Stop Calling It Supremacy — It’s Terrorism | Part 9: The Border & The Last Clause of Colonialism
Episode 9 turns to the border, opening on twin infants who died of cold within sight of Europe after a January 2026 crossing from Sfax—a death the episode refuses to call tragic, since the water did exactly what it was built to do. It traces the same deliberate design across the Sonoran Desert's unidentified dead and Europe's proxy war through the Libyan Coast Guard, then lays the passport index over the colonial map, weighing Nigeria's plundered oil against a Gulf allowed to keep its own. It closes on the author's own two passports, one face and two verdicts, naming the passport itself as the receipt for a much older theft.
With Chisom Udeze, Solo
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Show Notes
In Episode 9 of the series, Chisom turns to the border, and to the passport as the last clause of the colonial contract. It opens on a boat that left Sfax for Lampedusa in January 2026, on the twin girls about a year old who died of cold within sight of Europe, and refuses to call them a tragedy, because the water did exactly what it was left there to do. It walks the same design across the Sonoran Desert and its more than sixteen hundred unidentified dead, the Mediterranean and its deadliest start since 2014, and the proxy, Europe paying the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept and return people into detention the United Nations has tied to crimes against humanity. It names what deterrence is, fear and death used to control where a population may go, the definition of terrorism the series has carried throughout. Then it turns to the ledger, laying the passport index over the colonial map, setting Nigeria and its wasted oil against the Gulf that was permitted to keep the proceeds, and it closes on her own passports, the same face and two verdicts in a minute, and on the reader, told that the distance between them and the drowned was only ever the paper, and the paper is the receipt for the theft.