Africa Is One Market, But Not for Africans
Africa has been treated as one big market for foreign goods, but Africans have been discouraged from treating Africa as one market for ourselves. The same people who tell us continental trade is too complicated have no problem moving their own products across our borders.
They want access to Africa’s market, but they do not want Africa to trade freely with itself. Because an Africa that trades with itself is an Africa that becomes stronger, more independent, and less dependent on foreign imports.
So when you see foreign products everywhere across the continent, while African products remain trapped inside their own countries, understand what you are looking at. Dependency by design.
My uncle was the least educated person in our family. He never went to university. In fact, he left school so early that some relatives used to mock him for it.
At every family gathering, somebody always had a comment. They'd compare degrees, promotions, and achievements. My uncle would just smile, eat his food, and mind his business.
For years, people assumed he wasn't ambitious. They thought he had settled for an average life. Nobody really paid attention to what he was doing.
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This is @stonebwoy in 2018 with a powerful message, addressing the frequent xenophobia happening in South Africa. Music that speaks against social injustice. Music with substance and upliftment.
“It’s not the first time South Africans have displayed xenophobic behavior, but there has been no breach in our relations with them. This is the first time Ghanaians have directly experienced South Africa’s xenophobia. They say we shouldn’t call it xenophobia, but I don’t know what else to call it.”
— President John Dramani Mahama, speaking at Chatham House on South Africa’s xenophobia and Ghana’s relations with the country
South Africans our handsome President has a short message for you guys, and yes the last message is for Jacinta, she needs an English translator 😂😂😂💔
Our president is doing our work for us at the international level. You be agenda person for X our President is an agenda man in real time oo 😂😂😂💔
Kweku Smoke talks on betrayal by Code Micky during his beef with Shatta. While Code Micky was serving as Shatta Wale’s blogger, pretended to be impartial, gathered details from him, and later used those details to tarnish his image with Shatta Wale.
A case of trust abused.
Kweku Smoke really Suffer🥺💔
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.