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Opinion, Regional

My Take On It: ACP member states should be fearful of the ACP-EU agreement

Janet Karim

Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back where it belongs. Everyone who uses a sword will die with a sword. Matthew 26:52

As the European Union aspired to coerce 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific states, the world sat on edge as one country after another led by Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda, and many others declared they would not sign the document in its present form.

As it is the ACP-EU post-Cotonou Agreement is an alarmingly deceptive, intrusive into national borders that is replete with imperialistic claws. This wish list “accomplishment” by 27 countries of Europe against 79 countries from the ACP.

Unfortunately, the ACP lost six countries to the agreement. They signed on in Belgium. There are three countries from Africa, namely Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi, and the Caribbean states of Granada, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Also, not showing here is Saint Kitts and Nevis. In a sledgehammer ceremony that took place in Belgium.

In Malawi all eyes last week were scattered amidst competing issues: the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and Malawian youth to war-torn Israel as “interns,” farm hands to boost farm labor after Malaysia airlifted its citizens from Israel after 37 of their citizens lost their lives.

However, the country got a dose of the stealthier entry into our space of three international iconic women: former First Lady Michelle Obama, Melinda Gates (wife and partner of Bill, who two days earlier dumped injectable digital identifications doses in Kenya), and Amal Clooney (wife of Hollywood mogul George Clooney).

They came talking about helping the country in the campaign to end child marriage. Malawi often welcomes help from the outside world, however, there comes a time when it is necessary to look some gift horses in the mouth.

The three high-level women are in the country when it is going through extremely tough times, tough times that are not home-grown, but manipulated from the corridors of global engines: Malawi has had a forced devaluation, it is being pressured to sign the EU document that among others is forcing all signees to change their laws to fit European cultural values.

There is a country-wide outcry for rising costs of living, and as the government struggles to buy food for its people, the visiting triumvirates with comments such as “we need to teach the girls that they have the right to control their bodies….” This is an alarming statement that spells the mission of the visit. The statement is out of the playbook of the fight American women are using to fight the outlawing of abortion in the US. Of course, the right to abortion, contraceptive access, LGBTQ rights and other social and cultural rights are not the rights of our country.

There are many in the ACP countries that feel there is nothing to worry about the very obvious intrusion of entities like the EU or the 3-person high-level visitors. But Jamaican Love Movement president, Dr. Daniels Thomas disagreed. In his letter to the Editor of the Jamaica Observer (11.29.2023), Thomas, a very vocal critic of the EU and its deception wrote that the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP)-European Union (EU) agreement, queried a change that has come out in Jamaica, and voiced by the country’s foreign affairs minister Kamina Johnson Smith. In response to “Should we be concerned about it(?)”

He wrote “To put it frankly, this partnership agreement is a global poison pill for truth and family aimed at forcing destructive European ideas around sex, abortion, and gender identity into the schools and legal structures of 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries under threat of economic sanctions.

“Legally binding for 20 years, this agreement would hold Jamaica (and the other 78 countries) to poorly defined human rights principles, placing us culturally and ideologically under the rule of the EU. It is, therefore, most appropriate for a sovereign nation like ours, which holds its culture and values in high esteem, to delay the signing of this dangerous partnership agreement indefinitely.”

Thomas said the delay in signing the agreement (three years) was encouraging to many groups in the ACP countries who “are concerned about the imposition of anti-family and anti-God ideas on things like the school curricula of our children. In this regard, the Government was wise to listen to these concerns, which are representative of the concerns of over 80 percent of Jamaicans who wish to retain the law against (same-sex unions) and the 66 percent who wish to retain the law against abortion.

“No poll has been done on whether same-sex marriage should be taught as being normal in schools, but the result of that hypothetical poll seems obvious. But there is nothing to fear the minister says. Is that so?

“It is no surprise that some people in Jamaica want the Government to sign the ACP-EU agreement. So when a group comprising a flurry of gender activists, pro-abortion individuals, and pro-LGBT organizations came out pushing for the Government to sign the document, it was no shock. Their position, though, was quite interesting. These LGBT, transgender, and abortion activists all came together with urgency to state in the most emphatic terms possible that the Government should sign the ACP-EU agreement as it would not promote homosexuality, transgenderism, or abortion. What a strange and illogical position to hold.

“The reality is that the dramatic interest of all the premiere pro-LGBT and pro-abortion individuals and organizations working frantically, shouting as loudly as possible, advocating as fervently as they can to get the Government to sign the agreement means that this document is guaranteed, 100 percent, to advance the pro-abortion and pro-LGBT position in Jamaica; otherwise, why would they care?

To paint the picture clearly, what we have now is eight Christian non-governmental organisations, which, for over two years, have been sounding an alarm that the ACP-EU partnership is dangerous to our children, family structure, and sovereignty, representing the vast majority of Jamaicans who want our laws to remain as they are. On the other hand, we have 15 pro-LGBT organisations and 21 pro-LGBT individuals who have been lobbying for the last two weeks, representing a minority of Jamaicans who want our laws to change to turn Jamaica into a pro-gay and pro-abortion paradise.

All around the ACP countries NGOs working with their partners outside, are pushing for an agenda that is suitable for their mentors, many of whom are also sponsors; sponsors who are bent on changing the choices of many cultures: even in a country, there is diversity of cultures. The EU and its Western allies aim to change them either through prominent women or the agreement.

This is not what democracy, human rights, and respect for other people’s cultures look like!

Opinion, Politics, Regional

My Take On It: African leaders speaking with one voice as youth call for One Africa

Janet Karim

                                                       

1If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. – Psalm 124:1-6

What do the presidents of Mali’s Assimi Goïta, Kenya’s William Ruto, including Professor P. L. O. Lumumba, DRC’s Felix Tshisekedi, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, South Africa’s Cyril Ramposa, including South Africa’s EEF leader Julius Malema, Nigeria’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former African Union PR to the US Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, and Niger’s Mohamed Bazoum all have in common?

They are all African leaders who in the past few months have been vehemently voicing out discontent against foreign interference, manipulation and open plundering of its natural resources that has come with African coups and needless slaughter of Africans by Africans.

They have in different manner asked politely, rudely, bluntly to leave Africa to manage its own affairs, some to literally leave Africa, and stating that the west needs Africa (its minerals), while Africa does not need the west.

Apart from telling the western nations to stop looting Africa’s minerals while at the same time throttling social values  such as abortion and LGBTQ and norms. To this Uganda’s Museveni is adroit in stating “Africa has been quiet, we have been polite, but now we are talking.”

While some analysts looked on in shock as Ramaphosa waxed lyrical as he started chanting in unison with fellow Africa leaders’ rants, the continent became empowered as all have been calling for continental minerals to be processed in Africa.

Statistics are making the rounds on the use of African minerals that are strategic minerals in the battles fought by the west. These minerals are uranium, gold, silver, diamonds, oil, bauxite among others.

One blatant attempt by the western nations, is the European proposed treaty with 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific nations, commonly referred to as the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement.

It is a manipulative attempt to rope the ACP into a binding 20-year treaty, to the 27 member EU. While it is being promoted as an economic and trade agreement, it also has many deceptive provisions that advance abortion, comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and LGBT (gay rights) agendas that are being throttled down the throats of ACP countries. This agreement includes over 105 countries (27 EU Member States plus 79 ACP countries) representing over 1.5 billion people.

The new ACP-EU Partnership Agreement has a revised extension of the 20-year Cotonou Partnership Agreement that was signed in 2000 and governed trade and economic relations between the EU and the 48 Sub-Saharan countries in Africa, 16 Caribbean countries, and 15 Pacific countries (ACP). The agreement expired in 2020; it has been extended waiting for the signing of the new ACP-EU Agreement.

But this devious EU Treaty is so harmful to the 79 ACP countries as it aims to rob them of their sovereign rights. Ironically, while it desires to force LGBTQ rights and abortion on the ACP countries, it does not  do this to China or Middle Eastern countries.

To the two types of foreigners from the West, including the US and the European Union, that have held Africa under their thumbs are the mineral mining giants and now the social giants that are insisting that certain African laws change.

They continue to plunder African minerals and give Africa high interest loans. To these, African leaders, joined by the youth, are saying in unison: “Get out of Africa.”

To Be Continued…….Watch this space!

Human Rights, Opinion

My Take On It: Are civil societies and human rights agencies helping the EU sexualize ACP youth?

Janet Karim

                                                                       

6 ‘If anyone causes one of these little ones – those who believe in me – to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung round their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! – Matthew 18:6-7

Apart from attempting to steal the sovereignty of the 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific member states of the new ACP-EU Agreement, the European Union is using local civil society and human rights organizations in sexualizing the youth of the three regions. As with the bait being used to make the ACPs give up their voting rights by using money as the incentive, the non-governmental organizations are being heaped with bucketloads of money to advance foreign ideals and values. Again, the strategy is to put human rights in front of a value, and the attempt is made to make the ACP nation states bow down to the foreign value systems.

ACP-EU Agreement

One foreign and abhorrent value system is the introduction of harmful comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to very young children. According to research, there are 15 very harmful elements that are in CSE curricula. All of these have the potential to cause long-term negative effects on the health and well-being of children, and inherently society. Despite this, many civil society and human rights organizations are advancing these and presenting them in local schools. All this is done in exchange for the financing of their organizations. These brief case human rights and civil society organizations are short-changing the hard-won freedoms of the ACPs.

Fifteen harmful CSE elements

1. SEXUALIZES CHILDREN. Normalizes child sex or desensitizes children to sexual things. May give examples of children having sex or imply many of their peers are sexually active; glamorize sex, use graphic materials, teach explicit sexual vocabulary, or encourage discussion of sexual experiences, attractions, fantasies, or desires.

 2. TEACHES CHILDREN TO CONSENT TO SEX. May teach children how to negotiate sexual encounters or how to ask for or get “consent” from other children to engage in sexual acts with them. Why are children being encouraged to get “Consent” when with adults it is under the banner of sexual abuse prevention?

3. NORMALIZES ANAL & ORAL SEX, which are high-risk sexual behaviors & may omit vital medical facts, such as the extremely high STI infection rates (i.e., HIV and HPV).

4. PROMOTES HOMOSEXUAL / BISEXUAL BEHAVIOR, normalizing, promoting acceptance, or exploring diverse sexual orientations, sometimes in violation of national education laws. May omit vital health information and/or may provide medically inaccurate information about homosexuality or homosexual sex.

5. PROMOTES SEXUAL PLEASURE. Instructs children they are entitled to or have a “right” to sexual pleasure or encourages children to seek out sexual pleasure. Fails to present data on the multiple negative potential outcomes for sexually active children.

6. PROMOTES SOLO &/OR MUTUAL MASTURBATION. While masturbation can be part of normal child development, encourages masturbation at young ages, which may make children more vulnerable to pornography use, sexual addictions, or sexual exploitation. May instruct children on how to masturbate. May also encourage children to engage in mutual masturbation.

7. PROMOTES CONDOM USE IN INAPPROPRIATE WAYS. May inappropriately eroticize condom use (e.g., emphasizing sexual pleasure or “fun” with condoms) or use sexually explicit methods (i.e., penis and vagina models, seductive role plays, etc.) to promote condom use to children. May provide medically inaccurate information on condom effectiveness & omit or deemphasize failure rates.

8. PROMOTES EARLY SEXUAL AUTONOMY. Instructs children they can choose to have sex when they feel they are ready or when they find a trusted partner. Fails to provide data about the well-documented negative consequences of early sexual debut. Fails to encourage sexually active children to return to abstinence.

9. FAILS TO ESTABLISH ABSTINENCE AS THE EXPECTED STANDARD for all school-age children. May mention abstinence only in passing. May teach children that all sexual activity—other than “unprotected” vaginal and oral sex—is acceptable, and even healthy.

10. PROMOTES TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY. Promotes affirmation of and/or exploration of diverse gender identities. May instruct children they can change their gender or identify as multiple genders or may present other unscientific and medically inaccurate theories.

11. PROMOTES CONTRACEPTION / ABORTION TO CHILDREN. Presents abortion as a safe or positive option while omitting data on the many potential negative physical & mental health consequences. May instruct children they have a right to abortion and refer them to abortion providers.

12. PROMOTES PEER-TO-PEER SEX ED OR SEXUAL RIGHTS ADVOCACY. May train children to instruct other children about sex or sexual pleasure, through peer-to-peer initiatives. May recruit children as spokespeople to advocate for controversial sexual rights (including a right to CSE itself) or to promote abortion.

13. UNDERMINES TRADITIONAL VALUES & BELIEFS. May encourage children to question their parents’ beliefs,  and their cultural, or religious values regarding early sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

14. UNDERMINES PARENTS OR PARENTAL RIGHTS. May instruct children they have rights to confidentiality & privacy from their parents. May instruct children about accessing sexual commodities or services, including abortion, without parental consent. May instruct children not to tell their parents what they are being taught about sex in school.

15. REFERS CHILDREN TO HARMFUL RESOURCES such as harmful websites, materials, or outside entities. May also specifically refer children to abortion organizations or their affiliates or partners for their lucrative services or commodities (such as sexual counseling, condoms, contraceptives, gender hormones, STI testing & treatment, abortions, etc.).

 ACP member states must take note that there is a conflict of interest whenever an entity that profits from sexualizing children engages in creating or implementing sex education programs. (Captured from https://alexwesigye.blogspot.com/2021/03/comprehensive-sexuality-education.html?m=1 on August 3, 2022)

CIVIL SOCIETY & HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS, PLEASE SAY NO TO CSE IN THE ACP COUNTRIES!

Opinion, Politics

My Take On It: ACP unity is essential in going forward with ACP-EU Agreement

Janet Karim

“Every Kingdom that is divided against itself will be destroyed and every house and city that is divided against itself will not stand.” – Matthew 12:25b

African, Caribbean, and Pacific states (ACP) do not need to be members of international organizations such as the United Nations and others if they enter into the next round of the 20-year ACP-EU Agreement that takes away their vote through a treaty clause embedded in the Agreement. The treaty clause, if and when signed by the member states in 2023, will transform the 27 (soon to be 29 with Finland and Denmark) European Union into a 106-strong giant in international corridors, where all members of the grouping (aka ACP-EU) will vote alike.

ACP-EU Agreement

The ACP, formed to coordinate sustained development and poverty reduction is made up of 79 countries with a population of 740m (48 African, 16 Caribbean, and 15 Pacific countries), while the 27 European countries boast of a population of 447.7m.

 On July 6, 2022, the Secretary General of the Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific states (OACPS), H.E. Mr. Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti appealed for closer unity of the 79-member organization. He made this appeal to the grouping ahead of a number of crucial international meetings, among them, the 77th United Nations General Assembly in September, the World Health Summit 2022 in Germany in October, UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (UNFCCC COP 27) to be staged in Egypt in November and the Convention on biological diversity COP 15 in Montreal, Canada in December.

However, while the OACPS SG bemoans the reluctance of the UN to change to pave the way for more participation in such entities as the Security Council because this would diminish the big five veto powers, he nonetheless encourages the OACPS to unite with the EU bulldozed Agreement. Currently, all four regions have a council of ministers; while a European co-chair is present in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific councils of ministers, no such co-chair exists, and no non-European sits on the European Union council of ministers.

The OACPS SG call to the African, Caribbean, and Pacific member states to unite with the European Union is an oxymoron, self-contradiction, inconsistent, incongruent, a conundrum, and an absurdity since he is asking the member states in the organization to self-destruct, becoming European in the international voting system. He is asking the ACP countries to allow themselves to be silenced; to silence the wishes of 740 million people for the sake of 447 million Europeans. This is in the same paragraph that SG Chikoti derides the big five SC members (US, UK, France, China, and Russia) for their fear of power being diminished under new global geopolitical rules.

In my social media grouping discussing the in-plain-sight power-grab of the European Union, SFB cited concern about the type of “unity” the EU is still pushing, quoting the SG Chikoti encouraging and enticing the ACP countries and saying that it “is our duty to continue to work together with the EU for the benefit of our citizens…”

SFB said the SG’s call appears to be the same kind of blind unity with the EU in negotiations for which the present treaty advocates. It appears that the December 2022 date for the date for provisions to be added to the Agreement has shifted to June 2023.

This is a great open window as it gives member states room for advocacy and collaborative sessions in countering the EU’s deceptive power-grab.

Ashems Songwe, MP, has advanced that the ACP should use its numeric strength to resist the evil deceptive strategy of the EU.

The next international meeting is of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) which begins in New York from September 13-27, where general comments sessions begin on September 20, 2022.

The ACP member state must meet planned outreaches of like-minded member states to mister talking points to counter the EU onslaught on the sovereignty of 740 million people, whatever their economic strength. The ACP must vehemently resist the EU’s desire to silence ACP countries, desire to steal the votes of the 79 sovereign, free, and independent nations

They also need to put a checkmark on the EU and others who believe that by putting the term “human rights” in front of something, then the ACP member states should shiver and fall into line. According to the UN Human Rights Charter nations have the right to exist and rule in accordance with the wishes of their people. No entity must, therefore, refrain from entering into sovereign nations to push its agenda on the premise that that sovereign nation does not have money to proceed with its development programs.

ACP nations must come to the negotiating tables fully equipped and with counter and fine-tuned strategies and counter-proposals. By all means of unity, the ACP must stop the geopolitical power-grab and resist the introduction of sensitive issues such as abortion, comprehensive sexuality education, and other controversial notions that are not in the Human Rights Charter, but the EU is aspiring to gain traction and use the ACP group to imbed the notions into soft laws of the United Nations. This is outrageous and the ACP member states must assert themselves.

Seven hundred and forty million African, Caribbean, and Pacific peoples, most of them living below the poverty line, are depending on the delegates in these international meetings to represent them and their interests, not those of persons living in Europe.

To get to the 1990s the ACP-EU Cotonou, ACP countries on several occasions, walked out of the negotiations in protest. The same approach MUST be used by our crop of delegates.

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US must be our motto going forward.

ACPs must unite! Start by a call to get rid of the EU co-chair on regional ACP councils!

Human Rights, Opinion

My Take On It: On being honest about keeping racism out of international agreements

Janet Karim

3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others. 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. — Phil 2:3-7

Chinese racist Lu Ke

Michelle Obama, wife of former US President Barack Obama once said that her husband advised her that “when they (people) go low, you go high.” This is a piece of extremely sound advice similar to “a farmer does not wallow in the mud with the pigs.” However, in recent media reports, it is evident that at international meetings and even in our own back yards, it is extremely hard to counter carefully or with kid gloves, the blatantly open racism, and disheartening cruelty and dishonesty of non-black people, especially when it comes to rich countries against the poor countries (mostly made up of black and other non-white peoples). The people of the ACP (the poor non-whites) must call a spade a spade to the European and Chinese (the rich), and basically demand equal standing in charge at the international agreement meetings or where wrong is done.

The drafters of the United Nations that took place on June 26, 1945 (and ratified on October 24, 1945), established to maintain peace, dignity, and equality on a healthy planet, some elements are blatantly clear and unalterable: the sovereignty of nations,  one nation, one vote and other clear-cut “we are all part of the human race” elements that make living on this planet an entity of civilized peoples. However, the members of the rich countries that are mostly the non-blacks, plus China, because of the affluence of their countries in monetary measures, appear at every corner to be desirous to beat into submission the poorer countries (the majority of them being the continent of Africa followed by the Caribbeans). /the rich nations want poor nations to bow down to the rich nations’ way of living, their values, and their standards, however vile, changing, or counter-to-other standards and norms.

All customs, norms, and values of the poor nations are deemed backward, and uncivilized, and these nations must bend to the customs, norms, and values of the richer nations. Nothing could be further from the mandate set down in the United Nations Charter!

In recent reports on this column, it was heavily advanced that the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries must not sign the new ACP-EU Agreement that would replace the Cotonou Agreement and would be the guiding instrument for the next 20 years. The advice comes in the wake of the devious manner in which various portions of the new ACP-EU Agreement (to come into effect, once signed, in 2023), raise various sections to treaty (therefore binding) status. This inherently renders mute any customs, norms, or values the ACP countries have on issues that the EU raises or declares to human rights standards. Three examples of the dishonest dealing of the Europeans suffice that the EU is operating in bad faith and treating the ACP member states as non-equals, easily to be baited with monetary segments in the “Treaty-form Agreement.”

The first example is in the area of human rights and the issue of the rights of parents. This right of parents is mentioned in the UN Charter on Human Rights declares in Article 18:1 that “States Parties shall use their best efforts to ensure recognition of the principle that both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing and development of the child. Parents or, as the case may be, legal guardians, have the primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of the child.”

In the new ACP-EU Agreement, however, there are numerous examples such as the provision of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE); in this, the EU and like-minded member states have raised the issue of CSE to a human rights one wherein it steps in and usurps the role of parents in the upbringing of children in ACP member states. The provision of CSE is filled with teachings on sexuality, the right to abortion and contraceptives plus a variety of other norms and value-laced elements that go counter to ACP member state’s customs, laws, and beliefs. Parents are the custodians of the upbringing of their children. But the member states do not have the right to decide what is appropriate in the CSE teaching for their children, or what is not appropriate.

What appears to be certain in the intent here is that the European Union Commission member states want to sexualize young ACP member state children as young as five and six-year-olds about abortion rights, access to contraceptives, gay and lesbian rights, the anatomy of male and female bodies and a series of other elements in the sexualized teachings. This thereby introduces sex industry facts and elements to minors. A question that should loom large here is “where are the Rights of the Child in all these teachings? This EU back-door attempt to usurp the parental rights roles of ACP member states must stop.

The duplicity, deceit, dishonesty, and deception of the Europeans in the ACP-EU Agreement discussions have also become clear in the last month and as recent as this week. The first is the EU has imposed itself on the three councils of ministers of the ACP countries where there will be an EU minister that sits as a co-chair in the ACP regional councils. Yet there is no ACP co-chair on the EU council of ministers. There is no equality in this proposed section. This highlights the very nature of the new agreement as an attempt to usurp the power of the vote, rights, and powers of the ACP member states on one side and at the same time keep the ACP states out in the EU council of minister discussions. This also must stop. The EU has 27 members; the new ACP-EU Agreement, coupled with its co-chair presence in ACP regional ministers’ councils, plonks sturdily in the lead position with a clear 106 voting bloc (and illegal by UN standards since it muzzles 97 member states) in international agreements.

 The third example is the Summit of the Americas in the USA and the Council Meeting of the Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS), held in Brussels, Belgium, which concluded last week (June 7-8). A problem arose with the signing; this seems to be on the side of the European Union (EU) and involves its member, Hungary, which is continuing to object to the provisions on migration. Hungary is holding to its view that people, especially non-Europeans (of course this means the black people), must be encouraged to stay in their homelands.

This is deep-steeped racism.

Speaking of racism, a BBC documentary by a Chinese-speaking black journalist discovered a website where Chinese people are uploading videos for sale. One that has gone viral is where Malawian children are depicted being taught how to say demeaning things in Chinese about themselves. The journalist discovered that if the children did not attend the Chinese “teacher’s” class, the child would be beaten. For appearing in the video, the Chinese, known as Lu Ke, gave the children $1.00. The racist videos are currently on sale on the Chinese market for $10.00. Using racist videos to make money out of unsuspecting African children is deplorable.

This is very sad, shameful, and disgusting racism at its worst. What is severely disappointing is the lukewarm apology from the Chinese Embassy in Lilongwe, and worse still, they said “The Embassy noted with concern the video Racism for Sale. We strongly condemn racism in any form, by anyone, or happening anywhere. We also noted that the video was shot in 2020. It shall be stressed that the Chinese government has zero-tolerance for racism.”

The willful actions of Lu Ke are disgusting, exploiting, and a clear violation of children’s education and upbringing and parental rights. One would be given the ninja or kung fu treatment if one did that to Chinese children.

Applause  goes to no-nonsense Rwanda President Paul Kagame for deporting 18 Chinese investors that were found guilty of mistreating workers, who were made to work abnormal hours and grubbing land.“

“Africa is for Africa. We can’t be slaves in Africa. We don’t tolerate the nonsense of discrimination here. Rwanda is for Africans and those who mean well to us. I am directing the 18 Chinese investors to leave Rwanda immediately and must never return back. Rwanda people must enjoy their rights in their country. Let this be a lesson to the remaining Chinese investors.” President Kagame warned.

Let President Kagame’s giant and gallant stand be the rallying clarion call of the ACP member states and other countries where racism is lurking around in the corridors of international collaboration!

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