“Our own men and our boys have joined the ranks of the outsiders, Obierika lamented, thus it is already too late. They have accepted his religion and are working to maintain his rule. We should have no trouble expelling the white guys from Umuofia if we decide to do so. They are just the two that exist. What about our own people, who have been granted power and are going along with them?

 

They may take the military to Umuru and we could become just like Abame.

“I told you on my last visit to Mbanta how they hanged Aneto,” he continued after a protracted period of silence.

 

‘What has happened to that piece of land in dispute?’ asked Okonkwo.

‘The white man’s court has decided that it should belong to Nnama’s family, who has given much money to the white man’s messengers and interpreter.’

‘Does the white man understand our culture about land?’

‘How can he when he does not even speak our tongue? But he says that our customs are bad, and our own brothers, who have taken up his religion, also say that our customs are bad.

 

How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us?

 

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peacefully with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won over our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together, and we have fallen apart.” Chinua Achebe (1958)

 

Does the summary of the book “Things Fall Apart” look like a prophecy? Chinua Achebe was that African prophet who wrote his lines based on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of the God of the ancestors.

 

But believe me, the dispensation at which he wrote the inspiration is past, and yet the descendants of those who turned their brothers down are still following the path of their ancestors.

 

The descendants of the faithful and loving ancestors whom their brothers betrayed are also alive, and we still feel the pain of the wounds created by the ancient betrayers.

This is the time divinely prepared for the true Africans to act because the puppeteer is never ready to stop since the descendants of the ancestral betrayers are still having deals that only richly benefit their pockets with them.

 

Maybe the African child has forgotten the history of the United States of America, which was a former colony of Great Britain but still needed to fight the war of liberation.

 

 

Why will they need to fight the war of liberation? The puppetry of independence can never liberate any society. Every colonized and independent society is still a slave to the colonizer until they are victorious in the war of liberation.

 

In 1776, the Americas (North and South) fought the war of liberation and proclaimed themselves an independently liberated country. This war of liberation was led by George Washington, who later became the first President of the United States of America.

 

The founding fathers of the United States of America, in a heated struggle, were able to set standards that would better their citizens. Today, some scholars believe that Liberia was colonized by the same United States of America, while others do not believe Liberia was colonized by any foreign country, possibly because the United States of America never stayed long in Liberia before being chased out.

 

The African child should not forget that the sustainer of the colonizers is Africa. The voice of one African child shakes the colonizers’ world and is properly studied by their super-rated scholars and philosophers, just to know what the voice could bring to them.

 

It is never too late and not late at all for the true African child to make a change and create a better African world for today’s generation and the unborn generation. The “it is already too late…generation is gone, but you have the potential to create a better Africa. That is the very reason you have “the puppeteer and the puppet” in your hands today.

 

Wake up, Africa!

The colonizers used “the force theory” on our ancient fathers. They used force and coercion to establish that which is not befitting for us. They imposed their rule, culture, religion, economy, etc. on the Africans in a bid to keep them in perpetual enslavement.

 

Wake up, Africa!

The colonizer’s education holds that the two main elements of force are occupation and colonization. Occupation occurs when the colonizer’s army takes residence among a conquered African population, while colonization occurs when the colonizers leave their states and come to Africa to seize our land and create their own new community. Eurocentricism and ethnocentrism!

 

This is what they did to African nations: they branded us as “Africa” and also went further to rebrand the different colonized nations.

Wake up, Africa!