Akóredé Surajudeen

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[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

They Fought For France In World War II, Then France Murdered Them

The World Anti-Fascist War – more commonly and misleadingly known as “World War II” – saw more than 1 million Africans fighting and dying for the West, fighting and dying for the parasitic entity that took everything away from them, in a war they neither started nor asked for.

In this report for The Spearhead, @okorieuche_ sheds light on one of the most chilling chapters in this saga, when France repaid hundreds of African men who had served in its ranks, by murdering them all.

[Stevenson C. Uzor @UzorStevenson]

🚨 Hear This!!!!

🎤 You survived a near Death Scenario and you are dancing and shouting in your church meanwhile everyone else is burying their children, their friends, their peers from that same scene.
You survived, that in itself is a reality to process. But turning mass tragedy into a VIP showcase of divine favoritism is where the narrative completely errs.
When you shout from the rooftops that God "saved only you," what comes to mind is that God chose to let everyone else burn, bleed, and die. It completely erases the humanity of the friends who didn't make it. It reduces their deaths to mere collateral damage in a divine plot written exclusively for your survival.
Are you celebrating your life, or are you secretly celebrating that you were chosen while they were discarded?
True gratitude for surviving a wreck should look like quiet humility.

Think about it! 🤔💭

[blue @bluewmist]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, "Never play fair in a game where others cheat." It doesn't mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they'll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@Stacher_le @iamPrincipality @daveplayblogger Keep shut ode.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@onu_slim "typical Yoruba elders do..." said everything perfectly well but without smearing a whole tribe you feel your message isn't well driven. A proper fool!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The most insidious form of mind control is when people manage to colonise the very meaning of words. Words are what humans use to describe and interpret reality, so whoever controls the use of words controls how humans perceive reality.

So you hear "Democracy" and ypu instantly think "USA", or you hear "Dictatorship" and you instantly think "China". Meanwhile what is the dictionary definition of the word "democracy"? Government of the people, for the people, by the people.

Is the US government a government "of" the people? No, it's actually a government of a small group of rich white men who control absolutely everything from abortion law to music record labels. They fund and control a political doupoly where nothing changes as power passes back and forth between both parties, except some peripheral culture war bullshit. The will of "the people" is not meaningfully represented and they have no actual say in how they are governed because the extent of their involvement in the system is to vote for either the blue or the red branch of the same system owned by Peter ThielMuskWinklevossGatesEllisonEpsteinvonWhiteManberg.

Is it a government "for" the people? Fuck no, even Americans will tell you that. The purpose of the US government is to help rich white people become richer at the expense of everybody else including poor white people. There is literally a court decision (Citizens United) which gives unrestricted power to US corporations over US electoral compaigns. Meanwhile, the US has the world's largest population of imprisoned people (most of whom are used as slave labour because prisons naturally, are part of their economic system), as well as a shocking prevalence of homelessness for a supposedly wealthy country.

Is it a government "by" the people? Not even close. Americans know as little about their government and the things it does as people who have never been there. No American ever voted for their government to fund terrorists in your country halfway around the world, or create and arm drug cartels in your country that can't locate on a map, or fund colour revolutions and regime change operations in your country on the other side of the planet whose name they can't pronounce. Yet their government does all these things and more, because they have no real involvement in or visibility over how it works.

But that is a "Democracy". And not just any democracy - THE "democracy".

Yet China, where citizens understand exactly how their government operates; where the process of entering government is entirely transparent, accessible and obvious to everyone with no hidden infrastructure or secret societies controlling anything behind the scenes; where the state exists entirely to serve the Chinese people and make their lives better instead of getting embroiled in multiple foreign wars and genocidal adventurism; where 96% of Chinese households own their own home; where the state has been able to build the world's only national bullet train network - that is the nation that is apparently "not democratic."

Using the dictionary definition of "Democracy", China is in fact a "Democracy" and the US runs a feudalist system of governance.

But when you colonise the dictionary and dominate what people take into their brains everyday for several decades, this entirely factual tweet becomes "controversial".

That is literally mind control.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@Ewai_koko @eagleseyeinc What's working out? He literally destroyed everything.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@elnathan_john Arrogant people feel disrespected easily. That line between respect and disrespect is usually blur to them. Infact for this reason they're usually skeptical and unnecessarily sensitive to other people's actions towards 'em. I'm saying this cos I know an arrogant person.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@mightguy__1 @Lexy_230 @DavidHundeyin Why not make your own sound let's hear?

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@Joe_brendan_ You're obviously low in thinking. Religion or not, both cases are grave injustice.

[BODE @neverelent]

If you ask me for money and I don't reply,
please don't assume it's arrogance or that I'm
ignoring you.
Sometimes I simply don't have it, and I may not
be comfortable explaining why because not
every personal struggle needs to be shared for
my "no" to be valid. Please respect my silence
as much as you would respect my honesty 🙏🏽

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

How the CIA interfered in Nigeria’s intellectual development to prevent socialist class consciousness.

In the 1960s, when Capitalist America was locked in a high-stakes Cold War with the Soviet Union, the CIA was completely terrified that newly independent African intellectuals, fresh off the heels of throwing off European colonial chains, would naturally embrace Soviet communism, Marxist-Leninist class analysis, and radical anti-capitalist revolutions against their former Western colonizers. Instead of deploying fighter jets, heavy artillery, and ballistic missiles to fight this specific ideological battle, the CIA masterfully weaponized money, art, academic funding, and literature. Their calculated goal was to gently, subliminally steer the brightest African minds toward Western liberal democracy, competitive individualism, and free-market capitalism, and decisively away from revolutionary, socialist class consciousness.

The CIA obviously could not openly hand over dollar bills to proud Nigerian writers, because this was the fiery era of sovereign, anti-colonial struggles against Western imperialism, and absolutely no self-respecting, anti-colonial intellectual would ever accept direct funding from Washington. So, the CIA brilliantly funneled millions of dollars through a highly sophisticated, covert front organization called the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), and a philanthropic shell foundation called the Farfield Foundation. Operating out of its luxurious headquarters in Paris, the CCF presented itself as a wealthy, independent, and progressive organization dedicated strictly to promoting "freedom of expression", sponsoring literary magazines, and supporting avant-garde artists worldwide. In reality, every single cent of its operational budget was directed, controlled, and funded by the CIA.

To prevent militant, socialist networks from ever forming on the continent, the CIA recognized that it needed to build, control, and monopolize the physical platforms where African intellectuals gathered, ensuring these spaces were firmly, safely aligned with Western interests. In 1961, the historic Mbari Club was founded in the university town of Ibadan, Nigeria. It rapidly became the most vibrant, electrifying, and celebrated center for literature, theater, poetry, and visual arts in West Africa. It served as the ultimate gathering place for Nigeria's rising literary titans, including Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and J.P. Clark. What these brilliant, fiercely patriotic young Nigerians did not know was that the Mbari Club was heavily, consistently subsidized by the CIA through the Farfield Foundation and the CCF. By secretly funding the lease of the building, the publishing costs of their journals, the travel allowances of the writers, and the logistics of their events, the CIA successfully ensured that the very epicenter of Nigerian intellectual life was tied to Western patronage and not Soviet sponsorship.

This initial reality does seem highly counterintuitive and paradoxical because it was inside this exact Mbari Club that some of the most powerful, enduring Pan-African thoughts were conceived. Chinua Achebe published "Things Fall Apart", which contained a powerful anti-colonial consciousness that permanently shattered the racist Western propaganda claiming Africans had no history, culture, or civilization prior to the arrival of white men with their gunboats. Additionally, Wole Soyinka wrote "A Dance of the Forests" to sharply interrogate the political hubris of the newly independent political class, Christopher Okigbo composed his prophetic, avant-garde modernist poetry, and J.P. Clark captured the visceral human textures of local life. These monumental, anti-colonial Pan-African works were successfully produced largely because the CIA did not openly tell Nigerian writers what to write, or try to dictate their creative processes.

If the CIA had literally walked into the Mbari Club in Ibadan and tried to explicitly dictate, censor, or micromanage the conversations, brilliant, uncompromising minds like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe would have rejected them and thrown them out immediately. Instead, the CIA brilliantly used its funding to act as a silent, invisible gatekeeper. They did not have to physically silence, ban, or arrest radical Marxist writers. They simply, strategically made sure that the non-Marxist, liberal writers had the biggest megaphones, the widest distribution networks, and the highest international platforms. By quietly funding the Mbari Club's rent, covering their publishing costs, and bankrolling their international travel to prestigious global conferences, the CIA successfully ensured that writers who focused on individualism, local culture, and bourgeois aesthetics became celebrated global superstars. Meanwhile, radical writers who focused on working-class solidarity, anti-capitalist struggles, and socialist revolutions remained underfunded, unpublished, and completely obscure.
The CIA in the 1960s was perfectly fine with, and even actively promoted, anti-colonialism, cultural negritude, and African artistic pride. What they were absolutely terrified of was class warfare. They desperately wanted to steer African intellectuals toward Cultural Nationalism (the safe, performative celebration of African identity) and decisively away from Marxist Socialism (which involved organizing, educating, and arming the peasantry to overthrow capitalist structures).

The CIA could care less how the newly independent African celebrated their tribal heritage, and whatever beautiful poetry they wrote about the glory of their ancestors was none of their business. They would happily, enthusiastically promote you even if you fiercely criticized European racism, British colonialism, or white supremacy. They could easily tolerate all of these cultural protests so long as Nigeria's massive oil wealth, raw resources, and cash crops continued to flow to Western capitals completely uninterrupted. What they were absolutely terrified of, and heavily, invisibly censored, was class consciousness. Writers who explored socialist ideas, class struggle, and anti-capitalist revolutions were simply not eligible for Western funding, international distribution, or global marketing, which successfully ensured that their works were buried completely away from public view. This was because they knew that if the African working class were enlightened about Marxist thought, they would immediately rebel against the local comprador class, organize general strikes, and dismantle the entire capitalist system that has reduced them to peasants in their own homeland. It is also critically important to emphasize that the CIA was perfectly happy to see the Mbari Club uplift the colonized African. This is because the primary motive for spending millions of dollars funding the Mbari Club was absolutely not about stopping the intellectual "uplifting" of Africans, but rather about completely controlling how they were uplifted.

It is crucial to note that the young Nigerian writers were completely unwitting, innocent participants. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and others had absolutely no idea that their creative sanctuary was secretly being funded by American intelligence agents.
In 1967, courageous investigative journalists exposed the fact that the CCF and the Farfield Foundation were actually covert CIA fronts. African intellectuals across the continent felt deeply betrayed, humiliated, and outraged. However, by that time, the CIA's covert mission had already largely succeeded: the foundational, defining era of post-colonial Nigerian literature and intellectual thought had been established, funded, and firmly anchored in Western liberal traditions, successfully steering an entire generation of our greatest thinkers completely away from Soviet socialism.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@Egokuwait It's high table that mostly drop the big fund to support the event.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@Seyon600 @xinorino @marcus077777 😂

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

Anyday you find yourself criticizing others, never be too uptight to the point of refusing to see from their angle. At times you don't know the real feel of a situation, until you're in it. "It can never be me!...," walai it can be like you like mad, and nothing will happen.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@OpeyemiDrift Credit alert? Road *fuvking* safety paid you. Dey play.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@MrMekzy_ Amin 🤲🏾

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

Don’t ever model your life around anyone or take so rigidly to a belief system that you become blind to opposing precepts. People change, beliefs transmute. Learn to learn.

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@StephenGbor2 @BSAT_Properties 😂

[Akóredé Surajudeen @Aristotle004]

@Taiwo_junzi Oga, no think am. Dey play 😂😂