Nigeria, April 30 -- Those of us of a certain age, ALL, recollect with pride, the moment we heard our Head of State, Murtala Mohammed declare to the world that:
"Africa has come of age. It is no longer under the orbit of any extra continental power. It should no longer take orders from any country, however powerful."
The speech was at the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit in Addis Ababa, on January 11, 1976 and it pushed Africa to rise to resist U.S.'s pernicious pro-Portuguese position in Angola, Mozambique and the rest of Southern Africa. In the run up to the Summit, the U.S. had intensely lobbied African countries to support the pro-imperialist UNITA and FNLA, as against the popular and revolutionary MPLA, to form the immediat...