Why do educated people who should know better resort to telling outright lies?
Why can’t serious writers or commentators use Search Engines to look things up?
Why is doing basic research such an encumbrance for people who went through university?
Many Nigerian fact-checkers are all over town peddling the lies that the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso does not speak English, and that his speeches were AI-generated.
What do people tend to gain from peddling easily debunked lies like this?
This is a video of Traore speaking to students at an African University in Russia: https://youtu.be/HT1cCe8Bw6Y
Why would these Nigerians continue to peddle the lies they collected from the BBC, the Pedophile Headquaters the British set up to propagate their propaganda?
More importantly, why do they spend their time trying to denigrate the young leaders in the AES instead of fighting fossilized dinosaurs misleading their country into perfidy?
The liars should watch the video and tell the world which of the plantation managers masquerading as presidents in ECOWAS possessed Traore’s knowledge and can match his flawless eloquence or his knowledge of advanced science. Example: How many people know the difference between a rocket and a missile?
No, we are not apologists for Traoré or military rule.
What we advocate is that after over four decades, the imposition of Western-style democracy has revealed itself as one giant fraud to impose Western puppets on Africa, whose only mission is to guarantee the exploitation of our resources at a thieving price by Western Multinationals.
We should stop being FOOLS!
Why did the African rented Vuvuzelas of Western Imperialism never raise the question why semi-literate army boys were able to renegotiate stupid mining contracts and obtain better deals for their countries while African politicians, with every manner of degrees oozing from every orifice in their bodies, signed off their countries natural off for measely 3-5%?
Many African scholars are too glued to their BBC to have missed the immortal words of the late Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, who famously said, “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.”
The Chinese made incredible progress because, after their independence, they chose to follow their own, internally generated paths to economic, social, and political progress.
Unfortunately, we in Africa chose to copy and paste economic and political structures from our colonial masters and impose them on the colonial garrisons we euphemistically call countries. We did not even attempt to add any local ingredients to the mix. We did not see anything of value in ourselves, our history, or our heritage.
The most nauseating part is how we pretend to be flummoxed when these foreign impositions do not yield positive results. To show our incredible stupidity, we run to the same foreigners who have been abusing our gullibility to seek solutions. Yes, we are excellent pupils of the IMF, the World Bank, and whatnot.
Our educated Africans must also have missed the famous admonition often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Why do our African scholars never remember that we governed ourselves in Africa for thousands of years before anyone heard of Europeans?
Why do they forget that we had successful economic and commercial activities before European invaders destroyed our lives?
Why do these people expect our conquerors to become our saviours and, more importantly, why do they expect a change of heart from our heartless exploiters after 500+ years of unremitting violence and exploitation?
Why will our scholars and political leaders not listen to the voice of one of our own, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, who told us that any economic system that marginalizes people is doomed to failure?
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