Cross-town Camel Jam on highway to Zuway Lake, Ethiopia Jan. 2022
On the surface, that greasy, oily, fatty McDonald burgers, KFC crap-Ola food that you’re eating and glugging down with that syrupy sweet Coca-Cola, all looks good and even tastes pretty good, but give it five years – 10 years, 20 years and see how your heart, your lungs and your brain function have depreciated.
Diabetes anyone?!
Respiratory and Heart Problems? Step right up, let’s SUPERSIZE that?
How ‘bout a tasty, hot, flaky and sticky sugary pie for desert, only 10 Birr more?
Fifsum – less English, most knowledgeable accessed, to date: Still, have they already lost to Debt Colonization?
It all tastes and looks and feels so good – until it, eventually, kills you. Or worse, enslavement for the last 40 years of your life, only to see your kids and your grandkids trapped into the same fucking system, unable to break free.
Noe, from (Congo-Brazzaville), May (Egyptian), myself, Kyle, Kendra, Troy and the new movement of millennials, and upwardly mobile Black Americans; global Black men and women may possibly be parts of the answers to helping.
Yet, like Activist S’bu Zidoke told Host Oluma Abayineh on Channel 11 – OBN’s Horn of Africa news, (Friday, Jan. 28, 2022) –
“We need to be speaking in one voice. Social Movements (organizations), will have to talk to our communities and build solidarity; building unity…
United across the region.
Africans must stop hating one another, in order to create a spirit of unity to build peace.”
Rightly so they are gun-shy about trusting outsiders.
Still, S’bu Zidoke also adamantly stated, “Africans (must remember) the aide we get (or have gotten) from the West is actually a RETURN on our own stolen resources.”
Call it a return on unsolicited investments.
People like Zidoke believe they need to find all the answers from within. And perhaps that’s what we need to do; attempt to support them to find the answers for themselves from within. As Pilot Lloyd was saying last night, we must give them grants and RETURNS on our countries’ exploitative practices since 1400, so these nations can reap the rewards right now and 10-100 years down the road.
Debtor Colonization
“I believe we should have a limit,” Lloyd an Insect Control Pilot from Kenya told me Monday, January 31, 2022. “Because they are literally taking over the continent, and the Chinese they’re reaching a point whereby; [before] initially all these ways the British and the Americans were giving a Grant. You see, for the Chinese, what they are doing is all for business. They just tell you the interest rates so, at the end of the day, you find you’re heavily indebted. Most of the projects are being done (by) China now, and they’ll have to recover their money and it’s something that’s going to take 20, 30, 40 years.”
Is Outside Aide Really Helping?
When I visited the outstanding rich, Black Nubian regions of Aswan and, to a lesser extent, Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt (southern border with Sudan), December 28, 2021 – Jan. 3, 2022, I was amazed to learn how most of these monolithic temples of Philae Island (just 9 klms, plus a short but expensive ferry from downtown Aswan) were NOT in their original places. Many had been move dozens or even hundreds of miles from their original historical sites.
One comes to understand about UNESCO bailing out those flooded (Black) regions after Egyptian leaders created the Aswan High Damn 1960-1970 that:
So much so, the White Saviors (Spain, The Netherlands, US, Italy) all received fabulous temples or monuments as “thank you” gifts for saving Egypt’s ass?
Perhaps, digging a little deeper, you’ll find there was International support of these damns?
If Noe and his platform is more empowering, allowing us to be more like mini-philanthropists, raising and just giving billions in resources, funds, time and opportunities to the right people who aren’t going to be bought by the government, nor told by the government where or how they can build their humanitarian, business or community infrastructures, entities or centers that best service the community’s specific needs, than I’m All In.
If May can organize empowerment schools whereby young girls and women have greater roles in their partnerships with males in Egypt, I’d consider moving there and focusing my energies in continuing that revolution started in 2011.
Tough paths with dozens of fundamental shifts that must occur that also may take decades if not a generation?
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
05:38
For the now, Ethiopians are very proud that they’ve never been colonized…
Yet.
It’s happening as we speak, and they don’t realize that the Chinese influx of billions and trillions of dollars here and on the continent is creating a slave nation again.
Yesterday (January 28, 2022) at the lake, the boys were asking about my favorite Premier League teams and I said I liked Real Madrid and Barcelona and they were like, yeah thumbs up to that. And then we started talking politically, and they all said “You American? All America bad. China good! America bad.”
And then Emos, 10, came up with a few others who had a little bit more grasp of English, and he started saying “Oh, you’re Black American.”
Meaning, you’re not one of the bad Americans. I didn’t want to explain to them that some Black Americans are bad and many White Americans are good. Too nuanced.
It doesn’t really matter what color skin you are as there are degrees of evil as well as good, but that was also too nuanced for a 10 year old whose grasp of English was far better than everyone else’s yet Race and Politics are far different here [does “race” even exist here???] than elsewhere.
Instead, I just said, “Yes Black America is good. But the rest of America is not so good for the African continent, nor Ethiopia, specifically.”
I was like, “Beware of the Chinese. They are very bad. You do not really understand right now, but all the money they’re giving you right now, they will want something, AND MORE, in return in five years, 10 years, 20 years.”
I tried to get Emos to translate to the crowd of 15 or so children clamoring around to discuss futbol, Biology, hippopotamuses and the old standout, to beg.
One of the littlest they directed me to watch as he did a partial split on the ground and then the ubiquitous outstretched hand wanting money.
This after a couple others had tried, “money” with international salute – hands out, after illustrating their limited English.
“Begging is not a good trait to learn,” I told them. “You learn a skill, I’ll pay you.”
Two or three seemed to understand that, explaining to the others. One particularly annoying boy who wouldn’t stop badgering with constant babbling wanted me to photograph him jumping into the lake.
I kindly declined.
Nuanced Discussions with Young Tour Guides
He persisted.
I continued looking out for the hippos. Eyes, ears and backs of two turned into four and one boy told me they come out of the water “very late late.” Seeing four frolicking, partially visible, one’s upper jaw opening onto the back of another from about 100 yards was as good as my viewing would get, I moved on.
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That’s when the crowd of boys thinned and they spotted the Splits Boy.
Skilled?
Still, no money. I knew as soon as I tipped one, 10 more would begin “performing”, expecting money. The crowd would grow and I’d be stuck in an unsustainable feeding frenzy. Worse, word would get out and others would seek me out during the rest of my stay expecting treats for unsolicited acts or skills.
That’s about when Emos returned on the scene, with his best friends Fifsum, 13 and Yarik, 9. They unwittingly, became my guides for the next few hours.
You will not be able to repay the debts of the billions of dollars that were loaned to you. In essence, China is buying this nation and the entire continent. As it is, they own close to 90% of all the mineral rights in The Republic of Congo according to that documentary Congo, My Precious (2017)
Ohhhh, The Places You Will Go…
Additionally, without some of these bureaucratic, societal, educational, and infrastructural shifts we must understand, of that financial aid, perhaps half will be earmarked for bribing the government so that they can do what the fuck they NEED to do. Systemic change, it’s really difficult. It’s a slow, decades-long, process. That kind of change does not happen sometimes not even within the generation.
Captain Lloyd acknowledged that corruption swallowed up much of Kenya’s previous interest-free grant aide.
Yet, at least that was better than what’s happening now.
“The Chinese are going to fuck it up in a very short period of time.”
These loans, where 10%, 20% goes directly into Presidents’ pockets, and then shoddy materials or inferior designs, where roads or trains that should last 20-30 years are crumbling after five or six. The Chinese supported inferior 2-car commuter trains in Addis Ababa, population 9 MILLION, are a great illustration of this.
That’s only half the dilemmas.
“But when you come and look at [low 2% loans] in the long run,” Lloyd lamented.
“Like now, they are doing for us an expressway in Nairobi. When it started it was estimated at 30 Billion, now two years down the line, it’s already 60 Billion, and it isn’t even finished yet. Now they’re [Chinese] saying they’ll control it for 27 years, until they recover their money.”
Of course, I didn’t say nearly 1/100 of that to Emos, Fifsum and Yarik. I practiced pronunciation with them and learned how they’re in the same school and while Emos felt confident speaking English, Fifsum understood perhaps more, often translating to Emos and Yarik in Amharic certain aspects of our conversations. Yet over the next couple days I will try to reiterate and illustrate the power of a Debtor or Death Colonization.
The data that I got off the Internet from 2014, states that most of the cobalt and other minerals coming from the Republic of Congo are going directly to China.
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