There are five types of prisons that the colonial agents have put Africans in, and it’s important we are aware of them so we know how to come out of them.
1. Political PrisonThis is a prison in which they’ve ripped us of real
political power and
leadership. If you wonder why we don’t have leadership in Africa, it is because of this prison. The colonists have made African leaders their puppets and mere figureheads.
They threaten them with sanctions and isolation if they don’t do their bidding, and the African leaders just yield to their pressure. They answer to them like their bosses and masters, and these agents tell them what to do.
So, they’ve made African leadership weak and a caricature, while they put bad systems and structures in our countries. Nothing is working. We don’t have government. No security. No economic stability. No basic amenities. We live in a jungle where politicians only think of embezzling public funds and the next elections, while they keep the people in hunger and abject poverty.
The colonists give African politicians security support from being removed from office, and they clamp down on people who protest and clamor for change. Everything that will bring change is what they will oppose. They form wicked, anti-people policies that will further make life harder for people, while they enjoy luxury and an opulent lifestyle.
The political prison has made the system of government in Africa (called democracy) a sham and a scam. It is a pure money-making venture where every rich person invests money, bribes the electorate and election officials, and smuggles their way in. When they arrive in office, they embezzle public funds and wreak the economy of the nation.
In all of this, people have no choice but to accept the "leader"—or better put, the dictator—that is imposed on them. No better candidate or a person who would truly change the lives of the people would be allowed to get there. They would make sure they disallow that in every way and create opportunities for their own candidate to get power.
If at all the right candidate gets into power, he or she would not last because of the system they created. Such a person would either join them or be eliminated. We have seen many examples of this on our continent. Many great African leaders who meant well for their people were quickly eliminated, while those who are puppets to them still remain in power for years.
Africa is indeed in a political prison, and unless we fight for our freedom, this evil will continue on our continent.
I believe power still belongs to the people, and no matter what evil systems and structures these colonial agents have created on our continent, we can destroy them and create a better system for ourselves.
Democracy is a colonization tool. It’s not working in Africa, and it will never work. The systems that are working in Africa are not democratic. Burkina Faso is an example. Our people are waking up from the hypnosis of the colonial agents who brainwashed us into believing that the only better form of government is democracy—in which case, it becomes easier for them to manipulate us and keep us in abject poverty and underdevelopment.
But it’s game over for them. Their time is up. And they must be eliminated from our continent and from our affairs.
2. Migration Prison
This prison disallows us to move freely anywhere—especially on our own continent. Africans cannot move freely. We have to get a visa to go anywhere, even within our own continent. Yet, the white man can move freely wherever he wants—including on our own continent. This is absolutely unfair and unacceptable.
The West can dictate who is allowed or not allowed in their countries, but we are not allowed to do that on our continent. They can come in anytime they want, anywhere they want. They created visa and migration policies to
control and
contain us. They exploit and extort us. They say it’s good to control the movement of people, yet they are moving freely wherever they want. Such an evil and wicked system!
They have put us Africans in a migration prison, and for many of us, travelling is a herculean task. We line up to get visas at their embassies, pay a lot of money, and waste a lot of time—only to be denied visas eventually and given flimsy, stupid excuses.
It’s high time we fought these evil agents and brought back our freedom of movement and residence. We are not limited and must not be limited by any human being on the planet Earth.
3. Economic PrisonThis prison makes economic and financial independence for Africans impossible. For a long time, Africans and African economies have been crawling slowly and totally dependent on the West. There is no valuable economic or financial activity done on African soil without the need for foreign control.
All the 54 African countries have different currencies. Imagine a continent of 54 countries with 42 different currencies. So, in just a short distance of moving from one location to another, you are changing currencies like clothes—and all that on the same African soil.
Now, here’s something even more absurd: the currencies, especially the CFA Franc, which are used by francophone countries, are printed abroad. Most currencies in Africa are tied to France. France controls the currencies of many African countries, and by extension, Europe and America have tremendous influence on African currencies and economies.
Africa cannot create its own single currency; it has to depend on instructions given by the West. This is what the
economic prison looks like.
Our exports and economic activities are tied to Europe and America. They dictate the value of our currencies and our goods. An absolutely unfair and wicked system created by the colonial agents. We must stop this evil and wickedness, and come out of the economic and financial prison they’ve put us in.
4. Educational Prison“Africans don’t have brains. They can’t do anything on their own. They need instructions. They need to be directed.” That’s the mentality of the colonists. They believe Africans always need to be told what to do. They believe they must form our educational systema and academic curriculum—what education we should have, what we should learn or be taught.
The colonists have limited us with the curriculum and the scope of knowledge they’ve given us. As an African, you don’t have a say or right to do anything outside of what you’re given. You must follow all the instructions handed down to you. You can’t propose your own ideas or make a new theory. Only European or American ideas count. Yours has no value. It has no place in the global space.
You have to get a certificate certified by the West before you can get a job. But they don’t need any certification from Africa. They might not even go to school. All they need is their experience. But for you, African, you must toil hard to get a certificate—then still go on searching endlessly for a job.
The foreign educational curriculum has been archaic and is a tool of colonization on our continent. It holds no value or relevance in our African societies. Many professors and Ph.Ds can’t use their theoretical knowledge to solve local problems. We have a bunch of graduates designed to be job seekers, trained to work only for the imperialists.
So, our nations produce lots of graduates who are useless on the continent but useful to the West. Many eventually leave Africa and migrate to Western countries, where they finally deploy their gifts—becoming useful to foreign nations and useless to Africa that groomed and nurtured them.
Part of this educational prison is the practice of giving the same exams and tests to people of different mental capacities and learning abilities.
As an African, you think you’re not good enough when you don’t meet the standard they set for you. They brand you a dullard. They say you don’t know anything. But your strengths have been misinterpreted as weakness. Your abilities have been misconstrued as liabilities.
Africa must come out of this educational prison. We must build our own educational systems and curriculum. We must create academic structures that are tailor-made for our people and our societies. We must no longer depend on foreign ideas to solve our local problems. We must individually groom our children and let them focus on learning what is relevant to our societies—not foreign ones.
5. Technological PrisonIf you wonder why Africans have been lagging in the area of technology, it is because of the
technological prison that the colonial agents have put us in. We are the largest consumers of technological products, yet we lag behind the most in this area.
We use different social media platforms created for us, but we have none of our own—despite our population and vast resources. We depend on foreign technology to do practically everything on our continent. There are no major indigenous technological innovations or breakthroughs. Many of our tech gurus and innovators are in the West, working day and night for the slave masters.
The West is stealing our youths, talents, and potentials, and continuously making it harder for us to build our own technology locally. We depend on foreign internet and servers. Even our electricity and power systems cannot function without input from the West. Everything about us is tied to them.
Recently, there’s been a spike in the prices of technological services in many parts of Africa. Communication tariffs, internet data, electricity, and the cost of technological goods have all skyrocketed. There is no technological freedom because we are in a
technological prison—and our leaders are not ready to help. They have become stooges and puppets to these Western colonists.
But we will surely be free from the hands of these colonial demons and reclaim our
freedom. Before they came, Africa was thriving in technology and modernization. But their so-called civilization and westernization have been nothing more than colonization tools used to manipulate and enslave us.
It is time-up for these colonial agents. And Africa and Africans will be free indeed.
- S.O PIENS, MD
June, 2025
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