If our universe burst
into being 13.8 billion years ago, our own earth came into being some 4.5
billion years ago and life started ticking about 4 billion years ago, mankind
started off from the African continent only about a few lakh years ago. That’s why we always refer to the Dark continent as the Cradle of Humanity with reverence.
We owe a lot to our great ancestors in the African jungles and even more to our
own current cousins still resident there. But what have we done to the
continent in return?
African continent is
home to about 15% of the world’s population and it is more than a billion. It
has more than 50 separate nations in its fold. All put together, barely 20% of
the human beings in the entire Mother continent enjoy a decent living. The rest
are submersed in poverty and utter misery. It is always true that movement is
directly related to development and prosperity. Those people who have emigrated
from the African continent in the past have developed into more prosperous
nations and people. Asians have developed much more and Europeans &
Americans have progressed much. Is lack of movement the single reason for
African misery? No.
Africa’s curse can be easily
attributed to the outright rivalry between two of the Semitic religions that
have brought only negativity in the entire world. In their eagerness to
increase their numbers, perhaps to impress their own respective Gods, the
European Missionaries and Arabian Mullahs have indulged in rampant religious
conversion by their tools of imperialism, coercion, violence and false promises
of salvation. Their objectives lies only in religious conversion and not in
sharing their wealth and affection with the newly converted. The net result has
been utter poverty and misery for the entire continent.
There are lessons for
Asian continent from this. During the turn of the twenty first century, the Christian Pope
had declared that their next target is Asia. The sudden emergence of Petro-rich
nations have also energised the Mullahs for capturing Asia. The entire Indian
sub-continent is currently the focus of organised religious conversion by the
Missionaries and Mullahs. If Asians do not learn from the African catastrophe,
the same fate awaits Asia.
