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[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

We Africans are told to forget our history, especially the genocide perpetrated by Europeans, but no one ever tells the so-called Jews, who still collect reparations from the Germans today, to forget their history. History is paramount for learning from the mistakes of the past.

[Fathers Diary @Fathers_Diary]

Man to man

The average milionaire is 57.
Not 21.

The average age to start a business is 43.
Not 23.

The average age to buy a house is 38.
Not 26.

The average age for a career pivot is 39.
Not 25.

Building animpressive physique takes 3 years.
Not 90 days

The average successful business takes 5-10 years.
Not 6 months.

So stop measuring your life against someone else's timeline.

You're not behind. You're still bulding. And you're right on time.

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

Every African should see this video of a bilateral discussion between President Emmanuel Macron of France and representatives from Burkina Faso.

No one has made me happier for and prouder of Africa than the ladies in the video. Ibrahim Traoré has the best brains around him.✍️

[FinestDoveTruth @FinestDoveTruth]

They will soon pay people to start attacking this guy..

Raw facts always!!

[Obidient 4 Life @AndrewOkere]

*If not this Lady, most of us in history wouldn't have known these facts from Nigeria to South Africa. Have you heard something like this before?*
The Internet does not forget history

[Jean Jacques Dessalines 🇭🇹🇵🇸🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇨🇺 @JeanJacquesDes7]

On May 25, 2026 Pope Leo issued an apology for the Catholic Church’s role in authorizing and legitimizing the enslavement of African people. The apology was buried on page 176 of a 245 paragraph document, an encyclical primarily focused on artificial intelligence.

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[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The forces that keep us divided as Africans are not always loud; sometimes they are subtle, systemic, and deeply ingrained. From colonial borders to language barriers, from misinformation to internalized mindsets, division has been engineered and sustained for generations.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Do you know that French-speaking countries in Africa take $500 million in loans every year just to buy school books from France?

Not laboratories, not research centers, not teachers’ training: poor quality school books filled with caricatured faces of Africans and racial slurs. Borrowed money, disbursed directly to French publishing houses, in exchange for textbooks written in Paris, printed in Paris, and shipped to African children who will spend their entire education believing this is normal. According to French state media @lemondefr in an article published 12 years ago, the same French parent company, Hatier and its subsidiary Hachette, controls roughly 95% of the school manual market across “Francophone” Africa.

And how do we fund such purchases annually through loans from the World Bank. And again, am not making up. It is clearly explained in the article published by Le Monde. Our nations do not even touch the money. The $500 million are disbursed directly as loans from the World Bank on behalf of our countries to the French publishing company annually to produce and print in France poorly written, racist school books that are shipped to our countries. We are the only enslaved people on the planet that take loans with interests to subsidize our own enslavement.

I am telling Angola this because Angola just made French compulsory in its primary schools from age ten. And I want to be precise about what it has joined, because imprecision is exactly what keeps these arrangements alive. Two years ago, Macron stood in front of cameras and presented a government memo laying out exactly how Paris intended to arrest its accelerating loss of influence across Africa. The remedy prescribed was linguistic and cultural penetration of non-Francophone countries. Angola and Ghana were designated priority targets. João Lourenço and Nana Akufo-Addo were identified as men whose cooperation could be secured. France came bearing curricula, resources, and a check. Both men apparently found the terms reasonable although may be luckily for Ghana, it is yet to be deployed.

Here is what is worth understanding about that check: France is not being generous. France is being desperate. The survival of French hegemony depends, structurally and existentially, on maintaining influence in Africa. 70% of all French speakers on earth live on this continent, concentrated in some of the poorest countries in the planet. Without Africa, the “Francophone world” is a provincial club with a prestigious accent and a shrinking membership. France does not “invest” in African language education because it loves Africa. It does so because without Africa, France is a medium-sized European country with a permanent UN Security Council seat it would struggle to justify.

And Angola, a country whose economy is now robust enough that Portuguese nationals emigrate there looking for work, decided that the gift it would give its ten-year-old children is access to a linguistic corridor that covers less than 8% of global scholarship and connects them to none of their SADC neighbors. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania: all English-speaking. The pragmatic choice, setting aside entirely the more principled argument for an African language, was obvious.

The saddest part is not that France keeps trying. France’s self-interest is consistent and entirely predictable. The saddest part is that some of our leaders keep making it so effortless for Paris to buy our dignity.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

Who Abolished Slavery?

You think there is no correlation between how we Africans have been engineered to look down on ourselves and to genuflect before those who oppressed us?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Who abolished slavery? Ask any fourth grader in Togo, and the answer comes without hesitation: Victor Schoelcher. Wake me from a deep sleep with that question, and my subconscious will answer before my eyes are open: Victor Schoelcher. Twenty-five years after leaving primary school, the colonial curriculum still lives in me like a reflex.

That is what was planted, and that is how thoroughly it took root. It is only the adult brain, the one lucky enough to stumble upon other literatures, other histories, other archives, that comes afterward to contest the first answer. But the first answer is always his name.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

That is what colonial schools taught. That is what post-colonial schools taught. That is what is still being taught today, by people placed in power precisely to ensure that the curriculum of self-erasure continues undisturbed.

Because in Francophone Africa, the abolition of slavery has one face, and it is this French man. And in twenty years of academic formation on this continent, from primary school through university, including my own years as a history major at the University of Lome, not once, not in a single classroom, not in a single textbook, was the Haitian Revolution mentioned.

Not once were we told that enslaved Black people organized, fought, and defeated the French army, that Haïti became the first Black nation in colonial Americas and the first nation in modern history to defeat a European power that practiced slavery through the resistance of the very people it had enslaved. Twenty years of “schooling”: not one mention of that historical fact. And this is just one example, on just one subject.

Because not once throughout my entire education in Togo was I introduced to a Black mathematician, a Black physicist, a Black inventor, a Black philosopher. Not once. But for those of us who were cursed with France, the French apparently discovered more than 70% of world knowledge and wrote more than 80% of the world’s books, because our curriculum was designed to make us believe that the smartest, most resourceful, most intellectually gifted humans to have ever walked the surface of this earth were French. When the data actually tells you that France contributes approximately 2% of the world’s scientific innovation. Two percent. And we were built, from childhood, to worship that two percent as the totality of human genius. I imagine the same arithmetic applied to British, or Portuguese colonies, just with a different flag. This just one subject. There are decades of damage underneath it, layered and compounding.

Which is why it is genuinely exhausting to wake up every single day and be expected to debate, with patience and good faith, people who were produced by these laboratories of engineered ignorance and who are entirely convinced that what was done to their minds was an education.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

He literally explains how to discover what you were born to do (in 2 mins)

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

In 1879, Ugandan healers were performing cesarean sections with a survival rate that stunned European doctors—while much of the "civilized" world still saw the procedure as a death sentence.

British explorer Robert Felkin documented the operation in detail. The surgeon used banana wine as an antiseptic, herbal anesthetics to manage pain, and cauterization with a hot iron to control bleeding. The mother survived. The baby survived. The technique worked.

This wasn't primitive luck. It was sophisticated medical knowledge passed down through generations—refined, systematic, life-saving.

Yet the dominant narrative tells us modern medicine arrived in Africa with colonizers and that before European intervention, the continent had no science, no innovation, no expertise.

But here's the contradiction: if African medical practices were so "backward," why were European observers documenting them with awe? Why were these techniques—rooted in empirical observation and botanical knowledge—producing outcomes that Europe itself struggled to achieve until the late 19th century?

The Buganda Kingdom had what the British Empire didn't: working cesarean sections that saved lives.

So what else were we doing that got erased, ignored, or rebranded as "discovered" by someone else?

Sources:
- Felkin, R. W. (1884). "Notes on Labour in Central Africa." Edinburgh Medical Journal
- Ajayi, J. F. (1965). Christian Missions in Nigeria 1841-1891. Northwestern University Press

Credit: African Echo

[Déjà vu @kennyoosha]

The difference between IFA and Voodoo and how it was used to gained first black independent by Haiti people.

Dr Umar Johnson speaks.

[Better Men @Better_men]

I think all men should see this video and allow it simmer

[Ish Sankara @100kara305]

Funny how we can literally go through a lifetime without stumbling on this information

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Reminds me of Gaddafi. No wonder he was assassinated

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Most Nigerians aren’t aware of this.

[Lux🌺 @justluxxxx]

Walking down the aisle to this

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

American Virologist Admits To Experimenting On Orphans, Babies, Africans

In a 2018 court hearing, renowned American virologist Stanley Plotkin – famous for developing the Rubella vaccine – admitted to using babies, orphans, homeless people, and nearly a million Africans in experimental trials to develop vaccines in the 1960s.

What Plotkin casually describes as “more or less common practice [at the time]” is in fact a testament to the true nature of his supposedly “advanced” civilization.

And one wonders how much has really changed since then, when just in 1996, American drug manufacturer Pfizer carried out an illegal vaccine trial on 200 children in Kano State, Nigeria, which killed at least 11 of those children and left a still unknown number with lifelong health problems.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Biopiracy; The “America First” strategy

When U.S. aid froze in January 2025, African health systems teetered. When it returned in September, it came with a price tag nobody expected.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is racing across the continent securing bilateral health deals. Kenya: $2.5 billion. Rwanda, Uganda $2.3 billion, Lesotho. The pitch? Pandemic preparedness. The fine print? 25-year access to African pathogen genetics, disease data, and population health records.

It's asset acquisition.

The U.S. bypassed the WHO to isolate vulnerable nations one by one, capitalizing on financial desperation to build data pipelines without global equity mandates. No patent-sharing requirements. No royalty frameworks. Just vague promises to "negotiate benefits later."
Here's what's at stake: In the age of AI-driven drug discovery and CRISPR gene editing, biological data is the new crude oil. Once African genomic data trains American biotech models, the value transfer is permanent. The U.S. gets breakthrough pharmaceuticals. Africa gets dashboards.

Kenya saw the trap. After the Consumer Federation filed suit, Justice Mwamuye issued an injunction blocking the deal and placing criminal liability on any official who facilitates the data transfer. The ruling echoed what 51 African nations said at the WHO: sharing data must guarantee sharing the cure and the profits.

But the damage is spreading. These agreements contain hidden coercion: restrict data flow and the U.S. restricts funding. Leaders are forced to trade long-term sovereignty just to keep hospitals running today.

Over 50 civil society organizations have sounded the alarm. By accepting "capacity building" instead of ownership, Africa risks handing over the keys to the next century of medicine.

Zimbabwe put it plainly at the WHO: equity cannot be negotiated after extraction has already occurred.

Kenya's resistance proves sovereignty can be reclaimed when societies stay vigilant. But with data already flowing from Uganda, Rwanda, and Lesotho, the question remains: will the rest of the continent follow suit or watch the heist unfold?

Genuine liberation requires generative sovereignty. The power to create and build, not just permission to be extracted from.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

What Africa needs for its survival and growth, which will show you how useless the African Union is.