Overview

Emancipating Bantu Africans from poverty is an exposition of how, for a millennium now, Bantu Africans have been overwhelmed and doomed in social, political, and economic structures that breed and perpetuate their mass poverty. The book starts with an allegorical prologue that portrays this predicament. Then through successive chapters, it chronicles their fate: first, under their tyrannical emperors and kings in the Age of African Empires and Kingdoms; second, under slavery and colonialism Europeans visited on them; and then, through independence, totalitarianism, and democracy and liberal economies with which their own nationalist leaders have failed them. Though all these episodes in the life of Bantu Africans are clearly distinct, the book reveals that they have all perpetrated one common agenda: the systematic dispossession of Bantu Africans. And the result has always been the same: Bantu Africans' perpetual poverty. Often people wonder why the Bantu African masses are so poor when their countries are so rich in resources. But this book shows that it is so because since the Age of African Empires and Kingdoms only a very tiny minority of elite Bantu Africans and wealthy foreigners exploit and benefit from Bantu Africa's rich resources. Drawing examples from other peoples who have overcome similar systematic dispossession to emerge as prosperous nations, the book asserts that Bantu Africans will only totally emancipate themselves from their seemingly intractable poverty if they rise to reclaim their birth right, if they rise to formally own their lands and properties with title deeds, and begin to use them as collateral for securing finances with which to industrialise their production and create themselves viable economies