After WW2, the Americans wanted to boost the confidence of the beleaguered Europeans so the USA ‘gave’ Africa to them to manage but by the 1980s, the US decided to step back in. #BlackTwitter #NSFAR
By the end of the 1980s, Japan was seen as a serious challenger to US hegemony. Japan put forward a major investment plan for Africa which outraged the AMERICANS. The then Secretary of State James Baker put forward an alternative plan, the BAKER PLAN to kill of Japan’s plan
By mid 1990s, the Americans were faced with another Asian upstart. China wanted access to Africa’s resources & would offer infrastructure in return. The US negotiated with China that it would limit its involvement in key areas. Stay out of DRC’s economy & Africa’s SECURITY
China broke the DRC agreement and offer the Congolese MASSIVE infrastructure investments in return for the lion share of Congo’s natural resources. The Americans were understandably OUTRAGED. You see the DRC remains America’s most important colony since it assassinated Lumumba
The Americans send the US dominated IMF to warn the Congolese that they were going against the wishes of the ‘international community’ and would pay a heavy price and besides if the DRC needed infrastructure investment the ‘west’ would provide it. The DRC backed out of the deal
Obama tried to get China to see sense. The world outside of a few excepts, Iran, Russia, Cuba, North Korea and China belonged to America. Anything China wants to do in Africa must have America’s overall blessings. As China has grown in confidence she is investing in the Americas
The USA quite rightly calculates that a ‘hot war’ with China is some way off but in the meantime America will use its considerable communication skills to push the ‘international community’ and marginalised peoples into supporting America & against China. The new ‘Cold War’.
Everything depends on which way India will jump, with China or the USA. As for Africa? Her young people will most likely be drafted into the frontline to face China on the battlefields. It’s not an unfamiliar role for Africans who have always fought & died for their oppressors
The DRC Catholic Church’s election tally showed that Martin Fayulu won the 2018 election. The result OUTRAGED the USA. Trump said he would send US Special Forces to next door Gabon if the DRC didn’t reverse the result & select their candidate. Tshisekedi was appointed
You see the Congolese can do anything they like but they can’t do that... be independent from the USA. The Congo remains a wholly-owned colony of the USA. Nigeria, South Africa & Angola like Egypt are semi-colonies of the USA
You see Africa is very much like the Middle East. As Pan Arab Nationalism started to take off in the 1950s & 60s, the US, France, UK and Israel collectively decided to foster Islamic Fundamentalism to defeat the nationalist threat to their dominance of in the region.
The argument goes that Arab Nationalists were more likely to demand a greater share of the oil revenue to deal with poverty in their countries than Islamists or America’s client Arab leadership so Pan Arab Nationalism had to be killed off.
The US doesn’t see Pan African Nationalism as holding a serious threat to its domination of Africa. So right about now the US’s Arab policy and Africa policy is showing positive results #BlackTwitter
