So they say Mrs. Hilary Clinton, herself a scion of a famous C-family, has finally spoken truth to power, and given voice to her serious worries about the threat of the re-colonization of Africa? She is worried about the return of the C-word to virginized Africa?
Ain't that cute? Real romantic cute?
Clinton cares. Cares so much about Africa, she has to raise alarm about the insidious outflow of Red China and Brown(?) India into the sacred fields of African freedom.
And what do the Africans themselves think about this so-called threat of colonization looming large and about to sweep them and all of their own far away from the familiar tentacles of old civilization-christianization-commerce/capitalism lore?
Would somebody want to create a clowning space akin to BBC's vaunted "Africa Have Your Say" and ask the neo-Tarzans what they think about "how bad China and India and Brazil and South Africa are going to be for the interests of Africa, especially given that God has long ordained that all African resources be vetted through the familiar traffics of London//New York/Paris/Brussels/Lisbon" etc etc. for ever?
Or they would rather ask the self-ordained "experts" of Africa over in right-wing think tanks in Washington exactly what they want to echo from their message-masters about these gooks/untouchables/kaffirs/miscegenated brats of the BRIC trying to steal that which others better than themselves have worked hard for five hundred years...to "destroy so as to save"?
Maybe, even today, the subaltern African cannot/mustnot/shouldnot speak. What could he possibly know about the real meaning of colonization and where/how it manifests?
Yea, what could he know, apart from throwing up a mish-mash of Fanonian rants and Bikoan grumps out of turn when the real lords of this world are expressing intellectually sound and politically astute opinions?
Anyway, who cares for what Africans think when better and more caring spokespersons have risen and spoken?
Some folks said it well a while ago, we can only imitate them awkwardly now:
Uncle Sam Locuta, Causa Finita Est!
Hilary. Great Uncle's Darling Girl. Hilary. A name that's so close to that other word: hilarious.
Maybe we should laugh at this "care" of hers for Africa's salvation from colonization.
Maybe we should dismiss it as a hilarious hell of a trickster tale from Hilary.
But then, to live in the triumphant arenas of "freedom and democracy" in Libya and Somalia and Ivory Coast circa June 2011 and to know that these too, rose from the concerns of caring/knowledgeable/anti-colonialism gurus like our heroine of the hour...
To know all these and more and more and more....
With friends like Hilary, who really needs enemies?
Hilary, with friends like you, who really needs to worry about how worse enemies might get?
Keep checking your blog wondering when the next explosion might come.
ReplyDeleteLol. Probably from Afghanistan. I hear that's where the action is, nowadays.
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