we have a psychotic addiction to Colonial definitions of what and welcome to candid Africa
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end the intervention in Iraq was couched in very benign terms the intervention in Libya was couched
in benign terms I could give you 100 interventions where the justification objectively speaking was
on the basis that there was evidence either of genocide or evidence I'm sitting in Rwanda
the International Community stood by as the genocide against the Tutsi happened
yet in the same year they were intervening in West Africa
in the construct of benign and malign
is controlled and related to the question of narrative and strategic self-interest
we've often not paid enough attention and thank you chairperson of the African Union for educating
us on how the international Forum of decision making the security Council and other four are
including at some stage how we transact within the international criminal court and other platform
that evidence and that was my point we don't Control Data we don't control digital platforms
we therefore are not controlling narrative in both analog and digital forms what can practically be
done we do need to speak to Europeans not as victims because the Erasure of the contribution
in European consciousness of Africans to modernity and civility has constructed the
white supremacist views that sees the evolution of modernity as a singularly European contribution
and it is only now that our young researchers are beginning to excavate the contributions
of black people of Africans towards inventions because until now the province of economy was
not the province of black people in my country in Zimbabwe when land was taken a British Court
gave a judgment that said the question before them and who owned the land I said one thing is certain
it cannot be the native because the native has no sense of ownership it was on that basis that
land was taken number two on the question of Economics even we pejoratively only talk about
our people as informal law informal economy info yet the informal economy is formal that's how
India developed through its cottage industry that's a we have a psychotic addiction to
Colonial definitions of what and that's why Professor Ashraf is correct it's not just a
narrative about our contribution historically it's a narrative about our contribution now
our young people who developed m-pesa which is not being used globally who developed usaidi which has
been used by over 300 000 organizations including the Japanese the U.S military and the NATO forces
and never sufficiently credit why because it is not in the current psyche of most Europeans
possible that Africans are anything else except the object of Charity that deserve our mercy and
our pity why because they're governed by governed by tyrants right or Africans are
incapable of ethics and we've constantly said that Switzerland which received their Bacha loot which
received the loot from the thenx iron out DRC has constantly been ranked in anti-corruption indices
as the cleanest country in the world PLO and I are lawyers the receipt of stolen property is theft at
low how is it that you will have Nigeria and Kenya ranked so far and yet the country that receives
the money I think that if you're changing narrative you also have to change Behavior
our African leaders and citizens constantly confirm the European caricature an object
of pity when we come into this process we can never transact resolution revolution in caters
I like to be civil to be courteous right but each time I start pointing to atrocities committed
by African governments the Europeans and the Americans cheer me up each time I refer to the
historical atrocities and continuing atrocities committed first by governments and by companies
that have dumping cyanide into our underground water and nuclear waste right you know what it
is said this is retrogressive it's a undermining investment it's again listen we cannot win the
narrative battle by arguing In Pockets that has been our candid speech development over
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