THE CAPITALIST NIGER
It is extremely necessary that we take a few minutes,
hours, days, or months to ponder the intelligence of a race who cannot produce the basic things of life
that are needed for their survival and have to depend on those who have oppressed them for years to
come to their aid.
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In Africa’s military, we do not produce the uniforms our soldiers wear; we do not produce the guns or
militaries use; we do not produce the ammunitions used in loadings the guns – we do not even know
how the mechanisms work; we do not produce the automatic weapons they use; neither do we produce
the tanks; we do not produce the bombs they use; we do not even know about the workings of a
helicopter; an aircraft bomber or even the jet fighters. Don’t you just feel like crying when you know
that the Caucasian has been able to develop weapons and technology capable of detecting the minutest
details of what we are doing even in our homes