My opinion and that of most Africans is that oyibo cannot own land in Africa. Many Africans have Western citizenships, yet they have no land there. In the same way, Oyibo cannot own land in Africa, citizenship or no citizenship. Generally, in Africa, land belongs to the community. Nobody has the right to give it out to any foreigner.
If any African government wants to increase food production, then why not help African farmers to produce more food by mechanization, which is what developed countries do, because the later subsidize agriculture.
If it still wants to involve foreigners, then they can be leased some land, renewable every ten years. It is the only way to avoid war and to uproot them when the owners want their land back. Let us not hear people talk of Oyibo farmers' land again in Africa, after Zimbabwe. Because they have none.
Oyibo throw food away, they pay their farmers to produce less food and someone pretends that they would produce more food in Africa to compete with their own countries. And you believed them.
We seem to have forgotten our history. Let the oyibo be a little patient, very soon they could farm on Mars: plenty of land, water and no Mugabe.
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My point is that the possession of western citizenship does not entitle Africans(blacks) to land ownership in western countries. It is understood I mean possession of land without buying them.
So, an Oyibo who has Zimbabwean passport or any other African passport for that matter cannot pretend having right to ownership of African land.
But if you are African/black and possessing land in western country without buying it, please let us know how you went about it.
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My people are free and you can note it in your diary. I suppose, of course, that you have nothing against the fact.
What we would like you to do is explain to us how African/black acquire land where you live.
Ednut,
In Europe, when you take European citizenship, land is not included in the package.
In Africa most of those who fight for African or Mugabe's land are Europeans. As the article above pretend to indicate that those Oyibo in Africa could move to Europe, they won't get land free neither in Europe nor anywhere else. Secondly, those Oyibo in Africa are foreign govt sponsored. It is unbelievable that we do not understand it.
But if can confirm that a piece of land is part of American citizenship package, then you might see a lot of people very soon. Could you shade more light on the issue?
In our capitalist world, it is difficult to imagine that not only Oyibo would massacre Africans to occupy their lands, but if they hold African Passport, then automatically they would pretend to have access to free land. It is a big joke.
All, African masses should be sensitized to protect their land and natural resources, irrespective of what foreign imposed ilegitimate leaders say or try to do.
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This is a very serious issue! Sam Egwu, Gov. of Ebonyi State, is involved in the 'chosen' for this absortion of the Zimbabwe rejects. The argument some ill-informed always make is that Biafra cannot survive as a nation because of pressure on land. So, how can we now allow foreigners a part of that limited land?
For those who have forgotten, Mullar OBJ compromised Zimbabwe's independence at Lancaster House, London, when he brokered their independence from colonial Britain, by agreeing to a constitution that denied the natives access to their Land. The white settlers with less than 1% or so of the population occupy more than 90% of the arable land. That is very greedy, inhuman and unjust. Investors my foot!
Zimbabwe's struggle for idenpendence, like most other African countries was for their land and the resources therein. Remember Sonny Okosun's 'Papa's Land'.
Mugabe is just addressing what BiafraNigeria could have achieved for them with the clout it had then, but which Mullar OBJ for personal survival as the then military dictactor and his now well known lack of intellectual depth, failed to give the people of Zimbabwe at independence on April 18, 1980.
It is very ironical that Mullar OBJ sees allowing Southern African farmers, especially 'displaced' white farmers from Zimbabwe to now come and 'invest' in BiafraNigeria as the way out of the problem these farmers are having in that region. It is lacking in critical thought.
For a fact, there are BiafraNigerians who can invest in the agricultural sector of the BiafranNigerian economy if the policy is right and consistent.
This decision if allowed to stand would be very costly to generations unborn and to the white farmers of Southern Africa.
Sam Egwu must have nothing to do with it!
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Some of our problems stem from our inability to communicate with those in Africa. We go there very often, write or phone them always, but we failed to tell them how to protect themselves. We should inform African masses to kick out any Oyibo that occupies their land if the conditions of the occupation is not made public. African citizenship does not give right to land ownership, just like in their countries. They should not deceive themselves.
The only condition for Oyibo using land in Africa, South Africa included, is lease, renewable every x years, ten years maximum.
What we are saying here is important, so that tomorrow if anybody hears of oyibo complaints outside Zimbabwe and south Africa, everyone would understand what it is about. Inform African masses and they would protect what is theirs. You can trust them.
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quote:Sam Egwu, Gov. of Ebonyi State, is involved in the 'chosen' for this absortion of the Zimbabwe rejects.
Is this not the Sam Egwu who has Oyibo woman or a "spy" in his house. In the later's country anybody who has a black partner has little or no chance of holding an important political position. Only in Africa that people who have Oyibo partners hold even presidential positions. The reason is very simple: the votes of the masses have never counted and it is time they do. It is then no surprise if Egwu was contacted for such plan. But Africans will oppose to it in any case.
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quote:White farmers and Nigerian society By Taju Tijani
NIGERIA'S latest political betrayal and outrage may be the murmuring from Abuja to allow fleeing white economic refugees from Southern African region have an anchor on Nigerian soil and commence a gigantic project of land appropriation under the guise of agro-investment. As an Afro-centric, it is difficult not to view this backward policy as a political suicide for whoever is driving this megalomaniac agrarian revolution.
Any true black African reading this will be shattered by the apparent lunacy of a former nominal frontline state like Nigeria, begging rapists, murderers, land thieves, racists, segregationists, homosexuals and paedophiles to come and help themselves to generous helping of our ancestral land under the spurious claim of 'international investment'.
The delusional gains of investment is about to blind us to the unpunished genocide these white land robbers committed against our brothers and sisters during the dark days of Rhodesian War and the ignominy of apartheid. President Obasanjo and his coterie of wayward advisers on agriculture should find time away from their whining and dining in Aso Rock to read the history of white settlers in Africa. I guarantee a riveting read.
Nigeria's international image as a conscientious country and defender of black man's dignity against oppression is about to be ossified by recklessly ambitious and hungry local elite who view the coming of white farmers as another veritable source of handouts. As a young democracy, Nigeria needs foreign investments and investors who will contribute positively to our ailing economy. We have advertised our desperate needs and companies like ECONET, MTN and MULTICHOICE have answered our call even though we know that these companies originated from Southern Africa and are owned by whites. Their presence and services have benefited millions of Nigerians and created businesses for the more enterprising ones.
However, a business conducted mainly through the boardroom, phone, fax and the Internet is way different from a potential swamping of our country by the so-called white farmers. As at late 1960 the population of white settlers in Zimbabwe was 275,000. As the Rhodesian War ground on, a stream of whites left the country, so that when Zimbabwe finally reached majority rule in 1980, there were about 120,000 whites.
Today, the whole population is estimated at 45,000 - less than one percent of the country's 13 million people. It is thought that about 20,000 have rights to British passports and another 15,000 have the right to reside in Britain. Along with Kenya, this gives Zimbabwe one of the largest concentrations of British people in Africa after South Africa. It is also interesting to know about 4,500 white farmers control nearly half the country's farmland. Meanwhile, more than eight million black peasants are crowded into much less fertile land.
The story of white farmers in Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa is a tale of sorrow, segregation, colonial, arrogance, political interference, cultural vandalism, oppression and exploitation. Most of the while settlers in the Great Lakes regions are of British extraction and these are the people we are expected to accommodate as farming warriors. They are notorious segregationists with unshakeable colonial mentality.
Once settled on our soil, the grand vision of what may follow is like this. Like in Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, they will establish their own private schools, exclusive clubs, like the old Harare Club, health clinics and shops where the local majority blacks are excluded. Poorly paid black farmlands would be employed in their proposed farmland and they will be housed in shantytowns and issued with passes. In time, this will encourage segregation and a rebirth of apartheid will be created in one tiny area of Nigeria, 44 years after freedom from the indignity of colonial slavery.
The creations of apartheid enclave and segregation have their root in the belief among whites that our culture is different. Black culture is seen as crude, uncivilised and barbaric. White culture on the other hand is modern, civilised and progressive. Is Nigeria prepared to embrace a culture that preaches liberal acceptance of homosexuals, lesbians, and bisexuals? Are we ready to allow white farmers to import the scourge of white civilisation - homosexuality ... into our society in the name of trans-migration?
It seems that the lessons of Zimbabwe and white farmers have no immediate resonance with the Nigerian government. It is appropriate to dump social, political and cultural time bombs on the lap of innocent Nigerians? Rather than poach white farmers with all their unenviable historical garbage, the Obasanjo government should be demanding for fairer trade agreements, better access to credit, cancellation of debt, more secure water supplies and more equitable distribution of arable land for local investors willing to invest in agribusiness. Also, government should invest in plant and machinery and farming technology that will encourage productive harvest. Obasanjo's interview is relevant in this context.
In 1999, Jonathan Power, a British journalist in an interview asked Obasanjo how he would change attitude towards agriculture? Obasanjo answered and I quote: "You have to show an example and bring in appropriate technology. If farmers have been using bad tending hoes, improve the hoes and that makes farming less tedious and less painful. Simple things. You have to introduce other inputs, like improved seed or fertilisers - things that will lead the farmer to consider farming profitable and interesting". In the same interview, it was implied that Obasanjo enjoyed whipping his farm workers as a credible form of discipline. He even said that the problem of Nigeria was corruption and that class and racism were the problems of the Southern African region.
The irony of the above quotations is huge. By the year 2004, Obasanjo had discovered an epiphany! The visionary, who once dreamt of resurrecting our moribund agricultural sector with simple inputs, is today singing a different song. Today's reality, according to Obasanjo, demands that we should open up our arable land for rapacious white farmers for massive exploitation and private gains.
For me, Obasanjo had always been a portrait of complexity. Soldier, writer, farmer, motor mouth and politician are incongruous combinations that we may expect to find in a complex persona. As a progressive, I believe that we should encourage business co-operation with the rest of the world and leave treachery and betrayal out of our relations with fellow African countries. Ethnic differences in Nigeria are easier to manage but class and racism, are not. Since class and racism are associated with most large white settlement in the developing world, why import it to Nigeria? It is time Obasanjo denied that he is not a white man's guard dog.
As the most populous black nation on earth, we should encourage an invisible expatriate presence in our society with power to contain, jail, and expel them if our laws are violated. This attitude will encourage African Renaissance. It will help recover our pride, dignity and the beauty of the black race lost through subservience towards white over centuries of domination. However, doing this will spark off international incident that may involve Britain, the famed traditional and political defender of white settlers in black Africa. Mugabe is a living victim.
We also have to recognise that the fragile thread of our unity may be broken forever if we absorb fleeing white farmers. Majorities of them are tainted with African brand of politics. Denied the oxygen of their lavish and comfortable lifestyles in Africa, they will always get an evil genius like Morgan Tsvangirai to fund and support as opposition warrior. The classic survival strategy of endangered African white settlers is to divert mass discontent over racial injustice into colour victimisation.
Also, it would be foolhardy not to expect white farmers to experiment with GM crops on docile and compliant black Africans. In Europe and America, genetically modified crops are still stewed in raging controversy. They are the produce the devil will not even eat. And since Nigeria lacks the scientific and technological ability to test for the presence of GM crops in our food chain, we would be a breeding ground in the hands of a bunch of unrepentant and profit-driven white farmers.
Equally, we would be insane if all kinds of existential questions are not asked about the prevalence of HIV and AIDS in mostly Southern African region where we have white farmers. Why HIV and AIDS decimating the lives of millions of black Zimbabweans and South Africans and not whites, given the history of white man's sexual pervasions? Are we not to suggest and conclude that the spread of AIDS among blacks in those regions could be the genocidal cravings of extremist white sellers bent on getting rid of blacks. Until answers are given to all these questions, the dream of agrarian paradise, through the Midas of migrant white farmers, are replete with serious dangers.
Tijani lives in London.
Any Oyibo, no matter their country of origin, can buy Zimbabwean passport and land in any African country as Zimbabwean farmer.
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