Where Is African Presidential Diplomacy To Save South Sudan?

Saturday, April 26, 2014 - 19:37 -- BY KOIGI WAMWERE
About two weeks ago, African and world leaders gathered in Rwanda to
say "never again" to genocide in Rwanda. Apparently, however, African
leaders were saying this with their tongues in the cheek.
Barely two weeks after the Rwanda genocide memorial, another horrific
genocide is unfolding in Southern Sudan, already embroiled in an
ethnic civil war whose causes are corruption and ethnic discrimination
fuelled by negative ethnicity.
That negative ethnicity and corruption are igniting conflicts all over
Africa means Africans are learning nothing from horrors of genocide
and poverty.
Worse, many African and foreign "experts" are denying conflict in
Southern Sudan is driven by negative ethnicity. Instead, they claim
the unfolding genocide is fuelled by revenge which they disassociate
from negative ethnicity.
But when somebody who is Nuer is killed by a Dinka and is revenged by
killing, not the specific Dinka who killed the Nuer, but any Dinka,
then that revenge is driven by negative ethnicity that motors
genocide.
Tragically, Southern Sudan is not the only African country that is
ravaged by genocide. Most African countries are dying from silent,
unspoken about and stealthy genocides which nobody protests.
Even when a stealthy genocide transforms into a gargantuan killer of
hundreds of thousands, those slowly dying from the genocidal glacier
are already too numb to protest. They just watch and wait to be
consumed by it.
Yet Africans are not dying from genocides because they love them but
because they are already hypnotised by negative ethnicity that feeds
them to the fires of genocide, when they are too numb to free
themselves.
Not surprisingly, we hate being hated. But we love hating others and
so much so that we would rather die than love somebody from an enemy
community. And as we love hating others, we also love killing them.
Because they help us get rid of our ethnic enemies, we love our
horrific genocides and don't understand when the rest of the world
protests against them.
But Africans don't just hate Africans from other ethnic communities
without a cause. They are driven to hate other Africans by negative
ethnicity that pretends to transform ethnic hate into a tool of
liberating individuals and communities alike.
Unfortunately, to protect capitalism, we have killed class ideology
and replaced it with negative ethnicity that sanitises ethnic ticks
that in turn glorify and propagate it as an ideology of liberating
communities.
Architects of Cold War killed class ideology and forced people to
embrace negative ethnicity as an ideology of fighting for collective
interests. But if people could not be classes, they willingly became
communities.
With all the benefits of helping leaders to come to power, people are
also aware that negative ethnicity imposes on society terrible
consequences like genocide. Yet it is so addictive and hypnotizing
that people can hardly give it up.
In Southern Sudan, negative ethnicity is not fought because it is
denied. Now it is fuelling genocide even as the whole world watches.
Negative ethnicity is also not fought because it is the ladder that
leaders climb to power. Hence, no country in Africa is fighting
negative ethnicity. Even in Rwanda, Tutsi superiority has only
replaced Hutu superiority.
Sometime there was hope that Africa could escape the scourges of
negative ethnicity because the youth were unaffected by it.
Unfortunately, champions of negative ethnicity must have realized this
and made sure that they infected the youth with their leprosy of
ethnic hate. Right now, the youth are stronger supporters of negative
ethnicity that older people. This is why there is so little hope for
Africa's future.
Despite their superior education, Kenyan and African youth are worse
victims of negative ethnicity than older people because they are
greedier and will embrace any monster that promises them money. Yet
negative ethnicity promises the youth jobs, power and money, even if
it delivers them on a platter of ethnic hate.
Hitler was brought to power by the power of racism and anti-Semitism,
twin sisters of negative ethnicity. Fortunately Europe has learnt its
lesson from the Holocaust. Africa has suffered genocides in Rwanda,
Darfur, Biafra and Congo but has learnt nothing from them.
Genocide is unfolding in Southern Sudan. Yet we are so eager to
condemn its massacres but reluctant to fight and educate the world
against negative ethnicity that we must nip in the bud to save
Southern Sudan from genocide.
Is power so important that African leaders are willing to kill their
people by millions just to get it? Is either President Salva Kiir of
Southern Sudan or rebel leader Riek Machar so important that millions
of Southern Sudanese will perish for either of them to get power?
Negative ethnicity has completely distorted our thinking.
Negative ethnicity, the mother of genocide is not a creation of God
but the devil. And for their sins of ommission and commission, all
Africans are to blame for the genocide that is now unfolding in
Southern Sudan.
For Africa that was only recently embroiled in presidential diplomacy
to rescue African leaders from ICC, it is disappointing that there is
not even ministerial diplomacy to save Southern Sudan from genocide.
Unless they renounce their evil adherence to negative ethnicity and
genocide for power, Africans will burn in the hottest fire of hell.
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