Neocolonialism In Africa.

My heart is heavy with sadness whenever i see bad images of the African continent on the various international media networks. They keep on showing images of starving African children with flies hovering around them, and dead bodies in conflict zones on my dear continent. They are just trying to show to the whole world that we Africans can not rule ourselves without resorting to war. Thats why the western powers are making everything possible to take over the continent once more so as to control our natural mineral resources. It seems we are giving them the opportunity to do just that. Our political leaders are not helping us curb this trend thats gotten beyond our control. Why cant we follow the example of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who nationalized all the oil drilling installations in his country when the multinational companies refused to accept the 70- 30% he was proposing. He was looking at the interest of the citizens of Venezuela. He also during the latter part of the year 2011 repatriated all the country's gold reserves abroad back to Venezuela. Why cant we follow his example. Our leaders keep fat bank accounts in foreign banks and when they are being hounded out of power, they are exposed and these accounts are frozen by the western powers. Its like we give the western powers the ammunition to propagate their agenda. Now the new form of colonialism is in the form of a fight for the continent's mineral resources. The Chinese, Russians, British, Americans, French etc are all coming in their numbers just to take over our resources. Nigeria is being turned into a lawless state by certain faceless entities, and there might be a western power behind all the chaos and confusion going on in that country. The West is also now asking all African countries to recognize gay and lesbian rights as they have made it a conditionality in their giving of aid to the continent. We must stand up and fight this disease which is trying to destroy our African continent, for it seems we would betray the African continent by doing nothing about this emerging threat. They first start with a group of people being coerced to organize a protest and more people join when the security forces use all means necessary to quell such protests, thats all they need to accuse an African government of committing human rights abuses. But hey, these are just the thoughts of an African man who loves his continent with all his heart, mind and soul.