“To understand beyond a limited historical epoch, we must step beyond its limits, and compare it with other historical epochs”, Karl Marx, Secret Diplomatic History
It is fitting and proper for us in Africa to loudly and unreservedly proclaim our stand for world peace and mutual prosperity. Africa must not allow itself to be drawn into the dark and terrible abyss of endless conflicts and misery that have become the hallmarks of big power rivalries for the past two hundred years or so.
Between 1939 and 1945, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the other hapless countries of Eastern Europe, were laid prostrate and faced the distinct possibility of being wiped off the map and depopulated completely, a fate that they were to share with Russia.
This Dantean world of man’s inhumanity to man, was nurtured by philosophies conceived in Europe, by Europeans and from Europe it spread its malignant terror around the world, to engulf virtually all the continents. To this day, the experiences of entire nations are narrated in accordance with their proximity to the World War and its impacts on their collective memories.