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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by GeneralPula: 8:59pm On Jul 01
Ojukwu didn’t release Awolowo..

Big fat lie..

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by cadmanspize: 9:03pm On Jul 01
kedeojo:
The same northerners you work with in the past against the Yorubas. Did you people not support Tofa in 1993 against Abiola who other zones supported, also Shagari against Awolowo. If Atiku end up choosen obi as his vice again in 2027, you people will still support them. Yorubas are smarter politically than you people and that has made them to be getting presidency. Nzogbu nzogbu politics will not take you people anywhere. You people have played more of slave to northerners than the west. Go through all presidential election the northerners have contested and see who are their running mates. You can't comes up with lies to free kanu, like is said before, you people should beg the president and apologize to him for what that foolish kanu try to do to him.
Apology is what you sadists are waiting for to make use of your borrowed power? A feeble co.w.d with thousand excuses, useless cu.ts!
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by confusedlady(f): 9:09pm On Jul 01
kedeojo:
Honestly most of them are disgusting. They will always find a way to justify their wrong doings. He was saying Yorubas are slaves to northerners and presidential elections contest by northerners mostly use igbos as vice. Shagari, Tofa, Buhari and others. Yorubas are smart politically that is why they will always get presidency with almost ease.

Just make sure you always expose their lies and propaganda as I always do. Attach video and picture evidence where possible.
If you see a snake and an Ibo I am sure you know it is better to cuddle and play with the snake....

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by chopnaira: 9:11pm On Jul 01
cadmanspize:
Good things men do for each other are nothing but good things saved. Not returning a good gesture by your fellow in time of need is a breach of an unwritten agreement.
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Ojukwu gave a heeding ear to their plead when their beloved son, Awolowo, was locked up in the dungeon why getting fed with watery beans. Ojukwu, their fellow southerner after getting so much plead & goading fell for their plead and condescended for a help. The joy knew no bound in SW after their great leader got realeased by the worthy of emulate.
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Tinubu should not forget such joyfull historical moment in southwest, as matter of urgency and in the show of greatfullness - should release Nnamdi kanu with immediate effect!
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No one will come for the aid of Awolowo descendants again in time of any controversy with their master except the Ojukwu brothers. Tinibu should cease this moment as a grace saving opportunity to build bridge and do the needful.
Was Ojukwu the president?
Gowon released Awolowo not the rebel leader called Ojuiku

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by kedeojo(m): 9:11pm On Jul 01
Godfullsam:


Ojukwu- was not the one who ordered Awolowo's release .


Stop deceiving yourself
So Ojukwu will order Gowon his superior for the release of Awolowo. They reason through their anus. They should show us the picture taken after Awolowo release cos I have seen many pictures of Gowon and Awolowo before someone posted it here for more clarification. You people can't generate lies for kanu to be released, just know that. Alot of other tribes are enlighten expecially on this platform, you people can't deceive us. I don't have anything against his release but lies from you people will make him to still be were he is and nothing will happen cos after all you all boasted of burning down the country but so surprised his ipob boys started killing innocent people and destroying government facility in the east.

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by chopnaira: 9:12pm On Jul 01
Tjra:

Releasing the animal is threat to our national security. He is in the cage where he rightly belongs.

PitObi should release him in 2047 if he becomes President.
🤣🤣🤣

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by Tranquillity360: 9:44pm On Jul 01
Godfullsam:


How old are you and what is your academic qualification?

You must be an illiterate and a toddler to believe that ojukwu- actually released Awolowo
You must be ungrateful Yoruba Muslim to believe Ojukwu did not release awolowo.

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by wirinet(m): 10:03pm On Jul 01
Tranquillity360:
You must be ungrateful Yoruba Muslim to believe Ojukwu did not release awolowo.
You IPOB youths create most of the problems for reasonable igbo people. You guys spew baseless propaganda up and down. Lies that a simple Google or YouTube search can debunk.

There are videos and reports of Awolowo's release by General Gowon on the internet even here on nairaland, but you guys love repeating the lies that It was Ojukwu that release Awolowo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNa4671Yuw?si=ufpWRhSVYXrHcjjw

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191679-why-i-released-awolowo-from-prison-gowon.html?tztc=1

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by cadmanspize: 10:16pm On Jul 01
chopnaira:

Was Ojukwu the president?
Gowon released Awolowo not the rebel leader called Ojuiku

The Ojukwu/awolowo case should be a great lesson to why anyone should not have anything to do with a sadist suffering from stochkholm syndrome. The ungrateful awolowo ran back to his surplessor just after Ojukwu lenderd a helping hand and a heeding ear to the wail of his people.
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Unbaterd, unpertubed, ungratefull of good gestures and with no remorse; the unashamed sadist daughter of a b.t.h & his kins resulted to propaganda, trying to change the narrative of how awolowo's b.tchy attitude played out.
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Pathetic. Life happened to Ojukwu, a Legend with a golden heart who was just trying to help. A tale of a Good Boy And A Damaged B.tch.

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by Tranquillity360: 10:53pm On Jul 01
wirinet:

You IPOB youths create most of the problems for reasonable igbo people. You guys spew baseless propaganda up and down. Lies that a simple Google or YouTube search can debunk.

There are videos and reports of Awolowo's release by General Gowon on the internet even here on nairaland, but you guys love repeating the lies that It was Ojukwu that release Awolowo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNa4671Yuw?si=ufpWRhSVYXrHcjjw

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191679-why-i-released-awolowo-from-prison-gowon.html?tztc=1


una too dey Mumu with una lies with hope to make people believe it the truth.



So Gowon and prison warders dey wear the same clothes.



Because you got video of awolowo meeting Gowon,a man he meets steady and worked with for many years,it becomes he was released by him.



Which prison did Northerners send awolowo?

Which region is the prison?

Who was in charge of the region?

Did the region recognize Gowon as head of state and take orders from him?



Answer the question above, there lies your answer.

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by JAMO84: 11:30pm On Jul 01
kedeojo:
Don't mind them, instead of them to come openly to beg Mr President, they resorts to lies they are know for. Gowon released Awolowo not Ojukwu. Nobody should disturb the president about a terrorist cos he his working so hard to turnaround the economy. Same people are the ones calling all manners of name of destroying the economy and they said he won't win in 2027. Let them wait till then when their favourite win, he can release him.
I don't know why they think they can blackmail Tinubu with their fake 2027 support.

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by Bonijy04: 4:01am On Jul 02
Tinubu is the President while Ojukwu never a President and Awolowo was one of the National Leader meanwhile Kanu is not, you cannot compare the two Issues.
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by cadmanspize: 9:37am On Jul 02
Tranquillity360:
una too dey Mumu with una lies with hope to make people believe it the truth.



So Gowon and prison warders dey wear the same clothes.



Because you got video of awolowo meeting Gowon,a man he meets steady and worked with for many years,it becomes he was released by him.



Which prison did Northerners send awolowo?

Which region is the prison?

Who was in charge of the region?

Did the region recognize Gowon as head of state and take orders from him?




Answer the question above, there lies your answer.
Awolowo descendant like f00li.g themselves with lies & deceit - understandable, cause a grown man with two balls & a thousand followers who performed such a wholific atittude of sadism-driven stochkholm syndrome is not an egoestic thing to derive confidence from.
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The trial of changing the shameful narrative inglorious whorish act of Awolowo is understandable.
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by wirinet(m): 4:19pm On Jul 02
Tranquillity360:
una too dey Mumu with una lies with hope to make people believe it the truth.



So Gowon and prison warders dey wear the same clothes.



Because you got video of awolowo meeting Gowon,a man he meets steady and worked with for many years,it becomes he was released by him.



Which prison did Northerners send awolowo?

Which region is the prison?

Who was in charge of the region?

Did the region recognize Gowon as head of state and take orders from him?



Answer the question above, there lies your answer.

IPOB youth are the dumbest people in the universe. Even in the face of visible evidence they continue to promote lies and propaganda without even bothering to provide a shred of evidence.

I will overwhelm them with more evidence. Even if they choose to continue spewing their lies, no one will take them serious.


For IPOB information, Calabar prison was a federal prison. Awolowo, Enahoro and others were jailed for Treason, which is a federal crime.

Here are more physical evidence of newspaper reports on the day Gowon Released Awolowo from Calabar prison.
The first screenshot is a newspaper report from Newyork Times.

The second is an enlarged part of the Newyork Times report highlighting that Gowon released Awolowo.

The third one is the actual Gazette of the pardon of Awolowo, Enahoro and others by General Gowon.

Oya, provide your own proof of Ojukwu releasing Awolowo.

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by cadmanspize: 5:57pm On Jul 03
wirinet:


IPOB youth are the dumbest people in the universe. Even in the face of visible evidence they continue to promote lies and propaganda without even bothering to provide a shred of evidence.

I will overwhelm them with more evidence. Even if they choose to continue spewing their lies, no one will take them serious.


For IPOB information, Calabar prison was a federal prison. Awolowo, Enahoro and others were jailed for Treason, which is a federal crime.
Gowon Released Awolowo from Calabar prison.
The first screenshot is a newspaper report from Newyork Times.

The second is an enlarged part of the Newyork Times report highlighting that Gowon released Awolowo.

The third one is the actual Gazette of the pardon of Awolowo, Enahoro and others by General Gowon.
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Your trial of changing awolowo's whorish narrative is understandable. Such shamefull sadist act is worth covering - even if it's to photoshop Newspaper. Pathetic!
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by Chivisee: 6:14pm On Jul 03
OJUKWU RELEASED AWOLOWO!!it will never be well with anybody connected with these blatant lies from the pit of hell! Out of Nnmadi Azikwes envyness of awolowos brilliancy, and how awolowo outsmarted him in his scheme to take over Lagos, he conspired with the northerners to imprisoned him, chiefly orchestrated by Ojukwu of cursed memory! You now wonder why awolowo never hesitate to send the igborilla to extinction when he had the opportunities during the civil war by his food barricade solution to end the war!!! Now our igborill of 2024 wanted to change the story thinking they can fool anybody! This is the biggest lies from the igborrillas !
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by Ritchiee: 6:16pm On Jul 03
cadmanspize:


Ojukwu, with the balls of a real man, released your leader after days of profuse wailing/grief of your people. He brought joy & happines to your people - Great moment, A joyful time, a glorious era to be alive as an Awolowo people. Such a blissful momemt in SW.
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Now, a time to replicate such gesture has arrived and they chickend out, afraid of distorting their master's will as a typical Awolowo descendant, even when in posses of the reing their master left them to taste small.
Continue to deceive yourself.
Everybody knows that it was Gowon that released Awolowo not Miss Ojuku,the lily livered,Ivorian pilgrimage.
It is on youtube.

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Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by cadmanspize: 7:18pm On Jul 03
Chivisee:
OJUKWU RELEASED AWOLOWO!!it will never be well with anybody connected with these blatant lies from the pit of hell! Out of Nnmadi Azikwes envyness of awolowo brilliancy, and how awolowo outsmarted him in his scheme to take over Lagos, he conspired with the northerners to imprison awolowo, chiefly orchestrated by Ojukwu of cursed memory. Awolowo never hesitate to send the igborilla to extinction when he had the opportunities during the civil war by his food barricade solution to end the war!!!
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Northerners conspired with ojukwu to imprison Awolowo? and he could'nt wait to run back to same northerners after ojukwu released him? pathetic!
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Awolowo was undoubtly the most brilliant among the yorubas. Just like the lest, Awolowo was suffering of stockholm syndrome that gat him itchin of his bullies even while inside the prison they sent him to.
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I'm not insinuating of awolowo being a bit.h, but that was a boobish attitude from Awolowo.
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by Chivisee: 9:32am On Jul 04
cadmanspize:

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Northerners conspired with ojukwu to imprison Awolowo? and he could'nt wait to run back to same northerners after ojukwu released him? pathetic!
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Awolowo was undoubtly the most brilliant among the yorubas. Just like the lest, Awolowo was suffering of stockholm syndrome that gat him itchin of his bullies even while inside the prison they sent him to.
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I'm not insinuating of awolowo being a bit.h, but that was a boobish attitude from Awolowo.
i dont understand this nnamdi kanu ipob consistent balderdash! if your dad lied to you that OJUJWU OF CURSED MEMORY RELEASED AWOLOWO,THEN YOUR DAD IS A ROTTEN BRAIN SHAMELESS IDIOT!
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by flokii: 10:50am On Jul 04
Yakubu Gowon released Awolowo from Prison unconditionally and fred him from all trumped up charges levelled against him by the Tafawa Balewa administration in connivance with Nnamdi Azikiwe and his kins.

No history revisionist or propaganda will change that fact as there are video evidence of Awolowo paying Gowon visit shortly after his release from Calabar prison while still in prison uniform.
Ojukwu despised Yorubas most especially Awolowo and even Awolowo called him 'irredeemable' in one of his interviews about how he helped the Igbos during and after the civil war.
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by cadmanspize: 1:50pm On Jul 04
Chivisee:

i dont understand this nnamdi kanu ipob consistent balderdash! if your dad lied to you that OJUJWU OF CURSED MEMORY RELEASED AWOLOWO,THEN YOUR DAD IS A ROTTEN BRAIN SHAMELESS IDIOT!
Wet-bi.ch Awolowo.
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Why could'nt Awolowo wait to get out of the prison to see his beloved bully if not of stockholm syndrome?
Re: Tinubu Should Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ojukwu Did It For Awolowo by barb5491: 11:46pm On Jul 06
The brutal treatment of African migrants in the Arab countries of North Africa and the virulent racism they are subjected to, on daily basis, are a product of utter contempt and extreme hatred of black people in Arab societies which are inherently racist.

Arabs have absolutely no respect - let alone compassion - for black people. They want to dominate black African countries and are determined to do so in order to serve their own interests at the expense of Africans. They don't even call themselves "Africans." The term "Africans" or "African" applies only to black people they insist. They say they are "Arab," which they are, and members of the Arab world, not of the African world, which is true.

There are African leaders who have been blunt about Arab intentions to dominate Africa. They have unequivocally stated that Arabs are only concerned about their well-being and don't care about black people. Black African countries are there for them to conquer and take over; with black people working for them as slaves, as they have for hundreds of years. Even today, Arabs still call Africans "slaves," and were they come from, Black Africa, "land of slaves."

The most prominent African leaders who were blunt about Arab bad intentions to dominate Africa were Obafemi Awolowo and Anthony Enahoro. Among African president, it was Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi, Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal, and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda whose position on Arab intentions in Africa is a very strong warning to Black Africa on what will happen if Africans are not careful, very careful, when dealing with Arabs. They are going to take over African countries.

Even Nyerere, who was a close friend of Gamal Abdel Nasser and worked with him as much as he did with Nkrumah and Sekou Toure on African liberation, warned Black Africa not long before he died that Arab North Africa - and other people outside Africa - don't care about their well-being of African countries south of the Sahara. As he out it: "Africa south of the Sahara is on its own."

Nkrumah also was warned by George Padmore, his adviser on African affairs, to be careful in his dealings with Arabs; they couldn't be trusted. Even African Americans who went to live in Egypt when Nasser was president were expelled soon after Nasser died and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. Among those expelled was Shirley Graham Du Bois, wife of Dr. W.e.B. Du Bois. She was invited by Nyerere to go and live in Tanzania. She became a citizen of Tanzania and died a Tanzanian. Her husband Dr. Du Bois died a citizen of Ghana. Nyerere also invited Nkrumah to go and live in Tanzania after he was overthrown but went to, Guinea, instead, at the invitation of Sekou Toure, saying he wanted to be closer to Ghana to monitor events in his home country after his ouster hoping he would be reinstated.

After Nasser died, Egypt no longer maintained close ties with any black African country and his successor, Sadat, is on record insulting and making fun of African countries. He never had any close ties with Nyerere and Sekou Toure the way Nasser did. His contempt for Black Africa is a matter of record.

Dr. Banda was explicit in his criticism and condemnation of Arabs in Africa. He said they were "foreigners and imperialists" just like the whites in South Africa and there was no difference, none whatsoever, between the two. He went on to say he would have liked to form an army specifically for the purpose of sending the soldiers to Sudan to help blacks fight the Arabs who were oppressing and killing them but couldn't do so because he just didn't have the money.

Like Banda, President Senghor also said Arabs were imperialists but Africans would resist any attempt to conquer them.

Museveni in an interview on Hardtalk, BBC, said Arabs wanted to dominate Africans and that the two were different people.

Here is the position of Awolowo and Enahoro on Arabs in Africa:

"Awolowo and the AG published an official statement on the guiding principles of their foreign policy....The paper, 'Foreign Policy of Independent Nigeria,' included a strong condemnation of encroaching Arab influence in Africa, and particularly Nasser's hegemonic control:

'It is clear that President Nasser will only tolerate an Arab leader for the continent of Africa. He is apparently convinced that the black peoples of Africa are backward and that Egypt has a mission of leadership to fulfil on the Continent of Africa.

The Action Group considers that this is the height of folly and short-sightedness to have close political association with Egypt, so long as President Nasser holds sway in that country.'" - (Quoted in Willie Molesi, Black Africa versus Arab North Africa: The Great Divide, p. 132).

“Obafemi Awolowo...had his disdain for the Arab world....He did not consider Egypt part of Africa and particularly detested the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he accused of 'undisguised totalitarianism at home and territorial ambitions in Africa and the Muslim world.' As Ibrahim Gambari has noted, Awolowo's party spokesman on foreign affairs, Anthony Enahoro, wanted Arab North Africa excluded from any discussion on pan-Africanism.” - (Quoted in Willie Molesi, Black Africa versus Arab North Africa: The Great Divide, p. 133).

“Influential Southern leaders such as Chief Awolowo, head of the third major Nigerian political party, detested Nasser's Egypt and the Arab world. He did not really consider Egypt an African country and accused Nasser of 'undisguised totalitarianism (at home) and territorial ambitions in Africa and the Muslim world.' Chief Awolowo's deputy and main spokesman on foreign affairs, Anthony Enahoro, wanted the exclusion of Arab North African countries from discussions of, and meetings about, Pan-Africanism.” (Quoted in Willie Molesi, Black Africa versus Arab North Africa: The Great Divide, pp. 133 - 134).

Kamuzu Banda:

“In a speech to the Malawi Congress Party in September, 1968, he complained that only a lack of funds prevented him from raising a national army to fight alongside Africans against Arabs in the Sudan because he thought Africans in Southern Sudan were being murdered by the Arabs, yet African leaders did not lift a finger in protest.

'There is no difference whatsoever between the Whites in South Africa and the Arabs in the Sudan. Both are settlers – foreigners and imperialists,' he declared....Dr. Banda declined to attend the OAU Summit Conference in September on the ground of its being held in Algiers.” - Willie Molesi, Black Africa versus Arab North Africa: The Great Divide, p. 134).

Yoweri Museveni:

“Black Africans are humble people, we never impose our views on anybody else, we are not like Europeans or Arabs who want to impose their views.

I normally tell people that when I hear Arabs talking of haram (something that is forbidden), something which is haram, I always tell them that my history of haram is much longer than that one of the Arabs....I don't eat very many of those things you people eat....But I keep this to myself. This is the difference with the black people....

Those jihadists (who killed more than 70 people in the Ugandan capital Kampala in July 2010) are really non-African in their attitudes. I have told you about the attitude of the black people....Our Moslems do not engage in that type of chauvinism. They keep their views to themselves, so do Christians, so do traditional groups. That's how we live in harmony....

We are ready to work together to defeat these foreigners who are coming with these chauvinistic ideas from the Middle East to implant them in our continent. In our continent, we black people, we live and let live. We never try to impose our views on anybody else.” - (Quoted in Willie Molesi, Black Africa verus Arab North Africa: The Great Divide, p. 21).

Nyerere:

“North Africa is to Europe what Mexico is to the United States. North Africans who have no jobs will not go to Nigeria; they’ll be thinking of Europe or the Middle East, because of the imperatives of geography and history and religion and language. North Africa is part of Europe and the Middle East.

Nasser was a great leader and a great African leader. I got on extremely well with him. Once he sent me a minister, and I had a long discussion with his minister at the State House here, and in the course of the discussion, the minister says to me, 'Mr. President, this is my first visit to Africa.'

North Africa, because of the pull of the Mediterranean, and I say, history and culture, and religion, North Africa is pulled towards the North. When North Africans look for jobs, they go to Western Europe and southern Western Europe, or they go to the Middle East.

And Europe has a specific policy for North Africa, specific policy for North Africa. It’s not only about development; it’s also about security. Because of you don’t do something about North Africa, they’ll come.

Africa, south of the Sahara, is different; totally different. If you have no jobs here in Tanzania, where do you go? The Japanese have no fear that you people will flock to Japan. The North Americans have no fear that you people will flock to North America. Not even from West Africa. The Atlantic, the Atlantic as an ocean, like the Mediterranean, it has its own logic. But links North America and Western Europe, not North America and West Africa.

Africa south of the Sahara is isolated. That is the first point I want to make. South of the Sahara is totally isolated in terms of that configuration of developing power in the world in the 21st century - on its own. There is no centre of power in whose self-interest it’s important to develop Africa, no centre. Not North America, not Japan, not Western Europe. There’s no self-interest to bother about Africa south of the Sahara. Africa south of the Sahara is on its own. Na si jambo baya. Those of you who don’t know Kiswahili, I just whispered, 'Not necessarily bad.'

That’s the first thing I wanted to say about Africa south of the Sahara. African leadership, the coming African leadership, will have to bear that in mind. You are on your own....

So that’s the first thing I wanted to say about Africa south of the Sahara. Africa south of the Sahara in those terms is isolated....

The second point about Africa, and again I am talking about Africa south of the Sahara; it is fragmented, fragmented. From the very beginning of independence 40 years ago, we were against that idea, that the continent is so fragmented. We called it the Balkanisation of Africa. Today, I think the Balkans are talking about the Africanisation of Europe. Africa’s states are too many, too small, some make no logic, whether political logic or ethnic logic or anything. They are non-viable....

Africa south of the Sahara is isolated. Therefore, to develop, it will have to depend upon its own resources basically. Internal resources, nationally; and Africa will have to depend upon Africa. The leadership of the future will have to devise, try to carry out policies of maximum national self-reliance and maximum collective self-reliance. They have no other choice....

The small countries in Africa must move towards either unity or co-operation, unity of Africa. The leadership of the future, of the 21st century, should have less respect, less respect for this thing called “national sovereignty.” I’m not saying take up arms and destroy the state, no! This idea that we must preserve the Tanganyika, then preserve the Kenya as they are, is nonsensical!

The nation-states we in Africa, have inherited from Europe. They are the builders of the nation-states par excellence. For centuries they fought wars! The history of Europe, the history of the building of Europe is a history of war. And sometimes their wars when they get hotter although they’re European wars, they call them world wars. And we all get involved. We fight even in Tanganyika here, we fought here, one world war.

These Europeans, powerful, where little Belgium is more powerful than the whole of Africa south of the Sahara put together; these powerful European states are moving towards unity, and you people are talking about the atavism of the tribe, this is nonsense! I am telling you people. How can anybody think of the tribe as the unity of the future?....

Europe now, you can take it almost as God-given, Europe is not going to fight with Europe anymore. The Europeans are not going to take up arms against Europeans. They are moving towards unity - even the little, the little countries of the Balkans which are breaking up, Yugoslavia breaking up, but they are breaking up at the same time the building up is taking place. They break up and say we want to come into the bigger unity.

So there’s a building movement, there’s a building of Europe. These countries which have old, old sovereignties, countries of hundreds of years old; they are forgetting this, they are moving towards unity. And you people, you think Tanzania is sacred? What is Tanzania!

You have to move towards unity.... If we can’t move towards bigger nation-states, at least let’s move towards greater co-operation. This is beginning to happen. And the new leadership in Africa should encourage it....Please accept the logic of coming together.” - (Quoted in Willie Molesi, Black Africa versus Arab North Africa: The Great Divide, pp. 25 - 28).

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