Fruit From British Empire

This blog pic represents before and after civilization. This banana family was on grocery store shelves. The plantain is from Guatemala, green banana from Costa Rica and the yellow one from Mexico.

Before civilization, Africa and other invaded continents picked berries, mango, pawpaw and other fruit wherever they were e.g. fetching water or hunting. Nobody owned it. If you go to rural Africa today, you’ll enter family compounds with pawpaw and banana trees. Families do not go to Safeway or Walmart to buy what is now called tropical fruit.

Free meat, fruit, water, furniture? European invaders regarded it as the height of stupidity because they came from poor countries where everything has a price.

They came with ‘civilization’ another word for attaching a price to everything. The Queen and other colonizers took over the land and divided it into residential and commercial property.

The blog photo has a can of baked beans. What Africans used to farm on their land, was locked in a can, and Africans had to buy it with money that has photos of European royalty. But they didn’t have money. That is why they went to cities to work as servants, miners and policemen.

It is in this historical context we must look at ‘starving’ African children advertised by organizations like World Vision. The photos have improved over the years, due to protest about the depiction that poverty is an in-born African trait, when it is a result of land theft that commercialized nature’s gifts.

The pillage continues because G7 countries mine platinum and other natural resources but, pay workers in local currency, with monthly wages equivalent to what you pay to have your car washed in Washington D.C.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.