The only thing I have to say that I haven't said before is that this all boils down to the same geopolitical issue that is the root cause of Africa's situation - lack of sovereignty. Sovereignty is not when you have your own flag, national anthem, nominal borders and paraphernalia of state. Sovereignty is when you can back up those symbols with the ability to control your own public policy, security, food, medicine, energy, natural resource extraction and industrial activity.
When you supposedly have your own flag, anthem and government institutions, but there are American or British soldiers stationed permanently on your territory; the US embassy selects your president; American and European corporations control your natural resource extraction and manufacturing processes; your food supply is dependent on cheap US imports and American GMO seeds that you have to buy every year since they cannot be replanted; your medicines and vaccines are supplied by USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; American NGOs have legal immunity in your country which makes them literally above the law; IMF and World Bank staff in Washington DC have more control over your country's budget, finances, and fiscal planning that your government; and you lack any capacity to roll back or scrutinise any of this obvious interference, that means only one thing - you are NOT sovereign.
Africans need to fight a psychological war with the idea that white people somehow *ought* to be involved in the internal affairs of African countries. There is no reason why the vaccines you adminster to your kids in Lagos, Arusha and Libreville must be made by Pfizer and supplied to your country by an NGO run by an American billionaire. India is also a developing country, but every vaccine administered to an Indian child is made in India by Indian companies under the regulation and supervision of the Indian government. India insisted on its sovereignty, and the sky did not fall down.
There is no reason why you should have European and North American soldiers and military bases on your soil. None whatsoever. Even assuming they have only benevolent intentions which they don't, there is no "security" they are supposedly capable of bestowing upon your country that it cannot generate by itself. Why doesn't France have Cameroonian and Ivorian military bases with armed black African soldiers walking around in Marseille and Avignon? Why must these things only be present in your country and not in theirs?
There is no reason why you should not grow your own food. Of course there is nothing wrong with importing food and global trade can be a good thing, but why must a foreign entity *enforce* food dependency on you? Why should a banker in DC get to control how much land and resources your government can commit to growing food versus growing export crops for dollar incomes that will be used to pay loans? Why should the banker's good friend, the American tech billionaire who is now apparently the world's most powerful celebrity scientist have more power than your government in deciding what type of seeds you can grow on your own land?
If one of your primary economic activities involves extracting your god-given resources from the ground, there is no reason why a European or North American corporation must be in charge of the extraction. The ability to extract gold, oil, diamonds, cobalt, lithium, copper, tin or anything else from the ground is not genetically embedded in white people - there is no reason why local people and businesses must not be the primary economic beneficiary of the natural resources that are present in their own country.
Why should the American tech billionaire-turned-global-knower-of-everything give $1 million to an NGO in Nairobi to campaign for Africa to not use its cheap energy reserves and thus remain poor and unindustrialised? Why should Bill Gates get to determine whether your unborn children will live and die poor or not? Who the fuck is he to decide that? How much more blatant must the ongoing colonisation of your personal and economic space get before you see it as an existential problem? Probably when Bill Gates starts cloning himself, and his NGOs start producing research papers advising your governemnt to import the clones to fuck your wife and propagate his DNA because his superior billionaire cum is better for the planet than your own?
Without an unapologetic push for sovereignty like we are witnessing with the AES countries, rubbish like what happened in the quoted tweet will never stop happening in Africa. The reason Pfizer or any other American big pharma corporation sees Africans as lab rats to be experimented on illegally without their knowledge or consent is that there are no guardrails stopping them, and no consequences afterward - try taking your black African self to Minnesota and carrying out an illegal drug trial there that ends up killing 11 white American kids with names like Molly and Brett, and just watch what will happen to you.
When I keep going on and on about sovereignty, it's precisely because of situations like these. And you can be sure that for every one case like this that came to public knowledge, there are 14 or 15 that we never even got to hear about. Sovereignty in Africa is not just political rhetoric.
It's literal life and death.
Penetration testing is too expensive...
If you haven't been breached yet.
Some businesses shy away from pentest due to the perceived high cost. But here's the truth - penetration testing is NOT too expensive.
In fact, the cost of not performing the test can be exponentially higher.
A single security breach can result in loss of data, financial loss, and damage to your company's reputation which can take years to repair.
Some companies learn this the hard way and start investing in cybersecurity after the breach. Don't be that company.
Has your company done a penetration test? How did it go?
Can Nigeria ever industrialize? Had dinner with a Nigerian financier who thinks that hopes are bleak for the next couple of decades. I share the same perspective and wish I could be proven wrong. Something happened in December that made me realize that we won't make it yet.
Never refrigerate these 4 foods.... otherwise it will convert to toxins
1. Garlic~ Never peel the garlic and put in the fridge because it catches the mold .. mold in the garlic causes cancer in the system.
2. Onions.. Never cut half onions and then refrigerate it, when you refrigerate the onions it increases the starch substance and high starch in the system can damage your kidneys and pancreas rather than helping you.
3. Ginger: dont put Ginger in the fridge it can catch mold
4. Rice ... people actually think cooked rice placed in the refrigerator helps regulate blood sugar cholesterol but conversely it can catch the mold , the starch goes very high quickly and starts damaging ur pancreas.
Repost to that your friends guilty of always putting rice in the fridge...... For over 24h