By Adama Makasuba
Honorable Sidia Jatta has called for absolute liberation of Africa during a session of Pan African Parliament, where lawmakers from 54 Africa countries converged to hold an election for the continents law-making institution in South Africa.
Honorable Jatta, who doubles as the president of the institution also known as Africa Parliament told his colleagues that they must ensure that the institution takes the lead to unifying the continent.
“One answer as far as I am concern is disunity. What is happening today this institution is supposed to be the symbol of the unity of the African continent. But is it? No, it isn’t. If it is, we would have been far from where we are today in this institution,” he said.
“It means that we still have to struggle to come together. We still have to struggle to understand each other. We still have to struggle to share our values to see ourselves in everything African. For me the final phase of Africa’s struggle is still to be fought that is, we have to be liberated. We are not,” he added.
Meanwhile, he said: “But the question I want to ask is why is Africa the richest continent in the world I would say in every term. Even in term of water. Why is Africa the poorest? Why [are] our people the wretched of the earth?”
He cited one reason that (why) Africa lacks of liberation is the use of colonial languages, saying “these are the languages that were used to colonise us and these are the languages that were used to tell us that we have no languages.”
“European philosophers have prophesized on the fact that we African don’t have languages. We have bubbles. They call them bubbles,” he told the parliament.