𝕯𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖘

Vivere

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

At this stage in our historical awakening, we as Africans must immediately stop referring to the 1994 Rwandan genocide as merely an "ancient tribal war."

First of all, this narrative is historically inaccurate and criminally misleading.
The Hutus and Tutsis are not two different ethnic tribes: they belong to the exact same cultural group, speak the exact same language, inhabit the exact same geographic regions, practice the exact same spiritual religions, observe the exact same traditions, and have historically intermarried for centuries.

The historical distinction between a Hutu and a Tutsi was strictly a matter of economic class, perfectly analogous to the difference between a wealthy, cattle-owning Alhaji and a landless agricultural worker in Northern Nigeria. "Tutsi" was originally nothing more than a social title assigned to those who owned herds of cattle, held land rights, and controlled the local means of production, while "Hutu" simply referred to agrarian farmers, subsistence cultivators, and manual laborers. This class distinction was fluid rather than permanent: a wealthy Hutu who accumulated significant cattle and land through social mobility automatically underwent the cultural process of Kwihutura and became a Tutsi, while an impoverished Tutsi who lost his livestock and wealth tumbled down the social ladder to become a Hutu.

Even with these fluid class distinctions, Hutus and Tutsis lived harmoniously, coexisted peacefully, and continuously intermarried across generations.

But when German and subsequently Belgian imperialists invaded Rwanda, their colonial minds could not comprehend how a sophisticated Black African civilization could construct such an organized, highly structured, and centralized kingdom. To explain away this African achievement, they introduced the pseudoscientific "Hamitic Hypothesis."
They brainwashed the Tutsi elites into believing they were not purely Black Africans, but rather superior Cushitic descendants of Europe with lighter skin, refined features, and natural intelligence, while characterizing the Hutus as typical "Bantu Africans" who were allegedly shorter, darker, less intelligent, and suited only for backbreaking manual labor. The Belgian colonizers did not merely preach this racist theory: they constructed their entire colonial administration around it.

In 1933, the Belgians issued mandatory ethnic identity cards, permanently freezing what was once a fluid economic class into rigid, unchangeable racial categories. This myth was systematically taught in Catholic mission schools, where generations of Tutsi children were brainwashed into believing they were natural-born aristocrats destined to govern, while Hutu children were conditioned to believe they were born to be exploited laborers. Naturally, this divide-and-rule strategy perfectly served the extraction interests of the European masters, as Hutus performed unpaid forced labor in the coffee fields while Tutsis served as intermediate colonial overseers, ensuring that raw agricultural wealth flowed seamlessly to Western metropoles.

The fundamental problem for the colonizers, however, arose when the educated Tutsi elite, utilizing their Western education, began developing anti-colonial consciousness, organizing political parties, and fiercely demanding immediate national independence. Deeply threatened by this nationalist defiance, the Belgian colonial administration and the Catholic Church executed a sudden, cynical, and hypocritical geopolitical pivot. They completely abandoned the Tutsi monarchy and shifted their total support to the Hutu majority. Overnight, the colonial narrative was inverted: instead of being praised as "superior civilizers," Tutsis were suddenly re-framed as alien "foreign invaders" and feudal parasites who had brutally oppressed the "indigenous" Hutus for centuries. During the 1959 to 1962 transition to independence, Belgian military officers actively assisted Hutu political elites in seizing power, orchestrating widespread political violence, burning Tutsi villages, and driving hundreds of thousands of Tutsis into permanent exile.

For nearly 30 years, these Tutsi refugees languished in border camps across Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zaire (now the DRC). In the early 1980s, young Tutsi refugees who grew up in Ugandan camps, most notably Fred Rwigyema and Paul Kagame, joined the National Resistance Army (NRA) rebel movement led by Yoweri Museveni. They gained extensive, high-level combat experience, intelligence training, and tactical mastery while helping Museveni overthrow the Ugandan government and capture power in 1986. Leveraging these formidable military skills, these seasoned exile fighters formed their own revolutionary movement in 1987: the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In October 1990, the RPF launched a highly organized, full-scale military invasion into northern Rwanda from Uganda to demand their non-negotiable right of return, political representation, and an end to state-sponsored discrimination.

At this critical juncture, while Belgium had originally planted the seeds of division, French imperialism moved aggressively into the center of the picture. The French government, under François Mitterrand, viewed the English-speaking, Uganda-backed RPF as a dangerous "Anglo-Saxon" geopolitical conspiracy designed to strip France of its neocolonial sphere of influence in Francophone.
French officials viewed Juvénal Habyarimana's dictatorial Hutu regime as a vital, submissive client state that had to be defended at all costs. To this end, the French-backed government in Kigali launched a massive, state-directed propaganda campaign, labeling the invading RPF not as freedom fighters coming to end Western imperialism, but as alien invaders, while branding all Tutsis living inside Rwanda as a treacherous "fifth column" and a security threat that had to be eliminated.

But state propaganda alone was not enough to execute a mass slaughter. French military officers, intelligence advisers, and specialized troops directly armed, equipped, and trained the notorious Interahamwe death-squad militias. Between 1990 and 1994, the French government poured millions of dollars in military aid, heavy artillery, intelligence telemetry, and endless shipments of ammunition into the Rwandan military, actively enabling the regime to organize, prepare, and execute the 1994 genocide while attempting to stall the advancing RPF.

So, it was absolutely never an "ancient tribal war." That dishonest, racist narrative was deliberately constructed by European powers and American diplomats as a cynical geopolitical weapon to evade international law.
Under Article 1 of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, all signatory nations (including the US, France, Great Britain, and Belgium) are strictly, legally obligated to intervene, deploy troops, and spend resources to stop a genocide the moment it is officially recognized as such. If Western powers had officially acknowledged the 1994 slaughter as a state-organized, French-backed genocide, they would have been legally compelled to intervene, risk their own soldiers' lives, and expose their own complicity. To escape this binding legal obligation, Western governments, the US State Department, and the United Nations executed a masterclass in bureaucratic gaslighting. The US State Department explicitly instructed its diplomats, press secretaries, and spokespeople in 1994 to avoid using the word "genocide" on the record, demanding they use sanitized phrases like "acts of genocide," "ethnic clashes," or "widespread civil violence." Western media outlets simultaneously framed the systematic, state-executed slaughter of over 800,000 human beings as an "uncontrollable explosion of primitive, tribal hatreds" or a chaotic, senseless African civil war.

In mid-July 1994, the French-backed Hutu regime was decisively defeated, and the capital city of Kigali was captured by Paul Kagame's disciplined RPF forces. Upon taking power, the new RPF government immediately, permanently abolished the colonial ethnic identity cards and outlawed all public categorization by "Hutu," "Tutsi," or "Twa." Under strict new laws, weaponizing ethnic divisionism or publicly framing political, economic, or social issues around tribal identities was made strictly illegal. Under the visionary and institutionalized leadership of Paul Kagame, Rwanda completely rebuilt its shattered infrastructure, eradicated administrative corruption, revolutionized public healthcare, modernized its cities, and transformed itself into one of Africa's fastest-growing economies, cleanest societies, and safest, most technologically sovereign nations.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Three years ago, angry French protesters famously besieged and stormed the Paris headquarters of BlackRock because they deeply understood a fundamental truth: when a government systematically starts dismantling public social welfare safety nets, stripping pensions, and defunding state healthcare, they are directly pushing everyday citizens toward private pension funds, commercial insurance policies, and individual retirement investments. This is a massive multi-trillion-dollar market sector where BlackRock reigns as the supreme and undisputed global king.

Today, BlackRock is quietly moving its tentacles into Nigeria following the systematic privatization, auctioning, and deregulation of state-owned industries, infrastructure assets, and energy sectors.
This grand fire sale was largely engineered by the Structural Adjustment Programmes and Policy Support Instruments dictated by the IMF and the World Bank: two imperial financial institutions that constantly interact, consult, and coordinate their policy papers with BlackRock.

The strategic timing of BlackRock's entry into Nigeria ceases to be an accident the second you actually understand how global capital operates across the Global South. They do not move in with their investment portfolios, manufacturing machinery, or industrial supply chains when a developing economy is genuinely booming, local factories are expanding, and high-paying jobs are being created. They move in when the nation is fully drenched in crippling sovereign debt, facing hyperinflation, suffering from currency devaluations, and suffocating under foreign debt-servicing ratios.

Under these exact, desperate conditions, public state-owned industries, oil blocks, deepwater ports, and mineral mines that are naturally worth hundreds of billions of dollars can be effortlessly bought by foreign asset managers for pennies on the dollar, exactly as we witnessed during the catastrophic shock-therapy privatizations in Russia (1992-1996), Mexico (1994), Thailand (1997), Indonesia (1997), and Argentina (2001 and 2025).

When you see this pattern, you begin to clearly understand why the structural adjustment programmes attached to these loans are deliberately engineered this way. Systematically defunding public education and healthcare guarantees mass illiteracy, a diseased workforce, a lack of technical innovation, and an absence of local research. Meanwhile, the floating and devaluation of local currencies, combined with strict "fiscal discipline" such as the mass downsizing of the public sector, wage freezes, and the total removal of fuel and energy subsidies, mathematically guarantees that local manufacturing industries will never emerge or remain profitable. Existing domestic factories will continuously struggle to survive, as expensive overhead costs, high interest rates, and collapsed consumer purchasing power guarantee their total ruin.

These brutal austerity measures attached to these loans are precision-guided financial missiles specifically designed to soften up the national terrain before the real economic hitmen from BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and foreign private equity cartels move in to asset-strip the state to the bone.

This also perfectly explains why systemic state corruption never actually lowers a country's sovereign credit ratings, so long as the local comprador capitalist class is fully, obediently implementing the core tenets of the Washington Consensus.
This is why your President is freely allowed to build mansions for judges, buy luxurious private jets, engage in wanton medical tourism overseas, buy armored luxury SUVs, grant multi-billion-Naira tax waivers to cronies, and host extravagant foreign banquets, without ever facing a single threat, sanction, or public condemnation from the global financial network. But the very second a government starts using crude oil revenues to build world-class public hospitals, construct free universities, and improve citizen welfare, Western central bankers immediately label it "fiscal indiscipline." The moment a state introduces price subsidies, agricultural supports, or universal social safety nets for its struggling citizens, international credit agencies begin to salivate with rage and loudly condemn it as "institutional waste" and "market distortion."

Everyday Nigerians desperately need to wake up, open their eyes, and read the clear handwriting on the wall. What you are witnessing right now in real timez such as the planned public listing and privatization of NNPC, the controversial state policing bill, Aliko Dangote's strategic alignment with BlackRock, electricity tariff hikes, water privatization bills, tax-heavy fiscal reforms, and fuel subsidy removals, are not isolated, accidental, or harmless macroeconomic events. These politicians and central bankers are not merely incompetent, as cash-and-carry media houses are commanding you to believe.
Every single thing happening right now is completely, structurally linked, reflecting a sovereign state being systematically asset-stripped to the absolute bone. The inevitable endgame of this corporate invasion will be a fully financialized neocolonial plantation where 200 million citizens are reduced to modern serfs paying daily tribute to Western asset managers.

[Nirvana @illusorynirvana]

@R_eq_uin Outrage is justified. But performative online outrage is absolutely nothing. It is long overdue that we organize.

So many pan-africanists/nationalists online are just talkers and cowards like the rest. Well, I guess an informed coward is better than a retarded coward.

[𝕯𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖘 @user_dlg]

@blessed_gaga Which group

[Favour Y. @FavourYusuf1]

This is the thinking process of the average Nigerian elite.

Never mind that this same person boasted about making 100m from just one of his businesses on here,

But more people going into kuli-kuli, and Akara is apparently a good thing.

I'll tell you why.

The person doing Kuli-kuli business will be grateful when you give then 20k, so much so that you can trample on them and their rights and you will be grateful.

But if more people have upward mobility, then they will demand better.

In other words, it is in the best interest of the elite to keep the masses stuck with agbado and akara.

It is well.

[Leonidas and the 300 Agberos @crownprinceay]

@DavidHundeyin If you scratch the surface of imperialist schemes in Africa,you will be more Pan African than David.

[Isaac O. @theisaacola]

Nigeria sells raw cocoa at $8,000 a tonne. Processed into butter it earns $48,000. Made into chocolate it earns $240,000. 30 times the money, yet Nigeria is still choosing $8,000.

[Pauline Consults @Pauline_Consult]

@Mrbankstips I'll do you one better;
You miss a lot of opportunities to make money when you don’t have money.

[𝕯𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖘 @user_dlg]

@itsolelehmann I'm gonna bookmark this

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Bookmarking tweets and not going back to them has become an epidemic

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"You're oddly obsessed with America."

I am "obsessed" with America the way a person downstream is obsessed with the factory upstream.

You don't have to be American to be affected by American foreign policy.

You don't have to be American to live in a country where American-backed forces staged a coup.

You don't have to be American to have a family member who died in a war America funded.

You don't have to be American to watch your country's resources flow outward under trade agreements written in Washington.

"Not American therefore irrelevant" is the most perfectly self-sealing logic empire ever produced.

The people most affected by American power are, almost by definition, not American.

And you'd like them to stay quiet about it.

Noted.

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Black President @niiquaye_djani]

@SokoAnalyst Smallholder farmers in Africa!

At the rate everyone in the West wants to eat healthy, big corporations will start taking over African arable farmland.

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

It’s the same reason the Nigerian political system, as it exists today, will never produce a truly great leader.

I’ve seen many of the young people seeking office nowadays, some of them are even my friends, and I can say unequivocally that most of them are idiots. All they have is money. They don’t read, they don’t understand real economics or genuine system-building, and their reasons for going into politics are completely misguided.

It’s mostly rich kids, or people who made money somewhere and suddenly think they should go into politics, alongside clueless individuals with no real understanding of governance. They don’t live lives of service; they enjoy being served far more than they understand or value serving others.

And I often ask myself: where are they even supposed to get the ideas or understanding necessary for good governance? Any of them with even a small trace of sanity or competence will eventually be overwhelmed by the stupidity of the system itself.

People with powerful minds and genuine vision will eventually have to take this country back from idiots.

If you compare the political systems of China and Nigeria side by side, you’ll immediately understand why they produce different outcomes.

In China, you don’t necessarily need money to enter politics. You are screened before entering the party: first for intelligence, then for humility, then for ideological alignment, and finally for performance.

In Nigeria, the nomination forms for major parties already cost millions of naira. That alone excludes 90% of the population. Yet they still call it democracy while insisting China is not democratic. After that, all you really need is loyalty to your political godfather and a willingness to obey “daddy” even when his decisions harm the people. Daddy’s interests come before everything else.

And the idiotic Nigerian political juggernauts who analyze politics on this app behave as though this is a normal system. They glorify it. They glamorize it.

Don’t worry. The day of reckoning will come, when the people finally rid themselves of many of these idiots.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.

The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.

At. All.

The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.

So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.

Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.

That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.

If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.

Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.

Them no really send any part of your papa at all.

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

women aren’t drawn to intelligence the way they like to pretend. honestly, most people don’t even like intelligent men. and the intelligent man himself, if he’s actually aware, won’t worship his own mind either. because intelligence isn’t something sacred to be worshipped, it’s just a tool. it’s meant to be used, not admired. to serve your life, maybe even others, not to sit there and expect validation for existing. people don’t admire intelligence as much as they claim and they don't need to and they are right. they envy it, resent it, or feel threatened by it. it creates distance more than attraction. and intelligence doesn’t earn you love. it just shows you things you might’ve been better off not seeing.

[𝕯𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖘 @user_dlg]

@Its_ereko TSMC doesn't belong to China