They purposely make the images black and white to make you think it was long ago meanwhile the "six year old girl" who is ruby bridges literally has a tiktok account.
As an American leftist tourist on Nigerian twitter.
I’m surprised how many Nigerians arent more anti American.
Bc I’m in the global south in pacific and the folks out here usually call any western influence “colonizer influence”.
I expected same in Nigeria too.
Due to too much hollywood movies, Nigerians believe the FBI is one omnipotent entity that can wave a magic wand and solve every crime and arrest anyone anywhere in the world. They have no idea that it is their local law enforcement that actually does the work the FBI ends up taking credit for.
The reason why your local law enforcement or military is seen as weak internally is simply because your leadership takes instructions from the U.S. government. Your puppet leadership works for Washington, not for you. That’s why you see the U.S. as your personal lord and saviour.
The problem with European colonisers is that they always want to make their enemies our enemies.
And whatever the fuck propaganda you're churning out, keep Africa out of your pale mouth.
In Europe , organic foods are expensive and junk foods are cheap.
In Africa, organic foods are cheap and junk foods are Expensive.
You don’t value what you have until you lose it. Say no to the Nutrition Bill 🔥🇳🇬✊🏾
Ghanaian Reporter Parrots Western Propaganda About His Own Country, The Spearhead Reacts
This April, Ghana rejected a ridiculous “health deal” offered to it by the US under the so-called “America First Global Health Strategy”. This deal would have seen Ghana hand its sensitive health data, medical records, and national pathogen profiles on a plate to Africa’s single greatest geopolitical enemy. So the Ghanaian government did what any sensible African government would have done.
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart reacts to a @dwnews report on Ghana’s decision, hosted by a Ghanaian “journalist” who clearly doesn’t know where his African interests lie.
The thing about imperialism is that it is ubiquitous and impossible to avoid.
Nigerians who think they can have intelligent discussions around politics, economics and business without acknowledging imperialism are just like a castrated man who wants to marry a wife and have kids, but doesn't want to acknowledge his condition.
I'm sorry, but just because you're in denial, or the subject makes you uncomfortable, or you don't want to upset your white friends and investors by talking about it does not mean that this 800-foot elephant in the room is going to disappear.
The imperial system you live under is why you eat imported rice and your bread is made with imported wheat, while your own agricultural land is used for industrial monoculture plantations growing export crops you can't eat like cocoa and cashew.
Imperialism is why your kid goes to school wearing a neck tie, a wool sweater, a thick blazer and cotton socks while the temperature outside is 33⁰C.
Imperialism is why you put on your TV news and the presenter is chewing her tongue desperately trying and failing to mimic the accent of a public school headteacher from Abingdon-on-Thames, whereas literally nobody in the history of her watching audience has ever sounded like that.
Imperialism is why your central bank interest rate is always double digit, which means that consumer credit is literally nonexistent. No amount of roundtable sessions, seminars, and breakfast meetings with the bankers committee and PhD economists can change that basic eternal reality of your economy.
Imperialism is why despite having double digit central bank lending rates, your currency somehow manages to always face inflationary pressure and regularly posts double digit percentage losses in a single day. You can do all the clever economic chart drawings and financial engineering you want, but they are completely useless in the face of imperialist decisions like Structural Adjustment Programs, which you experienced by other names from 1986 to 1988 and from 2023 to 2025.
Imperialism is why you can have all your lovely ideas for leadership and governance, and a young population that is hungry for good leadership, but everytime you go into a "democratic election", you end up coming out with Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu. You can read all your "Why Nations Fail" and do all your "PVC sensitisation drives" and do all the "protect the votes" on election day, and at the end of all the wahala, the INEC chairman will announce that a crippled goat with craw-craw has won the election and if you don't like it you will go and meet Kekere-Ekun in court.
Imperialism is why when you are having sex with your partner, you moan in English and make American noises even though you've never left Owerri before, and your sexual encounters always happen with a specific sequence that starts from oral and culminates in doggy - it's because all the porn you have ever watched in your life has been hosted and curated by American platforms, and you have over time taken on their sexual personality as your own.
Imperialism is why you build with cement blocks plastered with concrete in your 34⁰C climate, even though concrete generates vast amounts of heat as it cures, and it can take years to fully cure, during which time it slowly cooks you in your own house - but rammed earth which your ancestors used is only just becoming a thing once again because white people have "discovered" it and put a brand on it that makes it desirable after they once labelled it as 'primitive'.
I could go on and on. As long as you're determined to avoid confronting the ubiquitous and all-pervasive reality of imperialism in Nigeria, you're not really ready to confront whatever problem you are facing, from food to healthcare to education to public policy to poverty.
If you're not acknowledging that underlying reality, you're just another Nigerian wasting their whole life performing the appearance of thinking, and creating useless content.
AI, Data Science, Programming, Engineering, TVET, STEM, Career building, Patriotism… all no dey matter to the media of a developing country?
What do these topics contribute to?
Next year, we celebrate a decade after pension!!!
The Nile is not a border.
This is the simplest version of the argument and also the one that should require the least explanation.
The Nile flows from the interior of Africa northward to the Mediterranean.
The civilizations along its length were in constant contact, trading, fighting, exchanging people and ideas and religious concepts and agricultural techniques across what was not a separation but a connection.
The civilization of ancient Egypt did not emerge in isolation.
It emerged in relationship with the Nubian civilizations to its south, some of whose cultures predated the unification of Egypt, which contributed to and drew from Egyptian culture across millennia.
The kings of Kush would eventually rule Egypt as its 25th Dynasty.
And across the centuries that followed, Kushite civilization would leave behind something that still surprises people today.
More pyramids.
In what is now Sudan.
Built by the civilization that the Western imagination has most completely erased.
There are more ancient pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt.
Most people reading that sentence right now are encountering it for the first time.
That is not because the information is obscure.
It is because the information does not fit a story that someone needed to be true.
And the information that does not fit the story does not make it into the classroom.
The lie about Africa was not a small lie carelessly told.
It was a structural lie, deliberately constructed, institutionally maintained, academically defended.
It required the renaming of things. Egypt became, in the Western imagination, not quite African. The pyramids became a "mystery," because the alternative was crediting Africans with their construction, which the framework could not accept.
It required the discrediting of Arab and African scholarship about African history.
It required the dismissal of oral traditions as legend rather than history.
It required deciding that writing on paper counted as "civilization" and other forms of knowledge transmission did not.
It required, essentially, redesigning the criteria for what counted as "civilization" so that the places being colonized would fail the test.
The test was not neutral.
The test was written to produce a specific result.
And that result was: "Africa has no history worth the name."
Therefore what colonialism destroyed was not civilization. Therefore what colonialism did was not destruction.
This is not an accusation of individual ignorance.
This is a description of institutional architecture, built over centuries, maintained by people who understood exactly what it was for.
Hegel, the philosopher, the foundational figure of Western intellectual tradition, the man whose ideas shaped how generations understood history and progress and civilisation, said Africa had no history.
Literally.
In "The Philosophy of History," published posthumously in 1837, he described Africa as "the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of self-conscious history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night."
No history. No development. No participation in the movement of human civilization.
This was not a fringe opinion.
These were the intellectual assumptions that would help legitimize European colonial domination and, decades later, the partition of an entire continent.
Now.
While Hegel was writing this, the Oyo Empire in West Africa governed millions of people through a sophisticated constitutional system with checks on royal power.
While Hegel was writing this, the Kingdom of Dahomey had a standing army, a complex taxation system, and active diplomatic relationships with the European powers who were simultaneously, in their salons and academies, insisting the continent they were negotiating with had no civilization worth the name.
While Hegel was writing this, the Asante Empire operated under legal codes that European jurists would have recognized as sophisticated if they had been written in a language those jurists were willing to read.
While Hegel was writing this, the manuscripts of Timbuktu, hundreds of thousands of texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine, theology, history, were being preserved by African scholars in the city his tradition insisted had produced no thought worth preserving.
And while Hegel was writing that Africa had no history, Ethiopia already had one that stretched back more than four thousand years.
Egyptian pharaohs, themselves African rulers, had been sending fleets to trade with the Land of Punt, in the Horn of Africa, as early as 2500 BCE.
Gold, frankincense, myrrh, ebony, ivory.
By the third century CE, the Kingdom of Aksum was minting its own coinage, trading across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and commanding such international recognition that the religious teacher Mani counted it alongside Rome, Persia and China as one of the great kingdoms of the world.
Its written literary tradition in Ge’ez carried scripture, philosophy, law, and royal chronicles that predated most of the nations doing the accusing by centuries.
The darkness was not in Africa.
It was in the theory that needed Africa to be dark.
This is the CIA openly calling for Cuban citizens to become agents and commit treason.
Yet when you suggest to Nigerians that this same CIA has an enormous interest in Nigeria, the most populous African country and a potential global superpower, they foam at the mouth.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Behold the CIA, stirring discontent and openly recruiting Cuban people as informants and spies for the purpose of overthrowing their government.
This is not new. It's their operational playbook — their MO.
Unfortunately, many Nigerians naively dismiss this reality.
One stupidly asked: 'What does Nigeria have that America would need?'.
Warmonger Marco Rubio is so desperate for regime change in Cuba that he is publicly asking Cubans to help the CIA organize a coup attempt.
The US empire used to organize its many coups in secret. Now it puts job postings for treasonous CIA coup-plotters on Twitter.