against us. We have a God in the One and Only True God, Yahweh. With the Psalmist we end that beautiful Psalm 73 prayer: “God is the Rock of our hearts, our portion forever. Those who are far from God perish; God destroys those unfaithful to Him; As for us (Africans), to be near God is our good, to make God our Refuge. We shall declare all His works in the gates of daughter Zion.”
All we need to do is to remain in the Lord and be united in love and peace, for Jesus is praying to the Father saying, “Holy Father, keep Africans in Your Name that You have given Me, so that all Africans may be one just as We are One.” (St. John 17: 11c).
Hon Daniel Dugan
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s editorial stance
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