Abstract

A number of Africans had anticipated the establishment of emancipatory Pan-African states after the exit of overt colonialism. These post-colonial states were expected to end colonial oppression, exploitation and subjugation. It was also hoped that the newly independent African states would be entrenched on Pan-African leaders, Pan-African ideas and Pan-African Institutions. However, post-independence African leaders essentially transformed into Iscariots that betrayed the emancipatory African dream. For pieces of silver, they handed back post-colonial African states to white neo-colonial Pharisees and High priests. These Judases surrendered African mineral resources, land, agricultural resources and economic policies to colonial exploitation and plunder. In order to insulate themselves from extermination, they constructed ethnically oriented democracies that are funded and remotely controlled from Western capitals. In alliance with white imperialists, they persecuted and killed African leaders and citizens who were committed to the fruition of an emancipatory Post-colonial state. These leaders and citizens are picturistic of Jesus Christ who came to usher in complete freedom for mankind (John 8:36). This study argues that the problematic of realising an emancipatory Pan African state is concealed in the construction of a black skinned African with a white mind. This white mind in a black skin is the fundamental precursor and reinforcer of covert imperialism in Africa. Using an existentialist and phenomenological critique, this paper contends that despite the eminence of a cataclysmically neo-colonial buttressed post-independence African state, the African dream of an apocalyptic emancipatory state is alive, real and eminent analogous to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.