Africans demand the return of looted treasures from the colonial masters

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• Nsia 1 month ago

  We are more concerned about our venal politicians who are stealing from us on a daily basis than some old relic.
  We are more concerned about our polluted rivers and destroyed forests that will no longer sustain us than some ...
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  We are more concerned about our venal politicians who are stealing from us on a daily basis than some old relic.
  We are more concerned about our polluted rivers and destroyed forests that will no longer sustain us than some old relics.
  Over 400 billion dollars worth of oil money has been stolen by corrupt Nigerian policians over tne past decades.No vital infrastructure done by these thieving bastards. Have you thought about that?
  We are more concerned about getting venal African thieves such as Ofori Atta prosecuted and put behind bars than the useless gold mask of useless Kofi Karikari.
  That said, Kofi Karikari dealt in slave raiding and trading during his reign even when it was abolished in the Gold Coast. Madam Tinubu of Nigeria was a notorious slave trader. Are you interested in holding their descendants and heirs accountable as well?
  The ancestors of the King of Morocco came from Arabia and plundered Africa in AD 639.. Are you interested in holding him and the Arabs in North Africa accountable for their despicable actions?
  Have you sat down and collated how much leaders such as Mobutu, Abacha, Nyadema, Babaginda, Biya, Bongo, Ofori Atta, Houphoet Boigny,Mugabe etc stole from the us in Africa?
  These are some of the vital issues that should worry us as Africans. Cheers!

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• Henry 1 month ago

  Thank you
  
  You've hit the nail right on the head.
  
  These stolen artifacts are rather serving as ambassadors for these nations.

  Thank you
  
  You've hit the nail right on the head.
  
  These stolen artifacts are rather serving as ambassadors for these nations.

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• YOU WON'T BE GETTING THOSE "LOOTED TREASURES" BACK MASSA. ALSO NOTE THE FOLLOWING..... 1 month ago

  Getting back your looted treasures is a pipe dream. It isn’t going to happen buddy. These looted items quite apart from a sizeable proportion of them having a face value worth millions of dollars are also a major star attra ...
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  Getting back your looted treasures is a pipe dream. It isn’t going to happen buddy. These looted items quite apart from a sizeable proportion of them having a face value worth millions of dollars are also a major star attraction for visitors to the museums of past colonial powers.
  So, we can kiss goodbye to them for the foreseeable future. Sadly, the world is still a place where "Might is Right".
  A far more sensible thing for African governments to do is to copy the tendency of the Central Banks of most countries (both from the wealthy global North and poorer global South) these days to keep their Gold Reserves in their own countries because of the fear of confiscation by the countries hosting or storing their gold. This fate has already befallen several countries. This is more likely to happen to a country that falls out in a big way with the foreign country acting as "custodians" of their gold reserves. Also, it is conceivable that if the "Custodian" country should suddenly face an extreme geopolitical situation (e.g the sudden outbreak of major war) they would find it hard to resist the temptation to confiscate other nation's gold reserve on some lame pretext.

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• Truth Table 1 month ago

  Jesus is the ONLY treasure everyone should seek.

  Jesus is the ONLY treasure everyone should seek.

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• Akronfo Addoonothing-Bawuliar-Ofui Ataa Ayi 1 month ago

  Colonial masters indeed.
  If we are wise, we call them colonial exploiters, not masters-
  But a black person is generally daft, and that is why we are where we are-MR WRITER THEY ARE YOUR MASTERS, NOT ME-THEY ARE MY EXPLOITER ...
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  Colonial masters indeed.
  If we are wise, we call them colonial exploiters, not masters-
  But a black person is generally daft, and that is why we are where we are-MR WRITER THEY ARE YOUR MASTERS, NOT ME-THEY ARE MY EXPLOITERS.
  However, the issue we have now is more than colonial artifacts, but our own so-called leaders who are worse than the colonial exploiters- stealing billions and putting in offshore accounts whilst the daft masses talk and kill themselves under NPP and NDC and tribalism- just listen to the Attorney General and see the sheer greed and open thievery that useless former president presided over.

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