The_Collins

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[Blondelady2024 @arva61138]

It’s plain evil. They are sociopaths.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

Malema is not a prophet; neither is he Nostradamus.

It's only common sense that if you let the monster into the house thinking it'll only eat the guests, once it is hungry again, it's going to turn to the next best thing.

An unfed mob is still hungry.

If South Africa refuses to address the core issues causing its propensity for vigilantism and violence, it will eventually metamorphose into something that will devour its own citizens.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

“If Somalis decided to pull their resources out of Kenya, it will collapse in a day”..This is part of a statement by @AlinurMohamed_
By all means, pull your resources out of Kenya, let it collapse!! We will rebuild from scratch.

Every time a conversation on how Eastleigh business are taxed arises, you see such statements. We won’t cave. Watu walipe tax!!

[The_Collins @Sang_Official]

@SuldanMohamed_ Until you fix your country and earn the global respect you'll never truly receive respect and dignity from other countries despite your individual succeses

[The_Collins @Sang_Official]

@moruribrian Kenyan boarding schools replicated the colonial way of perceived discipline . What we need is decolonisation of the minds

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

There are countries that needed military takeover to get the french out , and then there is Kenya inviting them in rolling out the red carpet.

[we love ghana @weloveghana042]

Ghana president John mahama to South Africans

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every discipline taught in the African university, law, political science, sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, arrives pre-structured by the civilization that created the current world order.

Law arrives as English common law or French civil law, not as a tradition rooted in the actual governance practices of the societies it is supposed to serve.

History arrives with the periodization of European history, ancient, medieval, modern, grafted onto societies for which none of these categories make sense and all of which imply that African history only becomes legible when it intersects with European history.

Psychology arrives as a set of theories developed by studying largely white, educated, Western populations and declared universal.

Philosophy arrives as a tradition that begins in Greece, passes through Rome, arrives in the European Enlightenment, and occasionally, generously, includes a footnote about African philosophy.

The student who completes this education is not educated about their own world.

They are educated into someone else's world.

They graduate literate in the assumptions of their dispossession.

And then they are asked to develop their country using these tools.

The tools were built to explain a different house.

They do not fit the door.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

France intervened militarily in African countries more than fifty times between 1960 and 2020.

Fifty times.

In sixty years.

In countries that were formally, legally, internationally recognized as sovereign independent nations.

Fifty military interventions.

This is not a controversial claim.

It is a documented list with dates and countries and operation names.

Opération Bison.
Opération Tacaud.
Opération Lamantin.
Opération Léopard.
Opération Barracuda.
Opération Manta.
Opération Noroît.
Opération Amaryllis.
Opération Turquoise.
Opération Verdier.
Opération Requin.
Opération Pélican.
Opération Azalée.
Opération Almandins I and II.
Opération Malachite.
Opération Artemis.
Opération Licorne.
Opération Serval.
Opération Sangaris.
Opération Barkhane.

A continuous military presence that never actually ended.

That simply changed its justification decade by decade.

Anti-communist intervention. Then peacekeeping. Then counterterrorism.

The justification updated.

The presence remained.

The extraction continued.

And when the Sahel finally expelled France, the French press described it as a dangerous turn toward instability.

Fifty military interventions is not stability.

Fifty military interventions is what the word "stability" was being used to protect.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Niger.

One of the poorest countries on earth.

Also one of the largest uranium producers on earth.

The uranium that powers French nuclear reactors, which provide seventy percent of France's electricity, has come from Niger for decades.

The price France paid for that uranium was set by AREVA, the French state nuclear company.

Below market rate.

For decades.

Niger sat on one of the most valuable energy resources in the world and could not afford to keep its lights on.

The irony is not ironic.

It is structural.

It was designed.

When Niger's new government after the 2023 coup demanded renegotiation of the uranium contracts, France called it instability.

Called it a threat to regional security.

Called for international pressure to restore the previous order.

The previous order in which French reactors ran on Nigerien uranium at prices set in Paris.

That order was called stability.

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing.

I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean.

https://t.co/hivzYl1N0Z

Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will teach you that colonialism was wrong.

Past tense.

Was.

A historical wrong that has been acknowledged and overcome and we have all moved on.

They will not teach you that the wealth transferred during colonialism continues to compound in the same institutions and countries that transferred it.

They will not teach you that the borders colonialism drew continue to produce the conflicts colonialism designed.

They will not teach you that the legal structures, the debt instruments, the intellectual property systems, the currency arrangements colonialism's successor institutions built, these are not a new order.

They are colonialism that learned to wear a suit.

Teaching you that colonialism was wrong is safe.

Teaching you that colonialism is ongoing requires a different verb tense and a completely different conclusion.

They teach colonialism in the past tense because the present tense would indict them.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Patrice Lumumba gave his independence speech on June 30, 1960.

He said, in front of the Belgian king:

"We are no longer your monkeys."

He was killed on January 17, 1961.

Less than seven months later.

The CIA was involved. Belgian intelligence was involved. The operation was approved at the highest levels of the Eisenhower administration.

He was replaced by Mobutu, who called himself Mobutu Sese Seko, who renamed the country Zaire, who looted it systematically for thirty-two years with the full support of Western governments who needed a stable pro-Western regime in Central Africa.

Stable meaning: the minerals kept moving. The people stayed poor. The elections didn't happen. The sovereignty was cosmetic.

Now imagine Lumumba had lived.

Imagine the Congo got what Vietnam got:

A liberation government that survived long enough to actually govern.

The counter-history is not fantasy.

It is what was deliberately prevented.

And the prevention has a paper trail.

The documents are declassified.

The names are known.

People see the Congo today and diagnoses African failure.

They are looking at a crime scene and calling it a character flaw.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

Winston Churchill who you all laud as your “hero and saviour”

Sold out the British Empire to Jews who bought him off in exchange for him attacking Germany.

He also was bribed by Zionist Chaim Weizmann who wrote a letter telling him if you don’t give me what I want America will not join the war because us Jews hold a lot of sway in America.

Not to mention he was an incompetent racist and gambling alcoholic!

But this is a conversation too many Brits aren’t ready for!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They took the gold.

They took the diamonds.

They took the rubber.

They took the ivory.

They took the palm oil.

They took the copper.

They took the uranium, including the uranium used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which came from the Belgian Congo.

They took the labor, for centuries, in chains, across an ocean, in the largest forced migration in human history.

They took the land.

They took the governance structures and replaced them with administrative systems designed to serve extraction.

They took the educated class and either exiled, imprisoned, or assassinated those who resisted.

They took Patrice Lumumba and had him killed.

They took Thomas Sankara and had him killed.

They took the future these men represented and replaced it with regimes that served the extraction.

And then they looked at what remained and called it proof that Africa could not govern itself.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence.

They understand individual violence.

One person harms another person.

There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain.

What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination.

The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead.

They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones.

And that architecture was designed.

It was negotiated.

It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not.

This is violence.

It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger.

But the deaths it produces are just as dead.

And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument.

You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense.

They will not thank you for it.

They will defend against it with everything they have.

Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position.

It is an identity catastrophe.

[Michael de Villiers @Mikedotcoza]

You’re a blatant liar. That’s exactly why this platform has become so distasteful. You acquired it on the promise of tackling misinformation, yet you’ve become one of its biggest sources. There are over 500 American companies operating in South Africa, many of them led by white executives. This isn’t about facts, it’s about smearing South Africa for your own benefit.

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

“Poverty stops poor people from enjoying poems, deep thoughts, science, or cool tech. It keeps eyes on just surviving.”

[Ish Sankara @100kara305]

Since Israel didn’t recognize the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity… why should Blacks recognize the holocaust? 🤷🏾‍♂️

It’s a logical question

[The_Collins @Sang_Official]

@LadyCharrr1 Inspirational,yet if you don't water you'll never see the fruits