Dr please how can we africa too have their foreign policies? We have resources they want and need, can't we use them to implement our foreign policies to benefit africa as well?
Thank you bro Abdul-Razak for the idea sharing. 🙏🏻🙏🏿🙏😀 You are very correct when you pointed out that we (Africa) have the resources that the rest of the world needs, so it is incumbent on us to, -a) determine what our prime and secondary interests are when dealing with other non-African nations. -b) imperative that we establish 'who we are' say we first must be satisfied before we export the surplus. This way African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) would be successful. The continent would have to place premium on intra-African dealings before relating with the rest of the world, however we are doing the opposite and keeping Africa countries always needy in the presence of abundance. -bi) Knowing 'who we are' as Africans and protecting who we are and what we have with respect to security, finance, energy and medical would prevent any non-African country from disrupting our pattern of development. -bii) Because African countries or AU does not know who we are, we are dependent on the physical security of the West and specifically US. Eg, US per UN would have to fund our ECOMOG (ECOWAS military) for any peace intervention in the subregion else we are incapable of intervening militarily within the continent, etc. -biii) Finance wise, all African countries have to buy their local currencies as in printing money from Europe or US and pay in Euro or pound sterling. Meanwhile Europeans and North Americans print their our Euros and dollars internally without paying nothing for it. Invariably, African countries are financial insecure by giving more money to the external secures print houses. -biv) Very important is African countries erroneous dependence on New York or the UK stock markey for commodity predictive pricing of our own goods and by them (New York and London) is another weakness that points to we Africans 'not knowing whom we are'. Or we are aware of whom we are as Africans to be a feeder continent to the West at the expense of our 'empty stomach' (wide spread poverty). Prices of cedi, grains, textiles, gold, diamond, crude oil, cocoa, lumbar etc are all priced in New York or London mercantile market, while we the producers/originators have no say in demand and supply for an equilibrium pricing. -bv) Strangely we do not have African pharmacopea or even the licence to produce generic European-American drugs to produce the medicines right in Africa. Specifically to respond to your question, I would indicate that Africa is yet to know itself and its interest while dealing with non-African countries or the reat of the world. Please let me conclude with the known nursery poem, 'Black black black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir master, one for the master and one for lady who lives up the hill and one for the little boy who lives with the parents up the hill.' Africa families produce the wool and shares it for the European Master's family while leaving him/her self cum family waking and working about naked. Moment African countries discover themselves and its interest that is to be protected during negotiations with other countries we would have arrived to seeking hegemony.
@@politicallycorrectghana1274 again, when come to think about printing money, were we printing cowries, big no where are they, how many people no cowries? So all these things are cost by modernization we embrace.
Dr please how can we africa too have their foreign policies? We have resources they want and need, can't we use them to implement our foreign policies to benefit africa as well?
Thank you bro Abdul-Razak for the idea sharing. 🙏🏻🙏🏿🙏😀
You are very correct when you pointed out that we (Africa) have the resources that the rest of the world needs, so it is incumbent on us to,
-a) determine what our prime and secondary interests are when dealing with other non-African nations.
-b) imperative that we establish 'who we are' say we first must be satisfied before we export the surplus. This way African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) would be successful. The continent would have to place premium on intra-African dealings before relating with the rest of the world, however we are doing the opposite and keeping Africa countries always needy in the presence of abundance.
-bi) Knowing 'who we are' as Africans and protecting who we are and what we have with respect to security, finance, energy and medical would prevent any non-African country from disrupting our pattern of development.
-bii) Because African countries or AU does not know who we are, we are dependent on the physical security of the West and specifically US. Eg, US per UN would have to fund our ECOMOG (ECOWAS military) for any peace intervention in the subregion else we are incapable of intervening militarily within the continent, etc.
-biii) Finance wise, all African countries have to buy their local currencies as in printing money from Europe or US and pay in Euro or pound sterling. Meanwhile Europeans and North Americans print their our Euros and dollars internally without paying nothing for it. Invariably, African countries are financial insecure by giving more money to the external secures print houses.
-biv) Very important is African countries erroneous dependence on New York or the UK stock markey for commodity predictive pricing of our own goods and by them (New York and London) is another weakness that points to we Africans 'not knowing whom we are'. Or we are aware of whom we are as Africans to be a feeder continent to the West at the expense of our 'empty stomach' (wide spread poverty). Prices of cedi, grains, textiles, gold, diamond, crude oil, cocoa, lumbar etc are all priced in New York or London mercantile market, while we the producers/originators have no say in demand and supply for an equilibrium pricing.
-bv) Strangely we do not have African pharmacopea or even the licence to produce generic European-American drugs to produce the medicines right in Africa.
Specifically to respond to your question, I would indicate that Africa is yet to know itself and its interest while dealing with non-African countries or the reat of the world.
Please let me conclude with the known nursery poem,
'Black black black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir master, one for the master and one for lady who lives up the hill and one for the little boy who lives with the parents up the hill.'
Africa families produce the wool and shares it for the European Master's family while leaving him/her self cum family waking and working about naked.
Moment African countries discover themselves and its interest that is to be protected during negotiations with other countries we would have arrived to seeking hegemony.
@@politicallycorrectghana1274 again, when come to think about printing money, were we printing cowries, big no where are they, how many people no cowries? So all these things are cost by modernization we embrace.
Precisely the fact about cowries 👍🏿👍🏼👍😀