Granzi
20-06-2007, 03:32
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Official Communiqué
The Foreign Ministry
TO: Governments of All African Nations
RE: Pan-Africa Coalition
My fellow African leaders,
I come before you today with ill tidings. Hostile imperialist powers, led by the nations of Futuris and Shakal, have begun the slow but inexorable process of integrating African lands. Our very ways of life are under threat. If we are not careful, then we stand doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, when the European powers took advantage of African disunity to dismember our continent. What followed was nothing less than total war spanning over the next two centuries. The collective African culture was the target of ruthless extermination. When we tried to resist, the colonizers burnt our villages, ransacked our lands, and destroyed our crops. We lost our freedoms and in doing so, became less than human beings.
Will you stand by and allow Africa to come under assault once more? Not I! If there was one benefit to the age of imperialism, it that we Africans had the opportunity to learn European methods. We gained guns and gunpowder, with which we drove out these vile overlords. We made these technologies our own, and we turned them against the imperialists. Africa changed from a continent of fragmented villages to one whose future has never before seemed brighter. Yet everything we have worked to build in the years since is under threat by this great menace, so we must use every weapon in our arsenal to combat it.
I invite your government to come to the Lagos Conference, to be held in the capital of the Commonwealth of West African States. Together, we can cooperate in our effects to expel the treacherous Europeans. Together, we stand strong and united in defense of our homelands. Together, we shall triumph!
Sotu Idoumya
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Official Communiqué
The Foreign Ministry
TO: Governments of All African Nations
RE: Pan-Africa Coalition
My fellow African leaders,
I come before you today with ill tidings. Hostile imperialist powers, led by the nations of Futuris and Shakal, have begun the slow but inexorable process of integrating African lands. Our very ways of life are under threat. If we are not careful, then we stand doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, when the European powers took advantage of African disunity to dismember our continent. What followed was nothing less than total war spanning over the next two centuries. The collective African culture was the target of ruthless extermination. When we tried to resist, the colonizers burnt our villages, ransacked our lands, and destroyed our crops. We lost our freedoms and in doing so, became less than human beings.
Will you stand by and allow Africa to come under assault once more? Not I! If there was one benefit to the age of imperialism, it that we Africans had the opportunity to learn European methods. We gained guns and gunpowder, with which we drove out these vile overlords. We made these technologies our own, and we turned them against the imperialists. Africa changed from a continent of fragmented villages to one whose future has never before seemed brighter. Yet everything we have worked to build in the years since is under threat by this great menace, so we must use every weapon in our arsenal to combat it.
I invite your government to come to the Lagos Conference, to be held in the capital of the Commonwealth of West African States. Together, we can cooperate in our effects to expel the treacherous Europeans. Together, we stand strong and united in defense of our homelands. Together, we shall triumph!
Sotu Idoumya
Minister of Foreign Affairs