The answer is very simple. Africans don’t want to start small. Recently a friend asked me why there so little African entrepreneurs in Europe, in America and among the westernized Africans. My response was simple. Africans don’t want to start small. They are only interested in industrial entrepreneurship. Industrial entrepreneurship means starting […]
About: Mawuna KOUTONIN
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Remove the weak
I came home late last night. My gate lights were dim and my Inverter was off. The place looked like haunted, with vampires everywhere, quietly in ambush, eager to capture innocent souls for free blood.I produce 100% of my electricity with a combination of solar panels and wind generator.I went inside took my tools to […]
No cannabis! No Marijuana!
Recently a friend told me, out of a very casual conversation, that marijuana is very good for men. It’s good for health and for sexual performance. He was so agitated about its virtues that I wondered if I was not missing something. I resisted such thing all my life, but I wanted to investigate. After […]
What is Vodun (A summary)
During a recent seminar, I made a quick presentation on Vodun Principles. It was very popular and I’ve got a lot of questions. Here are the main Vodun principles, excerpt from my presentation. – Vodun is not a religion. Religion means linking things, but in Vodun, this principle is childish because nothing could be unlinked. […]
I don’t want to be developed
As an African, if you believe in the ideology of “development” and you want to develop Africa, you’ll feel and carry an inferiority complex toward white people, and unconsciously you’d hate yourself. Why is it so? As development is understood as westernization of Africa, you’ll constantly feel inferior and in admiration of the civilization you […]
Development as a colonial Project
Selling the concept of development to Africa is the best investment the west has done to keep African as their permanent subordinates. “Development” is the secular religion brought here to keep us colonized, the same as they brought the church here in order to destroy our culture. Currently the two most dangerous ideologies shadowing Africa’s […]
Forced to Exile
She was barely 5 when her family has to flee Togo. Her father was an independent journalist who got into trouble. At 24, she followed the Sankofa path in order to know her roots, just after her father died. Though in a foreign land, she was taught in her parents mother language, Ewe, a language […]
No, No. We don’t want your Development
As an African, if you believe in the ideology of “development” and you want to develop africa, you’ll feel and carry an inferior complex toward white people, and unconsciously you’d hate yourself. Why is it so? As development is understood as westernization of Africa, you’ll constantly feel inferior and in admiration of the civilization you […]
White is not a skin color nor a race. White is a brand
Something strange is happening. My recent article in the Guardian has generated millions of conversations. I, unwillingly, found myself in the middle of something unstoppable. I’d like to address here for my friends one point of the article which seems critical: what does the article means by “White”? Many people are wearing an identity they […]
Bleach Your Kids to Have a Future
The French policy to genetically bleach their black population. Few decades ago, subtly, imperceptibly, the French government had started a social experiment to decrease the size of its black population by encouraging genetic bleaching. Genetic bleaching is, often, an unconscientious choice of spouse with the intention to have children which skin color is less black, […]