I’m a pan-Afrikanist, and I love to find out what’s happening in the global Black family. My dream is for our generation to see a single federal Afrikan state
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Musi Matimura retweeted
@Zimra_11 How can ZIMRA justify charging nearly 95% of a car’s value in import duty when Zimbabwe doesn’t even manufacture cars? Why punish ordinary citizens for importing vehicles they can afford? Taxation should be fair, not exploitation. Zimbabweans deserve better! 🇿🇼
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Here is the evil pact that France forced its former colonies to agree to before independence; this will make you wonder what the British died for. nitter.gq/joe__bassey/status/191…
Fourteen African countries were and some are still obliged by France 🇫🇷 , through a colonial pact, to put 85% of their foreign reserve into France central bank under French minister of Finance control. Some still pay colonial tax to France.
African leaders who refused to follow the colonial tax scheme are killed or victimised with coup d'tats. Afrikan leaders that obey these colonial tax scheme are supported and rewarded with lavish lifestyle in France while their people endure extreme poverty and desperation.
These are the strings attached to the FRENCH'S colonial tax scheme
#1. 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
The newly “independent” countries should pay for the infrastructure built by France in the country during colonization.
#2. 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀
The African countries should deposit their national monetary reserves into France Central bank, to which they have no access to. France allows them to access only 15% of the money in any given year. If they need more than that, they have to borrow the extra money from their own 65% of their money from the French Treasury at commercial rates.
#3. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝘄 𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆.
France has the first right to buy any natural resources found in the land of its ex-colonies. It’s only after France would say, “I’m not interested”, that the African countries are allowed to seek other partners.
#4. 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
In the award of government contracts, French companies must be considered first, and only after that these countries could look elsewhere. It doesn’t matter if the african countries can obtain better value for money elsewhere.
#5. 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Through a sophisticated scheme of scholarships, grants, and “Defense Agreements” attached to the Colonial Pact, the africans should send their senior military officers for training in France or French ran-training facilities.
#6. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀
Under something called “Defence Agreements” attached to the Colonial Pact, France had the legal right to intervene militarily in the African countries, and also to station troops permanently in bases and military facilities in those countries, run entirely by the French.
#7. 𝗢𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
A French language and culture dissemination organization has been created called “Francophonie” with several satellites and affiliates organizations supervised by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.
#8. 𝗢𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗙𝗖𝗙𝗔
That’s the real milk cow for France, but it’s such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury.
#9. 𝗢𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁.
Without the report, no money.
#10. 𝗢𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀.
France forbid them to seek other military alliance except the one it offered them.
Musi Matimura retweeted
Many people, especially Africans, don't understand the evil that France 🇫🇷 has committed and continues to commit in Africa. After claiming to grant their former colonies independence, France forced their founding leaders to sign pacts and agreements. Those who refused to adhere to them were targeted through assassinations and coups. Many details of the pact Mali signed were exposed by Assimi Goïta, which I once posted here several years back.
Under those pacts, former colonies, including Burkina Faso, Mali, and even Niger, were not allowed to process their own resources, especially gold. Whenever a resource or mineral was discovered, they first had to report it to France so that France could send in its companies. Burkina Faso’s gold was taken to France, a country with no gold mines, for processing because France had the capacity to process it at its bank and that's the pact they forced the country to adhere to, until Captain Ibrahim Traore took over and changed the cause.
French companies are still in many of their former colonies today, looting resources.
The Burkina Faso Lesson: Productive Economies Are Revolutionary Hotbeds
Dr. Wandia Njoya (@wmnjoya), associate professor at Kenya's Daystar University, unpacks the reasons a revolution cannot take place in a consumer economy like Kenya's.
What needs to happen for such African countries to move the needle toward revolution?
Video credit: @officialorina
Musi Matimura retweeted
Frantz Fannon said 70 years ago, "The black (wo)man wants to be white..having been a slave of the white man, he finally enslaves himself"
"The formerly enslaved person always tries to measure their worth by white cultural norms, effectively chaining themselves."
Sad😢
Musi Matimura retweeted
There are Africans that actually think that the West is our friend, and that they will not repeat the genocides and atrocities of the colonial era (which they are still doing in Sudan and DRC). Do you imagine people who did this to Palestine will have any mercy for us this time?
Musi Matimura retweeted
Here is a question they will never ask on the evening news:
If American-style capitalism is so self-evidently superior that it wins any free competition...
Why does it require sanctions, coups, trade wars, regime change, military bases, and the systematic destruction of any country that tries something different in order to prove its superiority?
A system confident in its own merits does not need to eliminate the competition.
It wins the competition.
The effort required to prevent alternatives from functioning is itself the most honest testimony available about how the comparison would actually turn out if the competition were allowed to be free.
They know what an undisturbed Cuba might look like after 66 years.
That is precisely why Cuba has not been left undisturbed.
Musi Matimura retweeted
This is the most racist funniest sh!t, imagine reporting a black toddler for nutmegging white toddlers 🤣
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Here we have Chinese venture capitalist and political scientist Eric Li delivering a brutal indictment of the Western political model.
He argues that countries blindly copying the West are setting themselves up for failure.
Democracy promises power to the people but repeatedly fails to deliver real meaningful results.
Elections become little more than political theatre, and voting is sold as empowerment while leaving ordinary citizens trapped in a system that often serves the powerful, not the people.
China chose its own path, and it delivered results.....
Musi Matimura retweeted
A Chinese man, Hai Shi, running for Ward 103, City of Johannesburg. Under the ANC. The People's Councillor.
And there is silence.
No marches. No burning tyres. No hashtags. No Operation Dudula van with loudspeakers shouting "foreigners must go." No press conference asking for his passport, his papers, his ancestry. No one asking how long he has been here, or if he is "really South African."
Now imagine if that face on that yellow poster was Nigerian. Or Zimbabwean. Or Malawian. Or Mozambican.
South Africa would be ungovernable by sunset.
A Chinese national from 10,000 km away in Asia can become "The People's Councillor" in Johannesburg and we call it diversity,
We have been taught to be Afrophobic, not xenophobic.~@Mzanziawake ~Speaks
Musi Matimura retweeted
Angola proves that you don't need to butcher the constitution or extend presidential terms under the cheap excuse of "finishing projects." They simply understand that development plans are governmental programs, not presidential programs. A president’s time ends when his term is up, and the next leader takes over the baton to continue building. You do not need a third term to build a country, you just need a working system that respects the rule of law.
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Nine students walked into a public library in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961 and asked for books.
The library was for white people. Their own library did not have what they needed.
They sat down and read. They were arrested for breach of the peace. For reading.
27th March 1961. The Tougaloo Nine — Meredith Anding, James Bradford, Alfred Cook, Geraldine Edwards, Janice Jackson, Joseph Jackson, Albert Lassiter, Evelyn Pierce and Ethel Sawyer — students at Tougaloo College.
They went first to the Black branch library and requested books that were not held there. Then they walked to the main public library on State Street and requested the same books.
They were told to leave and go to the Black branch. They sat down at the tables and started reading.
The police came. Breach of the peace. They spent about thirty-two hours in jail and were fined a hundred dollars each.
The next day students at Jackson State held a prayer vigil for them and police broke it up with dogs and clubs.
This is called the Jackson Read-In, and it is the first direct action of the Mississippi movement — before the Freedom Rides reached the state, before Medgar Evers's murder, before Freedom Summer. Nine students decided the opening move of the Mississippi civil rights movement would be requesting a book.
The choice of target was not sentimental. A library is the purest possible demonstration. Nobody can argue that a library is about private property, or cleanliness, or protecting white women. It is a building full of public knowledge, paid for by everybody's taxes, that Black citizens were not allowed to enter.
All nine finished their degrees. Several became teachers and professors. In 2011 Mississippi honoured them, fifty years on, in the state that had jailed them.
The Jackson library is desegregated. One of the branches is named after Medgar Evers.
Nine young people in good clothes, asking for a book.
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Try an app inonzi Yanai. They have audio lessons for free right now with early access. yanai.co.uk
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Had a cowdray park erand and ndakasiva pa den pacho paine munhu asinganzwe shona or english.. haa i tried my best kubatanidza all the Ndebele i know kusvika pazotsvagwa interpreter.. was really embarrassed… we really need Ndebele to be compulsory everywhere in Zim bro
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In 1997, five old men were flown to the White House so that a President of the United States could apologise to them in person.
They were the last survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis study.
The oldest man to speak was ninety-four. He had been lied to by the United States government for forty years.
Herman Shaw.
The study ran from 1932 to 1972. Six hundred Black men in Macon County, Alabama — three hundred and ninety-nine of them with syphilis — were told they were being treated for "bad blood."
They were not treated. That was the point. The researchers wanted to watch the disease run its full course to death and then examine the bodies.
When penicillin became the standard cure in the 1940s, the men were deliberately kept away from it.
The study's staff intervened to stop them being treated elsewhere, including through the draft board.
It was ended in 1972 only because a whistleblower went to the press.
By the time of the apology, only eight of the men were still alive. Five were well enough to travel.
Herman Shaw stood at the podium in the East Room, at ninety-four, and spoke. He said the wounds that were inflicted could never be undone, but that he was there in the hope that it would never happen again and that it could begin to heal.
He had been a farmer his whole life. He had gone to the clinic because he was told he was being cared for.
The President apologised and said what the government had done was shameful.
That is the whole story. Forty years of being watched. Twenty-five more years of nothing. Then an hour in a nice room, and five old men, and the word sorry.
The Tuskegee survivors deserved more than an apology—they deserved to have what was done to them remembered. We created an ebook to keep these histories from being buried again savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…
Musi Matimura retweeted
The theory is known and well articulated in official documentation such as project documents and implementation matrices.
The unfortunate part is the human factor, we have developed a knack for speaking professionally and acting corruptly without breaking a stride.
I am not certain there are consequences to not achieving set goals. We are experts in giving excuses and articulating challenges.