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The media war against Abacha has been lost a long time ago. There are people who genuinely believe he died after an orgy with Indian prostitutes for instance. So it's pointless to try to fight it. What I will say is this: I'm not a hardliner of any ism. The only ism I care about is nationalism. That is, acting in the interests of your country anywhere you can, and using the levers of state and means of production to make life objectively better for your fellow citizens. And If you ignore what the Western media has been hammering into your head and look at the facts, you'll see that Abacha was a staunch nationalist. He crushed inflation from 50%+ to single digits. He refused to give away our oil blocks to predatory Western oil companies unless they were jointly developed by Nigerian companies. He had ZERO tolerance for extremism of any kind He projectedNigerian influence across West Africa with his ECOMOG interventions. I mean actually instilling a sense of pride in the flag. He even asserted Nigeria's sovereignty by meeting with Ghaddafi when other African leaders would have obeyed like good dogs. And many many more... Now was General Sani Abacha a saint? Fuck no. I'm certain he made some mistakes. And I'm sure he killed the wrong people more than once or twice. That is regrettable. But nation building is never a clean job. East for me to say, I know. Seeing as I've never had to catch a bullet. But hey, many people consider Mao Zedong as a bloodthirsty murderer on the same level as Satan. But he's the only reason China is the powerful nation it is. Do with that info what you will

The media war against Abacha has been lost a long time ago. There are people who genuinely believe he died after an orgy with Indian prostitutes for instance. So it's pointless to try to fight it. What I will say is this: I'm not a hardliner of any ism. The only ism I care about is nationalism. That is, acting in the interests of your country anywhere you can, and using the levers of state and means of production to make life objectively better for your fellow citizens. And If you ignore what the Western media has been hammering into your head and look at the facts, you'll see that Abacha was a staunch nationalist. He crushed inflation from 50%+ to single digits. He refused to give away our oil blocks to predatory Western oil companies unless they were jointly developed by Nigerian companies. He had ZERO tolerance for extremism of any kind He projectedNigerian influence across West Africa with his ECOMOG interventions. I mean actually instilling a sense of pride in the flag. He even asserted Nigeria's sovereignty by meeting with Ghaddafi when other African leaders would have obeyed like good dogs. And many many more... Now was General Sani Abacha a saint? Fuck no. I'm certain he made some mistakes. And I'm sure he killed the wrong people more than once or twice. That is regrettable. But nation building is never a clean job. East for me to say, I know. Seeing as I've never had to catch a bullet. But hey, many people consider Mao Zedong as a bloodthirsty murderer on the same level as Satan. But he's the only reason China is the powerful nation it is. Do with that info what you will

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South Africans are engaging in white supremist rhetoric unknowingly. AAVE is a language just as Xhosa and Zulu are language. If you want to argue it’s a dialect, that same argument can be used for both Xhosa and Zulu.

Not you guys disagreeing with an actual linguistics professor 🫣

Sigh…. Considering the fact that I am a linguistics professor and researcher specializing in Black languaging practices, and I teach a course on African American language, let me repeat: AAL and English are different languages. “South African people be speaking” is NOT English.

Kev! What you’re describing is translanguaging (“codeswitching” from outside the speaker’s perspective). Black Americans also do this “weaving” beautifully in and out of African American language (AAL/AAVE) and North American English. You even did it right here on this tweet!😁😁