It is a shame that it should be in this way…
It is even more shameful that your demise could be associated with a deep blow on the ideals of Panafricanism – which you have so forcefully tried to personify, especially in as far as they relate to a genuine alliance between Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, which you have championed…
However, the Panafricanist ideals can only be incorporated by the peoples of Africa. They cannot be hijacked by one leader, or even a group of leaders under our African Union banner. They cannot be dispensed through a top-down prescription. They can only be achieved if lived from a truly bottom-up experience:
- when free movement of people across borders becomes a reality;
- when the peoples of the continent can really know, respect, enjoy and appreciate their common ancestry and each other’s cultures and identities so as to avoid our recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts;
- when the immense riches of our motherland are effectively and fairly distributed and shared among all its sons and daughters so that our chronic poverty and human underdevelopment records can be definitively overcome…
And all that cannot be achieved under dictatorial and/or corrupt regimes and life-long rulers!
So, it is indeed regrettable that it had to be in this way – especially to the extent that you gave foreign powers a “good excuse” to intervene and interfere in what should/could have been a normal, peaceful and democratic process!
But…
Brother Gaddafi is down – Long live the Brotherhood (and the Sisterhood) of Panafricanism and the African Union of and for the peoples of the Continent and its Diaspora!
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