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Ofodirinwa:Why punching the thin air? What is your point exactly? Who hurt you? ![]() |
If anyone in these comments after reading this post think I'm here to argue unnecessary, then they need to be checked and clearly Africa and it's leaders are not excluded but lack of logic won't let some certain persons reason beyond their level of faculty. Cos what are you arguing about that's not being said in the post? Clearly just to read and argue, no sane contribution, critical thinking or whatever. |
@Seun @Mynd44 I don't need attention but please if you can move this post to front-page it would educate more people and who knows, we could start brewing minds that will educate and share the true history of our people and how we can all find a lasting situation unless y'all have given up on Africa entirely. I'm an old man and I think new generation should understand the fights my generation couldn't finish. |
Darls247:And they're still currently working tirelessly to continue their evil. So sad that Africans don't even know the cause of their woes, most especially those blinded by religion and unnecessary appraisal for their white Messiah. A huge shame that even the African leaders themselves could curb but too weak to educate their people about the truth for a safe and better future. The question is, "for how long would Africa keep bleeding?" |
The impact has been devastating, leading to entrenched poverty, political instability, and ongoing exploitation. Here is a list of nations and entities, with the primary ways they have directly or indirectly harmed the African continent, categorized for clarity. 1. European Colonial Powers The legacy of colonialism is the most profound and direct source of harm, whose borders, economic structures, and social divisions continue to shape Africa today. · Belgium · The Congo Free State & Belgian Congo: King Leopold II's personal colony was a regime of terror in the late 19th/early 20th century, leading to the deaths of millions of Congolese through forced labor for rubber and ivory, using mutilation and murder as punishment. Even after the Belgian state took over, it was a brutally exploitative system that fostered no political development, leading directly to the chaos after independence. · United Kingdom · Divide-and-Rule Tactics: In colonies like Nigeria, Sudan, and Kenya, the British reinforced ethnic and religious divisions to maintain control, creating deep-seated tensions that erupted into civil wars (Biafra, South Sudan) and persistent conflict. · Economic Extraction: Built infrastructure solely for extracting raw materials (like railways from mines to ports), not for integrated African economies. This created dependent, export-oriented economies that remain vulnerable. · Violent Suppression: Brutally crushed anti-colonial movements, such as the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, with executions and detention camps. · France · Françafrique: A post-colonial system of maintaining strong political, economic, and military influence over its former colonies. This often involved propping up corrupt but compliant dictators and intervening militarily to protect French interests. · The CFA Franc: A colonial-era currency still used in 14 African countries, which requires them to keep 50% of their foreign reserves in the French Treasury. Critics argue this limits their monetary sovereignty and economic policy options, effectively maintaining a form of financial control. · Portugal · Prolonged and Brutal Colonization: Portugal was the last colonial power to grant independence after long, devastating wars in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. Its policy of assimilation (assimilado) was exploitative and created social hierarchies. · Underdevelopment: Focused on extreme resource extraction with little investment in education or infrastructure, leaving its former colonies among the poorest at independence. · Germany · Early Genocide: In German South-West Africa (now Namibia), Germany committed the 20th century's first genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples (1904-1908), killing tens of thousands through forced labor, starvation, and execution in concentration camps. · Italy · Brutal Occupation: In Libya and the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia), Italy used extreme violence, including chemical weapons in Ethiopia, to establish and maintain its short-lived empire. 2. Global Powers and Cold War Proxies During the Cold War, Africa became a battlefield for ideological supremacy, with devastating consequences. · United States · Proxy Wars & Supporting Dictators: Supported brutal anti-communist dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire (DRC) and Jonas Savimbi's UNITA in Angola, fueling conflicts that killed millions, in order to counter Soviet influence. · Economic Policies: Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) pushed by the World Bank and IMF, heavily influenced by U.S. policy, forced African nations to cut social spending, privatize state assets, and liberalize trade, often leading to increased poverty and economic instability. · Soviet Union · Proxy Wars & Fueling Conflict: Armed and supported regimes and militant groups in Angola, Ethiopia, and Mozambique, contributing to long-lasting and destructive civil wars. While often framed as "support for liberation," the primary goal was expanding Soviet influence, with little regard for long-term African stability. · China (Contemporary) · Debt-Trap Diplomacy: Extending massive loans for infrastructure projects (often built with Chinese labor and materials) that are unsustainable for African governments. This can lead to a loss of strategic assets (like ports or mines) when debts cannot be repaid, as seen in the controversial case of Zambia's debt. · Resource Extraction & Neo-Colonialism: While providing needed infrastructure, China's primary interest is often securing a steady supply of raw materials. This replicates the colonial extractive model and does little to build local manufacturing capacity. It has also been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption and poor governance. 3. Regional and Non-State Actors · Arab Nations & The Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade · Trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean Slave Trades: Pre-dating and concurrent with the Atlantic trade, this involved the systematic capture and transportation of millions of Africans from regions south of the Sahara to North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia over centuries. The social and demographic damage was immense. · African Nations Themselves · Corruption and Poor Leadership: While the structural problems were often created externally, African elites and leaders have done immense direct harm through rampant corruption, kleptocracy, ethnic favoritism, and political violence. Figures like Mobutu (Zaire), Mugabe (Zimbabwe), and countless warlords have plundered their nations' wealth, directly harming their citizens. Indirect Harm through Global Systems · International Financial Institutions (World Bank, IMF) · Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs): As mentioned, these policies, mandated as conditions for loans in the 1980s and 1990s, dismantled state-supported healthcare, education, and agriculture, deepening poverty and weakening public institutions. · Multinational Corporations · Resource Extraction: Companies in oil (e.g., Shell in the Niger Delta), mining, and logging have been implicated in environmental destruction, human rights abuses, corruption, and supporting repressive regimes to maintain access to resources. Conclusion The harm inflicted upon Africa is not a historical artifact but an ongoing process. It is a cumulative result of: 1. The violent extraction and arbitrary borders of colonialism. 2. The destructive proxy wars of the Cold War. 3. The economic strangulation of debt and unfair global trade policies. 4. The continued exploitation by multinational corporations and new global powers. 5. The internal failures of governance and leadership.
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Nigeria has never had a competent leader since it's existence, prove me wrong. |
I can't imagine, if you're 30+ and caught in these arguments your head need to be checked. Na your mate dey govern Burkina Faso. |
I am the so-called boy, just don't let Nigeria happen to you, that's all. Where is the hate coming from? Asians would never. |
Name a great TV show that got cancelled that deserves another season. I'll go first: 1. Into the Badlands 2. Kyle XY 3. The legend of the seeker
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Enjoy your life o, tomorrow is not guaranteed. |
Learn History today! The downline is: The whole west is broke. All the oyinbos are complaining, that is why they're back fighting for Nigerian Christians. Religion ruined the whole world and Africa is their mother and the leaders are their puppet. The whole world relies on Africa, big shame but Africans are waiting to go to Heaven for their share. Religion is their weapon against the oppressed (mental slavery). Africa is the real deal feeding the whole world. Only Congo would feed the whole west talk less of Nigeria. AI and all that needs Africa's minerals and funding. If you learn HISTORY, the children of Noah dominated the whole human existence you're seeing today. Africa don't know its value. They all chose different lands thinking cos the weather of Africa was too harsh moved to different beautiful land scaped area only to realize nothing was there than greens, now they're hurt realised their forefathers chose wrongly but They can't move back to Africa but had to come back to fight Africa and steal. That's the point and downline of what is causing the commotion and confusion everywhere. Africa don't have boarders or military power which they have and whoever have military power is game. But we have the money, but our leaders are foolish, prideful and selfish. We can win the whole world if we could use our funds to buy power but no leader is strong enough to negotiate big time. Shame! Africa don't need to borrow fgs. ![]() They be laughing at us every time Africans go to the west to borrow like a big mumu that doesn't know it's worth. They have papers and digits they call money but the real money is right under our feet but just blind to doing the hard work. ![]() Monkeys they call us, but not all of us is blind to the real world. Yeah, just promise the dumbest person in the city a good life, equip him with armed men and he'll feel he's a small god but the same US that shunned sane Nigerians demanding the truth about Tibubu's forged certificate evidence in Chicago and his drug crimes in the US are still the same people trying to overthrow him now with religious propagandas. I'm sure he'll be shocked and surprised too, the worse part, these people using our old men's head are just in their 30s and 40s. They'd fund Boko haram to make you the leader look stupid and incompetent only to put another dumb person while that one would be shinning teeth. Just help us secure your resources through proxy while you're on the throne feeling like boss. The game is the game! Big shame being an African. That's why they personally put the dumbest set of humans to govern Africa. The end.
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Me when I see Nigerians clamouring party, party, castigating and hyping the other. I know that's some brain dead humans opinion.
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Must women always drag men into their discussions? Can't men breathe again? Like this now, a woman or a bunch of them might be gossiping about me like this while I'm just here soaking garri and a mouthwatering jollofed beans. Live your lives and let my boys live nah! ![]() |
I made sure this got to the front page. |
Ishilove:Strong yanch for that matter, na the squats dey make person yanch strong like strong akpu. We don't want that for our women. |
TheOgbongeguy: |
Watin Annie don enjoy tire. But wait o, so 2baba and Annie have finally ended their relationship? Like fr? I choose not to still believe until they privately tell me the truth behind all this cos in my head it's still Nollywood. ![]() |
Ishilove:This one na like those boys born with yanch, he just diverted the build just same way some with big gbola are busy on those sites you visit ![]() |
What is bbl, show me some |
Smoking doesn't start as most would assume. Just like sipping a bottle of coke for the first time and feeling oh! First feels like it enhances your senses, appetite and more but trust me, when the effect hits, and you don't get the normal buzz from the same strain, that's when the problem starts. Some people got stuck and it does make their life miserable, losses cos weed is just a gateway to the real deal. Be graceful to smokers and before you judge try to know what triggered the habit in the first place. Most out of peer pressure, early days in the university or so until they get hooked and need more and more. There's a reason why these caliber of stuffs are categorized as drugs, not being able to eat as opposed to after hitting the buzz and even more. Thats why I get vexed when I see weird people and celebrities promoting smoking 🚭 like it's a cool thing. Don't smoke if you've not started yet, and if you have anyone that actively smokes, tell them to dm me so that I'll reset their head for them cos they're stuck thinking they can't get out of it. I've never met a hardcore smoker like myself but now I hate the smell or thought of it. ✌🏽 |
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