A Nigerian living in the UK has "discovered" a new lake and named it Iyi Ojemba.

Mazi Uba Acho, a native of Igbo Naton in W Africa, highlighted the absurdity of the colonialist mindset that sought to claim discovery of places already known to locals. He cited Mungo Park's claim to the River Niger in Nigeria and David Livingstone's claim to the Zambezi River, Zambia, and Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

#colonialism #africa #UnitedStatesOfAfrica

@els76uk Were doing Columbus in history right now and one of the kids asked "how could he discover America when there were already people living there?"
@Giliell: The people who had been living there suddenly developed a strange tendency to die of smallpox in large numbers. @els76uk