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Caribbean Identity Crisis: "Jamaicans Are Not African" Narrative
Caribbean Identity Crisis: "Jamaicans Are Not African" Narrative Kwabena Ofori Osei 29 Views • 4 months ago

A powerful conversation with African Stream founder Ahmed Kaballo on one of the most controversial identity debates in the African diaspora.

Following comments made by comedian Gina Yashere on the One 54 Podcast, Ahmed Kaballo shares his perspective on the growing debate surrounding Jamaican identity in the United Kingdom and whether it is accurate to generalize that Jamaicans do not identify as Africans.

As a Pan-Africanist, Kaballo argues that such broad statements ignore history and the many Jamaicans who have proudly embraced their African heritage. He points to the legacy of The Right Excellent Marcus Garvey, the greatest Pan-African leader in history, as evidence that Jamaica has produced influential voices dedicated to African unity.

This interview explores:
• The Jamaican identity debate in the UK
• Gina Yashere's viral comments
• Marcus Garvey's Pan-African legacy
• African identity in the diaspora
• Pan-Africanism today
• Black identity and history
• The future of African unity

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The Opium War: Britain Forced China to Buy Drugs at Gunpoint—Then Billed Them for the War
The Opium War: Britain Forced China to Buy Drugs at Gunpoint—Then Billed Them for the War Kwabena Ofori Osei 29 Views • 3 months ago

Britain didn't go to war over territory, ideology, or assassination. It went to war because China refused to buy drugs. In this video, we uncover the full story of how the British Empire engineered a narcotics pipeline from the poppy fields of Bengal to the harbors of Canton, addicted millions of Chinese citizens to opium, and then launched two devastating wars when China tried to shut the trade down. The result? Unequal treaties, the seizure of Hong Kong, the burning of the Summer Palace, and the beginning of what China still calls its Century of Humiliation — a wound that shaped the modern world and still echoes in geopolitics today.

We cover the East India Company's calculated monopoly on opium production, the chronic British trade deficit that started it all, Commissioner Lin Zexu's dramatic destruction of 20,000 chests of opium, the military campaigns that shattered the Qing Dynasty, the Treaty of Nanking and the cession of Hong Kong, the Second Opium War and the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, the 99-year lease of the New Territories, Margaret Thatcher's negotiations with Deng Xiaoping, and the 1997 handover that marked the symbolic end of the British Empire.

This is the story of what happens when profit overrides sovereignty, and when the language of free trade is used to justify the most unfree of outcomes.

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BATUK: The White Man’s Burden in Kenya | Britain Colonial Grip in Kenya
BATUK: The White Man’s Burden in Kenya | Britain Colonial Grip in Kenya Kwabena Ofori Osei 29 Views • 3 months ago

BATUK: The White Man’s Burden in Kenya is not just a documentary about a British military base where soldiers roll around in the dirt for six months before returning home to the UK. It is a documentary about abuse of power, occupation of indigenous land and the unfinished business of colonialism.

For decades, ordinary Kenyans living around BATUK have raised allegations of abuse, sexual violence, ecological destruction and impunity, while one of the world’s most powerful former colonial powers continues to operate freely on Kenyan soil, handing out small amounts of compensation whenever evidence of alleged crimes reaches the media.

At the centre of the documentary is the story of Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan woman who was tortured, killed and dumped in a septic tank, while British soldiers mocked and ridiculed her death on social media. One soldier posed in front of the septic tank and posted, “If you know, you know.” Others joked about the five-month-old daughter she left behind, posting imagery of a baby beside a gravesite.

But the story goes beyond Agnes and her tragic killing and the shocking behaviour of British troops thereafter. The documentary asks deeper questions:

How did Britain maintain a military presence in Kenya, the very same year the country supposedly gained independence?

Why are foreign troops still training on stolen land while local communities continue to suffer?

And above all, why does the Kenyan government allow all of this?

Laikipia County, currently in the spotlight because of plans for an Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens, is the very same county where the BATUK military base is headquartered. This documentary helps connect the dots about why Kenya’s political elite remain so willing to cede sovereignty to foreign powers like Britain, and why they may be willing to do the same again with the United States.

This is Sovereign Media’s first-ever documentary. We are a small, independent team with a brand-new YouTube channel and no corporate backing. We need your support now more than ever.

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