Postmodernism in Africa: The Utopic and Dystopic Mix in Myopic

Humanism, Fascism and Stupidity.

By Olarotimi Olakunle Onayemi,

Editor, The Free World Review and Times Publications, London

Correspondent in The United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

Welcome!
I assume that all things should go on for the good of the masses, the elite have will
always take care of themselves.

A walk downtown or through the ghetto anywhere in Africa and its islands; the suburbs or
government reserved areas; campings or farmyards will show a particular tendency for
‘the beautiful mind’ in John Nash, Nobel economist or Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate to
propose a suitable economic and social program designed to evoke a sustainably
developing lifestyle, since humanity is their watchword.

Modernity on this planet is a farce and committed to supporting it’s genesis and
metamorphosis as well as being determined to ‘school’ whoever that the EU, US, G20
countries etc are as underdeveloped as Togo or Congo; Tahiti or Haiti.

This work confirms the fact that an analysis of popular history as ‘recited’ in ‘grapevines’
by The People WorldWide is more accurate than what the United Nations, governments,
academics and writers tell you, at least, the ones ‘related’ by ‘people who know’
according to the everlasting Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (1938-1997, Nigerian, Abeokuta
Grammar School and Oxford-educated pianist, saxophonist, in fact, multi-instrumentalist;
also a Black Panthers-schooled social activist and proponent of the legalization of grass.)

In my opinion, (it’s too early to call the world modern: the world is still ridden by racism,
judgement of other races based on intuition, ignorance, illiteracy, propaganda, poverty,
financal insecurity, war, relative-peace, unemployment, curable diseases, {incurable
diseases are, ok, incurable for now}, injustice, inequality, wickedness, oppression,
torture, sexual harrassment of students and other people or races, gangs, kings and
queens with no rights in a republic or a confederation, etc.), these and more are what I
consider to have been gathered in my short life, 41 years, from Ijebu-Ode Grammar
School; - where I was in the theatre group and was impressed by ‘Wole Soyinka stories
and plays, especially ‘The Guerilla Theatre’ and the music of Fela Kuti.

It continued at The Polytechnic, Ibadan where I could say I gained ideas but decided not
to be involved in any students’ association – not even the Palmwine Drinkards, Tea Club
and Bacchus, all of which I was fond of – and I’d wanted to start one called Obatala or
Gambrinus; to idolize the Yoruba God who made Ogogoro before moulding people and
Gambrinus, the God of Beer. The Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, in 1989, where I
studied Finance and Banking but consider myself someone who can write and a master of
the encyclopaedia in my dreams was the turning point and I was invted to join The
Campus Union of Journalists when The Students’ Union Secretary of Information did not
agree to put my first-ever article on The Students’ Union Notice Board . The inconsistency
in services for students, electricity and water, gangs on campus, and a series of injustices
was the reason why I had decided to write an article to be read by all the students. I did
not consider it necessary to join The Campus Union of Journalists but that was the Union I
became a member of since I had been cst out by the Students’ Union.

Writing. Tens of thoudands of pages and still accumulating manuscripts- I felt I have to
add this, setting the records straight. I have had a working-tour of 25 countries in 13
years and have come to the conclusion that there was never anything ‘modern’ in the
world so far, which makes ‘post-modernism’ the fray of con-artists posing as academics in
universities, magazines, publishing companies, bands, countrysides, countries, in the
global village, cyberspace etc.

If I have to propose the idolatric enshrinement of institutionalization in our constitution in

my work titled ‘Full-Employment and The Invention of Peace, Equal Rights and Justice’ –
then we are everything but modern in Africa and elsewhere. The Proof: That the
impossibility of full-employment is a myth since a high demand creates a high supply just
like excess bread in Lagos, excess DVDs in Hong Kong or excess Coca in Bolivia and
Afghanistan. So, people want jobs and it is the duty of the government running ‘this’
country to provide the jobs just as the Marshall Plan sponsored by the US helped Europe
recover from the devastating War*: authority must go hand-in-hand with responsibility. If
you can throw her in jail, you should also be ready to give her a job when she comes out
or give it to her so – whatever she needs – so we eradicate crime and juvenile
delinquency

*It wasn’t a Second World War Hitler’s Nazis, Fascists or National Socialists wanted to take over
Europe, simple, however, if it is, then the ones in Colombia, Viet Nam, Korea, ex-Yugoslavia, Congo,
Darfur and now, Iraq and Afghanistan are World Wars too.

I later sought to ‘canonize’ the rights and duties of the citizens of our global village in a
trilogy:
The Supa Dupa Human:
1. ‘The Democratic Machine’
2. ‘The Anarchist Machine’
and
3. The Creation of Paradise’
where I proved the importance of administering our world and monitoring people with
GPRS(?) which are obligatory, to be in everyone’s system till death. This will put away all
doubts about rebels, thieves, people or governments who aren’t doing what they should
be doing (to rest); no one can accuse you of what you did not do – goodbye to alibis and
we will know who carry out massacres if there wil ever be ‘two’ in The Phillipines or the
same old ‘one’ Nigeria, EU, UK again. People who kill wolves with a GPRS(?) and hang the
heads in their homes get caught easily, and so it will be for those who commit atrocities
against humanity.

Just as modern as a Madison Garden Party compared to the primitive Boston Tea Party,
that is my impession of the world when we use ‘The Democratic Machine’ I invented. The
constitution of the world including the rights, duties, benefits, all expenses-paid ‘trips’,
right to education and duty to work upon graduation if the citizen is fit, will propel the
world to a modern and matured anarchy where people know their rights and are
protected by it, not by some quasi-humanitarian aid organization indistinguishable from
the mafia, senator or president like we have in Haiti today. It’s time to spend the reserves
for the people after the earthquake; it’s time for Gaddafi to get modern and stop talking-
what is your right as leader of the revolution, what if I want to become the leader of the
revolution too? It’s time for Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma to remember that Nigeria was the
first country to create an official agency for the abolition of Apartheid and Africans are
being oppressed, tortured and killed in South Africa while the supporters of Apartheid stil
have the quasi-priviledge. Their oppressors seem to be more ‘modern’ in supporting
Apartheid than Nigeria which is now being portrayed as a developing country, to some
extent, until the grip of the elite, police, military, religious societies, and anti-African
grapevine in Africa and worldwide.

The concept of the least-developed country, developing country and developed country
‘assumed’ by the UN in it’s job descriptions and field reports is a preposterous
miscarriage of the truth which we are ‘used to’ now in Fiji vs. Australia, Honduras vs. The
World (when we can’t say “To hell Coup d’etat’ers, g oto tatters’; the US vs. Al Qaeda in
the holy war, which the US is fighting in against the world but peple don’t get it –
protecting your country from terrorists does not actually ‘equalize’ with having your
soldiers in mine – why not lt your soldiers do what they should do? Protecting your
country {and the funniest is North Korea, whose officials you do not address by saying or
using the word, ‘North Korea’, you have to say, ‘Your Country’. OK. My country, his
country, her country, ourcountry, I shit in your country is a perfect expression in A
Beginners’ English Lesson without Literature, but in modern times, it carries all the weight
of ‘World History To Date’ including your county, mounty, bounty, hounty hounty, canton,
manton, wanton, baston, canton or Dalton with a firm believe in The Big Bang and
Malthus, Keynes and Tobin Tax for A New Resource Allocation For World Modernization
per se… ha ha, I’m out of here My country want to do business with your country and I
have decided to invite 4 other countries to the meeting…}; Yar’Adua vs. Niger Delta
Rebels or erupting Religious fanatics; North Korea versus its people; Racism, Fascism,
Poverty, Unemployment, Injustice, Fraud, Ignorance, Effontery, Empty Pride, Visa-Free vs.
Visa-Less Passports, Reparations for Everyone as it was paid to The Jews - starting in
Congo, Russia, Viet Nam, US, Brazil, South Africa or Belgium etc.

Someone from the dream schol of thought may ‘wish’ to ‘tell’ ‘you’ that these visa-free
people travel by right and with cash, so do visa-less people, the differenes are not in th
constitution of their respective countries and the bi-lateral agreements signed by these
countries and more but the gegraphical area the ‘traveller’ or ‘victim’ is coming from:
remeber, anyone can get a bullet in the back of the head in ‘their’ country and ‘most
especially’ in visa-free country. Read ‘Ya Basta’ by Commander Marcos or listen to
Commandress Schizophrenia Simplex when she surrouned the prick of Societal Hardex.

A world where people die of hunger in the so-called developing and the developed
countries /Switzerland or Swaziland/ (countries are a farce, that’s another topic) and
where both the good and/or the bad country does not seem to have the ethics of conflict
resolution common in, for example, Yoruba history, The Aroko, a sign sent by one king to
another friendly or ‘enemitic’ king in order to understand the ways to continue the wild
monarchical party or at which war-front Obama must meet Osama and let’s call the duel
one shot or one strike: as Jon Stewart of ‘The Today Show’ invited Osama to the
basketball court near his house, another “Showdown in Little Tokyo” or an “Hell Raiser” in
this galaxy, being the biggest and known from the smallest area used to such conflicts –
bketballers carrying guns – but (Jon Stewart) immediately inviting the CIA (a joke) to
come and grab Osama on the next day. I think the CIA should grab Obama! Why? He’s
serving ‘their’ interestS. He won’t end-up like JFK. I’ll ask how long it takes Osama to
record a 5-minute tape and send it by a cosmopolitan camel to Al-Jazeera. Answer:
Minutes… but 3 weeks is a Sham and Shame and I give all the glory to Wham! Why? If
there as no break-up no one will forget the name of George Michael’s group ‘guy, as I do
now and conspiracy theories will miss a valuable song like ‘Careless Whispers’… what
20/20 Fission cannot do to you or the case at hand… conspiracy aganst the people… why
bomb a white plane when you can bomb a white house… attack on fascism takes time,
destroying it in ‘propaganda’ in ask Stalin.

On the other side, the list is endless, from the eternal illusion based on a providence
which did not construct any hut or house/palace in the world to protect people from the
vagaries of natural phenomena and disaters like rain or snow. The weather and the
situation will usher in borderline psychopathy, angels in the skies of hallucinogenic drugs-
infested brains preying on schizophrenic ideas coming out of the mouths which do not
notice the approaching Spine Flu in The Illegal Security Council of The United Nations and
The United Nations, The International Court of Justice, The African Union, The European
Union, Asia-Pacific Union, Organization of American States, The Non-Aligned Movement,
NATO, G20, NGOs, The World Economic Forum, The World Social Forum, Monarchists,
Remnants of Kings-Queens-Chiefs-Lords-Knights- Lodges-Free Masons, Anarchists,
Fascists, Conservatives, Puritans, Ideaists, Republicans, Democrats, Fundamentalists,
Envionm-entalists, Laughing Associations, Peper Soup Joint Talks, Social Activist My Ass,
Revolutionaries of Big-Small-Original & Fake Sizes, Drug Sugglers and Money Launderers,
They, We, You, Me, cannot come to terms with the simple metamorphosis of a primitive
world based on A Simple Case of Paradise Misconstrued into A Modern State.
Probably the best world I see that qualifies our observation of ‘the necessity for
modernity’ is The Global Village. That’s where we are and the town, city, metropolis,
cosmopolis, modern, more-modern, most-modern, ex-modern, ex-libris, modern libero-
connundri that can only be understood in their relation to the principle of propensity to
promote the dissolution or solve the problem of the common-man as Wihelm Reich wrote
in ‘Listen, Small Man’.
Before, a modern psychiatrist and psychanalyst will write a book with that title, then we
are missing something in civilization. A civilization which bails out banks and leave
oppressed regimes

BACK TO THE BASICS: The Birth of This Work

1. I was on facebook.com and had just added a friend. We were chatting and I proposed
an article on the myth of Utopia, Dystopia and Myopia in Post-Modernismetc for African
Spirits International.
2. What ‘gave birth’ to this topic is the continual ‘fucking’ of the truth and the, albeit,
humanistic conscience of the people by the governments, the African Union and the
academia in Africa: they believe that Africa had become modern and was undergoing a
post-modern phase. This is a delusion of the utmost effontery to the memries of all
Africans who fought for ‘modernization’ and ‘freedom’ from ‘colonial mentality’. Gwari,
Ijebu-Ode and Nekede are living examples of our conection to antiquity, moreso Ayangba
where electricity was lit in the 21st century.
3. There are communities without electricity, water, schools, universities, hospitals-
dispensaries-public health centres, not to talk of a universal health insurance schemes,
unemployment benefits, rural and urban housing plans, legal aid, social asistance,
unemplyment assistance, traffic rescue systems, temporary housing (not short time, 1
hour in hotel rooms for sexual gratification but a YMCA kind of place, free food kitchens or
sustainable human, animal or environmental development plan with logic in its title or
objective- to put all the world’s problems in one basket and carry it to the global village
through the cyberspace but there are terrorists on the way in Algeria, Morocco, Western
Sahara, Egypt, Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa Republic, Angola, Nigeria,
Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Mauritius, Mauritania, Comoros Islands,
Seychelles, Sudan-Darfur etc and you are so modern in the past.

Oh! African Union members, that in your post-modernity, you fly in an airplane to Saudi
Arabia for medical tests; that no one understands what ‘Wole Soyinka or Nelson Mandela
said, our heroes? My hero will have to support one man, one woman, one house, one job,
one alma mater, one health insurance, one trip around the global village with a visa-free
passport as the fake United Nations proposed in a resolution signed by all countries in
1964: That people basically have the right to live and work anywhere in the global village.
T’hell the Green Card Lottery!!! *When a resolution passes, it means all countries signed it but n a sick
UN soe countries will tell you that they are not signatories to this or that.

Oh really?
I can work on earth! Thank you, Moron Morozhoronhoroz!
I’m neither planning to work on Mars nor in Shock, Şokolokobangoşe!

Michel Foucault said many things, and that language was designed by the who spoke it in
order to prevent them from being oppressed and that it was designed to help them
oppress other people. That’s a valid quality of language.

“I should have known that” by Ken Saro-Wiwa’s character in Mr. B is a good qualifcation
for what I feel now, my mood.
She told me too: My heart.
We also sing and love with songs and language will propel us to modernity.
We are still in the middle-age.

When we become modern animals,

I’ll let you know.
People love travelling around the world
We all know our limits.
People are not civilized enough to forget what your fathers did:
Take war hostages and call them slaves in The United States.
The Apaches are coming to get you: See Palestine, New Mexico.
I want my land back!

Where you gonna go!

Where you gonna go!
To Post-Modernity, of course!

When we become modern animals, no one will write an article like mine- this one,
because it will be as clear to you as it is now, that you will never get a fair trial in
Johannesburg or Lumumbashi as long as Burantashi was socialized in a primitive society
where wealth, gold, a beautiful house, a nice, fast car, playing professional football,
acting in a serial comedy, owning a shop or kiosk, being a doctor, lawyer, engineer or
politician and lately an Okada rider for publc transportation purposes or bus
conductorship means an higher salary… we are in The Transition Period TO Modernity
that is why these professions or opportunities count… but where does it say that being
Mrs. Windsor or Mr. Abdullah is not enough and being replaced with the High title of
Queen and King means wisdom or modernity because of the tie you are living in which is
a simple ‘middle-age’.
3. Getting High, Getting There and The Impact of Amsterdam, The Netherlands on The
Achievement of Modernism: Lessons For Africa.
A change in landscape does not signify the birth of modernity and certainly not because
someone said it and others confirm that they heard it by supporting or arguing with him
about the efficacy of a world with a Queen in Buckingham and a Parliament in Whitehall.

Memories of Cromwell, Baudelaire, Kuti, Geronimo, Abu Jamal, Mesrin, Soyinka,

Keregbetu, Zapata, Chikaloon, Patagonia, Bahia, Bahasa, Ridjamiriril, Celtics, Saami, etc
linger on to show that if the confused United Nations= all countries think we still have to
talk about the supremacy of indigenous people, then what’s modern that’s modern in that
mode…

Since Africa, have failed along with the world to institute a modern community, we shall
take a look at some ideas ‘just’ like perfection around the world.
Maybe, this is premature, considering the progression of this work but some countries
have an elite who support the utopian myth while others embrace the dystopic myth.
Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon, Tosh, Marley, Toussaint and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti have spoken
for the eventual ‘christening’ of modernity but that call has yet to be heard, respected or
adhered to.

The Human Freedom Index, The Press Freedom Index, The Wikipedia, Your
Country’s Constitution, Art, Science, Dialectic, Intuition etc versus The Free
World Review, a literary review, an analysis of our freedom and bondage in
fiction and reality which I founded in Geneva, Switzerland and still edit.

Wikipedia must be out of its mind when it defines <postmodernism> like this:

Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself
refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the
following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used in
critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture,
cinema, journalism and design, as well as in marketing and business and in the
interpretation of history, law, culture and religion in the late 20th and early 21st
centuries.
Postmodernism is an aesthetic, literary, political or social philosophy, which was the basis
of the attempt to describe a condition, or a state of being, or something concerned with
changes to institutions and conditions (as in Giddens, 1990) as postmodernity. In other
words, postmodernism is the "cultural and intellectual phenomenon", especially since the
1920s' new movements in the arts, while postmodernity focuses on social and political
outworkings and innovations globally, especially since the 1960s in the West.
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary refers to postmodernism as "a style and concept
in the arts characterized by distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of
attention to conventions."[1]
The term postmodern is described by Merriam-Webster as meaning either "of, relating to,
or being an era after a modern one" or "of, relating to, or being any of various
movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to
traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and
absurdity (as in literature)", or finally "of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a
radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language".

- Culled from www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/postmodernism

Postmodernism is even more preposterous than ‘modern’ in the mouth and books of the
advocates of modernism. According to ‘wiki’ both have a literal definition, so we can
argue forever about their existence or non-existence in reality and in fables.

With Apartheid in South Africa and The North Africans holding their Maghreb Congress
while the South, East and West African countries having their own blocs; human rights
are still a long shot; freedom of expression still means the fear of the bullet; Murtala,
Sankara or Awojobi could only have been killd by maniacs and their states are more
engrossed in drug-induced manic depression when soldiers smoke weed and burn Fela’s
house where he fought for the right to keep it too; where the kings and queens hold the
fray over their local governments and magistrates; where governors rule like feudal lords;
where travelling at night is suicidal; where university students cannot hold a meeting;
where the state bought the union of journalists; where lynching is still fresh in
everybody’s mind…

Where our Nobel laureate must try as much as possible to be modern in fighting for the
right to food and food alone if democracy or modernity will eventually become
postmodernity in the distant future.

The following has been a cause for concern to me since 1995. It shows the extent to
which Non-African academics are ignorant of the facts as it relates to Africa. It’s not
suprising, seeing the wave of miscalculations that have plagued academic expression
since it’s so-called domination in ‘the eventual mix of ‘café talk and the subjects of
university thesis’ by the so-called ‘western thought’. Everliving Dr. Timothy Leary and ex-
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice won’t agree on the role the US must play in educating
its people and sticking to solving its own unique problems – ignorance, guns, mono-
linguality which is fast becoming illiteracy these days or equal to having only primary
school education – youdon’t seem o be waiting for everybody to learn your language
before they come to a coctail, barbecue, meet you in an airport, on the web, wait for a
translation of yourbok or utterances in our hyper-reality, not postmodern or modern
getting higher at a very fast pace Listen to Nazdrovie by Greta Gratos. (Nazdrovie, Cheers
in Polish)

I’m saying that a parallel school of thought exists in this world which could lead the world
to excellence on all fronts, at least, not one which ends up with a problematic about a
clear and holistic issue, even in the ‘morality’ of hallucinations: that ‘injustice’ is a form of
‘crime against humanity!’ being fought ‘tooth and nail’.

An academic from ‘Africa’ had engaged in a series of discussion with ‘western’ academics
and their folly is unlimited to their ignorance but spilled over into their so-called
professorship as they made a pretty mess of African history, current affairs, philosophy
and the modern-postmodern utopia, which I saw as an embarassment of intelligence.

TO BE CONTINUED