welcome to the African leadership series
where we bring you great inspirational
speeches from African level we've been
through the pain of colonialism and
today we are going through colonialism
neo colonialism in the sense that what
I'm trying to say is their term there
was a time when we saw the white man our
: colonial powers as as our enemies but
I think no not that I think something
that is worse than an enemy
is a traitor yes and when our own when
we want our freedom some of our
countries were led by some of the most
noble nationalists you know of our time
but at the same time with the passage of
time some of them became treacherous and
rather betrayed our aspirations in in
fact what I'm trying to say is that as
bad as an enemy can be I think something
worse than an enemy is a traitor we've
we've and ended up evolving in the
process of trying to modernize we've
ended up rather and that have been
westernized to the point where as I sit
here before you when I wanted to even
name my children African names heroic
names I'm a Catholic the Catholic Church
or sunk that character you know back at
home said no I cannot
there'll have to be Catholic names I
mean those garlic names are European
names I went through an argument with
this priest and I said listen I have a
right to my identity don't take away my
identity okay
I mean Christianize me if you may but
don't westernize me
there were times my wife a night is a
great graphic artist
we met some beautiful Christmas cards
that depicted Christmas in an African
setting and the Christmas cards sold so
well even with Catholic nuns white
Catholic nuns we wanted to secure the
patent I went to an office the Registrar
general's office to secure the page and
can you believe that this fellow African
you know registered general looking at
my black personality black face told me
that no I cannot
this was long after independence and
that it's going to take about three
years I said why three years he said
it'll have to go to England it will go
to England and it might take about three
years before I'm granted the right to
that patient or whatever it is that
register in other words in effect what
I'm trying to say is that oh so I have
no right to even my creativity I create
my own you take it away from me and love
to senator the colonial power three
years later when they have reproduced it
and I am no more right to it
so as an African when you're talking
about democracy etc let's put it aside
let me bring you to the current modern
situation we end up with injustice we
end up with corruption we end up with
poverty we end up with the West possible
things we end up with the image I don't
have to tell you the image that you have
in Africa I don't have to tell you
please I know the potential of humanity
so when you're talking about the effects
of some of these things sometimes you
know these superpowers must must learn
to accommodate and to live and to accept
patriotic leadership patriotic citizens
too often too often they are more they
are happier with people who are not
Patriots but if if the media especially
in America for instance could give you
both sides of the story as pertains to
foreign policies and foreign actions you
will bring so much pressure to bear
because you still live in a world with
the capacity and the ability to be able
to influence your presidents you can
impeach your presidents like in America
so you as a people still have power
unlike us in Africa they disempower
let me just say something I have a
little theory that the world is
manipulated I may be wrong but the world
is manipulated by the multinational
corporations the media some some some
parts of the media and the intelligence
apparatus they work as a triumvirate and
they are neatly sandwich like the ham
like your tomato whatever it is they are
neatly sandwiched in between the
governed people you the govern ordinary
people and the governors that is where
the manipulation takes place and there
is a symbiotic relationship between the
triumvirate and sometimes at this level
and if we do not make every possible
attempt to return morality when we are
talking about the immorality of
international politics the immorality in
business ethics is also percolating
downwards and the criminal corrupting
that goes on in my world is bad so the
sooner we began we begin to return to
restore some sense of morality in
business ethics in politics in the media
intelligence apparatus with beliefs
conviction that this is wrong
etc after all if you're talking about
globalization then please let the same
value what is good for the goose let it
be good for the gander if you like
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