Watch this video as Firstpost examines the growing U.S. security footprint in Nigeria and asks whether Donald Trump’s campaign over Christian persecution is becoming connected to a much larger strategic interest: oil. American-made Aerosonde drones supplied by Textron Systems are now being deployed by Nigerian security company Tantita to monitor pipelines and offshore energy assets in the Niger Delta. The development comes as Nigeria’s crude production reaches its highest level in six years. For years, U.S. military cooperation with Nigeria focused largely on fighting Boko Haram and Islamic State militants. But Washington’s pressure over religious freedom, counterterrorism operations, military training and new surveillance technology is now intersecting with Nigeria’s critical energy infrastructure. Does this prove that oil was behind America’s religious freedom campaign? No. But the growing overlap raises a bigger geopolitical question about Washington’s interests in Africa’s largest oil producer. Alyson Le Grange tells you more on Firstpost Africa.

0:00 – From Counterterrorism to Crude Oil Surveillance
00:24 – Nigeria’s Drone Deal with U.S. Defense Titan Textron
01:06 – Nigeria’s Oil Production Hits a 6-Year High
01:38 – U.S. Military Training Nigerian Special Forces
02:15 – The Shift: Religious Freedom as a Political Lever
03:09 – Inside the U.S. Defense Ecosystem: The Textron Connection
04:00 – Washington’s Global Playbook: Venezuela, Canada, and Greenland
05:13 – The Intersection of Moral Pressure and Economic Interests
06:03 – Why Nigeria is Strategic: Africa’s Oil Giant
07:04 – Nelson Mandela on Sovereignty and Defining Allies

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For over a million years, every human on Earth was dark-skinned — and the reason will completely rewire how you think about the human body.

If you shaved a chimpanzee, the skin underneath would be pale pink. So why is human skin bare, exposed, and — for 99% of our species' history — uniformly dark?

The answer isn't really about color at all. It's about fur, sweat, endurance running, and a single evolutionary "design package" that built the body you're using right now.

In this video, we trace how losing our fur forced our ancestors to evolve a biological sunscreen on the African equator — and why dark skin, not pale skin, is the true human default.

Dans cette vidéo :
• Why every great ape has pale skin under its fur — but humans don't
• How losing body hair turned us into the planet's best endurance machine
• The brutal biology of UVB, folate, and why pale skin near the equator was a death sentence
• How melanin became the keystone holding the entire human body together
• Why light skin is a recent "edit" that only appeared after we left Africa

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— Skin pigmentation and UV radiation correlation (Jablonski & Chaplin, Journal of Human Evolution) :
— Evolution of fur loss and parasite avoidance (Pagel & Bodmer, Proceedings of the Royal Society B) :
— Endurance running and human evolution (Lieberman & Bramble) :
— Persistence hunting among the San (Liebenberg) :
— MC1R gene and the fixation of dark skin in the human lineage :

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How do language, culture, history, and African-centered ways of knowing help us understand the connections among African people across time and geography?

In this UWP Scholar Spotlight, contributing scholar Talawa Adodo, Ph.D. discusses his contribution to Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa, edited by Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.

Dr. Adodo’s scholarship engages African civilizations, African and Afro-Caribbean languages, Africology, cultural continuity, and questions of African identity across time and space. His contribution to Transcendental Africanity enters the volume’s larger conversation about Africanity, Global Africa, cultural memory, identity, language, Afrophobia, belonging, resistance, and African self-determination.

His work invites us to consider an important question at the heart of the volume:

How do African people understand themselves, their histories, and their connections to one another through African-centered intellectual and cultural frameworks?

Through the UWP Scholar Spotlight Series, readers move beyond the chapter title to encounter the scholars, questions, intellectual traditions, and research behind the scholarship.

ABOUT TRANSCENDENTAL AFRICANITY

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa brings together ten chapters by nine scholars examining the enduring connections among Africans and Afro-descendants while confronting the historical and contemporary forces that have produced separation, displacement, and Afrophobia.

The volume creates an interdisciplinary space for thinking about Africanity, identity, culture, language, historical memory, belonging, resistance, sovereignty, and African self-determination while asking what these ideas might mean for the future of Global Africa.

The book offers relevance for African Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Africology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Language Studies, and related interdisciplinary fields.

FOR FACULTY, STUDENTS, LIBRARIANS & RESEARCHERS

Dr. Adodo’s Scholar Spotlight provides another pathway into the individual scholarship contained within this interdisciplinary volume.

For faculty, it offers an entry point for classroom discussion and course consideration.

For students and researchers, it introduces questions and concepts that can be interrogated, cited, challenged, and extended.

For librarians, it provides greater visibility into the scholars and intellectual breadth represented within the collection.

📚 BOOK INFORMATION

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa

Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934

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