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This is the truth. I’ll add that now even Black Africans have joined in defending/supporting this false white victim hood.
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For the settlers in Kenya were really parasites in paradise. Kenya, for them, was a huge winter home for aristocrats, which of course meant big game hunting and living it up on the backs of a million field and domestic slaves, the Watu as they called them.
Coming ashore in Mombasa, as was clearly shown by the photographic evidence in the 1939 edition of Lord Cranworth’s book, Kenya Chronicles, was literally on the backs of Kenyan workers. “No one coming into a new country”, he writes, “could desire a more attractive welcome. We were rowed ashore in a small boat and came to land on the shoulders of sturdy Swahili natives.” This was in 1906.
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And, so, beyond drinking whisky and whoring each other’s wives and natives…and gunning natives for pleasure in this vast happy valley…the settler’s produced little. No art, no literature, no culture, just the making of a little dominion marred only by niggers too many to exterminate, the way they did in New Zealand.
From an editorial by Dusé Mohamed Ali in a November 1912 edition of his paper, the African Times and Orient Review, as quoted in Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood, Pan-African History, Routledge, 2003.
Mohamed Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 21 November 1866 to an Egyptian father, Abdul Salem Ali (who was an army officer), and a Sudanese mother.
![Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999)
First President of Tanzania.
“We, in Africa, have no more need of being ‘converted’ to socialism than we have of being ‘taught’ democracy. Both are rooted in our past — in the traditional society which produced us.”
“The African is not ‘Communistic’ in his thinking; he is — if I may coin an expression — ‘communitary’.”
“[A] man is developing himself when he grows, or earns, enough to provide decent conditions for himself and his family; he is not being developed if someone gives him these things.”
“Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society — benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual — and yet retain African’s own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m63v16Lo2w1rqkjy0o1_500.jpg)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999)
First President of Tanzania.
“We, in Africa, have no more need of being ‘converted’ to socialism than we have of being ‘taught’ democracy. Both are rooted in our past — in the traditional society which produced us.”
“The African is not ‘Communistic’ in his thinking; he is — if I may coin an expression — ‘communitary’.”
“[A] man is developing himself when he grows, or earns, enough to provide decent conditions for himself and his family; he is not being developed if someone gives him these things.”
“Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society — benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual — and yet retain African’s own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.”
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