A closed mouth never get fed; keep asking and keep knocking. In this life, there's nothing for the shy man, and the universe rewards the courageous.
~ceo
How Big Tech Frames African Audiences As Intellectually Lazy.
African social media audiences are not “dumb” - they are being conditioned.
When Africans have to engage with western controlled information ecosystems, the engagement is never a fair one. Not in traditional media, and certainly not in digital media. It always follows the same colonial playbook of extraction and social engineering over any kind of meaningful conversation or useful solution.
The exploitative relationship between Western-controlled tech giants and Africa's social media audiences is often overlooked, but it shapes almost everything we see or value - and even how we understand ourselves. The low-effort, oversexualized content that has become recognised as the preferred taste of African audiences is not in fact an organic phenomenon. To put it bluntly, Western colonial tech monopolies are actively engineering African social media spaces into cesspits of anti-intellectual slop.
Africa must rise to resist this intellectual suppression by building information and communication ecosystems by Africans and for Africans.
Nigerians spend too much time being embarrassed about how poor we are instead of putting pressure on elected and appointed leaders to chase national wealth and growth furiously.
A British man who got married to a Sierra Leonean woman dragged his wife's family out of the reception hall because they didn’t attend the wedding ceremony but only came to the party to eat free British food.
He forcefully removed all the Sierra Leoneans.
people go broke chasing what’s trending on socials.
every cycle is the same. one year it’s crypto, then nfts, then dropshipping 2.0, now it’s ai agents. everybody thinks they’re early, everybody thinks they’re clever, and then they end up stuck holding the bag.
meanwhile some boring pressure washing guy is doing 200k a month just showing up, doing the work, and stacking customers.
nothing flashy. just solving a problem people actually care about.
the internet puts you in an echo chamber. makes you think you need something new and sexy.
it doesn’t.
pick something people really need, commit to it, and just get ridiculously good at delivering it. document what you’re doing, let word of mouth do its thing, and scale it slow and steady.
i’m the type where if i find something that works i double down until it’s exhausted. most people can’t do that because they get bored.
boring lasts longer than hype.
@instablog9ja Hummm, there is a so called "empowerment" that can be likened to stagnation.
Poverty will always be to the advantage of the rich and influential