Imadu

I be Africa man original

[Cole Jaczko @colejaczko]

Nah. 27 to 33 is when you enter the portal to the most beautiful version of your life

27 is when you take the leap
28 shows you who you are. Forced to sink or swim, you realize what you’re truly capable of
29 the vision becomes clear. You double down on yourself
30 you begin doing the best work of your life
31 is your meteoric rise
32 living a life better than your wildest dreams
33 is when your partner comes into your life and you begin build the next foundation to the rest of your life

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

Most Africans view eating junk food as a sign of class, luxury or a big flex.

Who bewitched us?

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

The greatest idiot is the one who thinks he's being emotionally kind to people. There is no such thing as emotional kindness, most of the time, it's just stupidity disguised as virtue.

If you want to help someone, help them and get the fuck out of their life. Don't linger around waiting to be worshipped for your kindness. Don't turn your good deed into a performance. Don't write stories for the media.

Real help expects nothing in return, not gratitude, not admiration, not a monument built around your ego.

[Manjul Vic🦅 @VictorManjul]

I Bought my first car in 2024
I Bought a plot of land in Jos
I Bought another in Port Harcourt
I Started Saving as an adult in 2024
I built my pig farm, & established in 2025

A single emergency: My Mom’s illness in 2026, made me sold & cleared everything, including my Savings‼️⚠️

This is LIFE in Nigeria.

You can struggle to build your life as a young person, without government support, but a single emergency can have everything crash, right before your eyes.

You will start life all over again, without support!

All because we don't have a Government‼️

When you see me put in extra efforts to sensitize people on voter registration & participation,

I am simply pushing for the installation of a people-oriented leader, who would establish a functional system/country that benefits and supports all Nigerians.

I am a VICTIM of NIGERIA⚠️

As an only son, who lost his father & 7 other family members to insecurity,

Family members who would have been a support system

Imagine pushing through life alone to attain a certain milestone, only to crash back to square one!😪

Nigeria has happened to me in ways you can't imagine, so I'm making efforts to see that it doesn't happen to others

PETER OBI will build a NIGERIA that supports you, not one that impoverishes you & feeds you bread crumbs.

Our only chance at having a decent FUTURE as Nigerian youths, is a PETER OBI presidency!

#NigeriaWillBeOK

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Tanzania Is Our Strait Of Hormuz - Dr Maponga to Tanzanian Journalists

At the screening of 'What Happened on October 29?', Dr. Maponga had a direct message for Tanzanian journalists: Stand with the truth.

African Journalism cannot afford to be lazy or driven by external narratives. If claims are being made about Tanzania, Tanzanian journalists must be the ones asking the hardest questions, verifying the facts, and telling the world what is really happening on the ground.

Dr. Maponga challenged journalists to look beyond party politics and understand Tanzania’s strategic place in regional and global power struggles. Tanzania sits at the center of trade routes, ports, railways, minerals, and competing global interests.

So when violence, instability, and misinformation spread, journalists must ask: who benefits? Who pays the price? And whose future is being destroyed?

[Felix @felixherbt]

Permit me to annoy you.
Are you aware that 99% of young people living in Nigeria are working much harder than they did eight years ago just to buy food and pay their landlords? Even you reading this is among the victims!

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

I do not blame you at all; I completely blame the highly toxic colonial education in Nigeria that successfully brainwashed you into believing that Abacha assigned vast oil wells to himself via proxies strictly to enrich his own pockets.

Of course, the core operational doctrine of this Western-designed curriculum is to systematically lobotomize, intellectually disarm, and psychologically pacify the average Nigerian to the pathetic point where they religiously, passionately, and aggressively defend their actual slave masters, even at the expense of their own economic survival, national development, and material wellbeing.

They loudly told you that Abacha owned massive oil blocks via proxies, but they conveniently did not tell you that under Abacha's strict resource nationalist framework, it was legally, physically, and constitutionally impossible for any private individual, foreign corporation, or Western conglomerate to own an entire oil block outright. Under Abacha's government, everything concerning petroleum, gas, and mineral exploration was strictly owned by the federal government, and private entities could only legally own minor shares, passive investments, or minority interests in those blocks. But simply because Abacha's son, his defense minister, and a few high-profile local allies owned minority shares in two or three oil blocks (shares that other wealthy Nigerians and local corporate entities were equally entitled to own and actively owned), all of a sudden, Abacha is branded a ruthless dictator and a historic looter, purely because his son held a minor stake in a national oil asset.

This massive, obsessive energy you people waste on constantly attacking Abacha, this incredible physical stamina, righteous indignation, and loud anger that you people magically develop whenever his name is mentioned, and this desperate urge to always rush to condemn the late army general: how I deeply wish you people could channel even a fraction of this energy into fighting against Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ENI, and other Western oil majors that are currently owing Nigeria a staggering $62 billion in unpaid taxes, unremitted royalties, and shared profits, and have flatly, contemptuously refused to pay. This is an astronomical amount of capital that should be more than enough to fully fund fuel subsidies, build world-class public infrastructure, fund modern healthcare, and secure quality primary education for the next 10 to 15 years.

But you absolutely will not do that because your colonial education has completely stripped you of the flexibility, the intellectual agency, and the balls to actually fight for your own national sovereignty, reclaim your stolen resources, or directly criticize your Western slave masters. That is exactly why American politicians in Washington can comfortably buy millions of dollars in shares in Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and OpenAI, and then shamelessly use their congressional votes to secure hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants, tax breaks, and research subsidies for these exact same tech empires, immediately making millions of dollars in personal corporate profits, capital gains, and fat dividends.
That is why the American military-industrial complex relentlessly lobbies for endless foreign wars, proxy conflicts, and global regime changes, securing a staggering $1.5 trillion in military funding this year alone, which has effectively guaranteed their CEOs, board members, and shareholders generational wealth both in this physical world and even in the afterlife.

All of these massive, globally devastating financial atrocities are actively happening in broad daylight, but you will never criticize, question, or expose them, simply because doing so is not part of your deeply embedded, white-washed neocolonial brainwashing.

[Arojinle @arojinle1]

January, 2019, I was so depressed that I thought of suicide twice within a single month.

I wrote a letter to myself, reminding myself that tough times don't last forever. I then made many positive prophecies for myself, wrote it down, went to the studio and had it recorded. I kept listening to it over and over again, before publishing it as part of my first album. If you have ever listened to KÒ LỌ TÍTÍ 1 (ÌKORITA) and KÒ LỌ TÍTÍ 2 (ÌRÒ ÌDÙNNÚ), I made it for myself before releasing it for the public. It was really therapeutic for me.

When I released the album in February 2020, a lot of people said they could relate well with the tracks and it helped them.

[Renny🇵🇹 @R_nnyu]

My head don tear😭

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

I’m determined to live a good life regardless of what’s happening around me. I’ll keep pursuing my goals, enjoying the little things and creating a life that feels rich in every sense. Poverty is not my destiny.

[Imadu @Etekar]

@onyekanwelue 😂

[Chandana 🌻✨ @RoseOnX9]

Stop being helpless. People respect you more when you can do these 500 things.

Read Especially number 69, 47, 4, 9, 80, 45, 30, 112, 79, 91, 306, 373, 404, 269, 498, 201

1. Fix a toilet
2. Reset a circuit breaker
3. Remount a chain on a bike
4. Perform CPR
5. Jumpstart a dead battery
6. Change a flat tire
7. Drive stick shift
8. Exercise with zero equipment
9. Understand compound interest
10. Know how taxes work
11. Sew on a button
12. Iron a shirt
13. Restart a water heater
14. Ride a motorcycle
15. Cook a perfect steak
16. Grill a burger
17. Dice an onion
18. Cook rice perfectly
19. Read a physical map
20. Find North without a compass
21. Start and tend a campfire
22. Learn one song on any instrument
23. Tell one great long joke
24. Have one solid party trick
25. Tie a bowline knot
26. Tie a trucker's hitch
27. Tie a butterfly loop
28. Tie a sheet bend
29. Tie a line hitch
30. Give constructive feedback
31. Give a great toast or speech
32. Memorize names when you meet people
33. Introduce two people properly
34. Politely decline without lying
35. Put out a grease fire
36. Dress for a wedding
37. Dress for a job interview
38. Dress like an adult
39. Talk to strangers
40. Lift without hurting your back
41. Disagree with people civilly
42. Receive a compliment gracefully
43. Show up on time
44. Cook 3 meals from scratch
45. Know basic first aid
46. Fix something before calling someone
47. Learn how to learn
48. Patch a hole in drywall
49. Unclog a drain
50. Replace a light switch
51. Paint a room properly
52. Hang things on walls correctly
53. Replace a door handle
54. Fix a leaky faucet
55. Sharpen a kitchen knife
56. Season a cast iron pan
57. Make bread from scratch
58. Make pasta from scratch
59. Make a proper omelet
60. Make stock from scraps
61. Grow your own herbs
62. Grow vegetables from seed
63. Compost food scraps
64. Identify edible wild plants
65. Purify water in the wild
66. Build a basic outdoor shelter
67. Signal for help if lost
68. Treat a blister
69. Treat a sprain
70. Stop a nosebleed
71. Recognize a stroke
72. Perform the Heimlich maneuver
73. Swim confidently
74. Tread water for 10 minutes
75. Read a nutrition label
76. Meal prep for the week
77. Negotiate a price
78. Write a professional email
79. Read a contract before signing
80. Build a basic budget
81. Understand a bank statement
82. Understand a pay stub
83. Build an emergency fund
84. Invest in an index fund
85. Understand credit scores
86. Dispute a charge on your card
87. File a tax return yourself
88. Understand your health insurance
89. Read a prescription label
90. Take your own blood pressure
91. Recognize signs of depression
92. Meditate for 10 minutes
93. Journal consistently
94. Set and keep a daily routine
95. Wake up without hitting snooze
96. Take a cold shower
97. Fast for 16 hours
98. Track your sleep
99. Stretch every morning
100. Do a proper pushup
101. Hold a plank for 60 seconds
102. Do a proper squat
103. Run a mile without stopping
104. Swim a lap without stopping
105. Ride a bike confidently
106. Do a pull-up
107. Jump rope for 5 minutes
108. Carry a conversation with anyone
109. Make eye contact comfortably
110. Give a firm handshake
111. Read body language basics
112. Listen actively
113. Apologize properly
114. Ask for what you want directly
115. Say no without guilt
116. Set a boundary and keep it
117. Handle conflict without escalating
118. Comfort someone who is grieving
119. Give a genuine compliment
120. Write a handwritten thank you note
121. Plan a date from scratch
122. Cook a romantic dinner
123. Resolve an argument calmly
124. Manage shared finances with a partner
125. Talk to kids at their level
126. Explain something complex simply
127. Tell a story that holds attention
128. Speak in public without freezing
129. Chair a meeting effectively
130. Write a one page resume
131. Ace a job interview
132. Negotiate a salary
133. Ask for a promotion
134. Manage a difficult boss
135. Give a performance review
136. Onboard a new colleague well
137. Run a brainstorm session
138. Make decisions under pressure
139. Delegate properly
140. Give credit publicly
141. Sew a basic hem
142. Hand wash delicate clothing
143. Remove a stain before it sets
144. Polish leather shoes
145. Store clothes properly
146. Fix a stuck zipper
147. Break in new shoes without blisters
148. Tie a bow tie
149. Fold a pocket square
150. Buy clothes that actually fit
151. Bargain shop wisely
152. Iron a collar properly
153. Pack a suitcase efficiently
154. Travel carry-on only
155. Navigate an airport calmly
156. Exchange currency without getting ripped off
157. Order food in another language
158. Read a train schedule
159. Book accommodation wisely
160. Travel solo confidently
161. Take a good photo
162. Edit a photo on your phone
163. Shoot a short video
164. Record a voice memo clearly
165. Back up your files
166. Spot a phishing email
167. Create a strong password
168. Use a password manager
169. Set up two-factor authentication
170. Update your software regularly
171. Use keyboard shortcuts
172. Format a document professionally
173. Build a basic spreadsheet
174. Make a simple presentation
175. Use Google Search properly
176. Evaluate a source online
177. Spot misinformation
178. Protect your privacy online
179. Manage your inbox to zero
180. Automate a repetitive task
181. Type faster than 60 words per minute
182. Take better notes
183. Summarize a long document
184. Read 30 books a year
185. Speed read effectively
186. Memorize a poem
187. Learn 500 words of a new language
188. Cook a full meal for 10 people
189. Barbecue low and slow
190. Make a sauce from scratch
191. Bake a cake from scratch
192. Make coffee properly
193. Know your wine basics
194. Make a proper cocktail
195. Describe flavors precisely
196. Eat adventurously
197. Set up a home wifi network
198. Troubleshoot a slow computer
199. Connect devices via bluetooth
200. Use cloud storage effectively
201. Compress and send a large file
202. Record your screen
203. Run a video call properly
204. Manage your phone storage
205. Charge devices efficiently
206. Spot a fake review online
207. Use a scanner app on your phone
208. Sign a PDF without printing
209. Organize your digital photos
210. Understand basic programming logic
211. Use an AI tool effectively
212. Detect AI-generated content
213. Protect your data online
214. Build a personal website
215. Understand SEO basics
216. Write a compelling bio
217. Build a LinkedIn profile that works
218. Network without feeling gross
219. Follow up after meeting someone
220. Cold email someone effectively
221. Build a personal brand online
222. Create content consistently
223. Understand basic analytics
224. Read a profit and loss statement
225. Understand a balance sheet
226. Invoice a client professionally
227. Navigate by stars at night
228. Read weather patterns in the sky
229. Predict rain without an app
230. Fish with a rod and line
231. Track an animal in the wild
232. Identify common birds by sound
233. Identify common trees
234. Read a tide chart
235. Sail a small boat
236. Kayak confidently
237. Rock climb at a basic level
238. Rappel down a cliff
239. Ski or snowboard basics
240. Surf a small wave
241. Mountain bike on a trail
242. Run a 5K
243. Train for a half marathon
244. Do basic yoga poses
245. Do a forward roll safely
246. Basic self-defense moves
247. Fall safely without injury
248. Carry an injured person
249. Stay calm in a dangerous situation
250. Make a splint for a broken limb
251. Treat a burn correctly
252. Recognize heat stroke
253. Treat hypothermia
254. Cross a river safely
255. Escape a riptide
256. Survive a lightning storm
257. Navigate a city in an unfamiliar country
258. Use public transit in any city
259. Haggle at a market
260. Pack a first aid kit properly
261. Handle a lost passport abroad
262. Stay safe in an unfamiliar city
263. Sleep anywhere on command
264. Overcome jet lag fast
265. Make friends while traveling alone
266. Come home changed from travel
267. Manage anxiety in the moment
268. Reframe negative thoughts
269. Practice gratitude daily
270. Sit with boredom without your phone
271. Forgive someone who hurt you
272. Let go of a grudge
273. Accept failure without spiraling
274. Build resilience through hard things
275. Delay gratification
276. Know when to quit something
277. Write a one page business plan
278. Validate an idea before building it
279. Pitch an idea in 60 seconds
280. Understand how equity works
281. Build a simple financial model
282. Hire the right person
283. Fire someone with dignity
284. Manage a remote team
285. Run a retrospective
286. Build a product roadmap
287. Write a creative brief
288. Give a client presentation
289. Handle a difficult client
290. Build a winning proposal
291. Follow up without being annoying
292. Close a deal
293. Build a referral network
294. Track your KPIs
295. Read a competitor's strategy
296. Think in systems
297. Make decisions with incomplete information
298. Prioritize ruthlessly
299. Say fewer words with more impact
300. Write a great subject line
301. Craft a compelling hook
302. Edit your own writing
303. Write in plain English
304. Structure an argument logically
305. Debate without getting emotional
306. Think critically
307. Spot a logical fallacy
308. Change your mind gracefully
309. Play chess at a basic level
310. Play poker basics
311. Learn a card trick
312. Solve a Rubik's cube
313. Do mental math quickly
314. Read a blueprint or floor plan
315. Know how a car engine works
316. Change your own oil
317. Replace wiper blades
318. Check and top up tire pressure
319. Rotate your tires
320. Replace air filters
321. Understand car insurance
322. Drive in the rain safely
323. Drive in snow and ice
324. Parallel park first try
325. Reverse park cleanly
326. Navigate a roundabout confidently
327. Tow a trailer
328. Use a manual jack and jack stands
329. Read a bus or train timetable
330. Cycle safely in traffic
331. Walk 10,000 steps a day
332. Drink 2 liters of water daily
333. Cook one vegetarian meal per week
334. Read food expiry dates correctly
335. Store food to reduce waste
336. Reduce single use plastic
337. Fix a bicycle puncture
338. Do basic woodworking
339. Use a drill properly
340. Use a hand saw
341. Sand and finish wood
342. Build flat-pack furniture
343. Fix a squeaky floor
344. Re-grout bathroom tiles
345. Caulk a bathtub
346. Replace a toilet seat
347. Bleed a radiator
348. Insulate a drafty window
349. Service your own bicycle
350. Fix a broken fence post
351. Build a raised garden bed
352. Make a bookshelf from scratch
353. Repair a piece of furniture
354. Refinish a wooden table
355. Frame a photo properly
356. Hang curtains correctly
357. Install a shelf bracket
358. Replace a tap washer
359. Fix a running toilet
360. Unblock a toilet without a plumber
361. Understand your home insurance
362. Know where your stopcock is
363. Know where your fuse box is
364. Read an electricity meter
365. Bleed your home radiators
366. Change a smoke alarm battery
367. Test a smoke alarm monthly
368. Keep a working tool kit
369. Label your fuse box properly
370. Know your rights as a tenant
371. Know your rights as a consumer
372. Write a complaint letter that gets results
373. Think independently
374. Read deeply on one subject
375. Question your own assumptions
376. Embrace being a beginner
377. Build habits not excuses
378. Audit your time
379. Protect your attention
380. Do one hard thing every day
381. Compete with your past self only
382. Build a personal knowledge system
383. Teach something to learn it
384. Ask better questions
385. Sit in silence for 20 minutes
386. Read biographies of people you admire
387. Study history to understand today
388. Practice Stoicism daily
389. Write a personal mission statement
390. Review your year every December
391. Build a personal board of advisors
392. Find a mentor
393. Mentor someone younger
394. Live below your means
395. Own less stuff
396. Repair before replacing
397. Practice patience
398. Sit with uncertainty
399. Embrace solitude
400. Understand your own values
401. Build morning and evening rituals
402. Celebrate small wins
403. Rest without guilt
404. Sleep 7 to 9 hours
405. Put your phone away during meals
406. Be fully present in a conversation
407. Remember birthdays without Facebook
408. Keep a promise
409. Show up when it is hard
410. Cook breakfast from scratch
411. Make a stock from bones
412. Identify kitchen herbs by smell
413. Make a vinaigrette without a recipe
414. Caramelize onions properly
415. Butcher a whole chicken
416. Fillet a fish
417. Make a proper pie crust
418. Host a dinner party without stress
419. Play a board game strategically
420. Leave your home better than you found it
421. Know your evacuation plan
422. Keep physical copies of key documents
423. Know how to turn off your gas and water
424. Volunteer in your community
425. Vote in every election
426. Know your neighbors names
427. Prepare a 72 hour go bag
428. Handle a power outage calmly
429. Survive a car breakdown alone
430. Change a motorcycle tire
431. Navigate using only landmarks
432. Read a contour map
433. Estimate distance by eye
434. Signal with a mirror
435. Identify poisonous plants
436. Build a snow shelter
437. Render fat for cooking
438. Ferment something at home
439. Preserve food by canning
440. Harvest rainwater
441. Keep bees at a basic level
442. Raise chickens for eggs
443. Prune a fruit tree
444. Grow a plant from a cutting
445. Sharpen a pencil with a knife
446. Whittle a basic tool from wood
447. Build a basic birdhouse
448. Bake sourdough bread
449. Make cheese at home
450. Build a rocket stove
451. Solar charge a device
452. Build a simple water filter
453. Navigate by river downstream
454. Make a torch from natural materials
455. Track weather without an app
456. Read the night sky
457. Identify constellations
458. Understand the phases of the moon
459. Wake up naturally without an alarm
460. Swim in open water
461. Run barefoot on grass
462. Cook over an open fire
463. Eat a meal in total silence
464. Write a letter by hand
465. Draw a basic map from memory
466. Describe a route without GPS
467. Count money without a calculator
468. Estimate a crowd size
469. Read a face for emotion
470. Calm a crying child
471. Speak to an elderly person with patience
472. Carry a conversation in a second language
473. Teach someone to read
474. Help someone with math homework
475. Explain a news story simply
476. Read a scientific study critically
477. Understand basic statistics
478. Spot a bad graph or chart
479. Know when you are being manipulated
480. Recognize propaganda
481. Stay off your phone for one full day
482. Write 500 words without stopping
483. Draw something recognizable
484. Sing in front of someone
485. Dance without caring who watches
486. Say I love you first
487. Ask for help without shame
488. Admit you were wrong
489. Start over after failure
490. Finish what you start
491. Solder basic electronics
492. Wire a plug
493. Replace a light switch
494. Understand basic plumbing
495. Understand basic electrical
496. Understand basic carpentry
497. Understand basic auto mechanics
498. Troubleshoot anything systematically
499. Stay curious for life
500. Learn how to learn — AI can answer questions. It cannot build your hunger to grow. That one is yours.

[Mr Melancholy @chakravartiiin]

I wish I could show vozinha to all kids who take their life after one failed exam he literally picked Garbage at 25 then started playing in his late 20s and now at 40 he's delivered his best game at fifa world cup event against one of the most domiant teams.

People would have you believe that your life is over if you don't XYZ thing by a certain age but the truth is that It just takes just one BIG WIN to cancel out all the loses of life but you have to believe, work and live for that WIN.

[Imadu @Etekar]

@jeremy_gidi @Quo_Riri Na Abacha put us for dis confusion.

[R(R) @real1800splurge]

somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through

[Imadu @Etekar]

@real1800splurge I am going through it, I am going to win this time around.

[AGUNWA IGBANI 🇳🇬🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇧🇫 @Igbani27243]

While we are all angry at the IMF and World Bank for being the Primary drivers of the Current Cost of living Crisis in Nigeria.
Do well to remember that the IMF and World Bank are American Institutions and all American Institutions exist to make your Life miserable

[Imadu @Etekar]

@TechnicalBben If most people dey earn 300k in Nigeria with this present economy, pesin no go dey complain too much.

But the reality is most Nigerians earn less 100k including graduates.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Although Ozoemena Nsugbe might not be as globally commercialized or widely celebrated as Fela Kuti, Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, Oliver de Coque, and other mainstream highlife giants from Nigeria, his heavily loaded songs always contain profound, aggressive, and highly unapologetic elements of Pan-African thought.

In fact, there is a particularly striking track where he repeatedly demanded that the public stop criticizing Sani Abacha. According to Nsugbe, Abacha stepped in to "genuinely fix Nigeria". This bold stance is incredibly commendable, especially since Western governments and foreign intelligence agencies at the time practically bought off all the mainstream media voices, funded fake civil society groups, sponsored loud human rights activists, and weaponized international sanctions just to aggressively isolate Abacha from his own people. They did all this simply because he refused to blindly sign off lucrative offshore oil rigs to greedy Western energy conglomerates like Chevron and TotalEnergies.

In that exact same fiercely independent vein, every single song in his classic album titled "Omenani Kpomkwem" ruthlessly dissects the brutal, lasting, and culturally devastating effects of colonialism in Nigeria. He powerfully reminded his listeners that the white colonizers did not just come for the crude oil and the cheap manual labor. They also maliciously stole our sacred masquerades, destroyed our indigenous religions, burned our ancient shrines, demonized our traditional priests, looted our priceless artifacts, and deliberately erased the very foundational belief systems that our ancestors deeply lived with, fiercely observed, passionately practiced, and which completely defined our true individual identity.

He went significantly further to boldly question the minority tribes in Nigeria, directly asking the Kuteb, the Jukun, the Igala, the Tiv, the Idoma, the Efik, and the Ibibio exactly what happened to their own original traditions, their native languages, their historical rites of passage, and their ancient customs. He also did not spare the heavyweights either. He specifically called out the Hausa, the Igbo, and the Yoruba, while forcefully asking them what exactly happened to their own powerful traditional religions, their ancestral deities, their cultural pride, and their pre-colonial worldviews.

He explicitly, unapologetically stated that this exact indigenous religion we are all currently brainwashed into branding as "idol worshipping", backward, demonic, savage, or primitive was exactly what our great ancestors proudly practiced. And it was more than enough for them. They lived significantly longer than us, built highly functional societies, maintained deep ecological balance, enforced strict moral codes, cured diseases with native medicine, and enjoyed a profound level of communal peace that our supposedly modern, highly religious, and brutally violent generation cannot even begin to imagine today.
Although he admittedly made some sweeping exaggerations about Japan and China by loudly claiming that because they preserved their local culture, their native languages, and their ancient traditions, no modern nations can possibly challenge them today in terms of massive industrial outputs, technological dominance, engineering marvels, and economic sovereignty. I honestly cannot completely blame him for this slight analytical stretch. Even though this specific argument of his is not entirely geopolitically sound, at that specific time in history, there was strictly limited information available to a local highlife musician to truly understand the complex, deeply intertwined geopolitical realities of Japan and China.

To be clear, I personally do not emphasize religion too much on this platform, except when I am directly exposing the radical Wahhabi-Salafi Muslim schools in the North that are functioning as active breeding grounds for terrorists, or when I am attacking the fraudulent, deeply parasitic prosperity gospels of the flashy mega-churches that have completely, financially, and intellectually lobotomized the gullible people of Southern Nigeria. Still, I absolutely agree with Nsugbe that we urgently need to return to our cultural roots if we are to ever truly build a strong, cohesive, politically independent, culturally confident, and highly industrialized African nation.

It is crucially important to heavily emphasize that I am absolutely not advocating for some fictional, romanticized, Hollywood-style Wakanda here. Things obviously can never return to the absolute pre-colonial normal, and it is not even practically necessary, realistic, or entirely desirable for everything to blindly return to the exact old ways. But we as a people absolutely cannot continue to foolishly pretend that we do not have a rich, complex, and profound past. You can absolutely continue to practice your imported Christianity, your adopted Islam, your foreign doctrines, or your modern spiritualities if you stubbornly persist, but as the ancient philosophers clearly warn, "Man, Know Thyself". We urgently need to study our indigenous cultures, rediscover our native traditions, document our oral histories, protect our dying languages, and properly understand the foundational belief systems of our own people. And yes, it is historically true that our indigenous traditions were certainly not perfect, flawless, egalitarian, or entirely free of brutal contradictions. But that exact same glaring truth applies entirely to the imported Islam and Christianity which most of you blindly, passionately, and aggressively defend today as unquestionable, completely infallible, and pure holy religion.

[Dindu_Popo🌍 @DinduMichael]

Everyday I see them I'll repost