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When God made the first world, he made them stay together and by that act, they form a community of formidable people, they constructed the tower of Babel, they were going to match with their maker in a lot of things by mere decision, and determination.

Gen.11.6-9: recorded, And God said;Look! They're one people and they have all one language and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do that will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the earth.

The first world rebelled, they dared God by that sky-scraper called 'The Tower of Babel' and God folded that idea up and had to wash the entire earth with some clean flood and a second world comes up:
Father Abram was going to be the grand father of the people of the world, the second world. Now God asked father Abram to move away from his country to somewhere else, he got to the land of Canaan and stopped over, on transit?he was going to settle there but the environment became harsh and frustrating not long after he got there, there was hardship, a famine as it is today under the face of the earth. He considered another option. Abram had to migrate to Egypt, in Africa.

From there Abraham moved to a region called Negeb and settled there, he resided in a place called Gerar as an alien, an immigrant! (Gen. 20:1-2) When Abraham died, his son Isaac, father of world first chronicled twins, Esau and Jacob settled at a place called Beerlahai-roi'
Later on he migrated to a place called Gerar' by order of the Lord and resided there as an alien. Another immigrant!
The former environment was actually harsh; there was hardship like in the days of his father Abraham. When Esau's twin brother, Jacob, grew up to know between good and Evil, he left home of his own accord and journeyed to another region of the world, to the land of the people of the east (Gen.29:1) because there was need for him to migrate also.

At the close of the chronicles of the patriarchs a new birth of peoples had taken place. There was Jesus!, My Lord Jesus the Christ migrated too with his immediate family, first to Africa, then to Nazareth and to Galilee by the order of the Lord and because there was need that they move over to another region, the count is endless, something great about Africa kept secret by the Lord God almighty must have warranted all this migration.

People all over the world have been moving around the face of the earth, some for necessity, others for pleasures and those it has been destined that they must move!... This is a God divine order!

Between the 17th and 18th century another movement of peoples has resumed, this time, by coercion, labour was needed in the farms and the innate wickedness of men's heart that forced God to clean up the first world by flood has manifested in a more grander style. People were going to move as slaves to other regions against their own will, they were going to be bundled across regions, human beings took the place of animals and had to be carted and horded as beast of burden to places of shock and despair.

At the eve of the end of slavery, another movement was going to take place, there was going to be a place called Siberia, somewhere in Africa for Liberated Africans' there was going to be a place called The Caribbean Island for some recently freed tortured individuals who have lost the touch of anything called home, there was going to be the Bahamas, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua, and lots more.

The sweetness of the phrase some Sweet Home was going to be mingled with a disorientation and confusion of identity and a sense of belonging. The bond of bestiality has been striped off the necks of God's own people, Slavery has ended! Africans, young and old were trying the best they could to piece the shattered lives and lost fortunes together again.

As civilization began to sweep across the face of the earth, another movement was going to take place. Africa came to mind again. There certainly must be something great about this region of the earth. Some faceless wanderers were going to explore there, they were going to sneak in as illegal immigrants?because they were not invited! they were going to discover some beautiful people called the Aborigines, some African descendants somewhere in Australia, They were going to discover a strong and organized community and kingdom somewhere in Benin, The Benin Kingdom, They were going to discover some fearless and courageous individuals somewhere in Kenya, The Mau Mau's they were going to encounter some brave and fierce warriors somewhere in South Afrika 'The Zulus' a kingdom of stoics and giants! And lots more.

Afrika was routed! Some illegal immigrants came visiting motherland Africa and were fascinated at what they saw as uncouth barbarism and uncivilisation. They were the first to abuse God's law of migration by committing a crime abusing the rule of friendship given and insulting the people!
From the time of Father Abraham, both in the Bible and in the Quran, there have been movement of peoples as ordained by the Lord God almighty and he warned through the Prophet Jeremiah (Jer.29:4-7) It said; But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Like I stated earlier, some people move because it has been destined by God that they must move! Whether by means of self-imposed exile as missionaries?, explorers, or some civilized people searching for some uncivilized and barbaric people to get them civilized, whichever the case, this is a God divine order of migration.

Therefore it was in God's original plan that there must be visitors in Africa someday, somehow, the great Leader Moses was there, Prophet Muhammad was there, Jesus Christ was there and some other explorers but none of them abused the peoples in this region of the earth!

The Bronze Plaques in The great Benin Kingdom fascinated the visitors?so much that they looted the entire kingdom, The great Axum Obelisk of Ethiopia was looted, the gold crest of Gold Coast (Ghana) was looted, around Africa, great kingdoms and highly organized people were routed and put against each other, they dared fought back but could muster little resistance to some killing power machines, the guns and the Bible. By the way, the Bible was supposed to pave way for peace, wisdom and understanding.

Colonization gained control of the entire Africa, Africa need some civil education and enlightenment because the ones the visitors who sneaked in as illegal immigrants?met was thought not good enough.
In one of the speeches of the Prophet, Great Marcus Garvey, he said; This arrogance was but skin deep and an assumption that has no foundation in morals or in law. when we were embracing the arts and sciences on the banks of the Nile their ancestors were still drinking human blood and eating out of the skulls of their conquered dead; when our civilization had reached the noonday of progress they were still running naked and sleeping in holes and caves with rats, bats and other insects and animals.
* From the archives of Prophet Marcus Garvey Speeches.

This is why all the Bronze Plaques of the Benin Kingdom were looted! I have been at the Museum, only some scraps were left. Guilt stings like bee, April 19th 2005, Ethiopians celebrated the return of the Axum Obelisk stolen out of Africa some 70 years ago, We all know that nobody steals a useless object and that counts about 2% of great cultural and scientific relics stolen from Africa that may never return.

At the demise of colonialism, another movement is going to take place. It's Africa's turn to visit the world and more so, on our own accord, explore the world and match intellectualism and ideas with our brothers, those who have seen no good when they visited, as colonialists, missionaries and explorers.

Yeah, our brothers! Because when God almighty open the doors of the second world after he had wiped the first off with some flood, some clean tsunamis! He did that with Father Abraham, and he said; I will make of you a great nation and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed, (Gen. 12:1-3) there was no distinction in this promise of God almighty, black, white, brown or yellow people if there is any. This has little to do with your belief of a supreme God, someday you will understand as long as you are a living being and belong to this earth. That golden promise stated; You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations? Count the hairs on your head people, if you can, and that is multitude, extremely large number of people, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans, the entire five continents!

The erstwhile visitors to Africa who concluded Africans as people of low morale, barbaric, savages and uncivilized laid claim on their inferences from first contact of people forced into one of man抯 most dehumanizing experience slavery to an extent that people no longer regard themselves as humans, the shock of the sudden state of mind was terribly unbearing that according to the account of Booker T Washington: some of the blacks barely regarded themselves as human. One of them once said to Washington. "There was five of us sold at the time myself, my brother, and three mules."

Anyway, Kingdoms have collapsed, Slavery has ended, Colonialism has folded up, globalization has come and the great exodus has commenced. Movement of peoples across borders, across regions, from one city to another, from one continent to another, the great migration of the 21st century! World without borders!

When China was closed up for decades, few people dreamt of venturing there, today, there is an African community of blacks across Chinese major cities, there is China Town in virtually all major cities of the world and some has gone to my village in far away Africa to settle for whatsoever reason. The great exodus has begun!

Like the great Prophet Jeremiah declared the oracle of God almighty. . (Jer.29:4-7); And the Lord God of all the people of the earth said: to all the exiles whom I have sent to Babylon, build houses and live in them, plant gardens and eat what they produce, take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters, multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

By this prophecy, there is going to be a Barak Obama, A democratic Presidential aspirant of The United States come 2008, there is going to be White South Africans those who obeyed God's word and seek for the welfare of that region, there is going to be a Lebanese community in Nigeria, There is going to be Chinese Americans with a history of settlement spanning through centuries, there is going to be Afro-Asian Kids with all that African features but a yellow skin, the Chinese and all Asians are blessed with because my African folk married the mother, A Chinese. There is going to be a provider of labour卬ot cheap labour! One of the biggest factories owned by a an immigrant I have ever visited in Southern China is owned by a Nigerian, a Jewelry factory employing over 100 Chinese young men and women! He left Africa because there was need to leave, and wherever you find yourself in this great age of migration is your Babylon! Whether in Europe, America, Asia or the Antarctic.

Africans should not be singled out as potential immigrants by agents of oversea countries and given some shabby and inhuman treatments not worth mentioning because we decided to do our own exploring like other people of the earth has done. People work, travel overseas and even take risks to get their families settled in life, to see them survive and lifted out of hardship like it was in the beginning and has always been. African leaders are certainly running down the entire continent behind at their own peril, we know all that! And should not increase the suffering of the oppressed people of the world when they seek recourse by means of certain stringent immigration policies.

It is an inalienable right of every human being to travel under planet earth. I support immigration officials should do their work and do it with some sense of decorum, that's why they're posted to Point of Entries in the first place, if a free mover, tourist or business man has the need to visit anywhere overseas and he has the means to do that, visa issuance officers and immigration officials should not take situations in Africa and other parts of the world for granted and be subjecting some unfortunate common individuals to ridicule and abuse of self esteem.

No nation and no individual can be a bystander at this critical moment in the history of the world's people are switching environment for different purposes we cannot show apathy to the plight of those who feel insecure and deprived somewhere and determined to switch environment for a progressive lifestyle, irrespective of their background and still claim to uphold the tenets of the United Nations as this will lead to increasing frustration and disappointment of the victims.
Welcome to the 21st century, the great year of migration!