Africa was not only colonised by armies. It was colonised by stories. Generations were taught their past began with outsiders. This page questions those narratives and examines how power shapes Africa and the world, past and present.
@NorthlightEins Calling Africa "uncivilised" because it didn't copy Europe's institutions is odd. Europe itself spent centuries with slavery, witch hunts, religious wars & poor sanitation. Sankore Madrasah existed centuries ago. Civilisation is not measured by how closely others resemble Europe.
Our ancestors built cities, irrigation, sanitation, universities, and trade empires while medieval Europe lacked basic hygiene. Kemet engineered water systems, Timbuktu held vast libraries, Great Zimbabwe mastered stone architecture. Civilization never began in Europe.
If you don't know your own history deeply enough to make someone else's version of it irrelevant, you will lose control of who you are.
You will carry the past handed to you by the people who conquered your ancestors and wrote your schoolbooks.
@FreijeiroP613@BBCWorld Unequal enforcement capacity , in that case, becomes absence of principle. Exit becomes a moral duty for African countries that are the victims of this unequal treatment.
@supremelybig@BBCWorld If accountability is selective, it stops being a moral system and becomes a political tool. The question is not "some justice or none", but "equal justice or managed justice."
@Joe__Bassey We're in this together.
Historical conditioning & colonial systems often taught that African cultures, languages, and institutions were inferior. Those ideas did not disappear overnight; they were carried into schooling, media, and governance structures after independence.
@Big_Mck Western propagandist mainstream media platforms have never been neutral in their reporting on Africa. The earlier our people begin switching to independent journalism, the better.
@Joe__Bassey Long before European rule, Africa had organised states, trade networks, engineering, law, and centres of learning. Great Zimbabwe, Timbuktu, Kingdom of Kongo and Ethiopian Empire all testify to complex, functioning societies.
@Andzace Seven Prime Ministers in ten years is not proof of โsuccessful democracyโ, it is political instability. Frequent turnover without consistent direction does not automatically strengthen governance. Africa does not need to copy turbulence and call it progress.
@cecild84 Burkina Faso is not in the EU. So why is the EU Parliament issuing political lectures to it?
Sovereignty does not work on approval from Brussels. It is exercised, not granted.
Burkina Faso makes her own choices just as European states do for themselves.
That is the standard.
The US presents itself as a champion of democracy, but its foreign policy has often contradicted that image. Across different periods, Washington has supported coups, authoritarian allies, and waged unprovoked wars and when its strategic interests were at stake.
@_africanhistory Our ancestors built cities, irrigation, sanitation, universities, and trade empires while medieval Europe lacked basic hygiene. Kemet engineered water systems, Timbuktu held vast libraries, Great Zimbabwe mastered stone architecture. Civilization never began in Europe.
@cecild84 Captain Ibrahim Traore and his colleagues need to be protected at all cost. They are the biggest hope our continent currently has to embark on breaking all the chains of neocolonialism.
@SankaraDispatch Imagine being sent to Somalia under a UN "peacekeeping" mission, ending up photographed holding a Somali child over an open fire, then being acquitted. The scandal was never just about 2 soldiers. It exposed how weak accountability becomes when powerful nations police themselves.