Africa is not being underestimated by anyone. That is a dangerous misconception that I once had.
What is actually happening is that Africa is being deliberately underreported and suppressed from mainstream global news cycles because some powerful people need to keep it a secret that their dominance over the global economy as we know it is entirely built on extracting 100 for the price of 0.5 from Africa.
If that coup in Niger had never happened for example, we would never have known that France's famously cheap and plentiful nuclear energy which makes up 70% of its energy mix, and which it sells to the rest of Europe, was cheap and plentiful because Orano spent decades bending Niger over a barrel, paying the country 50 euro cents/kg for Yellowcake uranium when the market price was between โฌ150 and โฌ200/kg.
We didn't know this - but France and its EU collaborators absolutely did, which is why they're sponsoring EU resolutions condemning the AES every 5 minutes. They know exactly what they've lost!
The only people underestimating Africa are Africans - because we have no fucking clue what we are sitting on and we still get most of our information from predatory western sources. Don't get it twisted - everybody outside Africa who matters fully understands what Africa is, which is why Ethiopian Airlines keeps recording a new record profit every year, and it is building the world's largest airport in Bishoftu. Most of that traffic is not made up of Africans.
People from around the world don't stampede in such numbers into a continent that they "underestimate." We're the dummies chasing visas to go work for gold elsewhere while we inherited the entire fucking gold mine.
Yep. This is the real body showing its real face.
Imagine this is their reaction to a random audio that's gone viral.
Now, imagine how they have legally gone after journalists who have said things that they have been unable to prove, over the past couple of years โ some of those things we KNOW are true, but couldnt get the affected persons or documents to come forward to corroborate.
Should we give you names of respected sports journos/pundits who dont bother doing that hard stuff anymore because of these suits? A few: Nabila. Songo. Julian. Atta Poku. And others.
You people want which sports journalists to speak to power? The majority of sports journos who are being paid GHS 5k a month, or less? Note: people like me, Akoto, Obama, BKB, Ayala, Fent, Rahman and a few others you know are not among the majority โ our lifestyles are anot the norm at all.
The President of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana was here in the USA on the ticket of this same body. Yes, he is an incorruptible man, but how do you expect the up and coming sports journalist in a small station in Nkroful or JamesTown to have the courage to speak up with such optics?
You want the journalists whose media houses dont even have lawyers for normal cases, let alone defamation suits, you won't them to "speak truth to power"?
The same sports journos who suddenly have strange cars and motorbikes following them when they do "hot" programs? Strange phone calls speaking strange languages to them at strange hours?
Or @Chiefseiduadamu, who was OPENLY assaulted at a gathering by a bodyguard affiliated to this body, with witnesses present, and nothing came of it?
Or the ones, like me, whose ENTIRE stations got blacklisted from covering Ghana Premier League matches (when everyone else is given permission to do so, thereby denying us of important revenue) โ simply because I did a video that criticised the GFA boss for working to go for a third term? Video here: https://t.co/jjdlMbZ6Ff
Because of the above video, my ENTIRE station has not been given accreditation to cover Black Stars matches by the GFA for almost a year now โ and we have had to get accredited through third parties.
Read that again.
Are these the sports journalists whose lives, families and livelihoods are at stake that you expect to speak truth to power for you?
A whole @anasglobal โ one of the greatest investigative journos in our country's history โ was brought to his proverbial knees after investigating the GFA. His assistant was MURDERED. It didnt happen on Mars; it happened at Madina, in Accra, in Ghana.
You people โ all of you โ are not serious. Maybe some of you dont know this, so I'll forgive you.
But those of you who know this, and still expect us to work normally in such hostile conditions โ you are all mad. Moabobษ dam.
Properly empower journalists. And watch us do magic. Otherwise, dont waste our fucking time.
Have a good day.
@consoleghana "....Your idiocy lies in spouting urban legends without a shred of scientific evidence..." this is everything! Shakespeare couldn't have done any better ๐ฏ
๐จ Oleksandr Usyk confirms he will be vacating his heavyweight world titles.
"Today is Friday, the weather is beautiful and itโs good day to say I want to vacate all the belts I currently hold," Usyk said on social media.
"I want to make them available so the guys who are next in line can fight for them. Iโm leaving the belts, but Iโm not leaving the sport, because I still have my last dance.
"I want to thank everyone. I have great respect for all the organisations. Thereโs more to come!โ
Goalkeeper Benjamin Asare plays for Hearts of Oak in the Ghana Premier League.
Heโs spent his entire club career in Ghana.
Now heโs kept a clean sheet against England at the World Cup, a nation whose players all feature in Europeโs top leagues ๐ฎ๐