As a child growing up in Nigeria, I always admired Gadhafi and wished that he was a Nigerian leader.  I was too young to know the full magnitude of what he stood for, but unlike Shagari, Buhari, Babangida, and Abacha (former leaders of Nigeria in the 1980s-90s); he appeared to be a man filled with confidence, courage, determination, and the pride as well as joy of success.  He appeared to be God-sent and acted like the King of Africa.  I always admired how his Africanized attire looked on his skin and the pride in which he wore it.  As a little boy, I understood without knowing the political and economics situations of the world that Gadhafi was going to be a global force to reckon with and was also going to be the symbol of African power whether we liked it or not. 

As a child, I heard of how Gadhafi drew water out of the desert for his people and the improved the Libyan economy against the advice of the world powers who thought his effort was an impossible task.  I actually remember how he stood his ground against the United States and President Reagan.  I was proud and I could not believe it that an African leader and an African nation could talk back to America and America actually felt that it is a force to contend with even to this day.  Despite the fact that he was an Arab-African, I took him as my own because it was obvious to me then that our Nigerian leaders lacked the drive and essentials of leadership.  He even started making Libya technologically advanced and stated talking about nuclear and weapons of mass destruction, but in Nigeria, there was not and there is still no light.  In 2009, we are still talking about private generators and half-current. 

Now that I am a little older and wiser, and I now understand the bigger picture of the world’s affairs as it relates to Africa, I believe that Gadhafi, with the assistance or passivism of Nigeria, is a disaster to Africa and our children.  Gadhafi is actually the new and extensive representation of Arabic colonization of Africa in the mental and economic age of globalization.  The first form of Arab colonization came with the fear of the sword on fast moving horse backs, and selling your soul to the Koran and to Mecca, but the new form of Arab colonization is going to be in form of friendship, economic gifts, and African Unity.   

Arabs have always wanted all of Africa as their Islamic foot mat, but it has Christianity and now, Pan-Africanism to contend with.  Their first raid on Africa was almost successful.  They pushed Africans out of Israel, the entire North Africa, and sent their black converted slaves, who chose the Koran rather than death, to march through West Africa to hold other Africans captives for Arab expansion.  A lot of West African empires, like Ghana and the Hausa States, fell badly.  They even pushed the Yorubas in Nigeria south and westward.  Invading Arabs and their African slaves took most of Western Africa and established their form of leadership on behalf of Mecca and not Africa, except in the extreme south of the region.  This move, that involves Arabic African slaves killing and ruling Africans for their Arab masters, has been what has consumed the godly and progressive souls of Africa to this day.   

One of the biggest setbacks for the African slaves of Islam against their own blood was the battle at Auchi (North of Edo State), where the grand Edo army fought the Muslim invaders to a standstill.  This prevented the spread of the enslaving Islam through Bendel, the Delta, Igbo land, and into central Africa in full force. Nigerian educational systems always hide this fact because they do not want Africans to be emboldened against Islam.   They taught us that the reason Islam did not take all of Nigeria and the whole of West Africa is because the Muslim horses and camels could not survive the tse-tse flies.  Rubbish!!!!  Even if it was true, is the environment not also a factor in wars?  Were the Africans supposed to kill the flies to aid their horses or even multiply the flies artificially (biological warfare)?  The Muslim African slaves were beaten back by Africans and could not form the necessary bridge they wanted to join the Islamic culture that was already established in East Africa.  This is what they regret and the Arabs are using Gadhafi to make up for it in the modern era.   

As a Nigerian Pan-Africanist, what bothers me most is Nigeria’s attitude towards the powerful Gadhafi, African slavery all over North Africa to this day, the creation of Eritrea from Ethiopia, the continuous destruction of African history in Egypt, our silence about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and now, the mass murder of Africans in Darfur in Sudan by Arabic African slaves.  Why would Nigeria, the so called Giant of Africa and the pride and hope of the Black race, just sit back and watch?  A nation cannot just survive on oil alone.  What about military, economic, and political relevance?  Whenever there is a problem anywhere in the world, America goes there to establish a military base in the name of freedom.  They do not only have a military presence, they also gather information and make agreements for trade, help to maintain order for their interest, and also help to promote American influence in the area.  Nigeria with its population and military can do the exact same thing all over West and North Africa to enhance Nigeria as a nation and promote the respectability of the Black race around the world.  But will Nigeria ever do this especially under Islamic leadership?  NEVER and I will tell you why. 

Europe and Arabs see Africa as their consumer market.  This means Africa has to be unproductive and rely on their products for survival.  This is why our infrastructures must be broken down and our children live a life of importation of foreign goods and the inflation of their prices to reduce our economic might.  Europe does not mind an Islamic government hindering Africa as long as they do not become militant and disrupt their trade and flow of resources.  Arabs want every African to be a Muslim, not because they want us to get closer to God, but because they will have the biggest market share and land in the world.  Africa is a battle ground of external ideas and forces, but Africans must be kept under-developed so that they only worry about survival.   

This is the scramble between Europeans and Arabs for Africa, which is based solely on their necessity for Islamic leadership in Africa.  The Arabs want full Islamic control of Africa, but the Europeans know that if this happens that the Arabs will close the African market to them.  The Europeans need Islamic rule in some parts of Africa to keep the Africans down for their benefit.  The last thing the foreign colonizers want is a non-Islamic and educated government in Africa ruling for African interests.  This is because if Africa becomes independent, the European and Arab civilizations will fall within a decade.  So Islamic rule is mandatory in Africa for their survival and it must maintain Africans as their consumers. 

If Nigeria elects good leaders and it becomes a global force, it will not only stop the spread of Arabic Islam, but also the importation of non-African goods into the Black world.  Global economist understand that if Nigeria become an industrialized and manufacturing giant like it was expected to be decades ago that the entire Africa and Caribbean would dump western goods for Nigeria products.  This is because the Black world loves Nigeria and they see us as their economic hope, only that we have failed to live up to expectation.  To the colonizers, the last colonized country in Africa that must be free of Islamic leadership is Nigeria, if they are to maintain Africa and the Caribbean as there consumer base. 

It is very clear to me by the attitude of the Islamic leadership in Nigeria that they are in bed with Gadhafi’s Islamization of Africa through the African Union.  Nigerian leaders pretend not to mind Gadhafi or act like we all should ignore him.  They do this not to wake the anger of the Christian south against Islam.  While they think we are stupid, Gadhafi is quietly using his money, eloquence, and influence to sway the poorer and weaker African nations to his side right under the nose of Nigeria, which he publicly calls the “big for nothing giant”.  Gadhafi insults and degrades Nigeria publicly because he knows that Islamic Nigeria can’t stand up to him or even a common Arab as his religious subjects.  He comes to Nigeria when he pleases, dictates how he is coming, puts his submarine in Nigerian waters for months undetected, and bring hundreds of guards and press whenever he come to Nigeria.  This is part of the Islamic strategic, which the Nigerian Islamic leadership is aware of, to convince Africa at large that their Black Giant (Nigeria) can’t withstand the new change coming – African Union and Arabs rule to all of Africa.   

We survived European colonization, we prevented the Islamic bridge from Western to Eastern Africa, but if we let the Arabs and their Islamic African slaves succeed in their spread of Islam, then we can as well just give up our race and land to the devil.  All Africans must see to it that we always elect African leaders that put African interest before anything.  Also, all African Muslims must embrace Pan-Africanism and a God of unity and progress.  Islam was not, is not, and will never be for the African.  The power the Arabs and Gadhafi have is solely based on the existence of African Muslims.  This is not a message of hate or a message of anger.  I am simply saying Islam has done nothing good for Africa to this day, except enslaved us and made us unproductive for Arab and European domination.  If you choose to be a practicing Muslim, you can either go leave in Arab land or stay out of African leadership.  Salt water and fresh water never comes out of the same source.  The freedom of God and the bondage of the man are consistently parallel.   African pride and success has nothing to do with Arabic Islam.  Never try to separate a religion from its founders. 

Reference: 

Arabs in Africa (A must read for all who love Africa): http://edofolks.com/html/arabs_in_africa.htm