It appears to me that many Nigerians listen to others speak about the danger we are in due to global CO2 emissions, and hear ‘Nigeria should tie their industrial hands behind their backs’. My brother in Christ, Africa as a whole accounts for less than 5% of global emissions.
Nothing to see here. Just the so-called first world problems destroying the third world. 40/45 streets in a community claimed by the rising sea level. Education constantly disrupted. Even the graves of their dead are now beyond the coast. And global CO2 levels are STILL rising.
@Igbani27243 What is the process that can bring such a person to power that does not go through the transformation of our comatose ‘public mind’? Who, if not the Nigerian masses, will put such a person in power? Imperial powers and money certainly can’t, & will in fact want that person dead.
@Igbani27243 I would wager that the sort of leader Nigeria needs can only keep their head on their shoulders if the Nigerian masses are mobilized behind them because they can only survive if the oppressors understand that murder will further radicalise the movement, not decapitate it.
@Igbani27243 Who will put such a person in power? And why would the 95% who disagree because they misunderstand not simple mobilize against such a government? I have this question for ‘democracy is a waste of time’ analysis 2. HOW do you get a people’s government without the people’s consent?
THEM as a class. How do we get us to understand this point, that we cannot have any exceptions for our favourite elite individual because they pose a threat to our collective wellbeing as a class? The class war is being waged. It’s too heartbreaking that we’re not in formation.
That your master isn’t obliterating you while you’re being obedient, does not mean you’re not in chains. And these chains are profitable for our local elites. They get their cut and pocket the gains of imperial collaboration. To win our sovereignty, we must bulldoze through THEM.
Nigeria is a resource outpost under the global capitalist system. Our politicians are policy slaves to the IMF and World Bank.
Making Nigeria economically sovereign will attract us the same sort of sanctions they used to strangle Venezuela’s economy. They want us their subjects.
How do we convert public dissent against the government into a more holistic understanding of the system? Yes, there’s a reason things has been bad since 19kpiridim. And a reason why things get worse under every subsequent government. The system is working as it is meant to work.
it's not "state intervention" or "strategic" either, it was state-led, owned and controlled rather and operated for the benefit and interests of the working class over a bourgeois class
“the women and men of our society are all victims of imperialist oppression and domination. that is why they wage the same battle. the revolution and women’s liberation go together. women hold up the other half of the sky.”
— thomas sankara, 1983-87
For a country with women at almost the half of its population, the percentage of women who are actively in elected political positions is very disappointing!
#WhereAreTheWomen
doctor, lawyer, accountant, it feels like a betrayal of an ideal that only existed in their heads. That's not concern for the Black community. That's entitlement dressed up as principle.