@OtoEbe You forget common sense was and is a good part of our education, and I highly doubt it is for others.
Give it time,someone will call Zidane an ordinary player,lol.
I mean, just today, someone said Pantami was a better minister of communication, and people are praising Abacha,lol.
We need to stop promoting these fatuous and simplistic โbig bad Westโ narratives as a counterpoint to African development, which appeal to the visceral sentiment by repeating a โprimordial fact of all historyโ- nations seek to dominate others for the benefit of their citizens.
1) The international market economy is NOT a branch of the International Red Cross
2) African nations are very much capable of directing their own resources and navigating the interminable course of their own destinies. To argue otherwise is to deny them of agency - 60 years after independence (where was China 40 years ago?)
3) You donโt hear that argument in Asia which shares a similar experience of colonialism.
4) Dangote and Kasapreko and Aba leather goods, etc are selling across Africa.
I said the narrative is simplistic. Let me tell you a story. I have spent the last 5 years and millions of my own money having invented a digital system for local currency Exchange (a retail component of the PAPSS currency exchange) that allows Africans (54 countries, 42 different currencies) to use their local currencies for cross-border trade (USD exchange depletes national reserves and attracts $5.3 billion in yearly costs).
The U.S. government through its Commercial Service and Embassies, has left no stone unturned to make this project successful.
And African Central Banks? Only very few have responded positively. Can you guess what it takes to secure a regulatory license in Africa? 3- 4 years of undiluted pain and a boatload of money. (The process takes about 3 months here in the U.S.)
Make of this fact what you will.
Weโre not ready for prime time
Arsenal beating PSG with a 3-0 scoreline wonโt be interesting. I need that satanic 1-0 and haram defending that will make UEFA subject every Arsenal player to doping tests. I need hater pundits across the world to crash out immediately after that game.
Just 1-0 and make it a corner kick goal too ๐