THE GOD'S ARE NOT TO BLAME
NO innovation
Their is a reason why we copy Everything and seem to not know how to MAKE.
Thur.Dec.14.2023 - Ubochi Eke
We import simple toilet seats, from Indian factories that still make them by hand. "Abi we no get hand"?
And The God's Are Not to Blame.
In our Africa, STATE Governors still boast of dual carriage roads, some with no gutters or street lighting and Presidents still commission boreholes where quite small taps made for home distillation, serve villages of our people. Nawa ohhh!
In Africa, coupled Chinese cars are the height of manufacturing and we still celebrate the crass stupidity that is the terribly inefficient, foot propelled sewing village known as Aba.
Our Telecommunications are not just powered by global technology companies, we now lease the telecommunications towers (Masts) to American companies to load diesel and chase away copper stealing theives, here on Nigerian and African soil.
MTN Nigeria, just contracted the management of masts (in Nigeria) to an American Corporation.
In Africa we marry twice, 1st to mock our ancestors with aberrations of the cultures they fought hard to retain for us, then we expend 3 years of family income to copy the White man with an equally poor rendering of his culture. Oddly, enough, the only one our women consider marriage, is when we marry them, like white men, yet they expect us to ride the horse like our ancestors, feed it like men and in receipts collect an imitation White woman for a wholly African service.
In Africa a cultured woman is one with fake hair - Indian innovation, a professional man is a suit and tie - British innovation, an I.T guru is an expert on using Shopify and outsourcing code to Upwork - Bangladeshi innovation, in Africa an oil company is a fatman with connections who does not know the depth of his well and is merely a landlord of our resources letting out the engineering to Shell - Dutch innovation.
In Africa we are not well and our wealth cannot show source or a home address. We thrive in business not by creating value, because that is what stupid people do. Why reinvent the wheel, let he who was colonized, colonize.
Steal, leech, copy, paste, do every and anything but do not innovate, imported innovation is innovation after all.
Ara (Madness), who did this to us?
Well, that is the crux of this article, but in case you are wondering - No, The God's Are Not to Blame!
ROOT CAUSES
What in your house, is African?
From 1820 onwards, much of Africa was dwarfed by malicious Western trade practices by the Portuguese which played on its greater knowledge of the world order to introduce glass to much of Africa and take away mirror clean water. Since then we have been viewing ourselves from the angle of borrowed perception. Worse still, in came the British, French, Dutch, German etc., with genuine conquest that stripped us of cultural, moral and knowledge independence orienting us with their schools, churches and legal frameworks into an order of society that required no dependencies on our own thinking and creative abilities but rather egged us with cheap rewards and harsh punishments (Gin and Guns, not Carrots and Sticks), into a sheepish alignment to their own prepackaged innovations, much of which were years behind us.
For example, when the mud house was replaced by cement blocks they called it civilization, yet till date, mud blocks make a better building material when measured around general availability, climatic benefits, costs and ease of constructions, all human variables. The only advantages of cement works is nothing, because the only point at which cement buildings have any additional structural advantages over mud is when you introduce stones and turn it into concrete.
The sad challenge however is that 99% of all human homes do not require concrete. As such the cost complexity of finding coarse sand (and killing Rivers), trucking in stone base (and killing Mountains, manufacturing cement (and killing Rivers, Mountains and Forests all at ones), to conclude at a building material that is 10 times the cost of mud, leaves Nigeria with a deficit of 20million homes, Africa missing 100+ million homes and the great majority of our people living in poorer, more ancient homes than their ancestors (who were "uncivilized" did).
Sun-dried mud brick towers from the 16th century City of Shibam, Yemen, still stand today as a testament to human ingenuity in Africa.
What is wrong with mud by the way? Isn't half of Italy built with Bricks? Did the Yemeni not build 16 story houses with mud well before the British empire even started? The only thing wrong with mud, is the very thing wrong with us.
Since 1820, we no longer think for ourselves. African nations are considering banning Coal, huh? African nations are leading the world in eco-friendly initiatives, huh?
The most eco-friendly move Africa can make is to give power to all Africans by burning raw crude oil at source, this because the net emissions from the stupid (I pass my neighbour) generators that litter Nigeria alone is causing more harm to air quality and standard of human life, than it would take to provide all of the worlds power from coal.
That was not a joke, or an exaggeration. The African and his leaders are victims of the longest running "long con" in the history of fraud in the world.
After just 200 years of mental decapitation, he now sends his children abroad to continue the conquest and cede voluntarily, even more cultural, moral and intellectual independence than was "taken" from him during the time of colonization.
African leaders scramble for the opinions of the IMF and World Bank before making financial decisions, during Covid (White Man's Malaria), we Decimated our own economies instead of taking advantage of our immune Defense to provide a productive center for the world at a time of desperation and recover lost market share.
Illustrating the conformity without intent at disrespect, observe African Leaders in Monkey Suits at the Cope 28 Summit in Dubai, where is the evidence of independence of thought?
The people of Africa cannot vacation in Africa, they even now marry in Venice and Dubai. Modern Buffoonery the likes of which Buffoons will be angry to be associated with.
These are remnants of a colonial order which we must viciously reverse. It is a concourse of palette revision that has remodeled our appetite maliciously into the consumption of whatever it is the Americans and Co, say is cool. Bone straight hair, Mercedes Benz, Carera marble, Portland cement, "their" undemocratic "Democracy" , One wife, Girlfriend, Montessori schools, Cigarettes, Red Wine, White wedding, the Word Goose Pimples and host of other non-scientific modulations of life that has left us as voluntary slaves, who now clock in for abuse - All must go.
Showering with a half bucket of water like cursed people in a continent that houses an unfair percentage of the world's water resources is madness, drinking out of plastic sachets and bottles, as if nature was designed to kill us, is madness, treating common f**king "IBA" (malaria) with drugs that destroy our Kidneys. Madness all around, and the God's Are Not to Blame.
All this is the perfected result of the effective reprogramming of a people, to detest all things that are organic to them and to crave even the waste water of the Western order. For 100 years, the African could not rise to the post of District Police Officer, his value in the Civil service of his nation Depended not on his raw intelligence but in his ability to regurgitate with a semblance of acceptance the nonsense deposited in him by his Western masters. 3 generations later and more in some instances, and we have all but forgotten that we reign over these lands and Servants don't innovate.
This is the root cause of the mental and spiritual flatline that has beheld the African, hell bound in a hypnotic rhythm of ruthless saturation of organic development that has made the sheep so attached to the master, that it now carries a stick to align it's own children with the paths previously layed out once before by the barrel of a gun.
The African struts around trade shows Buying simple machinery with Glee and boasting of the empowerment of his people with 1920`s sewing technologies and a Garri processing plant, that didn't consider the need for a septic tank, to contain the cyanide that is the by product of this Portuguese trojan horse we call food.
The African is so blinded and lost that he does not even recognize that Garri/Fufu (Cassava), is not a native food to Africa and that we did not learn hair care from Britain and ofcourse, love is not new to us, in fact, it is their version that deserve questions. One wife - strip club? Love kids but just 2? Advanced race - steal gods? Democratic with steel guns? Tap water - our streams gone? Dollar exchange, Naira sinks - Wealth gone?
Everybit of this modern design, is an ancient script - conquest. Anyi bu ndi eriri eri (we are a conquered people).
FREEDOM
One of the most impressive things about Innoson Motors in Nigeria, is the fact that they build the frames and car panels from raw sheet metal here in Nigeria. While their methods are far behind the global auto industry, it is the best approach as it allows African technicians to grow from raw fabrication and to advanced automation through organic innovation.
The beginning of any hope of innovation in Africa is freedom. The slave must liberate himself from the master by running into the woods without taking any property. He will risk cold and the jaws of wild animals, for if he tries to take some of the machets in the store, he may arise suspicion.
In essence Africa must make a clean, Naked break. In my life I have practiced this to greaT success. I don't practice economics, I developed ORAnomics as a characteristically African model for trade and development analysis and planning. It now forms the intellectual base of a highly potent model that cannot be replicated or matched by anyone practicing economics.
I don't take modern "Chemical" medicines, except as a resuscitative measure if ever I am truly incapacitated, and as a result I have learned about food, drinks and the natural range of protections available to us, "unengineered", in nature.
I have discarded their religion and the result is not just the African Renaissance Order, but a personal connectivity to the divine that is unimaginable to spell out in words.
ALUSIUWA is a result of a refusal to accept that African currencies must depreciate, LIVEN Capital is a result of a refusal to accept that the only route to African development is politics, Vision 1960 is the result of a refusal to concede to global hegemony and my entire lifestyle and family and the entirety of the Royal House of AjaAni is a blatant and violent disconnection from any concessions to Western colonial aberrations of our culture and people.
In all of the enterprises that are birthed within our eco-systems like Itunanya (Media Networks), 4 Star Culture (Hotels), City Centre Development Corporation (Real Estate) etc, we insist on a clean break and this forces innovation because when the slave is naked in the bush, he must fashion clothes from raw materials, eat raw food, sleep on raw trees and from this base innovate the tools of his survival. one day at a time he secures his future and in the process learns the lessons his masters refused to share, and aided by his independence from them, adjusting the knowledge specifically to fit his very own needs and purpose.
Not only do we raise European breeds of Chickens in Africa but we even feed them on supplements from Europe and we even borrow feeding formulas from their research to make local feeds with African inputs.
By breaking free and letting the chickens live or die, observing and adjusting we can feed Africa faster, with a little pain in the foundation stages of pioneering new breeds, natural supplements and feed formulas that are based on the most readily available food stocks in Africa.
Not only do we drive Mercedes but we are incapable of fitting them with local tires or aluminum wheels. Infact we can barely refill it will local fuel and engine oil.
By breaking free we can mass produce local fuels and oils, tires and aluminum components. Even if we did it in the manual ways it was done in 1801, it would be a better bet, as it will need 1,000,000 of our people just for tires, Aluminum and lubricants, in the process curing our tremendous and growing rates of unemployment. Furthermore it will provide massive savings in foreign exchange not only for the imports themselves but the process of shipping and the logistics home and abroad and finally, by "nakeding" the processes involved in the manufacturing of these products we will learn and adapt processes, materials and technologies to our own, unique purposes.
NO INNOVATION
The Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia by David Adjaye, illustrating Africans' importance abroad, they must be seen at home.
There is no innovation in Africa, because the African thinks that innovation is reserved for the American, German, Russian, any others but himself.
I am involved in a massive development project in Nigeria where my partners have asked for Italians, Iranians, Russians, Americans, seeking that I stretch my global contacts for foreign contractors and forgetting the great Nigerian, African and Black minds that litter the globe and are often, principle intellects to some of the worlds most advanced innovations, which have now been colonized and publicized by White American Corporations.
Google may be a massive enterprise but it is not a leading innovator. At the core of its operations are inventions in Server technologies, fiberoptics, satellite technologies, computing etc, all of which it did nothing to pioneer. The leaders in these areas being Oracle, Huawei, Intel and the like. This is by no means an insult to the incredible ingenuity of market dominance by Adsense, Google search and Android to name a few, all owned by Google. However, at its heart Google is merely a large trading company and not a true technology company.
I only make this clear point using Google, not to insult them but to punctuate and to define what I mean by innovation.
Africans couple, adapt, brands but do not "as a norm" invent and the God's Are Not to Blame.
We think too little of ourselves to innovate. Starting sentences and arguments by saying "that is how it is done in America", "the Bible says", "in Saudi Arabia", "if it was a White person" etc. Massive cries for help from slaves to their masters as if to say that the Master has any interest in saving the slave.
With each new generation we shift from British to America "follow follow" , when that fails some ditch them for Russians, Chinese, Emirati but not self. Innovation in your life, as a microcosm of Africa, starts when you discard dependencies and submit to self help at all cost. This applies to all of us as individuals, all of us as leaders and all of us as a body of people, in communities, nations and the African blood the world over
CHANGING THE STORY
For Children, Companies, Ideas and Projects, we must set the foundation right by grounding them in names that reflect our confidence in the sufficience of our identity and aspirations.
We have chosen to name all our enterprises Igbo, Hausa, Khosa, Swahili and any other names but John and John Nigeria ltd (Apologies to my uncle who owns that name). The thinking of any African organization or Leader who wants change must start with the foundation stone of the idea or enterprise which is found in its names. We must name our children, enterprises, books and other works in line with the Aspiration that they emerge global leaders without compromise on identity.
We have also chosen to employ Nigerians in the most complex fields and watch them fail. Failure is a component of innovation and the rush to perfectly deliver projects is an enemy to carrying our people along and developing simultaneously, the project, land and people. This does not mean a compromise of quality, rather it is about patient Implementation that allows margins of error and experimentation.
This is not an economically sound model, but economics is not in our favours. The West so far outpaces us using that model that working with it leaves us perpertually behind. An ORAnomic model, recognizes the impact of today on tommorrow and judges that if our people are allowed to fail today, as they test their abilities in actual developments, it will lead to a stronger support system for even greater projects in the future that will offset all other loses.
The best wife to marry is one that is already pregnant but then, whose kid is it? As such we marry Virgins and Young Bride and even wait 4 years for University graduation and in some cases still wait for Masters Degrees, so that we can have a wife of OUR OWN.
The same applies to innovation. Better to take 5 years to start building cars that are truly made in Nigeria, than to couple Chinese plastics in a country that owns every raw material than can be found in the parts of a Car. Better to build a lab and spend 2 year testing mud blocks than to spend 50% of project cost developing cities for our people with imported materials that leach workforce, Capital and sap our intellectual ability to develop and implement solutions for ourselves.
I can talk from now till, Tomorrow but I think you get the point. With Sacrifice, Risk, and a little love for self and Country we can recover lost ground and start to innovate a new future for ourselves and our people.
The God's Are Not to Blame and there is every chance to build and Invent in Africa, if we reset our minds, and run out of the slave house of importations, as quickly as possible without risking the delay of nonsense Promises of knowledge transfer by our slave masters.
Turn-key projects are another word for importation. Break the Chains, "make we build am small, small", by ourselves, with every new day and the growth of knowledge we can speed up until we over-take them, not to where they are going, but so that we can lead and bank right, in the direction of our own aspirations for ourselves and our people.
SERIES CONCEPT
this is a syndicated Article Released Every Thursday and focused on exposing the root causes of the characteristic imbalances of the african story, with solutions that are practical for each of us to take independent of government and economic or social class.
Our world is out of balance and THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME... We are. While the world and other factors have a hand in our degraded quality of Life and position in the world, we must take ownership of the restoration of our pride of place in the world and in the arrival at a quality of Life that is worthy of our heritage.
And here are the tools of understanding and action, if you fail to use them, note that THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME... You are.
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