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You know that episode of Rick & Morty where Rick reveals that there is an entire civilisation of people living inside his car battery who don't know that the sole purpose of their whole existence is to generate electricity to power a mad scientist's wacky space adventure car?
That is where Nigeria is right now, and that's why I am militant to the point of putting myself in trouble by talking about why Nigerians need to stage the most bloody and violent revolution Africa has ever witnessed. Because entire future branches of history are being wiped out because young Nigerians are trapped in an economy whose job is to make white people and a tiny Nigerian minority rich at the expense of 230,000,000 people like this.
This 19 year-old kid already has the sagging shoulders of a 47 year-old man with the world's weight on him, and he has already learned to not expect anything good to ever happen to him in life. All it took to show him a fork in his future trajectory was a fucking $47 tile cutting machine, and he's now going to hold on to this new opportunity and make a better life for himself - but there are literally millions of him out there that will never meet a benefactor, or that don't even have the skills needed to maximise this opportunity.
There is only ONE entity in any African country that has the power to carry out interventions like this in people's lives on a large scale - the state! A content creator can change one life like this and get viewed 10 million times, but a government can change 10 million lives like this without batting an eyelid! Only the government has the transformational capital and the incentive to do this in millions of lives!
That is why being led by people who don't work for you is a literal life-and-death matter! When we talk about neo-colonialism, this is what the fuck it is about! When you have a government installed by foreigners, which allocates billions of Naira in public revenues to enrich foreign intelligence assets like Gilbert Chagoury via transnational corruption schemes like the nonexistent "coastal highway" - this is the result!
Nigeria's money is not being used to invest in the lives and betterment of Nigerian people! It is being used to enrich white men in Washington DC who are already richer than God, with a fraction going to their local collaborators in Abuja! This kid and millions like him are the direct victims! Their future possibilities and bloodlines are being extinguished with poverty so that Peter McBillionaireStein and Matthew Von WhiteManBerg in Manhattan and London can increase their Q3 dividend payout by 15%. Neo-colonialism is not a victimless crime!
You are all living inside Rick Sanchez's car battery!
This was me after working 58 hrs in a 72hr period (10hr rest in 3 days) because of severe manpower shortage.
I almost collapsed mid-surgery and had to drink coke using NG tube as straw so I could stand long enough to complete the case.
Now I'm finding out I'm "useless" on X.
My Dad and I used to leave DStv at home to watch important matches at a viewing center.
It made us feel like we were watching it in a stadium with the screams, insults, jokes and side conversations.
It's one of my core memories with him and it wasn't facilitated by poverty
It's poverty!
No well to do human will park his fine ride, nice perfume, good cloth and enter this place to watch football.
You only watch it there bcs you're struggling with life & no option.
The smell, body odour, mouth of our, the heat, the noise & the rubbish commentary many of them will be spewing in your ears, as a sensible human that place should never be the place you go to watch football.
But yeah, we have all watched football there during our struggling times.
But with small money, we rather watch in a bar with beer & assorted or in a clubhouse with your rich friends.
I’ve never been a religious person because I don’t know if God is real
But I’m becoming more religious every day because I know that Evil is real, and I want to be on the other side of it
You see this face?
It is the manipulative face of someone who actually, initially instigated you but now acts innocent.
We've all dealt with people like this before.
You see that performative face in front of the camera, you just know she stirred up shit off camera.