Local Kings; Xenophobia, Genocide and Tribal Hostilities in Africa.

Local Kings; Xenophobia, Genocide and Tribal Hostilities in Africa. 

The truth is that most of the local kings in Africa are irrevocably tied to the past and vestiges of its primitiveness and rigid crudity! You wont be surprised to know that the only thing vast almost without boundries is just the palaces of the African local kings, however that is where the vastness of modernity ends the brains of those kings are still as that of their primitive ancestors, where killings, wicked idiotic wars and tribal follies are competing for superiority! Many of those kings find it difficult to use a modern tablet or even have an email address let alone a simple internet system! Are you then surprised why they understand little that the world has gone global village! The only thing in their heads is constantly the phantom conquest of other hapless tribes to the extent that most of their ancestors burnt down nearby hapless villages and sold the survivors to their fellow criminals that came from Europe! So many of their offspring still have the blood of the viper flowing in their ancestors in their veins that is why from time to time those vices rear their heads!

Lets check out the Rwanda genocide; it was local leaders (kings) that instigated it and criminally supported by the country leaders! The Hutus who make up of about 85% of Rwanda and also in control of the the nation’s leadership following incitements from the local kings took on the minority Tutsis and Twa and in a twinkle of an eye well over 800,000 Tutsis were mown down ibn cold blood while the Hutusi controlled presidency happily looked the other way! However what perhaps stopped total wipe out of the Tutsi minority was a rare providence when some gallant Tutsi commanders managed to overthrow the crazy Hutusi government and had at lest a bite on the colossus Hutsus who had gave them a raw deal but how many ethnic minority could have such luck from being saved from extinction!? These were all happening while the entire globe watches in shameless docility!

Just recently before a governorship election in Nigeria some where in the South West ; Lagos precisely the Oba of Lagos Oba Rilwan Akiolu 1 was issuing threat to the Igbos ethnic nationalities residing in that city that they would have thousands of their corpses swam up the Lagos Lagoon! Mind you the election in question was not being contested by an Igbo nationality rather the election was between two indigenous Lagosian ! One would then wonder what the Oba would have said or done if one of the candidates were to be an Igbo as it would be sooner or later. It was obvious that kings like Oba of Lagos have enormous resources supplied by the government that any king in his status may practically fund a small private army which they could unleash on their perceived enemy. Though I know that the Igbos never took the Oba’s threats something to fear since the Igbos are capable of defending themselves any where on this earth evident in the result that showed that the opposing party got to the very closest to beating Oba’s preferred party but one may wonder what would have happen if the Oba’s candidate and party lost sure there would have been blood berth!

Right now in South Africa the so called xenophobia is just simmering down but several lives have been lost several millions of dollars of business destroyed or looted and this is not the first time! However this latest one is credited to inciting statements by King of Kwazulu Land, Goodwill Zwelithini KaBhekuzulu not quoting his verbatim “that foreign workers should leave!” and even earlier statement by the South African President that he would do something about migrant workers! This two leaders set the foundation for the perhaps hundreds of lives murdered in cold blood in South Africa. One cant forget so soon how South Africans were warehoused in several countries in Africa when they had their challenge even people like Tabo Mbeki lived for a long time in Surulere Lagos with his family and several thousands of South Africans! Now it is Nigerians that South African rush quickly to destroy their means of livelihood when South African companies like MTN Shoprite, DSTV Standard Chartered Bank and host of other companies are making billions of Dollars here in Nigeria! Instead of the king of Kwazulu land to scale down the amount he squashes on his palace and cronies and then spend it to send uneducated children to school so that they can compete instead of stupid cruelty against equally poor migrants with little more education! It is time that OAU, UN, International HUMAN Rights Organizations and a host of other world bodies take proactive measures to local kings and their utterances and apply stiff sanctions to them before it leads to death of hapless minorities. Where this cannot be preempted the earring kings and all others believed to be responsible for inciting people to kill and maim and destroy should be brought to trial and on conviction should be treated with the strictest international punishment for their part.