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How the European powers shared Africa in the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference.

Shehu Sani, a Nigerian human rights activist and former senator, posted a color-coded map depicting Europe's 1884-1885 Berlin Conference divisions of Africa, showing France controlling vast swaths like West Africa, Britain dominating East and Southern regions, and smaller claims by Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, and Spain, with Ethiopia remaining independent.

The conference, convened by Otto von Bismarck without African input, formalized the "Scramble for Africa," arbitrarily drawing borders that disregarded over 1,000 ethnic groups, contributing to post-colonial conflicts as evidenced by studies like those in the Journal of African History linking such partitions to civil wars in 40% of partitioned states.

Replies highlight broader historical brutalities, including Arab slave trades and post-WWII border tweaks via plebiscites, reflecting ongoing debates on colonial legacies amid Nigeria's ethnic tensions, where Sani often advocates for unity and reform.

Variables:
We should be entering Britain as we like if not the greediness of the Briton

TouchNfollow:
Source:
https://x.com/ShehuSani/status/1974452505326371231?t=fGIbRXlhGPpO5Pkshdis7w&s=08[/quote]I still remember this in my Primary 4 Social Studies lesson aptly titled "The Scramble for Africa" which culminated in the partition of Africa.

Variables:
We should be entering Britain as we like if not the greediness of the Briton

Variables:
We should be entering Britain as we like if not the greediness of the Briton

ednut1:
Today if another power like China or Russia decides to reshare africa. Africans have no tangible weapons to resist ( fighter jets/atomic weapons)

anonimi:
Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner
September 4, 2022

The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

Mosco100:
Before we blame the foreigners, let's answer this question: who were(and are) selling their own people to foreigners?

FLASHBACK: Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola narrating the life of Tinubu years ago. #Ayederu (Counterfeit)pic.twitter.com/xr40gXe9Qx

— ayemojubar 🫆 (@ayemojubar) June 26, 2022

anonimi:
The often cited biography titled Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker, authored by Nigerian historian Oladipo Yemitan, paints her views regarding slave trading.

On one occasion, during her final sojourn in Abeokuta, she was alleged to have sold a young boy into slavery and was accused of it. When arraigned before Ogundipe Alatise over the matter, she reportedly explained: 'I have a large house-hold and I must feed them well. I need money to do that, that's why'.

— Oladipo. Yemitan, 'Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker'

Another section of Yemitan's Tinubu biography, referred to as the Amadie-Ojo Affair, captures a slave trading deal gone sour in 1853 (notably after the 1852 Treaty abolishing slavery in Lagos) wherein Tinubu tells another slave trader (Domingo Martinez) that "she would rather drown the slaves [20 in number] than sell them at a discount".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efunroye_Tinubu

BodyCount:
The same way they brought Christianity too.

According to history

Dum Diversas was a papal bull issued in 1452 by Pope Nicholas V that granted King Afonso V of Portugal the authority to conquer territories and enslave Muslims and pagans. The bull legitimized the Portuguese subjugation of people in disputed African territories and is seen as a key document in the development of the Atlantic slave trade and the European colonization of Africa

anonimi:
Slavery in Japan

Japanese slave women were even sold as concubines to Asian lascar and African crew members, along with their European counterparts serving on Portuguese ships trading in Japan, mentioned by Luis Cerqueira, a Portuguese Jesuit, in a 1598 document.

Japanese slaves were brought by the Portuguese to Macau, where some of them not only ended up being enslaved to Portuguese, but as slaves to other slaves, with the Portuguese owning Malay and African slaves, who in turn owned Japanese slaves of their own.

Hideyoshi was so disgusted that his own Japanese people were being sold en masse into slavery on Kyushu, that he wrote a letter to Jesuit Vice-Provincial Gaspar Coelho on 24 July 1587 to demand the Portuguese, Siamese (Thai), and Cambodians stop purchasing and enslaving Japanese and return Japanese slaves who ended up as far as India. Hideyoshi blamed the Portuguese and Jesuits for this slave trade and banned Christian proselytizing as a result.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Japan

amazingspiderma:
I just laugh at a lot of African who kept repeating colonial stories.

Current African leaders are using these stories to kept their people occupied while they continue to loot the national treasure.

Variables:
We should be entering Britain as we like if not the greediness of the Briton

belikewater:
Oh I see why Italy fought wars with Ethiopia back then, Ethiopia handed them their asses back then lead by Haile Selassie, the bonafide Emperor of Ethiopia.

TouchNfollow:
Source:
https://x.com/ShehuSani/status/1974452505326371231?t=fGIbRXlhGPpO5Pkshdis7w&s=08[/quote]Story

Africa fared better under imperialist, colonialist and racist white men compared with her own black kleptomaniac sons