Mkhosana Mathobela Bingweni writing in Southern Times:
The political domination and economic exploitation of Africa has always been covered up with a thick blanket of myths and illusions.
Slavery and colonialism as violent and genocidal as they were, creatively were couched and represented to Africa and the world as civilisation and modernisation of Africans by benevolent and God fearing Europeans and Americans.
Below the mythical blankets of the civilising and modernising mission, Africa’s resources were siphoned for the development of Europe and America and Africans were exploited and killed on a genocidal scale. In the present era of globalist internationalism and highly technologised imperialism, new myths are being invented and circulated to cover up the present political domination and economic exploitation of the continent and the people of Africa. Chief among the myths that are presently used to cover up the political domination and economic milking of Africa is the “Africa Rising” slogan that scholars and journalists of Empire are circulating as new political and intellectual wisdom...[more]