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It may be the next 20, 40 or even 50 years. I may not be on this earth by then but the State of Israel as we know it will cease to exist.

The technological, infrastructural and commercial ingenuity of the Chinese is unmatched. Take the crown of the world's most powerful country, it's yours.

My heart goes out to the buffalo for the stress and trouble of having to protect itself against the animal. I hope it's doing ok

Reference:
Had so many Indian teachers in my primary school then. Many British trained. Today they rather go to the States. To show how the economic gap has turned into a grand canyon.

I will continue today this. Obasanjo's indigenization policy was a catastrophic mistake. I can't understand why he did it. Perhaps due to the West's criticism of military rule (but in the 70's dictators were not really seen as bad guys) or was it part of OBJ's quest for Pan Africanism and the fight to rid SA of apartheid.

But one thing for surei ce Nigerians took over a lot of enterprises, agencies and entire sectors the decline started and Nigeria has not experienced a better succeeding year. It has been almost fifty years of decline and the Malaysia's, Indonesia"s, India's, Singapore"s and South Korea's of thus world have all left us in the dust.

I completely agree with you on this, even though Obasanjo’s indigenisation policy was enacted in good faith, it was a terrible mistake because it scared foreign investors away instead of attracting them. It concentrated wealth only within the elite circles, the likes of Rasak Okoya, Dangote’s uncle, Mike Adenuga, Otedola, Ibru family etc all benefited massively from the policy at the expense of national wealth distribution, just like the Russian oligarchs like Abrahamovich etc benefited from privatisation of national infrastructures after USSR dissolved, just that the Nigeria version was more long-drawn.

In comparison to India which invested in education and built a strong tech and pharmaceutical sector, Malaysia which by the way also has oil and palm oil but quickly diversified into electronics and manufacturing, and Singapore focused on education, urban planning, foreign investors and zero tolerance to corruption. Like you said, they left Nigeria in the dust and our problem in that country is further compounded by corruption, brain drain, heavy reliance on oil, lack of strategy and foresight. It's deep bro, it will take a visionary leader to turn things around at a national scale.

Draslo:
This was perfectly orchestrated by the CIA and the British. An advanced and powerful Nigeria meant real liberation for the black race and Africa. Can't have that, so here we are

☝️☝️☝️ This right here is the honest and bitter truth but we have many z0mb1es who are victims of the same system and world order themselves, blindly supporting "strong man" America, Israel and the collective West without any concrete justifiable reason besides propaganda, religion or total ignorance like it's Wizkid FC v 30BG.

WriterNig:
In the space of 2 days: The King Of Malaysia, India's National Security Advisor, President of UAE, Trump Special Envoy have visited Putin in Moscow.

Is this what "isolation" looks like?

👍🏻 Like for Russia - Multipolar World, share for USA/Nazi/NATO 卍

Trump himself is meeting him in a couple of days to discuss a truce because Putin is smoking NATO in Ukraine and advancing on all front.

Thunderfayamods:
Mr man you are living in the past, I know America more than you, I live here you are not the one to educate me. While what you said is true nations are now calling our bluff. Why do you think BRICS was formed? With all the sanctions on Russia and some other countries they are still strong despite the challenges.
If you don't know American citizens are tired of all that crap.

Oh wow, my deepest apologies Captain America. I completely forgot that living in America automatically grants someone a PhD in global geopolitics. Please, how could I, a mere observer of history, ever hope to understand America’s influence when you, sir, have seen Walmart and McDonald’s up close?

You’re absolutely right, sanctions, dollar hegemony, IMF pressure, regime change… all those are ancient history because I’m living in the past. None of that is relevant now because apparently, if enough countries “call America’s bluff,” the entire global system just resets like a Wi-Fi router. Brilliant insight.

And yes, lecture me about BRICS please. I thought BRICS is a community beer club?

Also, thank you for enlightening me that American citizens are tired of “all that crap.” I’m sure the Pentagon, Treasury, and State Department will immediately stop projecting power now that folks in Ohio have had enough. Foreign policy decisions definitely follow public fatigue. Just look at how the Iraq war ended the moment average Americans got bored.

If you know so much, maybe you won’t be opening mouth waaaa asking "Who is America to dictate to a sovereign country where to do their business” Anyway, do carry on educating the rest of us about how sovereign countries are totally free to trade with whoever they want, as long as Washington doesn’t mind, of course.

But thank you for confirming that yes, everything I said was true… but somehow still wrong because you “live here.” 🤡

Thunderfayamods:
Una go just open mouth waaaaaaaaaaa. Who is America to dictate to a sovereign country where to do their business? What is really making you happy about that?

Which rock have you been living under? Zuma or Olumo rock? Yes a “sovereign” country might technically be free to trade, but it has to weigh the costs of defying America. The United States has significant influence in the IMF, World Bank, SWIFT etc. If you refuse to do America's bidding, they may hit you with crippling sanctions which causes hyperinflation, Zimbabwe is a case study, America singlehandedly ruined Zimbabwe's economy.

They did something similar with Cuba in 1960, Iraq in 1990 or so, Venezuela in 2017, Iran in 1979 and 2018, Libya in 2011, Syria in 2020, Lebanon in 2019, Afghanistan in 2021.

They have different tools to wage economic warfare against any country that doesn't align with them, so it seems you're the one that has a lot to learn about geopolitics and America's impunity and unchecked world dominance.

Russia has fallen 🤡🤡🤡

One by one, nations in the global south are breaking away from a unipolar world and USA hegemony. Truly a history is being made. The West’s goal was to cripple Russia’s economy with sanctions, cut it off access to global markets, technologies and capital, and politically and diplomatically isolate Russia.

This is not looking like isolation but recalibration. Yes, Russia is isolated from the Western bloc (EU, G7, etc.), but not from the rest of the world, especially Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Countries like Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE all joined BRICS and within members have exchanged 1 trillion dollars worth in trade. Population also favours BRICS, the population of BRICS member countries stands at almost 4 billion currently while G7 isn’t even up to 1 billion. It’s over for America, it's over for the dollar as a global trade currency.

I think there's more to this crash. Given Ghana's increasing ties with Burkina Faso, Zelensky's fake claim that Ukraine is deepening ties with Ghana to manufacture drone technologies for Ghana's North border. Also given that Ghana's president was apparently meant to be on that flight. It all smells fishy.

Suspicious incident. Ghana President was meant to be on that flight.

Seunpapa65:
If your oga dey wear this and you are his employee then you have nothing to worry about about being replaced by AI 😂😂

WTF 😂😂

Sonnobax15:

Just mere looking at his pics alone,one can easily know the dude is a full time psycho..


But then again, instead of black Americans to see such psychos as who they really are, they'd rather choose to bycot the businesses of their fellow blacks simply because they feel they are more superior to them 🤷

African Americans didn't choose to boycott Black businesses. It was a propaganda war to sow division between the black community. We've got to understand that America state is very skilled at perpetrating this kind of atrocious agendas, especially through social media nowadays. I won't be surprised if the CIA has a hand in it, the whole thing smells of their signature. We've got to recognise it and rise above it.

Ok this is serious and suspicious in the same measure but it also raises deeper questions. One man claiming he’ll kill 30,000 Black people is logistically impossible, yet the federal response was swift and coordinated. X, Google, AT&T, all handing over data almost immediately. Meanwhile, school shootings continue to plague America, often with clear online warning signs, and yet authorities rarely intercept those threats in time. Why the sudden efficiency in this case?

It’s hard not to see a pattern. The recent August 1 campaign encouraging Black Americans to boycott African-owned businesses already looked like a manufactured attempt to stir division. Now we have a racially charged threat being elevated to national attention right after that. Whether it’s genuine or not, it feels weaponized to either justify increased surveillance, manipulate public emotions, or keep the Black community distracted and fractured.

We’ve seen this before, divide and conquer, crisis amplification, selective outrage. It’s crucial to stay alert and ask who benefits from these narratives being pushed when they are. Condemning hate is easy; dissecting the systems that exploit it is where real awareness begins.

COINTELPRO came to mind. 🤔

MrPOTUS:
For the fact that these Muslims folks always bring out the jihadist nature everywhere they go should be a red flag for any country trying to absorb them. I pity many European countries

You'll wonder why the likes of Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar etc are not accepting them

And for the record, France has recognized Palestine state.

So, some of your hypocritical pretence hold no water

Well first, let’s correct the factual error. France has not officially recognized Palestinian statehood. Keep up! Successive French governments have supported a two-state solution in principle, but have repeatedly delayed actual recognition, claiming the “right moment” has not come. Symbolic parliamentary votes have happened, but legally and diplomatically, France still aligns closely with Israel and has failed to take any decisive stand especially in the face of recent mass atrocities.

"Muslims always bring out the jihadist nature wherever they go” is not only a sweeping generalization, it’s racist, Islamophobic, and deeply uninformed. You’re branding over 1.9 billion people by the actions of a fringe minority which is exactly the mindset that fuels hate crimes and legitimizes discrimination. If we applied your logic universally, we’d be expelling people from all faiths and ethnicities based on the worst actions of a few.

You mention Gulf countries not accepting refugees, well, I think it's a fair criticism. But again, this war is the West's war. It doesn’t absolve France or the West of their own role. France is not an uninvolved bystander. It has colonial ties, geopolitical interests, and military entanglements in the Middle East and North Africa. If it wants to project moral leadership, it must be held to a higher standard.

France’s issue here isn’t about law and order, it’s about selective outrage. A Palestinian student accused (not convicted) of online speech is expelled and publicly shamed, while Israeli officials accused of war crimes receive weapons deals, diplomatic cover, and red-carpet treatment.

So no, it’s not “hypocritical pretence” to call out the double standards of France and the collecticve West. It’s an act of conscience. And frankly, if pity is to be had, it’s for people like you who can’t see past tired stereotypes and blindly defend systems built on centuries of violence, racism, genocides, ethnic cleansing and denial. You're a victim of the same imperialists but absolute ignorance and Stockholme syndrome won't let you see it. I was expecting an intelligent argument but your stand is completely devoid of that. Only parroting without substance.

MrPOTUS:
Why didn't your fellow Arab nations take them in, una hypocrisy long gan

France can decide to kick anyone who isn't their citizen out of their country for whatever reason, same as Nigeria.

So rest

Who is this Pillock deflecting to “why didn’t Arab nations take them in”. You're completely sidestepping the core issue: France actively invited and selected people from Gaza through its humanitarian programme. It wasn’t a random influx, it was a state-sponsored evacuation. So, to now criminalize a single individual and use it as an excuse to punish all others smacks of scapegoating, not justice.

Second, invoking “sovereign right” to deport is a distraction. Of course, every nation has the legal right to deport, just as Nigeria does. But that doesn’t make every exercise of that right ethical or principled. Apartheid South Africa also had the legal right to expel and silence people, was that moral? No. Legality does not equate to justice.

And calling out France’s hypocrisy is fair game. For a country that bombards the world with speeches about liberty, tolerance, and human rights, it conveniently forgets those ideals when it comes to Arabs, Muslims, and particularly Palestinians. Oh and the African countries it kept in shackles just its imperialist ambitions.

Lastly, let’s not pretend Arab nations are perfect, they’re not. But this isn’t about shifting blame. It’s about holding to account a Western government that has played an outsized role in both shaping the conflict in Palestine and criminalizing its victims.

So yes, France can deport. But when it does so in the context of suppressing Palestinian voices, while funding the war machine that’s flattening Gaza, we’re not witnessing justice, we’re witnessing moral cowardice. And no I'm not Arab, Muslim, Christian or whatever religious cult you all belong to. I'm human.

Botragelad:
Lol. That was quick. You really have to wonder why countries like France, the UK, and some of Europe keep letting in people who hate everything the West stands for, just to look politically correct and “woke.” These Islamists ruined their own countries with religious extremism, then ran to the West only to bring the same toxic mindset with them.

You seriously think you can "fix" or "change" a radical Islamist? Try harder. These people are raised to hate non-Muslims and push their ideology wherever they go. You give one a scholarship, and next thing you know, they're openly supporting terror groups and preaching hate. And they’re not alone, millions like them are already in Europe, slowly shifting the population and culture.

Deport them fast, before they use their growing numbers to force Europe into Islamic rule. You think hating Israel is cool or “woke”? Wait till the real Islamists turn on you. Instead of bringing in peaceful Christians or people who actually want to live like the West, Europe keeps importing radicals who despise everything Western. Keep going like this, and Europe’s going to learn the hard way that these Islamists hate you just as much as they hate their enemies.

Says France, a nation that prides itself on liberté, égalité, fraternité, has a long and bloody history of colonial violence and genocide, from the brutal conquest of Algeria to the complicity in the Rwandan genocide, inhumane treatment of African soldiers during both world wars. Their legacy continues today in the form of its unflinching support for Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza, where entire families are being wiped out and civilian infrastructure systematically destroyed.

By criminalizing a Palestinian student for online speech while arming and politically backing a regime accused of war crimes, France is not only betraying its professed democratic ideals but is reinforcing a centuries-old pattern of silencing the colonized while empowering the colonizer.

The broader Western world is no less culpable. Under the guise of fighting terrorism and defending democracy, Western governments have provided Israel with weapons, diplomatic cover, and media narratives that dehumanize Palestinians and justify mass atrocities. Their selective outrage, vocal against resistance and silent on mass killings exposes the moral bankruptcy at the heart of their foreign policies.

This is not about security or peace. It is about maintaining a global order where Western interests, and those of their allies, override international law, human dignity, and the lives of millions. This is Africa, Israeli's propaganda will not stand no matter how hard you try.

SIRTee15:
The Gospel was already established in Africa b4 it got to Britain.
Christianity predate any British indoctrination or misuse of the bible U alluding to.
There were 4 African kingdoms who embraced Christianity as their national religion as far back as 300 AD, this was b4 britian knew anything about jesus or the bible.
Kingdom of Aksum in modern day Ethiopia, kingdoms of Alodia, Makuria and Nobartia in modern day Sudan were Christian nations as far back as 4th century AD.
These were people of ancient Nubians regarded as black with darker skin tone than yours.

So this idea that Britain brought Christianity to Africa is nothing but outright ignorance.

Father Athanasius, and father Augustine who championed the Nicene creed were African berbers. Father Tertullian the first person to coin the word Trinity was also an African amazigh.

Father Origen who played a major role in choosing the new testament books to be canonised was Coptic xtian from Africa.

Britian on the other hand contributed nothing in the development of Christianity or it's core doctrines except translation of the bible to English KJV which has now become inconsequential due to so many errors in it.
They simply handed it to others the same way it was delivered to them.

U guys will come here and start shouting Africans should know their history but it's so obvious u should be the one learning your root and understanding the role of ancient Africa in the development and advancement of Christianity.

Finally the so called corruption of the people is just the newest route to justify rebellion against God, nothing more.
Despite the noise about unreliability of the gospel books, nobody has been able to produce the reliable copy of the gospel.
All the extant manuscripts we keep discovering everyday continues to point towards the preservation of the core Christian belief.
No extant manuscripts says Jesus is not the saviour or he is not crucified or not the son of God...none.

U guys continued to be misled and misguided by bible scholars into believing the unsubstantiated claim of bible unreliability BUT let me show U what 2 great new testament scholars have to say about the gospel- Bart ehrman and Bruce Metzger.

“Bruce Metzger is one of the great scholars of modern times, and I dedicated the book to him because he was both my inspiration for going into textual criticism and the person who trained me in the field. I have nothing but respect and admiration for him. And even though we may disagree on important religious questions – he is a firmly committed Christian and I am not – we are in complete agreement on a number of very important historical and textual questions. If he and I were put in a room and asked to hammer out a consensus statement on what we think the original text of the New Testament probably looked like, there would be very few points of disagreement – maybe one or two dozen places out of many thousands. The position I argue for in ‘Misquoting Jesus’ does not actually stand at odds with Prof. Metzger’s position that the essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.”

Bart Ehrman (Misquoting Jesus, p. 252)

I don’t deny the existence of early Christianity in Africa particularly in Aksum, Nubia, and among North African theologians like Tertullian, Athanasius, Origen, and Augustine. These are facts, and I acknowledge that African scholars played a key role in early Christian doctrine. In fact the original Ethiopian Bible is said to be the one of the oldest and most complete bible, and they were the earlier adopter of Christianity after the times of Tertulian and co. But neither the North African theologians nor Ethiopians spread Christianity to Sub-sahara Africa. I think you should take note of that fact.

Anyways, my critique isn’t aimed at the original spread of Christianity in Africa centuries ago, but rather the version and purpose of Christianity that was reintroduced to sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial era which is the context most Africans today are familiar with. Agree? As a matter of fact, I’m a Yoruba man, and when I talk about Africa which undoubtedly has very diverse tribes with their own culture, traditions and centuries-held belief systems. My culture, traditions and belief system as a Sub-Sahara African would have been, and still currently very different to that of the early North-African guys you quoted who championed the Nicene creed. As you rightly said, they were Berbers. Stop alluding to “Africa” in an homogeneous context.

When British missionaries came with the Bible in one hand and colonial administrators with guns and conquest in the other, religion was deeply entwined with political domination, cultural erasure, and psychological control. That’s a historical reality too, and it cannot be brushed aside by pointing to early Christian influence in North Africa or Ethiopia.

This isn’t a rebellion against God, as you’ve implied. It’s a critique of how religion especially organised, state-aligned religion, was weaponised to undermine African identity, values, and systems. The version of Christianity that many Africans inherited was filtered through colonial worldviews, including ideas of European superiority and African inferiority.

You said “Despite the noise about unreliability of the gospel books, nobody has been able to produce the reliable copy of the gospel.” Do you know why? Majority of them were deliberately suppressed and destroyed due to political, theological, and ideological purposes. Though some were lost because of the fragility of the materials they were written on. The early catholics destroyed a lot of them, the Roman Empire destroyed some, the Council of Nicaea destroyed some. The KJV version you lots are carrying around today is a heavily edited, heavily redacted, watered down version. Do you wonder why?

Also, quoting Bart Ehrman is interesting, I think he’s a respected scholar who indeed affirms the relative consistency of core New Testament doctrines, but he’s also explicitly critical of the historical reliability of how the New Testament evolved. His work raises valid questions about how church politics and human editing shaped scripture over centuries which is exactly my point.

To be clear: my issue is not with individuals who have faith in Christ, that’s their choice. My issue is with the assumption that African spirituality must submit to or be validated through a foreign framework because despite the spread of Christianity to Africa (North Africa actually) in the days of Tertulian etc, Ethiopia later and sub Sahara Africa afterwards through colonisation, it still doesn’t negate the fact that Christianity is foreign to Africa. Africa had rich spiritual systems long before Christianity or Islam, and many were forcibly suppressed or demonised.

So when I say Africans need to know their truth, I mean that we should explore our pre-colonial spiritual history as seriously as others defend Christian theology. Understanding ancient African Christianity is important but so is understanding how European powers used religion to colonise, subjugate, and reshape the African mind. So when you say “U guys will come here shouting Africans should know their history”, maybe you should take your own advice. Quoting ancient African theologians doesn’t erase what happened during the scramble for Africa, when Bibles and bayonets worked hand in hand. Missionaries softened the ground, and colonial administrations took the land.

Regardless, I can acknowledge both truths, I’m not a black or white kind of person. I see meanings in grey lines with all the shades within it and I believe two truths can co-exists but let’s not pretend the Christianity most Africans know today was passed down from Tertullian or Augustine from ancient Africa. It came through colonial infrastructure, missionary schooling, and imperial agenda, often at the expense of African self-determination.

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Israel should stop eliminating these evils!

You seem to categorize every civilian living in Gaza as Hamas. I'll say it again: October 7 was awful, and I certainly don’t support it. But what followed is even more despicable. Is it religious affinity

You don’t complain about people dying of hunger because Netanyahu won’t allow food into Gaza. When they rush to get the little food they’ve been drip-fed, they get shot at. These are unarmed civilians!

Netanyahu rains missiles on them every day and that’s OK? You’ve seen images and videos of babies and children being killed in Gaza by the IDF? Those babies are not Hamas, are they? Do they deserve to be killed just because they’re Palestinian? Are these babies hungry babies and unarmed civilians you're referring to as "evil"? Or the lives of Israelis matter more than that of a Palestinian?

What Netanyahu is doing in Gaza is nothing short of genocide, and if you support that evil, then I say: you've lost your humanity and shame on you. Coming from a Nigerian/African made it even more despicable, you're supporting the same empire and imperialists that kept you surpressed till today. Is it your religious affinity or blind hero-worship of strong men?

Again, October 7 was horrible but if Palestinians had not been kept in an open-air prison, on their own ancestral land, maybe it wouldn’t have happened. Whatever ceasefire deal is agreed upon in the future, if it doesn’t include Palestinian statehood, it will only ensure another October 7 in 5, 10, or 20 years’ time. It has happened before. History must not repeat itself.

And don't quote my handle again with this type of "what about this" to justify the ongoing genocide and obvious ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza. I won't give you the reaction you want to feed on. Look for details of how children, women and other helpless and unarmed people are being starved to death, killed by guns, rockets and missiles everyday in their thousands in Gaza. How do you justify that?

“A forgotten and silent war is taking place in Northern Mali… we had no choice but to cross the border illegally from Mauritania, a neighbouring country.” This was the opening line of ARTE.tv’s documentary: “Mali: Resistance Against Wagner” on YouTube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVCMTX0oHXQ

This is how the European public broadcaster ARTE opens its controversial documentary on Mali. It is a bold admission, one that sets the tone for what follows: a sympathetic portrayal of anti-government rebel fighters, images of slain Malian and Russian soldiers, and a framing of the conflict that strongly questions the legitimacy of the Malian state.

But this documentary is not an isolated act of journalistic curiosity. It is a signal, a warning of how European state-funded media infrastructure is being used not just to report on African conflicts, but to actively shape, skew, and potentially destabilize narratives on the continent.


ARTE and the European Media Machine

ARTE (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne) is a public Franco-German media entity, jointly operated by ARTE France and ARTE Deutschland. These, in turn, are subsidiaries of major European public broadcasters: France Télévisions, Radio France, INA, ARD, and ZDF. Their collective ownership traces directly to European states and their respective public broadcasting institutions.

ARTE operates under the legal framework of a European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) a corporate entity created by the European Commission in 1985 to facilitate transnational business collaboration across EU states. EEIGs are not taxed on profits directly; their activities are considered ancillary to the core activities of their members, and any profit or loss flows to the parent institutions.

Put simply: ARTE is a public entity, operating under a cross-border European legal structure, funded by public money, and accountable, at least partially, to European governments.

Yet this same institution, under the protection of European law and sovereignty, openly admits to violating the territorial sovereignty of an African state, Mali, by illegally crossing its borders to embed with Azawad terrorists in northern Mali. Would this same act be tolerated if African journalists crossed into France from Belgium to cover militant activity in Corsica?


Narrative Warfare and Colonial Echoes

By presenting rebels as “resistance fighters” and framing Malian and Russian soldiers as aggressors, ARTE participates in a dangerous form of narrative warfare. When media outlets with global reach selectively tell one side of a conflict while implicitly endorsing insurgents, it is not just reporting. It is agenda-setting.

This form of media bias serves several unspoken goals:

• To undermine states that no longer submit to Western military or political oversight.
• To justify their narrative that Africa, especially the Sahel cannot do without them.
• To portray European presence in Africa (whether through media, NGOs, or private security firms) as benevolent or necessary.

But it goes deeper. It reflects an attitude of Western impunity and exceptionalism: a belief that European journalists and public institutions can defy African laws and sovereignty in the pursuit of “truth”, a truth they themselves construct, filter, and distribute.


Canal+ and the Takeover of MultiChoice: A Strategic Expansion

The ARTE issue cannot be viewed in isolation. It is part of a larger pattern of European media encroachment on Africa. The recent acquisition of MultiChoice, the largest entertainment broadcaster in Africa, by French media giant Canal+ deserves immediate scrutiny.

MultiChoice owns DStv, GOtv, and Showmax, serving over 20 million households across 50 African countries. It holds exclusive rights to major sports, entertainment, and local content channels. With Canal+ now in control, France has direct access to the hearts, minds, and living rooms of the African continent.

This is not just a business deal. It is a strategic soft power acquisition, especially as African nations like Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso push back against French military and political involvement. If France can no longer dominate Africa with troops or diplomacy, it will do so with media.

The implications are immense:

• Editorial decisions about African stories may now be made in Paris, not Lagos, Nairobi or Johannesburg.
• African content creators may be forced to conform to European corporate policies and values.
• Narratives critical of France, the EU, or Western hegemony may be subtly filtered, deprioritized, or outright censored.


The Return of Cultural Imperialism

Colonialism once operated through coercion, trade, and guns. Today, it operates through satellites, streaming platforms, and public broadcasters.

• ARTE, funded by European states, illegally enters African territory to shape a civil conflict’s narrative.
• Canal+, a French media company, quietly purchases Africa’s most influential media company.
• The EU, through EEIG frameworks, creates cross-border corporate shields that protect these institutions from accountability.

This is media colonization in real-time.


What Must Be Done

Africa must take seriously the battle not just for its resources, but for its narratives.

1. Strengthen Media Sovereignty
• Regulate foreign media ownership, particularly in critical sectors like news and current affairs.
• Create policy frameworks for editorial independence and content localization.

2. Invest in Independent African Media
• Support African-owned broadcasters and streaming platforms.
• Encourage diaspora funding for pan-African journalism initiatives.

3. Demand Accountability
• Civil society and media watchdogs must call out biased reporting and expose double standards.
• African governments should respond diplomatically and legally to violations of their sovereignty.

4. Educate the Public
• Promote media literacy to help viewers distinguish between genuine reporting and narrative manipulation.


Conclusion:

The West may no longer wear the badge of colonial authority, but its media machines now serve a similar function controlling what stories are told, who tells them, and how the world sees Africa.

If Africans do not control their own narratives, someone else will. And as we’ve seen, they already are.

To think this guy was a former Al-Qaeda rebel, labeled a terrorist by the West and had 10 million dollar bounty on him to now meeting and shaking hands with Emmanuel Macron, Kier Starmer etc because he aligned with their strategic interests. Wow.

Mayeldah:
Don't write off Christianity just because you don't trust the British people, Britain got Christianity same we got it. Right from when Jesus went up, the gospel has spread to all cities and nations, it first got to the British before it got to us.
The problem with Christianity today is that whatever a man interprets to another person will always be misinterpreted. Many of the early Christians brought emotions, their mindset and way of thinking into the religion making doctrines out of it. For example the way Kumuyi understood the bible and interpreted it affected thousands of his followers for over 45 years, he misunderstood the bible and turned it to doctrine.
As knowledge increases, many will question so many doctrines passed down by men who formed doctrines out of their poor knowledge of the bible.
Btw there are so many Genzs who love God and are serving him with all their hearts, the fact that they are not religiously as foolish as we were, doesn't make them a generation that hates God.
The next generation will search out the real truth about God's words and serve him in truth and in spirit

You’re right, I agree with you on issues of doctrines. Many doctrines were shaped by cultural bias, limited understanding, and political motives, and those layers have made it harder to find the essence of what was meant to be a spiritual path. My issue isn’t with people seeking God or even Christ himself, it’s with how Christianity was weaponised during colonialism. We can’t ignore that the version of Christianity that reached Africa was filtered through the lens of empire, hierarchy, and control. That historical baggage affects how the message is received and perceived.

The fact that many young people today, Gen Z or not, are searching for “truth in spirit” rather than tradition shows a shift, not a loss. Like you said, as knowledge increases, people ask deeper questions. I think that’s healthy. But as an African, I believe part of that truth-seeking includes revisiting our spiritual roots that existed long before Christianity arrived. It’s not about throwing everything away, but about being honest with history and choosing our spiritual paths consciously, not just accepting what was handed down by colonisers. If Britain didn't invade Nigeria with Christianity, you most likely won't be a Christian today. As for me personally, I made the conscious choice of having nothing to do with Christianity because at the end of the day, God is not religious. God didn't create any religion, humans did.

God didn't write the bible either, humans did, and I can categorically state the fact that the bible is inconsistent in numerous ways. That is not the kind of "Holy book" I want to live my life by. Not to mention the fact that the bible is incomplete and has been heavily redacted and manipulated to suit narratives. Also, If Christian missionaries had been successful in penetrating the heart of China with Christianity, the country won't be as successful as it is today. Look at it from the point of view of how religion has contributed to division around the world. Use Nigeria as a case study.

SmartPolician:
Multichoice has finally dumped their failing business on an unsuspecting French company. Multichoice staffers will be smiling all the way to the bank now.

I hope the French media company did their due diligence before acquiring Multichoice and that they have a solid strategy for rescuing the company

Yes they have a strategy. That strategy is to push anti-sahel propaganda to millions of subscriber across Africa. France has been in deep economic trouble since they got kicked out of the Sahel, they are actively sponsoring terrorism in the Sahel region and also feel the need to control narratives through media in Africa. This is media warfare and Africans need to wake the F up!

Christianity and Africa in the same sentence is funny. Africa and Africans shouldn't have any business with Christianity. You want to tell me that a European translation of a Middle-Eastern man is my God? Common. I mean you may have been able to fool my parents, grandparents or maybe great grandparents even.

But hypocrisy of organised religion stops with me. It's a tool of control, nothing less than that. Organised religion shapes how you think and that thing is dangerous because it keeps your mind in a prison. We have our religions in Africa before the invasion and it ain't Christianity.

British missionaries came first with the bible, then British armies followed with the guns.

Know your truth as an African.

And no, I'm not Gen Z - You don't have to be in a particular age group to use your brain. I live in the country of the people who introduced Christianity to Nigerians. Less than 7% of them attend churches and less than 50% even identify as a Christian, so it's me - an African man that should be devoted to Christianity, shouting Hallelujah and praying to Jesus Christ? Nope.

Baxilexi:
If you speak of Gadaffi you may also wish to inform yourself about his terrorist activities… here are some photos.

Inform myself? You've done that for me, you even went the extra length to attach photos. How will I know the truth if you don't educate me.

But professor, I mentioned head of states (plural). I can list them for you if you're unsure or ignorant to the fact that the West - including France of course, carried out murders of head of states who wanted to remove Africa from the grip of Western chokehold and break free of their shackles.

You're here with some flimsy whataboutism justifying the death of an African head of state by the West, killed in the street like a dog because of his involvement in Lockerbie bombing but you didn't know US had bombed Libya in 1986 before Lockerbie happened?

But yes let's run away with "Gadaffi deserved to be killed because of Lockerbie incident" story. We don't need to ask what the root causes were, why Lockerbie happened, why US bombed Libya before then, what their plan and end game were and how the end game fits into the overall strategy of keeping Africa suppressed.

So professor, continue educating me with stories from Reuters, BBC etc and of course with ingenious and authentic research using AI. And more whataboutism please.

Baxilexi:
Nigerians should go live in Russia or speak with natives from the Baltic countries to understand who Russia really is.

They have no known consumer end product lines, but it’s all about weaponry/death/faux-piety. AK the Russian flagship.

I see folks supporting a country where a presidential contestant is murdered in jail, a military ally is murdered in a plane, a minister of transportation is murdered in his car, and that’s our new found love.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russian-president-vladimir-putin-dismisses-transport-minister-starovoit-2025-07-07/

But you're not worried about the Pan-African head of states that has been murdered by the West? You're very wise.

bigpicture001:
This is not what Hamas wants... They want isreal to completely vacate the region...

This is what Obama thought bas well, when he pressure Netanyanhu to vacate Gaza abc completely hand it over to Palestine for peace to reign...

Pm did, but that is when not became worse

Ok bigpicture001

Recognise the state of Palestine which is long overdue

ednut1:
African can provide uranium but cant own atomic bombs lol

Africa needs to crawl first before it can run. We're at the crawling stage and it's a great development.

Gbogbowa:
this is the beginning of Africa destruction. Check China, north Koreans and Russia citizens they don't have freedom of speech. Africa is going from fry pan to fire

What on God's green earth is this one talking about?

This is the way to go. The Global South is finally breaking free. I never thought my generation would witness a time when Africa strategically chooses its partners, on its own terms, rather than being locked into the orbit of those who kept us subservient for generations. This is what sovereignty looks like. Long overdue, but I hope Africa will learn hard lessons because currently, Africa's growth is external, not internalised, it's driven by what's happening in Beijing, Moscow, London, Washington etc. Unless Africa changes its economic structure and start producing and manufacturing its own goods, then the cycle of boom and bust will continue.

Africa can’t rely solely on resource extraction for its long-term survival. We need local industries and diversified economies so that we won't be at the mercy of Beijing or Moscow's economic growth. We need industrialised Africa but at least now we can choose our partners which is a huge and significant step.