A Message to African Americans Who Use Africa as a Punching Bag.
You read some of the comments from African Americans demonizing Africans on the continent, calling us weak, useless, incapable of governing ourselves after independence, still dependent on the West, still poor. And what is striking is that they are recycling the very same rhetoric that white supremacists use against them in America. The same tired argument that slavery ended centuries ago and yet they remain at the bottom of the economic ladder, the most incarcerated demographic, the most policed, the most structurally confined.
To borrow the language of Frantz Fanon, this is what internalized domination looks like when it turns outward. The oppressed, unable to strike the system that crushes them, search for another mirror to shatter.
What they erase in their arrogance is history. Our leaders were eliminated. Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Thomas Sankara was removed. Sylvanus Olympio was killed just to name these few. Those who resisted were overthrown through coups engineered from Europe and America.
Weapons flooded our lands. Our states were militarize; wars were financed, terror was sponsored decimating millions to this day. Our resources continue to extracted ar unfair prices and our currencies were chained to foreign treasuries. Structural adjustment programs hollowed out our hospitals, our schools, our public services. Illicit financial flows drained over a trillion within a few decades . And yes these happened thanks to our local Uncle Toms. We have been fighting to survive in a battlefield disguised as independence.
Let us be honest. The entire Black American population is about 48 million. Africa is 1.4 billion people. That means the whole of Black America fits into this continent nearly thirty times over. Demographically speaking, you are the size of one mid range African country.
So no, we Africans will not waste our energy arguing endlessly with what is statistically the equivalent of one large public market on this continent. We have imperial empires to confront and systems to dismantle.
From time to time, we will correct grave distortions and push back against your ignorance when it becomes too loud. We will do so as an act of solidarity toward your Blackness, to prevent the embarrassment of supremacist talking points coming from Black mouths. But we will not engage in fratricidal battles.
It is beneath our mission and our horizon.
We have larger adversaries to face, and we will not allow ourselves to be distracted by those who have internalized hate toward their own as a strategy of survival within a system that diminishes them.
We refuse to be the convenient target of misplaced rage, because our struggle is against systems that conquered, looted, and fractured us all, and we will not let borrowed contempt divide a people whose liberation is still unfinished.
How to shut up angry Ugandans and distract them from human rights abuses and exploitation:
1. Keep them busy with gossip
2. Make them fight each other
3. Throw money at the noisiest
4. Leak some nudes for them
5. Steady supply of cheap alcohol
6. Send them so many preachers
7. Supply cheap entertainment
8. Let them insult to calm down
9. Give them alternative anger outlets
10. Hype football
11. Make them strategise on social media as you read and counter
12. Keep them busy with survival
13. Make them fear to lose what they have
14. Make each feel watched
15. Make some defect to discourage the rest
You might wonder why mainstream media is largely silent about the killings, persecution and kidnaps that have happened during the elections. Well, many of them received letters of caution before elections not to do live coverage of ‘protests’, or else … To be safe, the media houses further censored themselves beyond the scope of the letters they received. Certain things will not be reported, except by social media (with its own challenges).
For those who keep asking me how they can engage in passive non-violent resistance without getting shot. Here is a little help from Grok. 😁
Practical Passive / Low-Risk Tactics
1. Boycotts and economic non-cooperation (very passive) Quietly refuse to buy state-controlled products, use state media, pay certain “voluntary” taxes/fees, or participate in regime-run lotteries/charities. Small-scale consumer boycotts (e.g., avoiding regime-linked businesses) can accumulate if many people do it simultaneously without coordination that can be traced.
2. Work-to-rule / malicious compliance In state jobs or essential services, follow every rule exactly and do nothing extra. This slows bureaucracy, clogs systems, and frustrates superiors without breaking laws. Classic in Soviet-era factories and many modern authoritarian civil services.
3. Gray-zone non-participation
• Skip regime-mandated “voluntary” events (rallies, clean-ups, voting if turnout is meaningless).
• Submit blank/invalid ballots when forced to vote.
• Arrive late/leave early from compulsory meetings.
• Feign mild illness or family emergencies frequently.
4. Information subversion (samizdat-style)
• Share forbidden books, independent news, or historical facts via USB drives, printed copies passed hand-to-hand, or verbal retelling.
• Memorize and repeat accurate (non-regime) versions of events in private conversations.
• Use subtle satire, memes, coded language, or double meanings that regime censors struggle to prosecute.
5. Symbolic withdrawal of legitimacy
• Refuse small rituals of loyalty (standing for the leader’s portrait, applauding speeches, using official honorifics).
• Wear subtle symbols (colors, pins, clothing styles) associated with opposition that are hard to criminalize.
• Rename everyday objects or use ironic nicknames for leaders in private speech.
6. Building parallel economy / mutual aid networks
• Create informal barter/trade circles that bypass state-controlled currency or supply chains.
• Share skills, food, medicine, or childcare outside official channels.
• Support families of arrested people quietly (food drops, anonymous cash, tutoring kids).
7. Documentation and memory preservation
• Keep private diaries, photographs, or audio of abuses (stored securely or smuggled out).
• Memorize names, dates, and details of disappeared people.
• Teach accurate history to children/family in private.
8. Targeted institutional non-cooperation
• Judges/lawyers quietly delay or question regime cases on technical grounds.
• Teachers slip in unapproved facts or refuse to teach propaganda units.
��� Doctors/nurses provide care to dissidents discreetly and document torture injuries.
9. Defensive humor and ridicule Private jokes, ironic songs, or absurd rumors that undermine the leader’s aura of infallibility. Humor spreads fast and is hard to prosecute unless someone publicly performs it.
10. Exit preparation and safe spaces Quietly learn foreign languages, build international contacts, save money/assets outside the system, or prepare escape routes. A credible possibility of exit weakens the regime’s psychological grip.
When this rogue regime switched off Internet yesterday,they started mass abductions e.g in Kansubi alone I was informed last night of about 15 people abducted.
We tried following up today morning without any progress 😕
This is A terrorist regime 😒
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨Unacceptable. 2 out of 305 ballot boxes delivered this morning in Mbarara City had tampered seals. EC, this is gross negligence. How do you expect public trust when even basic election security is compromised?
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