Ask our people, "What is the Belt and Road Initiative, and how did it influence the result of Nigeria's 2015 election and subsequent economic performance?"
They will be blinking and looking at you like goldfish. They have no idea what you're talking about.
The same people will look you in your eyes and tell you "Goodluck Jonathan was a failure."
People who wouldn't know enough to pass SS2 Politics & Government if Nigeria had an up to date secondary school syllabus, busy making important voting decisions about what they have absolutely no fucking idea about.
Cocked and loaded guns in the hands of toddlers.
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I spoke to @BTnewsroom yesterday about the Republic of Freedom's attempt to censor media on a continent 7,000 miles across the ocean, and what likely comes next.
I've said it many times before, and just as nobody was listening then, I know nobody is listening now, but I'll say it again because hey, why not?
Dear African organised private sector:
The reason that your operating environment is always trying to kill you, and you struggle to grow despite having a market of 1.4 billion of the world's youngest people, is because nearly all of the think tanks, policy research institutes, civil society organisations, and media in Africa are owned, funded, directed or controlled by external actors who are trying to kill you. Your growth and success are not in their interests.
If you have ambitions of becoming what you really ought to become, you must come together and fund African think tanks, policy research institutes, civil society organisations, and - especially - media. You need to do this with the full understanding that these things will never turn a direct profit for you, and they are investments with a long turnaround, but that if well done, they are the difference between remaining a village champion capitalist and getting Africa Finance Corporation to approve financing for a pipeline that raises your country's energy generation by 50,000MW and turns you into billionaires.
If you don't come together and do this, rest assured that white men are already doing it for you. Just that their think tanks are recommending that your countries should defund higher education and starve you of the human capital you need to succeed; their policy research institutes are publishing papers calling for the continent with 3.9 percent of global emissions to do "energy transition" to cut the emissions it doesn't have; their civil society organisations are focused on LGBTQ - which is famously Africa's greatest and most pressing issue; and their media is drip-feeding your market of 1.4 billion consumers with every type of misinformation and disinformation under the sun.
If you're happy with that, then never mind me. I'm just some Nigerian yapper who thinks too much for his own good, and we're all gonna die anyway. ✌🏾
@DavidHundeyin No place can be better than your home. Nigeria needs fixing so that living in diaspora would just be a thing of choice and not for survival.
Out of 200 million Nigerians, can just 5,000 of you pay $5 a month for investigative journalism that will provide the information to save your country with?
No, it's too expensive, Nigerians are too poor, and high-quality journalism should be free because journalism runs on 'pashun', twigs, and pieces of string.
A whole civilisation of 200 million people, including a 1st and 2nd gen diaspora of at least 5 million people cannot crowdfund a single journalistic platform to tell its own stories for its own general benefit because it's too expensive and who needs that.
It can, however, fund a sprawling entertainment industry where all manner of inarticulate igbó smokers who add no value to anyone's lives can regularly sell out shows with ticket prices 3 times the national monthly minimum wage.
No problem paying through the arse for superstar dumbos to mime their generic autotuned stuff and occasionally assault you into the bargain, but paying for what actually adds value to your life is where you lot draw the line.
Well, me I kuku took the hint and found a job that pays me my worth. I did what I could for you people. If 200 million people collectively decide that their brains are too small for them to deserve a place in a world that is actively seeking to exterminate them, then who am I to disagree.🤷🏿♂️
Nobody will sha say I did not play my part.🚶🏿♂️➡️
Dickson, you're my guy so I'll say this with the utmost good faith:
The strategic purpose of those countries to U.S. foreign policy is COMPLETELY different to the strategic purpose of Nigeria or any sub Saharan African country as far as U.S. foreign policy is concerned.
Yes, they relate a certain way with the UAE and Bahrain - because that relationship is useful to their bigger strategic goal of waging war on Iran, which they euphemistically call "containment."
They relate a similar way with Japan and South Korea - because that is part of a wider strategy for waging war on China, North Korea and eventually India too. We do not have any similar circumstances in Africa.
U.S. foreign policy for Africa (which is available as a PDF document you can download) states very clearly that the American vision for Africa is for it to "maintain the flow of resources to the global market" (that's a direct quote). The only "threats" to this goal as far as the U.S. is concerned, is "terrorism," hence even their defence partnerships are always about countering terror *where it threatens the flow of natural resources to the global market.*
In other words, American foreign policy sees the Uranium in Niger as the valuable asset the country has - not the 21 million ni**ers that inconveniently happen to live there. It sees the oil in Escravos and the lithium in Kogi as the valuable assets in Nigeria - not the 200 million Dicksons and Miriams living there.
A U.S. military base anywhere in Africa serves EXACTLY the same purpose that the old colonial military bases did - to protect the flow of African resources, and not the lives of African people which America considers to be less than worthless. There's a reason why despite multiple U.S. military involvements in every African conflict you can think of, the conflicts only got worse.
In case you've forgotten, when the country they literally created in West Africa fell into civil war, they simply watched from their ships for years, until Nigeria sent Nigerian men to go and die for that country to have peace. They could have ended that war in 5 days if they wanted, but that was not their mission. African resources have more value than African lives. They're in Africa to protect their strategic foreign policy interests and not your life.
We're not Japan, UAE or South Korea. Never, ever forget that.