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The machine gun and the Berlin conference- Africa must learn SCIENCE to survive into the future

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 Where is our mother of all bombs in Africa? Where are our nuclear weapons? The machine gun and the Berlin conference  I've been thinking aloud for some days now about the Israel-Iran conflict. And with the US entering the conflict, it's now a war, some people even say this could be the beginning of the third world war. This keeps me wondering: what if this conflict was between Israel and Nigeria?  What if this war was between Israel and Ghana? What if this war was between Israel and Uganda? What if this war was between Israel and Kenya or Zimbabwe or Ethiopia or Sudan or any other African country? If that was the case; how will we defend ourselves? I now fully realize why Dr. Amos Wilson, during one of his lectures asked; if white people decide tomorrow that they want to remove us Africans from this planet; how will we defend ourselves?  They've already tried doing that in the past, it's just that they didn't succeed. And there's nothing in history that says th...

Chartered companies: How Europe Laid The Foundation For Poverty in Africa

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The colonial chattered companies from Europe Brief history of the origin of exploitation of Africa by western interests (EXPLOITATION: How Europe laid the foundation for poverty in Africa) Colonial chattered companies..... Chartered companies were companies that received certain rights and privileges under a special charter issued by the sovereign of a European state. This charter usually gave the company a nationally recognized trading monopoly for a specific geographic area and for specific trade items, and the right to use force to open and maintain trade. Dominant in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and from 1880 to 1900- the eras of mercantilism and of the ”scramble for Africa,” respectively- royally chartered companies proved to be indispensable tools for the opening of Africa to European commercial and imperial ambition. As a way to defray government costs, European exploits in Africa from 1340 until 1900 were usually funded by high-risk venture capital in...