By Prince Justice Faloye
Instead of an imported Tokunbo governance system based on foreign design, validation and backing of short termist politicians, Nigeria will do better if our INEC is choosen and guided by our civilizational leadership – Ooni of Ife with Obi of Onitsha and Aku Uka of Wukari (Middlebelt) for indigenous Africans on one side, and Sultan of Sokoto with Shehu of Bornu and Emir of Kano for the Afro-Arabic civilization on the other. Our long term cultural stakeholders should be the guarantors of our political system and short termist politicians, and not foreign stakeholders.
Tinubu’s presidency hangs gingerly on the coattails of the Western Powers, especially with the United States FBI threat to release 2500 files on him after the damaging revelations of Chicago State University. Obviously they had these information for the last twenty-four years, when he arrested the economic and political development of Lagos, but it appears that he is no longer fit for purpose, especially after his failed attempt to wage war on their behalf in Niger and other Sahel Francophone nations. Francophone African nations whose armies overthrew their Western Puppet governments that looked away or conspired with Western armed Sunni terrorists and economic hitmen.
Throughout Africa, the masses are fed up with insecurity and poverty fostered on them by Western governance systems and neocolonial politicians. European colonists captured and colonized our existing governance systems across Africa, and following the pro-independence movements, they handed power not back to the original owners of the power but a new class of colonially trained politicians. A neocolonial guard indoctrinated in their missionary schools and universities, whose legitimacy and backing came from overseas – Our Mastas Voice.
They introduced new political, judicial, academic and administrative systems that copied the letters of the foreign system but not its civilizational spirit. It’s a truism that you can replicate the body but not the soul of anything. The new systems and its operators were not representative of the people and their culture, so its proceeds and aspirations were skewed towards benefiting the foreign powers and their local neocolonial foremen.
At the root of our democracy is the authentication of candidates and elections conducted by the Neocolonialist guard believed to be independent but based on an allegiance to a foreign civilization, and not African. In what could be best understood as a class struggle, the Oyinbo kingsmen waged institutional violence against our traditional institutions to relegate them to the local government level. This instituted tribalism that institutionally weakened us as a people, disguising the fact that we had only two civilizations before the 1400s advent of Europeans on African soil.
There are only two civilizations in Nigeria and across Africa – Original Indigenous African and Afroasiatic civilizations. Though the colonists couldn’t derail and disunite the Islamic Afro-Arabic civilization into weak disparate tribes, with the colonial epistemicide and killing of our African Information Retrieval System aka Ifa-Afa-Iha-Fa-Efa, they were able to break and hide what ties the Original African civilization together, turning them into Waka alone tribal monarchs best fit for local governance.
In Francophone African nations, the French and their neocolonist guard waged more devastating institutional violence against indigenous traditional institutions by turning hereditary monarchy systems to positions held by mere clerks through promotion in French bureaucracy. Their politicians had to be validated in Paris and fully steeped in French culture before they could be admitted on their local political space. Therefore, like the Francophone and other Romance speaking African pro-independence fighters, Senghor of Senegal, Toure of Guinea etc, pushed for cultural independence and restitution, the Original African civilization in the Francophone nations have to be restituted by the others within their civilization.
Our independence was just an exercise of replacing a White skinned exploiter with a Black skinned one. A neocolonial guard with a black face but white brain in most sectors of the society. Armies indoctrinated and armed by our only feasible invaders and conquerors. The politicians and judiciary lead and guide our society with the divisive tenets of Eurasians Binary Opposition philosophies that are the diametrically opposite of our unifying African Binary Complementarity philosophy. Our politicians seek approval from European institutions, as we saw Tinubu, Obi and Atiku present their cases in Chatham House, UK’s foremost international relations think tank. Tinubu refused to address the masses directly or submit himself to presidential debates, because he knew all he needed was Western backing. The natives don’t matter! The effect of a colonial perspective that pervades the whole society and arrests our development.
Coloniality made the African see only good in foreign methodologies and demonize his own indigenous civilization that he doesn’t understand. Historians are wired to perpetually subjugate and tie the African civilization to those of the Western academia that pays him, therefore not able to articulate his peoples origins and linkages. Engineers can’t devise engines based on our comparative advantages in energy supply like solar or metals. Nor build railways to spur industrial growth to uplift the people. Doctors and pharmacists can’t devise lasting solutions to our specific medical needs and use our biodiversity of herbs to cure common ailments to prevent high death rates.
As analyzed, the European colonists and neocolonial guards wrestled power from our traditional institutions so we can’t expect that they would return it willingly. No one gives up power. However, the imperfections and injustices of the tokunbo democracy will eventually make it self destruct, as we see massive economic and political destabilization from their tokunbo neo-liberal economic policies and proliferation of foreign armed terrorists and separatists groups, unknowingly fighting superpower proxy wars.
It is after the collapse of neocolonalism across Africa, and an interregnum when we return to the table to renegotiate our sociopolitical contracts that Africans must ensure that any new system must be put together, validated and guaranteed by our civilizational leadership. The Afroasiatic/Afro-Arabic civilization has articulated it’s civilizational narrative from common origins to collective aspirations. It is the Original African civilization that has failed to articulate common origins of tribes and collective aspirations, which must be done in the new multipolar world order, in order for us to be strategically represented, and not be a stepping stone or bargaining chip for other civilizations.
Based on Oya 250 year trends explained by African Information Retrieval Systems, the world is going through a polycrisis that would inspire revolutions like it did in the second half of 1770s – the US, French and Haitian revolutions as well as Alaafin Abiodun revolting against Bashorun Gaa and the 250yrs of arms for slaves political economy. We are approaching the point in the cycle where the USA broke its colonial ties with Britian and went through long negotiations and deliberations that eventually resulted in the 1789 constitution. However, though economic problems will provoke African revolutions, the ingrained coloniality imbued over the last 165yr will require a total system collapse and rebirth.
As it is, the perfect Oya storm is gathering with the imminent Third World War that would force the Western colonial powers to overexert their neocolonist systems till they collapse. From the Ukraine War arising from an overextension of NATO to the borders of Russia, to Russia taking advantage of the weakened Francophone nations, with France losing its gold and uranium sources, the West will fight back and in doing so, will drag in Nigeria.
The strategy will either be to force Tinubu to invade, which they can’t do with ethnic democratic bottlenecks, to switching to Atiku, a member of the Afro-Arabic civilization, or bringing in an interim military government. No matter which strategy employed, especially with Tinubu’s neo-liberal economic policies that are irreversible in the short term, the economic and political destabilization and deprivations will lead to anarchy, revolution and ultimately the crash of the system by 2026.
Especially, when considering the high likelihood of a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere that won’t allow the European powers to continue the proxy wars in Africa. Just as counter-revolutionary fighters like Savimbi of Angola were left stranded after the Cold War. It is at this point that Africa would have a chance to decide and draw up new sociopolitical and economic systems for themselves.
