People's Planet
10th February, 2026
Baba Kadiri,
Many thanks for the reference to Teju Cole, nailing it on the head with "the fastest growing industry in the US is the WHITE SAVIOUR INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX".
Some of us are familiar with afflictions such as " Colonial mentality" , "colonial complex", "inferiority complex" , White Jesus, etc, but are less familiar with The White Saviour Industrial Complex. I would love to hear a lecture by P.L.O. Lumumba just on that topic
In that famous speech on "Mental Slavery" our own Marcus Garvey told us way back, on October 31, 1937, "We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind"
A few decades later in 1963, at the Harlem Unity Rally , as Malcolm put it, it's the " big white ape" that they've got to get off their back ( and off their minds)
Thank God that we're living on our peoples' planet earth, not "Planet of the Apes"
We note with satisfaction that it wasn't the case that Noija went running over to Massa to beg him to please assist - and what if Massa had assisted - in time - in Rwanda ?
There's the famous scene in Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus , in which Faustus having renounced the Trinitarian God conjures some spirits and the devil appears instead…
I understand that you probably don't beleive in the devil / Iblis/ Shaitan , so the unanswered / unanswerable question is - would you - if need be ask for some assistance from the hypothetical devil / "The Great Satan " to prevent an allgeed ongoing genocide?
If the answer is yes, if, some time later on you change your mind or plans go awry , as in the best laid plans of mice and men go oft awry, then what are you going to do when you tell him that his troops must leave and he says no way, they're there to stay ?
Coupé Cloué - Mon compè/Ti bom
Sometimes ago, the Nigerian writer, Teju Cole, asserted that "the fastest growing industry in the US is the WHITE SAVIOUR INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX," and he buttressed it in a series of tweets. Tweeting, he said, "The white saviour supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by (white man's) enthusiasm. This world exists simply to satisfy the needs - including importantly, the sentimental needs - of white people. The White Saviour Industrial Complex is not about Justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege. I deeply respect American (U.S.A.) sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know, it is deadly. (Quoted by Dipo Faloyin in his book titled, "Africa Is not A Country)."Donald Trump is not sending U.S.A., soldiers to Nigeria to combat insurgents and bandits he has branded as Islamists committing genocide on Christians. If Donald Trump wants to help Nigeria to fight insurgents and bandits, he should send military hardware to equip, particularly, the Nigerian Army. The deployment of American soldiers in Nigeria is for other purpose than combating Islamist insurgents and bandits, supposedly and allegedly, killing only Nigerian Christians. It must be recalled that the U.S.A., for many years had a large drone base in Agadez, Niger Republic. After the military take over of the government by the military under the leadership of General Abdourahamane Tchiani in July 2023, the base was closed down and the 800 US troops were expelled. Since then, the US had no ground troops in West Africa. The military Juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have declared their countries' independence from the neo-colonial Western Powers which is not acceptable to the leader of Western World, the U.S.A. Nigeria may now be used as a springboard to topple, firstly, the government of Niger Republic that shares boundaries with seven states in Northern Nigeria and later governments of Burkina Faso and Mali.Based on a CIA report in 2005, the former US ambassador to Nigeria then, John Campbell, predicted that Nigeria would dissolve as a country in 2015 as a result of ethnic and sectarian tensions. If President Donald Trump can depict the dark-skinned Christian and former President of the U.S.A., Barack Obama, and his wife as monkeys, on what ground does he stand to declare love for the dark-skinned Nigerian Christians for whose sake he is sending American soldiers to defend them?S. KadiriOn Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 7:01:46 PM UTC+1 Victor Okafor wrote:Sincerely,Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies (DAAAS)Eastern Michigan UniversityEmail: vok...@emich.eduTel: 734.487.3463Food for Thought:"I myself do not judge a man [or a woman] by the color of his [or her] skin. The yardstick that I use to judge a man [or a woman] is his [ or her] deeds, his [her] behavior, and his [or her] intentions. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. And, every time you let someone stand on your head and you don't do anything about it, you are not acting with intelligence and should not be on this earth—you won't be on this earth very long either." -- Malcolm X.
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