My first consulting job took me to Kano. We were housed in a guest house. The senior manager was Brazilian, the big boss was Nigerian.
The senior manager was automatically housed in the best room, because he's "oyibo". The big boss was livid.
Mensah Otabil described Africa's "colonial legacy" is a deep inferiority complex. It still endures - even among the most educated/exposed segments of our society.
Like the Nigerian oil company guy who insisted "he be treated as an expatriate", not that locals be treated better.
You can't effectively colonize a people without proving, that somehow, you are "superior" to them. I.e. your culture is superior to theirs - and so is your technology.
Asians (Arabs, Chinese, Indians etc.) never fully accepted that Western culture was superior to theirs.
With the rise of Japan, it became increasingly difficult for European colonial power to prove to an Asian audience they were "all round superior" - even in technology.
George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" demonstrated those tensions before WW2.
Everything fell apart post WW2.
I recall Lee Kuan Yew's remarks about the British now living in Singapore, not as superiors, in secluded areas - but as equals, among Singaporeans. He appreciated the transition from colonialism.
In Africa, things are different. That transition is yet to occur.
In Anglophone Africa things are bad, but they are a lot worse in Francophone Africa. In Abidjan, Nigerians would be considered "assertive", by the French, who still dominate that city the same way they did in 1959.
(I am speaking from experience).
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I watched Yvette Cooper tear Suella Braverman to pieces.
Many Africans haven't fully appreciated what the UK Conservative Government's singular on focus really Rwanda means.
It means the UK Government prefers African authoritarians, who do their bidding, to African democracies.
Trust me, this isn't the time for shallow thinking.
If you extrapolate, you'll understand the implications.
Some of you believe "Kagame is smart" by accepting the offer. Trust me, he isn't - he's cementing Africa's reputation as a dumping ground for Europe's problems.
I'm not going to bore you with the details - just use your brains, do a little thinking.
Also internalize this, just as Europe sees Africa as a dumping ground for its migrant problems - they also sees Africa as a dumping ground for their "climate change" problems.
Christianity was introduced to Africans with the idea of "generational curses" - and since then, African Christians have been obsessed with that idea.
It started with the "Curse of Ham" - which was a cynical ploy to justify slavery, and many Blacks fell for that nonsense.
When the "Curse of Ham" failed, "Nimrod", an obscure figure from thousands of years ago, was dredged up as an excuse for our position as the slaves, servants and wretched of the Earth.
After that came the syncretism of "ancestral curses" - borrowed from our traditional beliefs.
But the Bible is clear;
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him".