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Africa has to get new breed of humans
(Opinion)The Monitor (Kampala)
January 4, 2000
By Ssekitooleko Deo
Kampala - I wish to agree with Charles Onyango-Obbo's
article, "Slave Trade
Took Our Best, Left Us Chaff" (The Monitor Dec. 08). I
go a step further to
suggest that if Africa is to rediscover itself, it
must acquire new,
improved breeds of not only plants and animal species
but also humans.
This can be done through cross-breeding with superior
human beings from
other continents; inviting our relatives, the
Afro-Americans, to come back
and occupy our highest political and economic
positions, and recalling the
colonialists to govern us for a specific period. The
latter can be done by
privatising the political structure of our
governments.
With the advent of genetic engineering, we have seen
increased milk
production, eaten chicken of only two months old, and
acquired clonal coffee
which matures in a couple of years.
All this has been possible because the Agriculture
ministry recognised the
potential of new improved breeds of crops and animals.
The same formula can work with human beings.
However retrogressive it may appear, there is no doubt
that Europeans have
been the best breed of human species, followed by
Asians.
At the bottom of the list are black Africans.
The African morphology, dark colouration, greed, lack
of intellect, failure
to internalise theories and lack of interest in
preserving our best things
clearly show that we are an inferior people.
It is universally accepted that any specie that
practices cannibalism
against members of its kind is primitive. Look at
African politicians,
butchering whole ethnic groups, starving whole
populations.
Since it is beyond doubt that almost all Africans in
positions of power tend
to misuse it, it is logical to conclude that there is
a problem with the
stock from which our leaders come.
Even our intellectuals, public servants and business
people are of poor stock.
In recent times, the American breed of human species
has out-competed the
European breed, the main reason being that the
American stock is an improved
one.It is a mixture of the Europe's, Asia's, and
Africa's best breeds.
Americans continue to improve their human stock
through the Green Lottery
project whereby they admit into the US at least 60,000
superior individuals
from all over the world.
Now, if Americans are so serious about the quality of
humans entering their
country, how could they have bought chaff as slaves,
leaving the best behind?
Let's face the fact that the best were taken, we are
descendants of the
chaff and that is why we cannot live at peace with
ourselves and cannot
exploit our potential to the full.
I wish to suggest that if Africans were evolving at
the same pace with
Europeans, then those Africans who had attained a high
evolutionary level;
both social and biological, were taken away as slaves
and only chaff remained.
Why is it that all African leaders can't think beyond
their life spans?
Almost all of them made constitutions which suited
them but not their nations.
They introduced police regimes, enriched themselves at
the expense of their
nations and jailed or murdered their political
opponents.
Kwame Nkrumah, Milton Obote, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth
Kaunda, Houphouet-
Boigny, Kamuzu Banda, etc. were all descendants of the
chaff.
When these sons of the chaff failed to fulfil the
independence promises and
abused power massively, they were toppled by army
generals who became even
worse.
The generals killed, raped, and some even practised
cannibalism - Jean Bedel
Bokassa, Idi Amin, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mobutu Sese
Seko, Sani Abacha, etc.
Finally, the generals have been replaced with the
so-called "new breed" of
African leaders -- Yoweri Museveni, Paul Kagame,
Laurent Kabila, Isias
Aferweki and Meles Zenawi.
These leaders mainly captured power through popular
revolutions. But many of
them have since formed one party systems, in some
cases disguised as
movements. They have personalised armies, fought each
other, looked on
helplessly as their relatives plunder national
treasuries and worse still,
they are not prepared to quit power peacefully.
The African intelligentsia is another category of
chaff that pollutes the
African environment.
Most of our professors are opportunists and cannot
defend their opinions.
They change like chameleons and their political
beliefs don't depend on
research - Apolo Nsibambi, George Kanyeihamba, Tarsis
Kabwegyere, Adonia
Tiberondwa, Edward Rugumayo, etc.
It is in fact amazing that a person of modest
education like Maj. Gen. Salim
Saleh lectures them on development issues and is the
only one has organised
his beliefs into a philosophy!
Whatever we may say, therefore, the fact remains our
stock is of a poor
quality and there is an urgent need for "restocking."
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