The machine gun and the Berlin conference- Africa must learn SCIENCE to survive into the future
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, in 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 they won't try again in future. Neither is there anything in history that says there will not be another world war where we will be faced with the challenge of defending ourselves. Yet, there's no preparation on our side at all!! For more information, see Dr. Amos Wilson lectures.
Unfortunately, when you say these things, most Africans don't understand how precarious our situation and that, for example, machine gun was specifically invented to defeat Africa in order to bring us to submit to colonialism.
By the late 1880's, the Atlantic slave trade had ended. But white people were not done yet.
As soon as slavery ended, they went to work for the invention of a weapon of mass murder to defeat African warriors and bring us to colonialism. They began fighting Africa in order to bring us to submission to commence colonialism.
But they couldn't defeat our ancestors because after slavery ended, Africa was awash with the same weapon that white people had- after all they supplied the weapons to us to wage the slave wars.
Their scientists and technologists went to work looking for the "silver bullet" to solve this problem.
It took the invention of the machine gun before Africa was defeated and brought to colonialism. You can read about the wars fought by our ancestors against white people from North to South to East and West Africa in the book: Africa under colonial domination.
The machine gun changed everything!
In 1884, they finally succeeded in inventing the machine gun, and once they had it, a group of white leaders met in Berlin Germany later that year in what is now called "the Berlin conference" to discuss how to take over the African continent.
In Berlin, the African continent was shared among Europeans on a map on a conference table without the presence of a single African country. Just imagine such audacity!!
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The only thing that gave them such confidence was because in 1884 they had the machine gun by their side. They knew Africa had no chance against the machine gun. Indeed, once they opened fire on our ancestors, they brought us to submit to colonialism from North to South to East and West Africa. I already gave you a book to read about the wars.
The machine gun was first used in a war by the British against the Matabele warriors, then in North and South Rhodesia (now called Zambia and Zimbabwe) The Boers (white South Africans) were also the first people to use it in a war, of course, against black South Africans. Both of them boasted that few Europeans killed thousands of Africans.
Shockingly, this type of information has been kept secret from Africans and black people in general through the so called education, so we don't know it except you read this blog where I uncover some of the things they have hidden away from us.
But you'll think that after more than 200 years of out-gunning our ancestors that we would have built the biggest and best war machines to defend ourselves.
On top of that, it's a known fact that history always repeat itself, so the fact that our lives have been under threat by white people in the past is a good indicator that it will happen again.
Again, nothing in history says that the world will continue to be the way it is today, in fact, everything points to the fact that there will be a third world war, if not now, it will happen later. And nothing says there will not be a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and so on.
This is why I am asking; where are our nuclear bombs? Where is our technology? Where are our supersonic missiles? Where are our atomic weapons?
I am not asking a rhetorical question.
If you're an African reading this, I am asking you a real question and I need an answer. How will we defend ourselves if this "air war" were between a foreign country and your own country in Africa?
And I don't want to hear "God will come to our aid" because as Yahweh has not come to the aid of the Jews, certainly he can't come to our aid. And as Allah has not showed up to the aid of the Iranians nor came to the aid of the Palestinians, definitely he won't come to our aid in Africa. Neither Jesus nor Muhammad would come to our aid too.
And, remember it's no longer just about machine gun, in fact, machine guns are now almost obsolete as a weapon of war. It's now drones, nuclear bombs, laser bombs, all sort of flying mass killing machines.
Where are our drones? Where are our nuclear bombs? Where are our laser bombs? Where are our "iron domes?" Where are our space launching pads? Where are our missile interceptors?
Certainly, the man power is there on ground in the African continent. But this is an air-to-air war. It's a war of flying technology and air defense.
Where is our stockpile of the latest weapons?
Where are our scientists?
Where are our research and development centers? Where are our cutting edge laboratories?
At least Iran has responded as an independent people should. At least Iran has responded as any intelligent people should.
How would an African country respond to this sky war?
And who will come to our aid if we can't? But the question of who would come to our aid is not important. The question is; where is our own technology to defend ourselves by ourselves?
The US has come to Israel's aid, Pakistan has promised to nuke Israel if Iran is nuked by anybody.
My people, let me cut you the chase.
What we call education in Africa has only achieved one insignificant thing; which is that we have learned too well how to write and speak European languages (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish) and other art subjects. But real power does not lie in writing or speaking a European language or in arts. Real power lies in SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY.
This is why I wasn't moved one bit when I heard the other day that kids from some elite Nigerian schools beat British kids in a debate in London.
First of all, the Nigerian kids were competing the British kids on their own (Western) terms, so even if you beat them, you didn't learn more about African values and theories!! Instead you learned more about Western values and theories to be able to defeat them!! The British kid you think you defeated, remain more enshrined in his/her culture than you're or would become to African culture as an African. The British child did not lose his/her language or ideals because you defeated him/her in a debate. Instead you lost yours!! You want to be like them but they don't want to be like you!! That's by the way.
Again, real power lies in SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY, and if we want to have power as a people on the African continent, the solution is mass SCIENCE education.
And the easiest way to achieve mass scientific knowledge on the African continent is to learn science in our native languages across Africa. Scientific knowledge will give us technology- scientific knowledge always result to technology.
The colonialists knew the power of nature. They knew that using our native languages for scientific knowledge acquisition would result to technological advancement, that's why they didn't allow scientific knowledge acquisition in our native languages, instead they prohibited use of native language in writing and education. They knew that real power lies in scientific knowledge and the technology you can build.
They knew in advance that you'll be dependent on whoever knows science to produce your technological needs.
But they allowed the teaching and spreading of religion in our native languages across Africa. There's hardly any African language that doesn't have the Bible in our native language. Why?
They chose native language for the dissemination of the message of religion for two reasons.
1. Because religion is a mind paralysing message which is very good for controlling people and they wanted it delivered to everyone.
2. Religion was the only thing they really wanted to penetrate into our society, not true education. They knew that our native language is a powerful tool to penetrate all strata of society with any message.
Think of it: the same people that translated the Bible into all native African languages would have translated chemistry, biology, physics and other subjects at the same time but the colonialists won't allow that. Because they knew that's where real power lies and that it would be counter-productive to do that.
In other words, education itself as it is still on the African continent was set up for dependency. Walter Rodney in his book: how Europe underdeveloped Africa, called it "education for underdevelopment". That's very apt!
We can NEVER become a prosperous, free, independent thinking people with a foreign education. Yes, few people may so called do well in the system but the majority won't. Indeed, that's the case in Africa! That's also the case in all the other third world countries that acquire knowledge in a foreign language.
Africa cannot develop economically without investment in mass grassroots science education in our native languages. I don't know how else to explain this to my people.
We can break away from this dependency by using our native language to acquire scientific knowledge.
It is when we do the above that our eyes will open and we'll begin building our defense systems. And that's when you'll begin seeing Western headline news like "Africa must not be allowed to develop nuclear technology" or something like "an Africa with nuclear technology will be a threat to the world" or something like "Britain offers to handle Nigeria's nuclear technology need" or something like "France offers to handle Ivory Coast's nuclear technology need." The people that would be saying this to maintain Africa in dependency will be the British kids that we beat in a debate years ago in London but who would then be adults.
I can see it clearly coming!
Then, intense lobbying will begin, and it would be the "smart" Nigerian kids that beat British kids in a debate in London years ago that would be used to market the message of dependency to us. They would be the ones criss-crossing the African continent to convince us to accept Britain's or France's offer to handle our nuclear energy needs instead.
I can see it clearly coming!!
Again, history always repeat itself and it actually already happened before!! After colonialism ended, intelligent Africans began writing in native African languages but Britain, again, stopped the then emerging native literary revolution using Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Ezekiel Mphalele, and Co. They were the ones used to install European languages on the African continent. For more information, see how Britain and the CIA fooled Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe to destroy African languages in literature.
I can prophesy to you that's what is coming in future when we wake up to scientific knowledge on the African continent because Western goal as it has always been is to make sure that we're dependent. I can prophesy to you that the African continent will come under attack by the West.
I am ready to come to your school to present a model of how science should be introduced to children across the African continent. Though, my native language is Igbo but once presented, any other African culture can copy the model and present it in their own language.
After this is done, African children and even their teachers would be able to conceptualize what's an atom and their interaction on a common level without speaking foreign language that has been used to enslave the African continent for too long. When this is done, children would be able to conceptualize science even when taught in English or other European languages, though the ultimate goal should be to free ourselves from European languages.
This topic was fully discussed in my book: intellectual slavery, the worst legacy of colonialism. Read the PDF version only. It's free.
You can take a horse to the stream but you can't force it to drink.
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