People talk like China just possessed a magic wand and use it to make themselves rich overnight. China went through vicious and bloody internal cleansing of traitors and uncle toms. Africans must be prepared to do such.
100–200 years from now, their historians will tell your descendants that Africans “sold their resources.”
But we are alive now. We are watching it happen in real time, and we know that is not the full truth.
We know there is forced extraction across Africa. We know entire communities are displaced through war, terrorism, sanctions, economic pressure, and political manipulation so foreign interests can control land and resources. We know there are local collaborators who help facilitate it.
We watched France extract wealth from Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso for decades while those nations remained trapped in poverty. We see foreign corporations and foreign-backed militias feeding on Congo while the people remain in suffering. We see external powers and their regional allies tearing Sudan apart around strategic interests.
And one day, their history will likely reduce all of this to: “Africans sold their resources.”
Just like slavery.
Yes, there were African collaborators during slavery. But the way the story is often told today is intentionally dishonest. It is presented as though Africans independently created an international slave system and Europeans merely arrived to participate in an already existing market.
As though there were global slave ports waiting for European ships before European demand, weapons, financing, and industrial-scale trafficking transformed it into one of the largest crimes in human history.
That distortion removes power from the aggressor and transfers the blame almost entirely onto the victims and his collaborators.
That is how empire protects its image across generations.
The victors do not just control economies and militaries. They control historical memory.
And if Africans do not document this era themselves, future generations will be taught that their continent willingly handed over its minerals, land, labour, and sovereignty in exchange for nothing but corruption and incompetence. Just like slavery, the systems of coercion, destabilisation, foreign interference, debt control, military pressure, and resource wars will be deliberately erased.
Just the way you insult your ancestors, your children will insult you for selling their continent.
@Igbani27243 Shebi Nigerians were arguing that their country is sovereign, that it’s just the leader that are bad lol
You people don’t have the slightest idea of how deep the indoctrination goes
Every decision you’ve ever made as an human being has been influenced by western powers. Wake up!
Only a compromised government will intentionally stunt its nation's future educational, industrial, economic, and environmental development.
Nigerians, wake up.
For a country with a huge percentage of its citizens uneducated about its own history and how the world works, we seem remarkably relaxed in the face of an obvious impending doom.
Europe spent 400 years using slave labour in colonies to build its wealth, rebranded this extraction model in the 20th century and somehow its citizens still believe their social conditions are a result of some superior intellect rather than inhuman violence.
They assassinate all your progressive leaders and left you with their puppets while still telling you that the western world is not the reason for your underdevelopment..
All that the colonial masters has left for Africa is all to protect their own interest..
Their caretakers (the politicians)
Their police force..
Their educational system..
Their religion..
None of these institutions serves the interest of Africans.. we need to wake up to the reality that we're still been colonized.
They will Tell you that Africa, Haiti, and all these dark nations are shithole countries but they will never tell you that they killed anyone who tried to fix it.