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therefore both an act of violence modern world.
against and an insult to the victim. It Looking at the media space, both
was a common belief that the soul online and on TV or Radio, you
was concentrated in the head and instantly begin to see some things
that taking an enemy's head there- that are not adding up as regards
fore weakened the enemy's entire the negative narratives that are be-
community. In many headhunting ing pushed about Afrika. Recently,
societies, taking a head was consid- I began to notice that when I want
ered a rite of manhood, denoting to maybe sign up for something
the transition from childhood to online or want to make a purchase,
adulthood, and young men were I get messages like, "this service should be hanged for corruption.
forbidden to marry until they had is not available in your region" or Show me your thieving friend and
claimed one. Victorious hunters something close to that. Sometimes I will show you your thieving heart
would collect heads as trophies in my head, I am like, so, my region that is also compromised.
and display them prominently to is good enough for the governments
enhance their personal reputations of these foreign companies who Just recently, a video went viral
and that of the tribe as a whole, say their service is not available in online about Dr Stella Immanuel,
with the added bonus of helping to my region, to exploit and steal the a Cameroonian by birth, Nigerian
intimidate current and future ene- resources of? trained medical doctor who lives
mies. Headhunting has a long histo- Afrika has been dealing with both in the US. In the video, she was
ry as a supremely effective weapon direct human to human racism and posing strongly that she won't allow
and those that practiced it often systemic racism for a very long time Americans to die of Covid-19, espe-
enjoyed very fierce reputations as and I think we Afrikans now need cially when the drug hydroxychloro-
warriors. Given this fascination with to do something critical about it, quine is found to both prevent and
headhunting practices, it is hardly like yesterday. And some of this cure the disease. The internet went
surprising that artifacts collected systemic headhunting and racism crazy with a whole range of smear
from head taking tribes are particu- are very subtle. So subtle that you campaigns to destroy her character.
larly desirable to collectors around wouldn't even know you are being And one thing that instantly caught
the world. racially profiled and set up to fail. my eye is the fact that her credibility
For instance, you want to make an as a medical doctor was being fault-
Headhunting in a racist and global- online payment through maybe ed. Why? Because she was trained
ist controlled modern day PayPal and let’s say from the US to in Afrika.
I clearly did not write this article any Afrikan country and vice versa.
with the objective of putting a spot- Your transactions are systematically Here is my point:
light on the evil called headhunting, delayed for unusual periods and Why do we still have France dic-
which some ancient tribes practiced for unreasonable causes, which I tating the economic and political
in several parts of the world for think points to the fact that since agenda in Afrika's Francophone
whatever reasons they may have the transactions involve an Afrikan countries? Why is Afrika still where
had, but which in real terms, is region, it gives a red flag of po- she was sixty years ago, even with all
nothing but the murder of humans. tential fraud and then follows the the resources she possesses? Why
My real reason for writing this unseen vetting that goes on behind are the conflicts in Afrika still raging
article is to ask this question, “Who the scenes, to see who the Afrikan even with the efforts of the AU to
is head hunting Afrika and Afri- recipient of that transaction is. You silence the guns?
kans while displaying their "skulls" may call those ‘cybersecurity mea-
like trophies for racial pride and sures’, but I really don’t think these I think we really need to be asking
sports?” same measures are applied when WHO is headhunting Afrika and
thieves who call themselves Afrikan Afrikans for personal gain and
A look at the media space politicians steal money and store trophies, both within and outside of
Speaking as a matter of fact, until them in Swiss banks. Well, maybe Afrika. Well, I also think we know
one begins to delve into some new it’s time someone tells those Swiss them already, maybe we just need
spaces or new areas of learning, banks that both the thief (Afrikan to put faces to their pathetic selves.
one does not really have a balanced politician) and the ones who keep
approach to things and how they the loot to run their own society
work in our modern and not too (the Swiss banks) are thieves and

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