Chetuya Chinagolum
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Independent analyst and writer focusing on political economy, anti-colonial history, and the geopolitical dynamics of the Global South.
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Two heavy-duty trucks carrying petrol collided this morning in Benin City. A police officer can be seen trying to stop locals from scooping fuel and warning them of the danger such actions pose to their lives. The residents, of course understand this, but they continue regardless. Poverty drives people into a state of hopelessness and desperation, as we witness here in this video.
Chetuya Chinagolum234,755 views • 13 days ago
Again, even as soldiers are deployed to the scene with sticks and belts to stop the locals from scooping fuel for their own safety, the people continue to ignore these warnings, putting their lives in direct danger just to scoop spilled petrol. Now, people may be tempted to ask: since the locals are motivated by extreme poverty and political instability, why not use this same energy to storm embassies, occupy airports, and take over government parastatals to demand a complete overhaul of the oppressive governments looting their wealth on behalf of global powers? The simple answer is that poverty will never motivate them into this level of revolutionary consciousness, because that is not how poverty works. A poor man who sleeps with an empty stomach cannot afford the luxury of dreaming about acquiring advanced degrees or learning a new skill from scratch. The only thing on his mind is how to satisfy his immediate survival needs, which include, but are not limited to, begging family and friends for food or taking predatory loans from loan sharks. It is always strictly about immediate survival. This is exactly what Vladimir Lenin repeatedly emphasized in his revolutionary essays. Left to themselves, the working class will only develop "trade union consciousness." They will demand better pay and better working conditions within the existing economic configuration, but they will never spontaneously stage a revolution to dismantle the entire capitalist system that is holding them hostage. This is why most of the color revolutions that have occurred across the Global South and Eastern Europe have almost exclusively been funded by global empires. They are engineered specifically to remove sovereign governments that dare to stand upright against imperialism or attempt to use their national resources to better their people against the interests of global capital. For this reason, expecting the poor masses in Nigeria to spontaneously rise up, overthrow their oppressive government, and revoke the exploitative contracts of American oil majors and global conglomerates feasting on Nigeria's wealth will never happen. The poor will always be preoccupied with feeding their families and keeping their failing micro-businesses afloat; they simply do not have the time or the luxury to engage in protracted revolutionary struggles. Whether Nigeria will ever experience a genuine revolution ultimately rests on the shoulders of the politically conscious middle class. It requires a vanguard that possesses the capital, the theoretical knowledge, and the experience in logistics and cybernetics to organize the masses and lead them in waging a structural war against the political class that has turned Nigeria into a neo-colonial slave plantation for the benefit of global empires.
Chetuya Chinagolum109,339 views • 13 days ago
I have said it before, and I will continue to put it in writing for posterity: only a revolution can rescue Nigeria. We cannot continue to live under these subhuman conditions and still pretend we have a functioning society. Frame 1: Desperate youths struggle to fix the tire of a broken-down truck on the street as a raging fire approaches, threatening to consume the vehicle. Frame 2: A shirtless young man in shorts frantically struggles to save his shop and entire means of livelihood from burning to ashes, using nothing but sachet water and sand. This fire raged for over 30 minutes, yet there was absolutely no sign of the fire service, despite the fact that Benin City is the capital of Edo State.
Chetuya Chinagolum43,602 views • 13 days ago
Reporting LIVE from Oluku Market. It is 7:03 PM, and I can confirm that the entire market has burned to the ground. Personally, the food items worth 50,000 Naira that I bought today have been completely consumed by the fire (I had left them in a vendor's shop that I am familiar with to go buy vegetables, as they were obviously too heavy for me to carry around. It was exactly while I was trying to buy those vegetables that the tanker exploded, and I had to run for my dear life). For the market men and women who own shops here, the financial loss is in the billions of Naira. Mind you, all of this could have been prevented with some basic concrete and cheap cement that would naturally cost less than 100,000 Naira. Yet, both the government and the people neglected that pothole for more than two years. We cannot continue to live like this and still pretend to be humans.
Chetuya Chinagolum19,511 views • 13 days ago
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