THE MOST TRUTHFUL HAUSA-FULANI MAN HAS BROKEN HIS SILENCE--- THE TRUTH ABOUT BIAFRA, NIGERIA, ENGLAND AND FRAUD. ADAMUTRUTH_v002 Adamu Ismail continues from here. please read v001 first to be able to connect the dots:: By the early 16th century, Africa was a young virgin. Her native population could not make any visible advancement in any economic or social field that mattered. Most Africans were relatively peaceful in the neigbourhood of wild forests and wildlife, where we farmed and practised black magic. The white man discovered the continent and sailed down here only to stumble on our race. As always, he was cunning, opportunistic and penny-wise. He clearly saw the possibility of free labour and the immense economic dividends he stood to tap from the black race. Thus what first crossed his mind was enslavement; and with its success on fist trial, he transformed it into an industry. His discovery of the strong, black machine rhymed with the period in his history when his demand for workforce to power his agro-based economy was greater than the supply. Hence, he trafficked hundreds of thousands, even millions, of slaves from west and central Africa for sale in Western Europe and the Americas. This (slave) trade, which powered the white economy, boomed for good three hundred years before it was diminished by advancements in industrialization and pressure from the values of contemporary civilization. But while Africa suffered slavery, the worst was yet to come. The 1884 Scramble for Africa set the stage for perpetual underdevelopment of he southern, central and western regions of the continent. Vast territories were balkanized and shared majorly among Britain, France, Portugal and Germany. People of common racial, ethnic and geographical backgrounds were separated into colonies of different European powers. For instance, Igbos were separated between the French colony in Cameron from their mainstream population in Nigeria. They were thus predestined to go separate ways and pursue separate destinies and adopt separate cultural and national identities. This was the essential pattern of the balkanization across Africa. But of all African territories, the most strategic to the European colonizers was present-day Nigeria, for which they deployed a great deal of administrative and military craftiness and insight, and on which they dealt a most deadly blow. Britain deployed its best brain to execute the task of governing the large colonies that were to be merged into the big country it envisioned. It was the most complex territory that held the keys to the future greatness or insignificance of black Africa in the world. Its territories were vastly populated and its people were diverse and sophisticated. The British government decided that the best man for the job was the colonial chess-master Lord Frederick Lugard, a soldier, an explorer and a mercenary. He was armed with the requisite experience, having participated faithfully and performed wonderfully in British military campaigns in about seven countries which included Afghanistan, Burma, Uganda, Zanzibar and Sudan, for which he was rewarded with Knighthood of the British Empire. An extremely shrewd warrior and administrator, Lord Lugard adopted the military style for the most part, and underlined all his policies and actions with long-term British economic and political interest. He averted several attempts by French forces to take over the Lagos colony which he knew to be strategic to the British mission. As Governor-General of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, he employed diplomacy and force to subdue the colonies to submission to the ultimate plan of amalgamation into a single geographic entity. He suppressed all opposition from the political class and the aristocracy, and subsequent protests after the amalgamation. Little did Nigerians know that the colonization and subsequent amalgamation had already sowed the seeds of discord and conflict among the amalgamated racial, ethnic, sectional and religious groups, which would make the greatest contribution to their under-development. The first element that was wrong with creating such a large geography as a single entity is its population, then its native diversity. At amalgamation, Nigeria had a counted population of 16 million when other African countries had just a few hundreds of thousands. Today, Nigeria has roughly 170 million people as the seventh most populous county in the world and the most populated in Africa. This contrasts sharply with Mali which has just 15 million, Ghana 27, Cameroun 20, Niger republic 17, Senegal 13, Rwanda 10, South Sudan 8, Sierra Leone 6, Liberia 4, Namibia 2, and Gambia less than two million people. Counties with crude oil reserves like Libya and the much talked about Qatar have just 6 and 2 million people respectively, and they owe much of their prosperity to that. Compare a country with seven million and another with 170 million people; which will be easier to manage? Which is more likely to be run prudently? Its time Nigerians get tired of being fooled that their country is the biggest and most populous black nation in the world, and opt for what is viable, realistic and sustainable. Big populations are for nations that have strong systems that can guarantee good governance and social, political and economic stability and sustainability. Like the U.S and China which have strong democratic institutions, a solid legal system and a robust anti-corruption mechanism. It is for countries that can institute a system that works for the welfare and growth of its large population and economy. This is evident particularly in their social and political stability and economic productivity. Through history, countries that fail to achieve this willingly opt for disintegration, like Soviet Russia, which broke into fifteen countries when its systems and institutions began to fall apart. And these break-away nations are currently doing well. https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10524585_675665665845525_6827520927793096047_n.jpg?oh=e33bcf29d79bb99614e81d8c83c11719&oe=541BF815 To be continued
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