Africa Is One Market, But Not for Africans
Africa has been treated as one big market for foreign goods, but Africans have been discouraged from treating Africa as one market for ourselves. The same people who tell us continental trade is too complicated have no problem moving their own products across our borders.
They want access to Africaโs market, but they do not want Africa to trade freely with itself. Because an Africa that trades with itself is an Africa that becomes stronger, more independent, and less dependent on foreign imports.
So when you see foreign products everywhere across the continent, while African products remain trapped inside their own countries, understand what you are looking at. Dependency by design.
@Babajiide Arsenal hate is like racism, people who do it often donโt even know why they do it. They just join in because others in their circle are doing the same. Because explain to me why La Liga fans are joining the Arsenal banter?
Most of you have been brainwashed by the movies you watch and Hollywood. When captors threaten to kill hostages if force is used, you think itโs bluff? They released a video, threatening to take a life if brute force is used you think it's just for show?
They were never bigger than the Nigerian military in firepower, training, or numbers. What theyโre bigger in is cruelty and the advantage of hiding among civilians. Thatโs what makes rescue ops complicated.
Anger is 100% valid. But yโall tweet ignorantly if you think brute force has zero consequences when real lives are the bargaining chip.
@Nanaezze You just post really early
Itโs easy to miss it
Iโve had notification turned on even on Telegram but missed the last two days
That said anyone that feels itโs a lie needs the head checked
I literally watched people said the prestigious EPL trophy was not all that last night.
They did it with FACup, did with community shield I didnโt really deep it but to say EPL is not that special last night? Everyone has genuinely ran mad.
Very true. Arsenal played 38 EPL games this season against Manchester City. 19 at the Emirates and 19 at the Etihad. If Arsenal had played United, Chelsea, Liverpool and the rest, they wouldnโt have won the league. ๐๐
Three weeks ago, my 23-year-old neighbor was kidnapped on her way to Kontagora in Niger State.
While in captivity, the bandits repeatedly raped her taking turns sleeping with her night after night. Still, they kept bargaining with her father over the phone, demanding ransom even as they violated her.
Her father fought with everything he had. He hustled day and night, borrowed from everyone, took loans, sold whatever he could determined to bring his daughter home.
When he finally gathered the full amount, he called the bandits and begged them, โPlease, give the phone to my daughter. Let me speak to her. I want her to know Iโm coming for her.โ
They gave her the phone.
In a broken, traumatized voice, she told her father: โDad, do not suffer yourself looking for the money. They have been sleeping with me. Iโm traumatized. I canโt forgive myself. Even if Iโm released, Iโll kill myself. Donโt bother paying the ransom.โ
Those were the last words she ever spoke to him.
While her father was still holding the phone, he heard the gunshot. He heard his daughter being killed. Moments later, the bandits sent pictures of her remains to him, a final act of cruelty.
A 23-year-old girl. My neighbor. Someoneโs daughter, someoneโs sister, someoneโs friend gone in the most horrific way possible.
This is not just one story. This is the nightmare too many families are living in Niger State and across Nigeria. Young women snatched on the roads, violated, used as bargaining chips, and discarded like nothing.
Living in Nigeria has become truly scary. You wake up, you step out, and you donโt know if you or your loved ones will return home. The fear is constant. The pain is constant. And too often, justice never comes.
Rest in peace to my neighbor.
I do think Football social media caters for a totally different audience nowadays.
Thereโs no nuance or genuine discussion. Itโs all just baiting reactions from people.
Maybe Iโm too old
If the Mosquera one was a penalty, then this was also. But, your general point about the trajectory of the calls is apt. This now the most common way to rig a game of football. We've seen it with the AFCON. Soft calls for one team, play on on most challenges on another.
That game yesterday, the second half was reffed like the AFCoN game between Nigeria and Morocco
Same level of officiating, you can tell whoโs side the ref was on and this shouldnโt be the case.
A ref shouldnโt be on any side, every 50 - 50 ball was given PSGs way