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Africa Must Embrace the Laws of Knowledge And Therefore Progress

Bhekuzulu Khumalo- 01 September 2004

A good definition of knowledge can be found in the Internet dictionary www.dictionary.com. This definition is “The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned.” Development is mainly about the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned that is applied. Any society that refutes this will always be a society that lags behind another society.

For Africa to progress, which inevitably includes the people of Mthwakazi, it means they must follow the laws that govern knowledge. Being all human beings with a brain it means all societies on this earth can acquire knowledge if they seek it.

Any idea that is true is a fact no matter where you are on this planet earth. Take for example the economic law of supply that states that the higher the price of a good or service the more of that good or service that will be provided. If this is a fact it must hold be it in the USA, Zimbabwe, or Afghanistan. If in Zimbabwe the opposite of the law happens then it is not a fact. A fact of the universe must hold everywhere.

Having accepted the law of knowledge that a fact is a fact no matter where one goes, that a phenomenon of the universe must be consistent, then it means that Africans too can acquire and use knowledge. This is because the same laws of the universe that allows a television to be made in Japan, China, Korea or Germany must hold in Africa. The laws that allow computer software to be created in the USA must hold in Africa as well.

Unfortunately for Africans a way has been thrust upon them, which the postcolonial leaders of Africa are refusing to accept, is that without knowledge societies will perish. If people have not learnt today in 2004 that lacking knowledge is a road to disaster then it is not wrong for one to suspect that African leaders are un patriotic one subtracts their rhetoric and leaves behind only their actions.

To refute logic about development must have a deeper meaning. There must be something fundamentally wrong with Africa on a socio political level. The problem can be pin pointed to freedom. Looking at Germany in the 1930’s where Einstein’s theories where looked upon as inferior Jewish theories even though Einstein were a German citizen. Einstein was forced to go to the USA. There he would be instrumental in developing the atomic bomb and pushing America finally to be the sole super power of the world. For a white human there is no freer society than the USA. We therefore must accept another law of knowledge if a people are not free to think they will go where they are free to think. Therefore the many Zimbabweans, Nigerians, Ethiopians, Angolans, and Ugandans who feel they are not free in their homes they will leave. But they are not white but as there is no free country in Africa they must take the same route as Einstein.

The African leader has put his personal well being over and above the people. Hence one sees massive starvation in Ethiopia in 1984, not because the people are useless but because of politics. We see Mugabe in 2004 saying there is no hunger in Zimbabwe whilst people are starving. Who gains when Africa remains behind, the leader and other continents? It is safe now to say these people are not only unpatriotic towards Africa but are working with somebody else and covering it up with rhetoric.

If Africa truly followed the laws of knowledge would Aids be such a devastating problem. The answer is no. The reason why the answer is no is because African pharmacists would use all their knowledge to look for a cure for Aids because it is in their interest to cure Aids, they are being affected the most by the Aids scourge. Yet there is a massive Aids crisis the leaders refuse to introduce freedom, the researchers of Africa leave to sweep the streets of Europe and North America, who gains when so many Africans are dying. This refusal to introduce freedom is an order from other people. There is no person who claims to be fighting imperialism who would not allow Africans to produce and be wealthy so that Africans can defend themselves.

Power to the people is not power to a political party. Power to a political party is not power to an individual. Whilst incompetent people are given industries by African leaders as a form of nepotism and a reward for party loyalty, these incompetent people run entire industries to the ground. Yet Africa is in severe crises and the best through competition and searching for useful knowledge should be running Africa.

Having accepted two laws of knowledge stated above, the first being that a fact is a fact wherever one goes on this earth and that if people are not allowed to gather knowledge they will not gather knowledge. This brings the point that a society must adapt to the laws of knowledge. To adapt to the laws of knowledge does not necessarily mean that one must copy England, Canada, USA, or Germany in terms of political institutions. We see China advancing at a rapid rate yet does not have similar political institutions that France has for example.

The present crop of postcolonial African leaders is obviously not the only factor of problems that leads Africa not to follow the laws of knowledge. There is the problem of African states being European created. The laziness of these leaders is that when they formed the OAU the predecessor to the African Union said leave the borders of Africa as they are. They saw that this was a problem but where just to lazy to have their own conference of Berlin and free up the nations that the colonizer attempted to destroy. Why is this? We now have a gigantic problem in Sudan in 2004 with the people of Darfur being killed off. But who created Sudan in its present state, is it not the British. This obviously was done on purpose in order to attempt to forever hold Africa back and to destroy the cultures of Africans. The people of Darfur and Southern Sudan in general cannot follow the laws of knowledge and seek knowledge in Sudan. This holds true as well for the people of Matabeleland in present day Zimbabwe. The people of Matabeleland thanks to the policy of Robert Mugabe and other Shonas cannot reach their full potential in Zimbabwe due to the policies in place by the state.

Zimbabwe and Sudan are not the only areas where this is happening as is commonly known, there is Zanzibar, Chad, Angola, DRC, there are so many people wanting their freedom which it is to the interests of those against Africa not to have their freedom.

When we talk of secession however there must be an African theme. A united Africa of all the African nations is an ideal end solution, but this cannot happen until all Africa is free. Freedom must be an African movement and more than lip service. There is no point in for example listening to a destroyed soul who says Mugabe is right without even once reading about the problem. Just because Mugabe says he hates whites for the purpose of rhetoric because he knows there are fools out there who will cheer but none of those destroyed souls will actually migrate from Nigeria, Ivory Coast, New York, or South Africa to the paradise Mugabe has created.

Is it not ironic that the USA is pushing ahead to find a way to efficiently use hydrogen to power motor vehicles and you have African countries cheering and praying that hopefully these hydrogen vehicles will use platinum as a catalyst as this will be good for them. Instead of these countries themselves advancing and inventing hydrogen powered vehicles. Why is this? The answer is because for them to invent hydrogen powered vehicles means they must free their people and that they are not willing to do so instead they will wait for the USA to invent and hope they will use minerals and metals from Africa. Africa must embrace the laws of knowledge and the continent can get ahead develop and we will find ourselves on Mars. Those who are allowed to investigate the laws of the universe can only beget knowledge.