President Clinton has been in six countries in Africa in a bid to improve the relations between Africa and the US. But it is a well known fact that the US is just interested in having new markets in Africa in the aftermath of the cold war and Asian crisis.
So his visit was just another attempt to recolonise the continent in the name of globalisation and internalisation.
Globalisation is just another name of imperialism and does not make any difference to the life of the ordinary African.
The fact that people watch US-made movies in Burkina Faso does not make them global citizens. What we see is the Macdonaldisation and cocacolonisation of the world which is run by the West.
Africa has been part and parcel of this planet for more than 500 years in the form of slavery and colonialism by which the Western world enriched itself.
Clinton talked about the people of Africa demanding change from Cape Town to Kampala, from Dar es Salaam to Dakar, but I wonder if he has ever been to Harlem and Brooklyn? What has he done to alleviate the human tragedy among African-Americans?
Charity starts at home Mr Clinton. Leave Africa alone please! We have had enough of both the East and the West and we need time to be on our own for the first time since 1500.
We will work out our problems ourselves without your so-called aid and trade. African problems deserve African solutions.
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