By Kwabia Owusu-Mensah, GNA
Kumasi March 30, GNA – Africa must work towards ending the neo-colonial economic slavery blueprint that was adopted in 1961 by the Imperialist for economic colonization and enslavement of Africa.
Mr Nyaaba-Aweeba Azongo, a Pan-Africanist, who said this, indicated that reparative justice for Africa would not be enough without the adoption of an African-based self-Reparative development order against the neo-colonial economic slavery of the masses of Africans.
Reacting to the successful UN resolution designating the Trans-Atlantic Slavery as the greatest crime against humanity, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi, Mr. Azongo, said it was important to remind Ghana and Africa of the CIA-coded blueprint that was adopted in 1961 as an imperialist economic colonization and enslavement of Africans.
This blueprint, according to him, “had been the anchor of Africa’s development since its adoption in 1961 and reparative justice would not be enough without the adoption of an African-Based Self-Reparative development order against the Neo-colonial Economic Slavery of the Masses of Africans”.
Mr Azongo, said when Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, in 1960 set the tone for Africa’s economic future in his popular statement: “We face neither East, nor West, we face forward”, upon the attainment of a Republican status, coupled with 17 African nation’s obtaining independence in the very year, in what was christened the Year of Africa, the international community led by America, adopted the CIA -coded Neo-Colonial imperialist Economic Blueprint: ‘the Non-Communist Manifesto’, in December 1961 for the economic Colonialization and Enslavement of Africa.
He noted that the consummation of the Neo-Colonial Blueprint triggered the incessant attacks on Kwame Nkrumah from 1962, the very first year of the new international Neo-colonial Roadmap leading to his eventual overthrow, when he published his last book in 1965, a response to the Non-Communist Manifesto dubbed: Neo-Colonialism: The last Stage of Imperialism.
He indicated that, the Neo-Colonial Development Model, succinctly espoused by Andre Gunder Frank in his book ‘Development of Underdevelopment,’ the Dependency Theory’ “is that local elite (Political & Intellectual class) in developing nations build enduring alliance with Western powers to ensure that development of Africa remains impossible”
Against this background, and after 65 years since the adoption of this Neo-colonial Economic Blueprint, Africa’s development still mirrored the neo-colonial template designed for Africa.
The need to decode this ideology and changing the course for Ghana and Africa’s new development future is fundamentally urgent, Mr Azongo emphasised.
GNA
Edited by Linda Asante Agyei