Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 00:24:11 +0200
Africa: Why are they so Silent?
By: <http://www.siliconafrica.com/author/admin/> Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
Mon May 5th, 2014 at 9:12 pm.
Do you know why successful African professionals, intellectuals and
officials in high positions never take part or engage in debate regarding
Africa liberation from western domination and predatory capitalism?
The answer is simple. Most of them are bounded by something called "duty of
reserve".
As a majority of them work for International organizations like the UN
system apparatus (Unicef, Undp, Who, .), EU/USA funded organizations,
International NGOs and corporations; they are required to sign contracts
which always include a term called "duty of reserve".
The moment they are signing the contract, most of them are not aware of the
real implication of it, but soon after the HR would get them the details of
what it means.
The "duty of reserve" means "Shut up, even if it hurts. Shut up even if you
have seen bad things. Don't say anything you are not officially allowed to
say."
The loud silence of so many well trained, well educated, and capable sons of
Africa in front of unspeakable injustice and crime ongoing on the continent
is the result of the so well crafted "duty of reserve".
In private these people will express their anger, their frustration, and
their despair, but will get up at 7am every morning and dress up to go to
work for the same organizations which are undermining or destroying their
home country.
Using NGOs, Scholarship, Rotary Clubs, Lions Club, Freemasons lodges, Aid,
Awards, and other well known vanity and ego boosting schemes, the West has
succeeded to completely domesticate the african elite.
Lions without teeth, Eagles without beak, they crave the approval of the
same people who are undermining hope on the continent. If you ask them the
hard questions, they mumble and call for "being realistic".
I've worked 9 years for International organizations, and for an African who
unconditionally love the continent, those 9 years were very hard,
emotionally and physically, but I've been privileged with rare opportunities
to observe and study the working of those organizations from the inside.
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