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The moment Nigeria gets balkanized, that's when you'll realize that inside that your Yoruba Ronu, another Ronu dey inside.
Ijebu will start clamoring for regional autonomy in this new Oduduwa republic. Ekiti, Ijesha, Egba etc will all have competing interests.
You know why?
Because before the colonizers came, these people were not fucking...
dancing around in a circle holding hands and weeping with joy about how united in Oduduwa they were.
No.
They were literally putting bullets in each other's bodies and forcing each other into slavery in a multi century back and forth struggle.
There was no "Yoruba" in the homogenous nation state sense of the word.
And what about the middle belt? In Benue state for example, there are dozens (yes, DOZENS) of tribes who don't like each other and will not hesitate to pick up a knives or rifles to settle old scores.
The Fulani and Berom need no introduction.
Even in the core north, many young Hausa are increasingly discontent about the absolute political dominance of the Fulani despite outnumbering them.
Islam can only go so far to quell a people with so much latent resentment.
What about Igbo land?
Some Abia parents won't let their kids marry from the next village.
Anambra people turn up their noses at Ebonyi people and consider them lesser Igbos.
Okay nau.
By the time the "Ebonyi Liberation Movement" picks up EU-supplied rifles now to fight the "tyrants in Awka" everybody mind go dey.
When the "Imo Freedom Army" (IMA) suddenly pop out of nowhere and demand full control of the humongous reserves of natural gas deposits (up to 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas)...
And this same IMA starts bombing government buildings in Enugu and Anambra to get their point across....
Everybody go understand.
What about the South South where I'm from?
The rest of the Edo people most likely will not recognize the "divine" authority of the far away Oba of Benin and could pick up arms to settle their differences.
The Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri and dozens upon dozens of smaller tribes will 100% pick up every weapon they can find to secure the oil for themselves.
So Mr/Mrs. Secessionist, I want you to understand that the problems of neocolonialism, bad governance and bigotry you're running away from in Nigeria will not magically disappear the moment you get Biafra 2.0, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan or any other ethno state.
You will simply plunge this patch of West Africa into a multi pronged civil war that will last many many decades.
Sudan, Libya and Somalia will look like a paradise.
There will be total collapse of supply chains, bandits and terrorists would carve out their own territories and the colonizers will be arming every slack witted tribal chest thumping young man with a rusted AK47 to kill his fellow miserable black man so Mr. Colonizer can keep extracting Lithium, Oil and gold for dirt cheap.
You will waste generations and millions of people will starve to death .
This is one of the reasons I am so so militant about this.
The colonizers forced us together. That is true.
But it's up to us if we want to keep flinging sand and knives at each other, or if we want to work together toward prosperity for our future and our children.
A Nigeria that works for everybody is the way. Toss your stupid Biafra, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan ideas into the trash and light it on fire.
The brutal siege warfare between Iran and the Trump regime will be decisive - not just for Lebanon and Gaza, but for the world. With or without renewed military aggression, Iran will outlast Trump, and the evil empire will fall. That collapse will permanently diminish Zionism.
Let's talk about the legal architecture of American slavery for a moment.
Because the question of responsibility is not only about who sold whom to whom on the West African coast.
Responsibility also attaches to:
The Virginia legislature of 1662, which passed the law establishing that the status of a child followed the status of the mother, meaning that the children of enslaved women were born enslaved, regardless of their father's status.
This is the law that made slavery multigenerational and self-reproducing in the American context.
The United States Constitution, which counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for purposes of congressional representation, giving slaveholding states more political power, while denying them any legal personhood.
The Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850, which required citizens of free states to return escaped enslaved people to their owners.
The Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Black people had no rights that a white man was bound to respect.
These laws were written, passed, and enforced by white American legislators, judges, and presidents.
Tell me which African kingdom wrote those laws.
Tell me which African ruler sat on that Supreme Court.
Tell me where, in your VASTLY MORE, the Virginia legislature of 1662 appears.
The legal infrastructure of American slavery was entirely a white American construction.
Your argument does not touch it.
The Haitian Revolution terrified slaveholders across the Americas so completely that it accelerated abolitionist pressure in Britain, France, and the United States.
The enslaved people of Saint-Domingue did not end slavery only in Haiti.
Their victory shook the entire system.
Black people ended slavery for Black people, Andrew.
And the shockwave reached your "heroes."
The nation that arranged the poisoning of Toussaint Louverture of St Domingue ( Haïti) for demanding the end of slavery and the liberation of his people in 1803; that assassinated Ruben Um Nyobe, the Cameroonian independence leader hunted down and killed in 1958 by French forces before independence was even formally granted, that had Felix Moumie of Cameroon, poisoned in Geneva by his intelligence in 1960, that orchestrated the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio of Togo by soldiers of his colonial army in 1963, that armed and protected the man who murdered Thomas Sankara in 1987 and sheltered him for decades, that supported the destabilisation that led to the overthrow and death of Modibo Keita of Mali, that printed millions of fake currency to destroy the Guinean Franc after 8 failed assassination attempts at Sekou Toure because he stood his grounds and demanded independence, that stood behind the forces that removed and destroyed Patrice Lumumba, coordinating with Belgium and the CIA to ensure Congo’s most visionary independence leader did not survive his own government, that massacred at least 100,000 Malagasy people, 250,000 Cameroonians, 1.2 million Algerians between 1955 and 1962 simply because they demanded their independence.
The president of that nation, less than half a century after committing such atrocities stood before a room full of African heads of state in 2026 and declared itself the true Pan-Africanist. And not one of them stood up. Not one said: you cannot use that word: not here, not with that history on this continent. Not a single one had the dignity to say what any person with an elementary knowledge of what Pan-Africanism means and what France has done to those who practiced it would have said immediately and without hesitation.
It is the equivalent of a Nazi leader standing before a Jewish assembly and announcing that Germany is the true defender of the Jewish people. There are words that carry such historical mass that no political convenience, no diplomatic ambition, no funding arrangement justifies allowing them to be stolen and worn by those who spent generations trying to destroy what those words represent; Pan-Africanism is one of those words. And it was surrendered in that room without a fight, by men who were supposed to be there representing us.
France is not even a formidable power anymore. It cannot impose its will on its own European neighbourhood. Its economy is strained, its global influence is null, its African military presence has been expelled. It intimidates no one who has chosen not to be intimidated. And yet these boneless, prideless, senseless humans we call Africa leaders sat and applauded this humiliation ritual.
What breaks me is knowing that every generation, without fail, produces its quota of leaders who will trade the dignity of their people for a photograph with a western head of state, for a seat at a table that was never set for them. They dress it up as pragmatism and call it diplomacy. But it is the oldest and most contemptible transaction in the postcolonial playbook: the surrender of collective dignity for personal visibility.
And these are days, I will not pretend otherwise, where I genuinely wonder if we will ever be free. Not because the struggle is not real or the people are not capable, but because freedom requires leaders at the decisive moment, and every decisive moment seems to find us represented by spineless, glory-hunting, photograph-chasing men who would sell the graves of their own predecessors for a handshake with those that tried to erase their people. Every generation inherits the fight for freedom but also produces the cowards who auction it.
The slavery apologists said: but we fed them. Housed them. Gave them religion. Brought them from savagery into contact with civilization.
The colonial apologists said: but we built railways. Hospitals. Legal systems. Brought order to chaos. Raised the standard of living. Gave them modernity.
The contemporary apologists say: but we give aid. Promote democracy. Protect human rights. Stabilize fragile states. The world would be more violent without our presence.
The structure is identical across five hundred years.
The framing is always:
We gave. We brought. We raised. We provided.
The passive voice is always assigned to the other person.
They received. They were brought. They were raised. They were provided for.
Never:
They had. They built. They governed. They decided.
They were capable, before and without you, of existing as full human beings with the right to determine their own conditions.
That sentence.
That is the sentence that colonial ideology, in all its iterations, cannot say.
Because once you say it, once you actually believe it, not as a liberal sentiment but as a foundational reality, the entire justification structure collapses.
And all that's left is what it always was.
Taking.
Just taking.
From people who had every right to what you took.
Happy Birthday, David Hundeyin. @DavidHundeyin
You've spent your life giving Nigerians the gift of truth, context, and the courage to see clearly.
Today, we return a little of that back to you.
Thank you for existing. Thank you for not quitting. May this year bring you the kind of peace and strength that only comes to people who have chosen the harder, more honest path.
Happy birthday, my Chief. Nigeria is better because you're in it.
Hope the Nigerian big brains who had the absolute most to say have learned how to shut the fuck up and stop confusing their malaria hallucinations with objective reality.
The real world is not the Hollywood American superhero crap you've been fed all your life.
Your deity lost.