Respecting the dead is a cliché we Africans use so that "bad" things are not spoken about us when we die and memories are being dredged up. So we "respect the dead" so the we too are respected.
This Charles Kirk is an American statistic to us. He lived and he died. He was foolish and many like him come along.
China suffered humiliation from the Western world, starting with the Opium Wars to this decade. They carried this as a national mental posture that needed to be exorcised.
We Africans have been humiliated for 500 years. The US empire is dying. Charlie Kirk is a celebration of what the US of A has been for over 250 years. The gloves are out. The thrashing during death spiral has began.
We need to get this space the US occupies in our head out of the way, because the US takes up too much oxygen. Then we should ask, where are we headed?
If we started thinking of Africa as a country, and pushed back on the idea that the territories that were curved up during the Berlin Conference are anything to protect, that would be the first step.
If then we started thinking of ourselves as regions and looking at what makes the regions unique, not different, unique, that would be the second step. Only then will we build infrastructure that connects us.
I have watched the Sahel states and I have watched Ethiopia. They are both thinking different from the rest of us. Let us watch them some more then we exchange notes.
Oga, be serious.
Respecting the dead is a cliché we Africans use so that "bad" things are not spoken about us when we die and memories are being dredged up. So we "respect the dead" so the we too are respected.
This Charles Kirk is an American statistic to us. He lived and he died. He was foolish and many like him come along.
China suffered humiliation from the Western world, starting with the Opium Wars to this decade. They carried this as a national mental posture that needed to be exorcised.
We Africans have been humiliated for 500 years. The US empire is dying. Charlie Kirk is a celebration of what the US of A has been for over 250 years. The gloves are out. The thrashing during death spiral has began.
We need to get this space the US occupies in our head out of the way, because the US takes up too much oxygen. Then we should ask, where are we headed?
If we started thinking of Africa as a country, and pushed back on the idea that the territories that were curved up during the Berlin Conference are anything to protect, that would be the first step.
If then we started thinking of ourselves as regions and looking at what makes the regions unique, not different, unique, that would be the second step. Only then will we build infrastructure that connects us.
I have watched the Sahel states and I have watched Ethiopia. They are both thinking different from the rest of us. Let us watch them some more then we exchange notes.
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