I find it astounding that Christians believe Heaven is this beautiful place with breathtaking natural landscapes, where all your needs are met, there’s no war or hunger, and everyone lives in harmony, yet here on Earth, they call it socialism and say it’s evil.
@sholard_mancity Blacks were systemically exterminated in Argentina to keep the population exclusively white. Africans must be so masochistic to support such a history.
Festus Iyayi was an irredeemable Marxist academic who aggressively, publicly criticized Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and the entire older Mbari Club generation for being intellectually bourgeois and completely lacking in scientific class consciousness.
Iyayi and a highly defiant younger generation of radical writers emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s, and openly identified themselves as Marxist-Leninists. Soyinka would routinely mock them in the press as performative "leftocrats".
In 1979, Festus Iyayi published his powerful novel titled "Violence", where he brutally argued that the true, devastating violence in Nigeria was not just physical crime, but the invisible, systemic, and structural violence of capitalism exploiting, extorting, and stripping poor workers of their basic human dignity. General Ibrahim Babangida, who was then the ruthless Nigerian military dictator running the country with full Western backing, repeatedly harassed Iyayi, sacked him from his university post, and threw him into cold detention cells for his radical ASUU activism. Years later, Iyayi met a tragic and highly mysterious end when his vehicle was violently rammed by a speeding government governor's convoy, a suspicious "accident" that left circular, bullet-like holes in his chest, which clearly points to a targeted state assassination.
So, while Festus Iyayi and his radical Marxist groups were being systematically silenced, blacklisted, and harassed, Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe were being comfortably elevated as celebrated national heroes. Chinua Achebe's books were breaking global record sales, while Soyinka was proudly awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature. This is precisely why you have to ask yourself the critical, highly uncomfortable, and necessary question: both of these men frequently protested against the government, much like Omoyele Sowore does today, and both wrote fine, progressive works on Pan-African thought. Yet, why exactly were they granted such a robust, protected global platform and international praise despite the brutal, highly censorial military climate of their time?
This is the exact moment you must recognize that the Western imperial powers and their intelligence agencies do not feel threatened in the slightest when you merely criticize their local puppets in power, complain about bad governance, or write proud, romanticized Pan-African thoughts. They are actually perfectly happy when you call them racists, proudly promote your native African attire, wear traditional beads, speak in indigenous tongues, perform local folklore, or demand symbolic reparations for historical slavery. They can easily, comfortably tolerate all of these cultural displays, so long as Nigeria's massive oil wealth, raw minerals, and national resources continue to flow to Western capitals completely uninterrupted. This is why it is absolutely not surprising that social media posts criticizing French neocolonialism and British imperialism on the African continent continue to generate millions of viral views. They are delighted with this safe, purely "race-based" analysis. But the very second you start employing rigorous "class analysis", expose the local comprador bourgeoisie, and begin to promote pure "Marxist" thoughts of organizing the working class to seize the means of production, they immediately, aggressively stifle your voice and completely bury your revolutionary work away from public view.