SLAVERY REBRANDED A Case Study of Mozambique Hall of Residence, OAU

• Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ~ Marcus Garvey
• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South. ~ Abraham Lincoln
• It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? ~ John Quincy Adams

*AJOSE, Gideon*

Everybody up! Stand up! up on your feet; sounds of whips being used by the slave masters filled the air, and believe me it was louder than their voices, tears of shame and reproach overran the eyes of so many of the slaves that they began to curse the day they were born, this is just a painting of one of the scenarios of *ROOTS*, a film that delved into the history of Slavery that emanated from the oppressive and racial Whites of which Blacks were majorly on the receiving end, another thing that interested me was the part where "Kunta Kinte" was flogged to ensure he denied his name and accept the new one given to him by his master's wife, the name was "Tobi"

As analogous to the archaic system of slavery that had Africans being sold to the whites, It saddens my heart to announce to you that, we now have Blacks still selling other Blacks to Blacks, when I say Blacks I don't just mean Africans, I mean Nigerians but it might interest you to note that the first category of Blacks, I mean the one selling people are leaders who are without conscience, no sorry, I mean leaders who have killed their conscience, oh my mistake I mean leaders who sold out their conscience to the ever expectant arms of greed.

This first category of Blacks were elected into power based on people's wrong perception of their activism as sincere and Human Right Motivated, this however happened to be a LOST LOVE, a square in a circle and an error of the millennium, part of the atrocities of this first category of Blacks is their aiding and albeit of extortion of their followers, both in the Butteries being operated within their jurisdiction and also payment of illegal dues which were forced upon unsuspecting FRESHERS who had no option other than to succumb, a typical example of this is the #1,000 that was paid by Mozambique Queens upon resumption, this was claimed to have been for a cupboard, first let it be stated clearly that everyone was MANDATED to pay without which they couldnt complete their Bedspace Clearance, and those that even had Cupboards or brought theirs from home were also *COERCED* pinto paying, if this was the only thing, it could just have rolled but there are evidences that under this same leadership that some cupboards belonging to Mozambique Queens has also be converted into the Hall Property by inscription of MOZ on it by the ever oppressive porters, it is still an open secret that not all Mozambique Queens have gotten the cupboards.

The second category of blacks are those that are being sold, I want you to understand that slaves are not bought, THEY ARE MADE, silence isn't golden when oppression that can be contained is allowed to thrive, it isn't only cowardly but also a betrayal of common interest that no one has stood up to challenge the atrocities of the first categories of Blacks who have found nothing except joy in selling out the second category of Blacks, if you don't talk, you will die, if you talk, you will also die, so is it better to keep quiet and die? Cowards they say die many times before their death, and as a wise man once said, if we do not fight, we have already lost, but if we fight; we may win

The Third category of Blacks are those that are REAPING directly from the ILLEGAL profit generated by the neo fascist actions of the first category of Blacks, they aren't doing the job, all they need to do is to scare the second category of blacks away momentarily to ascertain and stamp their authority, most of the time, they do this by chasing them with FAT STICKS which would land anyone in Teaching Hospital if it happens that they got hit!!! It is this third category that didn't allow the students do their registration because they wanted to collect #1,000 which isn't recognized by any authority!!! One thing predominant with third category of Blacks, who are always the slave masters, is the amount of sexual assault carried out on their female slaves!!! Rumors has it that this third category of Blacks always help themselves at the end of the day with some of the innocent and unsuspecting second category of Blacks

In case you have been wondering what the whole first, second and third category is all about, I am talking about the Hall Executives of Mozambique Hall of Residence, The Students popularly addressed as Mozambique Queens and the Hall Management as a whole with special attention to the porters, as someone once said, the only voice of the masses is the pen, if it is lost then the hope of the masses has disappeared into thin air.

AJOSE GIDEON
is a student of Estate Management, a blogger; gbeduhub.com and the convener of OAU~Politics Today.