Nigeria was at its lowest with the corruption infestation as at that time. People in Jonathan’s team were draining the country in broad day light and insecurity up North but it wasn’t this bad. Buhari opened our eyes to another dimension of “terrible governance” before Tinubu amplified it. Adekunle Gold was right to drag Jonathan, the impunity was strong but his silence in a worst regime is deafening. I am not dragging his old tweet, I am disturbed by his hypocrisy.
Saturday's botched terrorist coup in Mali had all the hallmarks of a Syria-style, violent foreign-backed regime change operation, and Western media's response to it only made that more obvious.
It just so happens that Mali =\= Syria.
Whenever we wake up is our morning...even if our morning comes at 89 years old.
My personal morning came at 33.
I hope all you all experience your individual daybreaks soon.
The "Pan-Africanists want to blame white people instead of taking responsibility" dumbasses from Nigeria sound just as dumb as their ancestors in the 1950s who argued that instead of fighting for independence from colonisers, Africans should "hold their warrant chiefs accountable."
They used to trot out the exact same brain dead sound bites: "Is it Governor MacPherson that told the warrant chief in charge of your town not to build roads and hospitals? Hold your thieving warrant chiefs to account instead of blaming your misfortunes on white men in Lagos."
And just like those dumbasses from the 50s could never spot the obvious relationship between Governor MacPherson and their local warrant chief, their modern descendants will likewise die young and stupid, never having spotted the link between Trump/Obama/Biden/Macron/Starmer and their friendly local drug lord-turned-president.
When people's entire intellectual heritage is purified, triple-filtered essence of olodo, there's nothing you can do for them🤷🏿
@DavidHundeyin I stand to be corrected but we are not a critical thinking people.
Never have, maybe will.
We are crammers with academic knowledge and that's about it.
You get people with PHDs reasoning like toddlers (no offense to the babies) on the grand scheme of things.
America was running weather control warfare on Iran to cause a multi-year drought that very nearly made Tehran uninhabitable. Now that the radar installations have been destroyed, rain returns...
America was running weather control warfare on Iran to cause a multi-year drought that very nearly made Tehran uninhabitable. Now that the radar installations have been destroyed, rain returns...
Singing the PVC song again, meanwhile the man who is responsible for counting the votes and declaring the winner follows Dayo Israel on Twitter and describes APC as "we".
Well, no be me go rain on the hopium parade.
Maybe the lesson is needed so the eternal adjusters can finally get angry and do something. I can't be the only angry man in Nigeria.
@R_eq_uin I met a guy at random who mentioned David and talked about Geopolitics and Neocolonization as part of Hundeyin's sensitization.
It's amazing to know that people are waking up to their morning based on his gospel 😁
Well, before you helped open my eyes I was a complete olodo about how our world truly works.
I used to believe in satires like international law.
I used to believe that the United States were a force for good and that they went around saving the world.
I used to believe Nigerians were just inherently retarded and were too dumb to count to 3
You came along and made me realize that's all bullshit.
It didn't happen overnight, and I had a mini existential crisis during the process, but today I am fully mentally decolonized now and better for it.
... And I'm not alone.
There are dozens... Maybe even hundreds of people like me who owe most of their geopolitical literacy to you.
So while you're probably not going to pick up a slogan, a rifle and a bandana to do it the old fashioned way...
You're planting seeds. You're planting ideas.
I mean how amusing would it be that one day, someone who read your books & tweets gets motivated enough to actually implement that change?
The chances are low, but there are NOT zero.
So keep preaching big man.
Morning is coming.
South Africa's famous "anti-African-immigration" phenomenon, while now a reality, is the result of a carefully curated psy-op by those who pretended to hand over power in 1994.
A report by @Big_Mck for @Spearhead_Af
One day in September 2001, when I was a tiny 11 year-old starting secondary school at Atlantic Hall, back when it was located at Maryland, Mrs Adepoju the class teacher announced a group exercise as an icebreaker. All of us were to write our dream holiday location on a piece of paper, and one by one we would read out what we had written.
She started from the other end of the class, so I got to hear multiple answers before it got to my turn. The answers were basically "London", "America", "London", "London", "London", "London", "London", "UK", "London", "London"...
Now for context, I was already reasonably well travelled at the time, and even though my family was not the kind to go off on a jaunt to London at every given opportunity like some of my new peers, I had been privileged to travel fairly extensively around Africa, and I was visually familiar enough with the places being mentioned to know that people from London generally looked forward to going on holiday to warmer parts of the world in Africa, Asia, Southern Europe and Latin America.
I also knew from personal experience that people from "America" and "London" could be found in their thousands enjoying holidays in Lomé, Zanzibar and Accra. You would often find me as the sole African kid surrounded by white kids playing together in the lobby or private beachfront of Lomé's Hotel Deux Fevrier or Hotel Sarakawa whenever my family was in town.
In addition, the travel sections in the Newsweek, TIME and Readers Digest magazines that my dad bought every week made it clear that safari tours in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa were among the most highly rated holiday experiences on earth. These experiences were so exclusive that it would actually be easier for a Nigerian to take a trip to London than to go on safari in Kenya.
I'm providing all this context to explain why it seemed pretty obvious to me that writing "Kenya" as my dream holiday destination was a valid and reasonable choice. Instead, what happened when it got to my turn was that I read out "safari in Kenya" - and the rest of the class burst into laughter and giggles. I was utterly confused at first. Did they not hear me correctly?
They did.
As one of them helpfully explained in between subsequent chortles, "We're talking about places like London and New York, what is *Kenya*?" The inference of course, was that *Kenya*, located in Africa as it was, did not belong in the same conversation as "London" when discussing destinations.
What constituted a "dream holiday" for these children of Nigeria's elite was a Virgin Atlantic economy class ticket to Gatwick Airport, a 4-week stay with their NHS auxillary nurse aunty and her 2 kids in a cramped 2-bedroom council terrace in High Wycombe, and an Oxford Street shopping rampage yielding 50kg of excess baggage for the return trip, filled with WH Smith pencils and Primark clothes to show off to each other at the end of term party.
While the actual inhabitants of London used monthly payment plans to save up for their once in a lifetime Thomson package holiday tour in Kenya, these ghettofabulous sons and daughters of the Nigerian "elite" looked forward to a cold, uncomfortable experience on a miserable umbrella island as their "dream holiday". Not because it was a dream holiday, but because that was the social expectation they all enforced on each other.
And if you knew better, they *laughed* you.
That day was the first time I experienced something that I have gone on to experience many, many times over the intervening 25 years of my Nigerian life - the existential dread of being surrounded by people whose information level is so far below the one I operate with that we genuinely have almost nothing in common.
It's an experience I am so used to that I no longer bother to explain myself to Nigerians. The people who think that London is a dream holiday destination definitely think that "Iran is a terrorist regime that murdered 30,000 protesters."
Of course they do.
Over the past few weeks, many Africans got to hear about the Strait of Hormuz for the first time ever. What caused this huge information gap?
A story about how Africans are educated into complete ignorance about their own reality by @joyfwen
@DavidHundeyin On a different note, where were the men?
Imagine shooting at 55 woman who were wives, mothers, daughters, sisters etc..
And the men sat at took it?
I need to visit history on this one.