
STEPHEN A. answered 04/05/22
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As an African ruler during an era of European encroachment on the traditional territories of my people, it is important to adopt new ideas, strategies, and policies, both military and economic. First, diplomatic and economic efforts will be employed to the best of our ability; this will require translators and Europeans sympathetic to the cause of maintaining our independence. The advantages of maintaining open trade relations between independent nations will be stressed over the advantages of a hostile takeover. If peaceful methods fail, then it is necessary to resort to violent resistance. This will require a military buildup but not necessarily the adoption of Western military methods. For example, King Shaka of the Zulu was able to unite the disparate Zulu tribes of southern Africa into an empire using novel methods completely of indigenous invention, including the invention of a short stabbing spear with a broad blade, ingenious encirclement tactics, and guerrilla-style warfare. However, eschewing traditional warfare will be necessary to stop the European advance. After military gains are made, European weapons such as the rifle may be adopted. In order to gain legitimacy on the global stage, after military victories are achieved, the leaders of independent African nations must unfortunately adopt Western dress, manners, and customs, preferably those of a strong European general, as was done by King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, who maintained Ethiopia's independence and was instrumental in Ethiopia's recognition as a sovereign nation by the international community. Independence and rejection of colonization will be sought at all costs because the horrors of forced colonization, such as slavery, forced labor, resource exploitation, and imperial domination by Europeans are self-evident truths. The atrocities committed in the Belgian Congo, a personal fiefdom of the King of Belgium, such as the chopping off of the hands of ostensibly free African laborers, has scandalized even the Western public. The desire to "civilize" Africa and aid it in attaining the standards of Western civilization are merely narratives meant to serve the imperialist ambitions of the Europeans.