Beyond the British Spell
Nigeria & Kenya — Two Nations, One Spell of Betrayal.
“They drew borders with rulers and ruled with borders.”
— The Colonized Voice
Season One of EVOLVING: Beyond the British Spell sets the tone — brutal, unfiltered, and revelatory.
We travel to Nigeria and Kenya, two former British colonies whose independence came wrapped in chains of division, economic sabotage, and spiritual distortion.
This is the genesis of post-colonial trauma — the Crown’s original sin on African soil.
How the Berlin Conference drew lines across lives.
Lugard’s blueprint of indirect rule and the invention of “tribes” in Nigeria.
Mission schools taught obedience, not liberation.
Language became a leash. Christianity became camouflage.
Nigeria’s present-day political chaos?
A gift from the Crown — wrapped in census lies, quota systems, and oil-fed manipulation.
Kenya’s independence wasn’t won in ballots but in blood.
This episode exposes the British gulags hidden from global memory.
Survivors speak.
From Lagos to Nairobi, elders recount colonial scars that textbooks erased.
What exactly did they “hand over”?
This finale questions whether flag ceremonies were freedom — or staged distractions.
“They didn’t just colonize land. They colonized memory.”
“The Curse of the Crown isn’t a season — it’s a seance. It resurrects truths buried under Union Jack ceremonies.”
— AfroScreen Reviews
“Unforgiving. Unrelenting. Unafraid.”
— Decolonial Journal of Media & Memory
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This story was inherited, not imagined. This series is resistance.