chanda victor chela

I am interested in Africa's development technology, religion, ethics, politics, philosophy, agriculture and business development. I am also a Liverpool fan.

[chanda victor chela @cvchela]

https://t.co/P4nNFY04Rj

[Stephen @stevostarz7]

Wtf! 😭😭😭

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[chanda victor chela @cvchela]

@FMwenge @Sumilikipenda @bellamufazi @musadabwe @kasubasikamo_ @omasulidwa @LauraMiti I am currently reading this book.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Prosperitymaxxing 101:

1. Starting a business should take days, not a cousin in the ministry.

2. Taxes should be simple enough that honest people can pay them without hiring three experts.

3. Energy has to be reliable, affordable, and abundant. No factory, clinic, cold room, or school runs on speeches.

4. Hiring should not feel like adopting a legal problem for life.

5. Property has to be protected, especially from people with connections.

6. Courts should enforce legit contracts fast enough that trust can move beyond family.

7. Trade should move. If every border crossing becomes a punishment, local producers stay local and poor.

8. Government should stop picking winners. Customers are better judges than ministers.

Boring? Maybe.

But this is how countries get rich: ordinary people build, compete, hire, and keep going without begging for permission.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

People confuse greed with capitalism, but greed is just human nature. 

It exists in every system. 

I've come to believe envy is actually worse than greed because at least the greedy person is willing to go build something themselves.

Envy wants to pull down. 

And when I look at the loudest critics of free markets, that's what I see more often than I'd like to admit. It's not love for the poor. 

It's resentment of the successful.

[Goodreads @goodreads]

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[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Poverty is solved by prosperity, not poverty alleviation.

People don't want a nicer version of being poor. They want to flourish and prosper like everyone else.

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

The difference between a thriving economy and a failing one is not resources or geography. 

It's whether the government trusts its own people enough to let them work.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Politicians love announcing what they're going to give you. 

Free this, subsidized that, a new program for everyone. 

But they never mention who pays for it, and it's never them.

It's the small business owner whose taxes went up so much she had to let someone go. It's the family paying more for groceries because a new rule made farming harder.

Everything the government gives somebody, it first took from somebody else.

They just make sure you never meet that person.

[chanda victor chela @cvchela]

Reading Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule by Helene Landemore

[chanda victor chela @cvchela]

@goodreads DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK

[chanda victor chela @cvchela]

@FMwenge Exactly, hunger collapses the time horizon to the next meal, not the next decade. Real dignity starts with meeting basic needs now, because only then can people engage meaningfully with any promise of the future.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Every time an African blames colonialism for something their own government did last Tuesday, a politician somewhere smiles because the trick still works.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Everyone's got a solution for Africa's economy except the one that actually works.

[Sishuwa Sishuwa @ssishuwa]

@FMwenge I conducted in-depth interviews with 10 Members of Parliament who moved from one political party to another over a 25-year period to understand their reasoning or motivations. Their responses, analysed in this open access article, were fascinating.
https://t.co/FKb8eb3Sck

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Economic growth is THE anti-poverty program.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

How Morocco won the AFCON 2025

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Poverty is solved by prosperity, not poverty alleviation.