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@amadaoffor@ola_mikail No. You have not. If you have, you would never make such post or comment. Dare I ask you, what qualifies as Nigerian literature to uou?
Nick, refugees fleeing a burning building don't endorse the arson.
"They moved here" has never been a serious argument.
People move toward safety and opportunity the same way water moves downhill.
It tells you about the gradient, not about the justice of how the gradient was created.
The gradient, in this case, was created by centuries of resource extraction, deliberate underdevelopment, and military intervention that made the places people are leaving significantly worse and the places they're arriving significantly richer.
They're not endorsing the system.
They're surviving it.
@Ahmypeace@UgochukwuCFR Okay. Thank you. I thought you were reviewing it from your own experience of using their service. But this is understandable. Thanks.
One thing I I have learned is that a lot of Nigerians don’t tie their struggles to the dysfunctional system in Nigeria, they think it’s the devil or something
The hardest thing to explain to someone inside the imperial consensus is the concept of structural violence.
They understand individual violence.
One person harms another person.
There is a perpetrator and a victim and a clear causal chain.
What they cannot see, what the entire educational and media apparatus has been carefully designed to prevent them from seeing, is the violence that happens when a system is arranged so that certain people predictably die, predictably suffer, predictably lose, not because any individual decided to harm them specifically but because the overall arrangement of power requires their subordination.
The people of the Global South do not die of poverty because individual Americans wish them dead.
They die because the international economic architecture, the terms of trade, the debt structures, the conditions attached to IMF loans, the intellectual property regimes that prevent technology transfer, the agricultural subsidies that undercut developing world farmers, is arranged, in aggregate, in a way that concentrates wealth in already wealthy countries and extracts it from already poor ones.
And that architecture was designed.
It was negotiated.
It was implemented by specific people in specific rooms making specific decisions about who would benefit and who would not.
This is violence.
It does not look like violence because no one is pulling a trigger.
But the deaths it produces are just as dead.
And when you try to explain this to someone whose entire identity rests on the belief that what they have they earned, and what others lack they failed to achieve, you are not making a political argument.
You are dismantling the story that makes their life make sense.
They will not thank you for it.
They will defend against it with everything they have.
Because the alternative, accepting that their comfort is downstream of other people's dispossession, is not a policy position.
It is an identity catastrophe.
The longer you delay building the life you actually want, the more likely you are to normalize a weaker substitute. Drift hardens into identity faster than people realize.
Many people think you can only shop from China using Alibaba or AliExpress… but that’s not true.
These are alternative sourcing websites from China:
1. Industrial equipment
https:// www.made-in-china. com
2. Jewelry & accessories
https://www. gooddiy. com
3. Small goods (non-bulk items)
https://www.yiwugo. com
4. Beauty products & cosmetics
https://www.nala. com. cn
5. Women’s shoes
https://www.go2. cn
6. Toys & kids items
https://www.ctoy. cn
7. Children’s clothing
https://www.3e3e. cn
8. Small batch / wholesale products
https://www.dhgate. com
9. Electronics & gadgets
https://www.globalsources. com
10. Fashion (affordable clothing & accessories)
https://www.zaful. com