Russell Bluejack Wrote.
.
BIAFRA REPUBLIC WILL STOP THE
UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA BY AFRICANS
PART 1
Captioning this work, the first in the series,
was a serious challenge, the reason being
that my objective is to uncover the endemic
institution of corruption in the African
continent and Nigerian receding nation and
submit that Biafra will make the evasive
difference.
Nations in Africa, with the exception of the
white populated ones like South Africa and
Namibia, have always very low Gross
National Product (GNP) due to selfish,
greedy, myopic, and inordinately corrupt
leaders. The figure for South Africa and
Namibia is very encouraging due to their
mixed racial state - a sign that colonialism is
not all that bad, after all.
Lootocrats have always been the ones to
man what we call nations in Africa, with no
end in sight. Walter Rodney wrote a
classicus titled "How Europe
Underdeveloped Africa" wherein he said the
coming of the white man is responsible for
the stunted growth or absence of it in the
continent.
Rodney is an advocate of DEPENDENCY
THEORY, a theory that holds that Africans,
having been colonized, have remained
under the political and economic control of
the West, with the IMF and IBRD (World
Bank) as the specific instruments. Rodney, in
my view, failed to see that the state of affairs
in the post colonies is worse than that of
the colonies.
W. W. Rostow, on the other hand, authored
the five (5) stages every society must pass
through in order to attain development, a
submission that reveals that economies, like
humans, grows from PRIMITIVITY to
MODERNISATION. This submission is akin to
that of the founder of Sociology, August
Comte, whose "classical positivity" divulged
how the human mind developed from the
pristine/primitive to the positive/scientific
era. Another French Sociologist, Emile
Durkheim, used his distinction between a
mechanic and organic society to drive home
the point that the human society is DYNAMIC.
MODERNISATION THEORY holds that
progressive economies are so called
because of the state of their economies with
respect to GNP, employment, science and
technology, and education.
Economies that have clambered up the
echelons of economic growth (according to
Rostow) fare better than their counterparts
that remain below. The first three stages
each economy must work hard to surmount
are (1) the primitive stage (2) pre-conditions
for take-off (3) take-off. African economies, I
dare say, have a long way to go. The 4th
stage, Stage of Maturity, is for economies
that are classified as FIRST WORLD/CORE/
DEVELOPED economies.
The dependency theorists who claim that
the African problem is exogenous (caused
by the West) are wrong, since they hinge it
on IMPERIALISM/COLONIALISM. Africa is not
the only continent with countries that were
colonised. The United States of America was
a colony of Britain for years. Are there still
vestiges of colonialism in the US? Has the US
not overtaken Britain in all the indices
spelled out by the modernisation theorists
that engender development? Africa must
look inward for the cause of and solution to
Africa's problem.
We should note that the countries in the
Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal,
founded the New World - South America.
Yes, Africans were the ones being shipped
as slaves to the New World. The black man,
his blackness notwithstanding, is
responsible for the existence of the
continent we refer to as South America
today. It means we have been in existence
for many years, albeit with SERVILE
MENTALITY. When will Africa grow? When? It
appears we are in dire need of RE-
COLONISATION. Donald Trump may not be
entirely wrong, after all.
Walter Rodney and other dependency
theorists are wrong. Colonialism and
imperialism do not keep colonies tied to the
socio-economic, religious, and political
apron strings of the coloniser. I disagree. I
think the modernisation theorists, who
based growth of economies on the indices
mentioned supra (above), are spot on. Let us
survey Africa, our own continent, using the
modernisation theory scale.
WHERE IS AFRICA ON THE MODERNISATION
THEORY SCALE?
Rostow talked about the 1) primitive 2) pre-
conditions for takeoff 3) takeoff 4) maturity
5) period of mass production as the five
stages every society that is desirous for
economic growth must traverse. Countries
are rated as FIRST WORLD (NATO and OECD),
SECOND WORLD (vietnam, Cuba, Poland,
Kazakhstan) and THIRD WORLD (Africa and
some countries that are not ideologically n-
sync with the West).
NATO means North Atlantic Treaty
Organizations and refers to the EU, while
OECD means Organization for Cooperation
and Development. OECD is a larger
organization that comprises the EU, US, and
several other nations all of which are called
the Western World. The strong economies in
them make them developed nations, and
you must note that most of them were
COLONIES years ago. Africa must stop hiding
under colonialism. The First World nations
are also called Highly Industrialized
Countries (HIC) due to the preponderance of
indigenous industries in them. On the
modernisation scale, these countries occupy
the transitory stage between takeoff and
maturity. There are those that have attained
the maturity stage. Some countries have
been able to move up the scale, albeit not
completely e.g. China. China, for some of us,
is a first world country, but we know that
the ideology of the Western World will
continue to check them. It is noteworthy
that the requisite indices adduced by
Rostow are the determinants of impartial
assessments. The first world countries are
referred to as the CORE countries.
Third World countries are also called THE
PERIPHERY, or UNDERDEVELOPED countries,
and are characterised by the following:
1) Low GDP and GNP
2) High cost of living that leads to Low
Standard of Living
3) High Death Rate
4) Uemployment
5) Crude production method (lack of
industries)
6) Widespread poverty etc.
Some countries that are treated as Third
World are only so seen due to their
ideological independence from the West.
Africa sits comfortably as a third world, with
no vision to stem the ugly tide. The African
problem is not reduceable to colour, since
black men who have done global exploits
abound. What then is the African challenge?
The dependency theory blames it on
colonialism, but the chink on the wall of that
assertion has been exhumed. We have seen
that colonial experience is not peculiar to
Africa. Some people say the DURATION OF
THE COLONIAL MASTER is responsible for our
problem, but fail to see that Ethiopia was
colonized for just five (5) years: 1936-1941,
but is the LEAST DEVELOPED country in Africa.
It is, thus, indubitable that neither
colonialism/imperialism nor duration of
same is the problem. What then is the cause
of the African peculiarity? Colour is not the
issue, for the aboriginal Egyptians prior to
the conquest of Alexander the Great of
Babylon, were black people. (Read the
"Larceny in Egypt" chapter 2 in AFRICAN
PHILOSOPHY by Nwigwe and Emedolu) Some
of us know the true story about the
transformation of Egypt, the first developed
country in the world. Stories abound that
great historians like Herodotus, great
thinkers like Thales, Anaximenes,
Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato etc all passed
through the tutelage of black Egyptians
whose works disappeared after the
conquest. The Egyptian mysticism and the
pyramids were second to none in the world.
The glory of Egypt has thinned out in
antiquity due to lack of documentation. This
is a serious problem in Africa - oral tradition
that makes things disappear when the
sages die.
The black man, it has been proved, is not
devoid of natural abilities, for the original
black Egyptians civilised the world. The
white man is not superior to us because of
his colour. He gets things done. Yes, therein
lies the difference. The white man is not
Homo Intellectus because of his colour. The
white racist calls the black man Homo
Erectus, which means we are just humans
because we can walk upright. As offensive
as that racial declassification is, is Africa not
confirming it? When will the black man
begin to get things done? Those who blame
the West for our peculiar problem should tell
us how Africans fared before the arrival of
the white man. Maybe we should answer to
the following posers:
1)Who were we before imperialism/
colonialism? Identity issue. Hunters and
gatherers?
2) Were we the only ones colonized?
3) Have other colonies not moved up the
economy growth scale?
4) Are we still being colonized?
5) Did we not fare better under the colonial
masters?
6) Would we have known the values of our
natural resources but for the colonial
masters?
Posers (5) and (6) prove that Africa gained a
lot from colonialism, but have failed to make
jusicious use of the lessons learned. Africa's
problem is BAD LEADERSHIP. Africa is home
to very selfish and corrupt men and women
whose penchant for corrupt acts is better
imagined. The GNP of nations in Africa is the
worst in the world. This is disturbing,
knowing that we are home to NATURAL
RESOURCES in aplenty. We are the richest in
natural resources, yet the poorest in the
world. Is that not a shameful irony? Mobutu
Sese Seko (Zaire) , Sani Abacha (Nigeria),
Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) Paul Kagame
(Rwanda), Isaias Afwerki (Eritrea), Meles
Zenawi (Ethiopia), Omar Bongo (Gabon) and
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) are some
African leaders that have looted their
national coffers dry and sent their monies
outside. Is it not shocking that Abacha of
Nigeria stashed billions of dollars that
exceeded our national debt in foreign
accounts for himself? The cannibal, Mobutu
Sese Seko embezzled over 10 billion dollars
outside the shores of Nigeria.
According to R. Baker in a news magazine,
our own Sani Abacha as Head of State in the
1990s, ordered the CBN (our central bank)
to transfer the sum of fifteen million dollars
($15000,000) every day to his swiss
account. Do you know what that means? It
means $465m left Nigeria every month. Go
ahead to compute how much money left our
coffers every year. Over 100 banks
worldwide were in charge of Abacha's
loots! Crazy! Damn crazy! May God forgive
these looters.
Today, it has been uncovered that African
politicians hold somewhere between US
$700 and $800 billion in offshore accounts
and outside the continent. An estimated
$274 billion leaves Sub-Saharan Africa for
other countries. These huge amounts of
money embezzled by African leaders exceed
their national debt. Do you see why debts
are not easily cancelled? The Lootocrats in
Africa are the ones keeping our continent
backward. You can see why the lootocrats in
Nigeria don't want us to have Biafra.
Yes, secession of Biafrans from the
LOOTOCRATIC Nigeria will lessen the purse of
the looters. Nigeria and other African
nations do not practise democracy. What we
have is a DEMOCRATISED LOOTOCRACY. My
own governor, I have been duly informed by
his own brothers, is busy acquiring
properties in and out of the state and
nation. I have been shown a lot of
properties he has acquired in just two years.
We all know why they are scared of Biafra.
Biafra will take Nigeria and Africa out of the
woods. Embezzlement is a soft word that
makes stealing a conventional thing.
The looter is no different than a thief and
will be treated as such in Biafra Republic.
There will be no such distinction between
the THIEVING POLITICIAN and an ARMED
ROBBER, for the MANDATE of the people is
what the looter uses as arms. Biafra will
westernize Africa.
Please note that this work is the first in the
series. The next episode shall do justice to
the Gross National Product of several African
nations. You will see that even in countries
where gold is a natural resource, poverty
sits comfortably. You have seen what
Abacha looted. You have seen the amount of
money that leaves Sub-Saharan Africa. What
you have not seen is how much Osinbajo,
Buhari (living-dead), Obasanjo, Abdusalami,
Amaechi, Odili, Obiano, Wike, Atiku, IBB,
Senators, other governors, other presidents
in Africa, political appointees, emirs, kings,
Sultan etc all over Africa have looted and are
still looting. Africa is a household of
lootocrats. Every politician in Nigeria is
driven by the lootocratic spirit. It is the truth
we must begin to tell ourselves. A sustained
African and Nigerian politics rejuvenates our
national and continental underdevelopment.
Things will get worse as long as Nigeria
remains loosely ONE.
The template is too corrupt for any form of
economic growth. Nigeria and Africa are far
away from Rostow's takeoff stage. As a
matter of fact, recent events in Nigeria show
that we are on our way back to the
PRIMITIVE/TRADITIONAL stage. Ours is a
receding economy, and Biafrans, those
blessed with the needed technology to
MODERNISE Africa, have said they will not
take this plunge with Nigeria. Biafra is the
remedy for this speedily receding enclave
called Nigeria. Watch out for parts 2 and 3.
Nigeria, we divorce thee.
Biafra, we hail thee.
Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker,
revolutionary writer, a tutor, and a socio-
economic and political analyst that writes
from Port Harcourt.

Charity begins at home

This is Anambra.

South West Nigeria shaa

The beauty of Yoruba land.

[s]

biafran1stson:
Russell Bluejack Wrote.
.
BIAFRA REPUBLIC WILL STOP THE
UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA BY AFRICANS
PART 1
Captioning this work, the first in the series,
was a serious challenge, the reason being
that my objective is to uncover the endemic
institution of corruption in the African
continent and Nigerian receding nation and
submit that Biafra will make the evasive
difference.
Nations in Africa, with the exception of the
white populated ones like South Africa and
Namibia, have always very low Gross
National Product (GNP) due to selfish,
greedy, myopic, and inordinately corrupt
leaders. The figure for South Africa and
Namibia is very encouraging due to their
mixed racial state - a sign that colonialism is
not all that bad, after all.
Lootocrats have always been the ones to
man what we call nations in Africa, with no
end in sight. Walter Rodney wrote a
classicus titled "How Europe
Underdeveloped Africa" wherein he said the
coming of the white man is responsible for
the stunted growth or absence of it in the
continent.
Rodney is an advocate of DEPENDENCY
THEORY, a theory that holds that Africans,
having been colonized, have remained
under the political and economic control of
the West, with the IMF and IBRD (World
Bank) as the specific instruments. Rodney, in
my view, failed to see that the state of affairs
in the post colonies is worse than that of
the colonies.
W. W. Rostow, on the other hand, authored
the five (5) stages every society must pass
through in order to attain development, a
submission that reveals that economies, like
humans, grows from PRIMITIVITY to
MODERNISATION. This submission is akin to
that of the founder of Sociology, August
Comte, whose "classical positivity" divulged
how the human mind developed from the
pristine/primitive to the positive/scientific
era. Another French Sociologist, Emile
Durkheim, used his distinction between a
mechanic and organic society to drive home
the point that the human society is DYNAMIC.
MODERNISATION THEORY holds that
progressive economies are so called
because of the state of their economies with
respect to GNP, employment, science and
technology, and education.
Economies that have clambered up the
echelons of economic growth (according to
Rostow) fare better than their counterparts
that remain below. The first three stages
each economy must work hard to surmount
are (1) the primitive stage (2) pre-conditions
for take-off (3) take-off. African economies, I
dare say, have a long way to go. The 4th
stage, Stage of Maturity, is for economies
that are classified as FIRST WORLD/CORE/
DEVELOPED economies.
The dependency theorists who claim that
the African problem is exogenous (caused
by the West) are wrong, since they hinge it
on IMPERIALISM/COLONIALISM. Africa is not
the only continent with countries that were
colonised. The United States of America was
a colony of Britain for years. Are there still
vestiges of colonialism in the US? Has the US
not overtaken Britain in all the indices
spelled out by the modernisation theorists
that engender development? Africa must
look inward for the cause of and solution to
Africa's problem.
We should note that the countries in the
Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal,
founded the New World - South America.
Yes, Africans were the ones being shipped
as slaves to the New World. The black man,
his blackness notwithstanding, is
responsible for the existence of the
continent we refer to as South America
today. It means we have been in existence
for many years, albeit with SERVILE
MENTALITY. When will Africa grow? When? It
appears we are in dire need of RE-
COLONISATION. Donald Trump may not be
entirely wrong, after all.
Walter Rodney and other dependency
theorists are wrong. Colonialism and
imperialism do not keep colonies tied to the
socio-economic, religious, and political
apron strings of the coloniser. I disagree. I
think the modernisation theorists, who
based growth of economies on the indices
mentioned supra (above), are spot on. Let us
survey Africa, our own continent, using the
modernisation theory scale.
WHERE IS AFRICA ON THE MODERNISATION
THEORY SCALE?
Rostow talked about the 1) primitive 2) pre-
conditions for takeoff 3) takeoff 4) maturity
5) period of mass production as the five
stages every society that is desirous for
economic growth must traverse. Countries
are rated as FIRST WORLD (NATO and OECD),
SECOND WORLD (vietnam, Cuba, Poland,
Kazakhstan) and THIRD WORLD (Africa and
some countries that are not ideologically n-
sync with the West).
NATO means North Atlantic Treaty
Organizations and refers to the EU, while
OECD means Organization for Cooperation
and Development. OECD is a larger
organization that comprises the EU, US, and
several other nations all of which are called
the Western World. The strong economies in
them make them developed nations, and
you must note that most of them were
COLONIES years ago. Africa must stop hiding
under colonialism. The First World nations
are also called Highly Industrialized
Countries (HIC) due to the preponderance of
indigenous industries in them. On the
modernisation scale, these countries occupy
the transitory stage between takeoff and
maturity. There are those that have attained
the maturity stage. Some countries have
been able to move up the scale, albeit not
completely e.g. China. China, for some of us,
is a first world country, but we know that
the ideology of the Western World will
continue to check them. It is noteworthy
that the requisite indices adduced by
Rostow are the determinants of impartial
assessments. The first world countries are
referred to as the CORE countries.
Third World countries are also called THE
PERIPHERY, or UNDERDEVELOPED countries,
and are characterised by the following:
1) Low GDP and GNP
2) High cost of living that leads to Low
Standard of Living
3) High Death Rate
4) Uemployment
5) Crude production method (lack of
industries)
6) Widespread poverty etc.
Some countries that are treated as Third
World are only so seen due to their
ideological independence from the West.
Africa sits comfortably as a third world, with
no vision to stem the ugly tide. The African
problem is not reduceable to colour, since
black men who have done global exploits
abound. What then is the African challenge?
The dependency theory blames it on
colonialism, but the chink on the wall of that
assertion has been exhumed. We have seen
that colonial experience is not peculiar to
Africa. Some people say the DURATION OF
THE COLONIAL MASTER is responsible for our
problem, but fail to see that Ethiopia was
colonized for just five (5) years: 1936-1941,
but is the LEAST DEVELOPED country in Africa.
It is, thus, indubitable that neither
colonialism/imperialism nor duration of
same is the problem. What then is the cause
of the African peculiarity? Colour is not the
issue, for the aboriginal Egyptians prior to
the conquest of Alexander the Great of
Babylon, were black people. (Read the
"Larceny in Egypt" chapter 2 in AFRICAN
PHILOSOPHY by Nwigwe and Emedolu) Some
of us know the true story about the
transformation of Egypt, the first developed
country in the world. Stories abound that
great historians like Herodotus, great
thinkers like Thales, Anaximenes,
Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato etc all passed
through the tutelage of black Egyptians
whose works disappeared after the
conquest. The Egyptian mysticism and the
pyramids were second to none in the world.
The glory of Egypt has thinned out in
antiquity due to lack of documentation. This
is a serious problem in Africa - oral tradition
that makes things disappear when the
sages die.
The black man, it has been proved, is not
devoid of natural abilities, for the original
black Egyptians civilised the world. The
white man is not superior to us because of
his colour. He gets things done. Yes, therein
lies the difference. The white man is not
Homo Intellectus because of his colour. The
white racist calls the black man Homo
Erectus, which means we are just humans
because we can walk upright. As offensive
as that racial declassification is, is Africa not
confirming it? When will the black man
begin to get things done? Those who blame
the West for our peculiar problem should tell
us how Africans fared before the arrival of
the white man. Maybe we should answer to
the following posers:
1)Who were we before imperialism/
colonialism? Identity issue. Hunters and
gatherers?
2) Were we the only ones colonized?
3) Have other colonies not moved up the
economy growth scale?
4) Are we still being colonized?
5) Did we not fare better under the colonial
masters?
6) Would we have known the values of our
natural resources but for the colonial
masters?
Posers (5) and (6) prove that Africa gained a
lot from colonialism, but have failed to make
jusicious use of the lessons learned. Africa's
problem is BAD LEADERSHIP. Africa is home
to very selfish and corrupt men and women
whose penchant for corrupt acts is better
imagined. The GNP of nations in Africa is the
worst in the world. This is disturbing,
knowing that we are home to NATURAL
RESOURCES in aplenty. We are the richest in
natural resources, yet the poorest in the
world. Is that not a shameful irony? Mobutu
Sese Seko (Zaire) , Sani Abacha (Nigeria),
Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) Paul Kagame
(Rwanda), Isaias Afwerki (Eritrea), Meles
Zenawi (Ethiopia), Omar Bongo (Gabon) and
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) are some
African leaders that have looted their
national coffers dry and sent their monies
outside. Is it not shocking that Abacha of
Nigeria stashed billions of dollars that
exceeded our national debt in foreign
accounts for himself? The cannibal, Mobutu
Sese Seko embezzled over 10 billion dollars
outside the shores of Nigeria.
According to R. Baker in a news magazine,
our own Sani Abacha as Head of State in the
1990s, ordered the CBN (our central bank)
to transfer the sum of fifteen million dollars
($15000,000) every day to his swiss
account. Do you know what that means? It
means $465m left Nigeria every month. Go
ahead to compute how much money left our
coffers every year. Over 100 banks
worldwide were in charge of Abacha's
loots! Crazy! Damn crazy! May God forgive
these looters.
Today, it has been uncovered that African
politicians hold somewhere between US
$700 and $800 billion in offshore accounts
and outside the continent. An estimated
$274 billion leaves Sub-Saharan Africa for
other countries. These huge amounts of
money embezzled by African leaders exceed
their national debt. Do you see why debts
are not easily cancelled? The Lootocrats in
Africa are the ones keeping our continent
backward. You can see why the lootocrats in
Nigeria don't want us to have Biafra.
Yes, secession of Biafrans from the
LOOTOCRATIC Nigeria will lessen the purse of
the looters. Nigeria and other African
nations do not practise democracy. What we
have is a DEMOCRATISED LOOTOCRACY. My
own governor, I have been duly informed by
his own brothers, is busy acquiring
properties in and out of the state and
nation. I have been shown a lot of
properties he has acquired in just two years.
We all know why they are scared of Biafra.
Biafra will take Nigeria and Africa out of the
woods. Embezzlement is a soft word that
makes stealing a conventional thing.
The looter is no different than a thief and
will be treated as such in Biafra Republic.
There will be no such distinction between
the THIEVING POLITICIAN and an ARMED
ROBBER, for the MANDATE of the people is
what the looter uses as arms. Biafra will
westernize Africa.
Please note that this work is the first in the
series. The next episode shall do justice to
the Gross National Product of several African
nations. You will see that even in countries
where gold is a natural resource, poverty
sits comfortably. You have seen what
Abacha looted. You have seen the amount of
money that leaves Sub-Saharan Africa. What
you have not seen is how much Osinbajo,
Buhari (living-dead), Obasanjo, Abdusalami,
Amaechi, Odili, Obiano, Wike, Atiku, IBB,
Senators, other governors, other presidents
in Africa, political appointees, emirs, kings,
Sultan etc all over Africa have looted and are
still looting. Africa is a household of
lootocrats. Every politician in Nigeria is
driven by the lootocratic spirit. It is the truth
we must begin to tell ourselves. A sustained
African and Nigerian politics rejuvenates our
national and continental underdevelopment.
Things will get worse as long as Nigeria
remains loosely ONE.
The template is too corrupt for any form of
economic growth. Nigeria and Africa are far
away from Rostow's takeoff stage. As a
matter of fact, recent events in Nigeria show
that we are on our way back to the
PRIMITIVE/TRADITIONAL stage. Ours is a
receding economy, and Biafrans, those
blessed with the needed technology to
MODERNISE Africa, have said they will not
take this plunge with Nigeria. Biafra is the
remedy for this speedily receding enclave
called Nigeria. Watch out for parts 2 and 3.
Nigeria, we divorce thee.
Biafra, we hail thee.
Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker,
revolutionary writer, a tutor, and a socio-
economic and political analyst that writes
from Port Harcourt.

[/s]

The developers who have not develop their region now wants to develop the whole of Africa
www.nairaland.com/attachments/5107349_laughing_gif0d22801a92b58891626d06af55f62243

Afonjas will never allow any serious intellectual debate on Nairaland


It is high time we cast them out of Nairaland as was done to their ancestor who was casted out of heaven

biafran1stson


Very nice article


Pls present the other parts on a fresh thread while attaching the link of previous ones


Back to the main issue


I believe that Biafrans can help develop Africa only if they insist that every Biafran undergo 3 years compulsory Technological Education which will empower them to become industrialists.

Warship:
Afonjas will never allow any serious intellectual debate on Nairaland


It is high time we cast them out of Nairaland as was done to their ancestor who was casted out of heaven

That's called Yoruba mythology.
Ready Greek mythology or Roman or Norman mythology and see whicj is weirder. It shows they were active in the ancient world. Not many tribe in Nigeria is as sophisticated to have one

Warship:
biafran1stson


Very nice article


Pls present the other parts on a fresh thread while attaching the link of previous ones


Back to the main issue


I believe that Biafrans can help develop Africa only if they insist that every Biafran undergo 3 years compulsory Technological Education which will empower them to become industrialists.

Yes,i agree with you