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Shawn musinguzi retweeted
The Industrial Court is a leftover from the days of pro-worker public policies newly Independent Africa adopted from a (now long-defunct) Western social democracy.
Survived the death of the trades unions which it was created to serve.
It’s sometimes confused, and sometimes right.
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
Man, I love these deep dives. More evidence that Africa, as a collection of independent nations, is perhaps the biggest lie since santa. I'm starting to believe we're not really made up of nations in the strict sense, but rather giant corporations with an invisible boards of directors, where the president is more like a CEO.
Even the most 'grassroots'-looking opposition is just a chess piece in a carefully orchestrated sequence of events. But I'd argue that it's not just Western interests moving pieces on this chess board. Increasingly, some African presidents are also trying to gain control over other African countries, not necessarily in their capacity as presidents, but as individual/ family interests.
And with all this evidence, there'll still be some fool saying, 'Africans are too stupid, lazy or ill-equipped to build nations.' Are you seeing what we're up against?
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
The world is not going through a "new crisis" just because the West is in trouble. Most parts of the world have been in crisis for hundreds of years due to the West doing fine. That's what's coming to an end and it seems it is this prospect of the end of exploitation that is scaring the elites into a frenzy against their own populations.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 12: Aghogho Akpome
Aghogho Akpome challenges the idea that today’s crises mark a new age of monsters, tracing their roots through colonialism, capitalism and Western knowledge systems. Drawing on literature and African histories, he argues that prosperity for a minority has depended on exploitation elsewhere. The discussion explores modernity, socialism, cultural difference and the meaning of the West, with participants challenging and refining his claims. Akpome concludes by advocating decolonial thinking, shared interests and solidarity across societies rather than new hierarchies of supremacy.
Aghogho's Links:
University profile: arts.unizulu.ac.za/dr-a-akpo…
Research publications: orcid.org/0000-0003-4538-360…
Neutrality Studies Links:
Neutrality Studies Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com
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Time Stamps
00:00 Literature and a decolonial perspective
02:36 The long age of monsters
05:45 Colonial wealth and the global majority
13:55 African histories and colonial violence
26:55 Historical amnesia and a system turning inward
32:16 Western knowledge and decolonial alternatives
39:29 Discussion: modernity, capitalism and socialism
48:36 Solidarity, cultural difference and the meaning of the West
#Geopolitics #Imperialism #Africa #Colonialism #Neutrality
The world is not going through a "new crisis" just because the West is in trouble. Most parts of the world have been in crisis for hundreds of years due to the West doing fine. That's what's coming to an end and it seems it is this prospect of the end of exploitation that is scaring the elites into a frenzy against their own populations.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 12: Aghogho Akpome
Aghogho Akpome challenges the idea that today’s crises mark a new age of monsters, tracing their roots through colonialism, capitalism and Western knowledge systems. Drawing on literature and African histories, he argues that prosperity for a minority has depended on exploitation elsewhere. The discussion explores modernity, socialism, cultural difference and the meaning of the West, with participants challenging and refining his claims. Akpome concludes by advocating decolonial thinking, shared interests and solidarity across societies rather than new hierarchies of supremacy.
Aghogho's Links:
University profile: arts.unizulu.ac.za/dr-a-akpo…
Research publications: orcid.org/0000-0003-4538-360…
Neutrality Studies Links:
Neutrality Studies Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com
Support Neutrality Studies: neutralitystudies.com/donate
Neutrality Studies shop: neutralitystudies.com/shop
Time Stamps
00:00 Literature and a decolonial perspective
02:36 The long age of monsters
05:45 Colonial wealth and the global majority
13:55 African histories and colonial violence
26:55 Historical amnesia and a system turning inward
32:16 Western knowledge and decolonial alternatives
39:29 Discussion: modernity, capitalism and socialism
48:36 Solidarity, cultural difference and the meaning of the West
#Geopolitics #Imperialism #Africa #Colonialism #Neutrality
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
If our gov't dialled down a bit on its more oppressive utilization of violent state apparatuses ( kidnaps, drones etc) but still kept its more invisible, "trchnicalised" arms of violence (economic policies, regional inequality) even under some form of democracy (like how
Uganda's current torture regime is so barbaric, so inhuman, & inexplicable that when @HEBobiwine tried to explain our live reality at the @AtlanticCouncil, @DamonMacWilson had to step in to tell people that he was not exaggerating!
Regime apologists waste no second reminding us that "even other governments" torture, & while it is true that a lot of govts actually use some form of torture, I don't know a govt anyway in the world today where people are forcefully disappeared, tortured, & their photos posted on social media! Even Idi Amin actually denied he used torture when he did it, and hid it behind the walls of the State Research Bureau, in Uganda today, photos are posted to Twitter for the world to see; and to not have any doubts!
If our gov't dialled down a bit on its more oppressive utilization of violent state apparatuses ( kidnaps, drones etc) but still kept its more invisible, "trchnicalised" arms of violence (economic policies, regional inequality) even under some form of democracy (like how
Uganda's current torture regime is so barbaric, so inhuman, & inexplicable that when @HEBobiwine tried to explain our live reality at the @AtlanticCouncil, @DamonMacWilson had to step in to tell people that he was not exaggerating!
Regime apologists waste no second reminding us that "even other governments" torture, & while it is true that a lot of govts actually use some form of torture, I don't know a govt anyway in the world today where people are forcefully disappeared, tortured, & their photos posted on social media! Even Idi Amin actually denied he used torture when he did it, and hid it behind the walls of the State Research Bureau, in Uganda today, photos are posted to Twitter for the world to see; and to not have any doubts!
the States can be democratic and still kidnap a head of state or be complicit in genocide), would ug still be distinctly bad vis a vis other nations or its the outwardly & very visible use of militarism ( in spite of the many internal contradictions-bigger than m7) that alone
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Shawn musinguzi retweeted
"Non-violence is a wonderful form of political theatre — very effective when you have an audience."
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
The Americans voted against the party that dragged them into war in the Middle East by voting for the party that will not take them out of the war in the Middle East.
Heads they lose to Epstein. Tails Epstein wins against them.
Democracy.
🙂
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
I work in one of the biggest Law firms in Scotland.
I get on the Bus with the elected Managing Chairman every evening, sometimes the man dey trek go house..
Public Transport shouldn’t be a sign on poverty, I don’t blame you, I blame the system!!
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
Masculinity is massively misunderstood. I can assure you that no one watches Man United games from peer pressure.
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
In Beijing, we had a wonderful seminar to commemorate the 20th anniversary of my friend Wang Hui's essay on depoliticisation. My presentation allowed me to go over the affinities between his work from that essay onward and the first two volumes of my trilogy, The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. The seminar itself was very rewarding, conversations about Amilcar Cabral and Ibrahim Traoré, Lu Xun and Rabindranath Tagore. Wish we had more time for deeper discussion, but what we had was wonderful.
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
The tragedy of our time is that so many people have been conditioned to believe that authoritarianism is inherently socialist or communist, because Western ideological narratives have spent decades equating left-wing politics with tyranny. Yet, for much of Africa, the reality has been precisely the opposite.
We have predominantly been governed by authoritarian capitalist regimes. Regimes in which political repression coexists with economic systems controlled by a tiny elite and foreign interests.
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
This is one heck of a read! You can substitute just about every African country for Uganda, and it would remain accurate, basically word for word.
KALUNDI SERUMAGA - The Rise and Fall of Uganda’s Human Rights “Revolution” (1986-2026) @NativeLandgrab
theelephant.info/analysis/20…
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
Marxist feminists (like Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa) argue that the "housewife" is the most exploited worker in capitalism bc her labor -cooking, cleaning, raising children, providing emotional stability - is the foundation of the economy, yet she isn’t paid.
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
They invited her to Berlin thinking she would praise them. Instead, she exposed their blood-soaked history.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie didn't hold back. She exposed the ultimate Western lie. They teach their kids to "help the poor Africans," but completely erase the fact that Belgium’s King Leopold turned the Congo into a personal slaughterhouse. Millions murdered. Hands chopped off for rubber.
They don't teach the truth because the truth is a debt they can never repay.
Watch this. Bookmark it. Teach your children who the real savages were.
Shawn musinguzi retweeted
I have always been fascinated by a particular breed of African politicians in Europe who seem to have made it their life’s ambition to be more British than the British, more French than the French, and more hostile to Africans and immigrants than the most rabid nationalists in their adopted political circles.
You find them in Britain, France, Belgium and across Europe, particularly in countries that once colonized Africa. Many are the children of African immigrants, sometimes the first generation born in Europe, whose parents arrived in those countries as foreigners. Yet their children have somehow developed an almost religious devotion to the most reactionary interpretations of European nationalism. They speak about immigration as though their own parents descended from the heavens with citizenship certificates in their hands.
And I am not talking about Africans who happen to be conservative. I am talking about those who appear determined to prove their loyalty to their political constituencies by expressing a degree of contempt for immigrants, Africans and their own ancestral history that would embarrass even some European conservatives. The irony would be hilarious if its consequences were not so serious.
Because these politicians occupy a particularly convenient position in the racial politics of Europe. Their African ancestry gives certain political movements an opportunity to present deeply contested positions on immigration, race and colonial history through someone whose very presence is then offered as proof that racism could not possibly be involved.
It is the political equivalent of the racist who insists that he cannot be racist because he once dated a Black woman. Except that this time, instead of producing a Black girlfriend, they produce a Black politician with an African surname and a spectacular appetite for defending their ideological prejudices.
What particularly disgusts me is the historical revisionism that sometimes accompanies this performance. Imagine being so desperate to demonstrate your European patriotism that you begin defending an imperial history whose victims included people who looked like your grandparents.
And for what? To prove that you are sufficiently British? Sufficiently French? That your African ancestry has been politically disinfected to the satisfaction of your audience? I find this obsession with proving oneself more authentically European than Europeans themselves intellectually fascinating and morally disturbing.
This is the context in which I examine Kemi Badenoch’s politics. Badenoch is entitled to her conservative convictions, just as anyone else is entitled to challenge them. But her Nigerian heritage does not make her interpretation of British colonial history more credible, nor does it make her positions on race and immigration immune from criticism.
