Sunday, November 16, 2014

When you Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't called 'Hitler'

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Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?  Most people haven’t heard of him.


But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.


His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.


He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his business transactions as “philanthropic” and “scientific” efforts under the banner of the International African Society. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.


Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Making overtly racist remarks is (sometimes) frowned upon in polite society, but it’s quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.


Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. It’s 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.


When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.


There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking whose interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.


You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture don’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.


Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But that doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.


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When you Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't called 'Hitler'

Jonathan decides on emergency rule in Borno, others today


The Federal Government’s next line of action on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states at the expiration of the emergency rule imposed on the three north-eastern states will be decided on Monday (today), investigation by The PUNCH has revealed.

The third tranche of six-month emergency rule imposed on the states following the continued activities of members of the Boko Haram sect expires on Thursday.

Photo: 70 year old man arrested for N42million Stock Fraud

A 70-year-old man, Adebola Oyewole Asiwaju, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly attempting to fraudulently sell the shares of one Olalere Sunday Oladosu. 
To perfect the scam, the suspect allegedly forged documents and opened a bank account in a new generation bank, with the assumed name of “Olalere Sunday Oladosu”. 
Then, he proceeded to instruct Marina Securities, a brokerage, to dispose of 1.7million units of Zenith Bank shares valued at N42million and remit the proceeds to the account he opened with the new generation bank.
The lid on the scam was lifted when a routine check by staff of Marina Securities revealed some discrepancies in the documents presented by the suspect and the ones the genuine owner of the shares had filed with the defunct Intercontinental Securities Limited.
Consequently, the suspect was arrested by the Nigeria Police, and later handed over to the EFCC for further investigation and prosecution.
The suspect is alleged to be neck deep in stealing shares of unsuspecting investors and selling them for a commission. He is believed to work for a syndicate and receives 10 percent of the proceeds of any “business” that sails through. His accomplices are still at large. Other names that Asiwaju has used in fraudulent shares sale include, Babajide Odunso and Chief Bolaji Carew. The suspect will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation in concluded.

Hit or Miss: Tonto Dikeh rocks green & black ensemble

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The sweet actress wore this look for an interview with a radio station this afternoon.



Hit or Miss: Tonto Dikeh rocks green & black ensemble

Dozens killed as Fulani herdsmen invade a village in Nasarawa

Many individuals have been killed today in a town called Alakio in Nasarawa state by Fulani Herdsmen.
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The Herdsmen assaulted the group in the early hours of today with weapons and blades as they rested. As per individuals discussing it on Twitter, the Herdsmen are as of now assaulting the town…and numerous occupants have fled their homes for wellbeing.



Dozens killed as Fulani herdsmen invade a village in Nasarawa

Famous Comedian Bovi shares pics of his sweet mum as she turns 1 year older

See Genevieve, Omotola, Rita Dominic & Ramsey Noah @AFRIFF

Pics: Fuel Tanker spills fuel after somersaulting in Lekki, causes traffic 

A fuel tanker a couple of hours back fell directly before Chevron Drive in Lekki.
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..spilling its content…very hazardous! Autos must be steered to take the opposite side of the street. The mishap has brought about serious traffic around there. The fire service have since arrived the place.


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Pics: Fuel Tanker spills fuel after somersaulting in Lekki, causes traffic 

Awkward: Katsina is turning refuse dumps to shops

In every area town and villages, there are places that are designated as public squares, refuse dumps, recreational etc.
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This are places meant for specific usage in order to beautify the city, provide relieve and safe guard the city/town etc

In katsina, there are also places like the refuse dumps which are meant to be places where refuse will be disposed in order to protect the city from waste and other unwanted rubbish.

Unfortunately, those refuse dumps are now been sold and turned to shops. In lay out where I live, already a refuse dump has been converted to a shop. In fact, other places and space meant for electric and phone lines are also converted into unwanted usage. During the construction, the new owner of our refuse dump brought building materials that blocked the drainage and water start to over flow in our area.

I want to call on Katsina state ministries of housing, works and environment, NASREA and all other relevant agencies to look into the issue and address it immediately before a humanitarian disaster occur in the area.


Comrade Abdulbaqi Aliyu Jari

@jariabdubaqi
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Awkward: Katsina is turning refuse dumps to shops

Suicide bomber attacks market in Azare, Bauchi, eliminates 12

A female suicide aerial attacker exploded herself this night November sixteenth amidst a cellular telephone market in Azare, Bauchi state.
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A witness who was at the scene of the impact told AFP that he saw no less than 8 individuals dead


“A suicide bomber came into the market as it was closing and blew herself up in the middle of all the merchants and their customers. I saw at least eight dead and lots of others wounded,” a witness, Alyu Habib told AFP


12 individuals have so far been affirmed dead, while no less than 60 others were injured. This is the second time Azare will be going under bomb assaults. Beheaded leader of the Suicide bomber bellow.


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Suicide bomber attacks market in Azare, Bauchi, eliminates 12

Hero: Lt. Mudassir killed by B'Haram.

Liuetenant A. Mudassir (Mudex) was killed by Boko Haram activists today November sixteenth.
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He and parts of his troop were headed to recover Chibok from Boko Haram when they were pitfell and was murdered amid the weapon fight.  He was a 59RC respectable man officer from the Nigerian defence academy. His dispossessed companion, AS Aruwa imparted his photographs on twitter.



Hero: Lt. Mudassir killed by B'Haram.

U.S aide worker Peter Kassig killed by ISIS

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Ex-US trooper and assistant specialist Peter Kassig has been decapitated by ISIS. The US government affirmed his killing in an announcement today in the wake of inspecting a video ISIS released that implied to demonstrate the beheading. The 26 year old Indianapolis man was caught in eastern Syria on Oct. 1, 2013, while conveying relief supplies for the aid group he established.


This will make it the fifth nonnative ISIS has decapitated as such!



U.S aide worker Peter Kassig killed by ISIS

Pics of Terry G at his water factory

Terry G has a sachet water factory which he opened early this year & it looks like it’s doing pretty well.
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See more pics bellow.
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Pics of Terry G at his water factory

Pics: Port Harcourt 1st son Duncan Mighty proposes to his girlfriend on her brithday

Port Harcourt first child  Son Duncan Mighty is authoritatively off the business. He popped the inquiry to his long time better half Vivien today, which is her birthday, and she said yes.
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Well done to them. See more photos bellow.


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Pics: Port Harcourt 1st son Duncan Mighty proposes to his girlfriend on her brithday

White Nigerian flaunts his new Rolex watch

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Comedian Mohammed Jammal a.k.a White Nigeria shared this pic on his IG page.



White Nigerian flaunts his new Rolex watch

"I'm now a Gay" - Rev Jide Macaulay

For the individuals who don’t know him, Rev Rowland Jide Macaulay is a prominent Nigerian gay minister who used to run a mystery gay church in Lagos called House of Rainbow Fellowship.
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He moved to the UK a couple of years back after he began getting death threats. Regardless he runs his gay church in the UK.



"I'm now a Gay" - Rev Jide Macaulay

Omowunmi Akinnifesi shuns acquiring new butt implants

Photo Gallery: AFRIFF Day 5: Fireworks

Kunle Afolayan has been reprimanded for being a terrible performing artist however there was nothing awful about his execution in unbelievable movie producers film Tundekelani’s Dazzling Mrage.


To be totally straightforward, his execution could essentially be declared among the best at this present year’s AFRIFF. Featuring alongside by Kemi “Lala” Akindoju, both performers turned up the science in this social inner voice dramatization about the predicament of individuals living with sickle cell.


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As indicated by Tunde Kelani, the film was conceived  in 2011 and he was not prepared to be unobtrusive about the tittle of the film. The fight for sickle cell was sprinkle all over and if  you didn’t know anything about it before the film toward the end, you will be a campaigner.


Astonishing hallucination was a delightful peak of day that saw Mildred Okwo take pokes at film chiefs for not acquiring the best performer in a workshop themed; ACTING WITH INTEGRITY. Kunle and Lala acted with respectability and vindicated uncle TK from such punches. While a considerable lot of the chiefs couldn’t go to the workshop as their movies were screening at the time, word rapidly got to them in the soul of kinship this current year’s celebration has birthed.


What’s more when all accumulated at the pool gathering to fraternize under the lit skies of firecrackers at Tinapa pool side, they discussed everything that went down prior; from the astounding execution of Christa Eka (Cameroonian) in Damaru, where the performers learnt communication via gestures to act with honesty, to workshops by Jude Idada, Tunde kelani and Yemi Akintokun on ADAPTING AFRICAN LITERATURE FOR SCREEN.


 






Photo Gallery: AFRIFF Day 5: Fireworks