Americans will inflict untold death and suffering on you then turn around to tell you your tolerance for violence is higher than theirs. You can't make this up.
@AShatlaa@Bilalfnd2 It’s more of a cultural tolerance for violence that the west doesn’t feel like engaging with. Our tolerance for violence is very very low. Yours is clearly extremely high. Sure the power dynamic dictates where the violence is, but we don’t hate as specifically as Arabs do.
If African producers of coltan, uranium, cobalt, copper and other strategic minerals collectively negotiated the terms under which those resources reached global markets, Africa would be in a dramatically stronger economic position.
The fragmentation of 55 states is a feature of the current system, not a bug. It allows multinational corporations and foreign powers to negotiate with individual governments, play one country against another, secure concessions and export raw materials cheaply.
A unified African market representing nearly 1.5 billion people could coordinate mineral policy, insist on domestic processing and value addition, build continental supply chains and bargain collectively with the US, China, Europe and everyone else.
Africa has the resources. What it lacks is collective leverage over how those resources enter the world economy.
Sachs is 100% correct, industrialization cannot be attempted 55 separate times while every country negotiates alone against powers with vastly greater financial and political leverage. China’s success at state led industrialization is why even tier 3 and tier 4 cities are more developed than many Western capitals.
@R_eq_uin ...and it needs to start with the complete dismantling of the backdoor installed in our general consciousness that is pentecostalism and wahhabi islam.
Where are those ones who were asking, "Where should they have gotten funding from"?
"Oh, it's business"...
Na our communual resources dey go sha.
You people don't read, don't learn, don't think.
Everything is about money.
You go hear word!
In one breath the Nigerian Christian will proclaim;
I shall be the head, not the tail.
In the next breath;
Yes, I am inferior to the White Man.
It is quite easy to figure out what he/she really believes.
@Omawyn@dee_elleea Nah, don't believe this. We are. We just don't know where to put it, because we are uneducated. We're dealing with a case of impotent rage.
In 100 years, when the story of how Nigeria was destroyed in the 21st century is told, there will be barely a mention of how the United States created a terror group that ended up operating in Nigeria, used the presence of that group as a pretext to invade, with the help of a president who was once part of a criminal gang in the US, and proceeded to appropriate the country’s mineral development, minerals that power the future of the global economy. All that will be recorded is that Nigerian leaders were corrupt individuals who could not govern and looted everything in sight.
This is exactly how the stories of the 18th and 19th centuries are told today, riddled with accounts of how African chiefs sold their own subjects into slavery, with no mention of how the slave trade became an industry in the first place, who built the trading infrastructure, who sponsored conflicts so that people could be captured and sold, and what happened to those who refused to participate in this forced commercial arrangement.
This is why it is important that we keep exposing the Western extractive structure and documenting it. A one-sided story must not be told in the future.
@zeroismyname_@jayhemz Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the the NSA's mass surveillance of the American people. Because of this he had to run and seek asylum in Russia. From Russia he continues to speak up against the surveillance state. Is he a grifter? Did he need to die in the US to be valid?
@zeroismyname_@jayhemz Say I led a revolution that ultimately failed and was forced into exile. Then from my place of exile I continued my revolutionary campaign using mass media available to me. Am I a grifter? Do I need to die to be useful to the revolution?
@zeroismyname_@jayhemz The greatest generals have been known to keep capacble officers away from the front lines because they're more valuable alive than dead. DH cannot do the important work of educating Nigerians from detention. Bro has no argument and this whole thing reeks of a smear campaign.