📚 Au Japon, des gens vont désormais en boîte de nuit… pour s’asseoir silencieusement et lire un livre pendant qu’un DJ joue de la musique d'ambience.
Le concept s’appelle JUCY BOOK RAVE et se déroule notamment dans un club souterrain de Shimokitazawa, à Tokyo. Ici, pas besoin de danser ni de hurler pour parler à la personne située à 30 centimètres de vous. Les participants viennent avec un livre, s’installent dans la pénombre et lisent pendant que la musique accompagne leur soirée.
A few days ago, I shared a video of a dead man walking to his own grave, and many people called it fake nd said it was a lie. 😳
But now, anothr shocking video has surfaced… This time, it’s a dead woman seemingly walking to her own grave. 😱
The purpose of studying African history is not to get stuck on romanticizing it, but understanding what worked and can be used as a foundation for how we organize today, as well as understanding what didn't work and should be discarded.
This community transformer racket has to stop completely. It is daylight robbery disguised as community self-help, and the regulatory double standard is sickening.
Look at how the power sector works in Nigeria:
When a community transformer blows up, the DisCo goes deaf. You write letters, make calls, and nothing happens. Six months down the line, residents are suffocating in darkness, small businesses are dying, and fuel prices are draining everybody's pockets.
Out of sheer desperation, landlords gather, task every household 50k, 100k, or more, and scrape together 5 to 8 million Naira to buy a brand new transformer, buy heavy copper cables, and pay for poles.
The moment that equipment is energized, the DisCo claims it as company property. They add it to their network balance sheet, and within two weeks, they start distributing Band A and Band B bills. If you do not pay, they disconnect you with the ladder leaning on the very pole you bought with your own sweat.
How can a private, for-profit utility company take free capital equipment from struggling citizens, pay zero interest, give zero equity, and then charge those same citizens full price to use it?
If NERC mandated that customers who pay upfront for meters under the MAP scheme must be refunded their money over time through energy credits, why does the exact same logic not apply to transformers?
A meter costs 100k to 150k and you refund it via monthly energy units.
A transformer costs 6 to 10 million Naira funded by an entire street, and you pretend it was a charitable donation to a private entity?
This injustice has to end.
If a community is forced to step in and buy infrastructure because a DisCo failed its obligations, NERC should make automatic amortization mandatory:
Every single household on that street that contributed to buying that transformer should have their meter credited with monthly energy units until the full cost of the asset, cables, and installation logistics is completely paid back.
You cannot let private DisCos enrich their asset portfolios with crowd-funded community blood and then charge those same people premium tariffs for power. If DisCos want to own the asset, they must refund the people who paid for it.
A major problem Southern Nigerians have, despite all their so-called "education", is an inability to focus on "group interests".
They've been socialized since birth, to hustle only for themselves, and their immediately family. So the concept of "group interests" is alien to them
Iran, despite being under heavy US/Western sanctions for almost 48 years - has been able to sustain quality public tertiary education. There's no reason why we should not be able to.
Why do you think US and Israel were bombing Iranian universities? Because they know that's where the brains who sustain the Iranian missile and drone industries come from.
Many Africans are quite foolish. Contrary to what Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan preached, universities are not supposed to be money making ventures, and students are not supposed to be burdened with unsustainable college debts for the rest of their lives.
Americans are wealthy, they can afford all the neo-liberalism nonsense on education. We are poor, we cannot - and in any case, Americans have the option of free government funded K-12 education. We do not.
I once argued with someone, not even a foreigner, that rice and so many of our other grains were not colonial imports. They completely disagreed.
Oryza glaberrima was already ours. Monty Jones had the curiosity to refine it. Most of our agricultural technicians and scientists today don't have that same curiosity, so these grains just disappear.
Our educational systems are failing us, and the lack of curiosity about ourselves in the African mind is contributing to it in enormously.
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