ANGELA MERKEL’S DRY TEARS Okello Oculi
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s electoral victory on September 25, 2017 by a low 34 % of total votes cast was received with relief by Euro-America’s corporate class fearful that their destruction of improved standards of living earned by working classes during threat of seizure of Europe by Soviet Communism and socialists would be punished by what was derogatively labelled as ‘’populism’’. The racist wing of that ‘’populism’’ diverted blame for their economic losses to well-educated ‘’Arabs’’ - also tagged as ‘’Islam’’ – that were almost certainly roused and imported by Merkel’s secret service operatives. These fascists had not blamed her for supporting brutal attacks with police batons against desperate Greek workers cursing German banks insistent on repayments of loans - and lending of new ones - at extortionate interest rates. That ruthlessness wrecked electoral support for her socialist allies in the SPD; reducing it to only 20% of votes.
Her response to Africans drowning in the Mediterranean Sea held no vision of a ‘MERKEL PLAN’ for African post-IMF destruction that would compete with America’s ‘’Marshall Plan’’. That American economic ‘blood transfusion’ saved Europe from domination by Soviet Communists. It was an alternative to a repeat of American exploitation of South America. No such plan has yet come out of her vaults.
She must know of ‘’Holocausts’’ against Africans; as well as the one during the 1938-45 War against Jews. The late Professor Ali Mazrui reported that when in a public lecture at the Binghamton Campus of the State University of New York, he asserted that the most grave and long-lasting ‘’holocaust’’ perpetrated by a collective of European peoples was the combined decimation of Africans by 400 years the slave trade and over 75 years of direct colonial domination, angry Jewish groups demanded for his dismissal from his job. To them the term ‘’holocaust’’ had a TRIBAL ownership as barbarism against Jews. It was a weapon for bashing consciences of Europeans and their descendants in the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.
Yet Mazrui was no intellectual lightweight. He was a general in Chief M.K.O Abiola’s war for ‘’reparations’’ for the slave trade in which Jews were also beneficiaries. He also argued that Germans rehearsed their inhuman decimation of Jews by exterminating the Herero peoples of Namibia. In this regard, Angela Merkel has the duty of correcting Germany’s discriminatory repayments of reparations to Israel while being deaf to curses from descendants of Hereros in Namibia.
Tanganyika, Togo and Cameroun also bore human decimation under German colonisation at levels which Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Portugal and Scandinavians did not suffer under German colonial boots during the 1938-1945 War. Africans believe that our dead ancestors do come back to intervene in our affairs as caring ‘’spirits’’; and as children. But the dead do die beyond release from that prison. Yet, we carry out rituals to appease spirits of those unjustly terminated.
Several areas of appeasement offer themselves. For a start, German archaeologists have looted the pyramids of Ancient Egypt for gold, architecture, works of art and medical knowledge – including surgery. Nuclear science research on bodies of Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs disproved claims which deny that these rulers and builders of that great civilisation were Black Africans. They were NOT Germans. Germany owes Africans broadcasts of the truth of this black African identity; and vigorously counter current contrary Caucasian television and Arab tourist propaganda.
The Germans have the merit of rebelling against the use of Latin as the language of official, religious, and university lectures. The use of ‘’vernacular’’ - namely German - as a medium for university lectures, publication and research was later followed by American universities who turned to the use of English. This is a cultural practice which German institutions –such as the Goethe Institute -should fund intensively and devotedly across Africa. India has been very successful in this cultural practice. The early adoption of German for the development of scholarship aided the growth of original scientific research and philosophy. The Japanese teach the same lesson.
Germany owes their former colonies of Tanzania, Cameroun, Namibia and Togo an institution for promoting rigorous scientific research, technological inventivity and philosophy. A combination of Mwalimu Nyerere’s achievements in translating into Swahili Shakespeare’s JULIUS CEASER and MERCHANT OF VENICE; as well as works of political philosophy, makes Tanzania a strong candidate for its location.
European Classical Music has been much nurtured by German genius. Beethoven has competed with Wagner for tilting souls and minds of European man. Wittgenstein, Max Weber and Karl Marx have wrestled over ways of understanding world history, if not for changing it. Out of Ancient Egypt came the development of knowledge in Mathematics, Anatomy, Religion, Philosophy, Literature and Astronomy. Post-colonial Africa has sprouted synthesis of music and dance, notably: by a choreographer in Guinea and Okot p’Bitek’s ‘’Heartbeat of Africa’’ in Uganda; a symphony from various sizes of drums by a conductor in Dakar, Senegal; the ‘’Sikelele Afrika’’ by a young South African music composer and Fela Kuti’s ‘’Afro-Beat’’ in Nigeria, and Manu Dibango’s ‘’Soul Makosa’’ from Cameroun. German cooperation in this sector would be a worthy initiative during Angela Merkel’s possible farewell trip.
Long before President Barack Obama occupied the White House in Washington, D.C., the Senegalese Egyptologist and nuclear scientists, Professor Cheik Anta Diop, had in a series of television interviews and public lectures fired the imagination of African-American youths with revelations that the architecture of power symbolising America’s sovereignty was copied from ancient Egypt of the Black Pharaohs. African-American students we met at Atlanta University in 1989 carried T-Shirts with inscriptions of pride in that historical fact. Post-colonial capitals in Africa need to borrow from that ancestry as well as from new academies of architectural design, creativity and social imagination. Chancellor Angela Merkel can hug Africa with dry eyes that will join Africa’s innovators in seeing a future of dignified Africa-German partnership in architectural construction of the future.