Knowledge of the truth will set Africa free.

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."

It is not truth itself that liberates, but rather its comprehension—which is precisely why it is deleterious to assert to an African that white people have "stolen" their land and wealth. The objective reality is that Africa remains exploited because it was "conquered"; to frame white people as "thieves" is a distortion of this truth. They did not infiltrate the continent under cover of darkness, pilfering territories and resources while our ancestors slumbered, only for them to awaken dispossessed. This very narrative—of casting whites as mere "thieves"—enslaves Africans anew, shackling them to a paradigm of perpetual grievance. By stoking hatred and indignation, it obstructs enlightenment, ensuring they never transcend their subjugation through critical thought.  

To insist that whites "stole" the land is to reject the knowledge of truth and thus to reject emancipation, leaving Africans in bondage to the myth of their own victimhood at the hands of foreign "plunderers." The unvarnished reality is that Africa was subjugated through conquest, wherein the spoils—land, resources, dominion—were claimed by the victors, as has been the immutable law of war since antiquity. Yet this truth is willfully ignored, despite its empirical corroboration: South African platinum, Congolese coltan and cobalt, and countless other resources are extracted by multinational firms that remit taxes to African governments. Where, then, are these alleged thieves? If they are known, let justice apprehend them.  

Many self-styled "freedom fighters" for Africa, who vociferously decry whites as thieves of land and wealth, do nothing but inflame racial animus. Their rhetoric, steeped in fury, enslaves minds rather than emancipating them. Those intoxicated by hatred cannot bestow freedom; they can only propagate intellectual bondage. By withholding the truth, these demagogues reduce their followers to subjects—ushering in not liberation, but a new colonialism, this time of black over black, masquerading as deliverance from oppression.  

Zimbabwe stands as the paradigmatic case: Mugabe reclaimed land from the "thieves," yet Zimbabweans found themselves under his tyranny, reduced to servitude, where dissent meant ruin. Such is the nature of revolutions built on hatred—they demand fealty to the "revolutionary father," even as the people starve and the ruling elite luxuriates.  

To allege theft rather than conquest serves a deliberate function: it manufactures a populace seething with rage, ensuring they remain docile subjects—not of white colonizers, but of the new autocrats who exploit their indignation. Whether by design (to quash dissent) or ignorance (to stifle critical thought), the outcome is identical: the people remain enslaved, oblivious to the truth that their true oppressors are not foreign interlopers, but their own leaders—black like themselves, elected for prosperity but delivering only penury.  

Hatred is a toxin, particularly for the oppressed, for it begets only fury and malevolence. Once entrenched, it compels action—rebellion, upheaval, the seizure of power—but upon triumph, it metastasizes into tyranny. The heart poisoned by hatred becomes a breeding ground for envy, deceit, avarice, and corruption. Need evidence? Observe Africa’s liberation movements and the moral decay of their leaders once in office. How else to explain their venality, their despotism, their betrayal of the very people they vowed to free? The hatred they cultivated for the white oppressor inevitably turned inward, manifesting as brutality toward their own.  

If true liberation is the aim, then a different path must be taken. To persist in branding whites as "thieves" is to perpetuate subjugation, for it denies the people the awakening that truth confers. And a people unenlightened will inevitably rise not only against their historical conquerors, but against their new overlords—risking conflagration across nations.  

The road to freedom begins with a singular admission: "We were conquered." Only then can mental emancipation commence, breaking the chains of psychological servitude through the unflinching acceptance of truth. Thus, an enlightened leader is indispensable—one who, having grasped the truth, illuminates the path to liberty for his people.  

Marius Y. M. C. Oula