Raheem😉✌🏾

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[Raheem😉✌🏾 @WhyRaheem]

@Rukia1994443 😂😂😂💔

[Raheem😉✌🏾 @WhyRaheem]

Lord! I was like what sort of monster have they edited again 😭
Thought her arm was a long ass jaw

[女の本音さん @entamechnnel]

ありえんくらい首長い女性かと思った

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

Oga shut the fuck up. That you wear a tie and suit does not mean you know what you are saying. Shut the f up.

The problem of Nigeria and West Africa at large is multifaceted.

Bad governance is a contributory factor, but it is not the only factor. In fact, bad governance itself is an orchestration. It was bound to happen in Africa.

Africa's poverty is multifaceted. Colonialism played a role. But isn't it the only instrument.

1. Africa was set back through Colonialism. The wealth gap from that era matters a lot and gave the other race a huge advantage. Telling people to forget the past is understandable, but denying its impact is foolish.

However, some places that experienced this made it through despite the inequality in resource possession. We can cite Singapore, Japan, South Korea etc. I do not even envy those countries, they are slaves to the US and have zero sovereignty, but that is a conversation for another day.

2. After independence most African countries were only free on paper not practically. Imperialism became a thing. West African countries for instance Nigeria, were still ruled by the Queen even after independence. Those countries we love to reference had minimal Western interest and influence on them because they lacked the resources on African soil. The only Western influence on them later on was based on Security and spying on China.

As a matter of fact, francophone countries still pay the colonial levy to France.

3. After Imperialism, we metamorphosed into neo-colonialism. our present condition.

Countries like Nigeria have no independent government. Great Britain, and the US still influence our policies, system of government, economic model, and even Security.

So the average Nigerian thinks that when they vote the votes count and it elects their leaders. True and False.

Your votes don't really count in the way you believe. Your leaders are to some extent pre-ordained by Great Britain and the US. They decide at least 40% who controls your affairs and who they back to win elections.

This is why they send in independent observers to monitor your elections and approve the leader if it played out how they want by sending in congratulatory messages or not.

If it's someone they can't control they start a smear campaign against him and kick him out of office by labelling him a dictator or criminal and sponsor the opposition they can control. And even go as far as activating an uprising by funding opposition lines.

This is why Peter Obi did a campaign in Chatham to get the approval of the British elites and extend his international influence, appeal, and acceptance.

4. Bad leaders: The impact of bad leaders in Africa's underdevelopment is there, but very minimal and not exaggerated.

Why So?

(a) You don't elect your leaders, they are chosen.

(b) Your leaders are not allowed to express their managerial skills, policies are dictated to them or they can't get loans, can't win elections, and therefore can't modify hostile policies or they will lose access to aid.

(c) Your system of government is alien to you. It was not designed for your development in mind, it was designed with your control in mind and handed over.

This is why every nationalist African leader ends up being assassinated or designated a dictator or internally taken down through a local uprising funded by superpowers.

If you pay attention you can recognise the pattern from Kwame Nkruma to Thomas Sankara to Gaddafi.

African leaders have their flaws. But Africa inherently has no leaders because they are not allowed to lead themselves.

And there is no way any African leader can function and develop their nation if he plays by the rules handed to them.

This is why no matter who you elect, Democracy, Capitalism, and a Federal Republican system of government can never lead to progress in Nigeria or any part of West Africa.

It worked in Japan and South Korea, but that does not mean it can work in Africa. Nigeria is very diverse.

[TAME 🧶🪡 @gawdofclapback]

This is so gorgeous. Never seen anything like this 🤯

[Danton Bissono Chidera 🎖️ @DantonChidera]

Some of the prominent Iranian leaders were schooled in the West, and that education has helped them understand the West's weaknesses, aiding their current conflict with it. However, the African man gets to London, Paris, Brussels, Strasbourg, California, among others, gets schooled just to come back and preach the inferiority of their homeland. The latest set of "abroad graduates" shouldn't be allowed to contribute to revolutionary discourses about Africa. They're a headache.

[chi... @nnamanichi93717]

Nothing makes religious people more happy than seeing an unbeliever in trouble..

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Karma sculpture by Do Ho Suh

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Religion has always worked side by side with colonialism and slavery.

[En Júpiter @En_jupiter_]

OMG

[Elizabeth Adewale @elizaego]

And if you choose to send nudes:

- crop out your face

- avoid mirrors and identifiable backgrounds. Use a plain wall or door instead.

- avoid showing tattoos, birthmarks, scars or other identifying marks

- turn off location data if possible

- use the view-once or disappearing message feature!

[☁️y @Slime0sama]

my ex wore socks whenever she was mad at me

[nat ♥️ @khaj_nat]

This photograph depicts a young man wearing a traditional Ekpo "ghost" mask from the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria || 1932 🇳🇬

📸 British anthropologist G. I. Jones

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

LGBTQ+ are united. Feminists are united. Patriarchists are united. Billionaires are united. The ruling class is united. The clergy is united. Even bandits are united. The only group that does not recognise the importance of unity is the POOR.

This is because many poor people do not view poverty as a man-made condition, which should be collective fought and defeated, they see poverty as a natural condition, and even one to be ashamed of. This mindset leads them to identifying with the rich class with whom they have nothing in common and share none of the same struggles.

Then you’ve got religion on one end assuring that everything is okay. “There’s nothing to worry about, as there’s a trillion dollars waiting for you in heaven, but you have to die first before you take it.”

It's crazy.

[゛ ☆ .ᐟ ⋆ @veinIuvr]

if we can't say dumb shit mid sex and laugh at it together then go back to business and have nastier sex.... you aren't for me.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

If socialism and fascism are the same, why did the largest fascist movements destroy unions, jail communists, and protect industrialists? Because fascism doesn’t challenge capitalist power. When capitalism is in crisis, fascism steps in to defend it.

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."

This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).

Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.

As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.

@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.

But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.

[X @no2xtractive6tm]

Like…. They say all this but when you now tell them to elect leaders that represent their interests now wahala will enter because they can’t.

Why can’t they?

They don’t want to know. Just the “our leaders bad” rhetoric without questioning why they keep ‘electing’ bad leaders over and over. Is it cursed luck or is the system geared to consistently produce bad leaders?

When we answer that we can now move on to who created the system and to what end. Untill then, {insert the latest President’s name} is evil, incompetent and all the kini kini they use to cope.

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

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[Áyòmídé George (Arc.) @vangeorgh]

The Architecture of Mushin.

I found the form of this building intriguing so I asked @gemini to render 3 different iterations of it like it was newly built.

This building responds better to our climate than what we define as ‘contemporary’ Architecture these days..

Which iteration is your favorite?

[Prolific🏁 @KolawoleToluw11]

Nothing way I hate pass people calling God to save Nigeria.