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I recently sent in the manuscript for publication and yesterday, the abstract got selected for a virtual presentation at a conference in Nairobi!!😭🥹🥹
In year one??!??!!!🤭😭🙏
I'm a first-year medical student in Nigeria running a solo systematic review on AI-assisted cardiovascular risk prediction in Sub-Saharan Africa.
No supervisor. No institutional database access. Phone only.
Here's what that actually looks like. 🧵
I recently sent in the manuscript for publication and yesterday, the abstract got selected for a virtual presentation at a conference in Nairobi!!😭🥹🥹
In year one??!??!!!🤭😭🙏
I'm a first-year medical student in Nigeria running a solo systematic review on AI-assisted cardiovascular risk prediction in Sub-Saharan Africa.
No supervisor. No institutional database access. Phone only.
Here's what that actually looks like. 🧵
As an African writer, you really need to learn the act of telling people fuck you. Decency will not bring you respect anyway, so why do you want to bow down to people who will never respect you?
Сейчас читаю Конфуция, и честно для меня это какой то бред. Меня реально не зацепила ни одна идея или фраза, как он стал великим философом??? Кто нибудь в этом разбирается
To speak against poor governance in Nigeria, be ready to fight with Nigerians too. It’s tiring.
Almost like 70% of the citizens love their life the way it is.
The poverty of Africa is one of the most successful lies ever told.
Not because Africa has no poverty. It does. The poverty is real and it kills real people every day.
But the story of why, that is the lie.
The story says: underdevelopment. Corruption. Tribalism. Poor institutions. A continent that simply never found its footing.
The story does not say: 400 years of slave trade that forcibly removed somewhere between 12 and 20 million people, the young, the strong, the able, from the continent’s productive capacity.
The story does not say: colonialism that reorganized entire economies to produce raw materials for European industry and banned the development of local manufacturing.
The story does not say: the debt architecture of the post-independence era, which ensured that countries that escaped political colonialism immediately entered financial colonialism, with IMF conditions attached that dismantled the public institutions the colonizers had refused to build in the first place.
Africa is not underdeveloped.
Africa is precisely as developed as centuries of deliberate extraction were designed to leave it.
That is not misfortune.
That is a policy outcome.