I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus.
Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same.
Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading.
This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it.
We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.
I’ll never listen to white people talk to me about what it takes to build wealth. I know what’s really behind it and how it’s systemic. People who have built their wealth off of generations of slavery and exploitation will look you dead in your face and say work harder.
Our language around governance is so interesting in Nigeria. We talk like when someone wins an election, the money and resources of the state become their personal largesse and any progress or work that happens is because they’re kind enough to “dash” us.
My own view is that couples who are sexually mismatched should go their separate ways if they’re unable to meet in the middle. That’s the only viable path I see for a solution that involves another person’s bodily autonomy.
Was yapping about this on snap. No prior information that the deep was banned from the seas and she legit took the lord of the seas to a beach to fight, eventually threw him in the ocean too. Mind you, one of the only times her powers worked…then she starts to fight crime
Starlight is actually dumb as a supe.
The closest beach to the White House is about 1 hour drive. And she abandoned their mission just to fly the deep all the there to fight him.
On a beach close to the sea where the deep has an obvious advantage over her.
Nah man!
The hardest part of fighting colonial imperialism is not just dealing with their puppets leaders. The real challenge is destroying the severe brain rot and psychological damage they implanted in our people.