George Floyd: Yank Their Feet Off Your Necks By Babafemi A. Badejo, Ph.D | Sahara Reporters

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George Floyd: Yank Their Feet Off Your Necks By Babafemi A. Badejo, Ph.D | Sahara Reporters More demeaning feet are really what are on the necks of Africans. Africans must not continuously build “Wall Streets” outside Africa only to be kicked... READ MORE:

Many human beings are rightly condemning the asphyxiation of George Floyd to death over what must have been a painful and agonizing death as he shouted: “I can’t breathe” and called on his dead mum to help out. But Derek Chauvin, the police official , held on with his knees choking his catch of the day like a leopard would do to a prized gazelle just caught. Derek’s colleagues: J.

It's interesting that at the initial point of contact, the Europeans, more of Portuguese did not see Africans as unequal and less human. Written accounts on the Portuguese admiration for the comparative achievements of Benin Kingdom exists. For long, the Europeans denied the Giza pyramids as African contributions to civilization. But then, we all know the arrival of Arabs in Egypt was more recent and the Nubian pyramids and artifacts put paid to the Afro doubters.

Having rendered the Trans-Saharan slave trade unprofitable through the opening of coastal trade, Transatlantic slave trade thrived until it was replaced by colonization.

The problem we face is not colour but structured power relationships of domination. Racism is one manifestation. Today, many African leaders have not acted much differently from the misleaders who sold their kind into slavery. They are now forcing their now supposedly independent African people to accept everything dehumanizing in exchange for a better life outside Africa as they turn their local governance into lootocracies – the plundering of national patrimonies as governance rationale.

 

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