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We do not gloat, but we can’t fail to mention that Hurricane Trump has finally revealed a dark shadow that for long loomed over African academia and media, an unbelievable self-inflicted intellectual servitude that keeps the continent tethered to the ideological illusions of the West. For reasons that are difficult to fathom, most African opinion leaders find it impossible to wean themselves of the hero-worshipping of the historical oppressors of their race. Is that what Psychologists call Cognitive dissonance, or will Stockholm Syndrome do?
We have spent the past four decades trying to expose how, across the universities, think tanks, and newsrooms of Africa, so-called scholars and journalists in Africa waste their lives regurgitating the fraudulent disciplines of Western humanities, parroting theories designed to justify Western domination rather than to advance human understanding, foster solidarity or help to build cohesive and progressive societies. Rather than be castigated, these fraudsters are celebrated. They are given awards and feted by Western NGOs and visas to mingle with their curators in the Western world. Unfortunately, they control all the levers of power in Africa. You should stop wondering why Africa appears frozen in a time warp. Neither the disarticulate schizophrenic economic nor the political system the colonialists imposed and their heirs continue to preach has helped the continent to join the rest of humanity in building its self-afforming civilization.
Nowhere is this intellectual con game more evident than in “political science,” a discipline whose very name is a fraud…
Let’s take the U.S. electoral system as an example. Western political scientists champion it as a model of democracy, yet it is a system where people do not get to elect their President directly. The popular vote does not necessarily determine the presidency; a nebulous Electoral College selects him. Of course, the ideological propagandists who masquerade as Professors of politics will pretend not to notice corporate money's role in electing the one they choose to call the Most Powerful Person on Earth. Anything American must necessarily be the “most.”
If political science were indeed a science, its practitioners would acknowledge these flaws rather than obfuscate them behind grandiose words and theories.
Yet, despite these glaring contradictions, African universities continue to teach political science as though it were a serious academic discipline. Worse still, the graduates of these programs then go on to staff Africa’s bureaucracies, perpetuating Western political doctrines that have failed even in their countries of origin. And we pretend not to understand why Africa lags in all human achievements and progress indices.
The question that we need to ask ourselves is why Africa remains intellectually enslaved to such fraudulent colonial knowledge systems. Why did we fail to do what the Chinese and the Iranians did after they regained independence: they considered the Western imposition as a terrible interregnum in their long years of history. Tragically, our colonization, which lasted less than a century, led to our forgetting that we were a people with a long history of nation and empire-building before the Europeans interrupted our natural progression. The frauds who are in charge of our education continue to play their assigned roles as heirs of colonialism, the silly, dim-witted comprador of globalism…
Read the full article here: https://femiakogun.substack.com/p/africas-westernized-elites-and-their
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