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Showing posts with label Colonialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colonialism. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Fighting Imperialism!!!

 





 

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Monday, August 26, 2024

END ALL COLONIALISM!!! Ilan Pappé on Palestinian Anti-Colonial Resistance ••• Ilan Pappe:I hope for the end of Israel and the creation of free Palestine from the river to the sea



No amount of verbal gymnastics can escape the simple truth that indigenous resistance is crucial to ending colonial atrocities
                                     - Hamid Dabashi 5 March 2024



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War on Gaza: How critics are twisting Frantz Fanon's legacy





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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Continue A Lamber O Cu Dos Racistas...

 

Is Ukraine The Congo of Europe?

 

Neverending Shenanigan!

Racists inundate the TV screens in the West, telling lies to sponsor these crimes against humanity…


 

AH! Colonialism!?





 

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Racism: My Experience In Portugal!!!

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Non-Europeans, IF You Think This Will Never Happen To You - You Are Stupid!




Non-Europeans, IF You Think This Will Never Happen To You - You Are Stupid!







 

Sadly, Many Clever People Was Living An Illusion. 

The Fascist WEST never Sleeps.



 


 

Democracy! It is A Farce!

 




 

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Monday, November 6, 2023

Colonialism

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

They Are Not European, It Is Why!



It is how colonialism started.

How The Native Americans were almost eradicated.

It starts with the land grab and dispossession. Pure evil!


The so-called Democracy lovers in the West allow this to happen.





And the self-hatred African...

 
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Sunday, September 3, 2023

The Illusion of Inferiority is A HUGE Burden To Shake OFF!

 





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Friday, July 21, 2023

... article is basically about Hegel was an idiot, its not about what Hegel thought of Africans the introduction makes its clear that Hegel had all the information he needed on Asante, but made up his own nonsense

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

The USA, The Nuclear Bomb and Congo. Colonialism

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Monday, July 3, 2023

Not Teaching History!

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Friday, April 21, 2023

Colonialism. Germany's history in Southern Africa.


I once worked for Vigiexpert at Inspeção-Geral das Atividades em Saúde. 

There, racists discussed my sexual orientation, my dick, and my supposed intelligence or the lack of it. 

One commented on my desire of becoming a painter (as the racist Ukrainian female doctor at Santa Maria Hospital) by poking fun at a photograph I posted on Flickr, entitled My Studio.

Apparently, a studio ought to be glamorous.

None of them know me, or even ever interacted with me before, regarding anything.

The only person there with apparent African ancestry — she seemed unaware of the mocking aimed at her by some of her hierarchically low-ranking colleagues — made fun of my "anti-colonialism stances" on my first day, filling for the paid leave of a colleague I do not know. 

People who know nothing about me.

Colonialism was much worst than what is shown here.





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Saturday, August 29, 2020

(neo)Colonialism || Kenya

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

You Can Debate Me If You Want


The Education of a British-Protected Child || Chinua Achebe

…   “of Africans selling their brothers and sisters and children for bauble. Was that truly what happened? What about the sad, sad story of that king of the vast kingdom of Bukongo who reigned as a Christian king, Dom Afonso I, from 1506 to 1543; who built schools and churches and renamed his capital São Salvador; whose son was bishop of Utica in Tunisia and from 1521 bishop of Bukongo; who sent embassies to Lisbon and to Rome? This man thought he had allies and friends in the Portuguese Jesuits he had encouraged to come and live in his kingdom and convert his subjects. Unfortunately for him, Brazil was opening up at the same time and needing labor to work its vast plantations. So the Portuguese missionaries abandoned their preaching and became slave raiders. Dom Afonso in bewilderment wrote a letter in 1526 to King John III of Portugal complaining about the behavior of Portuguese nationals in the Congo. The letter went unanswered. In the end, the Portuguese gave enough guns to rebellious chiefs to wage war on Bukongo and destroy it, and then imposed the payment of tribute in slaves on the kingdom.     The letter Dom Afonso of Bukongo wrote to King John III of Portugal in 1526 is in the Portuguese archives and reads in part as follows:

   “[Your] merchants daily seize our subjects, sons of the land and sons of our noblemen and vassals and our relatives… They grab them and cause them to be sold: and so great, Sir, is their corruption and licentiousness that our country is being utterly depopulated… [We] need from [your] Kingdoms no other than priests and people to teach in schools, and no other goods but wine and flour for the holy sacrament: that is why we beg of Your Highness to help and assist us in this matter, commanding your factors that they should send here neither merchants nor wares, because it is our will that in these kingdoms [of Congo] there should not be any trade in slaves nor market for slaves.

      Dom Afonso was a remarkable man. During his long reign, he learned to speak and read Portuguese. We are told that he studied the Portuguese codified laws in the original bulky folios, and criticized the excessive penalties which were inflicted for even trivial offenses. He jokingly asked the Portuguese envoy one day: “Castro, what is the penalty in Portugal for anyone who puts his feet on the ground?”
     Here was a man obviously more civilized than the “civilizing mission” sent to him by Europe. Radical African writers are inclined to mock him for being so willing to put aside the religion and ways of his fathers in favor of Christianity. But nobody mocks Constantine I, the Roman emperor who did precisely the same thing. The real difference is that while Constantine was powerful and succeeded, Afonso failed because the Christianity which came to him was brutal and perverse and armed with the gun. Three hundred and fifty years after Dom Afonso, Joseph Conrad was able to describe the very site on which his kingdom had stood as the Heart of Darkness.”

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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Yes, we've said it. So bored with these empty statements by former empires. || Africa is a Country @africasacountry






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Thursday, August 8, 2019

Colonialists didn’t fail to root out Africa’s tribal politics. They created it.


In the West, rulers used notions of race to subjugate black people. In Africa, they used ethnicity. 



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In the end, Kenyatta was indeed re-elected, winning almost the entire Kikuyu vote. His running mate did the same with the Kalenjin votes, the two men garnering over 95% in counties where their ethnic groups are the overwhelming majority. Their main challenger, Raila Odinga, got over 90% in counties where the Luo dominate.
In countries across Africa, similar patterns emerge in elections. From Kenya, to Sierra Leone, to Malawi, many votes cut heavily across ethnic or regional lines. Ethnic politics in Africa is commonplace.
This fact is often framed as a continent-wide struggle between the ancient and the modern, between Africa’s age-old tribal allegiances and its modern political institutions inherited from Europe. According to this narrative, African societies are yet to be fully reformed by modern life. When faced with elections therefore, voters continue to express old tribal solidarities rather than deciding based on ideology or policy.
This argument presents European colonialism as a civilising mission against the customary order, albeit one which failed to fully de-tribalise its subjects. The 1884 Berlin Conference, far from dividing Africa among European powers, becomes seen as a unifying exercise that brought tribes together into modern political entities. As foreign affairs commentator Jonathan Power wrote in a 2006 article for The New York Times:
“On Africa’s left it has been a common jibe that the Europeans ‘divided’ Africa. In fact they brought Africa together. Indeed – as in Nigeria, where Lord Lugard forced more than 250 ethnic groups involving today’s 130 million people into one political unit – you could argue that the colonialists went overboard in the quest for unity.”
African tribalism is contrasted with the ideal standard of Western modernity. This received narrative is deeply questionable.
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Once, a civil servant using a misogynistic jab, asked why I have a Portuguese surname, adding - Was it because you have Portuguese ancestry?
I did not call out his ignorance, it would have been uncalled for - colonialism is still seen as an utter act of chivalry among many ignorant/racist people. But, I did leave him with a bit of salt, I told him - no, the colonialist administration used coded names for BETTER collecting taxes - he laughed, he did not listen, predictably.


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Monday, July 15, 2019

Sanusi on the effects of british colonial policy on Northern Nigeria


Sanusi Lamido Sanusi - wikiPedia











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Thursday, June 20, 2019

... A Long Overdue Debate About The Nature Of Ethnicity In Kenya and in Africa

WHAT IS YOUR TRIBE? 
The Invention Of Kenya’s Ethnic Communities

By Patrick Gathara for The Elephant - Speaking truth to power

... For many people, both on the continent and outside it, the idea of tribe – with its connotations of strong, primitive, primordial ethnicity and ancient cultural traditions – is an indispensable part of African identity. ...

 ... Africans are first and foremost seen as tribesmen or tribeswomen and tribe is taken for granted as the best explanation for their actions. This idea is so deeply ingrained that few ever bother to question it. 

 Yet question it we should. For rather than something indelibly encoded into the African genetic make-up and over which one exercises little choice, tribe turns out to be largely an artificial construct. The fact is, there is a marked difference between how ordinary Africans, including Kenyans, think of tribe and its origins and what history and social science has to say about it.

 To begin with, just what is a tribe? Even this question turns out to be not as straightforward as some would have us believe. “Tribe has no coherent meaning” wrote Dr. Christopher Lowe of Boston University in his 1997 paper “Talking about ‘Tribe’: Moving from Stereotypes to Analysis”. “If by tribe we mean a social group that shares a single territory, a single language, a single political unit, a shared religious tradition, a similar economic system, and common cultural practices, such a group is rarely found in the real world,” he wrote.

What? But people do identify as Kikuyus or Luos, no? And they have done this for ages, haven’t they? Well, yes and no. People have always banded together in groups in search of security. As they grew, such groups, initially defined by kinship relations, developed common ways of responding to and relating with the world around them, as well as systems to manage relations within the group. But since the world kept changing, so did these groups. Some were subsumed into others, some got separated and developed along different paths, others disappeared altogether. Customs and languages changed. The idea that our current ethnic communities have survived unchanged from ancient times is plainly false. As Prof. Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College in the US says, “‘Tribal’ and/or ethnic identities have never been primordial and immutable, in Africa or elsewhere.”


The politicisation of ethnicity 
In fact, our current ethnic formations – some of which did not even exist a century ago – and our understanding of how they relate to each other, are the products of much more recent events. “What is a tribe?” asks Mahmood Mamdani, the Executive Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research. “It is very largely a creation of laws drawn up by a colonial state which imposes group identities on individual subjects and thereby institutionalises group life… Above all, tribe was a politically driven, totalising identity.”

“The politicisation of ethnic identity began with the colonial experience,” says Prof. Kimani Njogu in the recent Africa Uncensored documentary titled In Tribe We Trust. According to the book Ethnicity and African Politics by Crawford Young, “although the ethnic labels… have pre-colonial origins, they became comprehensive and rigidly ranked categories only in the colonial period; they were heavily influenced by imperial codifications and further transformed by politicised actions in the last half-century.”

Clearly, pre-colonial peoples had their ideas as to who they were and how they related to the world around them. But what we call tribes today bears little semblance to the ever-changing aboriginal identities they fashioned and would probably be completely unrecognisable to them. In any case, the idea that today’s ethnic communities necessarily grew out of kinship relations is bogus.

However, for a colonial administration that required order and control in order to facilitate its extractive aim, such inexactitude was unacceptable. Confronted with the reality of the diversity on the African continent, the European colonisers tried to hammer it into compliance with their preconceived ideas. Much of this was accomplished using administrative measures and backed up by brute force. Young writes: “The task of the colonial state was to discover, codify, and map an ethnic geography for their newly conquered domains, according to the premise that the continent was inhabited by ‘tribal man.’ This ethnic template, as imagined by the coloniser, became the basis for administrative organisation.” Parsons adds that “faced with a confusing range of fluid ethnicities when they conquered Kenya, colonial officials sought to shift conquered populations into manageable administrative units.”


Thus colonialism imposed its own version of order, superimposed its idea of tribes bounded within district boundaries on this ethnic patchwork, and even created an entirely new “traditional” administrative structure in the form of tribal chiefs who were actually state employees. Young writes of “the illusion that colonial ethnic mappings were historically authentic”. In this way, the state created the tribe which, in turn, became, as Parsons states, “the basic unit of government, education, labour, law, and most importantly land tenure.” The late Prof Terence Ranger, in his famous 1983 essay on The Invention Of Tradition in Colonial Africa, shows how invented traditions, both European and African, were a crucial plank in allowing colonial settlers and administrators to “define themselves as natural and undisputed masters of vast numbers of Africans.” Which meant reinventing colonials as feudalistic patriarchs and the African as the tribal savage. 
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

How Britain forcefully depopulated a whole archipelago


And managed to cover it up.

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   There are times when one tragedy tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments often justify their actions with lies. 
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the British government of Harold Wilson expelled the population of the Chagos Islands, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island. In high secrecy, the Americans offered the British payment for the islands in the form of a discount on the Polaris nuclear submarine system. 
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The British media all but ignored it; the Washington Post called it a "mass kidnapping".
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The difference was that the Falkland Islanders were white and the Chagossians were black and, crucially, the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - especially Diego Garcia - as a major military base from which to command the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos was a natural paradise. The 1,500 islanders were self-sufficient with an abundance of natural produce, and there was no extreme weather. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life - until the secret 1961 Anglo-American survey of Diego Garcia led to the expulsion of the entire population.

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‘It’s heartbreaking’: the Chagos Islanders forced into exile

In 1973, hundreds of citizens were deported from their home. One woman tells her story

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UN court rejects UK's claim of sovereignty over Chagos Islands

Judges advise Britain that separating archipelago from Mauritius in 1960s was wrong

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UK used secret threats to keep Chagos Islands, court hears

Mauritius defence minister claims UK forced it to cede territory before independence


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Saturday, September 15, 2018

France admits torture during Algeria’s war of independence || Al Jazeera


More than 1.5 million Algerians died during the 1954-62 war of independence against colonial-ruler France. (Al Jazeera)


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Macron, the first president born after the conflict, sparked controversy on the campaign trail last year by declaring that France's colonisation of Algeria was a "crime against humanity".

He later walked back the comments calling for “neither denial nor repentance" over France's colonial history.


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