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Black survival: Have Africans learnt any lessons from Japans nuclear bombing?

J.K. Obatala |23rd Aug 2025
Black survival: Have Africans learnt any lessons from Japan’s nuclear bombing?

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The Black Race is losing the struggle for survival. We are not doing the things that are necessary to keep us alive, as a group, and to sustain conditions for the continued reproduction of our kind. This entails certain very specific criteria, which all higher organisms must meet.

Succinctly put, nature eliminates species which: (a) fail to reproduce in sufficient numbers; (b) falter in extracting energy from the environment; (c) cannot shelter or defend offspring; and (d) are unable to protect reproductive resources, such as mates and territory.

Eighty years after the U.S. nuclear bombing of Japan, is an apt occasion for reflecting on these inviolable rules: Rules that govern Earth’s intensely competitive biological system, of which Black people, everywhere, are an integral part.


Unfortunately, Black policymakers and sectorial leaders (artistes, intellectuals, writers, etc.) in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and the South Pacific, still do not (after 80 years) grasp the implications of August 1945—when atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The objective of this essay, is not to bemoan, or memorialize, the 200,000-plus Japanese that died on August 6 and 9, 1945. Others have done that. I will return to the bombing, though, in quite a different context—after addressing some critical theoretical and racial issues.


What happens when organisms fail to measure up, you might ask, in this ceaseless “war of survival”? Their stark fates, can be inferred from a Wikipedia quote: “More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct”!

The upshot, is that, as humans, we belong to an evolutionary elite—the 10 to 14 million competitive species, known to have survived nature’s ruthless culling process, over the past 3.7 to 4.1 billion years of Earth’s history.

Evolution drives all life-processes: From diplomacy to cell division; from human courtship to the flowering of plants; and from the behavior of insects to the building of nuclear arsenals. The problem is, awareness of this primordial synergy is next to nil, in the global black community.

Our struggle, in Africa and abroad, is still guided by the outmoded precepts of the 1960s independence and civil rights movements. Consequently, we have failed to formulate and propagate a proper, scientifically based survival strategy.


A 21st century survival schema, must be anchored in evolutionary theory—with black reproduction and war-preparedness, as fundamental components. Reproductive activity, in particular, is the engine of evolution, the prime mover of living organisms through time—i.e., from generation to generation.

But what is “evolution”?

Well, the answer is a bit involved. But let me begin, like this: Evolution is rocking in bed—not necessarily rocket science! When you’re “getting it on” again, look in the mirror. What you’ll see, is a powerful biological metaphor, whose meaning and importance extends far beyond the bedroom.

Biologists, of course, are more academic. They define evolution as the continuous formation of new types of organisms, from earlier ones, due to slight—but inevitable—physical and behavioral differences (“variation”) between parents and their offspring.


Professor Dennis O’Neil, of Palomar College, San Marcos, California puts it this way: “All life forms, including humans, evolved from earlier species, and all still-living species of organisms continue to evolve today.”

This obviously is a set-piece for controversy, in Nigeria! The idea that Earth’s great diversity of life-forms developed from bacteria, over billions of years, is widely reviled and rejected—ostensibly on “religious” grounds.

But such “piety,” is largely a facade. The real reasons for rejecting evolution is ignorance and mental lethargy. The literature is replete, with evidence that the modern theory, is a veritable gift of religion to science. Indeed, historians normally credit its wide acceptance, to two theologians and a spiritualist!


Charles Darwin, best known among the trio, read “Theology” at Cambridge (but did not join the clergy), while Gregor Mendel—father of genetics—was a monk. Mendel conducted his seminal experiments in plant heredity with garden peas, at a Catholic monastery!

The modern theory’s third progenitor was Alfred Russell Wallace, who was co-conceiver, with Darwin, of its famous tenet, that evolution occurs through “variation and natural selection”. Jane Camerini, writing in Britannica.Com, describes Wallace as “keenly intellectual but no less spiritual”.

It ought to be stressed, that scientists discovered—not “invented”—the rules of evolution. These rules are basic to life itself, and govern the behavior of every living organism. What modern evolutionary theorists did, was to infer universal principles, from the observed behavior of diverse species.


The “species,” of course, includes our ancestors. The precepts and practices we normally refer to as “tradition,” for instance, are nothing more than accumulated survival-knowledge, derived from trial-and-error experiences and preserved through ritual. (Ritual is a cultural memory system.)

Virtually all ancestral customs, rituals and ceremonies evolved either to promote, and protect, the reproductive system or to make war. Most of the customs that earned pre-Colonial Africa the opprobrious appellation of the “land of savages” had—or once had—survival value.

Human sacrifice, for example, was formerly widespread on our planet and is still a big problem in India, for example. In Britain and Ireland, “hob nob” biscuits—hawked daily on the streets of Nigerian cities—were, reportedly, used in the past to sacrifice young males on May Day, in parts of Europe.

Sacrifices were, among other things, a means of population control, improvement (by eliminating undesirable individuals) and war preparedness. The Gold Coast lawyer, J.E, Casely Hayford, noted, for instance, that Akan priests were sent to traditional universities, to learn the intricacies of the priesthood.

African customs, originally stemmed from evolutionary necessity—not “savagery”. The crude methodology of our ancestors is, by contemporary ethical standards, obsolete, cruel and unacceptable. But their evolutionary reasoning remains scientifically and logically defensible.


Sadly, I cannot say the same for today’s elites, who scorn their own ancestors as “uncivilized”. At the same time, they also reject the critical guidance of evolutionary theory—which synthesizes survival knowledge into logical, scientific constructs. We are, consequently, a confused and disoriented race.

A most disturbing case in point, is the irrational and countra-evolutionary precepts that govern the nuclear arms policies of African leaders. They have been duped into two diplomatic accords, whose effect is to render African states—and their genetic satellites in other countries—defenseless.


One of these agreements, is the “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” (NPT). The African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty, also called the Treaty of Pelindaba, is the other. (It is named for the place where South Africa built six bombs, during the apartheid era.)

NPT became binding in 1970 and was later extended indefinitely, while Pelindaba went into force in July 2009. Without dwelling on detail, both treaties prohibit sub-Saharan signees from developing, buying or possessing nuclear arms or related technology.

This exemplifies one dimensional thinking, where leaders are oblivious to past and future—focusing only on the present. The signatories to these accords, are apparently impervious to the past failures of treaties between weak and powerful states—especially in Africa.

Professor Robert Boroffice, founding director general of Nigeria’s Space Agency, and now a retired Senator, warned policymakers back in 2015, to think twice before entering international agreements, “less we repeat our mistake, in signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.


Boroffice, is not a nuclear arms exponent. The mistake, he said, was signing away the options of unborn generations. Indeed, both NPT and Pelindaba, deprive future Africans of the right to a nuclear deterrent—even as authoritarian fascism threatens, in some partner countries.

Nuclear deterrence, is a Darwinian imperative—what evolutionary theorists would call a “fitness relevant” asset. It ensures the survival of an historically oppressed, despised and exploited people, who occupy the most highly coveted piece of real estate on planet Earth.


The Pelindaba Treaty, declares Africa a “Nuclear Free Zone”: The supposition being, that if there are no nuclear weapons or related technology on the continent, African states would be spared a nuclear assault!

Whoever wrote this perverse logic into the accord, is probably still laughing: And justifiably so. Because if the events of August 6 and 9, 1945 are anything to go by, it’s “nuclear free zones,” that are most likely to be attacked.

The Japanese can attest to this. The U.S. trained Japanese to die, by flying over the two target cities daily, to let residents get used to seeing American planes in the sky—that conditioned them not to run, when planes carrying the bombs appeared.

Knowing the Japanese couldn’t retaliate, the Americans wanted to kill as many as possible. If this sounds cruel, well…That’s what can happen, when you’re in a “nuclear free” zone!


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