Africa unite against capitalist globalisation :: Mmegi Online

Fifty years ago, on March 6, 1957, Ghana attained its independence from Britain, becoming the first sub-Saharan country to do so. Over 100, 000 people gathered into Polo Ground in Accra, the capital city, to watch the historic proceedings. The ceremony took place at midnight. The air was electric as the Union Jack was lowered and the red, green and gold Ghananian flag was hoisted in its place. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana stood up to speak. He spoke about the presence of the 'new African personality' in the world and how African people were going to demonstrate to the world that they were prepared to lay their own foundation.

In the years that followed, similar ceremonies took place in Guinea (1958), Nigeria (1960),Uganda (1962) and Kenya (1963). African people gathered at their respective national stadiums to celebrate. Admittedly these were legitimate occasions for joy.

Fifty years on, we live in an Africa characterised by decay and decomposition of states. We have witnessed the woeful degeneration of former liberation movements. African nation-states are poorly resourced, undeveloped and under-developed. African states are locked in a dance of death within an in-egalitarian, unevenly integrated and highlypolarised world system shaped by the imperative of capitalist fundamentalism with its attendant quasi-religious ideology of privatisation.

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