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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.

You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.

You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.

You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.

You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.

You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.

Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.

[Nath! @Nathanieldaf]

By this time next year, I will be in a far better place than I am right now.

[#WeThePeople 🇰🇪🇸🇩🇨🇩🇵🇸 @RutoMustGo_254]

this is the ONLY tweet needed!!!

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

If China had been militarily weak, the US would have attacked it by now just to stop its development

And their excuse for attacking China would be to liberate their people from dictatorship, as if they give a damn

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

I don’t think people are putting enough emphasis on the disturbing part of this France–Niger matter.

France secured long-term contracts with Niger from the 1970s that kept uranium prices well below market rates, around €0.80 per kg, while global prices fluctuated much higher and sometimes exceeded €100 per kg.

They were essentially getting the uranium for next to nothing. All the while, they never thought to help Niger build even a single nuclear reactor.

[Abu Amir @SadiqMaunde]

Btw, this is a country at war. And do you know the craziest part? This project reportedly costs N2 trillion.

Tinubu’s coastal road costs N15 trillion.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

IN FULL

My conversation with @ARISEtv on the modern-day slavery going on in the Sahara in the name of migration to Europe.

https://t.co/KJtuZbzqnC

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Fisayo Soyombo, Investigative Journalist:

“My Biggest Fear Was Being Abduct£d In Liberia. People told me there was about a 30% chance that I could be abducted. I never imagined I would end up being treated like a slave by traffickers. We did everything for them. We made their beds when they woke up, and when the truck tyres got stuck in the mud, they would force us to use our bare hands to pull them out. It wasn't a request, they were v!olent about it” 🧵

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

I have finally finished reading @fisayosoyombo’s amazing account of crossing the desert into Libya, a route many unsuccessfully try to take to Europe. I believe that his wonderful account would have done more to dissuade many from embarking on this perilous journey than any public awareness campaign.

In academic qualitative research, we call this kind of research Ethnography. The researcher immerses himself deeply in the subject matter and becomes a research tool. Fisayo could easily have earned a PhD from this work if it had been planned as an academic research project. I don't think it's too late. It just needs to be complemented now by structured interviews and other research.

I am amazed by Fisayo’s physical fitness and endurance, and his capacity to bear pain and discomfort. I stan the man over and over again. 🙌🏽

[Gary Al-Smith @garyalsmith]

"I want our wealth to stay with us. The profits should benefit our people."

— 🇸🇳 Sadio Mané speaks at the launch of his ambitious $20m mango agro processing initiative in hometown of Bambali.

[Mark @Marknit0]

Absolute BULSHIT!

On the said interview, the boy was speaking about how he & his peers have to work just to put themselves through school, how they sometimes have to starve, & how they’re treated less than human at the mining company.
He was speaking up for everyone, & demanding accountability for the 37 miners who died.

A scholarship abroad was never what he was asking for.

What happens to the rest of the miners? What about the working conditions they’re subjected to? & what about justice for the miners who died?

A scholarship can change one person’s life, but it doesn’t address the system that put all of them in that situation in the first place.

[Eziokwu @Iameziokwu]

All our stars are either ambassadors for betting company or Kolaq Alagbo

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

I will win because I am insane

[Big Cuz @imohumoren]

Kurt Zouma got more criticism for kicking a cat than Lindsay Clancy for murdering her three kids and I’m not remotely exaggerating

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Omoh, Nigerian police don finally cast!! This is an entire documentary compilation of Nigerian police extortion and profiling.The IG that says we should not record the police must watch this one !! Omoh you fit bookmark and watch later cos it’s a must watch😭💔

[Lasisielenu @lasisielenu]

To the president and 36 state governors 😔

[Ororo😎 @McFlybowy]

The difference between Messi and Ronaldo fans is that Ronaldo fans love Ronaldo and ignore the other guy. They won’t force you to like him, and they won’t try to tell you the other guy isn’t good. If there’s something he can do better than Ronaldo, they’ll tell you he can.

But you see Messi fans, they hate Ronaldo more than they love Messi. Every time, they try to reduce Ronaldo’s career to something ordinary. They can even tell you Mbappe is better. There’s nothing they won’t say to diminish the guy. It screams insecurity.

[aether @bluewdrift]

Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans and the world will continue without you.

So live a little.

[B/R Football @brfootball]

23 years ago, Cristiano Ronaldo cooked Manchester United so badly in a friendly that Sir Alex Ferguson 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 to sign him.

'We're not leaving this ground until we've got that boy signed.'

The rest is history 🔴

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?