Didi Mukhtar @didimukhtar - Twitter Profile

about 3 years ago

I might not have everything I want figured out, but I 100 % know what I do not want, I can smell it from miles off, and I make no compromises.

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David Hundeyin

@DavidHundeyin

12 months ago

A country of 200 million people has to think of itself as big and important enough to dictate its own internal culture. Nigerians should ask themselves how easy it is to use American money to modify and subvert Bangladeshi or Brazilian or Indonesian or Pakistani culture. How easy is it for outside influence wearing an Indonesian face to convince Indonesians to go from "socially conservative" to "publicly tweet about joining polycule" in the space of just over a decade? How easy is it to convince Brazilians going through an economic boom to vote against their own interests and then obliterate 60% of their own GDP in 10 years for no reason at all? How easy is it to convince Pakistanis to see China or Russia as some sort of enemy, rather than valuable economic and geopolitical allies? Those are our contemporaries globally, and while they are by no means well-run countries, they at least have the basic means to defend not just the lives of their people, but also their cultural essence. There are a lot of things I hate and wish to change about Nigerian culture, but I do not want 'The Nigerian' to disappear from the earth, the way the Mayans or Aztecs have disappeared. (Their descendants still exist and carry their faces and their DNA, but the culture has been completely lost and forgotten, and only exists in museums and university courses now.) I don't want that for Nigeria. I think we deserve to exist and define ourselves independently on this planet. But because Nigerians worship money over everything and anything else in the universe, we are being socially engineered like rats in a lab experiment by anyone who has the money to do it. Our kids are learning British and American accents in schools in Lagos and Abuja, in addition to British and American syllabi/exams. Our building practises in our 34 degrees Celsius climate now mirror building practises of places where the ground freezes solid for 4 months every year. Our smartest people are not looking to solve our problems and make money in the process, but to skip straight to making money abstractly without solving any actual problem, because that is what American messaging has pushed into our heads 24/7 for well over a decade now - MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!!! We are not in control of this moster we are riding and if we don't dismount and touch grass very soon, we are going to end up inside its stomach. I can't think of any other example of a country of 200 million+ people that has been socially engineered into believing in its own unimportance, but we may well become a reference point in History and Anthropology textbooks if we don't touch that grass very soon.

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