Living in a world where nature stands as the only remedy in saving humanity from a fast growing industrialization trend, the seat of nature Africa with it’s dense evergreen rainforest and balance ecosystem is not ready to take that remedial responsibility.
Many Africans today are not more willing to accept the attribute of “primitive” for to them it all seems to renders the black race as inferior to the western race. This inferiority complex seems to stand out as one of the most important causal factors of denunciation. Many Africans today just want to wipe away from their garments anything that will refer to them as primitive. Many individuals find denunciation to be the best way to compensate for the many limitations placed about them, a method much superior to retaliation on the quid pro quo basis, their society considers it an acceptable form of resistance. There is hereby a consequential effect of imitating anything that will strip off any trace of primitively. As such, a very harsh enculturation method is deployed one of them being ; Moving away from, and denying one self from anything that will attribute him/her to bush life. He/she thereby envisages or dreams of living in a city like New York or London as seen on TV paved everywhere with no forest around him. He considers his immediate surrounding a menace to his personal pride and the love for nature is destroyed in his heart. He harness in him and all around him that which is hunting many Africans today “ the Green Complex” .
It will be but unfortunate that in a country like Cameroon(Africa) with vast grasslands regions producing all kinds of beautiful flowers from roses to tulips yet, 85% of that population will prefer to offer their love ones artificial flowers imported from western countries on Valentine day not just because everyone wants to attribute his/her self to the western lifestyle but unfortunately because of the lack of knowledge on how to cater for or conserve a bunch of fresh roses, the wrong notion about civilization, the lack of knowledge about the richness and balance ecosystem of the evergreen rainforest and it’s role in stabilizing Climate change and green gas emission.
In June 17, 2008 Gordon Brown launched a fund to save Congo’s rain forest with a sum of £58M from the UK with the goal to tackle climate change by preventing deforestation in the world’s second largest tropical forest. Note that this forest is in a country (Africa) where the people will not accept anything that will attribute them to bush people or monkeys as recent racist slogans have pointed so deforestation to them is more of destroying an insult and not just nature.
Gordon Brown said:“It is a great honor to mark the launch of the Congo Basin Forest Fund. Together we are pledging to work together to secure the future of one of the world’s last remaining ancient forests. Preserving our forests is vital if we are going to reduce global emissions and tackle climate change". If we underline the word ancient and deem it from a lay Africans perspective considering his stereotype mind about how the western world is considering his race and the wrong notion he/she has about civilization, we will understand why this forest is fast disappearing.
The Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander said “The Basin houses a quarter of the world's rainforest, but already an area the size of 25,000 football pitches is cleared of trees every week”. With this, I believe the road-map to healing the worlds green nature begins from healing the green complex that has infested the minds of those who are like care-takers to the green remedy
Nestor Talla
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