Africa Needs Total Freedom, Not Reparation

How dare African leaders ask for reparations? What right do they have? Even we, the citizens, have no right to be talking about reparations. This only further proves my point that our so called leaders lack wisdom and knowledge.

If anyone should be asking for anything, it should be the citizens asking for total freedom. Instead, the brokers, middlemen, and puppets are the ones asking for compensation while Africa still remains captive. You call what we have freedom? Africa was never freed. It was just the classic trick of turning your back on a child, clapping your hands, then turning back and telling them you just smacked the person that made them cry.

Just because the chains are off and the whips are gone does not mean we are free. Systems replaced them. Systems designed to make Africa unliveable, so that instead of being forced, Africans now beg to leave.

We are always too quick to call ourselves sovereign countries, yet we are unable to make our own decisions or manage our resources for our own good. We depend on the IMF to tell us what direction to go, and it has never yielded any meaningful results. I pity anyone who believes the IMF is there to help Africa grow.

We live in countries where external forces label a Pan-African leader a dictator, while those same forces wine and dine with actual dictators. We have had leaders whose only “crime” was putting Africa first, having conversations about how to use Africa’s resources for our benefit and compete globally. In my opinion, that was the wrong move. Economic development should not have been the first priority. If they had first focused on identity repair and building a united Africa, preserving and educating us on our history before development, we would have been in a much better place today.

Instead, we have one African hating another because he or she has been programmed to believe the other is the enemy, forgetting that they have all been treated badly by the same group that made them believe their brother is the enemy. So sad.

Like one of my favourites John Henrick Clarke said, “Nothing given to Africa by the outside world is meant to do Africa any good.” That includes the IMF and the so called US soldiers Trump sent to help fight insecurity in Northern Nigeria.

A few Months ago, Donald Trump threatened fire and brimstone against bandits terrorising the northern part of Nigeria. He claimed he would send American troops to end insurgency. I told people not to believe anything coming from that country, but many people, including those on Arise TV morning show, applauded and cheered the news. That was the day I saw them differently, and the day I realised that intelligence and ignorance can indeed coexist.

According to reports by BBC.co.uk, Aljazeera.com, Premiumtimesng.com, Thecable.ng and so many others, in February 2026, US troops were said to have arrived in Northern Nigeria to train Nigeria forces, Provide intelligence, surveillance and offer advisory support. From February 2026 to date, there have reportedly been over 700 deaths and more than 1,000 abductions. So what exactly are the troops doing?

The same United States that supposedly sent their “best” to Nigeria is also asking its embassy staff to pack up and leave Abuja. What a contradiction.

Africa’s freedom is in the hands of its people. Nigeria’s freedom is in the hands of Nigerians. But first, we need to set aside our differences and realise that we are all one, and that we all have one common enemy that is hell-bent on keeping us down. Replacing Tinubu or installing a thousand Peter Obi figures will not solve Nigeria’s problems.

Africa will rise the day we remove puppets and corrupt leaders, install true Pan African leadership, and protect it with everything we have.

The war between Russia and Ukraine, the rise of countries like China and North Korea, and current events in Iran have shown that so called superpowers may not be as strong as they appear. Sometimes, you have to stand up to a bully to see their true strength.

The United States was never the first world power, and it will not be the last. I strongly believe that we are witnessing what could be the beginning of the end of US dominance and the petrodollar. Before them were others, and others will come after them.

Recent events have shown that when you are in bed with the United States, you may end up being the one to lose. The Gulf countries took a hit over conflicts and decisions that were not entirely theirs, and that should serve as a warning to Taiwan.

We have the brains scattered across the Western world. We have the manpower working across the Western world. We have the resources powering and enriching everyone else but ourselves. Bring all of that together, and there will be no stopping us.

I owe it to myself to be truthful in all that I do, regardless of the cost.

May the souls of our past heroes rest in peace, and may we find it in our hearts to unite as one Africa and fight for our freedom once and for all.