Justine Chima

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Of course, evil has no mercy. This is exactly why none of the endless human rights reports coming out of places like Palestine, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo have ever been able to halt the shipment of Western munitions to these regions. These reports have never stopped multinational corporations from flying military-grade helicopters into active war zones to airlift solid minerals extracted from the very communities where the indigenous populations have been violently sacked and reduced to refugees.

Evil has no mercy, and that is why none of the various public demonstrations at embassies, diplomatic petitions, or United Nations treaty resolutions were ever successful in ending chattel slavery or the brutal colonization of the African continent. Even when symbolic flag independence was finally achieved, the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity simply found a way to weaponize the existing state institutions they left behind. They used these colonial structures as a launchpad for a neo-colonial system that ensures Africa remains at the absolute bottom of global affairs, with her resources continuously extracted to feed the engine of global capitalism.

This is why Africans and the rest of the Global South must stop writing letters to Western embassies in the naive hope that the very empires benefiting from their tears will voluntarily sacrifice their material comfort for global justice. This will never happen. The only way to put an end to this imperialism is to build genuine leverage. We must either develop enough hard power, building advanced cruise missile programs, integrated air defense systems, and formidable military deterrence to the point that our adversaries realize the cost of attacking and extracting from us far outweighs the value of the resources they seek to steal.

Alternatively, and simultaneously, we must engage in a massive, grassroots political education campaign to awaken our people. We must help them clearly identify who our true enemies are and understand why a structural revolution is an absolute necessity. We must build a fully united, ideologically coherent, and autonomous bloc capable of collectively resisting the foreign-backed coups, economic blockades, and relentless sabotage of our political systems.

Until we achieve this level of military deterrence and ideological sovereignty, any talk about the genuine growth and development of the African continent is nothing but a delusion.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I was tagged in this but it appears we have each other mutually blocked.

You will never escape this stupid cycle if you distill men's style into a set of memorizable rules. "Wear slim pants." "Wear baggy pants." "Wear a henley." "Wear black with brown." 🧵

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@Dareyourmaker @OtitoNosike I was talking about intelligence in the general sense while I think you might be mixing up knowledge and intelligence.

Reading a lot can increase knowledge and develop certain cognitive abilities. Intelligence is not simply the amount of information you’ve accumulated.

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@Tottipedia @Shadaya_Knight So at the end of the day it’s about who brings more revenue?

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@Dareyourmaker @OtitoNosike I think intelligence is less about what you consume and more about what you can do with it.

But consuming information ≠ intelligence.

Understanding, questioning, connecting and applying it is where intelligence starts.

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@Dareyourmaker @OtitoNosike Short answer: NO.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@Ask_samuel_ Still working on my presentation when I saw this tweet.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

We were so rich in art that it lived on our doors and windows, carved into the very things we touched every day. Now we chase plain, minimalist furniture because we’re desperate to fit in.

Why did “modern” have to mean “Western” to us?

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@tjayboomin @bafrekauiux The way i laughed hard 🤣🤣🤣

[ignas xv 🇹🇿 @ignasxv]

A lot of us imagine the future of Africa as a westernized version of its former self.

But i think that’s bullshit!

We can take inspiration from great things across the world without losing our heritage!!

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@BEASTMO90001125 I have lived in both cities and I can confirm that this is true.

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

Go to Paris. Go to a clothing-boutique-café that also has locations in New York and LA. Order a matcha that's indistinguishable from what you drink every day back home. Fuck it, order two. Post about it like you just discovered a hole in the wall hidden gem in Sarajevo or Shibuya

[Uzumaki Tony @thearsfam97]

She explains it so perfectly.

The market will crash on itself if we aren't careful.

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@akinkunmi @_MarkusAudu Took the word right out of my mouth 🤣

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

iPhone XR to iPhone 17, Nigeria's crisis of self-esteem

#ICYMI From iPhone 17 replicas to car model “upgrades,” Nigeria's infamous "I-better-pass-my-neighbour" cultural meme has graduated from simple nuisance to driver of real economic jeopardy.

Fuelled by a debilitating societal inferiority complex and high levels of extreme poverty, a new trend of disturbingly obsessive brand awareness has created a booming "insecurity economy," characterised by after-market smartphone design modification, "car model upgrade" body kit installation, Indian temple hair importation, and many other dodgy activities built exclusively around exploiting the insecurities of 230 million poor people.

Already a struggling, sub-industrialised economy with IMF-imposed economic austerity, Nigeria has now become an economic opportunity for unscrupulous suppliers in industrialised countries, as Nigerians haemorrhage their money on a desperate quest to signal imaginary status to one another.

It’s time for a cultural shift. Scientific education, economic empowerment and spiritual awakening must displace obsessive, spiritually bankrupt, low-level consumerism. If this will be Africa's century, the continent needs its most populous country to break free from this psychological trap.

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@viralkelechi Not HULK though…

[Justine Chima @JustineChima]

@LadyDonli Ah you don’t know what you did for me, been looking for a store to buy Nigeria food stuff in Paris.

[UEFA @UEFA]

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[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is precisely the tragic reality that W.E.B. Du Bois painfully discovered during the final stages of his intellectual life. The Black individuals who somehow manage to accumulate personal wealth, corporate power, and elite social status do not . . 1/n