POST via @revolutionarypictures: "Some people are ready to accept that Africans are poor and the continent is seen as "3rd world" but are in denial refusing to acknowledge the factors that have contributed to its current state. ❌Africa: a continent drenched in the blood of revolutionary heroes.Between 1961 and 1973, many African independence leaders were assassinated by their ex-colonial rulers.❌ (1)#PATRICELUMUMBA, prime minister of newly independent Congo, was the second of five leaders of independence movements in African countries to be assassinated in the 1960s by their former colonial masters, or their agents. Lumumba would not have been surprised that his successor, Joseph Mobuto was the US strategic ally in Africa for 30 years. Congo was too rich, too big, and too important for the west to lose control as they would have had Lumumba lived. Lumumba's death in 1961 followed on from that of the opposition leader of Cameroon (2) #FELIXMOUMIE poisoned in 1960. (3)#KWAMENKRUMAH of Ghana, was ousted in a western-backed coup in 1966, and a seventh, (4)#AMILCARCABRAL, leader of the west African liberation movement against Portugal of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde was assassinated in 1973. (5) #SYLVANUSOLYMPIO leader of Togo was killed in 1963. (6) #MEHDIBENBARKA leader of the Moroccan opposition movement was kidnapped in France in 1965 and his body never found. (7) #EDUARDOMONDLANE leader of Mozambique's Frelimo, fighting for independence from the Portuguese, died from a parcel bomb in 1969. The loss 50 years ago of this group of leaders, who all knew each other, and had a common political project based on national dignity, crippled each of their countries, and the African continent. The effects are still evident today. ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌#genocide #maafa #Holocaust #Reparations #conspiracy #evil #WhiteSupremacy #BlackHistoryMonth #africanhistory #RevolutionaryPictures
