A Win For USA, Kenya and Africa: Salute Biden Admin.
Mohamed Ahmed
Executive Director Average Mohamed Organization, Communication specialist for Republican People of Color PAC. 2020 State Department Citizen Diplomat, 2018 Global Ties Citizen Diplomat, Bush Foundation Fellow
What a delight to see the President of Kenya come to Washington DC on the invite of the Biden Administration. For far too long we at Average Mohamed have been making the case of more engagement in Africa by America. Our focus in 2024-2025 is Africa for Average Mohamed in Free People to Free People outreach for the empowerment of all our people in Friendship. The position laid out by the Biden Administration is just breath taking now.
?In this age of scramble for minds, wallets and resources. America and Kenya went for the winning positions of engagement in politics, military, social, healthcare, technology and even people to people outreach means. This was awesome to see as a proud American whose homeland took in this African, from the motherland. For years now we have been warning on the encroachment of totalitarian regimes in Africa. The rising arc of communism, theocracy and dictatorship. The effects of the new age of chaos consuming this rock we call a planet. How inadequate we have become ossified, rigid and unable to adapt to meet the changing dynamics in Africa. We were relegated to ideological preaching, sermonizing and sanctioning means. Shutting out our vital interests of the common man and woman of America and Africa. I gladly take back my words to eat humble pie today.
?In West Africa with the Quicksand revolutionaries who are eager to getting our heroes kicked out who are helping fight Violent Jihadism spreading there dramatically. Revolutionaries getting in bed with totalitarians now. The rise of anti-Americanism narratives espoused and propagated to great effect by totalitarians across Africa. From also their client political leaders such as Jay Malema in South Africa to others across the continent. Amplified in narratives of antagonism against not just America but the west now. Especially Free People Power as we know it. Democracy is in retreat in Africa. The trend and patterns has emerged. We are losing minds, wallets and resources because of it.
Then the White house led by our awesome State Department African Affairs department, Africa Command, CIA and Department of Defense pull a Houdini act. This is all due to one woman who comes from corporate America background. A leader and Lioness who understands Africans. The name is Meg Whitman the ambassador to Kenya for America. She understood clearly the dynamics. The business of America is Business. The relationship Africa wants with America is Business. Not ideological preaching of long-gone era dogmas for a new multipolar chaotic world powers and access, but practical needs application of what Africa needs from America while explicitly telling them our interests. The mutual understanding that America the great has technology, investments, capabilities and even peoples who can help develop and enhance Africa. On the terms of Africa. This coming from just in this decade when an ambassador from America would tell open media to Kenya leaders “stop vomiting on our shoes” to Ambassador Meg Whitman who asks “what do the leaders of Kenya want and think for their free people so we may come to an understanding of mutual interests for all” playing ball. Opening doors to corporations, multinationals to governmental means by sheer works applied. Add the works by our esteemed Senator Chris Coons, Republican for holding hands with Kenyan elites across all political barriers. The works of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs of the United States, Mary Catherine Phee. The chairman of the House Committee on Africa, the esteemed United House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Chairman Michael McCaul from Texas. The insurmountable leadership of the Kenyan government led by president Ruto, Defense Secretary Adan Duale who worked with Secretary of Defense Loyd Austin, the head of Africa Command in a Marine in General Michael Langley who priotizes face to face engagement in building relationship. I watched all this happen over the years. In awe of what President Biden would call “A Big F***N DEAL” come this week. A lot of moving parts from both Kenya and America had to come together. I am in awe of these efforts. Because as an African we are deeply invested in the values of Free People Power. As an American it is our duty and honor to spread it in Africa. Why Average Mohamed focus is Africa in 2024-25.
On this issue we salute the Biden and Ruto Regimes for delivering a new page on Africa and America relationship. A model has just emerged. Send corporate American leaders as ambassadors they get the work done now, just like we have been espousing as Average Mohamed. Then do business in Africa. China alone does ten times more business in Africa than the entire west combined. Shame on the capitalist to be beaten by communists in capitalism. Russia just displaced America in Quicksand revolution countries as valued partner, Iran is reaching out in ways now that engages Africa. Time for America and the peoples of Africa to renew their brotherhood is upon us. No more sermonizing and sanctions but Business of Free People to Free People now. We saw what that is now in the white house this week. I am eating humble pie now. We do have some roar left in the lions that lead America now.
Trust your Average Mohamed to be on it: Free People to Free People outreach. We don’t just wait on our government we Americans do for ourselves too. It is quintessentially the American way of life. Average Mohamed self-funded a program to teach skills to Africans to tell their narratives now building on friendship between America and Africa. Our first training class was in Kenya. Where we trained on our time and dime using our own made curriculum America-African Centric coming from both cultures of our homelands and motherlands. Teaching skill sets of social media engagement, media management and teaching them how to face to face outreach to 15 organizations in a class of 43 students. That was Bismillah for us at Average Mohamed, a beginning of process to train across Africa 1,000 leaders, clergy, government officials, women leaders, activists on social issues ranging from climate change, democratic participation, faith-based initiatives to fighting terrorism and extremism such as tribal conflicts. Teaching the foundation of Peace means of narratives to win minds in their local and globally. The narrative is theirs by Africans for Africans. We just at Average Mohamed pass on the skill set needed to do so. For our leftist friends this is the evolutionary means we teach we say loudly against revolutionary means deployed in Africa today. This is one decolonization process as they like to claim loudly that even they can agree with. But I digress this is an American to Africa thing of progression. We all know an empowered democratic Africa is an empowered ally, friend and partners to America. Based on those values we engaged Africa and will continue to engage we just completed our second class for Cameroon, next is Ethiopia, Chad, Tanzania and many others coming online process by Average Mohamed Organization. We have work to do.
If Biden Admin is serious about People-to-People enhancement, then allow all Americans including us on the right into the process. Open your doors shut to us now. We seek to be embraced, accepted and the rejection and denials we face as Average Mohamed and many others on the right has got to go! Some like our FBI are outrightly hostile to us and our works as Average Mohamed in America. The ball as they say is in the administrations court. Play ball with all, not just leftists alone accepted we urge as Average Mohamed.
But for this week, I am eating humble pie. Well then Old blue dogs of America can learn new tricks then. We at Average Mohamed Salute the whole team of Biden Administration especially Ambassador Meg Whitman and Senator Chris Coons. Both known republican’s leaders. It is amazing to see what when political litmus tests not applied, Americans can do for themselves now.
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Salute to President Biden and President Ruto.
Now comes the work to do for Africa.
We say in Swahili Africa Ibarikiwe, America Ibarikiwe.
God bless Africa and America.
The two have a common destiny of being Free Peoples Power.
Our Average Mohamed works.
We always have work to do. Whether Embraced, Accepted, Rejected, Denied or Hostile conditions applied.
This too is the American way of life.
You just got to Love America.
Yep, we at Average Mohamed teach that too.