THE CAPITALIST NIGER
From the day I went to school, I knew more about Europeans than I knew about my own people. I knew
all about the exploits of the “explorers” who “discovered” Africa. In fact, this stupidity is still being
taught in African schools even as of this writing, as if Africa did not exist before the Caucasian ventured
into the continent. I knew about Cecil Rhodes and Mungo Park and all the other so-called “founding
explorers” of Africa. Nobody taught me the great warriors of Ohafia and Abam in Igboland; nobody
taught me about the great Pyramids of Egypt; nobody explained the great fight that the Ashantis put up
against the British. Rather I was taught how to demean the accomplishments of these great people;
nobody taught me the great Kingdoms of the Zimbabwe. I was taught about the Kings and Queens of
England and Scotland; the Kings of France; the culture and history of the English and other Europeans.
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