 behave as if we're not being influenced would be like pretending and lying to ourselves and lying to consciousness and also denying ourselves of the histories of independence movements because this is how it's been like like africans have watched other africans struggle and been like okay let's let's let's see how we can make that happen over here and uh in our in our enemy and i would say our enemy our adversaries the west the collective west including the us and i'm talking to