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THE WEST, AIDS AND AFRICA - Remi Oyeyemi - Monday, July 15, 2002 . Culled from Nigeriaworld.com
"You are
entitled to your own opinions. But you are not entitled to your own
facts."
- U.S. Senator Patrick Moniyan
The
Barcelona AIDS conference just came to a close in Spain last week. While it
lasted, one has been paying some attention to the headlines coming out of the
conference and how the American "mainstream" media have gleefully
reported them. One tried to dissect these headlines, ruminated over the
emerging "facts and figures," contextualised them in history and
attempted an analysis from the purview of the world's dominant (or if you like,
imperialistic) socio-political milieu.
Upfront,
it would be pertinent to state that this writer is not contesting the reality
of AIDS in the world. What is troubling is that there is something terribly
wrong with a disease that broke out in the West, specifically in the United
States and previously unknown in Africa, and is now on the rampage in Africa,
leaving the rest of the world almost untouched?! It is either the figures are
being cooked to further demonise and destroy the self esteem of Africans, or
there is a group of persons, or a particular country or group of countries
ruled by some "skin heads" (or if you like, racists) who are
determined to ruin mother Africa and her children. Definitely, either way, some
people are engaged in crimes against humanity!
Before
you dismiss this as another propagation of "conspiracy theory," or
misguided Pan-Africanism, let us look at some facts together. In 1981, AIDS was
"discovered" in the United States among gay men. Then, it was still
an "unknown" disease because it was not until a year later that it
was defined as AIDS. Just a year after that, in 1983, it was identified that
HIV caused AIDS. The same year the world was made to believe that it has become
an epidemic in Africa! Yet in 1985, by which time every region in the world has
reportedly "reported" at least one case of AIDS, it is only in the US
that records of deaths from the disease exist NOT in Africa, where there was
supposedly an "epidemic."
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If there is no ulterior motive to
stigmatise Africa or a grand plan to wipe out Africans, why is it that we do
not have the same reports on Europe and North America? How come the reports
of ''facts and figures'' did not cover the entire planet? ... how come Africa
has faired so badly compared to others in the outbreak of a disease that was
imported from the United States? |
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The
whole world is a witness to the kind of moral depravity that has plagued
America since the early fifties and exploded in the sixties such as men
sleeping with men. The whole world is also a witness that such is foreign to
Africa. For one, this writer has never read any anthropological history of any
part of Africa where this has been the practice before 1980 (if anyone does,
this writer would appreciate his attention being called to this). For some of
us who trained as students of history, we know that some of the earliest
written records about cultures of Africa were written by condescending and
largely biased white men. We also found out that more often than not they paid
more attention to the negatives than to the positives. So, if they had any
proof that men slept with men in Africa, they would not only have exposed it,
but they would have attempted to "study" such practice.
That
being the case, how could a disease that broke out in the United States become
an epidemic two years later in Africa, when the practices that caused such
disease were previously unknown in Africa? How could a disease that started in
the US and claimed its first several victims in the US, where practices that
cause such disease is more prevalent, and for which there is no known
medication be more devastating in Africa than in the US or Europe?
There
is only one answer - the United States and its collaborators have been using
Africans as guinea pigs in the laboratory of AIDS! Anyone who knows a little
about the workings of the American system would agree that if AIDS was actually
discovered among the gays, it would not be too preposterous to say that efforts
would have been made to manufacture it in the laboratory. The American
government is one of the most criminal ones in the whole world because it is
driven by something other than what is driving the rest of humanity - money. If
you doubt this, go and read Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be
So Hated by Gore Vidal.
The
system encourages research, which is a good thing. They use their own people
(who have been made to believe that ignorance is bliss) as guinea pigs, which
is a bad thing. Most of these are minority populations and other non-Caucasian
Americans, which makes it heinous. Decades after such crimes have been
committed and most of the victims are dead they would come out to reveal the
crime and apologise to their descendants. There was a case of a government
funded research where innocent citizens were diabolically diagnosed of things
not existing in their body and admitted only to be used as guinea pigs for a
research on how to prevent, treat and cure strokes. Some of the victims did not
know this and believed they were actually suffering from a disease until it was
blown open.
During
the second European war (which they curiously termed the World War two) a lot
of crimes were committed against innocent Americans some of which are just
becoming known. If they could use their people, what makes anyone think that
Africans could be immune from such? And especially with poverty ravaging the
continent, no thanks to the indigenous collaborators, what chance does Africa
and her children stand?
Just
last week, it was reported on the CNN that the dangerous disease polio has just
been manufactured in the laboratory. It was claimed that it could be used for
terrorism and insinuated that it could be put on warheads for military
purposes. Readers should not forget the anthrax terrorism that was home brew in
America too. It also came from the laboratory.
Readers
should also remember the outbreak of Ebola disease. It was first discovered in
the United States and before anyone could say "Uncle Sam," it was all
over the East of Africa killing women and children. These are some of the few
that we were informed about. What about several other diseases they have been
manufacturing in the laboratories known only in the high places? How are we
sure that there are not a number of diseases yet undisclosed, but transmitted
from the US now eating out the heart of our mother continent?
The
American system encourages this kind of laboratory experiment, inflicts it on
its population and asked for grants to research into its cure! Where it is as
deadly as AIDS, they take it to Africa and Asia. This guarantees that some
people would continue to make money from the misery of others via research
grants, foundation and non-government organisations. They make us believe they
actually love us and are trying to help us when the opposite is actually the
truth. They are milking money from our misery!
It
should also be pointed out that the reported AIDS epidemic in South Africa
which, for example has only focused on the "dark skinned population,"
raises a lot of questions. Why is it that the AIDS disease has been
"ravaging" only the "dark skinned population"? Is there no
more white population in South Africa? Or is there a grand plan to wipe out the
black population in South and East Africa? Why is the so-called AIDS disease so
prevalent in the parts of Africa where the Caucasians have fervent interest in
the land? Is this a case of "what we can not take via political and
military means, we will appropriate with science and technology"? Why is
it that even the reports within the US were only about African Americans and
not Caucasian Americans?
Assuming
that these bleak reports were true, does it mean that Africans and their
brothers in America are more promiscuous than other races? Have we not seen how
morally depraved the Caucasian descendants are? Have we not seen how they have
been promoting life outside wedlock to give them the license to screw around?
Have we not witnessed how their system encourages the breakdown of family
values and taxed married couples more than single parents?
If
there is no ulterior motive to stigmatise Africa or a grand plan to wipe out
Africans, why is it that we do not have the same reports on Europe and North
America? How come the reports of "facts and figures" did not cover
the entire planet? If there was no sinister motive or secret plan against
Africa how come Africa has faired so badly compared to others in the outbreak
of a disease that was imported from the United States? How come this disease
has not ravaged the United States? And if it did they would only talk how
devastating it was to African Americans? How could this be so when the first
known victims were Caucasians, most prominent of which is late film
"star" Rock Hudson? How could the Caucasian Americans be so unaffected
given the pedigree of this disease for which there is no cure yet? The point is
that this disease was not and is still not a natural disease. It was
manufactured in the laboratory in the United States!
The
West has also deployed its propaganda machines to reinforce this heinous belief
that Africans are AIDS carriers. Headlines like "AIDS dragging life
expectancy down in Africa," were gleefully celebrated on the CNN, CNBC,
BBC, MSNBC and on all other cable networks. Another headline, "HIV stable
in U.S. but African Americans hit hard," got the same treatment. How could
HIV be stable in America but single out African Americans only for devastation?
Are they not treated in the same hospitals as their Caucasian counterparts?
Could it be so difficult to see that a particular race of people is singled out
for man-made extinction?
The
obviously ignorant reporters who are themselves victims of indoctrination and
trained to believe the worst about mother Africa and her children in Diaspora
were celebrating the stories. You could read it in their glittering faces.
Their body language was exuberant, the excitement in their voices highly
palpable. From their searing enthusiasm, you could easily decode their
thoughts, "African continent (and by implication its peoples) is good for
nothing except war, hunger and disease." They abandoned the appropriate
thing to do - find independent means to authenticate the so-called figures and
prove the lies of their own leaders to be what exactly it is - lies, if not
crimes!
Via
these prejudiced networks, we were told that the AIDS virus, which was first
identified in the United States "has caused most damage in sub-Saharan
Africa, where more than 28 million people are now infected." We were
informed that "the average life expectancy of people in 11 African
countries will drop below 40 by 2010 as HIV/AIDS continues to shorten the lives
of millions." They stated that "Sub-Saharan Africa has 28.5 million
of the world's 40 million infected people, with infection rates rising over 30
percent in some countries." We are also expected to begin mourning in
advance because the present 13.4 million orphans would become 25 million in
eight years.
The
sources of the facts could never have raised more troubling doubts in terms of
credibility, integrity and motive. There is the U.S. Census Bureau and the
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. It would
be pertinent if Karen Stanecki and Ronald Valdiserri representing the former
and the latter respectively tell the World how many African countries, cities,
towns and villages have they visited to be able to come up with those figures.
Or rather they should come out with the names of their researchers, their
qualifications, their locations on the African continent and the hospitals where
they have been diagnosing and ascertaining the number of AIDS carriers.
Someone
raised the fact that the USAIDS, United Nations Aids Agency (UNAIDS) and the UN
Children Agency have also come out with some figures and that one should
concede to the UN a modicum of integrity. Well, this writer is not unwilling to
do that. But a lot of evils have been perpetrated against the people of Africa
using the UN as a cover. Or who does not know the history of the UN treachery
against the African people and the people of colour in Diaspora? Who does not
know how African dreams have been repeatedly betrayed with the collaboration of
the UN just like the League of Nations before it?
Or
who could forget that when the Italian fascist, Benito Mussolini annexed
Ethiopia, the only unconquered African nation on May 9, 1936, the League of
Nations turned the other eye? Who could forget the conspiracy of the UN
secretary, Dag Hammarskjold using the UN apparatus and "credibility"
to deceive Patrice Lumumba and have him assassinated? Who has forgotten the
attempts to install Rev. Abel Muzorewa over the people of Zimbabwe who wanted
Robert Mugabe? The fact that the UN is involved in all these charades about
AIDS does not mean that crimes and lies are not being perpetrated against the
African people as you read this!
It
was written in one of the several news reports that emanated from the Barcelona
conference that the "figures" being bandied about are
"consensus" figures. How did they arrive at such consensus? What are
the variations that they tried to "harmonise"? Why do they have to
have "consensus figures"? How could they deny allegations of
conspiracy if what they are doing was to build consensus rather than establish,
collate and publish verifiable and "analyse-able" empirical and
scientific facts?
Just
last week, it was in the news that the Sesame Street producers would be
introducing an HIV - positive Muppet on the South African version of the
programme! Why introduce this on the South African version? Why not on the
United States version, after all, the disease originated from there? Why not
start in Europe or Canada? If this is not part of the grand plan, what could it
be? What further evidence do we need to establish their true intention of
stigmatising Africa, and make Africans believe that they are
"destined" to be carriers of AIDS?
This
writer believes that apart from a deliberate attempt to stigmatise Africans all
over the world as AIDS carriers, there is no doubt that the mother continent is
being used as a laboratory of the Western nations. As pointed out earlier, this
disease was not and is still not a natural disease. It was manufactured in the
laboratory in the United States! It could only affect the areas on which it is
afflicted. The place they have chosen to inflict this one is Africa. And the
people they have chosen as guinea pigs are Africans at home and in Diaspora.
It
now behooves on African leaders to look for ways to protect the bodies and
minds of their people from scientific and technological colonisation. It is
their duty to devise means to clean up Africa metaphorically and physically. It
is their responsibility to reject the stigma on their continent and their
people. They have to rally round to prevent their people from being used as
guinea pigs.
The
United States and Europe have no iota of love for Africa and her children. They
have exploited Africa's human and natural resources for centuries mercilessly.
The only time they would ever give the continent a wry smile is if there is
something to gain. If African leaders receive help from Western nations, they
need to be more circumspective. And if the United Nations is in the forefront,
they need to exercise caution. Nothing is more destructive than "Greek
Gifts." By now, this should not be a secret. We have no choice but to be
the captains of our own souls, holding our destinies in our hands. Africa's
salvation could only come from within.
God
bless Mama Africa!
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BIOS – Remi Oyeyemi:
Email: remyhoyes@aol.com
Recent Articles : http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/oyeyemi/articles.html
In the last seventeen years, Remi Oyeyemi has been actively involved in journalism in many
capacities. He was the founding Assistant Editor of the P.M. News, Lagos
in which he maintained a column Politics Nigeriana, which was a
thorn in the flesh of the Sani Abacha dictatorship.
He also wrote for TheNews and TEMPO
magazines in Lagos; Nigerian Tribune and Daily Sketch, both in
Ibadan; Triumph, Kano; Bencorps, Makurdi and has contributed
OP-ED materials to The Guardian, The Punch, and the Daily Times.
In the United States he has written for the Southeast Missourian, a
politically influential newspaper in the State of Missouri as a Guest Columnist
and a string of African publications in the American NorthEast. He was also the
founding Editor of the New York based pro-democracy medium Democrat-In-Exile.
Oyeyemi was the Assistant National
Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (1992-1993); Founding Secretary,
League of Democratic Journalists (1995) and Chairman, Oyo State Sports Writers
Association's Disciplinary Committee (1995). In 1990, the Nigerian Union of
Journalists (Oyo State Council) named him the Best Investigative Journalist. He
received the GSE award of the Rotary International in 1991 and in 1993 was
listed in "Who is Who" of the Nigerian media world.
A member of the Nigeria Institute of
Public Relations (NIPR), he was a media resource consultant to many advertising
and public relation companies between 1990 and 1995. Between 1991 and 1993,
Oyeyemi was the Director of Media Affairs (West) for the Shehu Musa Yar'Adua
Presidential Campaign and later Personal Press Assistant to then Presidential
Aspirant for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who is
now the Nigerian Vice President.
He was declared wanted by the Abacha
regime that was desperate to host the World Cup Soccer competition in 1995
following his Exclusive Report on the outbreak of Typhoid in Ibadan in TEMPO
magazine.
He fled Nigeria few days after the murder
of Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 to the United States. He became the foreign
correspondent to the Nigerian Tribune reporting from the NorthEast America and
the United Nations. His exclusive political stories from New York made the
Nigerian Tribune best selling newspaper in Nigeria between 1995 and 1998.
Oyeyemi testified against the Abacha
dictatorship at the New York City Council hearing on human rights abuse in late
in 1995 and in May 1996, at the Senator Kassenbaum inspired US Senate hearings
on the same subject in Washington D.C. He later served as the Media Affairs
Director of the New York based United Committee to Save Nigeria.
Oyeyemi who has been published in several
anthologies including Amidst the Splendor, Tranquil Rains of Summer and America
at the Millenium is also the author of Songs From Exile, a poetic
commentary on the Nigerian political events of the 1990s. He is one of the "Outstanding
Poets of 1998" selected and published by US National Library of
Poetry. A member of International Society of Poets, he presently has a weekly
column "Echoes of Freedom" that comes out in the Saturday
Tribune in Nigeria.
He received a combined honours Bachelor of
Arts degree in History and Political Science from the great University of Ife
(now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, and Masters of Education Counseling
from Wilmington College, Wilmington, Delaware. He also has a Diploma in
Journalism from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos.
Oyeyemi who is presently the Chief
Consultant of Mount Zion Mental and Behavioral Health Services is a member of
American Counseling Association. He is married with children.
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