By Innocent Chia
The death of Gabonese President El Omar Bongo, Africa’s longest serving leader, has tickled the perennial discussion about the monarchical acculturation of democracies in many African countries. From Congo to Togo and from Equatorial Guinea to Gabon, there is a clear determination by these Presidents, with the assist of handclapping rubber-stamp parliaments, to take the clock back in time to the medieval era where the progeny, mostly sons, were natural and undisputable heirs to the throne. It is within this framework, of hijacking the semblance of democracy and perpetuating dynasties, that one readily finds meaning in the nonsensical constitutional provision of 45-day interim governments that most French speaking African countries resort to in case of the death of the President.
Man, i normally don't like your articles because they are usually replete with blatant inconsistencies, as you often premise your arguments on vague notions.
Nevertheless, you have written something very nice this time, and every African child must ponder about the kind of place that we want to leave behind for future generations. I had to break my silence and encourage you to keep this up man.
Babylon's got the lives of all the African quislings who are obsessed with earthly possessions in her wicked hands. In Jah Sweet Home there shan't be room for vicious people. Bongo and the rest of his ilk who chosed to deny helpless African children the right to live decent lives by refusing to be custodians of Africa's prosperity, shall all vanish in utter humiliation.
Whether Bongo was killed by AIDS or not is immaterial, for death is death. But if rather than procure befitting medical facilities for their various countries, they all prefer to go and be finished off in Babylon just so they can get befitting burials when they're returned in coffins, then Jah wrath shan't spare whoever or whatever they left behind.
Black man story, always misery. What a botheration!
Posted by: Ras Tuge | Tuesday, 16 June 2009 at 05:19 PM