Africa, my Africa - by Tomithewordpecker

My love for Africa just got influenced by the knowledge I acquired through the later part of the first quarter of this year till now (and still counting).Various sources on the internet, all passing information that is beneficial to our nation (Nigeria) and our continent (Africa). Let me commence/begin/start... Patrice Lumumba!I wonder if that name does something to most readers of this insight. He was a Congolese who got kidnapped, tortured, murdered, and dissolved in acid by the joint effort of the U.S and Belgium authorities. His golden tooth is the only remnant of him. It was kept as a trophy (This shows how sick those people were). Patrice's only "crime" was fighting for Congolese resources TO BE beneficial to Congo. Why is that wrong? He observed that Congo has resources, they work on those resources, so why aren't they experiencing growth? Why is the financial part only moving out of Congo and not within Congo? He also decided that Congo should be ruled by her own citizens. I ask...is that a crime? Muammar Gaddafi, the President, or maybe I should say ruler of Libya... He was also perceived as a threat to the whites and was killed because of this. Likewise, his son (Saif al-Islam Gaddafi) who had the same vision as his father was killed this year.Through Gaddafi's leadership, Libya had a stable educational sector. Education was free and even citizens who went abroad to study went with all expenses paid for. There was more threat though. Gaddafi wanted to create a gold-backed currency and imagine the effect of this for Africa and on the whites (it was against them because of the impact that'll have on the African economy as a whole and even Africa as a continent)... He was assassinated in 2011 before he could further those plans. There are other revolutionaries: Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, Pauline Opango Lumumba of Congo, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria, and so on. These people fight for Africa. They are the voice of the weak, the voice of their nations, but these voices are silenced and then replaced with the corrupt individuals who poison their nations with their own hands. Why do they not look past their greed? If the nation is great, everyone is great. Why is everything about the love of money?*sigh* They are already blinded by it and can't look further or think for the purpose of the greater good. Well, these are the first I learned... The next is about the whites rebuking our knowledge and research, and then repackaging it to sell to us. The use of chewing sticks was seen as primitive, now see them in shopping malls "made in...". The other day, I saw a white woman in a style of clothing that distinctively resembled the Iro and Buba on TikTok. She was "enlightening" the public about how the clothing was made, with no credit whatsoever given to the original creators of the clothing (The Yorubas). She made it seem like it was entirely her creation, and there was no inspiration behind it. "You tie the top with the wrapper like this..." (This is me paraphrasing what she said, but you get the point).And of course, my people never disappoint. There were enraged Nigerians in the comment section and also those peacefully questioning. Though, this also brings me to say, sometimes we cause our problems. Most people still have the colonised mindset, and even I still struggle with it (but through intentional thinking I tackle it bit by bit) so therefore, I am not a saint. I'm just saying it is something we need to overcome. And we shouldn't think it'll go overtime, we might find ourselves later thinking that same way unconsciously... For instance, the little perceiving and viewing of our skin as inferior to lighter skin: "Why can't it be lighter" or treating a white person with more prestige or thinking things invented or made abroad are better than ALL things made in Nigeria (and Africa). Be intentional of how you think. Decolonise your mindset. LEARN ABOUT POLITICS because it concerns YOUR LIFE more than you know. The whites depend on Africa. They see our potential but don't want us to flourish in it. Let's wake up... Little things matter. It doesn't need to be loud. Africa will come. Africa has come. TomiTheWordPecker 📝🐦‍⬛.

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