Liberian Literary Magazine
NOTHING. That is precisely
the problem. They did
nothing to warrant this
anger. I should not be
surprised considering that
they always do nothing. My
disappointment stems from
the fact that they actually
did nothing.
Okay here is it. The AU
has been in bed with Haiti
for some time now.
Everyone knows that Haiti
has for a while now been
wanting full membership
rights in the Union. In fact,
everything
has
been
building up to this decision.
But in a shocking event, the
Union says, that well, you
people are cool, black and
all but y’all ain’t black
enough. I mean they were
able to find time to issue an
official response.
That
must
be
the
dumbest thing ever. Haiti?
Not black enough? Am I
missing something here?
Last I checked, some 212
years ago, when the rest of
the continent was so dark,
they stuck their heads up
their masters’ yokers to
find light, Haiti actually destrung herself from the
bondages of slavery. When
they were still comfortably
hauling off their kin to
slave ports and handing
them over to slavers, Haiti
was enjoying individual
freedom. When the same
slaves they sent would give
anything to be Haitians,
Haiti was struggling to hold
the torch of African
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liberation.
Not
black
enough? Can someone wake
me from this nightmare?
Liberia, Africa’s oldest
republic,
established
herself many years after
Haiti did and do they want
to know something? Haiti
recognized
our
independence long before
the America from whence
our founders came did. She
was one of the first nations
to recognize Liberia. And
then, she passed that
freedom torch to Liberia.
Today,
Liberia
is
a
member.
President
Tubman actually organized
and
engineered
the
formation of the defunct
OAU, which in my opinion
had much clout than this
reformed, more powerful
AU. The AU has more
money and organization
than the OAU had but
accomplishes far less than
the founders did. It is
pitiful right? It is like since
Tubman, Nkrumah and the
rest of the founders left the
drawing board; this body
has spent the last 3 to 4
decades
reading
the
scripts, nothing more. They
have been unable to
transform
this
organization. Meanwhile,
the EU and even baby
ASEAN have come around
to conclude their charters,
but not the AU. It remains
a union only in name. A
union that places more
value on China than its
brothers dwelling off the
8
continental landmass. As it
is, China is buying out all of
Africa. In fact, effortlessly,
they are ‘banjoeing’ the
continent to China for
peanuts. I bet you, if the
Chinese
government
requested to be a member
of AU, they’d ask her which
seat she wants. They’d
offer the pie as a whole for
her to cut as she sees fit.
By default, already, she is
biting away at the pie, why
would she want the extra
burden
of
official
membership?
They say that some funny
article in the formative
document prevents Haiti
from joining the AU, yet,
they have no problem
telling her that she is a
little too white. Which to
me is the real reason.
Haiti has not got money
like the others they are
selling their souls to so why
bring her onboard to share
when the table is already
small? That is fair right?
One should share when
there is enough. The
problem is that there is not
‘enough’
Haiti
only
complicates things. Have
these people heard of
amendments? Do they know
that the instruments can be
changed? Oops, I forgot.
These
options
mean
actually doing something;
which is something they are
selectively just not capable
of doing. So, since they
don’t know or want to do
anything, just anything,