Good morning to you.
Please tell me what is prestigious about Oxford, Cambridge, or Harvard.
Given the disastrous state of the West today - economic decline, cultural decadence, political turmoil, and social disintegration - andthat graduates of these institutions and other so-called Ivy Leagues are running things, what are the premises for glorifying them?
Given the current geopolitical state of the world, we no longer need to look for models in the West!
China leads the way in economics.
Russia has just comprehensively eviscerated the Combined West in Ukraine, proving that the vaunted NATO with which the West menaced the world is an overpriced and overrated military machine suitable only to promote colonial expeditionary forces in third-world countries!
Maybe it is time for us in Africa to stop helping the West to blow its vuvuzela.
As educators and opinion leaders, we must help our people understand and keep abreast of geopolitical, geostrategic, and geoeconomic developments.
The propagandists who masquerade as journalists in that Pedophilia Center they call the BBC are doing their best to oversell the crumbling edifice of the West; methinks that as victims of their rapacious predatory enterprises, Africans should not be helping them to sing their Hossanahs!
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Let me hand over the Vuzuzela to Frantz Fanon:
“Now, comrades, now is the time to decide to change sides. We must shake off the great mantle of night which has enveloped us, and march for the light The new day which is dawning must find us determined, enlightened and resolute.
We must abandon our dreams and say farewell to our old beliefs and former friendships. Let us not lose time in useless laments or sickening mimicry. Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
For centuries, Europe has brought the progress of other men to a halt and enslaved them for its own purposes and glory; for centuries, it has stifled virtually the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called “spiritual adventure.” Look at it now: teetering between atomic destruction and spiritual disintegration.
Europe has taken over the world's leadership with fervor, cynicism, and violence. And look how the shadow of its monuments spreads and multiplies. Every movement Europe makes bursts the boundaries of space and thought. Europe has denied itself humility, modesty, solicitude, and tenderness.
Its only show of miserliness has been toward man; only toward man has it shown itself to be niggardly and murderously carnivorous.
So, my brothers, how could we fail to understand that we have better things to do than follow in that Europe’s footsteps?
This Europe, which never stopped talking of man, which never stopped proclaiming its sole concern was man, we now know the price of suffering humanity has paid for every one of its spiritual victories.
Come, comrades. The European game is finally over. We must look for something else. We can do anything today, provided we do not ape Europe and are not obsessed with catching up with Europe.
Europe has gained such a mad and reckless momentum that it has lost control and reason and is heading at dizzying speed towards the brink from which we would be advised to remove ourselves as quickly as possible.
It is all too true, however, that we need a model, schemas, and examples. For many of us, the European model is the most elating. But we have seen in the preceding pages how misleading such an imitation can be. European achievements, technology, and lifestyles must stop tempting us and leading us astray.
When I look for man in European lifestyles and technology, I see a constant denial of man, an avalanche of murders.
Let us decide not to imitate Europe, tense our muscles and our brains in a new direction, and endeavor to invent a man in full, something Europe has been incapable of achieving.
Two centuries ago, a former European colony took it into its head to catch up with Europe. It has been so successful that the United States of America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions.
Comrades, have we nothing else to do but create a third Europe? The West saw itself on a spiritual adventure. It is in the name of the Spirit, meaning the spirit of Europe, that Europe justified its crimes and legitimized the slavery in which it held four-fifths of humanity.
So comrades, let us not pay tribute to Europe by creating states, institutions, and societies that draw their inspiration from it.
Humanity expects other things from us than this grotesque and generally obscene emulation.
If we want to transform Africa into a new Europe and America into a new Europe, then let us entrust the destinies of our countries to the Europeans. They will do a better job than the best of us.
But if we want humanity to take one step forward, if we want to take it to another level than the one where Europe has placed it, then we must innovate; we must be pioneers.
If we want to respond to the expectations of our peoples, we must look elsewhere besides Europe.
Moreover, if we want to respond to the expectations of the Europeans, we must not send them back a reflection, however ideal, of their society and their thought that periodically sickens even them.
For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, comrades, we must make a new start, develop a new way of thinking, and endeavor to create a new man.” - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.
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For years on end I never knew what that horn-like instrument was that I heard played at international sporting events. The vuvuzela! Thank you for the education, Femi.👍