Colonial powers built extensive modern infrastructure in places that had only had hunter-gatherer tribes or rudimentary subsistence agriculture prior to their arrival.
Since their departures, the last of which were about 50 years ago, over $60 billion in development aid has been sent to Africa every year, totaling around $1.5 trillion in foreign aid to the continent.
Huge amounts of that money are lost to waste and graft. Infrastructure that is built by international groups in Africa is rarely maintained and is often stripped and looted for scrap.
In 1960, South Korea was basically Gaza; razed by war with a GDP per-capita lower than that of Ethiopia. Today, South Korea’s GDP per capita is five times higher than that of South Africa, the richest Subsaharan country, and about 30 times Nigeria’s.
You can’t blame colonialism for everything forever. At some point, Africa has to take responsibility for its own failures.
I worked for an Indian tech company for years. Let me tell you some *practical* reasons why we don’t want them here. I worked for the CEO and was their CMO. I, and the small handful of other white employees were hired to help get their foot into the door of America. 🧵
Meanwhile in Dearborn, Muslims are reportedly demanding that churches stop ringing their bells on Sunday.
“This is a Muslim-majority town and you have to respect us. According to Sharia, church bells cannot be louder than our Islamic call to prayer.”
Don't give them an inch!
@TheAjakeManger@grok Igbos will say "who is crying"
Yoruba will say "a litre in USA is more than 1500"
Hausa will say "they cannot protest as Islam doesn't promote it".
Return Nigeria back to what it was before Ironsi Merge us with Decree 34 in 1966 after the coup.
God pun!sh Ibos and their ancestors. Power Hungry B@st@rds 🤮
We want regional government now!!!!
@Letter_to_Jack If the president can end the fuel and $$ subsidy, end the coup in Benin, was willing to go to war in Niger, then there's nothing stopping Him from protecting His people. He controls the largest armed forces in WA, sits untop the largest bank of intelligence. He doesn't care!!
The amount Tinubu and his APC apologists have spent on pre-election banners across the country is way more than the health budget for the whole nation.
This is not politics, it is EVIL.
Ire o✌🏾
Told this Polish guy at work I'm from Gambia and he told me he has a friend from Ghana. So I also told him I have a friend from Romania now we're both staring in silence.
@kokokolarotiadi You’re inconsequential to an Igbo man. If you don’t get annihilated by the desert urchins then it will be by your brothers under the banner of Mohammed. Retards!
That’s why the concept of power moving from the North to the South and vice versa is funny to me, because the power actually moves from North to South-West and vice versa.
South-South and South-East are not in the power equation.
So, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, directed that the Southeast route connecting Enugu - Onitsha should be transformed into a modern highway comparable to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Superhighway, and the Honourable Minister of Works, Senator Engr. David Umahi, CON, delivered on that vision.
Today, the result is clearly visible.
The once difficult and heavily congested Enugu–Onitsha road is now becoming a modern, durable and safer expressway.
This remarkable transformation is not only improving travel time and road safety, but also boosting economic activities, regional connectivity and ease of movement for millions of Nigerians who rely on this critical route daily.
Indeed, the Southeast now has a road infrastructure project that stands as a symbol of progress, development and renewed hope.
RENEWED HOPE.
Francis Nwaze