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Since, by now, we all know how terrible a " United States of Africa " & single African currency could be, what can we make uniform & standardise across the continent?  • Rail & road : Maybe we could create a uniform set of road rules & railroad guages. Sure, some countries drive on the right but the same rules could apply just on different sides of the road. In South Africa, we have a K53 defensive driving rule set which I think is pretty advanced & wouldn't mind other good driving laws across the continent to be merged with it & maybe create a single driver's license & driver's license test made for all African drivers. • Mail : I've already vlogged on this on YouTube so I'll just put the link to the video .  • Automotive industry : I can imagine Itouha of Burkina Faso, Innoson of Nigeria, Kiira of Uganda, Roam of Kenya & Kantanka of Ghana all uniting to make affordable electric motorcycles, cars, buses, trucks & even ...

I really wanted to put a voice onto this & make it a podcast but content on podcasts isn't taken as seriously as content on blogs these days. I just wanted to comment on President Paul Biya & the Transatlantic Slave Trade again.  You know, the human mind goes wild sometimes & I'm not Cameroonian or up-to-date on the day-to-day happenings of Cameroon but by my understanding Paul Biya is virtually the king of Cameroon. I even saw a YouTube video titled "Paul Biya est un dieu" ("Paul Biya is a god"). Mes amis camerounais, comment ça va?  Biya is said to be 92, I'm not ageist but 92? If he can govern, fine but ruling for 40 years? Is Cameroon really a democracy or a monarchy, they need to start telling the truth. And why are Anglophones being killed in the Ambazonia region of Cameroon? Both English & French are not our languages.  Donc, pourquoi c'est que les Ambazoniens être dans le génocide?  I've seen very disturbing pictures of pe...

In the news :  Forty-four young Ethiopian men were found locked inside a Sandton house - starving, cold & kept in darkness. Police believe they were trafficked & that their captors demanded up to R50 000 for each victim’s release. Ethiopian men believed to be in SA illegally were found locked in a Parkmore house. Trapped in two rooms, some needed medical help. The trafficker ran before security arrived.  I think there are more illegal immigrants in South Africa than officials would care to count.  We've even heard of hoardes of illegal immigrants from Europe being hidden in the Western Cape & Cape Town.  Ethiopians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis & Somalians are among the most trafficked people to South Africa & it's always just men. I have not seen a single Somalian, Ethiopian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi woman in South Africa but dozens of Somalian males. This is how forced ethnic dilution happens & how race replacement happens. The same ...

You were born in your traditional homestead in a traditional hut. I imagine because of lack of modern medicine, the likelihood of obtaining disease or dying would've been increased.  As a toddler you eat smaller versions of what the adults eat & coarse maize or sorghum porridge.  In your teens, a lady may be married off & a male may join regiments & start considering starting his own family so you'd get circumcised.  After 21 years or adulthood, you would've been married (or a commoner i. e. permanent regiment, herdboy, hunter or messenger). Your wives plough the fields, you or your sons look after your livestock, you hunt & watch for predators & hostile invaders. You would pay tribute to an elder chief or king of the region in meetings with them & ceremonies like "first fruits" festivals.  You would likely not reach old age as there was lack of modern medicine.  During periods of war, the local chief or king may require your service for ...

The SADC is the Southern African Development Community, it consists of 16 southern African countries. These being:  Angola,  Botswana,  Comoros,  Democratic Republic of Congo,  Eswatini,  Lesotho,  Madagascar,  Malawi,  Mauritius,  Mozambique,  Namibia,  Seychelles,  South Africa,  Tanzania,  Zambia &  Zimbabwe. These are some resources SADC has & the strange trade choices some SADC leaders make:  • Angola has oil, but Zambia & Namibia next door buy oil from Saudi Arabia & Kuwait.  • Namibia has beef, but Angola next door buys its beef from Brazil.  • Zimbabwe has coal at Hwange, but Mozambique buys coal from China.  • Zambia buys 360 million litres Saudi Arabian fuel. We can buy from Angola.  • Angola spends US$ 500 million on Brazilian beef. They could buy from Namibia.  • Mozambique spends US$ 312 million on coal. They could buy from Zimbabwe.  • Malawi b...

The original reason why I believe a single African currency would not work. Below is how we could attempt to make it work.  The many currencies of Africa. To prevent destabilization of the continent's economy, there could be two currencies: The Lami  for countries lying mostly north of the equator & the Ng'ombe  for countries mostly south of the equator. Both currencies would be independent with the Lami having it's bank & headquarters in Addis Ababa while the Ng'ombe could have it's bank & headquarters in Nairobi.  N.B.: Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, DRC & Kenya would use the Ng'ombe currency while Uganda & Somalia would use the Lami currency.  North of equator = Lami  South of equator = Ng'ombe   More stable countries with higher GDP per capita could be first to use the new currencies i.e. Seychelles, Mauritius, Gabon, Botswana, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Algeria, Na...

I must start with a disclaimer again because I don't know the situation of black Americans in America. But since we keep hearing of an exodus of black Americans from the USA & Americas to Africa; I devised this idea , a few months back. But who's going to fund this & if it were funded why would they choose this exact plan or path? Well, there isn't a better thought-out plan & funders would be the African Union & the USA.  What would be the benefits of this plan of such a massive scale? Yes, it is creating a new country & identity but it is ideal in that black Americans would create their own land rather than live in a land where they may not fit well in that land's social fabric. I think black Americans have their own set of values, way of doing things, cuisine & cultural expressions. These would be better expressed in a sovereign black American state  (i. e. Hadinkanjamaa) than in Ghana, Morocco, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya or Tanzania. I do n...

I still think the single-language ethnostate is the most ideal form of country but there are various factors that contribute to a nation being less successful. In Africa; Burundi, Rwanda, Morocco, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana & maybe Egypt can be considered "nation states", but are not as wildly wealthy nor have as high a HDI as Greece or Spain, for example. So what is the problem?  It's just my theory but I think here, we have a cultural problem where in some lands untrustworthy leaders, external destabilising or geography have played a big role in keeping a nation state underdeveloped. This is not only prevalent in Africa's nation-states but in countries around the Caucasus & eastern Europe where the culture sometimes revolves around corruption & being downtrodden. Sometimes a nation has been oppressed & it's people depressed so long that the people do not see their country being any better because they believe "This is just how we are."...

This is the same train of thought as the fame blog I did several weeks back. Today, I tackle the habit of mysticising Africa. Many of us have heard of American comedians making fun of how unsophisticated Africans are & how harsh the African environment is as though going to Africa is like travelling back in time.  The problem this creates for Africans is that it limits our characters to set stereotypes. An African physicist, for example, would near need to be able to "kill a lion & kill a goat" to prove that they are African in the Western world. This double-standard is not applied to an Arab, Indian, Asian, European or American physicist.  An African astronomer would need to be Dogon or Dogon-orientated for their craft to be acceptable. And sadly, black construction site supervisors are typically less trusted by the West than black builders.  This is an extra weight that Africa has to carry worldwide. We are assumed to be "tougher" & are given heavier ...

I think some black history revisionists indirectly hate black people. By claiming identities that are not black as black, they put a clown hat on black society worldwide & not just wherever they are.  Black history revisionists are simply liars. Their historical sources are unclear so for them to claim as fact what has no conclusion is doing everyone harm & not just the black race. Three things such people claim is that 1) Egyptian Pharoahs were originally black , 2) Moors who ruled over Spain were black & 3) Yasuke, an alleged black gentleman in ancient Japan, was a samurai . So here are the facts from my findings:  • Only five Egyptian Pharoahs were black : Only the 25th dynasty of Ancient Egypt had a series of black pharoahs. All other pharoahs were either Hamitic, Semitic (Arabic) or Greek. I blogged about this some time ago. (see The Five Black Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt ) • Moors were not all black : Moors were Maghrib Arabs who used black mercenaries from...

For all who might still be lost as to who is what, here is a Comprehensive classification of Ngoni / Nguni groups .  While a Nguni superstate might not work, a Nguni/Ngoni Federation might. This would involve doing some administration & building some currently non-existing boards & infrastructure. The plan being to build a functioning & successful ethno-federation under one motive to develop Nguni/Ngoni identity & livelihoods of citizens in Nguni/Ngoni territories. Bearing in mind that we do not all live in the same countries so the laws of the respective countries we live under would need to be obeyed.  The Plan :  • Schools that share a similar syllabus . These schools would have to teach their respective Nguni/Ngoni languages as a mandatory language. For schools in Ngoni territories who no longer speak a Nguni/Ngoni language, the Zulu language could be the default language. • Sports academies associated with the respective schools w...

The symbol of Kwatuism : A sorghum plant sheltered by two spears forming a triangular mount & facing in opposite vertical directions.  As a black man, I would love for Africans to fully develop & this does not necessarily mean skyscrapers & cutting-edge technology. Development to me means a land that is a fool-proof system where everyone knows what they should be doing at which time & why. This we can do by analysing the human life & what a nation needs. A nation in it's land needs protection from intruders, invaders & malicious foreigners as well as food security & it's citizens need shelter.  Let's note in point form:  • Border protection & therefore, airspace protection.  • Food security.  • Housing.  Any nation that does not prioritise the above will always have problems.  Now, in the modern world high-tech defence & telecommunications have become increasingly important with telecommunications merging...

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As we all know, Apartheid dealt a big blow to the recognition of South African football globally, with both the Olympics & FIFA banning Apartheid South Africa from participating in international football from 1961 to 1992. And, unfortunately, ConIFA did not exist when South Africa was under Apartheid so individual South African tribes in the Bantustans or other homogenous tribal territories couldn't participate in international football.  I consider the 1970s the "prime" of South African football because this is where legends like Jomo Sono, Abednigo Ngcobo, Cedric Xulu & Patrick Ntsoelengoe were in their prime. The likes of Zane Moosa & Fani Madida came later but didn't match the hype of the 70s legends in any case.  Lesser known South African footballers While South Africa was banned from participating in AFCON, the World Cup & the Olympics, the South African Black XI did beat Argentina 5-0 in an invitational match which was testament to the level of...