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For me, once an African leader is the nationalist we need, be he or she a dictator or not, he's worth the support.
Is a "tyrant" who brings development a tyrant? Africans become embarrassingly illiterate when it comes to thinking for themselves.
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The lie about Africa was not a small lie carelessly told.
It was a structural lie, deliberately constructed, institutionally maintained, academically defended.
It required the renaming of things. Egypt became, in the Western imagination, not quite African. The pyramids became a "mystery," because the alternative was crediting Africans with their construction, which the framework could not accept.
It required the discrediting of Arab and African scholarship about African history.
It required the dismissal of oral traditions as legend rather than history.
It required deciding that writing on paper counted as "civilization" and other forms of knowledge transmission did not.
It required, essentially, redesigning the criteria for what counted as "civilization" so that the places being colonized would fail the test.
The test was not neutral.
The test was written to produce a specific result.
And that result was: "Africa has no history worth the name."
Therefore what colonialism destroyed was not civilization. Therefore what colonialism did was not destruction.
This is not an accusation of individual ignorance.
This is a description of institutional architecture, built over centuries, maintained by people who understood exactly what it was for.
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They taught the colonized child to see the world through the colonizer’s eyes.
And then, when the colonized child grew up and looked through those eyes and saw themselves...
They saw what the colonizer saw.
"Backward." "Primitive." "In need of development." Behind on a timeline whose destination was someone else’s present.
This is the wound that outlasts the empire.
The guns go. The administrators go. The flags come down.
But the curriculum stays in the mind.
The habit of measuring yourself against a standard that was designed without you.
The reflex of looking at your own culture and asking, involuntarily, what the colonizer would think of it.
The deep, persistent, half-conscious belief that modernity is something you are still catching up to rather than something you were always building in your own way.
This is why independence was necessary but not sufficient.
You can remove the occupier without removing the occupation of the mind.
Decolonizing the curriculum was not a symbolic act.
It was the harder and more fundamental liberation.
The liberation of the internal landscape.
The recovery of the right to know what you knew before they told you it didn’t count.
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There is a reason the first thing serious liberation movements do is address education.
Amílcar Cabral said it.
Frantz Fanon said it.
Amílcar Cabral said the colonized must "return to the source," must recover historical identity not as nostalgia but as the specific foundation on which genuine independence becomes possible.
They were not being romantic.
They were being precise.
They understood that a people who do not know their own history cannot draw on it.
Cannot point to it and say:
We built things before you arrived. We will build things after you leave.
Cannot look at the condition the colonizer created and say with full confidence:
This was done to us. It is not what we are.
A people without that knowledge accepts the condition.
Does not demand the transformation.
Waits for permission from the people who designed the situation to fix it.
And the people who designed the situation are not going to fix it.
ALT Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973), agronomist, revolutionary thinker and co-founder of the PAIGC, led resistance to Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. For him, liberation meant more than independence. It meant reclaiming history, culture and dignity.
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The archaeological consensus is increasingly clear and increasingly detailed.
The pyramids were built by ancient Egyptians.
Not slaves. That’s a later myth, partly biblical in origin, comprehensively contradicted by the evidence.
Workers’ villages have been excavated near Giza.
We have records of their rations, their medical care, their organized labor gangs that gave themselves names.
We have the Papyrus of Merer, an actual ancient diary discovered in 2013, written by an inspector who helped transport limestone for the Great Pyramid.
A firsthand account, in Egyptian, describing the logistics of the construction in administrative detail.
The tools were copper chisels, wooden sledges, ramps and, depicted in their own tomb paintings, water poured ahead of sledges to reduce friction on sand.
The mathematics involved was precise enough to align the Great Pyramid to true north with an accuracy that still impresses engineers today.
The granite came from Aswan, 800 kilometers away.
The logistics alone represent an organizational achievement of the first order.
Now here is the thing worth noticing.
Nobody asks who really built the Palace of Knossos.
Nobody publishes bestselling books suggesting the Greeks couldn’t possibly have engineered the Parthenon without outside assistance.
Nobody makes a documentary implying the Persians didn’t actually build Persepolis.
Nobody insists the Chinese couldn’t possibly have constructed the Great Wall.
Yet somehow, when it comes to Egypt, human ingenuity is no longer considered explanation enough.
The "mystery" of pyramid construction, the cottage industry of alternative theories, the aliens, the lost civilizations, the suspiciously unnamed advanced races, exists in the specific shape it does because the Egyptians were African.
The moment you return Egypt to Africa, the mystery evaporates.
It becomes what it always was: a sophisticated civilization building sophisticated things.
The mystery was never about engineering.
It was about making African genius unthinkable.
Les choses de Yaoundé son toujours comme ça : les miracles de tout les côtés.
Entre temps, Indira est chantre gospel, douté vous des miracles du kunkuma des cieux ? 😂
Oswald Baboke intercède pour son muna. 😭😂
Pay stupide, dépendance française !
So Dr. Indira Baboke studied arts(A1) and was able to get into med school? In 2017 when she wrote A levels, she actually failed and was preparing for repeat the following year. Two weeks later, there was a “miracle”. The GCE board wrote to her, claiming that they made a mistake and she actually passed with exceptional grades. One month after all this drama, she was able to get into med school while still being a musician. She might either be Einstein or Gods chosen one🙌🏼
He said this with so much confidence cus he knows the Nigerian masses are still sitting idle waiting for January 2027, so they can watch them win again.
No fear of the masses. No action from the masses. What a country?!
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Egypt is the most revealing case of all.
Ancient Egypt, with its pyramids, its philosophy, its mathematical precision, its medicine, its legal systems, its art that still stops people in museum halls, is acknowledged as one of the great civilizations of human history.
And for most of Western academic history, it was also systematically, carefully, persistently de-Africanized.
Ancient Egyptians were depicted as lighter than the evidence suggests.
The obvious geographical and cultural connections to the rest of Africa were minimized.
The Nile Valley civilizations that predated the dynastic period were underdiscussed.
Cheikh Anta Diop spent his career arguing that ancient Egypt was an African civilization.
Not Mediterranean. Not racially ambiguous. Not a separate category inserted between "real" Africa and "real" civilization.
African.
The reaction from Western academia was not engagement.
It was dismissal. It was decades of institutional resistance. It was the particular fury of a field that had built its understanding of the ancient world on the careful, necessary, structurally load-bearing separation of Egypt from the continent it sits on.
Because if Egypt is African, then the sentence "Africa had no civilization before Europe arrived" doesn’t just need revision.
It becomes incoherent.
Not just false, but the precise inversion of the truth.
And not just about one dynasty or one period but about the foundational story of Western civilization itself, which drew substantially from Egyptian knowledge in mathematics, medicine, architecture, philosophy.
Which means Western civilization did not bring knowledge to Africa.
It learned from it.
The mummies are still there.
The DNA studies have complicated every clean narrative.
Diop’s work has been increasingly vindicated by genetic and archaeological evidence.
The resistance continues anyway.
But the instinct, the deep structural instinct to separate the civilization you want to celebrate from the continent you needed to be empty, that instinct shaped the field for generations.
You cannot claim the pyramids and also claim the continent that built them had no history.
You cannot do both with a straight face.
They tried anyway.
ALT Pharaoh Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (reigned c. 2055–2004 BCE). An African king of the Nile Valley who reunified Egypt and founded the Middle Kingdom more than 4,000 years ago. This is not a modern reconstruction. It is an original ancient Egyptian statue, discovered at Deir el-Bahari in 1900. Long before European colonialism, Africa had already produced one of the greatest civilizations in human history. Egypt was African. Its pharaohs were African. Its history is African history. Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 36195).
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They called it the "Dark Continent."
Understand what that phrase was doing.
It was not a geographic description. European cartographers had been trading with coastal African kingdoms for centuries. Arab scholars had mapped the interior. Timbuktu was a name known across the medieval world.
The darkness was not in Africa.
The darkness was what Europe needed Africa to be.
Because a continent of kingdoms required a justification for conquest that a continent of kingdoms could not provide.
So the kingdoms were removed from the map.
Not literally. Rhetorically. Historiographically. From the textbooks and the lectures and the philosophical frameworks that decided what counted as "civilization" and what counted as nature waiting to be claimed.
They didn’t arrive in darkness.
They brought it.
And called it light.
ALT Henry Morton Stanley, "Through the Dark Continent" (1878). A revealing example of how nineteenth-century European exploration literature portrayed Africa as a land of darkness, despite its ancient civilizations, kingdoms and intellectual traditions.
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The University of Sankore in Timbuktu was operating in the 12th century.
At its peak it had 25,000 students.
It held between 400,000 and 700,000 manuscripts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine, law, literature and theology, many of which are still being catalogued today.
Seven hundred thousand manuscripts.
In a city that European maps labeled "terra incognita."
Unknown land.
Not unknown to the scholars studying astronomy inside it.
Not unknown to the merchants who traveled thousands of miles to reach its markets.
Not unknown to the students who came from across the continent and the Arab world to study there.
Unknown only to the people who needed it to be.
Because 700,000 manuscripts changes the sentence.
Because a university operating a thousand years ago in sub-Saharan Africa changes every assumption that colonialism was ever built on.
And the assumptions needed to survive.
So the manuscripts were not taught.
And the "terra incognita" remained, in the minds of those who needed it to, incognita.
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Great Zimbabwe was built between the 11th and 15th centuries.
Massive stone enclosures. Walls 11 meters high. 250 meters in circumference. Built without mortar, with such precision that the walls have stood for centuries.
A thriving city that at its height housed 18,000 people. A trading hub connected to Swahili Coast networks that moved gold, ivory, and goods as far as China.
When European explorers encountered it in the 19th century, they did not ask: who built this?
They asked: who built this that wasn’t African?
The theories came quickly. Phoenicians. Arabs. A lost white civilization. King Solomon. The Queen of Sheba.
Literally anyone except the people who had been living in and around it for centuries and whose oral histories described exactly who built it and when and why.
It took until the 20th century, and a British archaeologist named David Randall-MacIver working against enormous institutional resistance, to formally establish what the people who lived there had never forgotten:
Africans built it.
Africans built it.
The refusal to accept that was not ignorance.
It was integral to the colonial narrative that justified ruling and dispossessing Africans while declaring them incapable of the very achievements their ancestors had left standing in stone.
The ruins were African. The myth that denied their origins was colonial.
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Burkina Faso Bans Privatization Of State-Owned Enterprises
On October 19, 2026, Burkina Faso's People's Legislative Assembly unanimously adopted a law banning the total or partial privatization of state-owned enterprises. Burkinabé state companies like CIM-SAHEL (cement), TEXFORCES-BF (textiles) and RAFFINOR-BF (gold) can no longer be legally privatized.
For decades, Western governments, media and entities like the IMF and World Bank, have relentlessly pushed privatization upon Africa, advertising it as the solution to the continent’s poverty. Yet no African nation that has ever followed the West’s recommendations of privatizing its key state institutions, from transportation to education to water supply to media, has become more prosperous for it.
Burkina Faso has clearly gotten that memo, and chosen to protect its economy from the endless predation of Western capitalism. The economic success that the country has seen over the last 4 years speaks for itself, and the rest of Africa would do well to follow its example.
The colonizer's desire to colonise never dies. It drives rebranding, and that rebranding comes with many false assertions meant to manipulate victims' minds. Example? African agency.
They claim Africa lacks it, undermining Sankara et al.'s courage and foresight.
Stay alert.
Quand on parle de révolution populaire, c'est ce que l'on entend par là : la participation de chacun à la construction d'une société prospère.
Ce ne sont certainement pas les personnes que l'Occident prétend être hostiles à leurs dirigeants.
Le Niger se construit ! ✊🏾❤️
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Le Premier ministre, le Général de Division Abdoulaye Maïga, a reçu ce mercredi 21 octobre 2026
Dramane Kamiya, un conducteur de tricycle venu apporter une contribution de cent mille (100 000) francs CFA au Fonds de soutien à la Transition.
If Nigeria were functional and the government successfully addressed the electricity issue, Nigerians wouldn't be here, excited about different toys rebranded to dry them out in the name of innovation. Lol.
I don't know what the aim of this tweet is, but continue...lol.
Stop calling Zik ceremonial President. The Government Gazette never did.
When Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was appointed President of Nigeria, what did the Federal Government Gazette actually call him?
This question is important because anytime I post a photo of Zik as President, some ones rush to comment: he was only ceremonial President.
That is textbook talk, not what the law said.
Go and check the Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette and the 1963 Constitution.
Section 157 is titled: Nnamdi Azikiwe to be President just as this front page newspaper says and what Nigerians of then knew.
It says: Nnamdi Azikiwe shall be deemed to be elected President of the Republic on the date of the commencement of this Constitution.
No where in that Gazette was he called ceremonial President.
What the Gazette called him was:
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Head of State.
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
That was his official title.
Yes, we all know Nigeria was running parliamentary system then. Executive powers were with Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
Zik was Head of State who assented to bills, received ambassadors, exercised Prerogative of Mercy, appointed Prime Minister based on who had majority, and could even refuse dissolution if it was not in national interest.
That is why textbooks in school describe his role as ceremonial, to help students understand who was running day to day Government.
But ceremonial was never his official title in the Gazette.
He was not sworn in as ceremonial President.
He was sworn in as President of Nigeria.
Even Prime Minister Balewa said it in Parliament when he proposed that clause. He said Nigeria can never adequately reward Dr Azikiwe for his nationalist activities and service to the nation, that is why his name should be written into the Constitution.
It is the only time in democratic history where a Head of State is named by name in a constitution.
So next time, do not reduce him.
He was President of Nigeria, Head of State and Commander in Chief. His powers were limited by the parliamentary system, but his title was President of Nigeria.
That is what the Gazette says.
That is history, not classroom summary.
If you doubt me, go and check Official Gazette No 67 Vol 50 of 1st October 1963 and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1963 Section 157.
Make we respect our founding fathers well.
Now You Know.
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Today, I honor the martyrdom of those youth who fell for standing up for the collective good. Their sacrifices inspired some of us and gave us an excuse to continue fighting for a progressive Nigeria.
It started with #EndSARS; it's now inspiring a revolutionary course. ✊🏾