Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿

Third world marxist fundamentalist. The third world can only be liberated by the destruction of core economies. Death to the EU,CPC and USA

[Angiotensinogenase @TheLivelyIre]

@sopjap Imperialism produces exceptionally entitled and unlikeable people. They have nothing better to do in their lives than to produce an artificial superiority complex.

Truly the most soulless and empty people on earth.

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

This swipe at Burkina Faso because of Russia is so ignorant. Maybe you should be asking why even the modest processing is a big deal - what was it like before?! Africa is highly dependent on imported food products, including staple foods. Strengthening local food production is actually a very big fucking deal.

[Àyànfè @Danny456080]

Africa’s ruling class isn’t a fully independent bourgeoisie, they’re intermediaries.

They manage extraction on behalf of foreign capital in exchange for personal accumulation

[ًً @kelevitch]

The observation is empirically fair but the explanation isn’t ethnic

The oil wealth arrived roughly post-1970s, and the social architecture built around it actively disincentivized the kind of meritocratic intellectual grind that produces scientists and artists. Why spend 15 years getting a PhD when the state pays you to exist comfortably? The citizen class became, functionally, a rentier aristocracy

& Rentier economies are meritocracy killers by design. When citizenship itself is the economic asset, there’s no selective pressure on excellence. You don’t need to be the best engineer or sharpest writer, you just need to be from here. The system rationally produces consumers

The Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians you’re praising had no choice but to compete. Hardship is a brutal but effective meritocracy.
This is merely a political economy diagnosis. The same dynamic explains post-oil-boom decline in other rentier states across history.
Whether Vision 2030 and similar pivots are a genuine correction or expensive theater remains the real question.

[ًً @kelevitch]

Africa is the only continent where the demographic and the civilizational trajectories are pointed in completely opposite directions and nobody in a position of power has seriously reckoned with what that means.
By 2050, roughly one in four humans alive will be African. The continent will contain the largest youth population in human history. In raw input terms; labor, creativity, biological energy this is an extraordinary endowment.
And yet the institutional infrastructure being built to receive this population is almost entirely extractive in design. The debt architecture is extractive. The commodity dependence is extractive. The brain drain pipeline is extractive. Even the NGO-humanitarian complex is extractive as it converts African dysfunction into Western careers and grant cycles, with just enough amelioration to prevent the kind of crisis that would force structural change.

The result is a continent that will be simultaneously the most populous and among the least institutionally equipped because every external actor with leverage has systematically preferred a weak, dependent Africa to a sovereign, productive one.
The tragedy of postcolonial Africa is that flag independence was achieved without the deeper decolonization of institutional imagination. So the forms changed; presidents instead of governors, national airlines, UN seats while the functional logic remained.
What’s coming is not an African century in the celebratory sense rather the largest stress test of extractive global architecture in human history conducted on the bodies of people who had no vote in designing the system.

The only honest question is whether the pressure fractures the architecture or fractures the continent.
History suggests the weaker party absorbs the rupture.
But history has never seen numbers like these.

[Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿 @dbparcel71]

@voidedpedagogy Its similar to any US aligned African state. It didn't have a violent liberation struggle and it was considered very worthless,hence it being a protectorate previously. It just supplied labor to SA and a bit of cattle. Its never been autonomous.We later clung to diamonds now poof

[Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿 @dbparcel71]

"Classical liberalism, as the economist Deirdre McCloskey argued in her trilogy The Bourgeois Era, was chiefly responsible for the Great Enrichment in Western Europe" I swear this is how it's written

[Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿 @dbparcel71]

Son😭

[Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿 @dbparcel71]

This is the same logic Mogae used to justify neoliberal policies. Now look, it turns out he'd create one of the things he argued to destroy. In an even deplorable form. 2-5% of the country generates roughly 80% of export revenue?Of an already artificially priced comm..

[Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿 @dbparcel71]

The collapse of good governance and institutions as a meaningful critique. Maybe don't base an entire economy on rent and consumption. The scale of how unproductive this country is insane.

[Mmegi @MmegiOnline]

Standard Chartered (StanChart) is seeing an elevated risk of a further sovereign credit rating downgrade for the country when the agencies announce their opinions this September, due to higher fiscal risks and delays to much-needed reforms.
https://t.co/4idGjkBoYG

[Majid Hosseini @m4h007]

What is the contribution of GCC Arabs to human civilization, since they became oil-rich? How many scientists? What life-saving drugs and treatments? Which technological innovations? Works of art? Literature? Things that the world couldn’t do without?

Plenty of those from other Arabs: Egyptians, Iraqis, Lebanese, Palestinians, etc.

Not talking about non-Arabs living in those countries. Not talking about other Arabs living there either. Native Arabs from GCC. Those living in foreign countries count.

I repeatedly see them talk about the wisdom and statecraft of their rulers, but all I see a consumption culture that has had no impact on humanity, other than increasing the methane gas.

[Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿 @dbparcel71]

@bocasho_braaf This is even worse with furniture, furnmart, and various other electronic distributors operating in this same logic through higher purchase. They up paying 230% of appliance costs.Companies even offer company loans with atrocious rates. It is debt bondage

[Wale Lawal @WalleLawal]

The most important story you’ll read this week:

In 1967, a Nigerian-Palestinian became the first woman to be arrested by the Israeli Occupation Forces after planting explosives in a theatre frequented by Israeli soldiers.

https://t.co/42DXYVjM9k via @republicjournal

[front @sinceretheory]

This is patently false. A Black nation in the South was reality thanks to marronage & a Black-Seminole alliance, not a Soviet theory. Starting in the 17th century escaped slaves fled southeast & established maroon communities. They did more than simply get along with locals.

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[🇨🇨 @DatFollowButton]

People underrate how little many statesmen understand about how their own states function.

There are anonymous Twitter accounts more up to date on basic demographic/economic realities than people in power. Someone like Gorbachev didn't even understand how his own country worked

[🇨🇨 @DatFollowButton]

South East Asian states are extremely homogeneous compared to Sub Saharan Africa.

Some writers attribute the difference in developmental success in Indonesia compared to Nigeria down to the fact the largest ethnic group (Javanese) felt secure enough to focus on development

[Iamnoone🇧🇼✌🏿 @dbparcel71]

Typical developmentalist logic. They're going shove this down our throats, but in any case, glory to the DPRK🫡. Maybe they'll be something to learn besides proximity and patronage to Russia and China

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

They're being forced to admit the power of Juche

[Mandc 🇸🇿 @Lordpriest5]

Cheap labour is the way of life in South Africa.