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That’s me 🙌
The parent that fights all your battles for you and continue to hold grudges with your classmates looooong after you’ve made up with them.
You betrayer !😂

That your class 5 friend , her mother and all her cousins are no longer welcome here 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@DStv_Ghana there is always no signal on DSTV these days. I need a refund this month. It’s always one error or the other!!!!

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There are people whose tears 😭 reach the heavens.

Be careful with them.

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@GOLD_YYY Sadia sausage 😂😂😂

[Benedicta Antwi Esq. @AntwiAK46]

Episode 7 of #imperfectwomen will shake you to the core !!

From the betrayal of your own spouse to undiagnosed friends. I believe there’s more to Mary than we know.
TV so so good. 😊

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@MaameEsiGold @ghonetv I read it just fine. There is nothing wrong with it .

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It’s cute that my man admires me for my career. But I still need him to spoil me cos my career is just for my experience. 😊

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@Citi973 He did not even say that. He said‘I want to leave. Even though Dubai is safe and they are everything to protect us,”

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By 45 you have
✅circle of friends so small it’s basically a dot
✅a bad back from blinking
✅at least one mystery ache that comes and goes for drama
✅ tolerance for nothing and an allergy to small talk

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There are people who don’t react to pain until years later.
10 years down the line, the perpetrator thinking the victim had forgotten his transgressions now requires favors from her.
That is when madam suddenly remembers what u did to her in 1995. 😂

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Oversharing your life with people who aren’t qualified is just messy and emotionally uncontained.

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The Architecture of Failure: Why "Incompetence" Doesn't Explain Global Poverty

The argument is a familiar one, often whispered in diplomatic corridors or shouted in political debates: The developing world isn't poor because the West stole their resources; they are poor because they are incapable of managing them.

On the surface, the logic seems sound. We look at nations like Venezuela, sitting atop the world's largest oil reserves while its citizens go hungry. We look at the African continent, where departing European powers left behind thousands of miles of railways and roads, only to see them swallowed by the jungle or rusted into obsolescence.

If the developing world was handed the keys to the kingdom—functioning supply chains and unlimited wealth—why have they failed to unlock prosperity? The answer requires us to move beyond the surface-level symptoms of corruption and incompetence and examine the underlying "operating system" of these nations, through the lens of logic, history, and international law.

The Mirage of Inheritance

The most compelling part of the "incompetence" argument is the physical legacy of colonization. It posits that newly independent nations inherited "fully functioning" economies.

However, this relies on a logical fallacy regarding the purpose of infrastructure. If you examine a colonial-era map of Africa, the design becomes clear.

Railways and roads were not built like a spiderweb to connect cities, foster internal trade, or build a domestic market. They were built like chutes—running in straight lines from a mine or a plantation directly to a port.

This is extraction architecture. When the colonial powers left, these nations didn't inherit a "network"; they inherited a series of one-way streets designed to drain wealth, not create it. Under the logic of economics, maintaining a railway that only goes to a port is useless if the foreign buyer sets trade barriers or if you are trying to build a domestic economy. The infrastructure fell into disrepair not simply because the new administrators were "lazy," but because the infrastructure was economically unviable for a sovereign nation trying to serve its own people rather than a foreign empire.

The Institutional Void and the "Scorched Earth"

The argument that developing nations "don't know how to administer" ignores the legal reality of how they were formed.

Under international law, the borders of many developing nations were drawn arbitrarily by European powers (most notably at the Berlin Conference of 1884). These borders grouped rival ethnic and religious groups together while splitting cohesive communities apart. When independence came, the new leaders weren't just tasked with "administering resources"; they were tasked with managing artificial nations designed for internal conflict.

Furthermore, the transition of power was rarely the benevolent "handover" often imagined. In many cases, it was a "scorched earth" withdrawal. When Guinea voted for independence from France in 1958, the departing administration famously stripped the country bare—taking lightbulbs, blueprints for sewage systems, and even burning medicines.

This created an institutional void. Administration requires bureaucracy—tax agencies, courts, civil services. Colonial regimes were generally autocracies designed to keep order, not service-oriented bureaucracies. The "software" of democratic governance was never installed. Therefore, the failure to run these systems is often less about a lack of innate ability and more about the total absence of institutional memory or transitional support—a violation of the spirit of the UN Right to Development, which emphasizes the need for an enabling environment for development.

The Venezuela Paradox: Corruption vs. The Resource Curse

The case of Venezuela is frequently cited as the ultimate proof of incompetence. How can a country with so much oil be so poor?

While corruption and mismanagement by the Venezuelan leadership are debatable, attributing the collapse solely to them ignores the economic phenomenon known as the "Resource Curse" (or Dutch Disease).

Logic dictates that when a nation relies entirely on one resource, its currency value skyrockets, killing off all other industries like farming or manufacturing. When the price of that resource crashes (as oil invariably does), the country has no safety net.

Additionally, international relations play a massive role here. Sovereignty—a core tenet of the UN Charter—implies the right to trade. However, sanctions and geopolitical isolation often cut these nations off from the global banking systems required to maintain their infrastructure. It becomes a feedback loop: bad governance leads to sanctions, sanctions lead to infrastructure collapse, and the collapse reinforces the poverty.

The "Training" Deficit and Human Rights

Finally, there is the defense that "Europeans didn't teach them." This is often framed as a failure of benevolence, but it is actually a human rights issue.

For generations, indigenous populations were legally barred from higher education and administrative roles under colonial rule. This was a systemic denial of the Right to Education (UDHR Article 26). When independence arrived, there was a massive deficit in human capital—not because the population was incapable of learning, but because they had been actively prevented from doing so.

Even today, when brilliant minds from the developing world do emerge, the global economy encourages "Brain Drain." Engineers and administrators migrate to Western nations for stability and higher wages. In a cruel twist of irony, the developing world ends up subsidizing the workforce of the very nations that once colonized them.

Conclusion
It is undeniable that corruption, tyranny, and poor planning plague the developing world. Leaders must be held accountable for their choices. However, to say they are poor only because they "don't know how to run their countries" is a simplification that defies logic.

They are playing a game where the board was built for their failure (extraction infrastructure), the teams were mismatched by force (arbitrary borders), and the rulebook (international trade law) favors the established players. They weren't just robbed of resources; they were robbed of the time and stability required to learn how to manage them.

Would you like me to analyze a specific "success story" like Botswana to see how they managed to escape these traps?

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources.

The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned.

Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources!

Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all?

It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no.

All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep.

Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!"

But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful.

Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa.

Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.

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@elonmusk Is the committee not a representation of the EU people ?

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@Odudu769457 Sultana?? Can’t remember the face .

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@Hndrxxsaid Positive Affirmation. If u must.

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@Zulaikha_Ad Man that friend zoned u on live tv ??
Desperado 🕺