The Huge Investment The BBC World Service Has In Africa Leaves A Sour Taste In The Mouth

The BBC annual budget is about £291m, a grant from The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, a vast proportion of which is spent in Africa. The BBC World Service and The BBC's International Radio Broadcasting Service covers Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East? And every week, The BBC Africa Service reaches about 96 million people in Africa, the channel's largest audience. 

BBC African news is available in at least seven mostly spoken Africa languages. This is a feat over local broadcasting stations. Of course, the BBC has the funding, and are willing to recruit and train the best journalists for their 'propaganda' reporting.

With the internet and short wave technology, it is virtually possible to tune in to BBC radio in any part of Africa, no matter how remote. You hear the latest political, sports, economic and international news wherever you are in Africa.

 Again, a feat over local broadcasters. They also feature notable talents and personalities from the ethnic tribes. All these make BBC reporting outstanding to the masses and the elites alike. In doing this, they feature fashion stories about modernisation which are alien to Africans, but which the youth accept as liberation.

Encouraging Backwardness Cultural Marxism In Action

The question is why would the British government spend that much investment to inform Africans about themselves and the rest of the world? Carter G Woodson, an African American historian, fondly called the ''The father of black history, and the founder of ''The Journal of Negro History'', gave us the answer when he said, 

"If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one."

― Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

What About France's Radio Internationale?

• Every year, France spends 273 million euros on 3 international broadcasting media. It announced a cut of 190 million Euro by 2022. 

• 140 million euros on Radio France Internationale (which reaches 40 million people every week mainly in Africa)

• 80 million euros in France 24 (the aspiring French CNN, which hit 45 million people a week, mostly in Africa)

• And 53 million euros on TV 5, a channel to disseminate the French language and culture of French-speaking countries in the world, which reaches around 55 million people weekly, mostly in Africa.

CNN Africa is present too. After all, Africa is the richest continent in the world made poor by these superpowers on the guise of helping Africa. They invest hugely in Africa to impart information, disguised as news and entertainment but have only one agenda in mind. 

The answer is simple. The mere imparting of information is not education. Rather real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin life as they find it, and make it better.

A Personal Experience

These Western Powers have made the African Americans and the Carribeans believe they are better than Africans. This is to justify forcefully removing them to America as slaves. We Africans encounter this all the time. We call it ''The arrogance of the slaves over the freeborn's'', the Europeans have succeeded in doing this up till today, creating unnecessary division among us.

I was in New York on holiday a few years ago when I was still living in Nigeria. I was looking for particular long socks for my fashion boot. I approached a customer rep. at the store to ask for what I wanted. His eyes lit up, and he looked at me from head to toe (impeccably dressed as a typical fashion conscious Nigerian). 

'Oh, if you didn't speak, I would have thought you are a Wall Street officer'. He was referring to my Nigerian accent. To which I asked him 'so what makes me not one?'. 'You are an African', he said. I was livid but tried to remain calm. I needed to educate him. I informed him that you African Americans always believe you are better than Africans. You are the displaced ones. We are in our Natural Environment. Consider a fish in a tank and the ones in the Ocean. I ended up by telling him that, it is what the Europeans want you to believe that forcefully bringing you to America makes you better than the ones they left behind. They invariably made you believe they did your ancestors some good. ''That is what you are showing me now!!!''

Unfortunately, the greed of the African leaders is being fuelled by the corruption from these superpowers prevented Africa from development. This is another deliberate suffering Africa is going through from The Europeans. They do not want Africa to develop. They prefer the African continent to remain underdeveloped with a lack of basic infrastructure.

Today, if another slave ship sails to African shore, millions will willingly jump in. There will be no need for any force because the level of suffering of an average African in his own country is huge. 

"THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the Africans. Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro," Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

The Subtle Propaganda War

From Genghis Khan to Hitler, they know that once they win the propaganda war, it is easier to conquer any nation.

As George Orwell said, ''The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and destroy their own understanding of their history''

I was going home (to Nigeria) on holiday, three years ago. I was with a Jamaican friend. I asked her daughter if she wants to go with me. 'Oh no, auntie, there is a lot of killings there and you people live on trees like monkeys,'' she said. That is the history of Africa they want African young people to accept.

Another Caribbean colleague once informed me that they don't like Africans because ''YOU PEOPLE SOLD US''. I laughed out loud when she said that.

 ''Sold you? You need to go back to the basics, my dear. They came forced as many as their ship could contain, but since they could not carry everyone, some of us are left behind.''

''That was what I was told when growing up.'' She did not bother to know her own history.

"History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning."

― Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

To corrupt our understanding of ourselves, our reality and the world, implanting in the minds of our young people ideas and concepts that ultimately lead us to believe in what will happen in the period of political or economic crisis.

The logic behind the huge media domination in Africa by these Western powers is to prepare Africans for a subservient role in this world. It is a process of dehumanization as Steve Biko put it some time ago.

''The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed'' - Steve Biko

''The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and their own are the same''. Marie-Henri Beyle

The African elite now receives 100% of its information from Europeans. If something happens in Lagos or Accra, they would receive first from CNN or the BBC. How pathetic!

''We become slaves the moment we hand over the keys to defining someone else's reality, be it a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.'' B.W. Powell

The Takeaways

African governments must take strong measures to restrict the issuance of foreign propaganda in their territory.

Africa's intellectuals must step out of their comfort zone and join the frontline of offensive intellectual independence.

"Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds, the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in a man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves."

― Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

As Marimba Ani said, ''Your culture is your immune system, once taken from you, you are helpless, vulnerable. This is why Africa's enemies are investing so much in destroying your immune system.