Greetings to our readers all over
#Africa
!
We are pleased to announce that the 8th edition of The Panafrican Review Magazine "The Quest for Africa's Security Paradigm" is out.
Inside we ask:
Is there a framework for Africa’s collective security ? What values underpin
"As Africans today, we need to understand that those who colonized us cannot suddenly have our interests at heart, and the capitalist interests which exploited us cannot suddenly be giving to us."
@m_ogada
✍️
"There is now a general agreement that the
#UN
’s
#peacekeeping
model and doctrine are outdated and no longer fit for the purpose. It is very costly, ineffective and sometimes ends up becoming a part of the problem."
@DonaldKaberuka
✍️🏿
"Whether it is economic emancipation or political liberation, the sources and forces of change have to be organically situated among African peoples. This is a no-brainer"
"Africans making political decisions in line with their own African interests and aspirations has traditionally been viewed as “radical” and a sign of Communist involvement by the wise old men in Paris and Washington, D.C. They now need to understand that the only mystery is that
"It is the stupidity, the utterly incomprehensible belief that people of a certain ethnic definition or identity who were found by the 1885 Berlin Conference in a place that was given to the Belgians and was called the Congo should now be considered foreigners.
Why? How can you
Making Sense of
#UK
-
#Rwanda
Migration Deal
"One can easily be persuaded by the cynicism that Rwanda is in the UK migration agreement for the little money the UK government is promising, but only those who know nothing about Rwanda’s migration policy would buy into such a
"For peace to be possible, the
#DRC
government needs to ensure that all its people, including Rwandaphone Congolese, are safe and have equal opportunities and rights in the reconstruction of their country.
In the same fashion, it needs to ensure that the DRC territory is not a
"There are concerns about the health risks associated with foods produced from genetically engineered crops. Some experts such as Dr Qrisstuberg Amua of the Centre for Food Safety and Agricultural Research in Nigeria have linked GM foods to health problems such as “cancer,
"Rwandophone communities had been living in Congo even before it became King Leopold’s property.
It is very easy to make a cultural connection between the Eastern DRC & those communities, if we refer to the names of localities in North & South Kivu."
"Ethnic” violence in
#Rwanda
and
#Burundi
doesn’t mean that Hutu and Tutsi are ethnic groups.
Prior to colonialism, you could be one or the other based on socioeconomic status.
"Instead of working as a formidable economic union of over 98M people,
#Kenya
&
#Uganda
remain virtually siloed off from each other, with their non-mutually-convertible currencies. Duplicate this absurd situation into 55 places & you get modern
#Africa
."
"How does one bomb a country back to the stone age, killing thousands in the process, all in the name of “democracy and human rights”? Straight from Iraq,
#Europe
, and
#America
went to
#Libya
, and then continued to
#Syria
. But these have been the excuses to steal these
Dear NATO:
#Russia
did not create Pan-Africanism!
«Pan-Africanism as a political ideology isn’t some kind of Russian influence operation.»
@DavidHundeyin
✍🏽
"The military pathway to achieving peace and stability in
#Niger
is utterly shallow given the underlying causal factors behind these coups, which are largely traceable to patron-clientele relationship between
#France
and its former colonial territories."
"The U.S. appears to be losing military influence in the Sahel, and America’s reliable ally, France, is rapidly losing the economic, political, military and cultural stranglehold that it once had on 14 African countries who were tied up in the so-called
#Francafrique
arrangement.
"The African education system has ensured that Africans do not know what they have achieved in human history, what they are capable of achieving as a result, & how to be self-confident & comfortable in their own skin, & how to be themselves as a result."
While "Dedollarisation" may be invoked as a diplomatic hot button issue where
#China
,
#Russia
&
#India
are concerned, it is very much an existential one for
#Africa
, writes
@DavidHundeyin
.
"Africa's dollar dependency is a handbrake to its development."
"The superiority complex has clouded European's minds so much so that the beneficiaries of a history of plunder and pillage find no irony in virtue signaling, lecturing their victims on “values” that include human rights."
@LonzenRugira
✍️🏿
"The Tshisekedi administration has been deceiving the Congolese people on what the November 2022 Luanda agreement actually entails.
It is evident from the repeated demands (for the deployed regional troops to leave the country) coming from some corners of the Congolese civil
"If Africans have learned anything from the removal of
#Russia
from the
@swiftcommunity
, then it ought to be evident that: 1) our banks need to transact without any foreign intermediaries 2) trade in
#Africa
should not rely on foreign currencies."
"It should be problematic that a continent of one billion people living on some of the most fertile & virgin lands find themselves in a situation of begging for food from anyone."
@LonzenRugira
✍️🏿
Read more in our latest magazine.
#PracticalPanAfricanism
"African countries must learn to avoid offering themselves up as pawns and battle theatres in power games between nuclear-armed states.
They must understand that foreign actors are often very happy to act in ways that are harmful to the shared growth and economic convergence of
"Most countries in East
#Asia
simply rejected privatization solidly and would not budge whatever the circumstances. But for
#Africa
, the IMF and the World Bank put individual countries under immense stress and harassed them independently."
"If you want to push back against the argument that Rwanda is stealing Congo's minerals by asking which companies are involved in mining activities, the response is either vague or, at the best, the list will include large non-African companies."
@Muleefu
"That the continent of
#Africa
is the richest in natural resources while Africans are the poorest people under the sun is a paradox. The other paradox is that the liberation struggles did not result in the liberation of African countries."
"It has become difficult to see the reality that 'democratic' regimes, principally, guarantee endless Western exploitation of the continent, the same way an anarchic, or coup-generated regime has been narrativized.
We endlessly fail to appreciate the fluidity, and ‘possibility
"If the UN experts were not as determined to further Kinshasa’s narrative and to justify their continued presence in
#Congo
, they would have extended their understanding of the legitimacy of
#Uganda
’s interventions against ADF – which they praise as having “led to a relative lull
"If there are any lessons to take from the farmer’s protests in Europe, and the successes they have so far registered, it is that we have lived under a free-market delusion for a long time.
In truth, the claim of free markets is how western corporations and big businesses
"Anyone who claims to be a Pan-Africanist would be conflicted with the disposal of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Africans who are genuinely seeking better opportunities for themselves and their families."
"The global south is just waking up now to the fact that what they thought were grants are actually investments, which must be recouped in the form of land and natural resource rights."
@m_ogada
✍️🏿
Why the West is determined to rewrite Rwanda’s history
“Every society has one particular story, a point of departure, if you will, from which it draws inspiration for pursuing what it aspires to be, going forward. For Rwandans, the liberation struggle is one such story.
"The primary failure of the postcolonial political leadership in Africa is its inability to reorient the state inwardly—i.e., from the Berlinian raison d’être to a political orientation that transforms subjects to citizens whose interests the state exists to promote."
"African Governments are quick to seek advice from former colonial powers and adopt ‘ready-to-wear’ programmes of international organizations. However, the emerging bilateral relationship between
#Benin
&
#Rwanda
can reverse this trend."
@thoughtsbyGK
✍🏿
Hello all!
We are pleased to announce that the 7th edition of the Panafrican Review Magazine is out.
In the midst of coups and failing governance, it is important to ask ourselves:
What kind of leadership does the continent need to meet
#Africans
' expectations for dignity,
"An increasing number of leaders in
#Africa
– such as Macky Sall in
#Senegal
, Nana Akufo-Addo in
#Ghana
, Faure Gnassingbe in
#Togo
, Patrice Talon in
#Benin
and Samia Suluhu Hassan in
#Tanzania
– are making headway in exploring what a workable industrial policy might be for their
"Winning hearts and minds should start with solving the problems that led to the insurgency in the first place. Therefore, in order to successfully defeat an insurgency, one must solve the underlying socio-economic problems in the society."
~Col. Rwivanga
"The simple premise that governments are good or bad dependent on the interests of Western superpowers remains difficult to see as it is deftly disguised in plenty of enchanting prose: whenever coups happen—as they have excited the continent in recent times, especially in West
"The BioNTech-Rwanda partnership is a historic landmark that must inspire other African countries to venture into the infinite opportunities that are in the healthcare sector manufacturing starting from medical equipment consumables, devices, drugs, etc."
@ndayisaba_
✍️
“Today’s struggle for liberation is about sending our children to school, feeding ourselves and building our country. We do not need to be shown the meaning of dignity, we know it because we fought and died for it.” Pres. Paul Kagame
Meaningful Liberation
"Umushyikirano is not a blind celebration of
#Rwanda
’s progress; far from it. Instead, it is an opportunity to discuss what has gone wrong; that is, the factors that did not allow the country to achieve all its stated objectives, most of which are expressed in the (Imihigo)
"The Tanzanian and South African forces are involved in a genocidal alliance, a cooperation that involves the notorious FDLR. These are the UN-sanctioned genocidaires who committed genocide in Rwanda, in which up to a million people perished, then relocated to the DRC where they
"Because Rwanda’s future was more important than any other consideration, unity became the most significant pursuit in post genocide Rwanda: nothing was worth it, if it compromised unity."
"The colonial invasion of
#Africa
was a war declared on the continent. For instance, the activities of the British during the genocide against the Benin people labelled the “Benin Punitive Expedition,” where much of the stealing of that nation’s artifacts took place, is likened
“A new financing model for peacekeeping operations is needed. For a new model to succeed, it must address three important elements.
One, it must ensure that peacekeepers actually have means and are capacitated to protect those facing imminent danger. Depending on the nature of
"The issue in Africa is not the backsliding of democracy; instead, Africa is facing the weaponization of democracy by the liberal world, which never loses sight of the prize, Africa’s vast resources."
@OgbeniDemola
✍️🏿
The miracle of Rwanda is not its economic turnaround since 1994. It is its recreation of a nation-state, a society that was able to forgive, and continue to exist, out of the ashes of 1994.
“
#Rwanda
’s story of great possibilities will remain incomplete if it doesn’t inspire the rest of
#Africa
to dream big.”
Amb. Mpungwe,
#Tanzania
’s former High Commissioner to 🇿🇦, says Rwanda has shown the continent that you can turn defeat into victory.
“For those amongst us who acknowledge the moral opprobrium that the inaction of our governments throws on our collective conscience–and also because African lives matter – the least that we can do is support Rwanda(ans) in these moments that evoke so much suffering.”
#Kwibuka30
"In Rwanda, consensus-seeking model of democracy has led to collaboration in pursuit of common aspirations, such as building a peaceful, healthy and prosperous society, not narrow, short-term goals, such as winning the next elections."
@FGoloobaMutebi
✍️🏿
“ECOWAS’ pressure on
#Niger
only ended up constituting the backdrop to one of the most visually spectacular foreign policy disasters in modern African history.
Never again should we witness the sort of slapstick policy gaffes that would turn Nigeria and Niger into enemies.”
"
#Rwanda
has audacious aspirations - too audacious for a country in its circumstances, as some would have it.
Clearly, its GDP would suggest it shouldn’t be partnering with global brands such as
@theBAL
, & pharmaceutical giants such as
@BioNTech_Group
."
"There are African leaders who have refused to perform democracy for the western gallery. They recognize that ultimately their own security can only be guaranteed by their people from whom they seek legitimacy by delivering on their most pressing needs."
"Even as the methods of emasculating
#African
leaders changed – from outright assassinations to more subtle forms such as sanctions and condemning reports that threaten international justice – the African leader remains cowed and unable to stand upright in the community of
"The fact that civilian regimes have failed to be the custodians of constitutionalism, champions of democracy and liberators shows that the African condition remains a troubling one. African thinkers and political activists who can think and act Africa out of its troubling
"Israel in Palestine today is the British in Kenya, India, Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia, and several parts of the colonised world. Israel is the Germans in Namibia, the Boers and British in South Africa; French in Algeria and Haiti; the Belgians in Congo-Zaire, and the Portuguese and
"When rebels loyal to Bozizé marched on the streets of Bangui, President Touadéra called UN headquarters, Paris and Washington for help but received no response. President Paul Kagame, however, responded."
@mrubin1971
✍️🏿
"The independence that Africans need is not the kind that relies on alien models of governance. The mistakes
#Africa
made when the world was searching for itself in the 1960s cannot be repeated now as the world searches for itself once again."
Africans need to pursue the kinds of collective projects that deepen the continent’s connectivity and can advance the cause of integration in the service of African economic engagements. In this, the people, not (just) the goods and services, are central.
"It should be problematic that a continent of one billion people living on some of the most fertile & virgin lands find themselves in a situation of begging for food from anyone."
“Washington’s petty, pecuniary preoccupations, as the U.S moves to secure mineral deals in Congo and catch up with China’s green transition, leave simply no room for humanitarian considerations and the principles of the responsibility to protect.
By all indications, if publicly
"By adopting a knee-jerk,
#French
-dictated hard line in complete disregard of
#Nigeria
’s own longstanding trade and security partnerships with
#Niger
, Tinubu effectively sanctioned Nigeria and scored one of the great diplomatic own-goals of the 21st century.
If any actual
"The gains
#Rwanda
has registered against monumental destruction have engendered a sense of belief in the possible. It is unsurprising that Rwanda is one of the top countries in
#Africa
where young people studying overseas return home after graduation."
"That the region, the continent and the global community at large remain reluctant to wholly embracing Rwanda’s perspective on an issue that it has successfully dealt with at home is the primary reason why peace beyond Rwanda’s western and southern borders remains elusive 30
"In
#DRC
, as communities express aspirations & grievances, representatives are savvy in reframing these into ethnic, clientelist politics – not seldom based on populism &, worse, rampant xenophobia against the different
#Kinyarwanda
-speaking communities."
"With a projected average production capacity of 50 million mRNA-based vaccine doses per year, the BioNTech mRNA plant in Rwanda will solely serve African Union member states. This initiative will address the manufacturing gap that has seen
#Africa
mostly relying on imported
"The original crime Congolese Tutsis committed seems to be their kinship with Rwandans across the border. This, to some Congolese in and outside the government, is sufficient reason to justify wiping them off the DRC map.
Thabo Mbeki’s rejection of the kind of state-sponsored
"
#Africans
are trapped in an endless & heated loop of meaningless negotiations over terms such as democracy, human rights & constitutionalism that are simply masks of (actually superior) economic & political interests of the Western world."
@YusufSerunkuma
✍🏽
Africa's
"In Africa, conservation interests are strangling millennia-old livestock production systems and replacing them with the penury that comes with dependency on tourism."
@m_ogada
✍🏿
"The dubious theory that human populations in Africa are a threat to biodiversity contradicts the established scientific fact that Africa is the cradle of mankind, with human populations having been present in this environment for millennia."
@m_ogada
✍️🏿
"Despite over three decades of academic posturing, myriad NGO & CSO work in the areas of human rights, medical health, & the so-called democracy work on the continent, we remain economically impoverished & abused like in colonial times."
@YusufSerunkuma
✍️
"The strategic question for Africa is how she can exist in a fast-evolving world order that is keen on stripping the dignity of the indifferent."
@LonzenRugira
✍️🏿
"The powerful western individuals, governments and “independent” organizations behind the repeated and ongoing assaults on the rebuilding and the healing of a wounded nation have failed to reckon with Rwanda’s resilience."
✍️🏿
@Lionel_SN
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#PanAfricanReview
"Intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the NATO alliance spend decades and hundreds of millions of dollars on cartoonishly over-the-top spying operations targeting their own citizens on the hilariously improbable off-chance that they might be working with Russia.
In 2011,
"
#Rwanda
and other African countries have the right to – and should – acquire whatever technological means necessary to guarantee the safety of their people"
@Lionel_SN
✍️
Pegasus, Amnesty International and the Preservation of the World Order
"The strategic question for Africa is how she can exist in a fast-evolving world order that is keen on stripping the dignity of the indifferent."
@LonzenRugira
✍️🏿
Dear all,
We are very pleased by the growing interest you have shown in our magazine and appreciate the very encouraging feedbacks you've shared with us.
If you are in
#Rwanda
, please subscribe and grab your copy at
@BookshopIkirezi
and
@Coffee_bourbon
(Nyarutarama)
"The liberal democratic model that Kenya has embraced is an elite project. It preoccupies itself with elite interests and necessarily sacrifices those of the average person. This explains why Kenyans long for leaders who preoccupy themselves with improving the living conditions
"
#France
’s attitude raises questions as to whether French authorities are willing to acknowledge their overwhelming responsibilities in the security crisis unfolding in the Sahel region.
After all, this crisis is the direct consequence of France’s intervention in
#Libya
, which
“African natural resources should remain under the control of Africans and not the lenders. Therefore, existing natural resource-backed loans ought to be urgently renegotiated in a very transparent and equitable manner.
#Africa
is indeed at a critical juncture. Our future
"Anyone who has the interest of Africans at heart would not be primarily concerned with who 'should have been in Mozambique first.' 'Who should be there first' is a question of consciousness,"
@LonzenRugira
✍️
@ali_naka
@peterndoro
"As long as African news reporters seek to be included in the western media landscape and adopt Eurocentric ways of seeing, it is almost natural that Africa attracts negative representation."
@braco_od
✍️🏿
"An exit strategy is about leaving the theatre in a better posture to deal with the threat. Rwanda and Mozambique have signed an agreement to expand the spheres of cooperation in both military and police affairs in as far as capacity building is concerned."
~Col. Ronald Rwivanga
"The struggle for African socioeconomic and political liberation has to be anchored in African agency not foreign ‘saviour mentality’ that supposedly seeks to save a helpless people.
Whether it is economic emancipation or political liberation, the sources and forces of change
Burundian academic, Prof Jean Bosco Manirambona on the colonial and racist construction that Hutu are Bantus and Tutsi are Nilotics originating from Abyssynia:
"Hutu and Tutsi in terms of ethnicity are a Belgian creation. I call it socioeconomic groups.
Using archaeology,
"Young Africans need to be weaned off the illusion that self‐actualization lies in the individualistic pursuit of wealth, status or other such accumulations. Life, to be loved and enjoyed, has to be about cooperation, communality and community."
"If the move to undercut Air Peace is successful, it could lead to dire consequences for Nigerian travellers, potentially leading to a resurgence of high ticket prices in the future.
Indeed, foreign airlines had long maintained exorbitant ticket prices, particularly for flights
"It would be absurd for anyone to claim that Rwanda’s reconstruction after genocide is entirely the work of men. What is undeniable is that women have been an essential driver of socio-economic transformation."
@UMMaxime
✍️
#BreakTheBias
@FirstLadyRwanda
"When
#Burundi
and
#Rwanda
began the process of normalising their relations, there seemed to be some internal resistance within the CNDD-FDD. With Bunyoni (the most powerful hardliner) gone, there is an opportunity to deepen the warming relationship."
"From the West’s perspective,
#Rwanda
’s story of liberation is a direct challenge to western wisdom &, by extension, the world order. Hence, this story that unites and gives purpose to Rwandans & potentially inspires many Africans must be rewritten."
"In Africa, as a result of the politicisation of differences, any emerging sense of common citizenship and shared destiny is destroyed."
@LonzenRugira
✍️
"Unlike its dedicated faultfinders,
#Rwanda
, which has committed to the Responsibility To Protect UN principle, contributed Peacekeepers to Northern Mali and CAR, and sent forces to Darfour, has proven itself to be neither cruel nor stupid"
@mongi_writes
“Many commentators believe that Rwanda’s single most important achievement are the strides it has made in the economic and social spheres, as seen in the consistently high economic growth rates, declining poverty, declining maternal and infant mortality, and rising literacy.
Hello, Africa.
We are pleased to announce that our March issue is out.
Special focus on Africa's economic recovery.
Find here the link to our digital version.
Print versions are available at
@BookshopIkirezi
and aboard
@FlyRwandAir
Hello all!
We are pleased to announce to our readers that print copies of the 6th issue of the
@PanafricanRevie
Magazine are available at the usual distribution points.
What is "Practical Pan-Africanism" and is it a solution for Africa's most pressing challenges?