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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I spoke about this insidious undermining of the basic concept of Nigerian and African nationhood by US-linked entities like the so-called "Pearlville School" on @RT_com yesterday.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Everyone else has their struggle and nobody asks them to dilute it so that other people can feel included. There are West Asian struggles, South Asian struggles, Pacific Islander struggles, East Asian struggles, Latin American struggles, Balkan struggles, Australian aboriginal struggles, Native American struggles and Central Asian struggles.

They are all allowed to exist and breathe independently. Nobody ever accused those struggles of taking anything away from a wider socialist struggle.

Only when it comes to the African struggle must we be constantly lectured about why we must accommodate this or that group of virulently anti-black people in our African struggle, or else we will split this or that movement - allowances that literally nobody in the history of the planet has ever made for us.

Look, we know that there is a global anti-imperial struggle that links all our struggles, and we know the shared history we have with the likes of Cuba, Palestine, China, Russia etc. Nobody is going to make us stop collaborating with those whose partnerships have been mutually beneficial.

But nobody is going to convince me that I should not focus on creating the same moat and ringfence that everybody else enjoys. Everyone else on earth has nationalism as an intrinsic feature of their struggle without anyone making faces at them for it - why is it Africa that must dissolve itself into some formless global "working class" kumbaya fantasy that clearly nobody else subscribes to? Why must we be the test subjects for what nobody else is willing to do?

Why are black people always held to ideological standards that nobody else is held to? Why didn't Mao or Lenin organise their revolutions around this amorphous "global proletariat"? Why did they build strong nation states instead? Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan? Was it the "capitalist ruling class" that developed the bomb and flew the plane to drop it over Hiroshima, or did it use the air force of the United States Military to do that? Why does it need the apparatus of a nation state to impose its will on the world?

Why is this "capitalist ruling class" never able to impose its will anywhere except where it controls the levers of the state? Why have the only successful attempts to oppose this "capitalist ruling class" taken place through a powerful, well organised nation state acting in opposition? Why has all the world's "working class solidarity" not been able to stop innocent Palestinians from being exploded into bits with their families, but it is the IRGC and the well organised, industrial nation-state of Iran that has been able to stop a similar fate from befalling Iranian people?

If nationalism is just a bourgeiosie idea to serve local elites, then why does the "capitalist ruling class" invest billions of dollars every year on secessionist movements and rebel armies aiming to break up nation-states? If African nationalism represents a less important goal than this hypothetical global socialist utopia, then why do the powerful states controlled by the "capitalist ruling class" work so hard to kill or silence every single notable person who pushes African nationalism?

Why did they kill Patrice Lumumba? Why was Kwame Nkrumah overthrown after several failed attempts on his life? Why have there been multiple French-backed attempts on Ibrahim Traore's life? Why did they ignore Gadaffi for decades but the minute he paid for Africa's first communications satellite and put down Libyan state money to fund African replacements for the IMF and World Bank, plus gold reserves to back a continental currency - the things needed to unite Africa into a sovereign, continental nation-state - they immediately rushed every asset they had into Libya and didn't stop until they had him on video being anally raped with a knife on CNN? Why did they take down African Stream?

The STATE is the biggest asset and weapon that can be wielded by any group of people. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can go from a small island in the Atlantic to an empire covering two-thirds of the world. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can resist that empire and its successor, and prevent your people from becoming imperial roadkill. The entire reason why Africa is in its current situation is precisely because it has NO STATE, and its ability to create one is being actively sabotaged on a daily and ongoing basis, including through funding ideological subversion to convince Africans that there is an alternative to developing serious state capacity, either through Frank Zanu/Magatte Wade-style capitalism-raises-the-dead nonsense, or through woolly-headed Supermarxist trash.

Anybody who tells me as an African that I should devote my energy to chasing some formless, utopian "global proletariat revolution" instead of building a pragmatic, Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean-style political revolution that births an industrial African state with the power to feed and defend itself, is just as useless to me as Magatte Wade telling me that the solution to my problems is to sell part of my country to Peter Thiel and gratefully let the new sovereign Epstein Island douse me with its hot, steaming American capitalism.

I will focus on Pan-Africanism and sovereignism. Africa will always come first for me before any of your other -isms. Anyone who doesn't like it, that's too bad. I didn't write the rules and I'm simply doing the same thing everybody else on this planet does - looking out for me and my own first. I'm not interested in being percecived as morally 'better' than anybody. That 'better' shit is what got my ancestors colonised and that's why I'm a black West African who speaks English and answers to "David" today. We don't repeat our ancestors' mistakes here.

In the everlasting words of Fela Kuti, TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE.

[President Eniola Daniel @UnlimitedEniola]

No Sharia Law In Burkina Faso- Traore
“I am a Muslim, but everyone in Burkina Faso has the right to practice their own religion. There will never be Sharia law in this country.
“To those Burkinabè studying Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, do not return to Burkina Faso. Instead of acquiring technological knowledge and skills that can help develop our country, you chose to study Sharia law. Stay where you are, you won't be allowed back here- President Traore

[De Black Star ★ @niq_black]

We are the only continent, the only race trying to be more Arab than Arabs, more European than Europeans, more American than Americans, and more religious than the places Christianity and Islam actually came from.

We literally want to be everything except ourselves

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

And now, the episode you’ve all been waiting for. My fellow Nigerians, behold, Emi lo kan.

#powerandplunder16

[Abu The 𓃵 @Abu_The_Truth]

Look at this.

This country banned Democracy.

Pro-East(China, Russia, Iran, NK)

Total ban on BBC, CNN, FOX 24 media and sponsored Media.

53% Muslim, 47%Christian but nobody wants Jihad or a Caliphate.

If you still can't tell the sources of your problem, you must be re_tarded.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

foReIgn iNterFerEnCe iN nIgEria iS a cOnsPirACy tHeOry pUsHed bY tHaT hUndeYin and hIS dUmB fOllOweRs wHo jUsT wAnT tO bLamE tHE
WhItE mAn fOr eVerYthIng inStEaD oF tAKinG rEsPonSibIliTy

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus.

Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same.

Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading.

This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it.

We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

After months of hard work across 4 countries, my latest documentary 'What Happened On October 29' is now playing on @YouTube:
https://t.co/HHOcUaDGJU

[Tall in complexion and 1278 others @_vheencent]

Omo you guys lied when you said the worst she can say is no.
I approach one 6ft tall kele just now with serious yansh for iwofe,
I Say we should catch a drink or two sometime so we can get acquainted.
She ask me weda she look like drunkard, I just burst laugh leave am cross road🤣🤣

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Your current president falsified the credentials he submitted to INEC. He literally lifted some of them from a website you can go and check today.

Go and arrest him, then come back and talk.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Did you know that if you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants together in a jar, they usually coexist peacefully? But if you shake the jar hard, they immediately turn on each other and start killing one another. The red ants see the black ants as enemies, and the black ants see the red ants as enemies. Yet the real enemy is the one shaking the jar.
The same thing happens in human society. Before we turn on each other, we should stop and ask ourselves: who is shaking the jar?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

They never do.

I've said for years that almost nobody in Nigeria has experienced actual love before, whether male or female. Not from their romantic partners, not from their family, not even from their parents. It's all an unhealthy soup of unprocessed emotions, theatre performance and the worst kind of unbridled capitalism.

Nigerian relationships are characterised by a lot of things. Things like Desire. Lust. Dependency. Codependency. Convenience. Need. Force.

Love is unfortunately not one of them.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Kwame Ture Speaks on African Unity

In this excerpt from a 1992 lecture on Pan-Africanism and African unity at Florida International University, Miami, USA, political activist and revolutionary Kwame Ture (1941 – 1998) speaks about what it means for Africans to be truly united, and how history offers important lessons about the way forward for the continent.

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Carmichael) was a Trinidadian-born, U.S-raised activist, who was a key figure in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the United States, and a lifelong champion of Pan-Africanism. He was most notable in his later years as the chief organizer for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), founded in the late 1960s by former Ghanaian President and Pan-Africanist icon Kwame Nkrumah (1909 - 1972) – in whose honor Ture took on his new first name.

Ture’s thoughts are apt at a time when Africa faces – for the first time in generations – the threat of direct colonial occupation by Western powers, who are desperate to shore up their dwindling influence on a world that no longer believes in the fiction of Western superiority.

Some African nations, like Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, see the coming storm for what it is, and are moving accordingly. It is left to the rest of the continent to follow suit.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The Bible was unequivocally used to enslave Africans.

I know most Africans shy away from this debate because their entire identity, from childhood, was forged through blind obedience to a colonial text and bowing before a white Jesus on a crucifix.
But if we are serious about liberating the Black mind, we must strip emotion from revolutionary debates and embrace cold pragmatism.

If it were merely a matter of "misinterpreting" the Bible, that would be a minor issue.
But the entire Christian Church was an active participant, serving as the spiritual guarantor of the transatlantic slave trade.
Bishops owned massive plantations.
Priests stood on the docks and blessed the slave ships before they set sail for the African coast to steal human beings.

They want you to believe that it was Christian abolitionists who ended slavery because they desperately need to bury the truth that Black people fought and defeated the imperialists themselves.

This mainstream narrative presents the European colonizer as a morally conflicted savior who, upon reading the scriptures with sudden clarity, realized the error of his ways and valiantly legislated the end of human bondage. It is a historical fraud.

Slavery ended the exact same way the British colonial empire collapsed, and the exact same way the Americans retreated from Vietnam.
In each of these scenarios, the system of murder and plunder ended not because the imperialists suddenly developed a human conscience, but because the oppressed fought back with such ferocity that the system became physically unmanageable and financially fatal.

The Haitian Revolution was the ultimate trigger. It was the nightmare that spelled out to the colonizers, in blood and fire, that chattel slavery was simply too dangerous and expensive to sustain.

In the late eighteenth century, the enslaved population of Saint-Domingue did not wait for the French parliament to debate their humanity.
They rose up in the dark of night, set the sugarcane fields ablaze, and launched a war of total annihilation against their captors. Under the brilliant military strategies of leaders like Toussaint and Dessalines, the Black army utterly decimated the French forces.

They defeated the Spanish. They defeated the British. They destroyed the mighty legions of Napoleon Bonaparte, forcing the greatest military empire of the era to its knees.

Haiti proved to the global slavocracy that the African was perfectly capable of slaughtering his master, establishing a sovereign nation, and defending it against the combined empires of the world.

This terrifying reality fundamentally altered the calculus of European colonization. They realized that if they pushed the African too far, every single colony in the Americas would eventually become another Haiti.

In Brazil, Jamaica, and across Latin America, enslaved people did not wait for saviors. They escaped the plantations, fled into the mountains, and established fiercely independent, heavily fortified sovereign cities. The Portuguese and British regiments that tried to penetrate these fortresses were ambushed and slaughtered.

All of this was happening long before the so-called white abolitionists started penning their polite manifestos in European parlors. So understand this clearly: the British Parliament did not abolish slavery out of the goodness of their Christian hearts. They abolished it because the cost of deploying military armadas to put down perpetual, massive slave rebellions was bankrupting the colonial treasury.

Finally: labeling your own ancestral culture and tradition as "idol worship" is the clearest proof that you are still wearing colonial chains.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

This is the DEMOCRACY they want Africa to copy.

It matters what Americans think, but when they oppose the Trump/Netanyahu war in Iran, it no longer matters Americans think.

Flip flopping democracy.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

I actually wish the United States could help Peter Obi secure the presidency, because the outcome would make a lot of people receive sense.

He genuinely cares and would attempt to change things, or as he calls it, dismantle the criminal system, but there is no way he can do that without incurring America’s wrath. And if he chooses to please America, Tinubu’s failures would be child’s play compared to how disastrous his American-approved tenure would be.

There is no way Peter Obi can do what’s right for Nigeria (which begins with resource nationalization) without being seen as a dictator, and I don’t imagine he has the disposition for that. But in the unlikely event that he does, then be prepared to witness GEJ 2.0.

The same civil society rallying around him would be the instrument used against him. I can bet my life savings that Aisha Yesufu would be the first to carry placard to Unity Fountain to start yapping, “This is not the Peter Obi we voted for.” There will at least 11,000 new NGOs that will be dedicated to “strengthening democratic institutions” and “holding the President to account.” He will travel with his wife to any terror hit area, but upon leaving there will be another attack. He will be called incompetent and clueless. You will never hear anyone mention state governors again. All the bucks will remember they stop at the President’s table. You will begin to wonder if it is the same Presidency that Buhari and Tinubu did.

The only way he succeeds is if his rise to power is 100% locally driven. Once foreign actors (America, Britain, France etc) get involved, forget it. I know clout chasers and civil society merchants will try to tell you otherwise, but you have to understand that the situation I’ve just described is exactly what they want, because that’s how they survive –American grants to be perpetual protesters.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The average Nigerian is pro-West by default, and the blame lies squarely at the feet of the educational engine we operate in this country.
This is why I've always maintained that every current effort to "improve" the Nigerian education is nothing but an exercise in futility.

Let them continue to pour billions into renovating crumbling school blocks under the dire delusion that painting the walls of a prison contributes to the national good.

Let them continue to "smuggle" AI and robotics into a curriculum designed to produce 19th-century colonial clerks, hoping that somehow, through some miracle, we can sprout a Silicon Valley from a soil soaked in colonial ink.

Let them keep hosting "Education Summits" in five-star hotels to discuss "global competitiveness" while their students are being trained to be strangers in their own land.

Let them keep chasing "global rankings" that were designed to measure how well we mimic our slave masters.

Then, one day, when we finally wake from this deep, induced slumber, we will do exactly what China did to transform from a broken territory into a formidable global force.

We will start by dismantling every single American and British international schools on Nigerian soil.
Not through regulation, but through the complete and unified closure of these factories of alienation.

We will incinerate the foreign textbooks used to sterilize the minds of our youth and replace them with the hard truths of our own African heritage.

After we have cleared the foreign outposts, we will turn our gaze to the national curriculum, which is the heart of the beast, from Nursery 1 to SS3.
This Lord Lugard curriculum cannot be reformed, patched, or "decolonized."
It is a blueprint for mental bondage.

We will burn the school curriculum on live television, a national bonfire for all to see, marking the definitive end of neo-colonialism.

In its place, we will assemble a phalanx of Pan-African experts to forge a curriculum that reflects African values, African history, and an African future.

Next, we will shutter every higher college and university in the country.
We will lock the gates until the "Liberal Arts" poison education we operate, which only prepares our best minds to be high-level corporate slaves for Western conglomerates, is completely purged from the system.

We will pivot with clinical, state-driven aggression toward Technical Sovereignty. We will restructure the African mind to solve African problems using African resources.
Our engineers will not be trained to maintain Western machinery; they will be trained to invent our own.
Our scientists will not be taught to seek validation in Western journals; they will be channel that energy into harnessing our minerals to feed our people.

Only when we have the courage to burn the bridge to the West can we hope to see the rise of the truly educated Pan-African.

This is what China did and today they leading the world in technology and innovation.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

One day in September 2001, when I was a tiny 11 year-old starting secondary school at Atlantic Hall, back when it was located at Maryland, Mrs Adepoju the class teacher announced a group exercise as an icebreaker. All of us were to write our dream holiday location on a piece of paper, and one by one we would read out what we had written.

She started from the other end of the class, so I got to hear multiple answers before it got to my turn. The answers were basically "London", "America", "London", "London", "London", "London", "London", "UK", "London", "London"...

Now for context, I was already reasonably well travelled at the time, and even though my family was not the kind to go off on a jaunt to London at every given opportunity like some of my new peers, I had been privileged to travel fairly extensively around Africa, and I was visually familiar enough with the places being mentioned to know that people from London generally looked forward to going on holiday to warmer parts of the world in Africa, Asia, Southern Europe and Latin America.

I also knew from personal experience that people from "America" and "London" could be found in their thousands enjoying holidays in Lomé, Zanzibar and Accra. You would often find me as the sole African kid surrounded by white kids playing together in the lobby or private beachfront of Lomé's Hotel Deux Fevrier or Hotel Sarakawa whenever my family was in town.

In addition, the travel sections in the Newsweek, TIME and Readers Digest magazines that my dad bought every week made it clear that safari tours in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa were among the most highly rated holiday experiences on earth. These experiences were so exclusive that it would actually be easier for a Nigerian to take a trip to London than to go on safari in Kenya.

I'm providing all this context to explain why it seemed pretty obvious to me that writing "Kenya" as my dream holiday destination was a valid and reasonable choice. Instead, what happened when it got to my turn was that I read out "safari in Kenya" - and the rest of the class burst into laughter and giggles. I was utterly confused at first. Did they not hear me correctly?

They did.

As one of them helpfully explained in between subsequent chortles, "We're talking about places like London and New York, what is *Kenya*?" The inference of course, was that *Kenya*, located in Africa as it was, did not belong in the same conversation as "London" when discussing destinations.

What constituted a "dream holiday" for these children of Nigeria's elite was a Virgin Atlantic economy class ticket to Gatwick Airport, a 4-week stay with their NHS auxillary nurse aunty and her 2 kids in a cramped 2-bedroom council terrace in High Wycombe, and an Oxford Street shopping rampage yielding 50kg of excess baggage for the return trip, filled with WH Smith pencils and Primark clothes to show off to each other at the end of term party.

While the actual inhabitants of London used monthly payment plans to save up for their once in a lifetime Thomson package holiday tour in Kenya, these ghettofabulous sons and daughters of the Nigerian "elite" looked forward to a cold, uncomfortable experience on a miserable umbrella island as their "dream holiday". Not because it was a dream holiday, but because that was the social expectation they all enforced on each other.

And if you knew better, they *laughed* you.

That day was the first time I experienced something that I have gone on to experience many, many times over the intervening 25 years of my Nigerian life - the existential dread of being surrounded by people whose information level is so far below the one I operate with that we genuinely have almost nothing in common.

It's an experience I am so used to that I no longer bother to explain myself to Nigerians. The people who think that London is a dream holiday destination definitely think that "Iran is a terrorist regime that murdered 30,000 protesters."

Of course they do.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

If you sing about k!lling nigg*s, J£wish music executives and media owners will amplify you and profit off it, but if you go after the Group That Shall Not Be Criticised, you lose everything and get banned from the UK.

@Big_Mck for @Spearhead_Af