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People-Centered vs Party-Centered GOVT?
By Wanaku Verdzekov · · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea
Tags: party-politics, roots, neo-colonialism
COLONIZATION was DICTATORSHIP.
DECOLONIZATION was BOTCHED.
NEO-COLONIZATION is the attempt to PERPETUATE the DISMANTLING
of the ROOTS of AFRICAN SOCIETY.
A tree without a ROOT cannot SURVIVE. The African indigenous root is continually being ASSAULTED, with the GOAL of making it EXTINCT. And here is the REPLACEMENT: "PARTIES"!
In essence, our indigenous communities, which SELF-RULED using a PEOPLE-CENTERED strategy, have gone through DICTATORSHIP by FOREIGN ELEMENTS, and are now being FORCED to KILL their OWN ROOTS and "JOIN" a PARTY-CENTERED, neo-colonial ideology called the "CPDM"?
Question: what in the whole CPDM philosophy can REPLACE the ROOTS that all the citizens of former British Southern Cameroons, or AMBAZONIA, come from?
If you have a worthy answer, kindly EDUCATE the rest of us.
Ija'iku fɨlasi!
— Wanaku Verdzekov
Reading & grammar
Reading level: Gr 9–11
Understand
- How does the author summarize colonization, decolonization and neo-colonization?
- What does the author say is replacing the "African indigenous root"?
- What question does the author ask supporters of the CPDM?
Grammar focus: parallel structure. "COLONIZATION was DICTATORSHIP. DECOLONIZATION was BOTCHED." Repeating the same structure (X was Y) makes a pattern that is easy to remember.
Try it: Write three parallel sentences summarizing three stages of something (your school years, a sports season).
Discuss: Can a government be both party-based and people-centred? Argue using an example.