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Atila Sinke Guimarães
WHAT LEO DID NOT SEE & SAY IN AFRICA – Some few considerations follow regarding the trip that Pope Leo XIV recently made to Africa.

Mentor

Mentor forming Telemachus
in the absence of Ulysses

If someone were to publicly spread the idea that the government of nations should be handed over to high schoolers, he would be considered crazy or put in jail. The reason is obvious: Teenagers are still in an early learning stage of life and need to reach maturity of judgment before they are able to govern themselves and others. A nation governed by teenagers would be doomed to failure.

For an analogous reason, in civilized nations the legal decisions made by minors are not accountable before the law. It is the father or guardian of a minor who is responsible for his conduct.

Habitually the law of nations considers that the age of majority – when a youth can be held responsible for himself – is 18 years old. Before this age the youth should be learning from others how to think, make decisions and act. Nothing is more normal; nothing is more reasonable; nothing is more helpful for the youth; nothing is more secure for society.

If a communist partisan were to address high school students and tell them that they are being oppressed by their parents who are “exploiting” them and that they need to “emancipate” themselves from such “slavery,” this man would be harming the common good. He would be promoting “class struggle” to poison the good order of society.

Colonialism: Two faces of the coin

This metaphor of corrupting high schoolers is precisely what happened in Africa in the ‘50s and ‘60s with the Movement of the Emancipation of the Peoples. The Revolution artificially tolled the death bell to the dominance of European countries over their colonies in Africa.

Che Guevara in Africa

Che Guevara teaching guerilla tactics in Africa: top, 1964 in Tanzania; bottom, 1965 in the Congo

Under various pretexts, depending on the local religious and cultural differences, communists established “class struggle” between the blacks and the whites under the sometimes real but mostly fictitious pretext that the former were being oppressed and exploited by the latter.

The same Revolution that instigated those subjects to rebel against their natural mentors, spread among the latter that it was “shameful” to have colonies. So, we have seen the governments of France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands be overcome by an otherwise inexplicable human respect to have colonies and defend them against those communist subversives.

Remarkable also was the silence of the Catholic Church, who watched the entire process developing under her eyes and said nothing to prevent it from destroying that natural status quo.

So, the result was that Colonialism ended, and the African and European Continents breathed a sigh of relief as if they had been freed from leprosy. Actually, they left without completing in those colonies the necessary stage of formation that would naturally end when they were able to govern themselves. This represents an enormous gap in the picture. Africa was still in its high school period, not yet in its adulthood. This gap is the most important realpolitik factor in its social-political panorama.

Certainly, that premature “liberation” benefited the communists and socialists who were its inspirers, and it greatly harmed both the black people of the colonies and the white people of the metropolises.

The reality that we are witnessing in Africa – after decades of those “emancipations” until today – is the same type of chaos that would be produced if teenagers were allowed to govern those peoples. We have seen a constant change of regimes and names of countries, great political instability, frequent coup d’états, endemic civil wars and nonstop mutual invasions. All of this was moved by a wild thirst for power, greed and corruption, and performed in a cacophony of barbaric violence spiced with Moslem fanaticism and communist hatred.

This is the background of the African reality that neither Leo XIV nor the other conciliar Popes took into consideration or tried to resolve on their trips to Africa. To treat those teenagers as responsible adults is to be complicit in their crimes.

A de facto Neo-Colonialism

New communist colonialism

The conciliar Popes turn a blind-eye to the communist New Colonialism being established in Africa

Although in the West it is not beautiful to speak of this gap – anyone who does so runs the risk of being labeled “discriminatory” against the black people, when the reality is the opposite – there are some who are taking it into the highest consideration. They are agents of the two more powerful communist countries in the world: China and Russia.

While the heads of the European countries compete in begging pardon for whatever wrongdoings they supposedly did when they had African colonies, China and Russia are signing vital contracts with each of those “emancipated” countries. With these contracts China and Russia acquire the rights over their natural resources or entangle them in pharaonic projects for which they will need the communist help forever. In other words, China and Russia de facto are quickly becoming the new lords of Africa.

Thus, that Colonialism which was ugly and despicable when it was made by the West, now became beautiful and profitable when made by communists.

In the span of 60 or 70 years, Communism shifted the entire African Continent from the hands of the Europe into its own, as it created the general idea that it did a great good for the peoples of Africa in both phases of the process: the “liberation” and the “new enslavement.” It is undoubtedly an enormous lie, but a colossal victory of their psychological war against the West Civilization.

Why did all this happen? It is because Africa is still a teenager continent which needs mentors to form it until it becomes adult. The normal process of development was interrupted, and it became a tool in the hands of communists to promote the “emancipation” of those countries from their European custodians, and then to enslave them to China and Russia.

Why did Leo, Francis and the other conciliar Popes on their trips to Africa not see this gap and say something to turn that dear Continent in the right direction? Was it just ignorance or was it complicity with Communism?

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