The M. M. Opinion Journal

28 September 2025

Black faces, white mannerisms.

I was just watching a British guy documenting the history of South African television. And we never mention this even though we unanimously know it, but we have a class of quasi-European black people in South Africa & nobody is addressing this issue decisively. It's not always the people who went to white schools who act white but it's people who have simply embraced the South African system & somehow become quasi-European. We often call them Uncle Toms, Uncle Ruckuses & Aunt Jemimas but we never go in-depth at addressing this problem other than just ridiculing it.

There is a SERIOUS problem with black people embracing foreign/un-African systems & having genuine hatred towards their own kind.

We can see it in our xenophobic sentiments towards black African immigrants but not so much towards white European immigrants. I know of black people who genuinely dislike black tendencies in South Africa despite over 80% of the country being black.

This then begs to question, the South African system that these quasi-European black people are embracing has to be non-African at the very least for them to have such a manner towards other black people to uphold this system.

I mean, I've seen enough media from the African continent to understand that South Africa has too many barriers to entry in some places. There are some things that are still subconsciously reserved for certain races in South Africa even though it is a "liberated" country.

These quasi-European black people then become gatekeepers of certain activities which are reserved for certain racial groups. For example, there are very few black franchises & banks in South Africa in comparison to white franchises & banks. So 9% of the population has more than six banks while the over 80% black majority has less than three - if that. Yet there are black people actively working at stifling black banks. The richest & most powerful black people in South Africa are often ridiculed while the richest & most powerful white people in South Africa are left untouched from character criticism or ridicule.

I felt that I had to blog this because we have black people who have never set foot in Europe acting European in South Africa & perhaps other places in Africa also have this type of person. These quasi-European Africans have genuine hatred for other black people for the mere reason that they are opulent or mildly well-off while not being white.

I imagine there are such black people in other African countries but to a lesser extent than in South Africa. And in South Africa it comes off extra bad because we kept our colonizers, so it ends up looking like some black people are willing to be slaves of South Africa's quasi-European system & actively attacking other black people to uphold a system that is not theirs. This is what I see among many black Americans also, especially from the USA. These black people see themselves as so apart from Africa & Africans that they go as far as threatening death to Africans who reject USA's imperialism. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that such people are really "Not Like Us" even though we have a common origin. They have had Africa, literally, beaten out of them. The language & cultural systems they had while in Africa are completely forgotten to them & southern USA culture has replaced everything they knew from Africa. Virtually making their ancestry British.

As for me, I did pick up quasi-European mannerisms in some places during the course of my life but I would only hate another black person if they themselves took it upon themselves to be my enemy & not because they are simply black.

We have a serious problem in black society & we're just laughing it off as "coconuts", "Oreos" & Uncle Ruckuses while the root of the problem is very ominous & destructive towards black people in general. It's funny but it is no laughing matter.

A decolonised African diet.

In Africa, our diet before colonisation consisted of:

Meats: Fish, beef, Guinea fowl, goat

Grains: Ensete & noog (i. e. Ethiopian banana & niger seeds), Teff (a grain/cereal of Ethiopia), Sorghum, Pearl/Bulrush millet, Finger millet

Herbs: Amaranth (Zulu: imbhuya), Devil's claw

Fruits, vegetables & legumes: Fonio & black fonio (a type of rice), Guinea rice, Yam, Groundnuts, Baobab

Drinks: Milk (cattle or goat), sour milk, coffee, rooibos tea, sorghum beer, Coffee

Artificial Intelligence input:

Fruits Indigenous to Africa

- *Baobab Fruit: Known for its powdery pulp rich in vitamin C and antioxidants, baobab fruit has been a staple in African diets for centuries. The pulp can be used to make smoothies, beverages, and desserts.

- *Marula Fruit*: A medium-sized fruit with a tart flavor, marula is native to southern Africa and has been consumed for centuries. It's often eaten raw or used to make jams and liqueurs.

- *Horned Melon (Kiwano)*: This spiky, orange fruit has a jelly-like interior with a mildly sweet flavor. It's native to southern and central Africa.

- *African Star Apple*: A vibrant orange fruit with a star-shaped seed pattern, African star apple is native to West Africa. It's sweetest when left to fall off the tree before consumption.

- *Tamarind*: Native to tropical Africa, tamarind has been used for centuries in cooking, beverages, and traditional medicine. Its tangy pulp adds flavor to sauces, soups, and stews.

- *Matoke*: A variety of green bananas indigenous to Uganda, matoke is often cooked and mashed as a staple dish.

- *African Mango (Irvingia gabonensis)*: While not the same as the common mango, African mango bears a mango-like fruit that's green when raw and red when ripe.

- *Monkey Orange*: Found in various parts of Africa, monkey orange has a citrusy flavor and is used in jams and beverages.

- *Mabolo*: Native to West Africa, mabolo has a sweet, custard-like flavor and is often used in desserts.

Vegetables Indigenous to Africa

- *Cowpeas*: A leaf and pulse crop native to Africa, cowpeas are rich in protein and carbohydrates. The leaves and seeds are eaten as vegetables.

- *Amadumbe (Taro)*: A root vegetable known as the "potato of the tropics," amadumbe is widely cultivated in southern Africa. Its starchy roots are cooked similarly to potatoes.

- *Amaranth*: A traditional leafy vegetable crop rich in calcium, iron, and vitamins A and C. It's commonly used in soups and stews.

- *Spider Plant*: A leafy vegetable with high nutritional value, spider plant is often used in traditional African cuisine.

- *Nightshade*: A herbaceous plant with small, shiny fruit, nightshade leaves and young shoots are cooked as a vegetable.

- *Pumpkin Leaves*: Used as a leafy vegetable in African cuisine, pumpkin leaves are rich in nutrients and often cooked with other ingredients.

- *Corchorus (Jute Plant)*: A vegetable with a slightly bitter taste, corchorus is rich in nutrients and used in traditional African dishes ¹ ².

Some Zulu foods which were planted/eaten before the 1800s.

N.B.: Sugarcane was also imported into South Africa & didn't exist before 1848. So there was no sugar in the entirety of South Africa before the 19th century.

This blog is a repost of a previous blog called "African diet in 1500 BC".

Lynn Ngugi describing African foods

AFRICAN RENAISSANCE

26 September 2025

Every essential item eventually becomes wearable.

From spectacles being a handheld lens, to being worn on the face to pocket watches becoming wristwatches. Everything people need eventually becomes something worn on the body.

In future, if technological progress continues as is & resources do not deplete, I can imagine impenetrable exoskeleton suits that would be as comfortable to sleep in as they are rugged in harsh environments that could supply the body with nutrients by photosynthesis through perovskites or other technology. Maybe the human body itself would've been engineered to have photosynthesis-capable cells, eliminating the need for energy in the human body. The exoskeleton suit could make walking, running & jumping easier as well as have night vision fitted on a retractable helmet. This exoskeleton suit would be collision-proof & bulletproof along with being impenetrable to all animals. Maybe a self-cleaning or a bacteria & odour eliminating function. It may even be fitted with an underwater breathing mechanism as well as a gas mask mechanism.

Seeing some videos on the internet has made me believe that such a thing could very well be possible in some time. We need food & shelter, someone might make devices we could wear that would eliminate the need for food & shelter.

22 September 2025

Why aren't more countries designed like this?

I understand the importance of culture in any society but why couldn't it be done when the fundamentals & basics for survival in a land are dealt with? Primarily; food, shelter & defence. Anything after these three factors is surplus if we're being bare bones basic. The main industries of the land would revolve around food ( i. e. agriculture, livestock, compulsory state farm service, state-owned supermarkets & state food banks etc.), shelter (i. e. subsidised housing, state-owned hotels & hotel franchises) & defence (i. e. compulsory military training, border guards & a local military industrial complex).

You'd think some of the developed countries would be designed like this but they aren't for various capitalist reasons. Some socialist countries may have used these methods but perhaps not in the exact same fashion. They're all very laissez-faire & decentralised. In fact, I've only heard of a state hotel being spoken of in Burundi.

A state bank would ensure that the finances of the land are kept in the land if all individuals are required by law to have an account in the state bank.

Subsidised housing could be our matchbox houses (lounge, bathroom, kitchen & two bedrooms) in South Africa in a five-storey, high-rise building or a simple, single bedroom-bathroom, two-room arrangement for the poor/homeless which themselves would be a five-storey high-rise housing arrangements with a small planting patch for each house like in rural China. Five-storey so it is not too difficult to construct & not too catastrophic if disaster should happen. The larger housing would be a rent-to-own type contract & the smaller housing for the homeless would be a small fee for two months just to help individuals in need. The hotel franchise would be in select cities & towns across the land & perhaps expand continentally or even internationally. Subsidised high-rise buildings for housing are a Soviet creation. I imagine subsidised housing would be easier for the government to document on a census in order to provide services also.

Transport system in the land & National Unity would be as in the links below. Taxi drivers are part of the communities we live in & many would surely prefer government employment. National Unity would ensure tribalism & racism is kept to a minimum.

The Education & Sports system in the land would work symbiotically.

We could borrow the easy & fast business registration concept from Rwanda to grow our economy.

An employment or job seeker database for every citizen in the land to help in the census & helping individuals find employment.

A legal system that punishes the crime the individual committed & not punishes the individual regardless of which crime they committed aka Lex Talionis.

A near perfect land that leaves no one, including minorities, disenfranchised.

In brief:

• Food, Shelter, Defence are the state's first priority.

• State Bank.

• Subsidised public housing & hotels.

• State-owned transport system.

• Symbiotic Education (comprehensive education for the needs of the land) & Sport system.

• Easy business registration.

• Employment/job-finding database.

• Concept of National Unity.

• Lex Talionis.

Kwatuism

Is the world ready for an African NATO?

In Africa, we already have the African Standby Force (ASF) which I suppose helps the UN in peace missions across Africa. But could Africa fund it's own defence network complete with it's own Military Industrial Complex? Is it possible for Africa to move out of the "making AK-47 replicas phase" to a complete continent-wide defence network? Would African governments really fork over a percentage of their GDP to fund this more advanced A. S. F. ? Let's explore some ideas.