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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 30, 2021, 2:32 am
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       The resistance has not yet succeeded. The resistance can only be
       considered successful when all colonialist bloodlines have been
       eliminated from existence.
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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: August 30, 2022, 12:30 am
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       NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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       The True Result of Western Civilization
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: September 29, 2022, 9:54 pm
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       See this written explanation from a documentary video about
       Western Civilization :
       Important Historical Knowledge :
       --- Quote ---
       > "Between the 15th Century, when Portugal became the first
       European nation to take significant part in African slave
       trading. And 1807 when the Transatlantic slave trade was
       abolished, European ships cutted millions of people away from
       Africa. In total European ships took over 11.000.000 people into
       slavery from the "West African Coast" alone.
       >
       > This obvious trade made European grow rich on the profits
       while the populations of Africa was devastated
       >
       > By the 1870s only 10 percent of the continent was under direct
       European control within Algeria, held by France. "The Cape
       Colony" and "The Natal" both in modern day South Africa held by
       the British. And Angola by Portugal. However, by 1900 Europeans
       were ruling more than 90 percent of the African continent.
       European nations had added almost 10 million square miles of
       Africa, one-fift of the landmass of the globe to their overseas
       colonial possessions.
       >
       > (Minute 00 : 18 until 01 : 55)
       >
       > ...
       >
       > They developed a system of colluding with indigenous rulers.
       The supposed representatives of the people. So they got these
       people to help ferment wars and unrest so that slaves could be
       captured, and sold to them and then transported through the
       "Transatlantic" slave trade
       >
       > ...
       >
       > The avowed purpose of "The Berlin Conference" was to discuss
       the future of Africa. And the stamping out of slavery because
       most of European countries had become industrialized and so they
       no longer needed as much manual labor as they needed when they
       dependent on slave trade. So an Act was signed at the conference
       in Berlin, it's known as the Berlin Act of 1885 by 13 European
       powers, which had a result and the Act had a resolution to stop
       to help in the suppressing of slavery. So while on the surface
       they stamping out of a slavery sounds like a laudable venture.
       In reality, the major strategic and economic objective of the
       European countries was how to protect their old interest, trades
       and markets in Africa and how to exploit new ones. As I said
       this was in the light of the Industrial Revolution. We did not
       require as much as human labor as slave trade had provided. So
       the Berlin Conference therefore started the process of carving
       up Africa and putting up borders to suit European interest
       without taking into consideration to the cultural or ethnic
       components of Africa
       >
       > (Minute 09 : 13 until 11 : 25)
       --- End Quote ---
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       Source : Africa's Debt Crises - How the Developed World is
       Fleecing Africa's Wealth of Billions of Dollars, by Bunmi
       Oyinsan PhD - Sankofa Pan-African Series. 29th September 2022
       Western Civilization is Bad
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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 22, 2023, 6:38 pm
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       It's OK for graves to be "white":
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       > Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu: Buckingham Palace rejects calls
       to return royal's body
       >
       > Exhuming Prince Alemayehu's body would disrupt the remains of
       others, Buckingham Palace says.
       > ...
       > Buckingham Palace has declined a request to return the remains
       of an Ethiopian prince who came to be buried at Windsor Castle
       in the 19th Century.
       >
       > Prince Alemayehu was taken to the UK aged just seven and
       arrived an orphan after his mother died on the journey.
       >
       > Queen Victoria then took an interest in him and arranged for
       his education - and ultimately his burial when he died aged just
       18.
       >
       > But his family wants his remains to be sent back to Ethiopia.
       >
       > "We want his remains back as a family and as Ethiopians
       because that is not the country he was born in," one of the
       royal descendants Fasil Minas told the BBC.
       >
       > "It was not right" for him to be buried in the UK, he added.
       >
       > But in a statement sent to the BBC, a Buckingham Palace
       spokesperson said removing his remains could affect others
       buried in the catacombs of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
       >
       > "It is very unlikely that it would be possible to exhume the
       remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial
       number of others in the vicinity," the palace said.
       --- End Quote ---
       "White" ethics in a nutshell. (The British were the ones who
       made the initial decision to bury the prince's corpse there! If
       exhuming the prince's remains would disturb others, that is
       entirely the fault of the British, which they must deal with!
       Why should Ethiopians be denied the return of the prince's
       remains because of a decision made by the British? Giving
       Palestine back to Palestinians would also disturb Israelis (whom
       the British gave Palestine to
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       />) for sure! Does that mean Palestinians shouldn't get
       Palestine
       back? Oh wait.....)
       --- Quote ---
       > In April 1868 they laid siege to Tewodros' mountain fortress
       at Maqdala in northern Ethiopia, and in a matter of hours
       overwhelmed the defences.
       >
       > The emperor decided he would rather take his own life than be
       a prisoner of the British, an action that turned him into a
       heroic figure among his people.
       >
       > After the battle, the British plundered thousands of cultural
       and religious artefacts. These included gold crowns,
       manuscripts, necklaces and dresses.
       >
       > Historians say dozens of elephants and hundreds of mules were
       needed to cart away the treasures, which are today scattered
       across European museums and libraries, as well as in private
       collections.
       >
       > The British also took away Prince Alemayehu and his mother,
       Empress Tiruwork Wube.
       > ...
       > it was decided that the prince should have a formal education.
       >
       > He was sent to the British public school Rugby but he was not
       happy there. He later moved to the Royal Military College in
       Sandhurst where he was subjected to bullying.
       >
       > The prince had a "hankering" to return home, correspondence
       quoted by Heavens says, but that idea was swiftly quashed.
       > ...
       > After a decade in exile the prince died in 1879 at the age of
       just 18.
       --- End Quote ---
       NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
       See also:
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       Woke comments:
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       > The European way, is to arrogantly take the position that they
       have the rights to this teens remains, period!
       >
       > And all the more in step with European history when
       intertwined with “other” peoples, is that they are best suited
       to be curators of what is unrelated and not their own. Though
       royalty from the Dark Continent is a royal plus for the taking
       AND keeping!
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Another sad story of the smash and grab carried out by
       Europeans in the colonial years.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Plunder wasn’t enough…Just like the British to take a child
       and his mother and no doubt consider them, property. The h-e-l-l
       and paranoia that child must have experienced!
       --- End Quote ---
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       > British looted the whole world for centuries, including
       corpses. Of course it's very "disruptive" to give anything back.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > of course they stole thousands of religious and cultural
       artifacts and jewels they won't be returning either. they won't
       admit it but it also seems like this young man is buried in a
       vault or mausoleum with several British royals buried on top of
       him over the years so retrieving his remains would be almost
       impossible without exhuming everyone else so they won't do it.
       --- End Quote ---
       Contrast with the based comments such as:
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       > Hilarious.  Weez was kangzz.   Blacks can’t be royal.  Their
       best accompaniment was pick 1ng k0t inn.
       --- End Quote ---
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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: christianbethel
       Date: May 23, 2023, 1:02 pm
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       'I am more sympathetically inclined towards the lowliest Hindu
       than to any of those arrogant islanders.'
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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: guest98
       Date: May 23, 2023, 2:08 pm
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       They really are masters at being arrogant hypocrites.
       #Post#: 22199--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: Coups
       Date: September 18, 2023, 3:11 pm
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       What’s behind the wave of coups in Africa? | Start Here
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       > Six countries in West and Central Africa have had coups in the
       last few years, with Gabon and Niger the most recent. Is there a
       pattern emerging? And where do France and Russia fit in?
       #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains.
       >
       > 00:50 - A wave of coups—where are they happening?
       > 01:30 - What happened in Gabon?
       > 01:55 - The power struggle in Niger
       > 02:30 - What are the common coup themes?
       > 02:35 - Governments not delivering
       > 03:15 - The security problem
       > 04:20 - Anti-French sentiment is growing in the region
       > 06:00 - What role has France played in the Sahel?
       > 07:40 - Why Russia is gaining influence
       > 08:15 - Where does the Wagner group fit in?
       --- End Quote ---
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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: Coups
       Date: September 18, 2023, 3:15 pm
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       Why Africa and France Have Fallen Out
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       > The coup in Niger and the subsequent attack on the French
       Embassy has once again highlighted the tensions between France
       and its former colonies. So in this video, we'll explain
       French-African relations post-colonialism and why they’re now
       deteriorating.
       --- End Quote ---
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       Comment:
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       > I’m absolutely astonished that you skipped over the ridiculous
       “independence agreement” that french shoved down their former
       colonies - first right of sale to natural resources is one of
       the biggest reasons the region is poor
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Considering what France did to West Africa, it would be more
       surprising to think Africa doesn't hate France, or pretty much
       any European country
       > Belgium in particular has so much blood on its hand
       --- End Quote ---
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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: Russia
       Date: September 23, 2023, 11:53 am
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       What is the Wagner Group really doing in Africa? | DW News
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       > It's been one month since the Russian mercernary leader
       Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly killed in a plane crash in
       Russia. Days before his death Prigozhin had been in the Central
       African Republic where his Wagner Group is in charge of
       president Faustin-Archange Touadera's security. But since
       Prigozhin's death there is division in the country over Wagner's
       presence. DW's Zigoto Tchaya Tchameni reports from Bangui.
       --- End Quote ---
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       Comments:
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       > ~ 6:11 : the idea that Russia, a european superpower that
       still controls most of its former colonial empire, and is
       currently waging a war of Re-colonization on its former colonial
       holding, is some sort of anti-colonial paragon would be
       hilarious if it weren't so pitifully harmful to the nations
       falling for it.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Russia had no colonies, because it developed all its territory
       to its economic level, it had more than half of the Russian
       population in the empire, and even the natives ruled the Russian
       minority in these places. Germany is more imperialistic in
       Eastern Europe, because in order to enter the EU they had to
       sell all the banks to them, so all the money from that part of
       Europe is in German hands. In addition, most of the companies
       were bought by the Germans at a low price.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Tell that to all the people who lived under the Russian boot
       for 70 years during the Soviet Union, and to the people who live
       under its boot right now. Russia never let the natives of its
       territories rule, Russia always put Russians as the new
       oligarchs of that region, that was literally Joseph Stalins
       entire strategy for ruling, and you best believe Putin is
       looking to do the same and has done the same in the places under
       the "federation". Developing your imperial territory to your
       economic level is something every colonizer does, and it is not
       an excuse for them colonizing you, why would you give them a
       pass over that and proceed to ignore the way they brutalize your
       people? You're giving Russia a free pass on well earned
       criticism, and then using that criticism towards someone else
       who doesn't have their hands in Africa, your argument is
       inconsistent, and you're criticizing someone somewhere else
       doing something entirely different, on a discussion of how
       Russia is inserting colonizer control in Africa under the
       moniker of "anti colonizer".
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Russia is the last colonial empire. To say Russia is not, and
       was not, a colonial empire is disingenuous at best.
       --- End Quote ---
       See also:
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       Re: Colonization of Africa
   DIR By: Russia
       Date: September 23, 2023, 12:01 pm
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       Why the Wagner Group Started a Brewery in Africa | WSJ
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       > Most Wagner businesses in Africa are centered on natural
       resources like gold, diamonds and timber. But in 2022 the
       Russian paramilitary group started a brewery in the Central
       African Republic and used it as a way to compete with the French
       in the larger struggle for influence on the continent between
       Russia and the West.
       >
       > 0:00 Wagner arson attack on Castel
       > 1:14 Online influence operation
       > 2:59 Wagner’s brewery
       > 3:40 What’s next?
       --- End Quote ---
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       Comments:
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       > Displacing the French with the Russians is a lateral change AT
       BEST
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       > Im not sure its an improvment or if they are dooming
       themselves.
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       > They are definitely dooming themselves
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       > Replacing Imperialism with Imperialism. If only the Africans
       knew how Ultranationalists and Pro Slavic Russians viewed them
       &#128514;. Wagner is filled with these types.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > Not all imperialism is colonialist in nature.
       --- End Quote ---
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       > What a ridiculous thing to say considering the Third Reich
       tried to kick the French and the British out of Africa and the
       Third Reich was not a colonial empire.
       --- End Quote ---
       How Russia Profits From African Coups | System Error
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       > From Mali to Sudan, Burkina Faso to Chad, coups have been
       spreading across Africa. In the midst of the chaos, Russia has
       seen an opportunity. The Kremlin is using disinformation and
       mercenaries to fuel instability in the region.
       >
       > This allows Russia to spread its influence while gaining
       access to valuable natural resources. In this episode, we
       investigate how Russia profits from instability in Africa.
       --- End Quote ---
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