Kenya’s Ambassador Offers World The Best Explanation Of Events In Ukraine
“Until 1991, Russia and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union, a socialist state that had spanned Eurasia since 1922.”?
Kenya’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) on Feb. 21 gave a?scathing condemnation of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, comparing it to colonialism in Africa.
"AFRICA ITSELF HAS?HAD TO CONTEND WITH BORDERS CREATED BY COLONIAL POWERS?BECAUSE OF THE GREATER GOAL OF PEACE.”
?Colonialists imposed borders on Africans
“Kimani’s colonialism analogy stems from the controversial drawing of African borders by colonial powers. European powers imposed the ideas of states and borders on Africans by creating artificial boundaries based on resources and their other interests and with limited knowledge history and the ethnic composition of the continent.”
?“Rather than form nations that looked ever backward into history with a dangerous nostalgia, we chose to look forward to a greatness none of our many nations and peoples had ever known,” Kimani said. “We chose to follow the rules of the OAU (Organisation of African Unity) and the United Nations charter not because our borders satisfied us but because we wanted something greater forged in peace.”
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Excerpts from ‘IRONY’:
·???????“There is a deep strain of violence which has permeated Western Civilization and it has existed from the birth of the West.??Only the West has made war on such a grand scale...all over the world and with unmatched destructiveness.”
·???????“Augustus built a very sophisticated city – far from the center of Rome called Timgad. In this ancient North African city, we may find some answers to how Rome was able to maintain and rule its vast empire and enable its citizens to becoming empowered”.
?The Western World saw Rome as the first super power. Rome’s powerful military forces were very ruthless in the beginning and expanded through invasions and occupations. After the Punic Wars (146 BC) and the destruction of Carthage, the Roman Emperor Augustus (27 B C – 14 AD), adopted a new policy to assimilate the people of North Africa. Augustus built a very sophisticated city – far from the center of Rome called Timgad. In this ancient North African city, we may find some answers to how Rome was able to maintain and rule its vast empire and enable its citizens to becoming empowered.
Did you know that Rome had emperors who were Negros? Septimius Severus,11 April AD 145 – 4 February AD 21l, also known as Severus, was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the Cursus honorum—the customary succession of offices—under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.[7]
The Emperor Caracalla: (4 April AD 188 – 8 April AD 217), Roman emperor (AD 198–217). The eldest son of Septimius Severus, Caracalla reigned jointly with his father from 198 until Severus' death in.]
F. Roy Willis, Professor of History University of California wrote in the International World History Project: ?“There is a deep strain of violence which has permeated Western Civilization and it has existed from the birth of the West.??Only the West has made war on such a grand scale...all over the world and with unmatched destructiveness.” He noted, though Western Civilization was born from war and has lived and thrived by war in order for it to survive it now must abandon total war. ..
The history of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon on the world stage provides us with an array of vexing conclusions.
Adviser: Black History Mission Project
2 年“THE WAR COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF NATO HAD HEEDED THE WARNINGS FROM AMONGST ITS OWN LEADERS AND OFFICIALS OVER THE YEARS THAT ITS EASTWARD EXPANSION WOULD LEAD TO GREATER, NOT LESS, INSTABILITY IN THE REGION," RAMAPHOSA SAID IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/africas-ramaphosa-blames-nato-russias-142756907.html