Re - “France to set up a military base in Nigeria”
Cornelius Hamelberg
“They’ve turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries
They are turning the planet, into a cemetery”
The news that “France is to set up a military base in Nigeria” has been dropped like a bomb, and is surely being regarded with some trepidation by the current status quo in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, three former French colonies where French troops that were stationed there, have been given marching orders to leave, have in fact, complied…and by September this year the French troops should be leaving Senegal too.
The fear must be that at some near future date once they have established their military base in Nigeria, that will be the springboard from where France will intend to launch their attacks on the aforementioned former colonies, to recover lost territories, lost influence, much gold and other valuable, strategic minerals, and of course to impose more compliant governments
Aminata Fall : Yaye boye
Me : Had to cry today
No, “it doesn’t rain, it pours” :
The big three : Good Friday - Yom HaShoah - the passing away of Pope Francis.
All three against this permanent background : the ongoing Genocide in Gaza
more ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
Sudan
and now this
this preposterous proposition
in this cruellest month.
Only one more thing left to exclaim :
What Tinubu surreptitiously proposes
in cahoots with the Macro is all covered
by one word : Perfidy
Has Tinubu lost his marbles? A reasonable question, Watson
As Fela says, perhaps, so too, Tinubu will declare his mental assets : ai no craise o !
I know what I’m doing, I’m Mr president !
Whereas Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot chirp,
the human soul in intense emotion
tends to express itself in rap,
like a wannabe academic
the idiot thinks it's a cerebral event
but for the rest of us the non-poets
it’s a spontaneous overflow of emotion
could be a kaleidoscope of confusion
so, here’s my Pan-Afrique reaction:
Well, I’ll be darned !
Old pope, new pope
(According to Ghanaian Pan-African Bro
“old wine in new bottle”
Old wine, old swine
Old foe, new foe
Old bag hoopoe -
no hope
old testament, nouveau testament
on scratching the surface only, “nothing is revealed” -
or as Solomon (almost wrote “sodomon”) and Dr Oohay
would say, “nothing new under the sun”
Here too, one word should do : Treachery -
Written on the dollar “ In God we trust”
Ask dear Tinubu who did his April in Paris
(Jibrin Ibrahim condemned the absentee president
Who is hopefully now healed, and
happily now back home
from his medical & other consultations
aboard; ask him what’s written on the franc
the cfa that’s issued by the
central bank headquartered in France…
The rumour mill/ internet free speech zone cyberspace
is swirling and spinning with rumours about Bola Tinubu vs Ibrahim Traore
Reminds me that Ali ( from Iraq) once proposed that instead of the invasion they should have arranged a boxing match between Saddam and Baby Bush, and that the outcome was pretty certain : Stepping into the ring with one mighty lion roar of “Allahu Akbar!” Saddam would have finished him and that at the end of the bout only Bush’s bones would have remained, by his shoes.
Ali once asked me, “ Why can’t he leave Palestine alone?
If Bush loves the Yehudi so much, then he should give them half of Texas !”
About Marcon’s France - sure French is a beautiful language Yves Montand and all that, but the second most wicked thing they did was that right in the middle of The Algerian War of Independence they (France) went ahead and they tested their nuclear bomb in the Sahara .
The Harmattan winds blew the dust down our way, South West, South East
“Snowing in the winter, blossoms in the spring
If they drop the bomb in the summertime
It don't mean a dog-gone thing
Do you hear me now?
Do you hear me now?”
Bert Jansch : Do You Hear Me Now ?
Perfidy: Rumour has it that Bola Tinubu wants to invite Ibrahim Traoré to Nigeria for one thing only : To arrest him
Not good for ECOWAS or for African unity
Victor Okafor
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