Prior to the partition of Africa, Africans were subjected to grave inhuman treatment in the name of slave trade by their imperious white master. Africans were used as labour in plantation farms in Europe and North America with their lips locked with iron. And after Africa was partitioned, Africa vast agricultural resources were stolen from Africa by the colonial master to serve as raw material for industries in European countries.

The Europeans reluctantly relinquished power to Africans in the mid nineteen century after they could not withstand pressures that were mounted on them by African Nationalist. But before the baton of leadership was passed to the black man, they ensured that a seed of discord was planted among the ethnic groups in various African countries and a system of government, educational and judicial system that could not meet the socio- cultural demands of Africans were bequeathed to us.

The seed of discord planted by the imperial lord among the African ethnic groups started germinating after independence. Civil wars which were rooted in ethnic intolerance took the centre stage in Africa. The Igbo was against the Yoruba and Hausas during Nigerian civil war in Nigeria, the Arabs in Sudan are today raising up sword, against the black Sudanese in the Dafur region.

The story was not different in Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Coted’lvoire and many other African countries who had one time experienced civil war. The little financial resources of these countries are spent on procuring ammunition to prosecute such war from the white man who at the same time serve as mediator in the conflict. The educational, judicial and governmental system we inherited from the colonial masters has continued to be the bane of our development.

After the independence era, colonialism was designed in different forms by the west to deny unsuspecting Africans of their independence.
A campaign of calumny was launched by the powerful Western Media against Africa to plant in Africans and her leadership the inferiority syndrome, only crisis spots in Africa are given media attention by the western media and Africa is always portrayed as a continent that is crude and backward that her people cannot manage their own affairs without the west lending an helping hand. The West had succeeded in colonizing the Africa media and its practitioner that a Nigerian daily was using the story of BBC on an event that happened in Kano.

Also, UN agencies and other international non governmental organizations are not fair to Africans on statistics released on major world issues. For example, their statistics shows that Africa has the highest number of HIV and AIDS victims, the most corrupt nation on earth is in Africa, the poorest nation in the world is in Africa etc. The West had planted this inferiority complex in us that we have forgot to ask them if the ESKIMOS that live in the freezing North pole are better than Africans.

When the West was introducing visa lotteries to swell their population so as to have enough manpower to sustain the industrial growth of their nations. Family planning methods were introduced simultaneously to African continent to reduce the population of the continent so as to achieve their motive of denying African the necessary optimum population that can support economy and industrial growth.

Another new colonialism tactics that is being used by the West to rob African countries of their freedom is the use if IMF loan to dictate how the economy of African country should be run. A good example is that of Nigeria when in 1986, the IMF told the then federal government to devalue the naira against the dollar and embrace the SAP programme. Since then, Nigeria has not come out of the economic wound inflicted on the country by this programme. Ghana and some other African countries experienced something similar from IMF.

All these and other anti Africa policies of the west have continued to deny Africa countries the impetuous to accelerate the growth of the continent. This is why Nigeria, a country endowed with enormous human and natural resources is still crawling 47 years after independent. Until African leaders come together as one to wrestle the continent from the grip of this tyrannical “white lord”, the continent will continue to suffer in the midst of plenty.