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[NABAF @nabaf91]

@fiifigaisie1 @LoggleTv Therapeutics is not limited to pharmacotherapy alone, it encompasses the contributions of a multidisciplinary team(nurses, mls, radiologist, health infomatics) collaborating together to ensure that the patient achieves the best possible outcome from the treatment provided.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@KwesiStocks @tysonphotoo On this same app if you search Kumasi on this app it will be a derogatory term.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@elon11123 @kn_georgie But you have no problem with a white man calling you “Nigerian” simply because some of your people lived near the Niger River. Also, for your information, Ghanaians called you guys “Alata” long before you were given your current name.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@Toye234 @asemota @faya_lorrrd If that is your argument, then being called a “Nigerian” should also be considered a slur, since the name was given to you by a white man who named the people living around the Niger River ; Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa, among others “Nigerians”

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@Fabulouzeli @mr_idunn @getmoneyreese7 @stunner_xoxo Sometimes I wonder what is being taught in Nigerian schools. It seems you guys have a herd mentality and struggle to think independently.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@zeinymira @stunner_xoxo @getmoneyreese7 The white man gave you the name “Nigerian” because you lived around the Niger River. So, by that same analogy, the Englishman who gave you that name should also be called a Nigerian to ensure that the term is not considered a slur.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@Fabulouzeli @mr_idunn @getmoneyreese7 @stunner_xoxo The white man gave you the name “Nigerian” because you lived around the Niger River. So, by that same analogy, the Englishman who gave you that name should also be called a Nigerian to ensure that the term is not considered a slur.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@dr_oklah @BAdageba It is more of a linguistic issue because patients can express their complaints fluently in their local languages, which you, as a medical doctor, may find difficult to understand because you were trained in a different language.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@KDagbon @Darkocitizen I think you rather need to do the reading. You can also research the origins and formation of the Kambonse military unit in Dagbon and how it came about to gain a deeper understanding of the historical context.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@KDagbon @Darkocitizen These are not fabrications. The 1744–1745 invasion of Yendi is documented not only in European accounts but also in Muslim chronicles, including the Kitab Ghunja by Al-Hajj Muhammad ibn Mustafa. Ya-Na Gariba was the king of Dagbon at the time.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@asantesem @KDagbon @Darkocitizen When engaging in discussions on this platform, support your arguments with evidence, just as @asantesem has done. Resorting to insults whenever others challenge your views is not the best way to engage in a meaningful discourse. Educate, don’t intimidate. Peace out.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@nathan__oji Sirach talk about wisdom which is personified as a woman "Given that “wisdom” is a feminine noun in both Hebrew (hokhmah) and Greek (sophia), she is personified as a woman."

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Advertising Industry's Role In Cultural Imperialism In Africa

Have you ever glanced at a commercial on local TV in Nairobi, Lagos, Durban or Kigali and found yourself questioning why the characters, scenarios, voices, and sometimes even language does not represent the African audience that the commercial is apparently aimed at?

In this groundbreaking report for The Spearhead, @Big_Mck outlines the historical and economic rationale behind the weird and unsettling tradition of representing Africans using foreign depictions in African commercial messaging, and why this is not simply a quirky, harmless phenomenon.

The report examines how the marketing communications industry across Africa and the diaspora plays a pivotal role in creating and maintaining socially harmful ideas in the public imagination including racial, cultural and ethnic inferiority complexes, and the desire to "fix" or "mitigate" some aspect of African identity by spending money on consumer offerings.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Related, yes, the old Nollywood actors were really talented - far more talented than the present ones- but they still largely promoted Western stereotypes of Africa.

They were not wholly reflecting our society; they were just amplifying specific misguided beliefs that should have otherwise been deliberately desensitised.

For instance, there is nothing like money rituals. Organ harvesters and other criminal rings were masking their criminal activities with money rituals, but (no) thanks to old Nollywood, many people in Nigeria were poisoned with that mentally that you can present human lives as a sacrifice and make money.

Another was the completely wrong idea that our ancestors’ spiritualities were evil and needed to be cleansed with the blood of Jesus. Every movie ended with “To God be the Glory” - and by God, the European God. That's colonial mentality.

If the Chinese had not deliberately extinguished the dangerous narratives about their society, they would not be the China you know today.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The "international community" condemned this.

The "international community" is concerned.

The "international community" demands accountability.

Which countries constitute the international community?

In practice: the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia.

Sometimes Japan. Sometimes South Korea.

Seven billion people in China, India, Russia, the Arab world, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa are not the "international community."

They are the subject of the international community's concern.

They are the recipients of the international community's demands.

They are the locations where the international community deploys its accountability mechanisms.

This linguistic sleight of hand, converting a specific group of powerful Western states into "the international community" as if by consensus of the entire planet, is so normalized that serious journalists use it without irony in serious publications every day.

And the Indian reader, the Nigerian reader, the Vietnamese reader encounters this phrase and has two choices:

Accept the framing, in which case they have accepted their own exclusion from the category of "international."

Or reject it, in which case they are being unreasonable, parochial, nationalist, resistant to universal norms.

The language is a trap.

And it was built so carefully that most people walk into it before they notice it's there.

[Hans senfuma @senfumahans]

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity andhappiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

[NABAF @nabaf91]

@_elvis_simons Rational male

[Ìléríolúwa @Ilerioluwakiye_]

Somewhere in your 30s you will get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a very difficult season. It's important you heal from what broke you. Find yourself again. Reconnect with Your purpose. Embrace love again. And trust that God can work everything out.....even for you. It's important that you see that journey through.

[YOM🗣️ @ThaBoyYom]

- I maintain the argument that you have more work to do with a Woman that wants you and genuinely wants the best for you, than you do with a Woman that doesn’t really want you.

I’ll explain…

When a Woman isn’t really into you, it’d be glaring that all she’s there for is for what she can get..

And that’s not so hard to tell and figure(especially if you have money as a Man).. You can easily see all she demands is financial attention.. And you already have it.. So that’s not so much work.. You’re just stupid to think you can build something genuine with that type of person.. But it’d be an easy ride ultimately for the guy.
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Now the Woman that indeed wants you and wants the best for you..

It’d require you to start doing better, living right, she’d desire your attention, she’d monitor your friendships, career choices, your decision making game has to be on-point, now you have to show up more beyond finances because she’d need your sense of judgement with so many things going on even in her own life.

So the question is..

Are you even mentally ready for a good woman that genuinely wants you ?

Are you a solid human being enough to navigate life with a super solid Woman ?

It’s simple!(and ironic too) coz it’s easier dealing with babes that are not really into you.

Why do you think simps with money almost always get to be with useless girls then get burnt later ?

The ‘loser’ in them is just trying to use money to cover up for what is required of them to be with a sensible woman that genuinely wants them.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

It is always so cute how people compare China to Africa when most of them have never sat for a single minute with a book on Chinese history, Chinese civilisation, or what China actually endured before it became what it is today. You throw the comparison out like it settles something, when all it reveals is that you have not done the most basic reading on either subject.

China lost an estimated 22 million people in the Second World War alone. Twenty-two million at a time when your grandfather was either toiling on an African plantation under colonial administration or had been conscripted by force to go fight and die for the colonial power that had dispossessed him, in a war that had nothing to do with his freedom and everything to do with European imperial rivalry. China was already a civilisational superpower navigating the violence of the twentieth century on its own terms. Africa was a continent whose men were being shipped to European frontlines to defend the sovereignty of the very nations that had stolen theirs.

And beyond the Second World War, China is a single country. One government, one central bank, one military command, one currency, one unified state with thousands of years of continuous civilisational history that was never partitioned into 54 competing administrative units by foreigners sitting around a table in Berlin deciding which river valley belonged to which empire.

Africa today has 54 countries with borders drawn in 1884 by people who had never set foot on the land they were dividing, explicitly designed to separate communities from their resources and from each other, to create units permanently too small and too fractured to consolidate the kind of power that could resist extraction. The oldest African independent states have been sovereign for barely seventy years. China has been China for millennia.

The Europeans did not partition China into 54 competing states. It did not assassinate China’s founding leaders and replace them with administrators loyal to Washington. It did not impose a currency on China controlled from a foreign treasury or force China to deposit its reserves abroad as a condition of monetary stability. All of these things happened to Africa, documented, specific, with named perpetrators who faced no consequences. So no, the comparison does not work. It has never worked and the confidence with which you make it is in precise and embarrassing proportion to how little you have read about history and global civilizations.

And the irony of all. The very thing that made China powerful, that single unified political and economic system, that capacity to speak with one voice, mobilise one market, project one foreign policy, and direct one development strategy, has been the central thesis of Pan-Africanism since its inception. That is literally all Pan-Africanism has been arguing for the past two hundred years: unity, continental solidarity, consolidated power. The consolidation of African political and economic power into something large enough and coherent enough to negotiate with the world on equal terms rather than beg it for aid and investment.

And yet here we are, with people on this continent, educated in colonial schools that taught them to see their own traditions as primitive and European fragmentation as natural, proudly parading with fifty-four different versions of the same flag and passports useful primarily for entering visa lotteries, telling you that Pan-Africanism is a waste of time. And in the very same breath pointing at China and saying: see, they did not need anyone to become a superpower.

I genuinely need a week away from this platform every time I spend a day on it. The depth of the shallow-mindedness is its own kind of exhausting.