You've put your finger on the deepest wound. The Belgians didn't just steal rubber and minerals they weaponized humiliation. Lumumba's assassination wasn't just a political murder, it was a public spectacle of degradation meant to send a message: you are nothing without us.
In 1887, Black sugar workers in Louisiana went on strike. Their demand: about $1.25 a day, paid in MONEY, instead of company scrip.
The answer was a massacre.
Ten thousand workers, organized with the Knights of Labor, walked out of the cane fields at harvest. Planters called in the state militia. Then, when the militia withdrew, armed white vigilantes sealed off the town of Thibodaux and went door to door through the Black quarter.
At least thirty-five men, women, and youths were killed; credible estimates run far higher, into the uncounted.
Strike leaders were singled out and executed. Survivors fled to the swamps.
Prosecutions: none. Ever. Black workers were murdered for demanding to be paid fairly—and no one was ever held accountable.
And it wasn't an isolated case. Our book documents up to 150 cases of racial violence, massacres, and injustices that were never truly answered for https://t.co/V6OJtazidd
When British officials visited the Obi of Aboh to end the slave trade, records referred to him as King of Eboe, later rendered King of Ibo/Igbo Due to this, many taken from Aboh were recorded as Igbo, although Aboh traditions describe the kingdom as comprisin mainly Benin & Igala
In hindsight, one feels very dumb for having taken certain well-promoted narratives at face value.
2 of the very worst of these are "Kenya doesn't have resources" and "Northern Nigeria is poor".
Believing these 2 absolute whoppers as an African is the base layer on the road to completely misunderstanding where you live and what is happening in the world.
You almost have to give the liars credit because getting presumably educated people to believe such absolute nonsense is a truly impressive feat of social engineering. If you can make people believe that violent conflict mineral trafficking in northern Nigeria is "Islamic terrorism", and Kenyan elephants getting fatally poisoned by runoff from gold mining was "elephants eating cyanide tomatoes" then what can't you make people believe?
🙏 Jesus still changes lives.
Júlio César, a former gang member from Brazil, says God rescued him from a life of crime, drugs, and violence. After surviving a gunshot to the head, he surrendered his life to Christ and now encourages others to choose a different path.
No one is beyond God’s grace.
📖 2 Corinthians 5:17
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I look forward to the day when there will be no visa for an African coming to this country [Nigeria]...'
I look forward to the day when, if I'm an investor in Delta State… I can take my plane from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and arrive here in Asaba without a landing and exit card.
- Pan-Africanist Patrick Lumumba calls for easing of visa restrictions among African nations while speaking at the Delta State Economic & Investment Summit 2026
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They call it a “free market” until you trade outside the dollar, nationalize your resources, or elect a leader Washington doesn’t approve of. Then come the sanctions. Then come the coups. Then comes war. Suddenly, “free market” means following Washington’s rules.
Here’s me in Dearborn, Michigan a few minutes from their march location leading young Muslim men to Christ.
I have a team of 50+ evangelists there leading Muslims to Christ every week.
Just sayinnnnnnnnnn
when I was doing my BSc in political science, I used to glaze over revolution as the only solution to Nigeria’s problems.
but after my several touch-points with reality, I have come to a higher realization that in our bid to sail towards a place of Eldorado, if we by chance toe the line of revolution, people like you and I would first be killed by this kind of people. if that happens, we have lost the revolution. it will just swiftly turn to a looting exercise with no direction.