Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.
You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.
You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.
You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.
You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.
You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.
Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
@heytoniwoni Because if the teach us about that, we might end up learning about the atrocities that the west does in Congo. Same way we learned about the holocaust but not about what France and Belgium did/does to Congolese
Mind u, p much every single victim’s families are very much alive and have had stories exploited in biopics they never consented to being a part of. True Crime being as big as it is desensitized a lot of folks and this is unfortunate end game of it
Something removed from a lot media about him: Sinthasomphone was only 14 years old and was initially rescued by a Black woman who Dahmer called, *in front of the police*, a “crazy Black bitch.” The police then handed the boy over to Dahmer.
Dahmer knew the cops didn’t care about his largely Black and gay victims. He knew he was protected more than his victims ever would be. Systemic racism and homophobia is why he got away with it for so long. And now he’s treated like quirky gay villain
Les infirmières, dès qu'elles goûtent à une fiche de paie Randstad de 3,2k net (256h, 4 dimanches, 9 gardes de nuit), humainement c'est difficile de faire + esclave et détestable qu'elles
Les gars, la prochaine fois que vous fabriquez de faux cocktails Molotov pour faire de la propagande, pensez au moins à enlever les gousses de vanille du mélange que vous avez récupéré dans votre bar ...
Tout se perd dans la police !
Désolé mais on ne peut absolument plus vous croire sur parole.
Trop de mensonges et de policiers condamnés pour faux.
Vous n'avez plus aucune crédibilité.
Et vous êtes responsables de cet état de fait.
On this day in 1904, German General Lothar von Trotha issued an extermination order against the Herero and Nama peoples in present-day Namibia. The genocide that followed killed an estimated 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Namaqua, making it the first genocide of the 20th century.