MONDAY MIDNITE-1897

MONDAY MIDNITE-1897
From the campaign for the return of Benin's looted artifacts by British invaders in 1897 to the no-holds-barred condemnation of Nigeria's corrupt past and present leaders in tracks like PISSY PISSY, AZZHOLEZ ROCK and BRING BACK THE MONEY, this 1897 album is loaded with thought-provoking and inspiration songs. A click on the image will direct you to an online store where you can purchase the album or songs from the album.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

VIKINGS DOMINATED NORTHERN EUROPE FOR CENTURIES


Vikings dominated Northern Europe for centuries. The partitioning of Poland took them off the map totally for 120yrs. The State of Israel wasn't created until 1947. The whole of Eastern Europe didn't come to life in our modern times until communism crumbled in 1989. No country in the world escaped colonialism or domination by other countries at one point in time or the other. I detest neocolonialism as much as the next guy, and will do anything within my power to fight it wherever it exists, but it's high time for us Africans to stop exerting all our energy whining about what white people did to us and concentrate our efforts on what we can do to solve our humongous problems. Nobody can dominate us in any way or form in today's world without conniving with our leaders and our people to do it.  So why waste time and resources fighting external problems when internal problems are decimating us? To fix the outside, one must first fix the inside. The cleansing must be done INSIDE OUT, coz, in effect, WE are our own MAJOR problems.

1 comment:

  1. MM:
    I hope u remember ur past post about neocolonialism and my argument that our problem is actually us; then u talked about ur poem "Black on black" ...

    Anyway, I have known 4 a long time that our problem is neither d west nor the east; we are our own problem....

    Everyone u touch, d west; d west; d west..........Meanwhile its a fellow black man raiding our common treasury; leaving us without good roads, healthcare; no electricity...while him/her and their family live in affluence using our common resources...They send their kids abroad to school, while leaving schools in our country 2 become useless. And their kids end up coming back to take over from their parents in ruling us and so goes d cycle...

    Yet, if we complain we get pointed to religion, tribe, the whites etc and fools follow the direction the thieves in government point...

    Hang on, all these years of leadership by one tribe or the other, how has it benefited the common people of their tribe? No show....

    Yet, yet, yet next time round u still see people (fools i call them) re-preaching d tribal, religious, colonialism nonsense...

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