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What is an African? Further, what is a White African? Do white Africans exist? It does depend whom you ask, there are those that believe that white African are all of European decent such as of Dutch, British, French, Portuguese, German, and to a lesser extent, Italian, Spanish, Austrian, Scandinavian, Greek, Lithuanian, Belgian, Swiss, and Irish ancestry, those descending of European heritage total today between seven to twelve million through out Africa. They arrived 200 to 400 years ago.
Then there are those that include the Berber people as well as the Tuareg and the Arab African of Northern Africa that are mostly in the following seven countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.
There are also other groups of White African that decent from The Semitic Phoenicians, the Iranian Alans, the European Greeks, Romans and the Germanic clan of the Vandals, Those arrived two Thousand years ago and settled mainly in North Africa, making up today’s African white population. Totalling between 208 million to 220 million people.
Berbers still make up the majority in Morocco today. Their name Berber was given by the Roman, meaning indigenous people, today we still use the word out of context as “Barbarian.”
We have to remember that Africa is a continent of 30,221,532 km2, divided into 53 countries with a total population of over one billion people, speaking over 2000 different languages such as Berber, Arabic, Igbo, Swahili, Hausa, Amharic, and Yoruba which are spoken by tens of millions of people.
It is also in Africa where the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) were found in Ethiopia being dated to ca. 200,000 years ago. Meaning that every human being can trace their roots back to Africa from where we all migrated around the globe and evolved into what we are today.
Today some, this especially in Zimbabwe, proclaim that there is no such a thing then a white African. This notion is gaining popularity, especially in the Eastern South African countries, where Zimbabwe leads the way with expropriating White African of their land and businesses to be given to Black African. In essence, there is nothing wrong with land and wealth redistribution, if such is required due to a social or prior racial injustice. The problem lies with the question of whether there are White Africans or not? If we say there are none then we strip over 200 million African of their rights as citizen and African.
All this still leaves out the Métis. Those African of mixed ethnicity that would have nowhere to go.
This illness or ethnical, religious and national divide is taking dangerous proportions and this not only in Zimbabwe. The same politics of hate and tendency toward ethnical cleansing can be observed in countries such as Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and Egypt. This either in the form of religious, ethnical, social or in some cases all of them together. I say ethnical and not racial, for there is only one human race and the term has been misused and abused for far to long.
Africa is not the only continent where this can be observed; the same would be true in the Middle East, in countries such as Israel, Lebanon and Yemen.
Even in modern Europe, the illness is still present in countries such as Italy, Spain, Serbia, Turkey and Poland.
What can be done to stop it and should we stop it?
It is vital to stop it, for it does have no limits, it does not stop with white African versus Black African, nor will it limit it self to Jews versus Muslim or European versus Asian… If this is allowed to persist or worth still, if it does expand, it will, lead us right back to another Holocaust.
If there are no White Africans, then they cannot be any Black European either, if there are no Muslim Israeli then they can not be any American Jews either, if there are no European Asian, then they can not be any Asian European either… In addition, all those of mixed ethnicity, religion or nationality such as my self would be in the worth of troubles since the Métis can claim to be anything and yet are nothing.
The irony of it all is that if we go back far enough in Human history and evolution then we are all East African from what is Ethiopia today. I do not think that Ethiopia would have room for seven billion refugees.
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