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Dr Gabriel Eke
The Orange Union principle is a geopolitical reflection of the orange fruit whereby the outer peeling represents the mutuality of shared interest but each inner segment represents a self-contained, self-determined, self-governed and self-protected ethnic country.
No segment interferes with the internal affairs of another segment.
The Union collaborates with mutual equity only on seven affairs which are
- Trade
- Transportation
- Border Control
- Union Security
- International Relations
- Sports Development and
- Arbitration Court
The banknotes may look different for each ethnic member country but the currency & currency value stays the same auspices of the Union Reserve Bank which is part of the joint Trade affairs.
All other affairs are exclusive matters of internal governance for each ethnic member country.
We were brainwashed, punished and made ashamed of our indigenous identities, we were lumped together geographically and then divided against one another politically, we were lured away from multicultural identities and forced to a foreign “superior” system that required us to be integrated into European culture called civilisation to qualify for jobs but only just enough to be used as servants to perform the menial labour and basic tasks for the Oyinbo massas.
As soon as we started rising above that status and became “educated” we were herded into the “commonwealth” deception, but you still had to sweat to get a visa for higher training in the U.K. Today the oppression continues with Ms Braverman tightening the noose around the necks of those who dare to seek a way out of the devastation that Africa has been made into.
The way our kids begin to learn they are black inferior humans is because they are shamed and physically, mentally and socially barred from entry to areas where good white people’s kids play.
Identity is key. We must learn and appreciate Self identity and discard this fake White identity.
The confusion of who and what we are has to stop.
The Orange concept is key to opening our minds to our amazing history, culture, diversity and to start to take pride in our millions of years of ancestry.
In the natural African civilization there is a tested and tried consensus in the community. Such consensus that has survived multiple and countless generations is not only a stable incentive for progress but a deterrent to aberrational vice. The principles of governance and communal harmony are rooted at every level of the society. There is virtually little to no discrepancy in the outlook of the nation whether at individual or public level.
With this sort of pre-colonial setting the outcomes are frequently unanimous and the gears of progress are swiftly changed according to the nature of the challenges facing that community.
However, in an experimental society the regular outcomes are unpredictable and the nuances of incoherence can spark alarming conflicts. It requires a detailed studying of the various components of the experiment in order to find a brittle common ground. The element of trust has a very low threshold for the boiling point and therefore disappears at the slightest incongruence. This may be due to innate incompatibilities but it could be more a matter of natural divergence. Whatever the case may be, it should not be a perpetual experimentation if the recurring outcomes bear the mark of failure in a consistent trajectory.
With the above preamble in mind the mirror in the sun converges the spotlight on the colonial experiment in West Africa known as "Nigeria." This giant colonial experiment is still perplexing every onlooker in the way it combines endowment with persistent regression as the expanding rot of an apple. It is almost a mystical puzzle when diction speaks louder than action for far too long. The very complexity of its ethnic civilizational mosaicism is a recipe for dissatisfaction to say the least but the constant denial of this complexity itself inadvertently cancels the sense of belonging for an unknown but sharply increasing percentage of the conglomerate. This absent sense of belonging is further exacerbated by a history littered with injustices that if anything have a propensity for recurrence on a regular basis. Obviously vain utterances will not yield trust when the colonial matrix cannot guarantee any safe haven even in the indigenous cradles. This particular reality exponentially heightens anxiety, paranoia and every other disorder that makes our folks look like peoples cursed even before the cock crows at dawn. The level of desperation for many is such that they feel doomed from the very moment of waking up.
So why is our collective history evading the vast majority of our peoples? The deliberate omission of robust local history in the colonial education being offered from kindergarten was the vehicle of brainwashing that prolonged the collective suffering. Going by the colonial trajectory some ethnic nations will never see their fellow indigene become head of State ever as the arithmetical odds are forever stacked against them. How does this fact promote trust or a sense of belonging? If it doesn't, then it will certainly feed the sense of discord, distrust, selfishness and corruption. The colonial experiment created a "confunity" by confusing our destiny but it never promoted a community as we were lied to.
So it turns out that our peoples do not lack intelligence but they lack a sense of belonging given the colonial configuration that denies their true voice, identity, language, culture, hopes and self-determination.
We did not colonize ourselves and we certainly must not colonize ourselves on behalf of the colonizers who neither speak our languages nor give birth to our descendants. It is utter nonsense to continue with any colonial formation anywhere in Africa. It is an insult on all of us as individuals and as a collective.
We must follow the research and seek the Orange Union earnestly with a sense of urgency in fact. We need to stop all political wilderness and gimmicks.
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©2023 Dr Eke.
A good government is one that achieves excellence beyond the usual expectations of the people. Subsequently a bad government is one that fails to achieve its promise but at least achieved the mandatory basic criteria for governance to be even deemed a government.
Many people assume that government is any set of persons or personalities who claim to be a "government." This is clearly not the case as sometimes a government does not even exist.
There are specific basic criteria that confirm the existence of a government whether bad or good but at least a government exists when these basic criteria are clearly all evident.
Government is not a theory and it is not a title but a duty in itself. Government is not an idea or a claim but a set of persons or personalities who fulfil the mandatory basic criteria for governance.
There are other criteria for societal development which can be facilitated by a government to various degrees but for a government to even exist it must have fulfilled all five mandatory basic criteria for governance.
In the absence of any of the five criteria, there is an absence of government. Those who are not aware of this duty must never be involved in any governance structure or instruments.
DRINKING WATER
A government must ensure the availability of drinking water for the entire population on a daily basis with a secured planning project that maintains and sustains the provision of enough drinking water which must be easily affordable to the entire population.
ADEQUATE FOOD
There must be an organized approach to ensuring that the entire population can access daily feeding whether subsidized or not. The food production must be supported and promoted by government programs in a robust manner.
The role of stakeholders must be encouraged and monitored to include foresight and reasonable forecast of potential food production. Food must be easily affordable to the entire population.
SECURITY
A security network that ensures protection of person and property must be guaranteed to function without impediments of any sort. Every person and property must have the assurance that the security network has regular standard surveillance and communication which adequately covers the entire map of the polity.
A non-intrusive but proactive security system with very low threshold for direct engagement with the citizens and residents to allow passive and active flow of information as detailed as necessary to stay steps ahead of potential criminality is mandatory.
This security network is fully equipped and heavily backed by the concerted efforts of all government agencies and all key stakeholders in the community. All security centres must have locally sourced personnel to ensure good communication, monitoring and transparency in the public view.
HEALTH & SAFETY
The public health and safety boards must have adequate knowledge of the local peculiarities and have a dedicated team for risk assessment of potential aberrations within the community.
A robust communication method that dialogues with the community at all the various levels must be in place. Regular checks and audits of successful performance must be conducted annually and public awareness programs must be overtly conducted monthly throughout the length and breadth of the polity to ensure identification of loopholes and unsafe activities.
An equitably sustainable healthcare system that ensures the direct responsibility and active participation of both service users and service providers must be in place.
A TRANSPARENT JUDICIARY
The issue of a constitution derived via the overwhelming consensus of the public as it traverses their ancestry, history, culture, identity, security, territorial peculiarity, language and most ideal foreseeable posterity goes without saying to be the foundation of a locally functional judiciary.
The best interest of the polity will vary from culture to culture as well as from nation to nation. It cannot be assumed that all cultures are the same nor should it be assumed that every language expresses the same sentiments.
A constitution must reflect not only the safety and stability of the local polity but it reflects the unique understanding and compliance of the citizens as a means of promoting their heritage in the most humanely possible way.
The judiciary as a custodian of rules which preserve the integrity of persons, property and the polity must be predictable based on outlined orders in place which reflects its transparent nature. This impartial structure is a powerful reminder of all that has been agreed beyond the shadows of doubt for the peace of mind of the community. It motivates compliance by its assessment of whatever cases stationed within it forecourts.
It is worth noting that the above five mandatory basic criteria for governance are not about excellence or performance but about the absence or existence of a government.
There are many other criteria for performance and excellence which may include educational systems, housing, energy efficiency, effective transportation systems, adequate labour and employment management, durable economic development strategies, satisfactory sports and leisure arrangements, robust foreign affairs policy, decent wildlife management, equitable resource management etc.
In conclusion, where any one of the five mandatory basic criteria for governance is amiss, you definitely have no government regardless of what any politician or deity tells you.
©2020 Dr Eke.
I don't dispute the point on emergence of leadership in some dire straits.
However, I will mention that breakup will not be bloody as we have been wired by the colonialists to imagine. For thousands of years, we were "broken up" if that's the meaning of our longest existence as peoples.
We have been miseducated by white supremacists that we must leave our serene houses and join the street fight which the white man orchestrated to promote his gambling and betting rounds. We are realising and relearning that all the proxy wars the white supremacists introduced to Africa were being blamed on the Africans as well as the slavery the same white fellas introduced was ultimately being blamed on us.
We are fast learning to dissociate from the agenda of the enemies when it comes to Africa. It is this understanding of the narrative war that is beginning to shape our posture.
Those of us who gullibly promoted the "Arising compatriots" many decades ago are fast realising that we were fodder. So, we will not be thinking like the fodder that we were, but we are now grasping the plots of the hands behind the scenes - the Culprits.
They did their Brexit without blood on the dancefloor so we will tow our own best options without giving the enemies that opportunity to outsmart us again.
By Dr Gabiel Eke (13/05/2025)
The preamble of the Orange Union principle has four phases that augment and overlap in a linear progression.
The final and fourth phase is dedicated to top-level consultation for each ethnic nation to highlight the unique potentials of that particular ethnic country from ethno-cultural, geographic, sociopolitical, economic to geopolitical aspects. It focuses on the local and global benefits of participating in the Orange 🍊 Union. This envisages releasing the latent qualities and feasibility of that ethnic country into a palpable development prospectus so that they do not underrate their true unique capabilities.
The pseudo-identity of colonial states is essentially political and would have a negligible role in their rediscovered ancestral polities. The allegiances will be focused on ancestral patriotism and the benefits of the Orange Union collaboration rather than on imported religious affiliations. So, for instance, the heavy indoctrination of the "soviet citizen" only has a small sentimental value in the former Soviet countries even though it was the political vehicle for equality back in those days of the Soviet Union. It was seen as a beneficial "identity" for housing, education and even professional opportunities to prevent ethnic discrimination but it is now a nostalgic sentiment in the current post-Soviet era. The political identity of the colonial states will fade even faster when the genuine basis for identity is re-established especially with the official status of the ethnic language.
As for cross border issues it will not only be the task of the Border Control affairs Committee to oversee the mutual harmonization of safety and security but the future annulment of the colonial borders to reunite the ancestral nations divided by Berlin Conference lines will be a calculated objective because decolonization will not be completed until those colonial disfigurement are resolved as maturity improves throughout Africa.
What is important is allowing the "family" to have the festival or celebration of reunion even if personal fringe affiliations like religion might exist. The importance of rediscovering the positive role of many of the ethno-cultural values will mature as the local constitution asserts itself independent from the colonial past. Even small things like the attire of judicial staff, schools, etc promotes the sense of cultural renaissance.
By Dr Gabriel Eke (13/03/2025)
Ade Ogunsola
You’ve said it all—and what’s most tragic is that Nigeria’s collapse won’t even be from the weight of empire, but from the absence of nationhood. No golden age. No civilisational arc. Just a long, agonising dysfunction dragged out by inertia and oil receipts.
We never had a shared myth. No binding ethos. The British tied the parts together, handed the key to a select few, and left before the engine ever turned. What we call a country is a construction without a foundation—a fraudulent grundnorm, as you rightly put it. One stitched together by colonial fiat and held together by denial, fear, and rigged power-sharing.
Where empires crumble under the weight of overreach, Nigeria is imploding from within—ethno-linguistic fissures, a corrupted elite without consensus, citizens numbed by survival, and a leadership pipeline that rewards mediocrity and loyalty over capacity.
And yet—here we are, talking. Planning. Proposing. That means all is not lost. But the window is closing fast.
The Orange Union is not a retreat. It’s a recalibration—a sober admission that if we can’t build an empire, we should at least build functioning homelands, where people can belong, govern, and thrive. Because pretending to be a nation while bleeding at every seam is not nobility. It’s negligence.
Let’s stop pretending Nigeria is rising. Let’s start building what can actually stand.
By Ade Ogunsola (13/05/2025)
My thoughts on African Democracy, Philosophy and the Orange Union
There’s a deep and often neglected river that runs beneath our political chaos—and that is the river of African philosophy. Before the ballot, before the constitution, before the imported phrases of “state” and “citizen,” we had our own understanding of how people should live together. That understanding—grounded in council, kinship, reciprocity, and accountability—is what we must now reclaim, refine, and reapply.
You see, African democracy did not begin with colonial independence. It predates the colonial state by centuries. It sat in the Igbo village square, in the Yoruba council of chiefs, in the Asante royal court, and among the Somali elders. It was deliberative, consensus-based, and rooted in an ethic of communal responsibility. What was lost during colonisation was not only land or resources, but the architecture of our self-governance.
The Orange Union is our chance to rebuild—not just our states—but our civic philosophy. It offers a platform where ancestral political wisdom and modern governance can meet—not as contradiction, but as evolution.
Because what is democracy, if not the expression of a people’s will in a language they understand?
We cannot keep grafting Westminster systems onto Lagos, or Parisian models onto Kinshasa, and expecting results. These frameworks were never designed for our plural histories, our deep ethnic maps, or our ancestral rhythms of legitimacy. They confuse elections for consent, and institutions for justice.
The Orange Union says: let us build democracy from the village outward, not from the capital downward. Let our ethnic nations, with their unique values, histories, and languages, articulate constitutions that reflect who they truly are—then come together in union by choice, not by decree.
This is not a retreat into tribalism—it is a revolution in political realism. It is the belief that only when each ethnic homeland is at peace with itself can we build a federalism that stands.
The African future will not be built by repeating colonial scripts in local languages. It will be built by rooting political systems in philosophical soil that is ours, and by recognising that the true genius of African democracy has always been consensual pluralism—not centralised imposition.
Orange Union is not just a political project. It is a philosophical return home.
By Ade Ogunsola (14/05/2025)
Good stuff…. The fourth phase is where strategy and soul finally converge.
Releasing the latent potential of each ethnic country is not just about self-esteem—it’s about restoring the sovereign grammar of identity. When you say each ethnic nation must reawaken its geographic, economic, and geopolitical uniqueness, you’re not speaking of nostalgia—you’re speaking of viability. That is how dignity becomes policy.
And your comparison to the Soviet “citizen” is instructive: that manufactured identity served a purpose—economic mobility, state cohesion—but it never truly displaced ancestral identity. The moment the USSR collapsed, those older loyalties snapped back to life. Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia—none of them wept for Moscow. Similarly, the Nigerian or Congolese identity will prove paper-thin once ancestral polities are constitutionally restored.
This is why your emphasis on official language revalidation is profound. Language isn’t just communication—it’s a vessel of law, ritual, and imagination. When a people’s language is marginalised, their statehood is postponed. By contrast, when a language is official, a constitution can breathe.
On the matter of cross-border unification—again, you’re on point. The Berlin Conference didn’t just carve land; it carved through kinship lines. A decolonised Africa cannot rest until the Ewe, the Yoruba, the Somali, the Bakongo, and others are re-integrated—not through conquest or chaos, but through patient constitutional engineering. That’s the long arc of pan-African federalism.
And yes—even small things matter. Judicial attire, school rituals, civic ceremonies—they’re all symbols of cultural authorship. No more British wigs. No more Latin mottos. A renaissance doesn’t begin in parliaments—it begins in classrooms, in courtrooms, and in festivals of reunion, as you so beautifully put it.
The Orange Union is not a rebellion. It’s a reconciliation—with self, with ancestry, with sovereignty.
Let the family reunite. Let the languages speak again. And let us draft constitutions that speak from the ground up—not from the map down.
By Ade Ogunsola (13/05/2025)
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