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How British Colonial Rule Entrenched Greed and Corruption in Africa’s Ruling Class Talks about corruption and greed characterizing Africa's ruling elite have dominated conversation over the decades that have followed the flag independence for most African countries. But what remains less talked about is where these leaders draw inspiration...

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Joshua Maponga: Africans Are Educated To Serve, Not To Solve For a continent producing millions of university graduates every year, Africa has a serious unemployment problem. This problem can be traced to a colonial education system imposed on the continent centuries ago which was never intended to uplift or “civilize” its people, but make them easier to exploit. When the European colonizer “left” Africa in the Decade of Independence, he left his colonial education system behind, in the care of his puppets. And it is this system which has robbed generation after generation of African youth of the social, intellectual and spiritual fortitude to nurture, develop and reap the fruits of their own Motherland. In this 2023 interview, Zimbabwean author and vocal Pan-Africanist Joshua Maponga comments on Africa’s colonial educational system, how it has compelled so many Africans to associate the idea of a bright future with literally anywhere except where they were born, and what should be done about it. With over 64 million new students expected in Africa by 2034, the need for a new, pro-African educational system has never been more urgent.
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Joshua Maponga: Africans Are Educated To Serve, Not To Solve For a continent producing millions of university graduates every year, Africa has a serious unemployment problem. This problem can be traced to a colonial education system imposed on the continent centuries ago which was never intended to uplift or “civilize” its people, but make them easier to exploit. When the European colonizer “left” Africa in the Decade of Independence, he left his colonial education system behind, in the care of his puppets. And it is this system which has robbed generation after generation of African youth of the social, intellectual and spiritual fortitude to nurture, develop and reap the fruits of their own Motherland. In this 2023 interview, Zimbabwean author and vocal Pan-Africanist Joshua Maponga comments on Africa’s colonial educational system, how it has compelled so many Africans to associate the idea of a bright future with literally anywhere except where they were born, and what should be done about it. With over 64 million new students expected in Africa by 2034, the need for a new, pro-African educational system has never been more urgent.

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At my second rally in Mpigi, I told the people that on my way there I met some of my bazzukulu who raised concerns about medicine shortages in hospitals and PDM money not reaching them. Corruption is not new; even during colonial times some abaami abused authority. That is why we deliberately returned power to the people through elected leaders from LC1 up to Parliament. Government mobilises and allocates resources, but protecting them is the responsibility of all of us through accountable leadership. I reminded the people that in the NRC days, local leaders were elected and directly answerable. We may need to revisit the right of recall so wananchi can hold leaders accountable. Let us work together, using credible evidence, to defeat corruption.

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BREAKING: Chad is the latest African country to kick French colonizing army out of its territory. Senegal is also on track to do same. Pretty sure you must have heard. But I’ve been cautious about rolling out the drums, and I’ll tell you why. You see, France is a very very bad colonizer. They are the crudest and most vile of all colonizing forces of Europe because they made their display of inhumanity to colonies open - as open as can be. They have never be able to divorce themselves from the crude antics and machinations of the colonial era France, even in the 21st century. African colonies openly pay colonial tax, French military boots are on ground in nearly all colonies, currencies used in colonies are printed in France and controlled from the Bank of Paris, and so on. For the British, another innately wicked and dangerous colonizer, they’ve been very smart about theirs. They do literally everything the French do but through their British - imposed stooges and fronts in the governments of their colonies - it’s called INDIRECT RULE. They keep everything under the carpet but the result is the same as the French colonies, if not worse. Today, I have a feeling that after suffering a brutal defeat in the Sahel states, France may be adopting the British neocolonial model of control for the 21st century which implies eliminating physical presence of everything French in the colonies and using fronts entirely for their neocolonial operations. I suspect this is what they’re trying to do in places like Chad, Senegal and maybe one or two other French colonies, just so the masses are deceived into believing that those colonies have “seen the light.” I wanna see Chad and Senegal openly join the Sahel states and renounce the colonial pact, change and rename their currencies, cut ties with the Bank of Paris, stop paying colonial tax or committing foreign reserve to the Bank of Paris and having to go back to borrow the same money that belongs to them from France at an interest rate beyond human comprehension, take over the control of their resources that have been in the hands of France for generations and nationalize them all, I want them to cut all ties and keep only regular diplomatic equal opportunity ties and much more, before I roll out the drums. My two cents.

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In 1966, those Ibo majors who planned the Ibo coup were very foolish and reckless. The reason is that the Ibos dominated every sector in Nigeria. There was no reason to take up arms against your own government. The events of 1966 are the cause of the suffering the Ibos experience today, said the Ohaneze secretary. By 1965, the Ibos had infused themselves into every sector in Nigeria since their fellow Ibo man was in power. Even in Lagos, “Yorubaland,” the Ibos took over many sectors, sidelining the Yorubas, extending all the way to Ibadan and other regions of Nigeria. But the greed of the Ibo people always overpowered their sense of reason. Nnamdi Azikwe was greedy and wanted to be in charge of Yorubaland before Awolowo fought back. Azikwe, an Ibo man, was in power, but greed did not let the Ibos rest, they wanted more. They desired all the power of other regions to be centralized in one person who controlled it. They planned a coup, killed Yoruba leaders, Hausa-Fulani leaders, and spared their own Ibo leaders. After that, they put an Ibo man in charge of the country as head of state. The Ibos then dissolved the regional system of government, which allowed each region to govern itself. The Ibos cancelled it and brought all power to the center and who was at the center? An Ibo man. The North quickly realized what was going on and countered with a coup. they took power from the Ibos and kept the system Ibos planned the coup to change “ power in central “. The Ibos did not like this, so they asked to leave Nigeria since their plan had failed. The North said, “Oh, now you want to leave after killing our leaders?” The Biafra war then broke out, and the Ibos lost again. That system of Governemnt the Ibos planned the coup for is what Nigeria still uses today. The same Ibos are the ones complaining to this day! They brought the problems Nigeria faces today and still they cry every day about being victims. Have they learned from their mistakes of the 60s? No. Just look at their recent behaviors.

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The Spearhead

100,696 次观看 • 8 个月前

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What’s holding Africans back? President Kagame asked. Prof. Murigande told Kagame that the main reason is that African leaders don’t care about their people. They seek to enrich themselves — to eat, and to eat alone. The president agreed with him, but he pressed further, asking why this problem seems peculiar to Africa. Kagame doesn’t ask rhetorical questions. He has identified a problem and is involving Rwandans in finding a solution. Here’s my take: To overcome challenges like those faced by postcolonial societies, a people must rediscover a sense of collective self-worth. Usually, this comes from the memory of their past achievements— who they were as a people informs who they are and who they aspire to be. While Africa was not the only region to experience colonization, it is one of the few where colonialism either erased the memory of past greatness or created new countries with no shared memory of such greatness. Colonisation captured African minds. In that sense, although Africa was colonised last, it was colonised the worst. Colonial education deepened this alienation, distorting African aspirations, turning them from collective to individual. In the 1950s, the small group of “educated” African elites aspired to join the white world : the colonial administration. Today, with colonial education still intact and keeping African minds in chains, the elites it creates do not aspire to uplift their people; they aspire to join the global elite. They don’t seek to improve their own societies; they seek to escape from them. Accordingly, these elites measure their self-worth by: •how fluently they speak foreign languages, •which foreign schools they send their children to, •which foreign hospitals they can afford, •how many houses they build, and how much money they invest abroad. At the heart of this lies a quiet acceptance that Africans are somehow defective as a people, and that the only way to succeed is individually. Even those who once believed they could change things often abandon the quest for collective improvement once they grasp the scale of the effort it demands. The kind of heavy lifting required for real transformation breeds a sense of hopelessness, one that pushes people from collective ambition toward individual greed. So, the individual’s aspiration becomes to join the global bourgeoisie. But these are strategies of self-evacuation. They are attempts to flee backwardness by moving from the rural village to the capital, then on to the enlightened colonial metropolis, and ultimately to disappear into cosmopolitan anonymity - a form of self erasure rather than a search for self restoration. This journey became the measure of progress. Those who remain in Africa do so with one foot already out (through dual citizenship or close connections to the representatives of their desired metropoles) for themselves, and especially for their children. Although Kagame brings up this topic, it has been a theme he turns to whenever he notices that some ethic is creeping in amongst the leaders, only that this time he is more specific. For example, while he has been teaching agaciro as a form of mental decolonization, most people over the years understood agaciro merely as a material pursuit. Yet agaciro is, at its core, about retracing and reclaiming the memory of self-worth and therefore the basis for collective pursuit.

Lonzen Rugira

314,594 次观看 • 9 个月前

🔸Yesterday, Mozambique commemorated 50 years of independence. Over 30 heads of states were invited to be part of a ceremony marking what, in normal instances, would be a precious milestone. If all things were equal, the day marking the nation’s half century of independence from colonial rule ought to have been a colourful moment of national pride and mass celebration. Instead, the broken promise of liberation made the day more dull than dirty dishwater. The stadium was eerily empty, possibly emptier than the stadium at Robert Mugabe’s funeral which most Zimbabweans boycotted in protest against the poverty, injustice and corruption that characterized his rule and has compounded since. As a keen observer of politics on the continent, I cannot help but wonder - did the Govt or leaders of Mozambique stop to ask why the people were absent? Did the fellow heads of state visiting from other countries not find it strange that the masses who “voted overwhelmingly” chose not to participate in the “celebration”? Are the people at the top so deaf to the voices of the people at the bottom that they do not care? Can you blame young people for concluding that these liberation movements were really oppressors-in-waiting, fighting to be included in the system but not to change it? Crucially, how did a Govt that “won” 70% of the vote, controls state machinery and claims to have mass national support fail to fill even 10 percent of a 40,000-seater stadium? You can rig elections but you cannot rig popular support or the people’s consent to be governed. Whether one is in Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe or any other country where governance is broken, the cry of the masses is the same. We need new leaders.🇿🇼🇲🇿🇰🇪
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🔸Yesterday, Mozambique commemorated 50 years of independence. Over 30 heads of states were invited to be part of a ceremony marking what, in normal instances, would be a precious milestone. If all things were equal, the day marking the nation’s half century of independence from colonial rule ought to have been a colourful moment of national pride and mass celebration. Instead, the broken promise of liberation made the day more dull than dirty dishwater. The stadium was eerily empty, possibly emptier than the stadium at Robert Mugabe’s funeral which most Zimbabweans boycotted in protest against the poverty, injustice and corruption that characterized his rule and has compounded since. As a keen observer of politics on the continent, I cannot help but wonder - did the Govt or leaders of Mozambique stop to ask why the people were absent? Did the fellow heads of state visiting from other countries not find it strange that the masses who “voted overwhelmingly” chose not to participate in the “celebration”? Are the people at the top so deaf to the voices of the people at the bottom that they do not care? Can you blame young people for concluding that these liberation movements were really oppressors-in-waiting, fighting to be included in the system but not to change it? Crucially, how did a Govt that “won” 70% of the vote, controls state machinery and claims to have mass national support fail to fill even 10 percent of a 40,000-seater stadium? You can rig elections but you cannot rig popular support or the people’s consent to be governed. Whether one is in Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe or any other country where governance is broken, the cry of the masses is the same. We need new leaders.🇿🇼🇲🇿🇰🇪

Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼

47,686 次观看 • 1 年前

People in the UK are fed up. There are still a lot of details missing in this story, but that isn't stopping Brits from declaring this ax-wielding 12-YO the second coming of Joan of Arc. And I get it. Britain's leaders, and most of Europe for that matter, have welcomed in hordes of migrants that have zero compatibility with Western society. And the worst part is that they were all too happy to do so at the expense of their native populations. For what, money? To make themselves feel good? To fulfill the globalist agenda of the Brussels and Davos elite? The people are done playing nice and the impotent elites only have themselves to blame.
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People in the UK are fed up. There are still a lot of details missing in this story, but that isn't stopping Brits from declaring this ax-wielding 12-YO the second coming of Joan of Arc. And I get it. Britain's leaders, and most of Europe for that matter, have welcomed in hordes of migrants that have zero compatibility with Western society. And the worst part is that they were all too happy to do so at the expense of their native populations. For what, money? To make themselves feel good? To fulfill the globalist agenda of the Brussels and Davos elite? The people are done playing nice and the impotent elites only have themselves to blame.

Steven Crowder

480,789 次观看 • 11 个月前

The term “British” derives from the term “Britons” who we know today as the Anglo-Saxon English people. When the Anglo-Saxon English decided to embark on their colonial project. They had to create a distinction between the People and the Colonial Project. The people remained the English … whilst the project to “rule the waves” and conquer 1/4 of the globe spreading their customs, traditions, culture and way of life became Britannia, British, Britain. Some people do not want to hear this but for the last FIVE centuries. The term “British” has not referred to a people but a project, a state, nationality, a way of life & a culture. So yes a Congolese person can be British😂… Not because a Congolese decided that… but because the Anglo-Saxon English Colonial Rulers decided to Shape shift the term to create a distinction between the People and the Colonial Project. History is free x
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The term “British” derives from the term “Britons” who we know today as the Anglo-Saxon English people. When the Anglo-Saxon English decided to embark on their colonial project. They had to create a distinction between the People and the Colonial Project. The people remained the English … whilst the project to “rule the waves” and conquer 1/4 of the globe spreading their customs, traditions, culture and way of life became Britannia, British, Britain. Some people do not want to hear this but for the last FIVE centuries. The term “British” has not referred to a people but a project, a state, nationality, a way of life & a culture. So yes a Congolese person can be British😂… Not because a Congolese decided that… but because the Anglo-Saxon English Colonial Rulers decided to Shape shift the term to create a distinction between the People and the Colonial Project. History is free x

BASEDANDBOUGIE

110,014 次观看 • 5 个月前

Alright, Pete, I have some questions.⬇️ How does the United States retain the authority and ability to withdraw "counter-drone" systems in Ukraine - which should have been handed over to the AFU for their use - and send them to the Middle East? Do these systems still retain American crews? Are they still being used under the operational control of an American commander rather than a Ukrainian one, to the point that they can be withdrawn from the country and the Ukrainians have no choice but to accept this? Or is this a situation where we had a system or system(s) set up on the roof of the US Embassy in Kiev - and if so, were they being used to participate in hostilities, in violation of every diplomatic convention since the beginning of recorded history? Or was this just a massive slip of the tongue and Secretary Hegseth was merely talking about systems deployed in Eastern Europe rather than inside Ukraine proper? Perhaps some clarification is in order, because if this statement is taken at face value it means we're in a shooting war with the Russian Federation and nobody in a position of authority in this country has seen fit to inform the public about the matter.
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Alright, Pete, I have some questions.⬇️ How does the United States retain the authority and ability to withdraw "counter-drone" systems in Ukraine - which should have been handed over to the AFU for their use - and send them to the Middle East? Do these systems still retain American crews? Are they still being used under the operational control of an American commander rather than a Ukrainian one, to the point that they can be withdrawn from the country and the Ukrainians have no choice but to accept this? Or is this a situation where we had a system or system(s) set up on the roof of the US Embassy in Kiev - and if so, were they being used to participate in hostilities, in violation of every diplomatic convention since the beginning of recorded history? Or was this just a massive slip of the tongue and Secretary Hegseth was merely talking about systems deployed in Eastern Europe rather than inside Ukraine proper? Perhaps some clarification is in order, because if this statement is taken at face value it means we're in a shooting war with the Russian Federation and nobody in a position of authority in this country has seen fit to inform the public about the matter.

Armchair Warlord

64,562 次观看 • 1 年前

In this world, Africans face inhumane treatment not only from those who don’t look like them, but also from those who look, talk, and share the same DNA with them. It is hard being a Black African living in a racist world which also has people who look like you working against your group interests. I thought of Donald Trump’s racist asylum visa programme favouring South Africa’s white Afrikaners as I drove past Khayelitsha on my way to Cape Town international airport to catch my flight back to London, and wondered who actually needs help, the privileged Afrikaners or the poor Black people living in informal settlements like Khayelitsha. These informal communities are a product of apartheid’s economic inequities and the incompetence of corrupt post-colonial leaders who have come to see this type of settlement as normal, thirty-one years after gaining political independence. People living here face high rates of untold crime, overcrowding, inequality, and general suffering. It is important to consider the historical and systemic factors that contributed to the economic and social conditions that communities like Khayelitsha face today, these factors are not exclusively from one source. The racist visa programme favouring Afrikaners highlights the need for a more nuanced and equitable approach when powerful countries deal with international matters, especially when considering the ongoing effects of apartheid and its lasting impact on South Africa’s Black population. The presence of informal settlements like Khayelitsha serves as a stark reminder of the enduring effects of colonialism, particularly apartheid, and the failure of post-colonial leaders to address the root causes of poverty and economic inequality, that is why I say today’s crisis is not exclusively from one source. It is important to recognise that addressing these issues requires a comprehensive and inclusive approach that prioritises the needs of those most impacted by systemic injustices, the Black people who were humiliated by apartheid and now by poverty powered by economic inequities. The irony of Trump’s racist approach towards South Africa is that it forbids the country from radically addressing the inequalities created by centuries of racist rule, while giving help to those who do not actually need it. It is a continuation of a racist order that has long subjected Black people to being second- or third-rate global citizens. The fact that Trump can lie about a white genocide happening in South Africa, with the help of his racist allies who own social media platforms, shows how very little has changed in global politics since the lynching days except for cosmetic changes. For a state like America to lie about a genocide happening in South Africa while totally ignoring the impact and existing realities authored by racist rule is truly wild and an uncomfortable reality that Black people must live with and not in denial. Unlike Trump, who is looking after people who look and think like him, the Black man’s burden is living in a racist world where your own people, presiding over the affairs of your own country, are also working against you. While Khayelitsha is rooted in hundreds of years of racist rule, it remains a present-day reality because of failed post-colonial Black governments that do not grasp the urgent need to bestow dignity on the lives and realities of Black people. The failure to create employment and roll out adequate housing has made the situation even more unbearable. How does it feel for those in power, and those enjoying generations of wealth built through racist enterprises, to drive past Khayelitsha in their million Rand automobiles? The funny part about life is that Black Americans are actually persecuted in America with the tacit approval of the state, yet it is the same state accusing South Africa of something it has not done, all while the Black post-colonial government fails to redress the economic humiliation of the Black South African living in shameful places like Khayelitsha. Unlike the descendants of racist rule in South Africa, who are now beneficiaries of Trump’s racist asylum visas, those in Khayelitsha have nowhere to run to, only to endure their indignity in pain, as time passes by, creating a generational curse passed on from father to son and mother to daughter.
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In this world, Africans face inhumane treatment not only from those who don’t look like them, but also from those who look, talk, and share the same DNA with them. It is hard being a Black African living in a racist world which also has people who look like you working against your group interests. I thought of Donald Trump’s racist asylum visa programme favouring South Africa’s white Afrikaners as I drove past Khayelitsha on my way to Cape Town international airport to catch my flight back to London, and wondered who actually needs help, the privileged Afrikaners or the poor Black people living in informal settlements like Khayelitsha. These informal communities are a product of apartheid’s economic inequities and the incompetence of corrupt post-colonial leaders who have come to see this type of settlement as normal, thirty-one years after gaining political independence. People living here face high rates of untold crime, overcrowding, inequality, and general suffering. It is important to consider the historical and systemic factors that contributed to the economic and social conditions that communities like Khayelitsha face today, these factors are not exclusively from one source. The racist visa programme favouring Afrikaners highlights the need for a more nuanced and equitable approach when powerful countries deal with international matters, especially when considering the ongoing effects of apartheid and its lasting impact on South Africa’s Black population. The presence of informal settlements like Khayelitsha serves as a stark reminder of the enduring effects of colonialism, particularly apartheid, and the failure of post-colonial leaders to address the root causes of poverty and economic inequality, that is why I say today’s crisis is not exclusively from one source. It is important to recognise that addressing these issues requires a comprehensive and inclusive approach that prioritises the needs of those most impacted by systemic injustices, the Black people who were humiliated by apartheid and now by poverty powered by economic inequities. The irony of Trump’s racist approach towards South Africa is that it forbids the country from radically addressing the inequalities created by centuries of racist rule, while giving help to those who do not actually need it. It is a continuation of a racist order that has long subjected Black people to being second- or third-rate global citizens. The fact that Trump can lie about a white genocide happening in South Africa, with the help of his racist allies who own social media platforms, shows how very little has changed in global politics since the lynching days except for cosmetic changes. For a state like America to lie about a genocide happening in South Africa while totally ignoring the impact and existing realities authored by racist rule is truly wild and an uncomfortable reality that Black people must live with and not in denial. Unlike Trump, who is looking after people who look and think like him, the Black man’s burden is living in a racist world where your own people, presiding over the affairs of your own country, are also working against you. While Khayelitsha is rooted in hundreds of years of racist rule, it remains a present-day reality because of failed post-colonial Black governments that do not grasp the urgent need to bestow dignity on the lives and realities of Black people. The failure to create employment and roll out adequate housing has made the situation even more unbearable. How does it feel for those in power, and those enjoying generations of wealth built through racist enterprises, to drive past Khayelitsha in their million Rand automobiles? The funny part about life is that Black Americans are actually persecuted in America with the tacit approval of the state, yet it is the same state accusing South Africa of something it has not done, all while the Black post-colonial government fails to redress the economic humiliation of the Black South African living in shameful places like Khayelitsha. Unlike the descendants of racist rule in South Africa, who are now beneficiaries of Trump’s racist asylum visas, those in Khayelitsha have nowhere to run to, only to endure their indignity in pain, as time passes by, creating a generational curse passed on from father to son and mother to daughter.

Hopewell Chin’ono

79,818 次观看 • 1 年前

Rwanda is and has always been a Nation State from its conception. There has never been any “tribes” inside that nation, only One Nation of the Banyarwanda. The misconception on Rwanda (and Burundi btw) doesn’t date from yesterday. The colonial narratives about the “Natives” has deeply perverted post-colonial legacy. Even though post-colonial Rwanda and Burundi regimes have themselves entertained the perversion, Zaire/Congo also entertained extensively the same perversion while adding up on top of the governance failures of the successive governments in Kinshasa. The Banyarwanda who found themselves in another political entity created by the colonial divide after Berlin 1885 - Belgian Congo - have all of this time, until today, been targeted by extremists who envied them for several reasons too long to share in this post. Tshisekedi has been echoing the same colonial perversion on Banyarwanda while siding up with an extremely perverted terror group, the FDLR. Late Mandela and Mwalimu Julius Nyerere have been advocating against the colonial perversion… but Madiba’s legacy died with him, leaving the ANC in charge of governance in South Africa #RSA🇿🇦 turning into a rogue comprador system governed by the greed of their leadership. The M23 emerging as the sole progressive movement fighting colonial perversion.
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Rwanda is and has always been a Nation State from its conception. There has never been any “tribes” inside that nation, only One Nation of the Banyarwanda. The misconception on Rwanda (and Burundi btw) doesn’t date from yesterday. The colonial narratives about the “Natives” has deeply perverted post-colonial legacy. Even though post-colonial Rwanda and Burundi regimes have themselves entertained the perversion, Zaire/Congo also entertained extensively the same perversion while adding up on top of the governance failures of the successive governments in Kinshasa. The Banyarwanda who found themselves in another political entity created by the colonial divide after Berlin 1885 - Belgian Congo - have all of this time, until today, been targeted by extremists who envied them for several reasons too long to share in this post. Tshisekedi has been echoing the same colonial perversion on Banyarwanda while siding up with an extremely perverted terror group, the FDLR. Late Mandela and Mwalimu Julius Nyerere have been advocating against the colonial perversion… but Madiba’s legacy died with him, leaving the ANC in charge of governance in South Africa #RSA🇿🇦 turning into a rogue comprador system governed by the greed of their leadership. The M23 emerging as the sole progressive movement fighting colonial perversion.

Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼

104,792 次观看 • 1 年前

African Corrupt Leaders and The Hands Behind Them Over the past couple of weeks, 2 former high level government officials from Nigeria and Ghana living in the UK and US respectively, who are both subjects of high profile corruption probes in their home countries, received legal guarantees of state protection against extradition to face trial at home. Once again, we are confronted with an issue that many in the Global North love to pretend does not exist. Africa's "fantastically corrupt" governments are always cited as the reason behind the continent's state of underdevelopment. What is deliberately omitted by the Western loudmouths who recycle this talking point and infinitum is the foundational role that their own governments play in the acquisition, transfer and warehousing of stolen African state resources, as well as the shielding and protection offered to corrupt African government officials by the same Western governments that have a lot to say about "fighting corruption in Africa." Biggest Mack explores this topic for The Spearhead.
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African Corrupt Leaders and The Hands Behind Them Over the past couple of weeks, 2 former high level government officials from Nigeria and Ghana living in the UK and US respectively, who are both subjects of high profile corruption probes in their home countries, received legal guarantees of state protection against extradition to face trial at home. Once again, we are confronted with an issue that many in the Global North love to pretend does not exist. Africa's "fantastically corrupt" governments are always cited as the reason behind the continent's state of underdevelopment. What is deliberately omitted by the Western loudmouths who recycle this talking point and infinitum is the foundational role that their own governments play in the acquisition, transfer and warehousing of stolen African state resources, as well as the shielding and protection offered to corrupt African government officials by the same Western governments that have a lot to say about "fighting corruption in Africa." Biggest Mack explores this topic for The Spearhead.

The Spearhead

197,795 次观看 • 1 个月前

PUTIN (2022?): "To a great extent, the level of prosperity that has been achieved in former colonial powers is grounded in the robbery of Africa, built on the grief and suffering of African people... Robbing and slavery, all of this has to be shown and taught as this is a crucial part of world history; to simply close the chapter on it is impossible and shouldn't be done. In the same way how the world should never forget what the Nazis did."
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PUTIN (2022?): "To a great extent, the level of prosperity that has been achieved in former colonial powers is grounded in the robbery of Africa, built on the grief and suffering of African people... Robbing and slavery, all of this has to be shown and taught as this is a crucial part of world history; to simply close the chapter on it is impossible and shouldn't be done. In the same way how the world should never forget what the Nazis did."

COMBATE |🇵🇷

368,059 次观看 • 3 年前

P.L.O. Lumumba: Africa's Greatest Threat Is ‘Compradors’ Serving Foreign Powers One of Africa's biggest problems isn't just foreign interference. It's the leaders who put foreign interests ahead of their own people. In this powerful excerpt from a speaking appearance in Rwanda, Kenyan author and academic P.L.O. Lumumba reflects on the idea of the 'comprador bourgeoisie' - the African political elite who, from the colonial era to today, have enabled outsiders to profit at Africa's expense while weakening the continent from within. His message is that Africa cannot keep negotiating as a collection of fragmented states that are siloed away from each other. Real strength, he says, lies in regional cooperation and ultimately, a stronger African Union that can defend the continent's collective interests.
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P.L.O. Lumumba: Africa's Greatest Threat Is ‘Compradors’ Serving Foreign Powers One of Africa's biggest problems isn't just foreign interference. It's the leaders who put foreign interests ahead of their own people. In this powerful excerpt from a speaking appearance in Rwanda, Kenyan author and academic P.L.O. Lumumba reflects on the idea of the 'comprador bourgeoisie' - the African political elite who, from the colonial era to today, have enabled outsiders to profit at Africa's expense while weakening the continent from within. His message is that Africa cannot keep negotiating as a collection of fragmented states that are siloed away from each other. Real strength, he says, lies in regional cooperation and ultimately, a stronger African Union that can defend the continent's collective interests.

The Spearhead

10,454 次观看 • 19 天前

1979, James Baldwin in the issue of the Nation: “But the state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of the Western interests. This is what is becoming clear (I must say that it was always clear to me). The Palestinians have been paying for the British colonial policy of "divide and rule" and for Europe’s guilty Christian conscience for more than thirty years.”
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1979, James Baldwin in the issue of the Nation: “But the state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of the Western interests. This is what is becoming clear (I must say that it was always clear to me). The Palestinians have been paying for the British colonial policy of "divide and rule" and for Europe’s guilty Christian conscience for more than thirty years.”

Bernadette

162,894 次观看 • 2 年前

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS WITHDRAWN FROM W.H.O. This is a very intelligent decision - One of the reasons is we were paying for most of it and W.H.O. was after ruling the world. The U.S.A. was paying $500 Million when we may have around 325 Million people in our country and China with 1.4 Billion people in their country was paying $39 Million. America has no business financing a Globalist organization that wants to dictate to America about health - the climate hoax - and what they label pandemics - They want to RULE the world.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS WITHDRAWN FROM W.H.O. This is a very intelligent decision - One of the reasons is we were paying for most of it and W.H.O. was after ruling the world. The U.S.A. was paying $500 Million when we may have around 325 Million people in our country and China with 1.4 Billion people in their country was paying $39 Million. America has no business financing a Globalist organization that wants to dictate to America about health - the climate hoax - and what they label pandemics - They want to RULE the world.

BelannF

61,387 次观看 • 3 个月前