Shay we want to defend our votes in January? Let's defend each other first. Defend this brother first. The "spirit of aluta" needs to be exercised to be sharper and more focused. So a great place to start defending your votes in January, is to defend Mr. Olawale. Ideally, democracy is not just the allowance to vote and be voted for. It is an all-encompassing system of freedom and citizen sovereignty. But that one na for paper. In reality, democracy is Nigeria is the license to do greater evil than any dictatorship and get away with it — precisely because you're not a "dictator" 🤣

Dear African, do you know that we're actually not the savages they try to paint us to be? Do you know that we don’t fight the way Europeans do? Our warfare traditionally operated on a completely different philosophical and structural logic than European warfare. While European warfare evolved toward total, existential annihilation and structural subsumption, traditional African warfare — prior to the disruptions of the transatlantic slave trade and colonisation — was largely centered on tribute, political realignment, and institutional preservation. Traditionally, we don't annihilate entire peoples. Europeans do—and they had to. They didn't have land. Living on a small, hyper-crowded continent, they had to kill, conquer, and permanently replace the conquered to survive. Because of this civilisational difference, traditional African wars featured significantly — in fact, incomparably —lower casualties than European wars. Let me give you a concrete example. Do you know the Ife-Modákẹ́kẹ́ wars? It is an almost 200-year-old feud between immediate neighbors. Yet, across nearly two centuries of serious conflict, official historical data shows it is highly unlikely that the cumulative casualty count has ever exceeded 5,000 deaths. Do you know how remarkable it is that a 200-year-old war produced fewer than 5,000 deaths? For comparison, look at traditional European conflicts fought within the same timeframe as the Ife/Modákẹ́kẹ́ feud, on roughly the same bone of contention: • The Crimean War (1853–1856): Lasted a mere three years but cost between 500,000 and 750,000 lives. • The Austro-Prussian War (1866): Lasted just 42 days but produced over 170,000 casualties. • The Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871): Lasted only six months but resulted in over 650,000 deaths. The contrast is staggering, isn't it? Europeans, in a single six-month tribal dispute over the border line between France and Germany, slaughtered more people than the entire population of the Yoruba kingdoms they claimed were "primitive." Again, I say unto thee dear African: "You were not—and you still are not—savages." You are not primitive. Europe did not bring civilization to you. The bloodiest battles ever fought on African soil were Europe-assisted. From the almost 3 million deaths during the Nigerian Civil War, to the tens of thousands — or possibly hundreds of thousands — during the Kiriji Wars, to the hundreds of thousands during the 27-year Angolan Civil War, the organic ceiling of traditional African violence has been completely removed with the White man's help. I'm saying this to you, as I continue to paint a bigger picture about who we are and what we must do to rise up and become sovereign, and prosper therewith.