Every empire rises, dominates, and eventually declines. Is America approaching the fourth stage of imperial collapse? History shows that empires do not last forever. They rise, consolidate power, face internal and external pressures, and eventually weaken. America may now be entering the fourth of five stages in the cycle of empire. But what eventually keeps and sustains an empire? Is this a warning from history or a sign of what lies ahead for African powers, America and other states? Watch. Geopolitics with Oladimeji Bolarinwa

IS THE IGBO IDEOLOGY OF LIVING SPACE/LEBENSRAUM A NAZI IDEOLOGY? As someone who speaks a level of German language, who lived in Germany and who studied Nazi Germany history and also read Awolowo’s autobiography, I must admit that it will take the grace of the almighty for another civil war not to happen in Nigeria because of the political and social ideology from the South East which they have branded as patriotism or better still “one Nigeria”. Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the first person who properly elucidated the politics and ideology of the NCNC Igbo nationalist party as a form of Herenvolk political movement or simply put “Herenvolkism” which was an ethnic supremacist project built on ethnic exceptionalism. Let’s go back to the words being used by the speakers in the video below. The speakers used the term “Living space” multiple times in order to describe the political and social ideology that drives the Igbo’s orientation about Nigeria. In German we call “Living space” as “Lebensraum. The term living space or “Lebensraum was coined by German geographer and nationalist called Friedrich Ratzel in 1901 in order to use Charles Darwin racist evolution theories to justify social Darwinism, imperialism and how this theories can be used by Westphalian states to justify imperialism and colonialism. He argued that a healthy and growing nation needs more natural resources and lands in order to thrive and survive. This ideology was what motivated the Germans to orchestrate the First World War and to justify the Eastward expansion of Nazi Germany into Slavic lands in order to displace and replace the indigenous people as a means of obtaining “Living space” in German language “Lebensraum “. This ideology of living space was what gave the imperial German forces the will and faux morality to annihilate 90 percent of the Herero population of Namibia in order to steal the land. The irony is that most of the lands in Namibia today is controlled and owned by the German population of Namibia who were descendants of those who organised the “Living space “ campaigns that wiped out the Herero population. It makes sense that Azikwe wanted to rule Yoruba people instead of Igbos even thought he was born in Zungeru and why he threatened the Yoruba intellectuals with treason petitions when they asked for true federalism, option of self determination and confederacy in colonial Nigeria because that would have stopped his people from actualising his “Lebensraum or Living space” ideology in Nigeria. It is not a surprise that Professor Moghalu came out some time again to advocate for Ataturk Kemal’s method of nation building for Nigeria meanwhile Adolf Hitler used Kemal as a role model in his formulation and institutionalisation of his Nazi ideology. The question is why are Igbo intellectuals of the past 100 years adopting and supporting imperial and Nazi Germany ideology in Nigeria? Is that the reason why they believe Lagos is no man’s land? Is that why they openly advocate for the eradication of indigenous rights in Nigeria as recent as the 2014 confab and under Ben Kalu the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives ??? No form of pacifism will ever stop an ideology that believes in seeking living space. It can only be solved via equal and proper resistance. The living space ideology is not just an Igbo issue, it is also a Fulani nationalist manifesto problem which was why they requested for RUGA and cattle colony under Buhari across non Fulani territories in Nigeria or else sedentary farmers and population in Nigeria will not know peace. Is the Igbo ideology of Living space a Nazi ideology? Let history be our judge.

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