I hope the ease with which the US has gobbled up Iran and Venezuela has convinced all Africans of the urgent need to consolidate their nations into more formidable units

Ayo Akinfe

[1] will say this 100 times over again that one of the biggest problems the negro has is that as a people we have no protector of the pride. When I look at the way Russia always jumps in to safeguard Slav interests worldwide, the way China saved Korea from total US colonisation and the way Israel brought many Nazi war criminals to trial, it is clear that black people have no champion nation

[2] One just needs to look at how the US gobbles up Arab nations and Middle Eastern countries with ease to appreciate the need for a large, military strong African super power to protect ourselves. Washington removed a sitting government in Iraq and killed an incumbent Iranian leader and got away with it

[3] Across Central and South America, the Americans have repeatedly invaded nations and overthrown governments with impunity. Venezuela is not a one-off, as the likes of Panama and Chile have even more grim stories to tell

[4] America would not dare treat China, Russia, India or Brazil with such disdain. These nations are large and formidable enough to turn any invasion or attack into a war in which the Yanks will suffer heavy casualties

[5] Do you know that during the apartheid era, China threatened to bomb South Africa unless its citizens were excluded from racial segregation laws? This led to its citizens being exempt from the discrimination of apartheid

[6] I look forward to the day Nigeria will have the clout to tell any nation on earth that it messes about with black people at its peril. If we want to be real, however, we are still a long way from that as Nigeria cannot even provide internal security. Take it or leave it but the African giant needs to wake up and do so fast

[7] For Nigeria to claim her place at the high table of humanity as the champion of the world’s negroid people, she simply has to merge with some of her African neighbours to create a more formidable giant. Just imagine how scary a Federal Republic of Songhai made up of Nigeria, Benin Republic, Niger Republic and Cameroon would be

[8] I dream of a global superpower of 1bn people with a GDP of about $15trn, about 10m standing troops and an annual budget of about $2trn

[9] I dream of a nation whose president will be the first to sign a bilateral inter-species deal with the head of a kingdom on another planet in another solar system. I also dream of a country who will be the first to mount inter-galactic space rockets on aircraft carriers so her astronauts can travel to other solar systems at the speed of light from anywhere on earth

[10] Unfortunately, the negro dreams too little. We are too preoccupied with the here and now, immediate monetary gratification and going to heaven when we die. None of these interests me in the slightest. I guess that is why I have free space in my hard drive to visualise the future. However, I am 100% certain my dreams will come to pass as I have been to the mountain top and seen the Promised Land

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