Dear African, I came to beg you for one thing: Please, forgive yourself. Forgive Africa. Forgive the Black man and the Black woman. I know you may find it hard to remember anything about Africa to be proud of, only a painful history that you want to forget, betrayal, and seeming weakness. But Africa is all you have. It is all you will really ever have. Yesterday, I saw a video of a Black woman in Scotland with a thick Scottish accent being abused on a train. They told her to "go back to her country." She told them she was born there, and that she was probably more Scottish than her abusers. She likely said that just to get under their skin. Because how could she? Could she really be more Scottish than them? Could she ever truly belong? Will there ever be a time when someone won't randomly tell her to go back to Africa? The truth is, our status abroad will always be conditional -— no matter the papers that say otherwise. We have a better chance of building a home here than anywhere else. And not just any home — a grand, respected, peaceful edifice of joy and peace. But we have to fight for it: everybody else fought for theirs. But most of us don't like Africa enough to fight for it. And we can only fight for Africa if we unite. But you are hurt. You are offended by the shame you must endure just for being African. You hate it when people cringe when they learn where you are from. You hate being strip-searched at airports and profiled. Worst of all, you are ashamed of those who call themselves your leaders — the ones who have robbed you, betrayed you, impoverished you, and ruined your name. They are not asking for your forgiveness, and I am not asking you to forgive them. I am asking you to forgive yourself, and to forgive Africa. Let's be clear: this broken state is not your fault. The youth did not create this mess. But carrying this shame induces a paralysis that only perpetuates the status quo. Shame makes us look for escape — rather than a permanent fix — like trying to assimilate into places that will never truly want us. This forgiveness is not about absolving the guilty; it is about liberating yourself. It helps you make peace with your identity and prepares you to improve it. Because you cannot fight wholeheartedly for something you secretly despise. If you think it is our elders who should be doing this —who should be apologizing on behalf of the continent — you are not wrong. But the Yoruba say: “Ọmọdé gbọ́n, àgbà gbọ́n, òun la fi dá Ilé Ifẹ̀.” (Ilé Ifẹ̀ was founded on the collective wisdom of both the young and the elderly.) Eldership is wisdom. Eldership is responsibility. Historically, the youth have always been at the forefront of every single revolution. The Arab Spring and Soweto Uprising was led by young people. Kwame Nkrumah was in his 30s Thomas Sankara was 33 Fred Hampton was 20 I could go on... So dear youth, welcome to eldership. It is our turn to do what we wished those before us had done. But first, please — forgive yourself. Forgive Africa. And after this, we go to war.

It hurts me, but I will wait. I will wait until after the elections before we have this conversation again. I don't want to deflate the zest of our young people. Because this democracy that neither guarantees free and fair elections, nor one's safety after speaking their mind publicly, will not likely not respond to the 'power' of our inky fingers pressed to a paper, next to a logo. It hurts me that every inevitable failure is equal to 4 more years of one's life wasted. It's okay to waste 4 years when you're young. But some people don't have many more 4 years to waste. But let's go on to the polls. We will vote and protect it. Maybe Democracy will finally work — for the first time. For us. Because our case is different.

• We replaced bullion cubes eg Maggi, Knorr (or Maggi Knorr like many people call it🤣🤣), etc., with natural spices like turmeric, ginger, garlic, lots of onions, locust beans (iru), ogiri, okpe, cloves, aidan fruit (I'll see if I can attach the image), etc. including dehydrated meat/fish — my wife makes a blend of all these spices and stuff. • We replaced commercial soaps like Joy, Premier, etc. with natural soaps that my wife makes from scratch. It's really easy (because she makes it, and I just watch). • We replaced toothpastes with pákò (chewing sticks). Yes, I use chewing sticks. Did you know that Miswak, a local chewing stick type, sells on Amazon for up to $10? Some of the things we were told are primitive and backwards are prized bestsellers in Europe. We also use activated coal, baking soda mixed coconut oil, or wood ash. • Our hair and body creams too are made from natural ingredients like shea butter, oils, etc. Thank you.

Shay we want to defend our votes in January? Let's defend each other first. Defend this brother first. The "spirit of aluta" needs to be exercised to be sharper and more focused. So a great place to start defending your votes in January, is to defend Mr. Olawale. Ideally, democracy is not just the allowance to vote and be voted for. It is an all-encompassing system of freedom and citizen sovereignty. But that one na for paper. In reality, democracy is Nigeria is the license to do greater evil than any dictatorship and get away with it — precisely because you're not a "dictator" 🤣

I remember Rick Joyner became rich and famous off these kinds of encounters. He went to heaven routinely and saw these biblical figures. He had many discussions with Jesus. I read his books. He was popular in apocalyptic Pentecostal circles, and I don't recall anyone having issues with him. But the moment wey black man sef begin dey go heaven, dey see Jesus, dey talk with am, wahala sup straight! And na fellow black people dey antagonise am pass. Na self-hate with a generous side of inferiority complex, with a side of lack of self-identity dey worry us pass anything else.

Dear African, do you know that we're actually not the savages they try to paint us to be? Do you know that we don’t fight the way Europeans do? Our warfare traditionally operated on a completely different philosophical and structural logic than European warfare. While European warfare evolved toward total, existential annihilation and structural subsumption, traditional African warfare — prior to the disruptions of the transatlantic slave trade and colonisation — was largely centered on tribute, political realignment, and institutional preservation. Traditionally, we don't annihilate entire peoples. Europeans do—and they had to. They didn't have land. Living on a small, hyper-crowded continent, they had to kill, conquer, and permanently replace the conquered to survive. Because of this civilisational difference, traditional African wars featured significantly — in fact, incomparably —lower casualties than European wars. Let me give you a concrete example. Do you know the Ife-Modákẹ́kẹ́ wars? It is an almost 200-year-old feud between immediate neighbors. Yet, across nearly two centuries of serious conflict, official historical data shows it is highly unlikely that the cumulative casualty count has ever exceeded 5,000 deaths. Do you know how remarkable it is that a 200-year-old war produced fewer than 5,000 deaths? For comparison, look at traditional European conflicts fought within the same timeframe as the Ife/Modákẹ́kẹ́ feud, on roughly the same bone of contention: • The Crimean War (1853–1856): Lasted a mere three years but cost between 500,000 and 750,000 lives. • The Austro-Prussian War (1866): Lasted just 42 days but produced over 170,000 casualties. • The Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871): Lasted only six months but resulted in over 650,000 deaths. The contrast is staggering, isn't it? Europeans, in a single six-month tribal dispute over the border line between France and Germany, slaughtered more people than the entire population of the Yoruba kingdoms they claimed were "primitive." Again, I say unto thee dear African: "You were not—and you still are not—savages." You are not primitive. Europe did not bring civilization to you. The bloodiest battles ever fought on African soil were Europe-assisted. From the almost 3 million deaths during the Nigerian Civil War, to the tens of thousands — or possibly hundreds of thousands — during the Kiriji Wars, to the hundreds of thousands during the 27-year Angolan Civil War, the organic ceiling of traditional African violence has been completely removed with the White man's help. I'm saying this to you, as I continue to paint a bigger picture about who we are and what we must do to rise up and become sovereign, and prosper therewith.

In Africa, and Nigeria especially, everywhere you go, there is a 'king'. There seems to be a new "kingdom" every 20,000 people and just 10 kilometers apart. 😂 If you don't believe me, just look at Ekiti or Ondo states. How happy do you think this made European slave traders? How much easier and more efficient do you think it made their business? "Divide and conquer"? There was no need to divide. The African package came almost completely pre-divided — ready to be conquered. Our divided kingdoms and kings were simply no match for European destructive cunning. It was the exact same global playbook of erasure that devoured the Aztecs, destroyed the Native Americans, and dismantled the Aborigines of Australia. While we were fiercely guarding our micro-borders of 20,000 people, we were completely blind to the fact that the Europeans didn't see individual kingdoms. They saw fragmented pieces of a global puzzle they already knew exactly how to solve. Do you think today's Europe did not have tribes and ethnic groups? Europe was a blood-soaked battleground between different groups for centuries. Tribes like the Iceni, Arverni, Salian Franks, Lusitanians, Arevaci, Vascones, and Caledonians were perennially at each other's throats. But their wars had a different, brutal flavour. Europeans possess a ruthless culture of expansion and total subsumption. They violently erased their own micro-identities to consolidate thousands of small, warring clans into a few massive, powerful nations. And when the need to conquer and colonize Africa arose, they took it a step further: they collapsed those powerful nations — fierce internal rivalries and all— into a unified cartel. Against such a purposeful, single-minded evolution of macro-identity and goal, Africa’s hyper-dividedness was a catastrophic weakness. We used them to defeat our neighbours, never realizing we were handing an unforgiving master the keys to our collective cage. Centuries later, we are still plagued by the exact same weakness. By continuing to obsess over our tribal identities, we inevitably exaggerate our differences to our collective detriment. If Europeans can bond to survive — tying their destinies inextricably together to fail or succeed together, to live or die together — how tragic is it that Africa still refuses to unite? Isn't it time to finally put down the micro-lens of the 'tribe' and pick up the macro-shield of continental unity? Don't we know that we have far more in common than otherwise? We must find what unites us, forge it into our core identity, and make it the ultimate springboard to rise, sovereign and unbreakable, on the global stage.

I'm very close to concluding that 'tribal' and 'ethnic' disparities in Nigeria, and Africa as a whole, have been inorganically exaggerated to our detriment. Our fixation on tribal and ethnic differences is our historic — and ongoing — Achilles heel. Do you think Europe doesn't/did not have tribes? I will share my thoughts after I don chop.

No be only my eyes go see this thing. E fear me! Chai!

You're right. They usually recruit in secret, but the rules that may have changed — at least for Cuba. The US has been at "war" with Cuba for a long time. Traditional espionage faces a big issue: Cuba has a long history of anti-US sentiment and a robust counter-espionage system. So because generations of Cubans have grown up resenting US foreign policy and interference, the CIA likely isn't making enough progress using standard, covert recruitment methods. Since the US blockade and heavy sanctions have astronomically increased hardship in Cuba, leaving the people dealing with severe economic misery, the CIA is now openly capitalizing on this desperation to reach the disgruntled on the streets. It is a ruthless, win-win trap for the US government. If they succeed in getting spies, they get informants. But if they fail, they still win. Imagine 50,000 Cubans apply and the government naturally cracks down to protect itself. The US will happily blow the state's reaction out of proportion to stoke further unrest. You'll instantly see international headlines like: • "Communist Cuban government clamps down on innocent citizens and shuts down the internet" • "Thousands arrested in Cuba over internet usage" Naturally, watching your fellow citizens get arrested only makes people madder at the government. In any of these scenarios, the CIA and the US government win. At the end of the day, I don't think they need the spies as much as they just want to cause massive civil wahala in the country.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Behold the CIA, stirring discontent and openly recruiting Cuban people as informants and spies for the purpose of overthrowing their government. This is not new. It's their operational playbook — their MO. Unfortunately, many Nigerians naively dismiss this reality. One stupidly asked: 'What does Nigeria have that America would need?'.

Did you know that since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took power, his administration has cumulatively squeezed over ₦650 Billion (officially — though I believe the true figures to be alarmingly higher) out of our digital bank platforms through the ₦50 transfer levy alone? Before Tinubu's draconian enforcement, the Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) was a leaky bucket, scraping about ₦114 Billion in 2021 and ₦125 Billion in 2022 under the previous administration. But since Tinubu ascended the throne of his fathers (ori aleefa awon baba re 🤣🤣), with the Lagos NURTW-type efficiency, the formerly inefficient bucket has been weaponised into a giant pipeline: • The 2024 Loot: ₦213 Billion to ₦219 Billion collected after his administration forcefully expanded the tax to capture fintech apps like OPay, Moniepoint, and PalmPay. • The 2025 Surge: A devastating ₦440.32 Billion generated across the full year—more than double of 2024 after his team completely closed electronic loopholes. Cumulatively, this means well over ₦650 Billion has been automatically scraped straight off the almost fleshless bones of starving Nigerians through bank apps — and they are officially projecting ₦456 Billion in 2026, on their way to a target of ₦579 Billion in 2027. This is the ultimate signature of an operational Agberocracy. Just like the Lagos NURTW leaves the roads broken while taking home billions, this government has weaponised our banking apps to extract maximum cash without giving us stable electricity, healthcare, or security in return. Everywhere you turn: "owo mi da?". As the agberos on the streets shake down motorists, the national agberos in government collect it through our banks, when we shop, when we eat, and when we pay for their overpriced, inefficient power... Everywhere "owo mi da?!", but we have absolutely nothing to show for it. They have taxed us into poverty, yet they threaten more taxes. But ask yourself one question: Where does all the money go? I'll tell you. Mo n bo na. (I'll be right back!)

But they send their children to some of the most expensive schools abroad.🤣

"If God wrote the book, why are you holding the pen?"