This is how history gets incrementally rewritten because nobody pushes back on narratives like this.
In reality, no generation in Nigeria ever actually "listened" to Fela. At NO point was he ever embraced by Nigeria's western-educated classes. He was always an outsider and a rebel that they treated with suspicion or outright hostility. Even the wealthy or educated who liked him had to literally hide to do so. His music was (and to the best of my knowledge still is!) banned from radio nationwide, and it eventually got to the point where he made less money in Nigeria - his primary audience - than outside it.
I grew up on a street where a few houses away was Air Vice Marshall Funsho Martins, across the street was Governor Ita Ikpeme, around the corner was Fidelity Bank MD Reginald Ihejiahi, and so on. These were the people I would often overhear having conversations with my dad, and to them, Fela was an "amugbo boy" (weed smoking loser) and community penis who used the guise of African pride to cover for his lack of personal discipline. They had no respect for what he stood for, and I personally was not allowed to listen to Fela's music while I lived under my parents' roof.
Fela was never loved by the people who were politically aware or active in Nigeria. The only people who wholeheartedly embraced Fela were the poorest and most powerless. And even at that, they lacked the education to fully understand his message beyond simple complaint and criticism of the Nigerian government. All his words about colonialism and imperialism flew completely over their heads. It was like explaining the International Space Station to someone who has never seen an internal combustion engine before.
I hate the narrative that Nigeria ever truly embraced Fela or his message because that is a laundering device for Nigerians to avoid asking themselves what on earth was so important about that message that a military government invaded his house, raped his wives and killed his mom, while the global "human rights" yappers provided cover for that government and never sanctioned them for it.
Saying that there was a generation that "listened to Fela" is an easy and disingenuous way of dismissing Fela's work and refusing to examine what made it so important that we're still talking about him nearly 3 decades after he died.
Bros, take it easy with the lies sha, in your desperate quest to please America against China.
This your post is filled with so many lies, but let’s address one that stands out -“Nigeria cannot sell finished products to China.”
This is a big fat lie.
Actually, Nigeria can, with zero tariffs applied. You heard that? ZERO tariffs. No other serious world economy, not even your United States, has offered that kind of grace.
Now, what do you have to say about the United States gaining access to Nigeria’s Lithium? Oh, never mind, the founders of the startup the US is collaborating with on this deal had already donated a total of N14 million to your NGO. So I'm not expecting you to say anything regarding that.
Interesting how the usual suspects are attacking @Big_Mck and I personally, but carefully avoiding this follow up video taken from @MikeBenzCyber's livestream.
You don't dare attack Mr White Man Sir because you know he's still friends with all your blessers abi? Them no born you well to call Mike Benz a "conspiracy theorist" on Goodluck Jonathan's internet ba?
Debunking the Phantom Debts and Ecological Loan Fallacy
My attention has been drawn to trending claims by the Anambra State Government that my administration left behind inherited debts, including a ₦2 billion ecological loan, contractor liabilities, and unpaid salaries, gratuities, and pensions. This is completely false.
We systematically liquidated historical gratuities and arrears dating back several years, amounting to over ₦35 billion. At the point of handover, the state owed nothing in salaries, gratuities, or pensions, nor did we owe anything to any contractor for projects duly executed and certified.
The ₦2 billion ecological fund in question was released barely three months before the end of my tenure for the Oko/Umuchiana erosion crisis. Despite pressure to spend the money, I refused, insisting that it should be left for my successor because government is a continuum and the funds were tied to a specific project.
The money was therefore left 100 per cent intact in First Bank, in Account No. 2018779464, with a balance of over ₦2.13 billion.
It is important to stress that funds tied to specific projects or set aside for particular purposes were not even included in the over ₦75 billion in savings we left behind.
If anybody can establish anything to the contrary, I will stop campaigning. -PO
The trouble with many of you in Nigeria is that because you have no plans or ambition whatsoever, and your event horizon barely exceeds 48 hours, you think other people also suffer from a similar lack of planning and ambition.
Meanwhile we live in a world where other people have detailed plans for every aspect of your land, your society and your life - just that those plans don't factor your own interests and well-being into the equation.
Anyway you people will learn eventually what "foreign influence" means. You might die in the process of learning, but I promise you will learn at some point.
In 100 years, when the story of how Nigeria was destroyed in the 21st century is told, there will be barely a mention of how the United States created a terror group that ended up operating in Nigeria, used the presence of that group as a pretext to invade, with the help of a president who was once part of a criminal gang in the US, and proceeded to appropriate the country’s mineral development, minerals that power the future of the global economy. All that will be recorded is that Nigerian leaders were corrupt individuals who could not govern and looted everything in sight.
This is exactly how the stories of the 18th and 19th centuries are told today, riddled with accounts of how African chiefs sold their own subjects into slavery, with no mention of how the slave trade became an industry in the first place, who built the trading infrastructure, who sponsored conflicts so that people could be captured and sold, and what happened to those who refused to participate in this forced commercial arrangement.
This is why it is important that we keep exposing the Western extractive structure and documenting it. A one-sided story must not be told in the future.
Western NGOs didn’t just block Nepal’s dams. They built the political class that still can’t protect the country—and the last “revolution” was their handiwork.
Today’s flash flood catastrophe on the Nepal-China border—dozens dead, hundreds missing, villages and infrastructure erased—exposes the same pattern.
For decades Western NGOs and their funders (USAID, NED and the usual network of “civil society” outfits) systematically blocked major barrages and storage projects. Environmental purity tests and “indigenous rights” campaigns killed Arun III, stalled West Seti and others. Nepal was left with run-of-river schemes that generate power when the weather cooperates but offer almost no flood regulation when an upstream avalanche or glacial surge hits. Sovereignty over infrastructure was surrendered to foreign vetoes.
See the record:
• International Rivers and allied groups helped force the World Bank withdrawal from Arun III and later targeted West Seti: https://t.co/cV1t799H12
• Civil society coalitions including International Rivers urged the World Bank to abandon Upper Arun and other mega-dams: https://t.co/Q2Jebd8HiJ
• US lobbying, driven by NGO pressure and legislation, instructed international lenders to avoid large reservoir projects in Nepal: https://t.co/ffjWqO4bu8
That same foreign NGO ecosystem runs the political system. USAID and related Western money poured hundreds of millions into “governance,” “civil society,” media, youth empowerment and “democracy promotion.” Local NGOs became parallel power structures, more responsive to Washington and European donors than to Nepali voters. Ministers, activists, media figures and “independent” experts rotate through these funded networks. The result is a political class trained in the language of Western grants rather than in building real national capacity.
Foreign NGOs effectively set the limits of what Nepal is allowed to do.
Look at the last so-called revolution. The September 2025 “Gen Z” uprising that toppled KP Sharma Oli was sold as a spontaneous youth revolt against corruption and a social media ban. In reality it followed the classic color-revolution script: digital coordination through Discord channels linked to NGOs like Hami Nepal, rapid escalation, selective violence, and an interim government staffed with figures drawn from USAID- and NED-linked organizations.
An online “vote” produced Sushila Karki as interim prime minister.
Half the early interim cabinet had direct ties to Western-funded fronts. The process cleared the old parties and installed a new configuration more amenable to the same external networks. Elections in March 2026 then delivered Balen Shah and the Rastriya Swatantra Party—another product of the post-uprising landscape shaped by those same influences.
This is not organic national renewal.
It is managed regime change that keeps Nepal dependent, unable to pursue large-scale infrastructure without Western approval, and geopolitically pliable between India and China.
The empire’s NGOs first prevented the dams that could have mitigated today’s disaster. Then they engineered the political upheaval that installed leadership still operating inside the same donor-dependent framework.
Nepal’s rivers remain unmanaged for extreme events because the people who decide policy were selected and funded by the same external actors who oppose real sovereign development.
Sovereignty is not a slogan for Discord polls or grant applications.
It means the right to build the infrastructure that keeps your people alive—and the right to reject foreign NGOs that treat your country as a laboratory for their ideology and strategic games. Until Nepal breaks that dependency, catastrophes like the one unfolding today will keep repeating.
When the revolution happens across Africa, receiving funding from a muzungu NGO or government will be treated as high treason punishable by firing squad.
For Africa to grow, a lot of Africans who live off foreign dependency simply have to die. It's either they die or they kill millions of people with their destructive, externally sponsored poison.
Do you remember Cosmo FM Enugu, and names like Spaceman, X-man, Lydia, Juanita, JD, Big Sydney, Jennifer, Iyke D Gee?
There’s no millennial who grew up in eastern Nigeria who wouldn’t remember.
I made a mini documentary about this station 2 years ago. You can watch it here -https://t.co/Q2K6Pq637f
See the way Seyi Tinubu and his kids had to wait for security clearance and a
convincing introduction to meet Ishowpeed at that World Cup stadium.
SMH.
They even appeared in full Spanish home kit.
I’m not sure he has been at any game of the domestic league in Nigeria, and if he has, he would’ve been the center of attraction and every existing protocol would’ve received the middle finger from him.
Local champions. That’s the same low self-esteem they are using to rule their respective countries in Africa. I don’t ever remember any European leader’s family flying the Nigerian kit to come and watch your own team. 🤦🏿♂️
This is a prime example of that uniquely East African brand of commercial anti-imperialism that @wmnjoya is always referring to.
If you don't listen carefully, you will think this lady is critiquing the empire's systematic extraction of African knowledge and its subsequent weaponisationagainst Africans.
She is doing no such thing.
She's actually criticising the fact that after the knowledge is extracted and weaponised, Africans do not get *credit* for it, and are thus not able to receive compensation as "knowledge partners".
She has no problem with the system designed to extract endlessly from Africans. She just wants a shiny label and a bigger cut of the revenue.
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.
All the borders in Africa are artificial. They were created by our colonizers in Berlin in 1884 without the consent of any African. Only a fool will defend what he never chose.
Ibrahim Traoré: The Battle Over Africa Is About Uranium, Oil and Gold
Burkina Faso president Capt. Ibrahim Traoré says that worsening economic conditions in Europe are the reasons behind its renewed narrative assault on Africa in an attempt to snatch Africa's minerals.
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Western Media Asked Iranian Footballers About the Strait of Hormuz?
South African comedian Trevor Noah says Western media outlets tried to “trap” Iranian footballers into answering questions about the US/Israeli war against Iran that has closed the Strait of Hormuz, through which 25 per cent of the world’s oil flows. Meanwhile, no such requests were made to US footballers.
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Burkina Faso president Ibrahim Traoré recently met an Israeli ambassador for a routine diplomatic process.
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