This tweet accidentally explains one of the deepest problems with Nigerian education.
We have confused early literacy with early intelligence.
A 5 year old kid reading and writing before everyone isn’t impressive. Childhood development is not a race to finish the ABC. Those early years should be about building curiosity, creativity, problem-solving, communication and independent thinking.
Let them build things. Draw nonsense. Play games. Solve puzzles. Ask annoying questions. Learn to disagree and explain why.
Then reading, writing and maths become tools for a mind that has already started learning how to THINK.
And Twitter is probably the funniest evidence of what happens when we get this backwards 😂
Every day you meet people here who can read and write beautifully. Big grammar sef.
But comprehension? Omo.
You write A. They read B. They argue passionately against C. Then 4,000 people retweet aggressively 😭
That is the tragedy.
Literacy is not the same thing as education. Being able to read is useless if you were never taught how to think.
Any one who is privileged therefore owes it to the world to work on the most obnoxiously hard problems, not just build a life for themselves, but uplift people by building great companies and employing as many people as they can.
The privileged must risk it all, over and over again, until they are tortured to greatness.
This is my version of socialism, re- distribute risk. The rich have a moral imperative to embrace more risk.
when I was doing my BSc in political science, I used to glaze over revolution as the only solution to Nigeria’s problems.
but after my several touch-points with reality, I have come to a higher realization that in our bid to sail towards a place of Eldorado, if we by chance toe the line of revolution, people like you and I would first be killed by this kind of people. if that happens, we have lost the revolution. it will just swiftly turn to a looting exercise with no direction.
I don't understand why so many people want US, UK, Canadian, or German citizenship.
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If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Whenever China is ready to penetrate a particular market, they do so holistically.
This was exactly how they penetrated the Nigerian phone market by providing affordable options that the average Nigerian could easily buy.
Chinese phones was the reason a lot of people ever had any hope of owning phones in the first place at all.
And they've always known what they're doing.
They made phones that specifically solved problems that are unique to Nigerians.
- Because of the unstable electricity in the country, they brought us phones with flashlight and high battery capacity. Today, you'll find phones with 7,000 mAh.
- On top of that, they started bringing in power banks, especially through Oraimo, and now Itel.
- They were also the first to introduce dual-SIM phones when Nokia failed to listen to Nnamdi Ezeigbo, the owner of Slot. China brought in Tecno phones that helped a lot of people to solve the problem of buying multiple phones just because of network issues.
Initially, people pushed back on Chinese phones, simply because of the wrong notion that their products are only "fake" or "substandard".
But today, people use Tecno, Infinix, Xiaomi, Vivo, and the like. And they've dominated a very large part of the phone market.
So, I undoubtedly agree that Chinese cars will soon dominate the Nigerian automobile space.
And in fact they'll do it not only by offering cheaper prices, but also by making cars that specifically solve some problems that are peculiar to Nigeria.
I'm excitedly waiting!
If you sell used cars, be careful - the next few years will be rough for you, and you may not have a business by the time the wave that is coming is done:
The reason is because the Chinese have set their eyes on Africa, and when they move - it is usually aggresive price cut that favors volume over margins.
Which means they will sell better and more recent cars at a cheaper price and at first you will laugh at them; but they will win.
It is how people laughed at Opay at first (a bank with no branch) but now Opay is used by almost everyone.
...but car is not like the banking sector, a cheaper car & better car will FORCE everyone else out.
Wait till they are done countering all the lies about parts and engine not being strong; once they enter a market - they find the biggest objections and they get to work towards countering it.
That work has started. Goodluck everyone.