I was explaining that Original African thought was based on duality, ejiogbe, two sides to everything, even God is good and bad, when I was asked what about colonization?
Many Southern commentators blame the British of irrationally lumping ethnicities of different backgrounds together, especially the Caliphate which arrests their economic and political development.
Playing the Devils advocate, I retorted that what if it was a blessing in disguise, a 100 year break from Fulani Islamic aggression, European slavery and the slaves for arms race, that culminated in the Yoruba Kiriji War, the longest Civil War?
What if it’s a timeout for us to appreciate the forces against and within us, in hindsight and in slow motion towards the future of never ending imperialistic advance to our Eden?
What if tomorrow we wake up and Buhari or someone else in the near future declares a Islamic Fulani Republic and war ensues while the Original Africans of the South are still in disarray?
We call up to God and he says “but I gave you 100yrs break to understand and organize against this threat, or did you think it was over and time for owambe galore?”
From genetic and cultural anthropological evidence, we can now see with hindsight how Black Africans spread out of Nigeria and built civilizations across Africa, into Yemen, around Mesopotamia (Arabia) to Iran (Elam), Indus Valley civilization to South China.
We know that first with brute force and later with religion and racist dogma, Africans civilizations were destroyed from South China to Ancient Egypt and Morocco, in search of the Source of Black prosperity.
When the marauding herdsmen got to Egypt, some spread into the interior, married local women and birthed Afro-Asiatic groups while the others moved into Europe and became seafarers between the Mediterranean Coasts.
The Afro-Asians were to takeover both sides of the Sahara and moved into Europe up to Paris, before being repealed after 500yrs ruled by the European Gun from 1276AD.
In 1415 Europeans were to takeover Ceuta in Morocco as their first foothold in Africa, forcing their Afro-Asiatic descendants further inland to Futa Jallon.
After 300yrs of American plantation slavery, the global economic system had to evolve into colonization, because the Europeans learnt from Haiti Revolution that they will eventually be overran by slave revolts as the population ration of Blacks to White rose above 10 to 1.
So around the turn of the 1800s, the British and French decided to colonize the Black heartland, the true Garden of Eden, West Africa.
The Fulani Afro-Asiatic complex also decided to make a dash for the Black heartland, Southern Nigeria, as their Afro-Asian cousins had already taken over most of the Sahel since the days of Old Ghana.
The Fulani expansion was one of the most successful as it covered about 700 by 1000 miles. Most important, was that it breached the two Original African empires at the entrance to the heartland – Oyo Empire on River Niger and Kwararafa empire on River Benue.
The Afro-Asiatic advance was eventually stopped by Original Africans, but they held onto their immediate outskirts of the Middlebelt and ready to relaunch again and again, like Saladin until the core of original Africans was eventually ran over.
Yes, when the British colonists arrived there were revolts and insurgence in Ilorin and across the Middlebelt against the Fulani hegemony, but this had occurred several times over history in Black ancient Egypt and across the world. They all fell as the attackers either eventually conquer or the population disperses due to prolong instability.
Oyo had earlier been attacked in 1520 by Nupe Islamists, so there was no reason to believe the Fulani Islamists 1800s attack was the last. It’s doubtful whether Yoruba without the benefit of today’s worldview would have single-handedly been able to repel the advance of the Afro-Asiatic imperialists over the next 200yrs without the colonization break.
With Kwararafa empire broken apart, Nri and Northern Ndigboland would have fallen without a formidable army against the war tested diverse group of Afro-Asians, birthed by various Original Africans mixed with different Euro-Asians but unified by Islam.
Unfortunately at the time, Yorubas and Igbos hadn’t (and still not) articulated their collective origins for unity as the Niger Kongo ethnolinguistic group, God’s first family. So it would have been one Niger Kongo group at a time against a unified cultural platform that extended halfway round the world over 3000yrs. A very imbalanced contest.
Even within the two largest groups, Yoruba and Igbo, and the Kwararafa, there was deep intra-tribal conflict and even war. The people had been culturally disoriented and drained by the 300 yrs of slavery induced terrorism. Akitoye and Kosoko, brother kings of Lagos, were fighting, so was Ibadan versus Ekiti Parapo, with the fall of Nri and excesses of the Arochukwu, the Igala verus Jukun, the whole Lower Niger-Benue subregion was in no state to fight a global war.
God couldn’t just watch his Garden ran over and his original languages and culture bastardized, so he gave his special spoilt kids a timeout to reflect. But that could only work if they knew their cultural identity as God’s children and the God that was giving them a timeout.
Original Africans have not taken time to reflect, articulate and unite themselves, while the seething Islamists fixed their gaze on the shores of Eden, and even inched forward during the colonial ‘ceasefire’, consolidating their hold on the Middlebelt.
Instead of the Omoluabi analysing his predators back to the Shepherds kings that wiped their people out in Egypt, they appropriated the herdsmen God as theirs and took up the colonists side in the Christian vs Muslim clash.
As the Original African took the Whitemans God, history and habits, his masters victory was his victory as he went on fighting wrong wars.
Yorubas went boasting that if only the British hadn’t stopped the fightback, he would have showed the Fulani pepper. Igbos say if only they won the Biafra War, not knowing it was never engineered to win but as a blackmail against the 1966 Northern counter coups to allow for indirect rule by the true sons of the Hsykos kings.
Instead of the largest Original Africans appreciating the huge 4000yr threat and unify to fight it, they clamored to go it alone in Odua and Biafra tribal nations, forgetting that it was the global Black unity that brought an end to 350yr slavery and 50yr colonization.
The Southerners had never left their bountiful environment for conquest of the outlying arid lands. They produced no weapons and with colonization had forgotten their ancient knowledge bank that could serve as a formidable arsenal, as they became Eurocentric.
The Eurocentric knowledge erased the ancient knowledge bank that could have helped to identify our natural strategic allies. We became naked strangers in our own skin of 2400 Original African ethnic groups.
Well, the timeout is nearly over as the herdsmen will continue their 4000yr advance to Eden within the next decade. The only way out is to articulate and unite the cultural and genetic linkages of Niger Kongo ethnolinguistic family.
The history of the first family will assail the intellectual foundations of the Abrahamic imperialist dogma, being 70% of the Black African population we will outnumber them democratically and if the worst came to war, our resources can buy more weapons.
However this is a war that can’t be stopped by a war but by tough love, wisdom and sense of justice.
The main incentive that will continue to drive the Fulanis Afro-Asiatic imperialists agenda, no matter the number of defeats or borders, is the huge Sahel population steeped in poverty since the stop of the trans Saharan trade.
In addition to intellectual, democratic and probably military defeat of the Afro-Asiatic imperialists, Original Africans must defeat the economic incentive once and for all by inspiring the development of the resources of the North by helping in its Solar energy resources and agriculture.
However, this kind of brotherly love is not possible until the marauders are defeated and made to rationalize and negotiate a peaceful coexistence. The greater problem is the White colonial interests that will take sides.
Most important is for us to ask the question of whether colonization was an interlude and whether it is possible to fight the united Islamists and European platforms as single tribes, and not Original African platform?
So colonization might be a blessing in disguise! What about slavery? Well, won’t the huge black American Diasporan market help in a future global Black economic ascendancy?
Never doubt the Yoruba laws of duality, nothing is entirely good or bad, not even God!
