Category: Nation-building

🔥 Africa is in a burning building. The flames are rising, the exits are barred, and the only way out is blocked by a guard who will never move willingly. The question is simple: will we brace for the struggle of liberation, or perish in the fire?🔥

The more I interact with Africans, the more disillusioned I become. Too few grasp the severity of the breaking point that conditions in Africa must finally reach before the people wake up and real change begins. Even the most educated in Africa and in the Diaspora fail to comprehend a hard truth: it is upheaval that is required to trigger the comprehensive reset in many African countries. Too much of our thinking is academic, abstract, and divorced from the harsh realities on the ground.

Let me paint a picture so you understand.

Imagine a man trapped in a room inside a burning building. The windows are locked with iron bars, so there is no escape through them. The only exit is the front door, but a large guard stands there, blocking the way. Every time you move toward the door, he pushes you back, even turning violent. He insists you must remain inside the room. But if you stay, you and the guard will both be consumed by the flames and die. And if you resist and fight, you may die in the struggle. Your options are harrowing: either stay and perish, or brace yourself for battle and fight for your life.

What would any rational and courageous human being do who is committed to liberty?

The only real option is to brace yourself for battle, because survival demands it!

But this scenario is not just a metaphor, it is the exact reality confronting many African countries today. Take Nigeria as an example. In any functioning country, governing institutions should be the arbiters of justice and the last refuge of the people against oppression. But in Nigeria today, nearly every key institution is not only compromised, but has become one of the chief perpetrators of injustice itself.

• Executive Branch – captured by a self-indulgent, tribalistic cabal.
• Judiciary – corrupted by political interference, riddled with paid judgments and contradictions.
• Legislature – infiltrated by self-serving politicians who legislate for their pockets, not the people.
• Security Services – reduced to private enforcers for politicians and the wealthy.
• Electoral Commission – controlled by presidential appointment, producing compromised results.
• Political Parties – operating as pay-to-play platforms, pipelines poisoned by corruption.

Six institutions meant to defend justice, provide succor, and protect the Nigerian people are today crippled by rot. Naturally, good elements still exist within them, but generally they are infected by corruption and have lost their credibility. If these six are the only lawful means of pursuing justice and reform—but are themselves corroded almost beyond repair—then what message is the Nigerian establishment sending to the people?

In plain words: real change can only come from outside the system, through social upheaval that applies pressure to the system and forces comprehensive reset!”

Nigerians face the same choice as the man in the burning room: remain trapped until the flames consume them, or unify as a people and brace for confrontation with the guard.

But let me be clear. I am not calling for war. The “battle” here means social upheaval guided by higher values… an organized, destabilizing pressure that applies force to compel these compromised institutions either to submit to strict order or to collapse, making way for a comprehensive reset. There is no possibility outside of this objective reality.

Africa’s political class do no respect the people, so they must now be taught to fear them. Respect will not come by pleading, nor by theory, but only through the fear of consequences. For most African governments, the path to respecting their citizens runs through the fire of their wrath.

Today, only when African officials fear the wrath of their people more than their selfish interests and the international geopolitical forces that control them, only then will they learn to act consistently in the best interest of the African people.

This respect for the people born from the fear of their wrath will keep African officials in check, and establish a norm of servant leadership that will then enable the natural leaders and visionaries among the people to rise and take possession of government. Those nation-building visionaries whose respect is not born of fear, but of a natural voluntary love for the progress and welfare of their people!

So until African officials can respect their people out of a natural love, they must learn to respect them out of fear of their wrath. But respect must be an established norm!

Yet in this defining hour, too many Africans are still lost in distraction. They debate endlessly, theorize without action, and soothe themselves with illusions. Entertainment, sports, romance, image-polishing, shallow politics, and “influencing”. All have become opiates that provide comfort for the individual, but chains for the collective. None of these distractions will bring liberation and birth a new Africa. None will bend the ruling class. None will save Africa from the flames. So wake up, it is high time for aggressive African nation-building!

Only unity among the people—unity that transcends tribalism, ego, and petty division, and anchors itself in the higher cause of African nation-building—can victoriously engage the fiery metallurgy of struggle. From that furnace, the unified will of the collective will be hammered into firm steel that, when further sharpened by the shared purpose of higher values, will become the Damocletian Sword that will hang inviolably over African leadership…. as a perpetual and threatening reminder that power exists to serve the people, not to enslave them!

Africans must understand: corrupted leaders in power will never relinquish it voluntarily. They must be forced through upheaval. The person gripping a rope will only release it when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the pain of letting go. That is the nature of entrenched power. Titanic pressure must be applied to make holding on unbearable. Only then will the guard give way, the door swing open, and the people finally escape the burning room.

On safe ground, genuine African nation-building can finally begin, not for the enrichment of a tribalistic cabal, but for the collective welfare and prosperity of all. Every true progress demands a real cost. So, African people, will you brace yourselves for the fierce struggle of genuine liberation within and without, or will you remain docile and be consumed by the flames?

The Damocletian Sword hangs over Africa!

~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
Builder of the African Future
J.D. Candidate ’25

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to introduce a new 8-year contraceptive in Africa, starting with Kenya and Nigeria. Designed to be affordable for women in low-income households, the new hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) is inserted into the uterus, where it releases progestin, a synthetic hormone that thickens cervical mucus to prevent sperm from reaching and fertilising an egg. The Foundation is promoting the initiative as a way to empower women and girls in low and middle-income countries with the contraceptives needed to plan their families and futures (Business Insider Africa).

Having summarized technicalities, I will share some reflections:

1)   The best way to help African women is by first listening to African women, not imposing what you think is best for them.

2)   African women and girls must never be treated as experimental subjects for global health research and innovations.

3)   Has every new medical treatment or device being offered to African women and girls first been tested on Western women and girls in the most advanced countries?

Many African leaders, in their usual myopia, docility, and wretchedness stand aside with arms akimbo, while the people whose welfare they are entrusted to faithfully advocate and protect are made the hapless subjects of global health experiments.

Any respectable African leader would swiftly reject and ban such experimental medicines targeting African women and girls. Then, as a teaching point, they should firmly condition any potential future use in Africa on the drug’s prior approval, widespread use, and documented long-term effects among women in Western countries with the strictest medical standards.

But what of the reproductive health gaps these foreign foundations claim to address? Should limited options not justify accepting such experiments? Any African leader who thinks this way should resign from office and vanish into the wilderness. It is the sacred duty of African leadership to create, fund, staff, and grow original African medical and research institutions capable of producing homegrown innovations to solve indigenous needs. Once these institutions are established and thriving, they may partner with foreign foundations—but on African terms—directing them on how best to support those needs. Foreign foundations should supplement local capacity, never supply it.

In relation to this topic, I encourage you to watch the brief documentary “Medical Colonisation – The Dreadful Role Africa Plays in Medical Research” by Simon Whistler. It exposes the dark history and ongoing exploitation of Africa as a testing ground for Western medical advances.

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvZ3PMflO0&list=PL9aSrHMHYHciyNcaAfNM-MRgGWsYbEFWR

African leaders, either rise to the high standard of visionary leadership and be effective guardians of your people’s welfare, or be replaced in the wind of change to blow across Africa.

~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
Builder of the African Future

A reason African people are easy to dominate is because the natural leaders among the people who should be leading government are too busy in the private sector and the diaspora.

Theorizing, writing, consulting, analyzing, transacting, WhatsApping, LinkedIn-ing, podcasting… basically doing everything but mobilizing themselves to vigorously engage politically to take possession of government and lead.

The capable and educated African “elite” both home and away talk too much and focus energy on everything else besides gaining political power for the opportunity to implement their developmental vision and move their countries forward!

Without political power, all your bright ideas are just words on a page without the power of national manifestation to physically mold the destiny of your people! Without political power, even the best consultant is just a glorified talker who is dependent on those in power to implement their policy suggestions.

After attending many Conferences and engaging the global core group of African “progressives”, talking fatigue sets in! You realize most African Conferences are a waste of time, which regurgitate the same hackneyed phrases and suggestions that even unborn Africans know, or at best they focus on business investments which is mostly about personal acquisition.

Rarely will you find people who are spiritually blazing with a transcendent volcanic heat for African nation-building, whose bones are rattling to strategically mobilize for political action not endless talking. Who are ready to take even 1/4 (one quarter) of the money they would invest in a business to form a political party that becomes the Diasporan headquarters of African progressives and the coordination center with similar nation-builders at home, from which a new generation of leadership can be launched to vigorously contest to replace the current cohort of low-voltage African political leadership in a fearsome struggle!

Form all the businesses you want, but all such businesses remain at the mercy of the political environment controlled by others. And based on ethnicity, religion, and other selfish interests some people can be easily given concessions and licenses so that undeserving people succeed while deserving people fail. Look at all your country’s resources and minerals, at the stroke of a pen they can be given to multinational firms in multi-decade agreements while your people languish.

And all that depends exclusively on who has political power to implement their vision and direct the national destiny! The person on that seat controls and determines, not your bright business ideas and hopes.

African progressives in the diaspora and at home, wake up! I support private sector ventures, but we should no longer avoid the struggle for political power. It is time for political action. Power is never given but taken! Stand up and take control of leadership!

Onward & Upward!

~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA

Builder of the African Future

Nigeria and many African countries do not need aid and foreign direct investment to initially fund its development agenda. Why? Setting natural resources and minerals aside, I want you to calculate the total monetary value of:

—Foreign assets and real estate held by African officials and their families through licit and illicit public money.
—Foreign education expenses (primary, secondary, university) by African officials for their children/family.
—Foreign medical treatments/visits by African officials and their families.

See the attached image: Per the Pan Africa Review, an estimated $192billion leaves Africa each year. However, I believe this is a conservative estimate for many reasons. One is that Africa has weak data collection infrastructure, so it relies a lot on foreign organizations. But if foreign firms and organizations also participate then how can the numbers be truly accurate. It is like asking a co-defendant to also prosecute themselves and expecting a fair trial. We live in reality, not Disney Land.

Just these three categories alone, if redirected and reinvented back in their home countries would likely be enough to fund a multigenerational 100-year development agenda. If you now include citizens of the respective countries to the above categories, the value of the natural resources and minerals, and monetary losses due to weak domestic tax enforcement of foreign companies, then these numbers would run trillions.

You would realize that it is only through visionless, avaricious, and pusillanimous leadership that many African countries can still ask for aid to fund their development, instead of giving it. In most cases, the aid money is not even used for development but as free money to fund the above categories. Thus it becomes a vicious cycle: foreign money comes in, foreign money goes back to foreign countries to fund the above categories, and a lot of money generated by the African country also goes overseas. It is an economic open wound!

Tell me, how can Africa develop under these conditions? It cannot. In most African countries you need a strategic social upheaval to sweep away the cohort of low voltage and rotten African leadership who refuse to be helpers and guardians of the welfare and interests of their people.

Nation-building visionaries of revolutionary character and bold temperament who are committed to aggressive African nation-building for the good of their people, need to step forward and mobilize to contest and take possession of government leadership! In order to intiate a new development epoch for the welfare and further development of the African people!

Onward & Upward.

~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
Builder of the African Future