Mawu's return
"Adze's ancestors had learned to obey the Portuguese, the French and then the Chinese, but they had kept the knowledge of the ancients, the Guins, whose mythology affirmed that they had come from Egypt, after having colonized Ghana. In Togo, Azde's native country, as in other African countries, the Chinese had been the last colonizers.
The Asians had been skilful, however, at the beginning, they had not made the same mistakes as the Western colonizers who had preceded them. The Chinese had not criticized the local political regimes, had not talked about human, women's or children's rights. They just talked about business and investment. This went down much better in countries where slavery and colonization had exacerbated sensitivities.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Beijing had invested heavily in Africa. With billions of dollars, the Chinese had built ports and factories, developing or reopening former colonial routes and sea lanes that had opened up entire regions to trade with... China. The Togolese government, like many African countries, proved unable to repay its debt. The Chinese companies had paid themselves, as they had planned from the start, by taking possession of the stations, ports, forests or mines of the indebted countries. The Chinese trap was closed.
Throughout the 21st century, the majority of the continent's companies, businesses and supermarkets had been owned by the Chinese. They had the organization, the manpower and the finance to buy up everything and take over whole swathes of the world economy.
But the Chinese became also harsh and openly racist with their African customers and employees, whom they considered lazy and incapable. The hostility of the African populations grew rapidly, resulting in lynching, looting, and rape. In the first decades, the local governments were able to protect the Chinese who corrupted them so generously. The Chinese military had obtained military bases on land or at sea from which they could send men to quell riots against their nationals.
The surprise military rise of the tiny and forgotten Adja kingdom of Tado, however, swept away China as it did the other great powers. It was in Togo that the adventure of the last colonizer in Africa came to an end.
This reversal of the world situation was brought about by a Togolese, Adze. He was the heir of a long line of sorcerers from this miserable and forgotten country in the Gulf of Guinea, in West Africa. Adze, like all African children of his time, had first played with tires. He then learned to develop programs on old Chinese computer equipment, subject to the vagaries of a country that experienced daily power cuts. His future, by Western technological standards, was limited.
But Adze was not willing to bow to what the world had planned for him and his people. Away from the eyes of the world, he forgot the methods he had learned from the Chinese or others, and began to innovate, to create modern tools with his traditional knowledge. At first timidly, he introduced less Cartesian data into the technical solutions. He invited the soul of the Zangbeto, the guardian of the night, Hévioso, the thunder, who renders justice, Sakpaté, the earth or Dan Ayidohwédo, the air, to find solutions to the technical challenges of his time. This did not always work, at first...
But soon, the breath of Mawu, creator of Heaven and Earth, helped him to move, build or destroy entire buildings in his city. With other wizards, he blew the Acofin, the traditional horn that called on the ancestors for help. Sick people began to heal according to the ancient knowledge, fields turned green, irrigated by timely rains. In the end, it worked. His fame was local, at first. Then, the echo of his exploits began to reach Lomé, the capital.
The local governor summoned Adze. He did not respond. Adze was summoned again, more firmly. He declared that he was the king of the Adja kingdom of Tado, that he did not obey the orders of a servant. The soldiers came running, ready for the massacre. They were annihilated in a flash, even before they reached Yawgu, the city of Adze. They vomited blood, none of them returned.
Lomé sent a stronger army, which suffered the same fate: 5,000 dead. The Chinese raised their voice, deciding it was time to put an end to this secession, to this evil local voodoo that was hurting their trade. In response, all their military bases in Africa were destroyed and their ships, commercial and military, sailing in African waters were sunk; overnight.
This signaled the immediate end of the Chinese presence in Africa and the beginning of an undeclared third world war won in a week.
Adze, a descendant of the governors of the sacred forest of Kete-Akoda, governor of the Nana voodoo, the seventh spiritual republic, had graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy. He did not copy the Chinese or the Westerners, but secretly developed his weapons of mass destruction, knowing perfectly well the strategies and means of his adversaries.
Without declaring war, he attacked on all fronts. All the soldiers of foreign armies were first driven out of Africa when Adze, using the power of Mawu, pulverized all their African military bases. Likewise, foreign ships stopped cruising near the African coast after many of them were systematically drowned by a tsunami driven by the fury of Mamiwata, the water goddess.
Always without warning or negotiation, Adze attacked all the nations of the world in gigantic attacks that no one could stop. Nuclear weapons, magnetic waves and bacteriological waves were neutralized by magic, and entire armies were turned into dying zombies.
Adze did not negotiate, he attacked and crushed his opponents, destroying their countries.
The powers were annihilated, the great cities razed to the ground by the breath of Ayidohweedo and the fire of Hévioso. Only Africa remained intact, free of foreigners.
The world, returned to the stone age, discovered with astonishment that Africa flew ships and built immense towers with the help of occult forces. No one smiled anymore. Half of the world's population had been wiped out by a man who lived with his wives in his little clay palace.
The weapons of war, developed by Adze, were formidable, unequalled. These weapons defied the norms of physics, appealing to the spirits. Entire armies were unable to fight them, driven to madness by spirits that could not be grasped.
From these events of no return, Africa was able to take over the leadership of the world."
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