Exactly what @youmio_ai is building towards
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See ehn, if you let Oyibo whine you, na you no get sense.
The Gulf States are bajillionaires because of their oil and gas. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE are worth trillions and are living large.
Russia is rich as hell because of of its oil, gas, wheat, gold, coal, platinum and other natural resources.
Hell even China, the poster boys for hardwork and human capital, owe a huge part of their development to coal deposits and of course the infamous rare earths.
Thing is, you need Both human capital AND natural resources to grow a nation the size of Nigeria.
Alhajis Aliko Dangote & Abdulsamad Rabiu have done extremely well for themselves and employ a shit ton of Nigerians.
But yet our poverty rates are at an all time high precisely because the colonizers and the warrant chiefs take the biggest cut of our natural resources revenue.
Nigeria will lift its people out of poverty and become the heavyweight we are destined to be when we use tear up the parasitic deals our warrant chiefs have cut with the colonizers, use it as toilet paper and then light it on fire.
It's not that I'm against Chevron, Lafarge or Orano taking our oil, limestone and uranium.
Just pay full price and abide by our laws.
Hand over some of those sweet, sweet industrial tech while you're at it and you've got yourself a handsome deal.
Heck if I were president I'd cut you 60% of the pie if you build your plants here, disproportionately hire Nigerians, give us some of your industrial blueprints, and stop funding terrorists.
You'd get handsome tax breaks if you forked over some of your blueprints and paid a fair price.
But of course Oyibo will always want to buy your limestone for #20 per kg and sell you cement for #10k per bag
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Erasing indigenous language is the most lasting weapon of oppression. This conversation is far from over for Africans. If African writers are forced to choose between writing in indigenous languages or being read by the world, then the problem is not the language itself, but the structure of access and understanding.
For the Yorùbá, our language carries depth of our culture and traditions. It cannot afford to be less used. Our language is the power of our culture and everything it means to be Yorùbá. If we abandon it for wider reach, we risk losing both meaning and identity. If we keep it without wider engagement, we limit its audience. That is the tension.
We must reject the commonly held wisdom that the problem in any country or the world is the existence of many languages, cultures, or religions. The problem is their relationship. This is where the question of writing finds its answer in connection.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o said, “Take away our language and we will forget who we are.” He also said, “We have to understand that all languages, big and small, have a common language: it is called translation.”
The task, therefore, is not to choose one over the other, but to sustain indigenous language while building translation as a bridge to the world.
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Europe will not break free by policy.
It will break free by collapse.
No civilization untangles itself from empire through diplomacy.
It does so through despair.
The United States will not release Europe.
It will exhaust it.
Sanctions, inflation, deindustrialization — these are not foreign policy failures.
They are instruments of dependence.
Europe will wake up only when obedience stops paying.
When the last factory closes, when German industry becomes a museum,
When the French worker realizes his pension died in Kiev,
When the Italian sees that NATO has stolen both his energy and his dignity.
That is how decolonization always begins,
Not with speeches, but with hunger.
Europe will rediscover sovereignty the way a drunk discovers sobriety,
By hitting the floor.
And when it happens, it won’t be Brussels that rebels.
It will be the streets.
It will be the farmers, the workers, the engineers,
The people who can no longer afford to live under American inflation and European illusion.
Empires collapse not when they are defeated, but when their vassals stop believing.
The United States can dictate policy.
It cannot dictate reality forever.
The moment Europe accepts that Washington’s security guarantees are its greatest insecurity, the spell will break.
But until then, Europe will go on mistaking paralysis for peace, obedience for order, and decay for destiny.
Freedom will not arrive from Washington’s permission.
It will begin the day Europe remembers that it once knew how to say no.
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My advice to Muslim and Global South nations is simple:
Memory is your first weapon.
Never forget who drew your borders, who armed your rivals, who sent debt instead of dignity, and who built your "democracy" on the payroll of foreign embassies.
Break the cycle of dependency.
Trade on your own terms, with East and South, not just West.
Build real alliances with those who respect your sovereignty, not those who preach freedom while keeping you under surveillance.
Reclaim your narrative, your education, your currency, and your story.
Every empire begins with a textbook and a loan.
End them both.
Feed your people. Fix your power. Fund your future.
Everything else becomes negotiation.
No outside power will free you.
Only unity, memory, and discipline can.
Vietnam did not win because it was richer or stronger.
It won because it remembered, united, controlled what mattered, built real alliances, and never asked permission.
So must you.
The future belongs to those who refuse to let Washington, London, or Paris name their enemies and write their constitutions.
It’s time to act like the world is multipolar, not just talk about it.
we are not being educated, we are being programmed.
No.
However, 1000s of books have already been written about what actually causes underdevelopment in Africa.
One of my recent favorites is ‘The Divide:
A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions’
Quote: “Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms”
Not even corruption explains underdevelopment.
The Corporate Tax Haven Index list of Global Corruption list does not include any African country, but countries like the UK & Netherlands which are in the top 10 are also the worlds wealthiest
Author, Professor Jason Hickel and I met in parliament, where he showed how common ideas about development ignore the broader political forces at play.
As for the many Nigerians like you who tweet misleading ideas, you really need to put down your keypad, put away your sentiments, and study more.
We are where we are because too many of us are averse to learning, and prone to repeating the programming that keeps us from development
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$RBNT 🔥🔥
The smart contracts that are necessary to the tokenisation of the real world assets and the implementation of Australian dollar stable coins is progressing well and should be complete by December. These are being deployed on the Redbelly Testnet for testing purposes.
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Walking Ìṣẹ̀ṣe: Its Dangers, Manipulations, and True Path
A kìí bá ikú jà kó má bá ẹni tán.
You do not wrestle with death and come away unscathed.
Today, we wrestle with the slow death of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe. Not because outsiders attack it with weapons, but because our own custodians aid its destruction.
Fear-Based Spiritual Hustling and Moral Collapse
Babaláwo tell men they cannot touch their wives unless they sacrifice a goat. Some charge ₦10 million for Ìtẹ̀fà initiation, turning sacred rites into exclusive luxuries. Others perform rituals for yahoo boys, empowering fraud that destroys families and tarnishes Yorùbá dignity.
Even worse, some exploit the diaspora – Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti – who preserved Ìṣẹ̀ṣe not as religion, but as civilisation blueprint. They maintained chants, drums, Ifá verses, and Òrìṣà reverence despite slavery and oppression. Today, they stand prouder in Ìṣẹ̀ṣe than many born in Yorùbá land. Yet some custodians treat them as clients to exploit, inventing taboos and charging exorbitant fees for half-truths.
This is fear-based spiritual hustling, not Ìṣẹ̀ṣe.
Ifá teaches discipline, clarity, courage, and accountability – not fear, greed, or exploitation.
Not All Custodians Are Lost
✅ True custodians exist – Babaláwo and Ìyánífá who teach with dignity, Oníṣègùn who heal without fear, Ogboni elders who uphold ethics.
✅ Many are unconscious victims repeating inherited corruption they never questioned.
✅ This is not to shame them but to call them back to duty. Doing it right preserves culture and civilisation. Doing it wrong destroys generations.
Hoarding Knowledge Kills Civilisation
Worse than fear-selling is hoarding knowledge.
🌿 Ifá encodes nature’s sciences, plant medicine, animal behaviour, psychology, binary coding, governance logic, and mechanised intelligence (Sìgídì). Yet few teach these to youth. Knowledge that should build communal power is locked away to maintain personal power and income.
⚡ We praise Ifá’s binary code as proof of African intelligence, yet import Western AI without studying Ifá’s computational logic.
📚 We marvel at National Geographic while Ifá holds centuries of environmental documentation, animal behaviour, migration patterns, agriculture, philosophy, and governance strategy encoded within Odu verses.
Our schools should decode Òrìṣà knowledge as embodied sciences:
🔧 Ògún – metallurgy, tool-making, engineering, and technological development
⚡ Ṣàngó – physics of electricity, energy systems, justice and leadership
💧 Ọ̀ṣun – hydrology, herbal medicine, aesthetics, and riverine ecology
⚖️ Ọ̀bàtálá – ethics, philosophy, law, and moral governance
🧠 Ọ̀rúnmìlà – logic, philosophy, mathematics, psychology, and knowledge system design
🌳 Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sí – ecology, environmental management, forestry, and geographical intelligence
🌿 Ọ̀sányìn – botany, pharmacology, herbal medicine, environmental chemistry
🤖 Sìgídì – indigenous robotics, mechanised intelligence, and embodied AI principles
These are knowledge embodiments – not just deities to worship but sciences to decode for civilisation building.
Ifá says:
“Ọgbọ́n tí a fi í dá ilé, tí a fi í dá ọ̀run, kó yẹ kó di àpò òpè.”
The wisdom that builds earth and heavens should not be locked away like palm kernels in a sack.
When knowledge is hoarded, civilisation dies.
The Consequences
❌ Children ashamed of their heritage
⚠️ Youth divided politically, lacking clarity of identity and history
🎭 Cultural inferiority where aṣọ òfì becomes costume play while suits become symbols of power
💤 Intellectual laziness, preferring imported ideas over decoding ancestral wisdom
🔮 Spiritual confusion where fear replaces ethics, and rituals become transactions for sale
We stand like exiled royalty begging for crumbs in foreign markets, forgetting we once owned the orchard.
The Rising Change
🌟 There is hope.
🎬 Nollywood films like Bàṣọ̀rún Gáà, Lísàbí, The King’s Horseman reclaim our history, showing governance, betrayal, strategy, courage, philosophy, and political structures embedded in ancestral life.
They prove our civilisation was structured, philosophical, and dignified – not primitive chaos.
💡 Influencers now teach tonal greetings, proverbs with moral logic, and Òrìṣà meanings beyond superstition.
👗 Fashion, cuisine, architecture are re-emerging as valid aesthetics, not relics.
This rising change proves Ìṣẹ̀ṣe is living, adaptive, and capable of guiding modern life with dignity.
Walking Ìṣẹ̀ṣe Without Fear
Ifá says:
“Ìṣẹ̀ṣe là ń wò kí á tó bẹ́ Òrìṣà.”
It is Ìṣẹ̀ṣe we must honour before calling any Òrìṣà.
Walking Ìṣẹ̀ṣe means:
✅ Ethics before ritual
✅ Clarity before offerings
✅ Truth before worship
✅ Discipline before declaring custodianship
Òrìṣà knowledge is not foreign religion for status or fear-based hustle for survival. It is the blueprint for intelligent, responsible, and dignified living.
Our children will not defend what they do not understand. They will not love what they are taught to fear. They will not build with knowledge hidden from them.
An Ifá Affirmation To Start Your Week
Instead of searching for imported affirmations disconnected from your ancestors, remember:
Ìṣẹ̀ṣe carries thousands of daily affirmations, prayers, and decrees encoded within Ifá and our oral traditions.
Here is just one example you can speak, especially on Monday – the day of wealth – to call fortune in alignment with your path.
EJIOGBE WEALTH DECREE
Aròmọ̀gégé (He who robes the child to befit the child)
Aròmọ̀gégé (He who robes the child with utmost care)
Òjí ní kùtùkùtù mókun ọlá dáni (The one who wakes early holding the robes of prosperity)
Olómọ̀ ṣíjú pé e wọlé Ayé lorúkọ Ifá (He who looks after Earth is Ifá’s name)
Ẹni tí ó bá ṣíjú rere rẹ̀ wo níí lọ́wọ́ (Whoever Ifá looks upon with compassion is blessed)
Ifá kí ó ṣíjú rere rẹ̀ wo mí kí n lọ́wọ́ (Ifá, please look upon me with compassion so I am blessed)
Nítorí (Because)
Èmi l’Ọmọ Olúkẹ̀nkẹ̀ (I am one people give to)
Èmi l’Ọmọ Olúgẹ̀ngẹ̀ (I am one people pamper)
Èmi l’Ọmọ Olú fi gbogbo ara kẹ̀ mí kẹ̀ mí (I am one people wholeheartedly give to)
Èmi ni Atewogbire ọmọ Agbọnmiregun (I am offspring of Agbọnmiregun who stretches forth his hand to receive blessings)
Ẹni tó ní ẹja méjì kì ó fi ìkan kẹ́ mí (Whoever has two fishes should give me one)
Ẹni tó ní ẹran méjì kì ó fi ìkan kẹ́ mí (Whoever has two meats should give me one)
Ẹni tó ní ire méjì kì ó fi ìkan kẹ́ mí (Whoever has two fortunes should give me one)
Ọ̀nà kì í dì mọ́n aládàá (Roads never block one holding a cutlass)
Kí Ọ̀nà ire má ṣe dì mọ́n mí (May my roads never be blocked)
Èjìogbè gbé ire t’emi kó mi lónìí o (Èjìogbè, bring my fortunes today)
Irè gbogbo kó jẹ́ ti t’emi (All good fortunes are mine.)
Ìṣẹ̀ṣe is not something you join. It is something you live.
Live it with dignity, clarity, and fearless truth – as an honourable child of Olódùmarè, rooted in the path your ancestors laid for you.
#Yoruba #Isese #Ifa #Ashe #AfricanKnowledge #Decolonize #YorubaCulture #ProudlyAfrican #IFA #awujo #thinkyorubafirst #tyf #reno #language #culture #ReligionAndLaw #religion
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Let’s explore the Nok civilization, one of West Africa’s earliest and most mysterious ancient cultures. A forgotten people who left no written records but spoke loudly through their art.
The best is yet to come 🤩🔥💥
.@rwa_io is now reporting $999.51M (A$1.59B) in on-chain assets on the Redbelly Network! And the best is yet to come! 🎉
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Ṣàngó Ayílẹ́gbẹ̀ẹ́ Ọ̀run Ọkọ Ọya And Șàngó Olúkòṣo Àyánrá Iná
It is very surprising and unbelievable that many people (including Șàngó Devotees, Cultural Researchers and Practising Oníṣẹ̀ṣes) does not know that we actually have two distinct Ṣàngó and that there's a lot of fundamental differences between the two of them. And that the first Șàngó is a primordial Irúnmọlẹ̀/Òrìṣà (Deity/Divinity) and the second Șàngó is a "deified" hero/king (Òrìṣà-Àdáyéyàn/Èèyàn-dòrìṣà) who is believed to be the reincarnate of the the first Ṣàngó (the Irúnmọlẹ̀).
The first Șàngó is junior one of the four major and principal primordial Irúnmọlẹ̀/Òrìṣà that shared the "four-day" a week worship days in Ìṣẹ̀ṣe (Yorùbá Indigenous Religion - YIR) among themselves - the remaining three are Ọbàtálá/Òrìṣà Ńlá (the eldest), Ọ̀rúnmìlà Baraà mi Àgbọnnìrègún and Ògún Lákáayé Ọ̀ṣìn Mọlẹ̀.
The first Șàngó is known as Șàngó Ayílẹ́gbẹ̀ẹ́ Ọ̀run Ọkọ Ọya Òríirì (Onílé Iná Ọ̀rànfẹ̀) and he was actually the one married to another primordial Divinity/Deity called Ọya Òríirì and NOT the second Șàngó (as widely believed or being promoted). It's important to rẹ̀ emphasise the fact that, this first Șàngó (Șàngó Ayílẹ́gbẹ̀ẹ́ Ọ̀run Ọkọ Ọya) never left Ilé Ifẹ̀ before his departure from this physical world. And it's this same very powerful and highly charismatic first Șàngó that has relationship with another prominent Female primordial and river deity popularly called Yemọja.
The second Șàngó, who is known Șàngó Olúkòṣo Àyánrá Iná was the second son of Oranmiyan (the founder and first Aláàfin Ọ̀yọ́) and this Șàngó was the third Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́, and the junior brother of the second and fourth Aláàfin Ọ̀yọ́ who's Aláàfin Àjàká (Dàda Olówó Ẹyọ). He was a very powerful king (both spiritually and physically) and a very successful warrior during his lifetime and through out his reign on the throne of Aláàfin. He was a very awesome and highly amazing king who latter dramatically lost the throne to his senior brother and he was later got defied. He was believed to possess all the attributes of the first and primordial Șàngó Ayílẹ́gbẹ̀ẹ́ Ọ̀run Ọkọ Ọya.
It’s very worthy of note that, this deified Aláàfin Șàngó was never married to Ọya Òríirì and that Ọya Òríirì (who's also a primordial deity was married to the first primordial Șàngó Ayílẹ́gbẹ̀ẹ́ Ọ̀run). Again, this second Șàngó (Aláàfin Șàngó) was also not married to Ọ̀sun Òyéyénímọ̀, and that Ọ̀sun Ẹ̀wùjí was actually the second wife of Ọ̀rúnmìlà Baraà mi Àgbọnnìrègún (after Odù Ẹlẹ́yinjú Ẹgẹ́). Aláàfin Șàngó has nothing to do with Ọbà (Ọbàyamú) too, so, it's pointless to talk about having her as one of his several wives. Ọbàyamú was actually married to three different kings (during her lifetime and before transforming herself into a river and she later became deified). Ọbàyamú was first married to King Olúwòó of Ìwó, and secondly to King Alájàáwà of Àjáàwà, and thirdly to King Olúgbọ́n of Igbọ́n, where she eventually died - hence the popular saying, "Igbọ́n réré ní ilé Ajagun" (far Igbọ́n city is the home of Ajagun). It should be noted that "Ajagun" (because she's also a famous female warrior) is the main other name or alias of Ọbà (Ọbàyamú).
Written by Babaawo Adérẹ̀mí Ifáòleèpin Adérẹ̀mí
Olúwo Ifáòleèpin
27th of September, 2024.
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They won’t teach you in school that the Greeks visit Egypt (KEMET) as students to learn about science, economics, mathematics, medicine and etc under the feet of Africans:
Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years.
Pythagoras studied philosophy, geometry and medicine in Egypt for 22 years.
Thales, the first Greek philosopher to study in Egypt for 7 years.
Hypocrates, who is called father of medicine, recognised the Egyptian multi genius, Imhotep as the father of medicine.
The "Pythagorean Theorem" used to build pyramids in Egypt and Sudan over 1000 years before Pythagorean was born.
Plato said Egyptian education makes students more alert and humane. Plato told his students to go to Egypt if they wanted to study the minds of great philosophers.
Heredotus, the Greek historian described ancient Egypt as the cradle of civilization.
Our ancestors opened the doors of our Nation to foreign people, these guests were welcomed with respect and honour according to our traditions but they used our kindness to destroy and cause division amongst Africans and our tradition. When Alexander invaded Kemet he destroyed its museum and send some books back to Macedonia.
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"There is nothing more devastating than an African with a European mind." - Malcolm X.
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"When a white man creates a phone and you video chat with your brother you call it technology but when your Grandfather in the village uses a mirror to see you while you are hundreds of kilometres away you call it witchcraft. It's about time we value our own Africa products."
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My Yoruba brothers and sisters... Yoruba nationalists are not against your right to be a Christian, Muslim or free thinkers.... The point of emphasis is that any form of spirituality that will make you trade your land and birthright is dangerous.... God in heaven will never ask you to trade your ancestral lands in exchange for passage to paradise. Those who convince you to do such are expansionists trying to use religion for conquest.
This is Samuel Ajayi Crowther.... He was deceived to believe that brotherhood comes from religion.... white missionaries gave him a new name and identity.... elevated him to the position of Bishop of West Africa... It was Ajayi Crowther who convinced Queen Victoria to send ships to invade Lagos and annex it into the British estate in 1851.... From Lagos, British invaded and conquered all the estates of the Niger and Benue.
After they got what they wanted, Ajayi Crowther was used and dumped.... Reason was claimed to be the concept of the Darwin theory.... a Black man cannot be a Bishop over white people in the colonies about to be created in West Africa.... He was removed as Bishop and disgraced..... he died a broken man... after he has been used to conquer his lands by aliens and to bastardize his ancestral heritage.
Solagberu of Oke Suna was turbaned shortly before Alimi's invasion of Afonja's Palace. Afonja was smoked out, killed with many arrows and burnt into ashes... Last hours to his death, he sent message to Solagberu, the only man that could have saved him if he came from Oke Suna to defend him with his warriors. Solagberu refused. He believed his loyalty to Alimi as a fellow muslim was more important than his loyalty to his Yoruba kinsman.
Toyeje, the Bale of Ogbomoso and new Kakanfo, upset with the murder of Afonja declared war on Ilorin and marched a large army to meet the Emir's army at a palace called Ogele.... Alimi reached out to Solagberu, the most powerful warlord at Ilorin to protect the city... Solagberu intercepted Toyeje and fought him back at the battle of Ogele.
When the services of Solagberu was not needed anymore, Emir Abdulsalm... son of Shehu Alimi ordered an invasion of his estate at Oke Suna... he was forced to surrender and openly executed like a common criminal.
To You a Yoruba citizen, if you don't stand with your people for any reason, even if such was based on religion, you will always end in disgrace.... Mecca is the home of Islam... a muslin that overstays his visa in Saudi will be punished.... that should tell you all you need to know that nationhood is more important than religion on earth.... The Saudi is first a citizen before a Muslim....
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