PART I: The Guiding Political Ideology of Africa Going Forward In The 21st Century: A Very Brief Summary Date of republication: 10 January, 2015 Place of Republication: El Paso, Texas Attention: The editorial and reportorial staff From: Mr. Chikeluba Kenechukwu 21st Century Christian Enlightenment Movement, 16420 Redwood Drive, Cerritos, Ca 90703 The United States ------------------------------------------------- Explanatory Note This press statement is a follow-up to previous press statements and books that I authored and sent to media houses across the world a few years ago regarding comprehensive constitutional reforms in the United States and other nations that will restore the collapsed moral and social order in the world. It may be necessary to recall the short titles of some of the books which contain details of these religious, constitutional, social, moral and economic reforms. They include: * Patriarchy Restored * Armageddon Prefigured * The Distinctives of Evangelical Patriarchal Christianity * The 21st Century Reformation of The Christian Church * Nuclear Armageddon It may also be necessary to bring to recollection a few relevant details about myself that I provided in the press statements I sent to the American and world media a couple of years ago. My name is Chikeluba Kenechukwu, and my official birth date is 25 December, 1968. I am a journalist, writer, Christian Activist and Political Activist, based in the United States. I have worked as a reporter for the following media organizations: * Reporter: The Daily Observer, The Gambia (approximately from 1994-1996) * Reporter: African Service, The Voice of America, Gambia and Senegal (approximately from 1996-2001). My editors at VOA, Washington included: Mr. Barry Maugham, Mr. William Eagle * Reporter: African Service, The British Broadcasting Corporation, Dakar-Senegal (approximately from 1996-2001). My editors at BBC, London included: Mr. Robin White, Mr. Joseph Warungu, Mr. Ben Dotsei Malor. I worked under the pseudonym of Ogo Okpara for BBC during my stint with them as their Dakar correspondent. * Reporter: Radio Netherlands, Dakar-Senegal * Reporter: The Associated Press, Dakar-Senegal (approximately from 1998-2001). Some of the AP staff I worked with include Ms. Ellen Knickmeyer, and Mr. Tim Sullivan who was then chief editor of the West African regional headquarters of the AP -------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION PRESS STATEMENT SUBJECT: The Guiding Political Ideology of Africa Going Forward In The 21st Century: A Very Brief Summary UNITIVE MERITOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM The new political system that will be embraced by many African nations going forward into the 21st century and beyond could be termed unitive meritocracy or unitive meritocratic political system. ---Unitive because, given the multiple ethnicies that make up most African countries and which has often undermined unity, one of the most important objectives of the coming political system is to foster a strong, durable sense of national and cultural oneness in the African nations that will adopt it. --- Meritocratic because given the incompetence that generally characterized African governance since independence from colonial rule, it is important that from the word go it should be strongly emphasized that the new system will put the greatest stress on good governance, and high levels of administrative and technocratic skills on African state officers. *The new political system unitive meritocracy will be based mostly on a one-party system rather than the discredited multi-party system with its inbuilt tendency to politically, socially and culturally balkanize a country. Given the multi-ethnic composition of most African nations how can the unitive one-party system be made to adequately represent the interests of different regions and ethnicities that compose the nation? 1. By enshrining the principle of regional rotation of power for the federal government in the constitution for high state posts such as: the presidency, vice presidency, etc. 2. By embedding in the constitution the principle that each of the constitutionally designated regions of the country will be adequately represented in all the federal branches of government: the executive, legislature and judiciary. How will government leaders be chosen in the new system? --- An inaugural or constituent assembly made up of representatives drawn from every region of the country will be used to create the founding constitution of the unitive republic, and to establish the unitive state party. The constituent assembly will be used to create all mechanisms that will be used for election or selection of all state officers from head of state and head of government downwards. --- Candidates for top government positions such as president, vice president will be shortlisted and elected through some selection and election mechanism. * The meritocratic aspect of the system, in regard to the selection of government officials, will be implemented by incorporating into it the confucian principle of mandatory examinations for postulants to public service and using examinations among other measures as a means for determining eligibility for promotion and fitness for any level of service in public administration. The unitive system as the name clearly implies is designed to foster national and social cohesion and stability, and consequently, the unitive political system will be based on the principle of complementarity of roles for males and females. In view of this, in the unitive political system, by the power of the constitution, males will be the political and electoral representatives as well as the governing agents of the marital unit, the family unit and the nation. In relation to this, by the power of the constitution, the chief governing ideology of the unitive political system will be patriarchalism undergirded by the principle of gender complementarity. Patriarchalism, very briefly defined, is the basing of a society on the rule of males and fathers in every aspect of the life of the nation: in religion, marriage, family and in the larger society. And gender complementarism is the complementary division of roles between males and females in society in such a way as to maximize long-term cohesion and stability in society for the equal benefit of all its constituents, males and females, with males constitutionally assigned the roles of governor, lawmaker, teacher, protector and provider in every unit and aspect of society (religion, marriage, family and community) and the female constitutionally allocated the equally important role of helper to the male in the domestic sphere (homemaker). It is imperative that the unitive political system that will form the bedrock of the development of Africa going forward into the 21st century and beyond be governed by patriarchalism as undergirded By gender complementarism. This is because the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nature of African nations and the consequent heightened vulnerability of African societies to fragmenting forces make the incorporation of the socially unifying and cohering power of gender complementarism an absolute necessity. What is more, it is important that Africans achieve true mental, intellectual and existential independence from all its historical subjugators, and manifest true autonomy by decisively casting off all destructive alien ideologies and ways of living that threaten to destroy and fragment African societies, and henceforth begin to draw from their own rich and venerable age-old traditions handed down to them by their ancestors ideas and ideologies appropriate, wise and safe for the African people and the African cultural context. For hundreds if not thousands of years African traditional societies operated on the basis of patriarchalism and gender complementarism, and as a result most were characterized by cross-gender harmony. But a foreign concept called feminism, imposed upon African nations mostly by American and western women and their male feminist stooges operating through neo-imperialist governments and institutions, is threatening to permanently destroy social and inter-gender harmony in Africa, cripple all institutions of stability and morality such as fatherhood, traditional marriage and family, and unleash forces that will devastate the continent with unprecedented floods of immoralities, and plunge Africa once more into centuries of chaos and subjugation. This is why it is absolutely imperative that Africans immediately reject these divisive foreign ideologies such as feminism that are threatening to cleave it apart and destroy it, and draw from their own venerable and time-tested traditions bequeathed to them by their wise ancestral fathers, unitive social and political ideologies and systems that will foster cohesive inter-gender relations and social and political stability on a long-term basis.
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