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So I delved into the @celo ecosystem and made some cool findings.
I figured it was best to share some my experience and incentivized programs.
How can you test their products and explore opportunities ?
Possible $$ in here for the crypto normies.
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I couldnβt bring myself to care about you attending the Grand Prix but you see this, βOnly Black man toβ¦β βFirst Black man toβ¦β
What usually follows is some utterly mundane achievement that you think is some racial milestone, it lowkey reeks of an inferiority complex.
Youβve been doing alright for a few years now, settle in already.
Many Africans need to unlearn this mindset. It is a subtle form of mental servitude that conditions people to view ordinary participation in global spaces as extraordinary simply because a Black person is involved.
Worse, it encourages Africans to seek status over one another through proximity to institutions, activities, or standards they subconsciously regard as belonging to someone else.
Who was the first white man to eat amala? Who cares about the first white man to speak Yoruba? Who was the first white man to dance to Afrobeats or Fuji? Nobody knows, and nobody cares.
Yet you as an African cannot announce the most routine activity without attaching βBlackβ to it. If white people do something every day, why must a Black person doing the same thing be framed as a historic breakthrough?
When you look at the exceptionally creative work of Masters, you must not ignore the years of practice, the endless routines, the hours of doubt, and the tenacious overcoming of obstacles these people endured. Creative energy is the fruit of such efforts and nothing else.
The moment Nigeria gets balkanized, that's when you'll realize that inside that your Yoruba Ronu, another Ronu dey inside.
Ijebu will start clamoring for regional autonomy in this new Oduduwa republic. Ekiti, Ijesha, Egba etc will all have competing interests.
You know why?
Because before the colonizers came, these people were not fucking...
dancing around in a circle holding hands and weeping with joy about how united in Oduduwa they were.
No.
They were literally putting bullets in each other's bodies and forcing each other into slavery in a multi century back and forth struggle.
There was no "Yoruba" in the homogenous nation state sense of the word.
And what about the middle belt? In Benue state for example, there are dozens (yes, DOZENS) of tribes who don't like each other and will not hesitate to pick up a knives or rifles to settle old scores.
The Fulani and Berom need no introduction.
Even in the core north, many young Hausa are increasingly discontent about the absolute political dominance of the Fulani despite outnumbering them.
Islam can only go so far to quell a people with so much latent resentment.
What about Igbo land?
Some Abia parents won't let their kids marry from the next village.
Anambra people turn up their noses at Ebonyi people and consider them lesser Igbos.
Okay nau.
By the time the "Ebonyi Liberation Movement" picks up EU-supplied rifles now to fight the "tyrants in Awka" everybody mind go dey.
When the "Imo Freedom Army" (IMA) suddenly pop out of nowhere and demand full control of the humongous reserves of natural gas deposits (up to 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas)...
And this same IMA starts bombing government buildings in Enugu and Anambra to get their point across....
Everybody go understand.
What about the South South where I'm from?
The rest of the Edo people most likely will not recognize the "divine" authority of the far away Oba of Benin and could pick up arms to settle their differences.
The Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri and dozens upon dozens of smaller tribes will 100% pick up every weapon they can find to secure the oil for themselves.
So Mr/Mrs. Secessionist, I want you to understand that the problems of neocolonialism, bad governance and bigotry you're running away from in Nigeria will not magically disappear the moment you get Biafra 2.0, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan or any other ethno state.
You will simply plunge this patch of West Africa into a multi pronged civil war that will last many many decades.
Sudan, Libya and Somalia will look like a paradise.
There will be total collapse of supply chains, bandits and terrorists would carve out their own territories and the colonizers will be arming every slack witted tribal chest thumping young man with a rusted AK47 to kill his fellow miserable black man so Mr. Colonizer can keep extracting Lithium, Oil and gold for dirt cheap.
You will waste generations and millions of people will starve to death .
This is one of the reasons I am so so militant about this.
The colonizers forced us together. That is true.
But it's up to us if we want to keep flinging sand and knives at each other, or if we want to work together toward prosperity for our future and our children.
A Nigeria that works for everybody is the way. Toss your stupid Biafra, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan ideas into the trash and light it on fire.
If you need everything in your life to be simple and safe, this open-ended nature of the task will fill you with anxiety.
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
You will unconsciously tether your mind to certain conventions, and your ideas will grow stale and flat.
@DavidHundeyin@Big_Mck@Spearhead_Af Good content.
Very concerning. Pairing us with low economic Caribbean nations to get a better deal and dictate how we trade.
Itβs not even rocket science to deduce these schemes
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 Africaβs 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.