There is a video of Africa's richest man saying that he has had to obtain 35 different visas just to be able to travel around Africa. A random homeless drunk from Hamburg who has never held down a steady job has more access to Africa than Africa's richest man on account of the complete accident of German citizenship and ancestry.
That should be the end of the conversation about whether identity or social class comes first. Dangote comes from the highest possible social class in existence on the continent of Africa, but by default he still has fewer movement privileges ON HIS OWN CONTINENT and in the world outside than the lowest born 6-fingered European orphan with Downs Syndrome.
To get the same movement and access privileges as the European retard orphan, Africa's wealthiest human being would have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a foreign passport that gives him what the orphan retard baby born in a brothel in Naples gets automatically at birth for free.
Any African who thinks class comes before race because of something Karl Marx wrote in a book in the 19th century is an adherent of just another goddamn religion. Das Kapital is their holy book, Karl Marx is their deity, and Friedrich Engels is his designated prophet. It's really no accident that people like that react to Lenin, Mao, Deng etc, the exact same way that Catholics and Sunni Muslims react to heretics.
One more thing, some of you like to claim you don't need friends because people are not trustworthy. Well, to make friends, you first have to make yourself friendly and trustworthy.
You can't do this life alone. It is not a flex to not have friends. All the people I've helped over the past 7 years, apart from public trust here, if I didn't have contacts, I wouldn't have been able to do some of them.
At the gym today, I met somebody that thanked me for all I've been doing on the app. He said he isn't very active here because of the nature of his job as he doesn't want his face to be known, but told me to reach out to him if I know anyone that needs a job and he will pull through. We talked and exchanged contact.
Sometimes, friendship are built that way because people are watching you whether you know it or not. Whether you build them online or offline, it doesn't matter. You need friends. Don't be envying people's friendship and build your own.
As someone who does this every day, and manages a database of 6326 HIV Positive clients, i can confirm the fear on people's faces before that result comes out is real 😂. But here's what I always tell them, knowing your status is the most powerful thing you can do. We have drugs that suppress the virus to undetectable levels. You can live a full, long life. The test is not a death sentence. It's you taking charge of your health.
In Katsina State, innocent people are killed daily by bandits, yet these people remain silent with no protests. But the second someone is accused of blasphemy against the Prophet, you will see crowds immediately fill the streets demanding his death.
This shows a typical Northerner misplaced priorities. Human lives should spark the same passion and outrage they show for religious sentiments.
When someone now comes out to say “the North are the problem of this country” you see them shouting!
Burkinabé students now need government permission to study abroad. This means that whether your father is a cabinet minister or a private millionaire, there is no way for their children to escape the state of the country's educational system
Which leaves them no choice but to make sure that the facilities available to students in the country are befitting of their own children.
That is how a country develops an actual elite. Not like Nigeria where as soon as I finished secondary school, my parents put me on a plane to England to enjoy a standard of education that no Nigerian alive today will ever enjoy in Nigeria. The class my parents belong to is called a pseudo-elite.
A proper elite is what is coming together now in the AES. Just wait. If there is no change of Nigeria's trajectory, within 10 years, Nigerians will start going to university in Burkina Faso and making it out to be a status symbol.
The other day i was arguing with someone about how books like 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' are foolish to Nigerians at large.
One of the points i raised was that financial literacy cannot cover for systemic failures.
This is a prime example of the statement: “you cannot out-hustle a bad system.”
Imagine a loan was taken for this.
Stop calling it ‘love’ when it’s really just convenience with good chemistry. Real love shows up when it’s inconvenient…when you’re tired, when you’re broke, when the feelings have gone quiet and all that’s left is the choice. Anybody can love you on a good day.
The one who stays consistent on the boring days, the slow days, the days nothing exciting is happening. That is who you build with. Stop chasing excitement. Start chasing consistency.
Be guided.
I was at a POS stand this evening when an elderly man, probably in his 70s, came to withdraw ₦1,000.
He asked the POS lady to speak with his son, who transferred the money immediately.
She counted ₦900 and handed it to him.
The old man said softly, “The charge is usually ₦50, not ₦100.”
But the woman snapped, “Baba, abeg no stress me. Na ₦100 charge for ₦1k.”
The man looked devastated. You could tell he had already calculated what that ₦950 would buy, and that extra ₦50 meant everything.
I stepped in and told the POS lady to give him ₦10,000.
Omor… the old man laid flat on the ground and held my legs 😭
My friend said the happiness he gets from being married to his wife equates to the satisfaction people get from financial security when they look at their bank account. He is not even rich but he is very content and very happy. I've known him for over a decade and his financial situation has never affected his mood or relationship. Very decent fellow.
One day he was with me what she called his wife and told her he is feeling very generous and she should ask for anything. This woman said "popcorn" and he laughed. He told her that your husband is feeling generous and you are asking for popcorn. She said, "but that is what I want na. Buy me popcorn."
I just smiled and shook my head because I know many rich people who do not have what he has.
"Perhaps one of the most publicised cases associated with his platform involved a woman popularly known as Mummy Zee, whose family’s financial struggles attracted widespread empathy and support from Nigerians. The intervention, the lawyer noted, transformed their fortunes almost overnight, attracting cash gifts, accommodation support, household items and other donations."
My family can never forget him.
May the very best light your world sir Dickson, God bless you.
The first and only time I ever bet on football was in 1990, when I bet that Cameroon would beat Argentina in the World Cup. The odds were 20-1. I bet £1 (that was all I could afford then) and won £20! Madam and I were living in one room in Seven Sisters, London, then. We were finally able to order egg fried rice and beef in oyster sauce from the local Chinese restaurant. Before then, it was just egg fried rice with chilli sauce and no protein.
I don’t suffer before for this my life o. And this woman suffered with me. Some days, we could only afford one meal and she would lie that she had eaten and give me the meal to eat when I came back from work. I grew up with many relatives living with us. So, by upbringing, I was raised not to finish everything on my plate. It was by watching how she wolfed down everything left on my plate that I finally realised that this woman had not eaten and had sacrificed herself to make sure I ate.
So, now, when anybody says “She’s the one eating all his money, I ask: “Before nko? Were you there when we were eating egg fried rice with no protein from Red Square Chinese Restaurant in 1990?” 😂