The thing about imperialism is that it is ubiquitous and impossible to avoid.
Nigerians who think they can have intelligent discussions around politics, economics and business without acknowledging imperialism are just like a castrated man who wants to marry a wife and have kids, but doesn't want to acknowledge his condition.
I'm sorry, but just because you're in denial, or the subject makes you uncomfortable, or you don't want to upset your white friends and investors by talking about it does not mean that this 800-foot elephant in the room is going to disappear.
The imperial system you live under is why you eat imported rice and your bread is made with imported wheat, while your own agricultural land is used for industrial monoculture plantations growing export crops you can't eat like cocoa and cashew.
Imperialism is why your kid goes to school wearing a neck tie, a wool sweater, a thick blazer and cotton socks while the temperature outside is 33⁰C.
Imperialism is why you put on your TV news and the presenter is chewing her tongue desperately trying and failing to mimic the accent of a public school headteacher from Abingdon-on-Thames, whereas literally nobody in the history of her watching audience has ever sounded like that.
Imperialism is why your central bank interest rate is always double digit, which means that consumer credit is literally nonexistent. No amount of roundtable sessions, seminars, and breakfast meetings with the bankers committee and PhD economists can change that basic eternal reality of your economy.
Imperialism is why despite having double digit central bank lending rates, your currency somehow manages to always face inflationary pressure and regularly posts double digit percentage losses in a single day. You can do all the clever economic chart drawings and financial engineering you want, but they are completely useless in the face of imperialist decisions like Structural Adjustment Programs, which you experienced by other names from 1986 to 1988 and from 2023 to 2025.
Imperialism is why you can have all your lovely ideas for leadership and governance, and a young population that is hungry for good leadership, but everytime you go into a "democratic election", you end up coming out with Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu. You can read all your "Why Nations Fail" and do all your "PVC sensitisation drives" and do all the "protect the votes" on election day, and at the end of all the wahala, the INEC chairman will announce that a crippled goat with craw-craw has won the election and if you don't like it you will go and meet Kekere-Ekun in court.
Imperialism is why when you are having sex with your partner, you moan in English and make American noises even though you've never left Owerri before, and your sexual encounters always happen with a specific sequence that starts from oral and culminates in doggy - it's because all the porn you have ever watched in your life has been hosted and curated by American platforms, and you have over time taken on their sexual personality as your own.
Imperialism is why you build with cement blocks plastered with concrete in your 34⁰C climate, even though concrete generates vast amounts of heat as it cures, and it can take years to fully cure, during which time it slowly cooks you in your own house - but rammed earth which your ancestors used is only just becoming a thing once again because white people have "discovered" it and put a brand on it that makes it desirable after they once labelled it as 'primitive'.
I could go on and on. As long as you're determined to avoid confronting the ubiquitous and all-pervasive reality of imperialism in Nigeria, you're not really ready to confront whatever problem you are facing, from food to healthcare to education to public policy to poverty.
If you're not acknowledging that underlying reality, you're just another Nigerian wasting their whole life performing the appearance of thinking, and creating useless content.
Women CAN change. They will change.
Men just need stop DATING them.
Sleep with them, but don't date them. Don't wife them. Don't reward them.
Women learn from what other women get away with and what men accept.
Look around majority of white women are skinny compared to black women. Why? Because white men hardly tolerate fat women. Simple.
Black women are more fat because black men will still date them looking like that. They still get chosen.
Look at Asian women skinny. Why? Because their men don't play that game.
Women are followers by nature. That's not hate, that's reality. They are easily influenced. They copy and follow what works.
If you keep dating these toxic, entitled, lazy, out-of-shape women other women will see that and think "I don't need to work on myself either." Men will accept me for who I am.
But if a woman sees that 3 of her friends got REJECTED because they are fat, because they are rude, because they are masculine she will make sure SHE doesn't end up like that.
Men set the standard. Women follow the standard.
Stop dating trash and women will stop being trash.
Somebody please help me understand this contradiction.
A man is called broke because he won't fund your expensive lifestyle, yet you are called a queen even though you can't afford that same lifestyle without him.
How does that work? Where is the logic in this equation?
Lionel Messi is the quintessential definition of Longevity. A 39 year old has no business in the top 5 of the Ballon D’or. This is unprecedented level of longevity. He is not just one of the greatest footballers of all time but he’s one the greatest humans to walk this earth.
🚨📲 | Raphinha liked this REEL on Insta which says: “They gave Ballon D'Or to Kane but Raphinha was put fifth last season despite having a similar case.”
Our place in this world cannot be migrating to the UK to clean yansh.
Good luck in your hustle, but never you glorify this.
The people you are cleaning their yansh are destabilizing your country so you can be available to clean their yansh.
@playwithtomide If Madrid and Barca don banter ourselves finish let’s talk about how an English player had to leave intensity league not less than 4 years to be the best in the world and not a single English club had an award and they just took home civic education award
Women think it’s until they stab their husbands with knife or shoot with gun, that’s only when they kill. They don’t know that emotional and mental stress can kill.
There was a compound we lived in while we were growing up. I was about 12 years old at the time.
Between when I was 12 and when I turned 15, about three men died in that compound.
The last man that died, only God knows if he wasn’t stressed, because his wife was always complaining. The wife was always shouting and fighting the husband 24/7.
At some point, we heard that the man lost his job. Then it got to a point where the man told my dad that he couldn’t sleep in that house because the stress from his wife was too much.
This continued until the man died.
After the man died, my father became the only elderly man in that compound.
Then, she started calling my father to help her do things.
My mother no gree o. My mother did not accept it at all. My mother said, my father already had enough responsibilities of his own. After finishing what he was doing, he would now have to carry somebody else’s load.
There was a day one young woman in the compound quarrelled with her and told her something. Because my mother doesn’t even like to say these things because she is the kind of person who is always cautious about what she says to people.
The woman told her, “After you have killed your own husband with stress, you now want to start using somebody else’s husband to run errands for you; you think we did not see you??”
The woman started getting angry and crying, like she wanted to gaslight her.
Go and check a lot of homes.
Stress everyday.
Everyday quarrel.
Everyday fighting.
There was a friend of mine who used to do the same thing to her husband. They were only three years into their marriage.
She would call me and say, “See what my husband did every time.” And if you check the complaint, very meaningless stuffs.
I told her, “Babe, calm down. If you lose this man with all these things you are doing, I’m not even talking about divorce this time around. If this man dies, you will regret the day you were born.”
(That man was more or less the breadwinner for her. She wasn’t doing anything.)
I told her, “Calm down. Take care of your husband. Let him be. Let him do his thing cos he’s an adult.”
There was a time her husband fell ill. He couldn’t work nor do anything.
She came to me crying. I told her, “It’s only sickness o. Now imagine you lose this man. This one na sign God just give you”
A lot of women pressure their husbands without even knowing what that man is already going through as a person, because men don’t speak.
They will put pressure and pressure and pressure until they lose that man.
Then they start crying at the burial, as if they were not part of what that man was going through.
They think to kill somebody is by gun or any physical stuffs. There are different ways you can destroy somebody’s health and wellbeing.
If you think this post is a lie.
Go and speak to a mortuary attendant. They will tell you the percentage of men they bring to the mortuary every day is over 70% compared to women.
But when it comes to childbirth, women will come here and rant.
Let’s not even talk about how a lot of women are slowly poisoning their husbands.
The first thing poverty attack in your life is not your pocket nor belly. It's your conscience and mindset.
Now, she sees nothing wrong in the infidelity of her friend because after both has suffered wickedly in the hands of poverty - infidelity and promiscuity later bought her friend a house, a car, and USA visa. Hallelujah. However, this would never be the case if it was her husband or brother. She would have dragged her friend or any other woman to the ends of hell.
When your conscience is dead, you'll never see any wrong in evil, wickedness, unfairness, and stupidity.