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Nigerian brand of misogyny is so funny, like how can you agree with the sentiment that women are only good for cooking & fucking but then deny that the same thing applies to your mother?😂 So these men truly believe that it only applies to other people's mothers & daughters lol.

Dear Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, It has been 5 years since you became DG of this World Trade Organization—an organization that acts more like a "Wealth Transfer Organization". It was set up to make sure that African nations never rise up to the top of the food chain in global trade, but merely serve as a dumping ground for European cotton and wheat. 5 years ago, we all thought you went there to flip the table, but today it seems you’re just polishing it. As the first Black person to occupy this seat in Switzerland, I was hoping that at least you would look at the trading terms set up by this organization and try your best to make it fair for your own Black people to compete. But instead, all we're seeing on your timeline are the colorful pictures you're taking with white people in Western capitals. Nwanem, wearing Ankara fabrics in Geneva doesn’t build factories in Accra. We didn’t send you there to be a Black face managing white wealth. Why is there not a single state in Africa that can be considered fully industrialized? There are so many reasons for this, obviously, but one of them is found in the terms of this very organization that you, our sister, preside over. One of these reasons is TARIFF ESCALATION by the World Trade Organization, and it is structured and rigged against African countries. It is the polite, corporate term for economic apartheid. Under the guise of "free trade," the WTO legalizes a fundamentally neo-colonial economic system. Tariff escalation is a sophisticated, structural trap. It dictates that when an African country exports raw, unprocessed resources extracted from our soil, the Global North imposes zero or very low tariffs. But the moment our people try to add value—when we try to roast our own coffee, make our own chocolate, or manufacture our own goods—these same Western nations slap us with astronomical tariffs. Through this system, the WTO is deliberately taxing African industrialization out of existence. They want our raw wealth, but they legally prohibit us from creating the manufacturing factories that build a middle class. This is not a partnership; this is economic sabotage. It ensures that Africa continues to export jobs to Europe and Asia, while importing poverty back to the Mother Continent. We are literally exporting our sweat just to buy back our own tears. Together, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana produce nearly 70% of the world's cocoa beans. Yet, of the $130 billion global chocolate industry, Africa retains a pathetic 5 to 6%. Why? Because under WTO-approved trade norms, raw cocoa beans enter the European Union with 0% tariffs. But if a Ghanaian or Ivorian entrepreneur processes those beans into cocoa powder, butter, or finished chocolate bars, they are hit with punitive tariffs that can jump as high as 30%. We bleed for the beans, while Europe laughs to the bank with the chocolate. The global trade rules literally protect European chocolate factories by ensuring African nations are punished financially if they dare to manufacture the chocolate themselves. There isn't a single commercial cocoa tree in Switzerland, but they are eating our lunch while we starve in the supply chain. Secondly, Africa produces some of the finest coffee in the world, yet Germany makes more money processing and re-exporting coffee than all of Africa makes growing it. Germany doesn't have a single coffee farm, but they sit comfortably on the global coffee throne! How is this possible? Because the WTO framework allows the West to import raw, green coffee beans from Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya virtually tariff-free. But the moment an East African nation tries to roast, grind, and package that coffee to sell a finished product on the global market, they are blocked by a massive wall of escalating tariffs. We export the caffeine to wake up Western economies, while our own industries are forced to remain asleep. The system forces our farmers into generational poverty, bleeding our soil to subsidize the billions in profits made by Western mega-corporations like Nestlé and Starbucks. Lastly, Africa holds roughly a quarter of the world’s livestock. Yet our share of the global multi-billion-dollar finished leather goods market is microscopic. The raw hides and skins of our cattle are exported to Europe and Asia with almost no trade barriers. But if an African country tries to tan that leather locally and manufacture finished shoes, belts, or bags to export, Western markets heavily tax those finished goods to protect their own fashion industries. As a result, we export raw skins for pennies, only to import luxury Italian shoes made from our own cows at exorbitant prices. We are literally selling our skin just to buy back our shoes! Dear sister, the WTO is not a neutral umpire; it is a rigged referee blowing the whistle for the winning team. It is the enforcer of a global order designed to keep the Black man at the bottom of the value chain. You cannot claim we have a seat at the table if Africa is still on the menu. We do not need more photos of diplomatic handshakes in Geneva. We need you to fight the structural violence of tariff escalation. History will not judge you by the prestigious titles you held in Europe, but by what you did with that power to break the economic chains binding the African continent. Stop managing our marginalization. It is time to level the playing field. Wake up and fight for your people.

It is tragic that those of us here in Africa who are victims of imperialism, who still carry the physical and psychological scars of colonial looting, are comfortably celebrating the rise of imperial monopolies like Netflix, Uber, and Temu or Shein, just because we want to deliver a cheap punchline for a few brainless retweets, to chase worthless online clout, or to sound intellectually superior while cheering on our own economic destruction. Netflix did not "out-innovate" DStv, and DStv was not sleeping. The fundamental, unaddressed difference is that one is a local African broadcaster working with meager, heavily taxed local funding, while the other sits on a mountain of subsidized Western capital, an endless money-printing machine backed by Wall Street, and the geopolitical muscle of the US government. Netflix gets about $17B in effectively interest-free capital and tax-subsidized benefits every year, which allows them to run their operations at a massive loss while aggressively capturing sovereign markets. On the other hand, DStv is treated as a value stock, meaning public markets ruthlessly demand immediate dividends, strict fiscal discipline, and quarter-by-quarter profitability. If DStv spent ten billion dollars on a single year's content, its share price would crash into oblivion overnight, its board would be wiped out by panicking investors, and its credit lines would be cut. And just in case you are wondering, the South African government cannot step in to rescue DStv with interest-free loans, thanks to the predatory, highly restrictive treaties enforced by the ruthless World Trade Organisation. If the South African government dared to offer DStv a simple one hundred million dollar grant, they would immediately face brutal litigation at the WTO, because African nations foolishly signed suicidal trade agreements which dictate that if a sovereign state subsidizes its own local industry, it is legally obligated to offer the exact same financial welfare to the foreign predators invading their market. And this is just the WTO. We have not even discussed the financial hitmen at the IMF or the World Bank, who view any form of state support for local industries as fiscal irresponsibility, a violation of free-market dogmas, or an outright sin. If the government gave DStv a massive loan, the IMF would immediately downgrade the country's credit rating into junk status. This engineered downgrade would make it punishingly expensive for the South African government to build clinics, fund schools, or repair highways, because the interest rates on their national debt would skyrocket to line the pockets of Western lenders. But brainwashed Africans, who are the primary victims of this neo-colonial economic castration, will happily log onto Western platforms to tell you that Netflix was innovative while DStv was just sleeping. The absolute worst part of this farce is the brain-dead comparison between Uber and local taxi drivers. A local driver must make an immediate profit today to buy maize meal, bread, and petrol tomorrow. He cannot compete with a multinational behemoth that has an explicit mandate from Wall Street to burn five billion dollars a year in predatory pricing, artificially subsidizing rides just to starve local operators into bankruptcy and clear the field. The local taxi driver is the most visible, highly vulnerable target of his own state's predatory municipal machinery. He is hunted daily by corrupt traffic officers for compliance, like an expired permit, a slightly worn tire, a missing fire extinguisher, or an arbitrary traffic offense. For him, a single fifty-dollar ticket is not just a minor inconvenience; it is a catastrophic blow, the difference between his children sleeping with a full stomach or going to bed hungry. But Uber does not even recognize these drivers as human beings with labor rights. They see no need to protect the dignity of work, the right to a living wage, or the basic sovereignty of the citizen. Instead, Uber smugly informs the courts that local labor laws do not apply to them, because they are just an app, and their drivers are merely independent contractors. With this legal sleight of hand, they have effectively deleted the Bill of Rights for millions of working-class men and women. They have engineered a lawless corporate territory where they can terminate a breadwinner's account via a heartless algorithm with zero human review, pay him slave wages after stealing 30% in service fees, and refuse him a single cent of medical coverage for the crashes he suffers while lining their pockets. Worse, they offer their rides at a 50% discount because they are heavily subsidized by Silicon Valley venture capitalists playing a global game of market conquest, and local governments are too terrified to intervene, knowing that any attempt to regulate these giants will result in immediate economic retaliation, diplomatic bullying, or Washington threatening to sanction them into oblivion. Newspapers did not lose because they were lazy. There is no physical way a local newspaper can compete with Facebook or Instagram, which sit on massive surveillance networks, endless pools of free user data, and algorithmic monopolies designed to capture human attention for profit. This is exactly why China banned these digital parasites and built their own sovereign ecosystems to allow local industries to develop. How do you expect African manufacturing to ever survive when Shein and Temu are allowed to flood our markets with heavily subsidized, ultra-cheap fast fashion and low-quality equipment? Do you honestly think China would have transformed into an industrial superpower if they had allowed their territory to be used as a digital and physical dumping ground, a massive cesspool where the West discarded their second-hand clothes, their obsolete laptops, their toxic e-waste, and their plastic garbage under the fraudulent banner of free trade? This is the core problem I have with motivational speakers, with their brainless "grindset" rhetoric, and with how they completely erase the structures of global capital to blame the victim, because in their world, your poverty is a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an international economic system designed to keep you subjugated. Let me conclude by saying that we must stop applauding the very chains designed to bind us, we must stop worshipping the corporations that are asset-stripping our continent, and we must realize that true innovation cannot exist without economic sovereignty.

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Where are all the people making noise about cyberbullying? Now, this is what real bullying looks like. This is typically what a slightly richer, more powerful person can do to another person and get away with it in Nigeria. The reckless driver did not pronounce her children dead, her actions actually killed them. You see the difference? Now, you see that energy you people are using to fight for a multi-millionaire celebrity family because of a mean tweet about their daughter, this is where it is needed. This woman deserves justice. This is why the only objective thing to do in a country like Nigeria is always to protect the poor against the rich in every circumstance, because if this were done to a rich person, I promise you the perpetrator would have been dealt with by now, and the victim wouldn't be online crying for justice. This is what poor people go through regularly in Nigeria, but the priority of supposed educated Nigerians is to support laws designed to protect the emotions of rich people. Very weird society, I swear.

Do not forget that Arsenal hastily sacked its 22-year kit man Mark Bonnick simply because he spoke out against children being killed in Gaza.

Someone Was Beheaded in your State Yesterday, Your Own Residential State for that Matter, and all You've been Doing since Yesterday is Distracting the Public... All of You that has been paid to Distract the public but pretending to Love this Country, Una Cup Must Full One Day

Funny how the Nigerians who know this still hate communism I don’t get their brain activity at all

This is the illusion of financial freedom capitalism offers. Elon Musk convinced X creators that he's empowering them by paying them to tweet, but he wants to achieve that by making the experience horrible for free users, forcing subscriptions to fund his promise to the creators. In all of this, there's no extra value being created. It's all Ponzi.

This is class struggle in its realest sense.

The level of class consciousness I'm seeing in Bolivia is something I genuinely wish was present in my own country. Cause here in Nigeria it's literally the reverse, poor & working class people hate each other while they simp for the rich. Whole situation is just one big mess.

I am Nigerian, and right now my dream is bigger than me. Only about 4.5% of medical literature globally are represented on Black skin. That means millions of Black patients are learning from systems that barely look like them. Medical students study diseases on skin tones that are not their own. Doctors are trained with visual references that often fail Black bodies. That gap has consequences. So I am deciding to build towards changing it. I’m starting with a book. But the larger vision is far beyond that. I want to help build software and medical visualization tools that make Black medical representation impossible to ignore. This is not just about diversity aesthetics, this is about accuracy, education, visibility and better healthcare outcomes. One day, I want a Black child studying medicine anywhere on earth to see themselves fully represented in what they learn. And I believe we can build that future.

Two of this farmer's workers had already died from his beatings. The missionary holding the camera knew that. He'd reported the farmer to the police, and he was photographing these wounds for court. Ludwig Cramer was a failed coffee merchant from Hamburg. He moved to German South West Africa in 1906 and bought a farm. He tied workers up for days, whipped a pregnant Herero woman until she miscarried, and beat workers bloody. His wife Ada helped by cutting the clothes off female victims so he could strike harder. Two of his workers died. In August 1912 a German colonial court sentenced him to 20 months in prison. On appeal the next year, the sentence was cut to 4 months and a 2,700 Mark fine. It was one of the only times any German settler was punished for any of this. And the worst was already over. Between 1904 and 1908, German forces had killed an estimated 65,000 to 80,000 Herero, about 80% of the Herero population, and 10,000 Nama, around half of theirs. Historians now call it the first genocide of the 20th century. It started when Chief Samuel Maharero led a rebellion against the seizure of Herero land. General Lothar von Trotha's October 1904 extermination order declared every Herero in the territory was to be killed. Survivors were driven into the desert to die of thirst, or shipped to concentration camps. Shark Island killed between half and three-quarters of its prisoners. Women there were forced to boil the heads of dead inmates and scrape them clean with shards of glass. The skulls were sent to German universities, where researchers tried to prove white Europeans were biologically superior to Africans. One of those researchers was a scientist named Eugen Fischer. In 1923, while Hitler was in prison, he read Fischer's textbook on race hygiene. He cited Fischer in Mein Kampf. Fischer's work later helped shape the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, the Nazi race laws that stripped Jews of their rights. When Hitler took power, he made Fischer head of the University of Berlin. The institute Fischer ran trained the next generation of Nazi race scientists, including Josef Mengele's PhD supervisor. Mengele went to Auschwitz, where he experimented on prisoners and sent body parts back to the same institute. Germany formally apologized in 2021 and offered Namibia €1.1 billion (about $1.3 billion) over 30 years in development aid. But the agreement avoided the words "reparations" and "compensation". Those words could be used against Germany in future lawsuits. Most Herero and Nama leaders walked away from the deal because they were shut out of the talks. Many of the skulls are still sitting in German universities and museums. Cramer himself died in 1917 in a blasting accident on his farm. His wife Ada wrote a book defending him, arguing that Africans needed to be beaten for their own good. Historians now read it as an early blueprint for the "master race" thinking. That thinking would become Nazism.

22k for 7 pieces of akara, whose major ingredients are produced in mass in Nigeria. While APC strangles the economy, wannabe MacDonalds out there want to kill the already vulnerable Nigerian at all costs. Healthy akara. Lol. 🙄

It’s always “white Nigerian” “oyibo becky” “sisi oyibo” “oyibo rebel” etc. that they brand themselves as—never anything normal. They know exactly how to endear themselves to Nigerians bc they know how much you love white validation. Just embarrassing man. 🤦🏾‍♀️

And now the desire to escape neocolonialism is classified as a mental illness called russian propaganda.

This is not just an American thing. Privatised Health Insurance is FRAUD

When there's poverty in a socialist country, people mainly attribute it to a failure of the system. Whereas when there's poverty in a capitalist country, people mainly attribute it to an individual or racial/ethnic failing. The blame is never on the system.

Lmao, but it's Nigerians that are the problem. Anyways we'll see how things play out in the future.

The lack of Class consciousness n misplaced priority in Nigeria is alarming😭😭