A few days ago we issued a word of warning to our African populist governments, and then yesterday the United States bombed Nigeria, or rather claimed to have bombed an area full of Islamic State’s terrorists in Sokoto, in northwest Nigeria “in conjunction” with the Nigerian government. A few weeks ago, we heard Americans talk about a Christian “genocide” in Nigeria, and we wondered what that was all about ?Remember the west always uses tricks like this: Muslims against Christians, dark-skinned vs. light-skinned, this tribe vs. that tribe, these ones vs. those ones … it is called the politic of divide-and-conquer.

Let us start with a lesson in geography. For those who don’t know, Sokoto is in the Northwest part of Nigeria and is the largest city before the border with Niger, one of the countries in the AES. Over the years, the Islamist State through Boko Haram have destabilized the entire region, but we all know that the area that has been destabilized is on the East, on the border with Cameroon. As a matter of fact, the whole northern part of Cameroon and northeastern of Nigeria have been plagued by Boko Haram attacks for over a decade now. Even Michelle Obama joined the #BringBackOurGirls campaign awareness for the Chibok girls who had been abducted in Nigeria in 2014; Chibok is also on the East, near Cameroon. From the news, the American government claims that the missile strikes were in response to a suicide attack against a packed mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night. So why Sokoto, a mostly Muslim city … so no clear Christian vs. Muslim issue there. Isn’t this baffling? Is it an error in missile strikes, after all, who could blame these people if they don’t know our lands like us? However, it is no secret that America has one of the best intelligence services in the world… and they apparently had help from the Nigerian government itself. That same Nigerian government which cannot stop the abduction of its girls in the Northeast, yet flew fighter jets to strike positions in neighboring Benin to stop the coup against President Talon at the beginning of the month, and then landed in Burkina Faso? Thus, could it be because Sokoto, in northwest Nigeria, is on the border with Niger? Niger which booted the largest US drone base in the world out of their country (Niger suspends military “cooperation” with the US, effective immediately)? The same Niger which is part of the AES (Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger Sign a Mutual Defence Pact)? Niger which is nationalizing its uranium, and has booted France out of its land, and is developing its country, and as a part of the AES? We all saw when then US senator Gaetz asked for retaliation against Niger after the boot, … is this the beginning? or what is it? The explanation given by the American government seems quite bizarre.

Africans need to remember that there is a New Scramble for Africa. Europe is falling apart, the West is falling apart … and the only way to stay strong is through that conglomerate of 54 countries that is Africa, with no real union or laws to protect the little ones, and even the big ones can fall prey having never dealt with some of these. They would try everything to keep us down, in-fighting and so on, so they could rise again when things are better. They are using all means, even immigration (the story for another day). This is the era of the awakening! Africa is the key to the world! There will be blood for Africa’s resources, and Africans have to be at the forefront of the battle for their own resources and take hold of what is theirs. Africans better wake up, the vultures are flying over!