Kala ere bio kpo • Dum spiro spero • IZON • DEIST • apatheism • If we can't build Africa, we are toast. Keep the I BETTER PASS MY NEIGHBOR mentality far from me
How you help yourself to "let go" of this "freedom" illusion that has been successfully sold to you by Hollywood and US-funded media and civil society is to ask yourself a few important questions:
What exactly is "freedom"? Is "freedom" the ability to thumbprint on a ballot paper that will be tippexed at the collation centre with your vote given to APC regardless of who you voted for?
Is "freedom" the ability to make social media skits insulting your president that was imposed on you by a foreign power even though nobody voted for him?
Is "freedom" the ability to rant endlessly on Twitter about your "bad leaders", knowing fully well that you are just wasting English and kilobytes to no end whatsoever?
Joseph Stalin once said “It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
I think that's a much more constructive way of viewing "freedom." Poor, deprived, uneducated people are not, and can never be "free" in any meaningful sense. What use are my "constitutional freedoms" if my stomach is empty? If my stomach and my brain are empty, I am automatically a slave to whoever can put bread in my belly and information in my head - and that person automatically has the power to turn me into a weapon fashioned against myself and those around me. In that situation, which describes most of modern Africa, can you describe me as "free"?
"Democracy" and "freedom" are some of oyibo's most dangerous linguistic weapons when used in the context of people living on a per capita income of less than $3,000/year. Where are you likelier to live a full, happy life - Nigeria or China? Nigeria supposedly has the "democracy" that China doesn't - why are Nigerians leaving that "freedom" and migrating to China for a better life, instead of the other way around? Why do North Koreans have a life expectancy that is over 20 years longer than Nigerians? Why do the Vietnamese have much better lives than most Nigerians who have ever existed?
All of the years you have spent thumbprinting ballot papers for candidates that the US embassy will never allow to win, China has been doing 5-year plans and becoming the world's greatest country.
Peter Obi Brigade (POB). Add "I" in front, it becomes IPOB
At a time when APC is reintroducing the IPOB narrative against PO, Henry Shield, a known Peter Obi hater comes up with this idea that appears innocent on the surface.
Once you sleep, dem carry your gun. Stay woke.
There is a video of Africa's richest man saying that he has had to obtain 35 different visas just to be able to travel around Africa. A random homeless drunk from Hamburg who has never held down a steady job has more access to Africa than Africa's richest man on account of the complete accident of German citizenship and ancestry.
That should be the end of the conversation about whether identity or social class comes first. Dangote comes from the highest possible social class in existence on the continent of Africa, but by default he still has fewer movement privileges ON HIS OWN CONTINENT and in the world outside than the lowest born 6-fingered European orphan with Downs Syndrome.
To get the same movement and access privileges as the European retard orphan, Africa's wealthiest human being would have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a foreign passport that gives him what the orphan retard baby born in a brothel in Naples gets automatically at birth for free.
Any African who thinks class comes before race because of something Karl Marx wrote in a book in the 19th century is an adherent of just another goddamn religion. Das Kapital is their holy book, Karl Marx is their deity, and Friedrich Engels is his designated prophet. It's really no accident that people like that react to Lenin, Mao, Deng etc, the exact same way that Catholics and Sunni Muslims react to heretics.
You've Been Lied To - The West Is Not Saner
The myth that the West is inherently "saner" and more protective of its citizens has been sold to Africans for too long.
The recent US Supreme Court ruling in favour of biotech giant Monsanto exposes the fact that Western systems also sacrifice ordinary people when corporate profit is at stake. They are just very good at packaging impunity and hiding behind polished institutions while giving their brand of corruption fancy names.
Africans must as a matter of urgency discard the completely false idea that our problems exist only because of African leaders, while ignoring the global power structures that protect and project corporate power around the world, while directly fuelling Africa's underdevelopment.
The system that tells Africans that we are sole cause of our problems is the exact same system profiting from our problems. That lie must be dismantled.
“Scientists don’t want you to know” is a phrase that cracks me up always, cause if you actually meet a scientist, they will be shaking and crying like an overexcited golden retriever, desperate to tell you everything they know.
Black people have a lot to learn and unlearn.
The Nigerian government did not pressure FIFA to bend its own rule and overturn a red card. The US government did, through its head, Donald Trump. You have an example as recent as that, but you ignored it because you have been taught to abhor corruption only when committed by people who look like you.
Do better.
Hey @HQNigerianArmy one of your retired soldiers who happens to be my father was kidnapped 2 weeks ago in his hometown in kebbi state and guess what??? They’re torturing him for being a soldier and demanding a ridiculous amount of 25M. What are we going to do?
A certain governor worked hard to ensure that CRK was removed from the curriculum in government schools. 😂💔
A certain region operates a religious police at the expense of our Constitution.
But you'll gaslight people with this rubbish n think it is sense.
African leaders will always point at how China didn’t need democracy to develop but they don’t want the same punishment that is reserved for corrupt officials in China.
To truly understand how rigged the system is... Walk with me
They say you need Capital to play the game right?
Okay, Africans agreed, even though the game has already been rigged from the start. No wan, Let's play.
U.S struck a deal with Saudi Arabia (the Petro-Dollar agreement) to sell their Oil in U.S Dollar n re-invest the surplus in U.S bonds n stock market.
They allowed Saudi Arabia establish a sovereign wealth fund right? Same as Norway. Saudi Arabia now sits on $5 trillion dollars investment in U.S bond, stocks n BlackRock.
Gaddafi established Libya's Sovereign wealth fund in 2006, guess what?
Shebi na Capital, heck Gaddafi sent $1 billion aid to USA but it was blocked.
USA invaded Libya in 2011 n plunged the country into a slave zone
Ghana had Ashanti Gold, very prosperous. Since they say we should play the capitalist game, no wahala
Ghana took Ashanti Gold to the New York stock market, Guess what? Wall street manipulated the price of Gold, crashed it n forced Ghana to sell the state owned Gold Corporation for almost nothing to a U.S company.
In Nigeria, 2011, Yar'adua said okay, let's play this Capitalist game. He set out to establish Nigeria's sovereign wealth fund.
Unfortunately, he died in office. That's not all, GEJ continued the legacy n signed the Nigerian Sovereign wealth fund into law.
... exactly what you're thinking happened, GEJ was regime changed n the Nation's purse is sitting idle.
You can literally find similar stories in Most African countries. Yet they will tell you that "African leaders are corrupt"
No! WHITE SUPREMACISTS DON'T WANT AFRICANS TO EVEN PLAY THE GAME AT ALL.🤷♂️
I hope we can all see it clearly that CAF is not more corrupt than FIFA, neither is it more corrupt than UEFA. The mistake you will make as an African is allow Oyibo convince you that you are the symbol of corruption. They are far more corrupt than you.
Choose your allies wisely.
Some give you physical infrastructure, mass transit technology, and the possibility of a better life for your children in their own country.
Others give you Powerpoint NGOs, social media skit contests and 96% visa refusal.
Whoever the shoe fits...
Everyone acts like Africa’s problems are too big and impossible to solve. Yet all Africa need to do is kick out the imperialists, their organizations, and puppets, and impose the death-penalty on every corrupt politician. It’s really that simple.
The South East is making a choice.
We will double down on eliminating illiteracy.
Every child who cannot read, write and reason represents lost potential for our economy, our security and our future.
We are studying the education systems that consistently produce some of the world’s strongest learning outcomes, including Singapore and China.
We are no longer educating children just to survive.
We are educating them to compete globally and lead.
That is the future we are building.