LET’S TALK ABOUT KEMI BADENOCH

In a speech at Michigan State University on 24 January 1963, revolutionary and civil-rights activist Malcom X (1925-65) drew a distinction between field and house N*groes. He called the latter the “twentieth-century Uncle Tom.”

Over six decades later, the distinction is still worth drawing. Every generation produces a new version of the house N*gro. They are the ones willing to betray the fight against imperialism to do their masters’ bidding for financial reward and privileges.

Continued……The new leader of the UK’s opposition Conservative Party - Kemi ‘Adegoke’ Badenoch - fits the bill perfectly. Our sister Sannario explains why.

Sources:

https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/mxp/speeches/mxt17.html

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-will-die-protecting-this-country-kemi-badenoch-on-where-she-plans-to-take-the-tories/

https://www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemis-column-statement-ukraine

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/09/28/kemi-badenoch-migrants-britain-tradition/

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/systemic-racism-permeates-all-levels-our-society

https://africanarguments.org/2016/09/the-scale-of-the-uks-involvement-in-africas-resources-is-staggering-so-too-is-its-disregard-for-the-rights-of-those-affected/

https://republic.com.ng/october-november-2023/the-making-of-nigeria/

https://guardian.ng/news/im-yoruba-ive-nothing-in-common-with-northern-nigeria-badenoch/

CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES POUR INTO BURKINA FASO?

People on social media are cheering for Burkina Faso as internet users post videos of new road-construction vehicles pouring into the country via Ghana.

Featuring the world’s youngest president, 36-year-old Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso has gained a positive reputation across the region and the continent for charting a development plan independent of former coloniser France and the West.

In recent years, the country opened two tomato-paste factories and began constructing a gold refinery and a mining-residue treatment facility. Recently, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), to which Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger belong, revealed a plan to develop roads and railways to connect the countries’ major cities as part of its goal of free movement within the AES. The ultimate goal is to create a federated country.

Video credits: inous TV au Faso 🇧🇫 (YouTube) / @the_kandas (TikTok)

Continued……Sources:

https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/11/23/le-burkina-faso-lancement-la-construction-de-sa-premiere-raffinerie-d-or_6201923_3212.html

https://burkina24.com/2024/11/29/usine-de-transformation-de-tomates-de-bobo-dioulasso-le-capitaine-ibrahim-traore-procedera-a-linauguration-le-samedi-30-novembre-2024/

https://burkina24.com/2024/12/16/inauguration-de-lusine-de-sofato-le-president-du-faso-est-arrive-a-yako/

https://www.barrons.com/articles/burkina-faso-launches-first-mine-residue-treatment-facility-46ccaa8c

https://primature.ml/communique-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-mercredi-22-janvier-2025-cm-n2025-04-sgg

https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kandas/video/7466783603943296261

THE U.S IS THE MOST VIOLENT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

Economist and public-policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs was interrupted during a democracy forum in Greece (in 2022) while discussing the atrocities committed by the US and the UK.

First, he highlighted Britain’s imperial violence across the globe, pointing out that while it presented itself as a democratic nation, it engaged in ruthless colonialism. Britain’s colonial footprint was left in India, Egypt and many other countries throughout Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

Sachs also branded the US as the most violent country since the 1950s, noting its long history of using both covert and overt methods to overthrow governments that are considered unfriendly to US interests. Washington’s military operations have been employed to undermine economies worldwide.

Continued….. Furthermore, violent actions by the US and the UK have not ceased. Recently, Washington and London both aided and abetted Israel as it killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Video Credit: Athens Democracy Forum

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Continued……. These recommendations are widely considered to have laid the groundwork for the apartheid policies adopted in 1948. The wealth enjoyed by Afrikaners (descendants of Dutch settlers) in South Africa largely originated from this systemic change. It’s something that the country’s new Land Expropriation Law seeks to address, though some critics say it doesn’t go far enough.

Sources:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358533308450637

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/oral_hist/carnegie/special-features/

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Carnegie_Commission_of_Investigation_on_the_Poor_White_Question_in_South_Africa

AFRICA WAS MORE ADVANCED THAN EUROPE

Since the 17th century, European academics have tried to justify White supremacy and racism, promoting narratives that ‘other’ people of the Global South - presenting them as uncivilised and intellectually inferior.

For example, star of German Enlightenment philosophy Immanuel Kant argued for slavery and colonialism on the grounds of constructed racial hierarchies (though he did finally renounce these views in old age).

In the 19th century, US ethnologist George Morton tried to demonstrate that skull size correlates meaningfully with intelligence, hoping thereby to show that White people are by nature brainier than Black people.

Continued……European anthropologists and scholars, when confronted with some of the wonders of African civilisation, simply lied - pretending outside cultures (even extraterrestrial ones!) were the true originators.

In this clip, pan-African scholar PLO Lumumba dispels these myths, listing examples - from astronomy to medicine - of African civilisation that he says outshone anything the Europeans were doing at the time.

What else would you add to his list?

Sources:

https://philarchive.org/archive/KLEODW

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/walls-benin-0016222

https://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/primary-source-131-gobineau-the-inequality-of-the-human-races.pdf

https://en.prothomalo.com/science-technology/8w2obhliyk

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000081475

NIGERIA’S DANGOTE SCORES JET-FUEL EXPORT DEAL WITH SAUDI GIANT

There’s a new player shaking things up on the energy-export scene - Nigeria’s Dangote refinery.

In early February 2025, the Lagos-based facility reportedly shipped 130-million litres of jet fuel to Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company.

The $20-billion refinery, created by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, was built to reduce Nigeria’s reliance on fuel imports. However, the deal with Aramco might just have opened the door to exports, earning Dangote around $75 million based on current jet-fuel prices.

But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Dangote. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and some international oil companies have accused him of trying to monopolise the market. With a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day, the Dangote refinery poses a significant threat to local importers and European sellers of refined products, who have been benefiting from Nigeria’s economy.

Continued….. The effects of this development extend beyond Nigeria, impacting the African continent. Analysts suggest that Dangote could help reduce the annual $17-billion outflow from Africa to Europe for gasoline.

Could the success with Aramco be the spark that ignites energy independence and economic recovery across the continent?

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