I HAVE A DREAM, TOO

I have a dream that someday my fellow Africans will finally gain their independence, for they have never been independent in the last 500 years from slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War dictatorships, and Post-Cold War tyrannies that have sprung like deadly viruses across the African continent.

 

I have a dream that someday my fellow Africans will learn that independence and freedom go hand in hand and that an independent people is also a free people. I have a dream that my fellow Africans will keep burning the torch of liberty, teaching their posterity to always wipe any seed of tyranny from its very onset. 

I have a dream that someday my fellow Africans will break the bands of slavery, yeah, the bands of captivity and that they will free themselves from their masters, yeah, those “career criminals behind presidential desks” who confiscate power, crush opposition, plunder, murder and reduce hundreds of millions of human beings to misery.

I have a dream that, like the Hero carved in marble, my fellow Africans will chant in unison: “Free at last, free at last!”

Jean Kapenda, 01/14/2015

 

Republished on 1/19/2015 @ http://www.voanews.com/content/us-observes-martin-luther-king-jr-day/2604153.html#hash=relatedInfoContainer

REDUCING AFRICAN DICTATORS TO NOTHINGNESS: A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY

They have ruled their countries with an iron fist, scammed foreign taxpayers with billions of dollars in foreign aid, tailored their countries constitutions to fit their animalistic and primitive tendencies, enslaved hundreds of millions of human beings whose only dream is the word “freedom”. They didn’t stop there. They have deliberately killed millions, of which over 5,000,000 only in Eastern Congo, when Rwanda’s dictator Paul Kagame  and Uganda’s tyrant Yoweri Museveni sent in troops to loot, rape, and kill innocents. The United Nations spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to document those atrocities against humanity. However, nothing has happened. The evil, yes those ugly beasts and other similar creatures (aka dictators), is still walking free, unloosed.

Now, here is how we can put a leash on those African monsters and reduce them to nothingness: (1) Expand the “no-red-carpet policy for African tyrants” already in place in many industrialized nations; (2) Increase sanctions against African tyrants to include freezing assets, travel ban, and limiting or eliminating foreign aid for countries ruled by dictators; (3) Press the International Criminal Court (ICC) to charge African tyrants whose human rights violations are well-documented (Kenyatta’s  appearance at the ICC being a successful ballon d’essai that “African career criminals behind presidential desks”- a new expression I have coined-  can still be prosecuted while in office); (4) Take action on the United Nations’ reports on atrocities committed by African tyrants, intelligence reports on human rights violations by African dictators, and other well-documented findings by independent sources.

Below is just the tip of the iceberg:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/794496.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/16/world/rwanda-and-uganda-battling-to-control-key-city-in-congo.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/28/f-vp-macinnes-rae-congo.html?cmp=rss

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=574&p1=3&p2=3&case=116&p3=5

 

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2012/843

www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/CD/DRC_MAPPING_REPORT_FINAL_EN.pdf

 May this 2015 be a year where most Africans will finally be given a break from tyranny and other forms of oppression by the forces of the evil!  May African tyrants be reduced to nothingness through concerted actions by individuals, groups, and governments that champion human rights and respect for human dignity!