Sebamu

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Sebamu

Sebamu

@Sebamu_

Pan-Africanist

Присоединился Mayıs 2024
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Sebamu@Sebamu_·
@PythonPr Looks like JavaScript
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Can You Identify the Code on This Cup? ☕
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Python Quiz: Comment your answer below ?
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Looks simple, right? That’s what every coder said before getting it wrong 🫣 What’s your answer?
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What is The Difference 📷Comment The Output
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Which Programming Language Is Printed on This Mug? 🤔
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Sebamu@Sebamu_·
@wmnjoya Same thing that’s happening in Uganda. The government thieves only know one thing, and that’s to put up apartments or commercial buildings and overprice them.
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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia
Not manufacturing, not innovation. Just rent, rent, rent, and more rent. That's what happens when you become wealth based on access to the state, not work you've done. You can't be creative, innovative or impactful. The curse of independence. #MaishaKazini
Finance Historian@BoardLotSultan

The Kenyattas have filed a 50-Years Development master plan for the 10,000 acres Northlands City. To accomodate 250k residents. ( a whole constituency). Je wewe umepangia maisha yako miaka ngapi? 🤔

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K.Diallo ☭@nyeusi_waasi·
i woke up a year older today 😌
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Hanyel
Hanyel@HanyelPaulOkolo·
To all the illiterates in the comments section spouting gibberish, there is no human being on earth or anywhere in existence, whose epidermis produces white pigmentation. Zero! Nada! Zilch! Melanocytes are the pigment cells on every epidermis and every one has them because you live around a star. Without it you cannot handle that star’s radiation. Pale skinned humans have dysfunctional melanocytes. They don’t work anymore. This doesn’t make you more intelligent. If it did, your brain wouldn’t contain melanin, but it does. The black pigment on the epidermis is also in every human brain. Without it you will die. Your brain and epidermis once both belonged to your ectoderm. They both are built to handle melanin, otherwise you will die. Both brain cells and melanocytes are created in the same place: the neural crest. Both brain cells and melanocytes are dendritic. There is no biological white supremacy in nature. Your body does not make white pigmentation for your skin. Your body makes blackness though. If your body cannot make enough blackness, you will get organ malfunction, get sick and die! Facts are important. Opinions are not facts. Every supposed argument made for human white supremacy is guaranteed to be a lie. Colonisation is terrorism. Colonisation is genocide. Colonisation is plunder. Colonisers come for only wealth, and they do not trade, they steal. Colonisation is rape. Colonisation is abuse. Colonisation is evil. Colonisation divided black Africa into pieces that competing europeans began to fight for. They divided brothers, sisters, friends and families. They sowed mistrust so they could plunder easily. The black African people were so trusting. They could not even conceive of instruments of industrial death like guns. Necessity drives innovation. Black Africans didn’t need to think of guns. They have a natural abundance everywhere. They developed ubuntu, a sharing. There were no desperately poor people, or desperately rich people. There were no starving people. No criminals. No prisons. No police. No border controls. No debt. They lived. They were happy. They lived off the land naturally. They studied nature. Nature only displays complex systems. They studied complex systems. They knew secrets to all of nature in their environment theming with life! They had geniuses as well. In a place called benin in modern day nigeria, hundreds of years ago, they organized their hamlets using fractal geometry because they had observed it in nature. Mandelbrot who is credited with fractal geometry in the west wasn’t even a thought yet. His grandparents had not even been born yet! Colonialism destroyed it all and benin was ransacked and destroyed by british terrorists because the king wouldn’t supply slaves. Colonialism never ended. The extractive corporations remained. They are still there all over black Africa stealing natural resources today. They just do it with the countries colonisation itself forced upon the people. The contracts are not worth anything. Its theft. The extractive corporations don’t want good governance in these regions. Good government will cancel those mining contracts. Colonisers assassinate black African leaders and install corrupt puppets. Colonisers sponsor terrorism to destabilise regions. Black Africans do not control their lands or natural resources. Colonisers do. Colonialism is evil. White supremacy is deceitful. I hope this helps clarify things.
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Hanyel@HanyelPaulOkolo·
Nonsense! Antiblack racists have no misconceptions about black Africa! They literally came to black Africa in search of food, wealth and knowledge, and they have never left. Yea, like you would have misconceptions about where your bread and butter comes from! They just deny and pretend so they can keep claiming to be something else, as part of their compulsion to deceive themselves and the entire world. Thats why we use the term wretched when describing their behaviour. They saw clearly the direction of GODs choice, and decided that their own choice would supersede GODs choice. So they set about this task only to end up exactly implementing GODs only choice!!! Lesson: nothing is outside of GOD, including your ability to choose!
Crazy Kennar@crazy_kennar

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AFRICA😂😂😂😂 @africanofilter #NotWaiting

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SHAV★@shavnyuy·
The Ashanti people of Ghana built furniture so significant it started a war. Their stools were not just common stools. Each one was carved from a single piece of wood, shaped to reflect the owner’s identity, status and soul. The Golden Stool was considered so sacred that when the British Governor demanded to sit on it in 1900, the Ashanti took up arms rather than allow it. Today, Ghana imports plastic chairs from China.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?

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Chetuya Chinagolum
Chetuya Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago·
You claim that Walter Rodney was wrong, but the reasons you provided are completely out of alignment with what Rodney actually described in his pioneering, historically rigorous book, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". This intellectual failure clearly proves that you did not even bother to read the very book you are vehemently condemning. Rodney never analyzed the modern African post-colonial state to make the claim that Africa's current poverty can be blamed entirely on them. His analytical focus was strictly on pre-colonial and colonial Africa, documenting how the structures of European capitalism actively dismantled African societies. Before the white colonizers stepped onto the shores of Africa with their gunboats and missionary bibles, Africa was home to powerful, highly organized kingdoms and empires like Mali, Songhai, the Kingdom of Benin, Great Zimbabwe, the Ashanti Empire, and the Kingdom of Kongo. All of these were sovereign African states that functioned with the complexity of modern metropolitan hubs. They had paved roads, highly advanced systems of metallurgy, complex trans-Saharan trade routes, established legal codes, and monumental architecture that stunned early European travelers. These kingdoms made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for early European traders to engage freely in the slave trade on their own terms. These empires possessed powerful, disciplined armies that routinely captured and killed invading colonial forces because they understood the harsh terrains of the African forests and mountains. This meant the Europeans had to physically break these kingdoms before they could extract the human labor required to meet the quotas set by their corporate shareholders overseas. To this end, European powers began flooding rival, smaller kingdoms and disgruntled provincial vassals with firearms, deliberately instigating civil wars and forcing these smaller factions to invade neighboring empires to capture prisoners of war to sell to the colonizers. The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, had six major provinces governed by vassals under the Manikongo, the central king. But the Portuguese deliberately flooded these provincial governors with guns and military advisors, giving them the weaponry and the incentive to refuse taxes, deny their traditional allegiance to the central crown, and bypass the tributary duties that allowed the Kingdom of Kongo to function as a cohesive, sovereign state. All of this reduced thriving African kingdoms into a manufactured bedrock of continuous violence, destabilization, and civil war. The Kingdom of Kongo, for instance, was systematically carved up and shattered, eventually being reduced to what we know today as Congo and Angola. Europe did not merely dismantle these empires in the name of the Atlantic slave trade; they also systematically destroyed local African industries. They singlehandedly dismantled the highly competitive West African textile mills by flooding the markets with cheap, heavily subsidized fabrics from Manchester, they banned the domestic processing of raw agricultural goods, and they outlawed local iron-smelting to make the entire continent dependent on imported European manufactured wares. Your mention of Singapore as a colony that grew richer than Britain is also fundamentally false and intellectually dishonest on several levels. First, Singapore’s Gross Domestic Product is roughly 500 billion dollars, which is a drop in the ocean compared to Britain’s 3 trillion dollar economy. Secondly, you cannot compare Singapore to the African nations that were colonized, because the structural model of imperialism used by the British Empire to govern these two territories was entirely different. In Africa, the primary, non-negotiable goal of colonization was pure raw material extraction. The British invaded to loot physical resources, such as gold, copper, rubber, cocoa, and cotton, and ship them back to the British metropole. This model stripped the African colonies of their natural wealth, leaving behind absolutely no domestic processing industries, no universal education systems, and no transport networks other than the railway lines built specifically to move raw materials from the interior mines straight to the coast. On the other hand, the British did not colonize Singapore to extract rubber or minerals from its soil, because the island had no natural resources to speak of. Instead, they colonized Singapore to serve as a strategic commercial and naval gateway. They needed a duty-free port to secure vital trade routes between India and China, and to counter Dutch naval dominance in the Malacca Strait. Because of this specific imperial role, the British built a massive, deepwater port, established English common law, and created a centralized administrative and financial infrastructure. Consequently, upon independence, Singapore did not inherit a depleted landscape of empty mines; instead, it inherited a highly functional, globally connected maritime trade hub. When the British formally withdrew, they merely handed the keys of this strategic outpost to the United States. The Americans aggressively used Singapore to support their imperialist war of aggression against the people of Vietnam. They used the island to refuel fighter jets, repair warships, stockpile heavy munitions, and house military personnel. Because of this strategic role, the US military and its corporate allies built a massive, state-of-the-art petroleum refining infrastructure in Singapore to process Middle Eastern crude into the jet fuel, diesel, and napalm required to sustain the relentless devastation of Vietnam. Even after the United States was humiliated and forced out of Vietnam, they did not abandon the Singapore project. American and Western multinational corporations happily transferred high-tech manufacturing technologies to Singapore, built massive skyscrapers, and integrated the island into the global supply chain. This is because Singapore is precious to Western capitalists as a premier tax haven, where they can set up shell companies, launder illicit corporate wealth, and dodge billions of dollars in taxes. Your mention of Switzerland is equally fraudulent. It is historically true that the Swiss did not formally send military gunboats to Africa, and they never held official overseas colonies under a Swiss flag. But even without a formal colonial office, Swiss banks, city-states, elite merchants, and mercenary soldiers were deeply embedded in, and profited immensely from, the European colonial system. Swiss financial institutions and local cantons invested heavily in joint-stock colonial enterprises like the South Sea Company, which held the absolute monopoly on transporting enslaved Africans to Spanish America. Furthermore, when enslaved people in Haiti rose up in a glorious revolution against French colonial rule in 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte deployed hundreds of Swiss mercenaries to brutally suppress the rebellion and attempt to re-enslave the population. So during the slave trade, the Swiss happily pocketed massive profits from chattel slavery by serving as the quiet financial and logistical backbone of the trade. And even after brave African revolutionaries fought hard and made the slave trade too expensive for Europeans to manage, forcing the formal abolition of slavery, the Swiss continued to line their pockets with wealth extracted from Africa. Today, Switzerland is where Western oil and mining conglomerates set up complex networks of shell companies. They hire armies of elite corporate lawyers and ruthless accountants to draft fraudulent transfer-pricing reports that allow them to conceal their massive African profits, ensuring they pay little to no taxes to their host African nations. Meanwhile, secretive Swiss banking vaults serve as the ultimate safe havens for billions of dollars in looted public funds smuggled out by corrupt African comprador elites, and Swiss trading houses in Zug and Geneva dominate the global trade of African gold, oil, and cocoa without ever physically touching a single gram of the raw material. The fact remains that you did not read the book, and this is precisely why you rushed to unleash such an embarrassing, historically ignorant statement on the development of Africa. I am equally certain that you have never bothered to read about visionary revolutionary leaders like Thomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah, and Patrice Lumumba, who fought relentlessly against Western imperialism but were systematically assassinated, betrayed, or forced out of power by Western-backed operatives. You clearly ignore how Patrice Lumumba’s body was literally dissolved in acid by Belgian agents to erase his physical memory, how Thomas Sankara was betrayed and brutally murdered under French supervision to halt the Burkinabé agrarian revolution, and how Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a meticulously planned, CIA-funded coup just as he was unifying the African continent against neo-colonialism. Furthermore, I am positive you have never analyzed the predatory terms of trade enforced by the World Trade Organisation, which systematically penalizes African nations with crushing tariffs, trade barriers, and economic sanctions if they dare to process their own raw materials locally. Under this highly engineered tariff escalation model, the WTO ensures that raw African cocoa, unprocessed gold, and crude oil enter Western markets with zero import duties, but the moment an African nation attempts to refine that oil, process that cocoa into chocolate, or smelt that gold into jewelry, they are hit with astronomical, protectionist tariffs designed to keep African economies permanently locked at the bottom of the global value chain as cheap, disposable suppliers for European and American corporations. They punish industrialization while rewarding raw material dependency, forcing Africa to export its wealth for peanuts only to buy it back at a thousand times the price. If you had ever bothered to educate yourself on these historical realities, your heavy colonial chains would have been shattered, you would have been liberated from this pathetic state of mental slavery, and you would not be spending your limited intellectual energy undermining the very book that exposed the genocidal, systemic crimes of the empires that traded your own ancestors like mere commodities on a global balance sheet.
Magatte Wade@magattew

Walter Rodney was wrong. Africans are poor because too many African countries make it hard to start businesses, get permits, access reliable electricity, trade freely, protect property, enforce contracts, attract investment, and keep the rewards of hard work. Singapore is richer than Britain, its former colonizer. Switzerland, which never built a colonial empire, is richer than Spain and Portugal, two of the greatest imperial powers in history.

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The dream of an average black person can't be going to slave abroad mahn we need to do better .
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Sony Thăng
Sony Thăng@nxt888·
The United States has the largest prison population on earth. Not per capita. Total. More people in cages than China. More than Russia. More than every "authoritarian" state it condemns in its annual human rights reports. 1.8 million people. Disproportionately Black. Disproportionately poor. Disproportionately from the zip codes with the worst schools, the fewest jobs, the most abandoned infrastructure. This is presented as a "criminal justice system." It functions as a labor system. Prison labor, paid between 13 cents and $1.15 an hour in most states, produces goods for McDonald's, Walmart, Victoria's Secret, Whole Foods, and the United States military. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, contains an exception clause: "Except as punishment for crime." That exception has never been closed. It has been expanded. The plantation did not disappear. It received a different name and a legal foundation.
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Sony Thăng@nxt888·
The African student who memorizes Western economic theory is not receiving a neutral education. They are being taught to see their continent through the eyes of the people who designed its current arrangements. They will learn about comparative advantage, the theory that says each country should specialize in what it produces most efficiently. In practice, for many African countries, this means: keep producing raw materials, because that is your comparative advantage. Do not process them. Do not manufacture. Do not climb the value chain. Export the cocoa bean. Import the chocolate. Export the cotton. Import the shirt. Export the bauxite. Import the aluminum. This is called efficiency. What it is, actually, is a permanent assignment of African economies to the bottom of every value chain, guaranteed by a theory that presents this arrangement as the natural outcome of rational markets rather than as the result of deliberate historical policy, colonial infrastructure investment, and trade rules written by the people at the top. But the student learns the theory before they learn the history. The theory makes the history invisible. That is the function of the curriculum.
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Chetuya Chinagolum
Chetuya Chinagolum@Chetuyachinago·
The ultimate goal of neocolonialism is to control a country without having to pay for the soldiers to occupy it. The way you make this a reality is devastatingly simple: you create a local elite class that thinks exactly like you, shares your economic interests, and will ruthlessly protect your investments in the region. Just as you make a soldier by starting from grueling morning drills and intensive physical training, to breaking down their civilian mindset so they understand the chain of command, to conditioning them to pull the trigger on command without asking questions, that’s exactly how you train the comprador elites in Nigeria. You groom them to serve foreign corporate interests rather than lift a single finger for the common good of their own people. You begin the conditioning early. At the secondary school level, you make sure their curriculum is crammed with the gospel of "free markets," the myth of the "invisible hand," and the absolute joke of "comparative advantage." You teach them that it is perfectly logical for Nigeria to export raw crude oil and import refined petrol, and you condition them to worship privatization while ignoring the fact that our local industries are bleeding to death. And this is just at the primary and secondary school levels. To complete the programming, the offspring of the political class and a few "promising" select cases from the working class, must travel outside the country. They are shipped off for advanced brainwashing at top Ivy League schools and Oxbridge institutions, where they are minted as certified compliance officers of the global financial system. Now, understand that education is not bad, and a Western degree is definitely not a crime. But in the context of Nigeria, a country that was under direct, brutal British colonial rule for almost 100 years, trying to run our sovereign nation using the exact economic codes of conduct established by our former colonizers and expecting the country to work is pure, undiluted insanity. This is why, if you look at the math, our situation transforms from merely bad to absolutely terrifying. Over 75% of the past Finance Ministers in Nigeria from 1984 to today hold advanced degrees from Western schools. In the petroleum sector alone, which is our primary economic lifeblood, about 88% hold Western degrees. In other critical macroeconomic sectors like the Central Bank and Foreign Affairs, we are looking at a staggering 60%. So, pretty much every critical position in the country that is integral to national growth, resource management, and development is occupied by someone who has been intellectually formatted by our colonial masters. I mean, the current CBN Governor in this Tinubu Administration holds a degree from Harvard University, and we are sitting here holding our breath expecting "life-changing economic reforms" that will benefit the common man in Mushin or Aba? Abeg oh. You do not go to Harvard to learn how to subsidize yam and garri; you go to Harvard to learn how to impress the IMF. That is why when these Western-educated technocrats get appointed into these critical positions, they don't arrive with localized solutions. They show up in bespoke Italian suits and shiny Oxford shoes. They step off the plane throwing around fancy acronyms like FDI, GDP, and SAP as if they are magical incantations. They aggressively preach the gospel of the "Washington Consensus," merciless deregulation, floating currencies to the bottom of the ocean, and abrupt subsidy removals. These people will look at a highly industrialized, hyper-capitalistic American society, look back at a Nigerian economy running on diesel generators, and genuinely believe they can copy-paste Wall Street policies into a country without a functional steel company. They float the Naira because the textbook says it will find its "true market value," completely ignoring that Nigeria doesn't even manufacture the textbook, the paper it's printed on, or the ink. The brutal truth is staring us in the face. We do not have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. We have a government of the elite, trained by the West, for the benefit of the Global North. And until we stop importing our economic brains, we will continue to be PowerPointed to death.
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Farida Bemba Nabourema
Farida Bemba Nabourema@Farida_N·
One of the most shameless lies still told about colonialism is that European powers gifted Africa its roads, its schools, its hospitals. Shut up! You gifted us nothing. We built it, we paid for it, we bled for it. Those roads were not built so African farmers could trade with each other or so African communities could grow. They were built to move our minerals and our crops from the interior to the ports and ship them to Europe. Every kilometre of colonial railway followed the same logic: not to serve us, but to drain us. The hospitals were built to keep labourers alive enough to keep working, not because colonial administrators believed African lives had value, but because a sick worker interrupts the extraction schedule. My grandmother was denied treatment for her twins dying of smallpox because my grandfather was in prison for resisting colonial rule. She lost one of them. And who built any of it? Our grandparents. Forced, beaten, worked into the ground under quotas, mutilated when they failed to meet them. When someone calls that a gift, what they are really asking is that we thank our oppressors for the infrastructure our own suffering produced. We also paid for it in cash. In 1932, French colonial commissioner Robert de Guise imposed new taxes on Togolese people whose incomes had already collapsed by nearly sixty percent during the Great Depression. When women dared to protest, France shipped 174 colonial soldiers from Côte d'Ivoire to crush them. Girls as young as thirteen were raped and 12 protesters were killed. That is how the roads, the schools, the administrative buildings, the hospitals were financed: with our blood. Not European generosity. And when independence finally came, the colonisers left with a bill. They calculated the cost of everything they had built through our coerced labour and our taxed income, called it colonial debt, and demanded repayment from the very nations they had spent a century looting. We paid for our own exploitation. Twice! In Europe, when a government builds a road, no citizen is asked to be grateful. It is called public service. But when colonisers built infrastructure on our land, with our bodies, with our money, after killing and raping us, we are expected to call it the "benefits of colonialism". The audacity!
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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY@AfricanArchives·
The Banyole of the ancient kingdom Of Uganda practiced and perfected C-Section long before the Europeans. While Europeans mainly concentrated on saving the baby, the ugandans were performing the operation successfully saving both. A THREAD
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Ochiedike
Ochiedike@_Ochiedike·
Black people will be more moved by the death of Jesus on the cross than by the death of their ancestors hanging from trees.
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