In Sub-Saharan Africa, 89% of 10-year-olds cannot read a simple text with comprehension. Most are being taught in languages they don't speak at home. This isn't a failure of intelligence — it's a failure of design.
Africa bears 24% of the world's disease burden with just 3% of the global health workforce. Meanwhile, African-trained doctors and nurses staff hospitals from London to Los Angeles. This is not coincidence — it's extraction by another name.
They don't need armies anymore. Debt does the work. From structural adjustment to the current crisis, how international lending keeps Africa in its place — and how Africans are fighting back.
They don't need flags anymore. The resource extraction continues through contracts, not conquest. From Congo's cobalt to Nigeria's oil, Africa's wealth still flows outward while poverty deepens.
They tried to break the chains. They paid with their lives. The story of African leaders who chose sovereignty over survival — and the foreign powers who made them pay.
The flags changed. The anthems changed. But the economic chains remained. How African nations gained political freedom while staying economically captive.
Colonialism wasn't just theft — it was deliberate destruction. The borders, the economies, the education systems were all designed to create dependency. Here's how it worked.
Before colonialism rewrote the narrative, Africa was home to empires that rivaled anything in Europe or Asia. Here's the history they left out of your textbooks.
This isn't nostalgia or borrowed slogans. It's a reclamation of truth—Africa's sovereignty was stolen, not absent. Here's what taking it back actually looks like.
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."— KWAME NKRUMAH
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