Robben Island

By Chinedu Ahaiwe

It was not a sheer coincidence that the Apartheid regime in South Africa collapsed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall represented the clear divide between the west and the east, and its fall meant a harmonization of both extremes, ushering in an environment of genuine peace and development for all humanity. It is then unfortunate that some persons want to take humanity through those tortuous paths again, as seen in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. The book traces the Journey of Mr. Mandela in prison and the suffering of the black community during the Apartheid regimea regime sustained by Western capitalists in their quest to silence a suspected or full-blown Communist agenda led by ANC and other freedom fighters.

Innocent human beings suffered while the war of ideologies lasted, and that is why this book is to remind us of the many sufferings humanity went through while the Cold War lasted and would want all to stand up and say no to these new attempts to rekindle that war by the Kremlin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Oct 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482804041

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CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

PROLOGUE

MR PUTIN AND INNOCENT BLOODS

The tragic shooting down of the Malaysian flight MH 17 on 17th July in the Russian backed Ukraine separatist rebels zone goes a long way to prove that Mr Vladmir Putin’s quest for power in the international corridors has gone awfully viral.

The passenger jet had two hundred and ninety eight people on board, these innocent lives were wasted because one man is power hungry and have also convinced his people that he was on the right track to protecting their national interest through military might.

Mr Putin has resorted to a high level of propaganda to muzzle the opposition lips and in the main fed the entire nation with his brand of nationalism which just recently saw the annexation of Crimea, a region in Ukraine; now he is on course to re –draw the Ukrainian map further by supporting separatist gangsters whose primary mission is to spit at the Ukrainian sovereignty.

These separatist gangsters or rebels had previously shot down Ukrainian fighter jets with the help of Russian supplied and manned surface to Air missiles; now in their bid to make that region un-governable these separatist shot down a passenger jet owned by Malaysian airline killing all the passengers and crew on board –what an achievement for Mr Putin. These innocent lives were gruesomely murdered courtesy to Mr Putin’s quest to revive the Russian nationalism en –route to re- capturing the old times when they once ruled as soviet war – lords. This desire to re-ignite the soviet empire is aptly responsible to the deaths in Syria, a country torn apart by war since 2011 and Mr Putin had chosen to support a man called Bashir Al –Assad who arrogantly won an election for another seven year term. One wonders what manner of election that was, after, killing his people with sarin gas, fighter jets and all manners of dangerous weapons, the people still voted for such a fellow, these are sore points in Mr Putin’s mis –adverture in the international scene, but this kind of catastrophe can only be tolerated in an environment of strict policing and use of propaganda to confuse the entire populace. The Russians emerged from the cold war as a freed people, but from all indications that freedom has been stolen away from them by Mr Putin, who believes he loves them more than they could ever imagine, and that is the mindset of all dictactors. Maybe some Russians believe the man Putin has come to re-establish their pride in the committee of nations, but they must remember that men like Hitler et al, were not different in their outlook, they believed in their military might to restore the nation’s pride, but at the end, our common humanity suffered. Mr Putin will soon turn his weapons on the hapless Russian people after he must have wrecked enough havoc outside. The world of today pride in economic relevance than in military relevance, and this move by Mr Putin is an old beaten one that has no place in our modern times. The Syrians were the first on line, today it is these innocent passengers in the Malaysian MH17 flight; who knows the next casualties but it must be said boldly that Mr Putin’s foreign policy has gone awry and needs a second look by the man himself. Mr Putin as a former KGB man still relish the old times when the soviets had their tentangles all over the globe; from Afganistain, to Vietnam from Cuba to Argentina, and from Cairo to Cape Town but today all that is history, but we must tell ourselves the hard truth; that system failed because its economic policy where in-congruent with humanity. Humanity thrives best under the theory of excellence, and excellence has no limits, which the communist party tried to do by putting a ceiling to people’s energy through their formula of government control of resources/wealth and its subsequent distribution. The wealth of any nation must be in the hands of the people and they in turn pay taxes to the government that was the undoing of that policy, so the idea of re-inventing that formula is of no use, because that formula had seventy years to prove its inconsistency with the truth that rules amongst men.

Communism gave room for coupist to overthrow constituted authorities in order to impose a government controlled economy, this was seen in latin-central America, the entire African Landscape, but with all these like minded governments or economies, the system still failed but the experiment between USA, Japan, West Germany and South Korea, blossomed so much that are all are talking of collapsing their sovereignties in order to fuse their markets – think of European Union, African Union.

Economically speaking the communist experiment failed and no one is taking it out on the architects of that formula because they responded to a real enemy of man which was economic oppression by monarchs and exploiters. Maybe communism would have been fine-tuned to accommodate a free market which the