The Barbarians Of Africa, Femi Fani-Kayode

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Last week I wrote an essay titled ”12 Years A Slave and The Case For Reparations”. It was a historical account about the travails of the African and the black man over the last few centuries. Frankly, it was very moving. I shed tears as I wrote that essay- tears for our people and their pitiable plight and tears for the challenges and sheer cruelty that our forefathers experienced in the hands of those that regarded us as nothing more than sub-human barbarians and chattel.

Yet one wonders who the real barbarians were: were they those who found it so easy to treat their fellow human beings as thrash and vermin, worthy only of hate and fit only for servitude, suffering, hard labour and bondage or was it those that were the objects and victims of that pent-up hate, that were regarded as nothing more than animals and that were denied even the most basic right of being regarded as and treated like human beings? I rather think that the term ”barbarian” is better reserved for the former group rather than the latter.

Today’s contribution serves as something of a follow up to â€12 Years A Slave and the Case For Reparations” and it is an attempt to explore the dark minds and thought-processes of those who honestly believed that they were doing God’s work by tormenting, enslaving, humiliating and attempting to destroy the black man.  Here we go.

One of the greatest and most respected modern historians that ever lived, an Englishman by the name of Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper of Oxford University, once described the history of black Africa as being “darkness, nothing but darkness”. As if that were not bad enough there was another even more indicting contribution from a famous and wealthy Arab slave trader (who lived in the 18th century) and whose name was Mehtma Mohammed.

He captured and purchased his slaves mainly from what is now West Africa and he transported them through the Sudan to the Arab world and to the Middle East where they spent the rest of their short and brutish lives as slaves.

Mehtma Mohammed said the following about the black African: â€These black creatures were born to be in perpetual servitude and were ordained by God to be our slaves forever. They are lazy, greedy, stupid, godless, dirty and most important of all they are cowards. When you put the whip to them and hard they line up and will do anything for you. They and their African brothers who sell them to us have no sense of collective purpose and they think nothing of killing and selling their own kinsmen for a pittance. They have no god and they have no interest in dying for or fighting for anything, which is outside their daily feeding. They are docile, lazy, dirty and stupid and that is why I have made so much money from selling them. The most gratifying thing is that even if one of the group shows signs of any potential or hope of being able to be a great leader to the others, they are the ones that will expose him, report him and destroy him just for a few morsels from my table. They present no danger to us. They are as harmless and fearful as puppies and they only growl like dogs at each other and to no one else. We will shame them, trade them, own them and rule over them forever.”

These are painful and harsh words coming from this Arab slave-trader. Yet sadly such views about the African are not limited to the likes of him or indeed to the 18th century.

Permit me to give you just one example.

The following is a speech that was made by former South African President P.W. Botha to his cabinet. This reprint was written by David G. Mailu for the Sunday Times, a South African newspaper dated August 18, 1985. It reads as follows:

“Pretoria has been made by the White mind for the White man. We are not obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody and to the Blacks that we are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the Blacks in a thousand and one ways. The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expense of intelligence, sweat and blood. Were they Afrikaners who tried to eliminate the Australian Aborigines? Are they Afrikaners who discriminate against Blacks and call them Niggers in the States? Were they Afrikaners who started the slave trade? Where is the Black man appreciated? England discriminates against its Black and their “Sus” law is out to discipline the Blacks. Canada, France, Russia, and Japan all play their discrimination too. Why in the hell then is so much noise made about us? Why are they biased against us? I am simply trying to prove to you all that there is nothing unusual we are doing that the so called civilized worlds are not doing. We are simply an honest people who have come out aloud with a clear philosophy of how we want to live our own White life.

“We do not pretend like other Whites that we like Blacks. The fact that, Blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and lizards are not crocodiles simply because they look alike. If God wanted us to be equal to the Blacks, he would have created us all of a uniform colour and intellect but he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers and the ruled. Intellectually, we are superior to the Blacks; that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years.

“I believe that the Afrikaner is an honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically the right way of being. Nevertheless, it is comforting to know that behind the scenes, Europe, America, Canada, Australia-and all others are behind us in spite of what they say. For diplomatic relations, we all know what language should be used and where. To prove my point, Comrades, does anyone of you know a White country without an investment or interest in South Africa? Who buys our gold? Who buys our diamonds? Who trades with us? Who is helping us develop other nuclear weapon? The very truth is that we are their people and they are our people. It’s a big secret.

“The strength of our economy is backed by America, Britain, Germany. It is our strong conviction, therefore, that the Black is the raw material for the White man. So Brothers and Sisters, let us join hands together to fight against this Black devil. I appeal to all Afrikaners to come out with any creative means of fighting this war. Surely God cannot forsake his own people whom we are. By now every one of us has seen it practically that the Blacks cannot rule themselves. Give them guns and they will kill each other. They are good in nothing else but making noise, dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex.  Let us all accept that the Black man is the symbol of poverty, mental inferiority, laziness and emotional incompetence. Isn’t it plausible? therefore that the White man is created to rule the Black man?

Come to think of what would happen one day if you woke up and on the throne sat a Kaffir! Can you imagine what would happen to our women? Does anyone of you believe that the Blacks can rule this country? Hence, we have good reasons to let them all-the Mandelas and the others-rot in prison, and I think we should be commended for having kept them alive in spite of what we have at hand with which to finish them off.

“I wish to announce a number of new strategies that should be put to use to destroy this Black bug. We should now make use of the chemical weapon.

Priority number one, we should not by all means allow any more increases of the Black population lest we be choked very soon. I have exciting news that our scientists have come with an efficient stuff. I am sending out more researchers to the field to identify as many venues as possible where the chemical weapons could be employed to combat any further population increases. The hospital is a very strategic opening, for example and should be fully utilized. The food supply channel should be used. We have enveloped excellent slow killing poisons and fertility destroyers. Our only fear is in case such stuff came in! ! to their hands as they are bound to start using it against us if you care to think of the many Blacks working for us in our homes. However, we are doing the best we can to make sure that the stuff remains strictly in our hands.

“Secondly, most Blacks are vulnerable to money inducements. I have set aside a special fund to exploit this venue. The old trick of divide and rule is still very valid today. Our experts should work day and night to set the Black man against his fellowman. His inferior sense of morals can be exploited beautifully. And here is a creature that lacks foresight. There is a need for us to combat him in long term projections that he cannot suspect. The average Black does not plan his life beyond a year: that stance, for example, should be exploited. My special department is already working round the clock to come out with a long-term operation blueprint.

I am also sending a special request to all Afrikaner mothers to double their birth rate. It may be necessary too to set up a population boom industry by putting up centers where we employ and support fully White young men and women to produce children for the nation. We are also investigating the merit of uterus rentals as a possible means of speeding up the growth of our population through surrogate mothers. For the time being, we should also engage a higher gear to make sure that Black men are separated from their women and fines imposed upon married wives who bear illegitimate children.

“I have a committee working on finding better methods of inciting Blacks against each other and encouraging murders among themselves. Murder cases among Blacks should bear very little punishment in order to encourage them. My scientists have come up with a drug that could be smuggled into their brews to effect slow poisoning results and fertility destruction. Working through drinks and manufacturing of soft drinks geared to the Blacks, could promote the channels of reducing their population. Ours is not a war that we can use the atomic bomb to destroy the Blacks, so we must use our intelligence to effect this. The person-to-person encounter can be very effective.

As the records show that the Black man is dying to go to bed with the White woman, here is our unique opportunity. Our Sex Mercenary Squad should go out and camouflage with Apartheid Fighters while doing their operations quietly administering slow killing poison and fertility destroyers to those Blacks they thus befriend. We are modifying the Sex Mercenary Squad by introducing White men who should go for the militant Black woman and any other vulnerable Black woman. We have received a new supply of prostitutes from Europe and America who are desperate and too keen to take up the appointments.

My latest appeal is that the maternity hospital operations should be intensified. We are not paying those people to help bring Black babies to this world but to eliminate them on the very delivery moment. If this department worked very efficiently, a great deal could be achieved”.

These are manifestly racist, demonically-inspired and utterly despicable submissions coming from malevolent, evil, dark, twisted, tormented and ignorant souls. They tell us exactly how many of our detractors view us, even up until today, even if they cannot afford to say so openly. And we must also accept the fact that oftentimes our own behaviour confirms these negative stereotypes.

If anyone doubts that just look at the Nigerian example. The truth is that we take pleasure in persecuting, shaming, killing and destroying one another, we enjoy pulling down our brightest and our best, we willfully and consciously promote and celebrate compromise and mediocrity and we are simply not prepared to fight and die for any worthwhile cause or principle, even when it is in our interest so to do.

That is the difference between us and those from other parts of the world. They are ready to pay any price for a better and safer tomorrow for their children but we are not. They will always insist on the best, on enforcing their rights, on jealously guarding their civil liberties, on resisting evil, on fighting persecution and injustice and on preserving the integrity of their civil institutions whilst we are not. Instead we are prepared to settle for anything, compromise with anything and take anything from anyone or any institution. If we wish to progress we must change our attitude, we must discard this slavish mindset and thereby put to shame our detractors and enemies. We must be ready to stand up and insist on our rights and we must be ready to pay the supreme price whilst doing so if that is what is required.

We must dig deep and find the required strength and courage and we must, as a people, rise up to where we belong and become what God wants us to be: a great, beautiful, free, prosperous, educated, respected and strong people. We are no less than that and that is our due. To establish and confirm the glory of our continent and to bring honour, self-respect and dignity to every African: that surely is the challenge of our time. May God help us to achieve this in our generation and may He put the Mehtma Ali’s, the Hugh Trevor Roper’s and the P.W. Botha’s of this world to utter shame.

God bless Nigeria! God bless Africa!

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Your Perceptions of Others Reveal a Lot About Yourself

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How positively you see others is linked to how happy, kind-hearted and emotionally stable you are, according to new research by a Wake Forest University psychology professor.

“Your perceptions of others reveal so much about your own personality,” says Dustin Wood, assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest and lead author of the study, about his findings. By asking study participants to each rate positive and negative characteristics of just three people, the researchers were able to find out important information about the rater’s well-being, mental health, social attitudes and how they were judged by others.

The study appears in the July issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Peter Harms at the University of Nebraska and Simine Vazire of Washington University in St. Louis co-authored the study.

The researchers found a person’s tendency to describe others in positive terms is an important indicator of the positivity of the person’s own personality traits. They discovered particularly strong associations between positively judging others and how enthusiastic, happy, kind-hearted, courteous, emotionally stable and capable the person describes oneself and is described by others.

“Seeing others positively reveals our own positive traits,” Wood says.

The study also found that how positively you see other people shows how satisfied you are with your own life, and how much you are liked by others.

In contrast, negative perceptions of others are linked to higher levels of narcissism and antisocial behavior. “A huge suite of negative personality traits are associated with viewing others negatively,” Wood says. “The simple tendency to see people negatively indicates a greater likelihood of depression and various personality disorders.” Given that negative perceptions of others may underlie several personality disorders, finding techniques to get people to see others more positively could promote the cessation of behavior patterns associated with several different personality disorders simultaneously, Wood says.

This research suggests that when you ask someone to rate the personality of a particular coworker or acquaintance, you may learn as much about the rater providing the personality description as the person they are describing. The level of negativity the rater uses in describing the other person may indeed indicate that the other person has negative characteristics, but may also be a tip off that the rater is unhappy, disagreeable, neurotic — or has other negative personality traits.

Raters in the study consisted of friends rating one another, college freshmen rating others they knew in their dormitories, and fraternity and sorority members rating others in their organization. In all samples, participants rated real people and the positivity of their ratings were found to be associated with the participant’s own characteristics.

By evaluating the raters and how they evaluated their peers again one year later, Wood found compelling evidence that how positively we tend to perceive others in our social environment is a highly stable trait that does not change substantially over time.

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Shootout In Anambra: 20 Gun Men Invades Anambra Council, Make Away With Symbol Of Authority of Legislative Arm

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Suspected Gunmen numbering about 20 has invaded the Council Headquarters of Ojoto in Idemmili South local Government Area of Anambra state, made away with the mace, the symbol of authority for the legislative arm.

According to the source (name withdrawn), the gun men invaded the council in a Hilux Van with Siren but without plate number at about 3 pm and rushed to the legislative chambers where the mace was positioned and grabbed it , made away with it and when the lawmakers in session tried to stop them, they shot indiscriminately into the air to scare them before escaping with the mace unchallenged.

Information available to 247ureports.com indicated that four men came into the council chambers while about 16 of the gun men waited outside the council – embarking on a shooting spree after they had successfully made away with the mace.

Meanwhile, members ran for their dear lives while condemning the act of invasion. They called on the Commissioner of Police [CP] to conduct a comprehensive investigation to discover the people behind the act. They said their lives are in danger – and had written a petition to CP.

The shoot-out and stealing of the mace followed the impeachment of the Speaker of the Legislative House , Idemmili South , Hon Amaka Obidigbo from Awka Etiti ward one on Wednesday, March 26.

Majority Leader Marcel Ezeugo representing Nnobi ward 3 took over after the vote of no confidence was moved on the speaker, Obidigbo supported by 9 members out of 11.

The Police Spokesperson Emeka Chukwuemeka however said he was yet to be briefed as at the time of going to the press even as efforts to reach the Ojoto Divisional police officer failed.

However, the allegedly impeached speaker, Obidigbo and other Councillors confirmed the invasion by gunmen at separate speeches with this reporter.

Confirming the incidence , the Councillor representing Awka Etiti ward 2 , Ebele Anuliefo, the majority leader Marcel Ezeugo and Osisiego Jude representing Alor ward 1 confirmed the shoot out and the impeachment of Obidigbo as speaker and her replacement with Charles Akubueze former Deputy Speaker representing Alor ward 2.

They said that their lives are in danger as they are no longer safe to attend to their legislative duties and appealed to the commissioner of police , Usman Gwary to provide security for them and investigate the mayhem.

Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftain Affairs , Lady Azuka Enemuo from the local government could not be reached for her comment before going to the press.

But the Speaker , Obidgbo when contacted insisted that she remains the Speaker because the process of removing her was not within due process as there are procedures that must be followed before removing her.

She however confirmed the invasion of the gun men into the council but said she went to Awka when it happened. She encouraged this reporter to call the chairman of the council , Henry Ezenwa who equally was not on seat when this happened for further clarifications. Efforts to reach the chairman was not successful as his numbers were not going through as at the time of this report.

Meanwhile, condemnation has already trailed the action as the Chairman of Chairmen and Secretary of Chairmen in all the wards in Idemmili South Local government area, , Chief Okigbo Azubuike and Ide Godwin Eze respectively in a press statement condemned the breech of law and order in the local government ; warning those behind the gun shooting in the council area in a new democracy at the grass root to desist from the act.

They called for investigation from all law enforcement agencies to get at the root of the shoot out to forestall further brigandage as such lawless acts are not good for democracy.

It was also gathered that the Clark of the Legislative House had sent them text messages for their sitting and they were 11 out of 12 excluding the impeached speaker when the gun men invaded , carting away the mace , shooting severally in the air.

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Lukwago ordered out of office

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Not yet even a day since he resumed office, Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has been ordered out of the office of the Lord Mayor cancelling out his grand entry into the same office early this morning.

Reports from court of appeal indicate that single judge, Justice Steven Kavuma has over turned the Friday ruling by Justice Lydia Mugambe, hence restraining Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago from assuming office.

The ruling was given behind closed doors with the press barred from entry amid heavy armed police deployment and Lukwago’s side not represented.

Lukwago resumed duties today after a short prayer from a sheikh and a press briefing in which he called upon all members to forget the past and work together. As it seems, the past can not be forgotten as yet.

The session is still on going and more details will come shortly.

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Watch Pope Francis confess his sins in public

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Since assuming control of the Catholic church last year, Pope Francis has made a habit of breaking with his predecessors. And in the latest such incident, the pope stunned those inside St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday when he publicly confessed his sins to a priest during that day’s service.

After reading a sermon at the service, the Pope was supposed to go hear other people’s confessions. However, he instead walked over to a very surprised priest and confessed to him for several minutes. The Pope regularly goes to confession, according to Reuters, though never in public.

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