When a Western country loses manufacturing jobs to cheaper labor overseas, it is called a crisis. A betrayal. A national emergency deserving political response, trade protection, economic intervention.
When a Global South country loses economic sovereignty to Western financial institutions, it is called structural adjustment. Reform. The necessary medicine of the market. The responsible path toward development.
Same process. Different direction.
When it hurts them: injustice.
When it hurts you: efficiency.
The moral framework didn't produce the economic system.
The economic system produced the moral framework.
The IMF killed Nigeria’s industrial drive & called it structural adjustment for the good of Nigeria. Industries closed, Nigerian exports vanished, everything is now imported. US manufacturers shipped their jobs out to exploit cheap labor, they’ve been bitching & whining about how
Disgusting story of a sickening rape gang. Yet it’s receiving hardly any attention from those who’ve led (rightful) outrage over the grooming rape gang scandal. I wonder why?
This man murdered his pregnant wife then strangled both his daughters and threw them in a water tank. This is the picture they use when they speak about him. Privilege is really wild to me.
A Las Vegas nurse practitioner bought a $594,000 Ferrari and a $4.6 million beach resort in the Philippines while allegedly running a $906 million fraud scheme that targeted elderly hospice patients for unneeded procedures.
Marizel Yukee has been indicted in the biggest health care fraud takedown in US history.
Feds seized 8 cars, $467K cash, and several Nevada properties — including a house on (no joke) Money Street in Pahrump.
British WHlTE was arrested in Thailand 🇹🇭 over horrific acid attack on a female Thai caretaker
Indians / Black people get hate just for existing meanwhile WHlTE people are throwing acid with almost no outrage on twitter, WHlTE PRIVILEGE
Yes! That’s my wife and daughter getting ready for the 6 a.m. Mass. I had just finished getting dressing and was sitting on the bed, waiting for them, when I captured the moment.
I have a couple of sketches of them getting ready in front of the mirror, but this particular one deserved to be painted.
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Zain Africa Challenge
Milo Last Kid Standing
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Project Fame West Africa
Malta Guinness Street Dance
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
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The era that fought to reward intelligence and talent, and to make smart people famous.
Then Olodo Nation attacked, led by a men who either forged certificates or had no certificate at all.
And their Olodominions said “even if he presents a NEPA bill I will vote him”.
Egyptian hieroglyphics. 3200 BC. No Europeans in sight.
Meroitic script, developed by the Kushite kingdom in present day Sudan. 300 BC. Still being deciphered by scholars today.
Ge’ez, the writing system of Ethiopia and Eritrea. 4th century BC. Still in active use.
Nsibidi, an indigenous script developed by peoples in present day Nigeria and Cameroon. No outside contact. No European involvement.
Vai script, created entirely by Vai people in present day Liberia in the 1830s. Western linguists arrived and found a complete syllabary already functioning without them.
Africa had writing before most of Europe had an alphabet.
Bikini'd 13yo face BROKEN by massive topless men smashing her to bleeding pulp for accidentally sitting in their pool chair
'SICKENING he piles in without word. How grown man act like that to anyone let alone child?' — witness
Sometimes when the UK gets a few days of serious heat & it starts becoming a public safety issue, I think about how deliberate slavery & colonialism in Africa really were.
Imagine leaving your cold island, entering that heat, sleeping badly in the jungle while mosquitoes are eating you alive, watching people around you get sick from fever & still deciding that the next expedition must continue b/c there was labour, land & wealth to extract.
Nobody endured that by mistake. It was driven by something more than just glory and Empire. It's something deeper & more cruel, something that doesn't just die with "modernisation".
BREAKING: 7 African countries have so far qualified for the knockout stage of the World Cup:
- Senegal
- Cabo Verde
- Ghana
- South Africa
- Morocco
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Egypt