TAKE STEP AFRICA

21/08/2025

Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” wasn’t just a song; it was a Pan-African indictment of colonial education, corrupt leadership, and the erasure of indigenous truth.

🔊 What was Fela really saying? He was calling out systems that teach obedience over liberation. That replaces ancestral wisdom with foreign dogma. That train minds to serve, not to question.

Here’s how that message still hits today:

📚 Colonial curricula still dominate African classrooms, sidelining our own scientists, philosophers, and revolutionaries.

🧠 Mental colonization persists when we’re taught to admire Europe and doubt ourselves.

🎭 Cultural performance replaces cultural truth, especially when girls are taught to be seen, not heard.

21/08/2025

Who Decides Our Dignity?

This viral sketch compares girls’ and boys’ underwear from age 10 to 25. But beneath the ink lies a deeper question: Why does society sexualize girls’ bodies while boys remain neutral?

From frills at 12 to thongs at 25, the girl's side reflects a cultural script, one that teaches young girls to perform femininity, while boys are allowed simplicity and function.

This isn’t just about underwear. It’s about:
📣 Gendered expectations: Girls are taught to be “desirable” before they’re even grown.
🧠 Mental health impact: Early sexualization fuels anxiety, shame, and distorted self-worth.
🧵 Cultural double standards: Boys’ comfort is normalized. Girls’ exposure is aestheticized.

We reject the quiet conditioning that turns childhood into a runway. We call for equal respect, body autonomy, and cultural accountability. Let our children grow with freedom, not with scripts written by someone else’s gaze.

21/08/2025

🇯🇵 Tokyo Summit or Tokyo Extraction?

50 African heads of state have gathered in Japan. The headlines say “strategic cooperation.” But the reality? Africa arrives with raw materials. Japan arrives with contracts.

Africa is not a supplier. We are the source.
This summit, like so many before it, treats African nations as resource vaults, not visionaries. We’re invited to the table, but never to set the agenda.

The language of “partnership” masks a deeper imbalance: Africa exports minerals, Japan exports machines. Africa offers land, Japan offers loans. Africa brings silence, Japan brings strategy.

Where is the summit where Africa speaks first and defines the terms? Where we meet in Addis, Lagos, or Kinshasa to build continental power, not just react to foreign interest.

We want:
- Pan-African industrial policy
- Continental tech infrastructure
- Trade rooted in dignity, not dependency
This is not cooperation. It’s choreography. And we’re done dancing to someone else’s rhythm.

21/08/2025

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21/08/2025

🔥 Pan-African Revolutionaries Who Changed the Course of History

🇨🇩 Patrice Lumumba – Democratic Republic of Congo the first Prime Minister of independent Congo, Lumumba was a fierce Pan-Africanist who rejected Belgian-backed secession and demanded true sovereignty. Assassinated at 35, his legacy remains a symbol of uncompromising African dignity.

🇧🇫 Thomas Sankara – Burkina Faso Known as “Africa’s Che Guevara,” Sankara led a revolutionary government that prioritized women’s rights, anti-imperialism, and self-reliance. He renamed the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, Land of Upright People,” before being assassinated in 1987.

🇬🇭 Kwame Nkrumah – Ghana The architect of Ghana’s independence and a founding voice of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah envisioned a united Africa free from neocolonial control. His writings and speeches still guide liberation movements across the continent.

🇿🇦 Nelson Mandela – South Africa Mandela’s long walk to freedom was not just about ending apartheid; it was about restoring African humanity. His leadership fused reconciliation with resistance, making him a global symbol of justice.

🇲🇿 Samora Machel, Mozambique A revolutionary commander and the first president of independent Mozambique, Machel fought Portuguese colonialism and championed socialist principles rooted in African values.

🇱🇾 Muammar Gaddafi – Libya Though controversial, Gaddafi was a staunch advocate for African unity and anti-imperialism. His “Third International Theory” challenged Western capitalism and called for a United States of Africa.

🇦🇴 Agostinho Neto, Angola Poet, physician, and revolutionary, Neto led Angola’s liberation from Portuguese rule and became its first president. His writings fused cultural pride with political fire.

21/08/2025

Pixley ka Isaka Seme was a towering figure in African political history whose legacy still shapes the continent’s liberation movements today. Born in 1881 in Inanda, Natal, Seme was among the first Black South Africans to study abroad, earning degrees from Columbia University and Oxford before returning home with a vision far greater than personal success.

He believed that African people, divided by colonial borders and tribal fragmentation, could unite under a shared identity and purpose. This belief led him to found the South African Native National Congress in 1912, which later became the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest liberation movement in Africa.

Seme’s brilliance wasn’t just in organizing but in his ability to reframe African identity. In his famous 1906 speech, “The Regeneration of Africa,” he declared that Africa was not a continent of despair but one of rising dignity and promise.

He challenged the colonial narrative and called on Africans to reclaim their pride, their land, and their future. As one of the first Black lawyers in South Africa, he used the legal system to fight for African land rights and dignity, refusing to be silenced by the structures designed to exclude him.

His work laid the foundation for generations of resistance. The ANC would go on to become the central force in the fight against apartheid, but it was Seme who first planted the seed of unity and political strategy.

He showed that African liberation required more than emotion; it demanded organization, education, and a clear vision rooted in historical truth. Today, his legacy reminds us that reclaiming African dignity is not a trend or a slogan; it is a mission that began long before hashtags and headlines, and it continues wherever truth is spoken and unity is built.

21/08/2025

🧠 PLO Lumumba EXPOSES Colonial Education in Africa: A System Designed to Disarm the African Mind

"We were taught to admire Napoleon, not Shaka. To quote Shakespeare, not speak Swahili. To solve for X but never question who wrote the equation." - Prof. PLO Lumumba

Africa’s education system was never designed to liberate; it was engineered to produce obedient subjects for colonial economies. Prof. Lumumba doesn’t mince words. He exposes how our classrooms became sites of indoctrination, where African children are taught to glorify foreign heroes, memorize imported histories, and speak in tongues that once silenced their ancestors.

We graduate fluent in colonial languages but illiterate in our own civilizations. We quote European philosophers but know nothing of our indigenous wisdom. We learn to beg for aid, not build with sovereignty. Lumumba warns that this intellectual dependency is the root of Africa’s stagnation and the gateway to re-colonization.

Democracy, governance, and even development models are imported wholesale, without adaptation to African realities. The result? Fragile states, elite capture, and endless cycles of dysfunction. Our brightest minds are trained to mimic, not innovate. To serve, not lead.

The classroom must teach Shaka, not just Shakespeare. It must honor Imhotep, not just Einstein. It must speak to our soil, our spirit, our story.

21/08/2025

In the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩, 910 political parties shout over each other. But who listens to the people? Who listens to the soul of Africa?

We inherited systems not designed for our spirit. We have bastardized what was never ours to begin with. Imported democracy. Exported ballots. Imported leaders. Exported trust.

Out of 54 African nations, 40 still print ballots outside the continent. That is not logistics. That is a wound. We do not trust ourselves. We do not trust each other.

But we must. We must rethink. We must re-root democracy in African soil, African wisdom, African unity.

Not in the noise of 910 parties. But in the rhythm of one people. One continent. One destiny.

21/08/2025

Dp you know that Morocco 🇲🇦 has Africa's lowest poverty rate (6%).

It has 100% access to electricity.

It has Africa's second best infrastructure and best water supply.

It has Africa’s first high-speed rail (Al Boraq, from Tangier to Casablanca).

It provides free healthcare.(The State covers between 70% – 90% of costs, depending on the treatment; the rest is paid by the patient).

It has a minimum wage of $360 monthly, second-highest in Africa.

21/08/2025

20/08/2025

🗿 The Benin Bronzes: Masterpieces Made in Africa, Looted by Empire 🇳🇬➡️🇬🇧

In 1897, British forces invaded the Kingdom of Benin (modern-day Nigeria) and looted thousands of sacred artifacts known today as the Benin Bronzes. These weren’t just decorative pieces. They were royal plaques, ancestral altars, and ceremonial sculptures made of brass, ivory, and wood, crafted by the Edo people to honor kings, queens, and spiritual traditions.

🔍 What Happened?
- British troops launched a punitive expedition against Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi
- They burned the royal palace and stole over 5,000 artifacts
- These treasures were sold to museums and collectors across Europe and America
- Today, most are still housed in places like the British Museum, despite calls for repatriation

✊🏿 Why It Matters for Take Step Africa: These bronzes prove that African civilizations were advanced, artistic, and spiritually rich. long before colonial narratives tried to erase that truth. Europeans once claimed Africans couldn’t have made such works. Now they display them as trophies.

This is not just theft. It’s identity extraction. We must teach, reclaim, and demand return not just of objects, but of dignity, legacy, and truth.

20/08/2025

🌍 AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | MAPPED BY AFRICANS, CLAIMED BY EMPIRES 🇪🇬➡️🇪🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇸🇦.

Before colonial maps carved borders and renamed rivers, Africans had already charted their lands, stars, and trade routes. But Arab and European explorers didn’t just “discover” Africa. They appropriated African knowledge, then erased the source.

📜 What Was Taken?
🔹 Ancient Egypt & Nubia
Mapped the Nile’s seasonal cycles and tributaries. Used star charts to align temples and predict floods. Greeks and Romans later claimed this as “classical geography.”

🔹 West African Empires
Mali, Ghana, and Songhai used oral maps and trade routes across the Sahara
Arab geographers like Al-Idrisi documented African cities but often distorted them. Timbuktu’s scholars mapped rivers and trade hubs, yet Europe later claimed “first contact”

🔹 Swahili Coast & Great Lakes
Indigenous cartography guided trade from Kilwa to Zanzibar to Congo. Portuguese explorers used African pilots, then claimed the routes as their own
Mountains like Kilimanjaro were known locally Europe labeled them “discovered” in the 1800s

🧭 Colonial Cartography = Erasure
European maps labeled Africa as “unknown” while using African guides. Borders were drawn to divide tribes, not reflect geography. Sacred rivers, mountains, and cities were renamed or misrepresented