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.
@IslamicSH_ Machiavelli understood what many leaders still ignore: great powers do not have allies, they have interests. Borrowing someone else's strength often means surrendering your own independence.
@Gemsrv71@hippyygoat What a head! So your argument is that because some white people were enslaved, centuries of mass enslavement and colonialism against Africans no longer matter? That's not history, that's deflection. Nobody becomes more civilised by trying to minimise one atrocity with another.
@SankaraDispatch Leopold IIβs Congo is one of historyβs greatest atrocities. Millions killed, countless more mutilated, all for personal profit. Yet it is often overlooked while other horrors are remembered. Africaβs suffering was treated as a resource to exploit.
@wother2023@Andzace GDP is not democracy. If 7 PMs in 10 years is your benchmark, then Africa can become "successful" by changing presidents every year. Britain's living standards come from centuries of industrialisation exploitation, not from political musical chairs. Stay on the argument.
@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."