Biafra: The Black Slave In A White Cage Wake Up Call

                                 Biafra: The Black Slave In A White Cage Wake-Up Call

■ Author: Esiaba Chibuihe

■ Twitter:@umuchiukwu

■ 21.11.2023 

Right from the inception of time and season, the world is established on the basis of 'survival of the fittest', nations rise against nations, and the stronger warriors lead their armies to the battlefield to win and conquer territories for the purpose of exploitation and bringing home the glory of the brave.

The universe is surrounded and inhabited by different races, ideologies and different value systems. 

The world is believed to be created by the supreme being, but the history therein is written by the stronger minds who were courageous enough to defeat the fear of the unknown by travelling beyond their borders in search of means of survival and in addition to human advancement. 

Today (in the 21st century), the world is advanced in technology and science, and every continent/race is highly excelling in every sphere of the new technology era and in competitive influence on the planet Earth. In all these great waves of economic excellence and advancements in the human race, the black race who are hugely blessed with natural resources are found wanting and lacking behind.

Question; What's wrong with the black race?

Every truthful person will attest to the fact that the black race whose origin is in the continent of Africa has faced the worst history of mankind. As some historians will say; the history of mankind began in Africa. Africa remains the richest continent of the world in natural resource deposits, but we are the poorest in the whole world in terms of economic growth and civilization. 

The answer remains that the Blacks-lave has been caged in a well-designed white Cage, he has been stage-managed in a way that he now feels comfortable to the extent of referring to this cage as a natural and beautiful one, he sees anybody trying to break loose this cage as an enemy instead of a liberator. But for how long shall we be sitting on the fence of ignorance watching our dear continent falling and tearing apart? It's time to stand up, fight and restore the dignity of the black African race.

There are three weapons used by the Europeans/Americans in caging Africa physically and mentally, namely; colonialism, imperialism and religion.

COLONIALISM: Right from the stage/era of agricultural and industrial revolution across Europe and America,  it has contributed nothing but to the detrimental state of Africa as a continent, due to the weak mindset found amongst the Black race. The mass exploitation of African labor/natural resources by the European countries in the 1400-1900's helped the colonial powers to examine the gullibility of an average African, through which the answers and documentation is been weaponized against Africa to date.

The Berlin conference of 1884-85 is one of the factors that divided Africa against the wish and views of the indigenous population and in the interest of the colonial criminals, but unfortunately enough, the same criminals who invaded, dehumanized and committed so many atrocities in the territory of Africa, are the ones who acclaimed the history of Africa, exonerating their crimes against the black African races. As Chinua Achebe wrote in his 'Things Fall Apart': "Until The lions Have their own Historians, the history of the hunt will Always Glorify the hunter". The same way they concocted the bible to suit our emotions and subdue our sense of reasoning in Africa is the same way they concocted the story of slavery. They claimed Africans sold their fellows to them for slavery, but we can truly feel the realistic side of the story here in Africa, in every territory there must be betrayals of their own people, but that doesn't make their claim firm. They bred the warrant chiefs and West African frontier force (1900) in order to infiltrate and penetrate the stronger territories like the Igbo (Biafra) territory which gave them a 30years+ of fierce resistance by the Ekumeku warriors till its fall in 1914.

In 1945-60 the Colonial criminals declared an end to slavery, but has slavery ended?! The signs and trauma of slavery are written all over Africa, as Africans continue to suffer and endure Neo-Colonialism, modern-day slavery through imperialism, Western propaganda, lies and misinformation against Africa's strive for freedom, including religion fueled by ignorance of the gullible masses. It's only a few countries like the German president Frank Walter Steinmeier who has apologized to Tanzanians, the descendants of the Late Songea Mbano who was executed alongside 66 other indigenous revolutionaries for refusing to betray the people of Tanzania during the Maji-Maji revolution in 1905-07, other countries have refused to apologize, instead, they are still adding salt to the wounds of slavery in our hearts. 

The sins of these colonizers are unimaginable and cruel, as highlighted and confessed by the French former president, Rene Jacques Chirac -"We bled Africa for four and a half centuries, we looted their raw materials, then we told lies that the Africans are good for nothing. In the name of religion, we destroyed their culture, and after being made rich at their expense we now steal their brains through miseducation and propaganda to prevent them from enacting black retribution against us". 

IMPERIALISM: One of the biggest factors that has put Africa to her knees is the Western policy of extending their rule over Africa through their puppets in political positions of power. They go hard against any leader in Africa who wishes or tries to work for the betterment of Africa. 

They work so hard to make sure Africans are impoverished in order to continue relying on their hypocritical 'aid' and 'visa' for survival. It's the European policy and they'll never change it until Africans rise up in demand for their rights and land. 

They use democracy as a mantra to cement the installation of their errand boys to continue milking our natural resources, that's why we have never and will never record a free and transparent democratic election regarding all these flag independence in Africa. England and France have zero gold deposits in their land, yet they have the highest gold reserves in the world courtesy of African/Asian stolen treasures. 

Any government that will develop and benefit the African masses is considered a threat by these criminals, and that's why the story of Muammar Gaddafi will forever remain fresh in our minds. Gaddafi was a Pan-Africanist who supported Nelson Mandela's ANC for the freedom of South Africans from apartheid hegemony. Gaddafi worked tirelessly for the interest of Lybia and her citizens, making sure there was huge progress in the economic sector of Lybia. There were countless job opportunities, free education, adequate hospitals and zero debt in Lybia under Gaddafi's regime. Lybia's gold reserves increased in its thorns. In 1977 Muammar Gaddafi transformed Lybia into a socialist state called Jamahiriya, which means 'state of the masses'.

But these same neo-colonialists headed by NATO saw Lybia's economic and political progress and instigated the so-called Arab spring, despite the first air bombardment of Lybia by the USA in 1986 which Gaddafi survived, they worked tirelessly until He was gruesomely murdered in his hometown in Sirte on 20th October 2011. After the so-called humanitarian response by the U.S. in Lybia, how is the state of Lybia today under Western democracy? Have they accounted for thorns of Gold that went missing after the invasion of Lybia by NATO?.  

When something happens in Europe, or against their interest it becomes a global/African daily discussion topic, but when it happens here in Africa against the interest of the masses, they hypocritically keep mute in pretence. They must leave Africa either by conviction or forcefully and shamefully.

RELIGION: As I will always say, am not against anyone's belief, but we must say the Truth and stand by it by calling out the vast growing ignorance of our people. Religious sentiment has added massively in caging the mindsets of our people, we have been rendered helpless and hopeless because of what the colonial criminals brought as their own version of the word of God, stealing our sense of reasoning. The same colonial criminals who brought the bible as a gospel and told us about how it is good to be poor in order to inherit heaven, are at the same time stealing our natural resources to build their own heaven here on earth in their land. 

You go to church to pray, fast and sell your ancestral land just to obtain a visa to Europe. Through the scriptures and our gullible mindset, we've legalized poverty as a part that every child of God must thread to make (an unseen heaven) heaven. How many churches are here in Africa and Nigeria in particular, just imagine converting these churches into manufacturing companies, do we still have to go for a pastor to sprinkle olive oil on our forehead to be able to get a job after graduating? Never. Our brain is the highest natural resource, and it's time we make good use of it.

Our pain and sufferings in Africa till date are solely contained in the letter written by King Louis Leopold II of Belgium to the Belgian missionaries in Africa (Congo precisely), in 1883, he wrote;

""Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots: The task that is given to fulfil is very delicate and requires much tact.  You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelism must inspire above all Belgium interests.  Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo (Africa) is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already.  They speak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else I don’t know.  They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else’s wife, to lie and to insult is bad. 

 Have the courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know already.  Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators and industrials, which means you will interpret the gospel in the way that will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the world.  For these things, you have to keep watch on disinteresting savages from the richness that is plenty [in their underground. To avoid that, they get interested in it, and make you murderous] competition and dream one day to overthrow you.

Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and encouraging your followers to love poverty, like “Happier are the poor because they will  inherit the heaven” and, “It’s very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.”  You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us.  I make reference to their Mystic System and their war fetish-warfare protection-which they pretend not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make it disappear.

Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won’t revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their parent’s teachings.   The children have to learn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the father of their soul.  You must singularly insist on their total submission and obedience, avoid developing the spirit in the schools, teach students to read and not to reason"" {excerpt from the letter}.

It is time to break loose the shackles and chains of slavery, it's time to eradicate poverty as a custom in Africa. We shouldn't be too emotional in our understanding, but critical and tactical in order to dislodge these criminals and their puppets in Africa. 

The only solution to our predicament is by acknowledging the fact that 95% of countries existing in Africa are founded/created by these same colonialists to serve their interests to the detriment of us Africans. We must bring these colonial-imposed countries to the table of new negotiations and agreements in order to determine for ourselves a new nation that will serve the interests of the indigenous population and residents of Africa. It's time for a new strength, a song and a new season of revolution in Africa. And no one can quench this revolution until the Black Slaves In A White Cage is totally liberated.

Every African, conscientious men and women whose dream is to see a great Africa should throw their support for the freedom of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), there lies a true, a free and independent Africa. 

Written by Esiaba Chibuihe 

Published By Umuchiukwu Writers