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The Iphone Cult Phenomenon And Its Hidden Cost in Africa
The recent launch of Apple's iPhone 18 predictably became another installment in the now-familiar annual consumerist spectacle that characterises Apple device launches, complete with live in-store events and smug influencers unboxing their new gadgets in front of their drooling audience.
To many, this familiar yearly routine is just a routine consumer event that hurts nobody and has no wider significance. To those in the know however, there are multiple sinister undertones of African child exploitation, brutal colonial economics, and severe African cultural degradation that are hiding under the cover of the seemingly harmless festival of consumerism surrounding Apple, its business model and its device launches.
Senior reporter @Big_Mck goes under the hood to examine what exactly makes this annual consumer extravaganza possible, and why from an African perspective, there is absolutely nothing to celebrate here.
London Heathrow averages 1 plane landing 🛬 per minute. 1440 per day.
Nigeria busiest airport MMIA averages 60 landing 🛬 per day.
In the grand scheme of things, We don’t have any serious economic activity going on in Nigeria.
Before you go for any major surgery in Nigeria, please make sure you do a scan to ascertain that your vital organs are intact
After the surgery, do another scan to check and if everything is still intact,
A lot is going on in this country.
Do you understand how serious it is for the FBI to be begging a U.S. court not to release Tinubu’s case files, while he sits as Nigeria’s president? What exactly are they so desperate to keep from the public?