When you hear stories like this - and there are many - it becomes harder and harder to take the “China national security threat” narrative seriously.
This should have been Trudeau’s epiphany moment. Instead, he still talks about how fortunate it was that Canada didn’t build closer ties with China, because it's a country that supposedly doesn’t share the same values.
Herein lies the real purpose of the endless atrocity propaganda against Beijing: it keeps countries like Canada locked in their abusive relationship with their "greatest ally" while rejecting the very relationship that would have been in their national interest.
Much of the atrocity propaganda against China is funded by the very same power that nearly abused Canada into exploring an expanded relationship with China, and for the most part, it works.
When they put an end to Indonesia's aviation industry, they were a bit more direct about it though, and they actually succeeded.
The famous "invisible hand of the market" at work, ladies and gentlemen.
Tomorrow one idiot from Idimu whose crowning accomplishment in life was getting a US visa, will start yapping "iS iT tHE iMF tHaT tOlD yOu nOT tO bUilLd iNfrAsTrUctUre aNd dEvEloP tEcHnoLoGy?"
This is the kind of Life the Avg Pan Africalist/Democrats want you to live, Hate US/Jews/Christians but love Satan & every Criminal Jihadists while claiming they are Free but you are Brainwashed.
Funny Jokers 😭😭
You've heard of the Greater Israel project. But have your heard of the (equally insane) 'Greater North America's project which includes nearly half of the African continent?
@Big_Mck explains Washington's latest malaria hallucination.
I could have exited with bang last year and taken the entire platform down with me, like these this same group of people did when they took the Parallel Facts website down while exiting before they invested in WAW 3 years ago.
But I'm not that kind of person.
I had grouses. I had beef. But I won't destroy something I built just because I have beef with someone who is running it. I'd rather leave it for the person and go do my own thing, which is exactly what I did. It's like the biblical story of Solomon and the 2 women claiming to be a child's mother. It's easy to see who the real mother is by gauging who is willing to light it on fire to prove a point.
West Africa Weekly was my child. I told the story of how it began in my book. I was living in this dirty Airbnb studio apartment in a dingy building called French Hostel in Akweteyman, Achimota, Accra. It was called French Hostel because most of the tenants were students from Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon. This was where I was at rock bottom in 2021. Still winded and confused from ending up in exile after End SARS, running out of money and options, waking up everyday and wondering where the hell I fit in this new world post-October 20.
Then someone here on Twitter tagged me on a post about something called the 'Substack Local Fellowship', and even though I wasn't really sure whether I wanted to go back to investigative journalism, it was at least a temporary way out of my existential conundrum. In my application, I named the prospective newsletter "West Africa Weekly", because I thought I would put out a new piece every week and since I was in Ghana, I wanted to cover Ghanaian stories too. I ended up getting it, and they asked me to nominate a graphic artist and editor. I nominated my editor from @NewsWireNGR, @TheFavoredWoman and that was how it all began.
Just me in a cheap, dingy apartment that had a cockroach problem, a cheap Dell Latitude laptop, a Vodafone 4G MiFi router, the promise of a $7,500 funding tranche every 3 months, some editorial support from Fola, and however far I was willing to go to get a great story. That's where all of this began. Just me and my cheap laptop in an urban slum somewhere in Accra.
From there, the world heard my voice. I told Itunu Babalola's story and nearly got arrested in Cote d'Ivoire in the process. I went after loan sharks owned by Chinese triads. I went after Nigeria's biggest corporates. I told the story that could have ended my career because of how close I was to it. I went after a drug lord-turned-politician who was running for president, and eventually won. I took the FBI, CIA, DEA, IRS, USAO and State Dept to court and won, only for them to refuse to carry out the court order to date.
Somewhere along the line I was granted political asylum and I got taken into the journalistic equivalent of a witness protection program because my life was under threat. Nigeria's National Intelligence Agency attempted to kidnap me from Ghana. It was the craziest adventure of my life, and it was nearly the last one.
So naturally when it was time to accept investment and move this operation from one crazy daredevil with his newsletter and YouTube channel to a structured operation with a board and reporters and HR, I wasn't going to say no. I was tired and I needed to rest.
And so despite all the subsequent humiliations, annoyances and grievances after I let other people control what I built, I was never going to burn it all down just because my time there was up. My baby is always my baby regardless of who controls it. Most people are just finding out today that I left WAW nearly 8 months ago, only because the new management decided to act this drama on the TL.
They will be fine or not. I wish this could have been handled differently, but to each his own. Nobody can take my memories away from me, and I will always remember what I built. Not what it has become.
Peace and love be unto ye. 👋🏿
"Respect Us" - Namibia Tells German Diplomat
In this 2018 interview aired on the Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA) TV, former Namibian President Hage Geingob (1941 - 2024) offers former German Parliament President Norbert Lammert a stern lesson on contemporary and historical affairs, when the latter backhandedly comments on the number of Chinese people living in Namibia.
For decades, but most especially in recent years, Western leaders and their mouthpieces have been relentlessly pushing the narrative that China’s growing influence in Africa represents a “new colonialism”. This narrative is amusing both for its comical irony and its lack of any basis in reality. The facts of history speak for themselves. The West seeks, and has only ever sought, to terrorize and plunder Africa, and the continent’s soil is filled with enough of the bodies of its innocent people slain under colonial occupation to prove this truth a thousand times over.
China, on the other hand, seeks realistic, sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships with Africa, through its Belt and Road Initiative, and as a former victim of Western colonialism itself, stands in solidarity with Africa’s people.
An American bank partnered with a Nigerian man to launder $308 million of Nigerian government money.
The money left Nigeria through American banks. It then sat quietly in a shell company for years while the man lived comfortably in Texas.
In 2003 American authorities arrested him. He spent six months in federal detention in the United States waiting to be tried.
Before the trial happened he offered to return $163 million.
America accepted. He flew back to Nigeria.
Nobody questioned him. Nobody charged him. Nobody prosecuted him.
He ran for Senate and won. He ran for Governor and won. He ran for Governor again and won.
America returned the $308 million his operation had laundered.
The new president then put him in cabinet.
America did not trust Nigeria with the $308 million.
They tied every dollar to three specific roads. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Abuja-Kano Road. Second Niger Bridge.
They even included a clawback clause. Misuse one dollar, pay it all back.
Why the conditions? Because previous loot returned to Nigeria had already disappeared.
Nigeria's own government told the court they had no record of how the earlier billions were spent.
A man who laundered billions is currently Nigeria's Minister of Budget and Economic Planning.
He decides how Nigeria spends its money.
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So you were expecting Olamide to to be anti-establishment before?
You people will listen to their songs. Hear the part where Fireboy DML told you it was Seyi Tinubu who’s sponsoring him via YBNL. Hear Olamide himself hail ‘Asiwaju’ and Seyi repeatedly. Hear him hail IBD Dende. Hail Kwam 1. Think about anyone you consider part of the problem in Nigeria, these celebrities worship them.
How do you guys think Entertainment survives in Nigeria? Look at your population, more than half is extremely poor. When a musician buys a Rolls Royce, where do you think the money comes from? From you or the establishment?
Well, if you must know today, celebrity lifestyle or soft life in Nigeria is sustained by the rot in the system, and expecting any Nigerian celebrity to be genuinely anti-establishment is peak delusion.
All you have to do to figure these things out is READ.
Knowledge belongs to people who can be bothered to read. Reading is like having the key to all the world's secrets.
When you're too lazy to read is when those secrets become "conspiracy theories."
Whenever you wake up...
The psychosis of materialism.
The desperate need to signal status with anything remotely fancy (whether it has substance or not).
It has forced Africans & Black people to adopt junk food as a status symbol.
A convert iPhone X to IPhone 17 as a status symbol.
A retro-fitted car as a status symbol.
Discarded Peruvian or Brazilian human hair as status symbol.
A superficial Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL).
This list is endless.
Occasioned by decades of deliberate poverty and deprivation.
This is why the fight for Africa’s liberation must begin psychologically. The whole psyche needs to be reengineered.
There’s a whole report on this I did for the @Spearhead_Af .
Will quote this with the video later.
Whenever I see Africans having all of the takes over countries like Eritrea, I just want to cover my face and go somewhere to have a lie down. Because the way some of you talk is a confirmation of every malicious racial stereotype that was ever created about African people.
You have no original thoughts or independent opinions inside your head. Everything that comes out of your mouth is Garbage-In-Garbage-Out programmed nonsense that was dictated directly directly into your head by the BBC news anchor who talks like they have plums in their mouth. Kinikan "Eritrea is a dictatorship," "They don't have freedom," "Police state that citizens need permission to leave."
First of all, let's be clear on something - no African country is fundamentally better off than Eritrea. You might not be under the same sanctions as they are, so you might have access to the cheapest cast-off consumer items from global trade that China gracefully lets you have, which creates the illusion of wealth and comfort, but the minute your weak and compromised governments ever try to exert actual sovereignty and independence, is the minute you will discover that global trade is a mafia operation controlled by US sanctions, and we are ALL at the same level as Eritrea.
Just because you have cheap consumer items from Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and you have MTN or Safaricom 4G internet that you use to play Nairabet and watch porn does not make you better off than an Eritrean who doesn't have those things. Because the price your country is paying for having those things can be measured in all kinds of horrible ways, like how IMF structural adjustment has devalued your Nigerian currency 99.7% since 1986, or how British soldiers at their base in Kenya regularly rape and murder local women without being legally answerable to Kenyan law. That is the price Eritrea refused to pay, so think about that before you sneer at people who to a certain extent are actually better off than you.
Second and more importantly, "freedom" is a concept that you should define for yourself as an adult human being with a fully functioning brain. If a group of white people and their NGO/media/civil society servants in Abuja and Nairobi have told you all your life that "freedom" means "multiparty universal suffrage elections", "free trade", "free press" and "individual liberty", that is fine and I love it for you. But as a grown-ass adult in a world that is clearly bigger than you, perhaps you also need to ask yourself what "freedom" means to Agnes Wanjiru, the Kenyan nursing mother in Nanyuki who was gang raped by British soldiers, stabbed in her lungs (so she drowned in her own blood), and dumped (alive) into a septic tank where her body was discovered 3 years later.
What does "freedom" mean to the 3 million people who died in Nigeria's civil war, which was externally instigated by Charles de Gaulle, who wanted to punish Nigeria and set it up for long term instability because Nigeria dared to publicly oppose France's nuclear bomb tests in Algeria? What does "freedom" mean to the local Tuaregs in Algeria around those nuclear test sites whose descendants still suffer extremely high rates of cancer, birth defects, and genetic mutations 60 years later?
What does "freedom" mean to 40 million black South Africans who were born into an economy whose structure has NOT changed since 1994, and who are statistically condemned through no fault of their own, to live tiny lives surviving off small government handouts, all because someone crossed the Atlantic, came to their country, stole all the means of production, and codified their theft into law? All these people I have mentioned have elections and smartphones and Google and porn and mobile money and some measure of gay rights, and whatever other thing that these NGO people have told you constitutes "freedom."
What use are these things to them?
As an African adult in 2026 with a functioning, non-colonised mind that can take in and process information independently - and not just mindlessly parrot whatever you have been told - you should be able to define what "freedom" means in your own personal, communal, national and civilisational context. Because the ability to trade memecoins, use Uber, make an online purchase with your Mastercard, subscribe to somebody's OnlyFans, express dissatisfaction with your government openly, be part of political opposition, or attend a Pride parade are definitely important freedoms to some people.
But freedom from white people and their IMF, World Bank, CIA, MI6, Mossad, DGSE, International Bank of Settlements, New York Federal Reserve, foreign military bases, NGO industrial network, sponsored terrorism, contrived colour revolutions, and Epstein safari trips to hunt and eat your kids are even more important freedoms to other people. And since in the world that existed between 1945 and 2023, it was basically impossible to have both sets of freedoms at the same time, Eritrea chose the second set of freedoms over the first set, as is their sovereign right to.
So if you come from a country that allowed Epstein islanders to hunt and eat your babies and drown your women in septic tanks in exchange for having Mastercard, Sportpesa and Pornhub, maybe focus on managing the faustian bargain your government made and quit rubbernecking at Eritrea.
You actually have bigger problems than they do.