I was away, in the mountains of Santa Cruz in California, meditating under the supervision of Zen Buddhist monks. Before I went to the mountains I read something on YNaija. They said Onyeka Nwelue is looking for trouble.
I am not good at keeping quiet and when people want to raise dust they have to involve my beautiful name. In case YNaija has forgotten: I was one of the first contributors to YNaija Magazine. I was not paid for any of my articles. I was told I was being given a platform. I was told I was being helped. When I stopped writing or contributing, I didn’t even know. The first edition of YNaija has my article on Hong Kong. So, I think it is disrespectful for some riff-raff who has just waltzed into YNaija to talk about me in that manner. I expect some respect – if this is war, I am a veteran. So, YNaija can help themselves and give every little rat they employ a reason to not mention my name when they want traffic. It is not worth it, because I am still expecting them to pay for the articles I wrote for them which they promised to pay. They have not paid.
Let me introduce YNaija to you. It’s the brainchild of Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams, who run RedMedia Africa. They organise the Future Awards. They also handle another capitalistic venture, #EnoughisEnough. I know what all these things are about. It is about the money. It is not a problem. Money is good, but let me say that if anyone tries to play smart with me or mention my name anywhere else – where they think I will not know they planted it, I am coming to the public with my mouth open.
On Nana and Crime
The new President of Ghana, whose name is too long for me to write, worked with RedMedia Africa to deceive Ghanaians with a 30-minute speech he could not write. It was the same RedMedia who told us Buhari was the finest thing after Indomie noodles and we accepted. Buhari’s speech was copied from Obama’s speech. Does this say anything? That no one is truly smart? And that many of the things we see coming from them are not original? We will find out soon. Meanwhile, these Ghanaians have refused to accept that Nana is a criminal because he lifted speeches verbatim off White people. This is why White people think we are not smart. We can’t think for ourselves. Is there something wrong with the black man? You can ask the folks at RedMedia Africa. They know better. They know how to make money to save themselves from poverty, while endangering the lives of others and trying to control people because they desperately want power. But, power is given, not bought. And there is just one truth: nothing lasts forever.
With what RedMedia Africa is doing, they are likely to take Nigeria into a hellhole because of their pockets. And when I realise that these guys who run this organisation attend every church event and even pray and fall on the ground, I do my best to stay very far from Christians. A Christian will always use his religion to hide his evil deeds, to cover up his crime. What I am sure will happen is that the curse pensioners placed on Nana of Ghana when he let the RedMedia Africa guys drag him to meet one of their Godfathers, Rochas Okorocha in Imo State, and got hosted with the pensioners money, this curse will continue to live with him. My mother, a teacher, was forced to resign before her retirement date. She had nothing there. Just because Rochas Okorocha decided to play smart with Imo State people, but I am happy that Rochas’ stomach is protruding. He will think he is living large, but he should ask doctors what that means: there is an evil emptiness in his body that is making his body swell. It will continue until he does the right thing. For now, no amount of workout or gym will help. Rochas must look pregnant until he does the right thing.
On Jane Elliott:
I travelled to SunCity in California to visit anti-racism activist, Jane Elliott, who did the Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes Experiment in 1968, the morning after Martin Luther King Jr was shot. Jane kept me in her house for two days, teaching me. I learned and unlearned. She also learnt a few things from me as she has never been to Africa and even though in her book she writes about Biafra, she didn’t know where it was.
During the time I stayed with Jane Elliott, I realised that black people are in slavery and it will take a long time to help them.
There is no doubt that the black people were and are still subjected to forceful domination by the white people. There were a lot of diplomatic pressures and imperialistic aggression which finally led to our colonisation. All these started around the 1870s and 1900. Colonialism was the chief reason why these white folk succeeded in making us slaves. We became objects of labour, sent to different countries to work on their farm lands and thereby improving their declining economy. The brutality that slaves faced in the hands of these men is not something to write home about. I still insist that the White man owes the black man a strong apology for the acts of dehumanisation meted on him in the course of those years. Writing these tales make me shed tears and raises a strong provocation in me. Is there a worse cause for sadness than realising the fact that you are a slave, that you need someone’s validation before you make your views stronger? For instance, we need the white man’s validation before we can ascertain that someone is the oldest in the world. Yet, they can wake up one morning and declare this without requesting our own data. We have old men and women in our villages who are up to a hundred and twenty years, yet these white folks will declare a man or woman of a hundred and five as the oldest. And we believe them, because they are our masters and we are the slaves.
I will posit at this juncture that the African people tried in the many ways they could to prevent the colonisation of their countries. But all the efforts proved abortive, as in the early twentieth century, most African countries were already colonised, except Ethiopia and Liberia. It was very easy for the white man to come in and begin his exploits, and of course, they were very tactful. The Europeans were very much impressed with the natural resources in Africa; they therefore decided to have us as slaves and use the opportunity and exploit us. To achieve this goal, they overpowered us and forced us to accept the foreign rule. They divided the African continents among themselves and vowed to colonise more African countries, which they eventually succeeded in doing.
The new President of Ghana, whose name is too long for me to write, worked with RedMedia Africa to deceive Ghanaians with a 30-minute speech he could not write. It was the same RedMedia who told us Buhari was the finest thing after Indomie noodles and we accepted. Buhari’s speech was copied from Obama’s speech. Does this say anything? That no one is truly smart? And that many of the things we see coming from them are not original? We will find out soon. Meanwhile, these Ghanaians have refused to accept that Nana is a criminal because he lifted speeches verbatim off White people. This is why White people think we are not smart. We can’t think for ourselves. Is there something wrong with the black man? You can ask the folks at RedMedia Africa. They know better. They know how to make money to save themselves from poverty, while endangering the lives of others and trying to control people because they desperately want power. But, power is given, not bought. And there is just one truth: nothing lasts forever.
With what RedMedia Africa is doing, they are likely to take Nigeria into a hellhole because of their pockets. And when I realise that these guys who run this organisation attend every church event and even pray and fall on the ground, I do my best to stay very far from Christians. A Christian will always use his religion to hide his evil deeds, to cover up his crime. What I am sure will happen is that the curse pensioners placed on Nana of Ghana when he let the RedMedia Africa guys drag him to meet one of their Godfathers, Rochas Okorocha in Imo State, and got hosted with the pensioners money, this curse will continue to live with him. My mother, a teacher, was forced to resign before her retirement date. She had nothing there. Just because Rochas Okorocha decided to play smart with Imo State people, but I am happy that Rochas’ stomach is protruding. He will think he is living large, but he should ask doctors what that means: there is an evil emptiness in his body that is making his body swell. It will continue until he does the right thing. For now, no amount of workout or gym will help. Rochas must look pregnant until he does the right thing.
On Jane Elliott:
I travelled to SunCity in California to visit anti-racism activist, Jane Elliott, who did the Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes Experiment in 1968, the morning after Martin Luther King Jr was shot. Jane kept me in her house for two days, teaching me. I learned and unlearned. She also learnt a few things from me as she has never been to Africa and even though in her book she writes about Biafra, she didn’t know where it was.
During the time I stayed with Jane Elliott, I realised that black people are in slavery and it will take a long time to help them.
There is no doubt that the black people were and are still subjected to forceful domination by the white people. There were a lot of diplomatic pressures and imperialistic aggression which finally led to our colonisation. All these started around the 1870s and 1900. Colonialism was the chief reason why these white folk succeeded in making us slaves. We became objects of labour, sent to different countries to work on their farm lands and thereby improving their declining economy. The brutality that slaves faced in the hands of these men is not something to write home about. I still insist that the White man owes the black man a strong apology for the acts of dehumanisation meted on him in the course of those years. Writing these tales make me shed tears and raises a strong provocation in me. Is there a worse cause for sadness than realising the fact that you are a slave, that you need someone’s validation before you make your views stronger? For instance, we need the white man’s validation before we can ascertain that someone is the oldest in the world. Yet, they can wake up one morning and declare this without requesting our own data. We have old men and women in our villages who are up to a hundred and twenty years, yet these white folks will declare a man or woman of a hundred and five as the oldest. And we believe them, because they are our masters and we are the slaves.
I will posit at this juncture that the African people tried in the many ways they could to prevent the colonisation of their countries. But all the efforts proved abortive, as in the early twentieth century, most African countries were already colonised, except Ethiopia and Liberia. It was very easy for the white man to come in and begin his exploits, and of course, they were very tactful. The Europeans were very much impressed with the natural resources in Africa; they therefore decided to have us as slaves and use the opportunity and exploit us. To achieve this goal, they overpowered us and forced us to accept the foreign rule. They divided the African continents among themselves and vowed to colonise more African countries, which they eventually succeeded in doing.
Source : Olisatv
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