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Europe‘s race war on sub-Sahara Africans may be said to have begun when The captains of two of Prince Henry [of Portugal‘s] exploring caravels brought back with them to Lisbon in 1442 a dozen Africans, whom they had captured on the West Coast in the course of a wholly unprovoked attack upon an African village. Further exploits of a similar… Read more
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Two initial points of clarification: first of all, just because bullets are not flying about and swords are not flashing around us does not mean there is no war going on; there are other modes of warfare, including economic, political, psychological and intellectual warfare. For example, the Cold War, in the 20th century, between the… Read more
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Too many still see war as strictly a physical enterprise.
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Mention race war to Africans and they react as if it is some future danger that must be avoided at any price, even at the price of voluntary enslavement. They refuse to realize that we already are in it, and have been in it for at least five centuries.
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Nigerians have not awoken to the fact that, as Frederick Douglass said ―power concedes nothing without a demand.‖ We resignedly think that some day God– that imaginary big-man-in-the-sky who is part Santa Claus and part Ojuju Calabar– will intervene and solve our socio-economic problems and rescue us from the despotism of the VIPs—the… Read more
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This despotic, Lugardist state apparatus has never been reconstituted as a republic by the people. The Nigerian state is not an instrument or agent of the Nigerian people. It is not under their control, or answerable to them, and never has been. For the first half of its existence, i.e, 1914-1960, that was clearly the case. Since then, it… Read more
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