THE CAPITALIST NIGER
It is
offensive and repugnant for Africans to perceive themselves as free or independent. If you are
independent, you should be able to feed yourself, you should be able to cure yourself, you should be
able to provide essential services to yourself. The United States of America, Japan and others like them,
provide such services to its people and more.
Africa has nothing to offer right now. We should stop yapping our mouths off when others speak. We
are literally a conquered people. The same colonization I see in Africa is what I have also witnessed in
Black America. Most Black neighbourhoods are a mirror image of African countries: a dependency on
others to provide it with all they ever need and the inability to take care of themselves. Economically,
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