In one week
1.The logical gender tore their boxers and singlet because of a book.
2 Nigerians - a country of righteous, upstanding, and morally upright citizens - ask for the crucifixion of a lady who committed the country's first sin of the year.
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What a funny country!
My conspiracy theory (which is no conspiracy theory at all) is that Nigerians are being burdened with low quality problems by design. That’s the structure. This is how things are to be.
How do you tell someone operating on survival mode to look beyond their current reality?
@CollinsofYork I wouldn't want to be missed by a stress mouth tho. Intimacy should be intentional. Not ritualistic. I just hope she will understand if the man refuses do something because he is stressed.
"My brother married a demon..."
"X and Y happened to my sister..."
"A colleague just got divorced..."
"My neighbour's penis just exploded..."
"My wife's sister just lost her toenail..."
"A coworker just finished treating leprosy..."
Una no dey keep secret on Twitter?
My Twitter feed has gone to the dogs. Before it was about tech and cybersecurity related. Now 99% are Nigerian Twitter hustlers asking stupid questions like will you allow your side chick to know your wife. So close to deleting the app.
@TheNathanWay I know I am old when I browse the comment and couldn't find anyone remembering that she is a skit maker. This was in the early era of social media. I think Facebook early days.
@milekhhan97640@TheNathanWay She's actually a skit maker. She made similar skits like this. Before Tiktok and FB era. Didn't know she didn't keep up with it. She was a very funny woman. The first one I saw of hers was about weight.
Everyone else has their struggle and nobody asks them to dilute it so that other people can feel included. There are West Asian struggles, South Asian struggles, Pacific Islander struggles, East Asian struggles, Latin American struggles, Balkan struggles, Australian aboriginal struggles, Native American struggles and Central Asian struggles.
They are all allowed to exist and breathe independently. Nobody ever accused those struggles of taking anything away from a wider socialist struggle.
Only when it comes to the African struggle must we be constantly lectured about why we must accommodate this or that group of virulently anti-black people in our African struggle, or else we will split this or that movement - allowances that literally nobody in the history of the planet has ever made for us.
Look, we know that there is a global anti-imperial struggle that links all our struggles, and we know the shared history we have with the likes of Cuba, Palestine, China, Russia etc. Nobody is going to make us stop collaborating with those whose partnerships have been mutually beneficial.
But nobody is going to convince me that I should not focus on creating the same moat and ringfence that everybody else enjoys. Everyone else on earth has nationalism as an intrinsic feature of their struggle without anyone making faces at them for it - why is it Africa that must dissolve itself into some formless global "working class" kumbaya fantasy that clearly nobody else subscribes to? Why must we be the test subjects for what nobody else is willing to do?
Why are black people always held to ideological standards that nobody else is held to? Why didn't Mao or Lenin organise their revolutions around this amorphous "global proletariat"? Why did they build strong nation states instead? Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan? Was it the "capitalist ruling class" that developed the bomb and flew the plane to drop it over Hiroshima, or did it use the air force of the United States Military to do that? Why does it need the apparatus of a nation state to impose its will on the world?
Why is this "capitalist ruling class" never able to impose its will anywhere except where it controls the levers of the state? Why have the only successful attempts to oppose this "capitalist ruling class" taken place through a powerful, well organised nation state acting in opposition? Why has all the world's "working class solidarity" not been able to stop innocent Palestinians from being exploded into bits with their families, but it is the IRGC and the well organised, industrial nation-state of Iran that has been able to stop a similar fate from befalling Iranian people?
If nationalism is just a bourgeiosie idea to serve local elites, then why does the "capitalist ruling class" invest billions of dollars every year on secessionist movements and rebel armies aiming to break up nation-states? If African nationalism represents a less important goal than this hypothetical global socialist utopia, then why do the powerful states controlled by the "capitalist ruling class" work so hard to kill or silence every single notable person who pushes African nationalism?
Why did they kill Patrice Lumumba? Why was Kwame Nkrumah overthrown after several failed attempts on his life? Why have there been multiple French-backed attempts on Ibrahim Traore's life? Why did they ignore Gadaffi for decades but the minute he paid for Africa's first communications satellite and put down Libyan state money to fund African replacements for the IMF and World Bank, plus gold reserves to back a continental currency - the things needed to unite Africa into a sovereign, continental nation-state - they immediately rushed every asset they had into Libya and didn't stop until they had him on video being anally raped with a knife on CNN? Why did they take down African Stream?
The STATE is the biggest asset and weapon that can be wielded by any group of people. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can go from a small island in the Atlantic to an empire covering two-thirds of the world. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can resist that empire and its successor, and prevent your people from becoming imperial roadkill. The entire reason why Africa is in its current situation is precisely because it has NO STATE, and its ability to create one is being actively sabotaged on a daily and ongoing basis, including through funding ideological subversion to convince Africans that there is an alternative to developing serious state capacity, either through Frank Zanu/Magatte Wade-style capitalism-raises-the-dead nonsense, or through woolly-headed Supermarxist trash.
Anybody who tells me as an African that I should devote my energy to chasing some formless, utopian "global proletariat revolution" instead of building a pragmatic, Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean-style political revolution that births an industrial African state with the power to feed and defend itself, is just as useless to me as Magatte Wade telling me that the solution to my problems is to sell part of my country to Peter Thiel and gratefully let the new sovereign Epstein Island douse me with its hot, steaming American capitalism.
I will focus on Pan-Africanism and sovereignism. Africa will always come first for me before any of your other -isms. Anyone who doesn't like it, that's too bad. I didn't write the rules and I'm simply doing the same thing everybody else on this planet does - looking out for me and my own first. I'm not interested in being percecived as morally 'better' than anybody. That 'better' shit is what got my ancestors colonised and that's why I'm a black West African who speaks English and answers to "David" today. We don't repeat our ancestors' mistakes here.
In the everlasting words of Fela Kuti, TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE.
@TheNathaneal I misspelt Helen as Hellen. And they said it has profanity because of the HELL there. Wannabe Substacks who is looking for new subscribers is doing rubbish like that. Mcheeww.
I saw a Nigerian writing platform - INKNAIJA - and I paid the 4500 writer's fee or smth. Finished writing an article and realized they won't publish an article with the word "HELL", "SHIT", and "DAMN". I don delete the account. Make dem use the money buy fish.
My brother, ex-Shell, told me about an ex governer who was unconcerned when it was announced the multinational was planning to leave Warri. He was only interested in taking over the Shell clinic. There’s a certain inexplicable destructive spirit of greed running around government circles. To stand in the way of a project that the potential to transform lives and communities becauof money is a special kind of wickedness.