Mubarak Zakariyya Bs.c Sociology✍🏻
Nigeria initially wasn't given any independence or freedom of Self-government. All what took place on october 1st, 1960 were all rhetoric by colonial masters in charging their strategies for countinue dominating and exploitating our natural resources from colonialism to neo-colonialism as well as imperialism
Colonialism can simply be defined as direct political, economic and social control of a society and its people by a foreign state. While Neo-colonialism is the continued exercise of political, economic and social influence over a society of formal political control.
*According to Walter Rodney in his Book tittled "How Wurope Under Underdeveloped Africa"* stipulated that: European masters had only came to Africa to politically, economically and socially colonialise us through proxy rule; despite the fact that our ancestors have recorded some level of development before starting contacts with them in 17th century.
The followings are some of the development that Africa and Nigeria in particular recorded before coming of imperialists.
-Agricultural development -Cultural development -Leadership development -Tranditional health system -Technological and manufacturing development development
- Religion
-Family system
- Right and obligation
According to him: African countries and Nigeria in particular before contacts with emEuropeans have their own political system which is today popularly known as centralized system of governmen/leardership.
In terms of economy, Before Nigeria was colonized by britain, during the second half of 19 centuary, the variouse nationality groups that currently made up Nigeria were largely an agricultural people. There were foods, they were self-sufficient and produced variety of commodities that had been exporting oversea at that time. During the 19th century, the abolition of the slave trade cleared the way of expansion of trade in agricultural product from Africa to Europe, particularly palm oil from west african coastal areas.
The reality here is that, they just intervened in to our blessed nation to exploite our Natural and minerals as well as human resources, they looted our treasury. By the use of colonialism and neo-colonialism, by slave trade system and stole our agricultural products and exported them to their location, by neo-colonizing us now they dynamises the tactics by the use of insecurity means such as boko haram, bandintry and kidnapping to countinues stealing our natural resources and having control over us.
The worst part of it is their bid to incapacitate and distablised our religion by killing us day and night to cheat by looting our treasury depriving our service and throwing us in to the abject poverty and hunger, actually the western powers that rule and control the country through the proxy servers put Nigerians in to hardship condition.
Lastly, African countries, West Africa and Nigeria in particular are the most blessed States with highest percentage of Natural and mineral resources. No to so-called Independence celebrations, No to colonialism/Imperialism. We Shall continue to struggle for the establishment of a system of peace, security, freedom and equal treatment this is our mission and we shall make it by God's will.
*1st October, 2020*
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