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#EndSARS

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@perfectwurld @instablog9ja 😂😂😂
I buy PS1 that year. My papa nearly kpai me.

[a @wayseir]

@MzOyinmixmola Lol

[a @wayseir]

@gbomirecodri @Abdull_tjay Myles Lewis Skelly

[a @wayseir]

@Frankblizz6 @UTDTrey And you say they're not fantastic?

[a @wayseir]

@MzOyinmixmola Pẹ̀lẹ́ my dear.

[a @wayseir]

@Bella_Frigger @YusufAjagbe @_kobbyphocus He got a yellow but not for this foul.

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

I will elaborate

Every time something arrives in Africa either free or priced way below what it costs elsewhere, ask what’s being extracted in place of money. It’s rarely charity, it’s a different currency.

Facebook’s Free Basics is the cleanest tech example. Launched as “free internet” across more than 30 African countries, it was actually a curated slice of the web with Facebook at the center.

India banned it in 2016 over net neutrality concerns. Researchers in Ghana found the app harvested browsing behavior and phone numbers while offering little locally relevant content (https://t.co/RJpPZuaxmO).

You weren’t getting internet access, you were becoming a data source for a company that sells attention to advertisers.

Healthcare has its own version, and it’s often worse because the stakes are life and death.

In 1996, Pfizer ran a trial of an unapproved antibiotic, Trovan, on children during a meningitis outbreak in Kano, Nigeria, instead of the proven treatment being used next door by Doctors Without Borders.

Eleven children died, others were left blind, paralyzed, or deaf. Pfizer denied wrongdoing but settled with Kano State for 75 million dollars in 2009 (https://t.co/Uk8PK3iaLB).

It’s a textbook case of a population treated as a testing ground because informed consent and price were both cheaper there.

More broadly, the WHO has found that a large share of the world’s reported substandard and falsified medicines end up in Africa, roughly 42 percent of reported cases, driving anti-microbial resistance and an estimated 116,000 extra malaria deaths a year in sub-Saharan Africa alone from fake or weak antimalarials (https://t.co/Wo3pb4IiJX).

The “cheap medicine” isn’t cheap, it’s just failing quietly, in bodies that have less recourse.

Same pattern with the “affordable” smartphones flooding African markets. Brands undercutting global prices by huge margins have been found shipping devices with preinstalled adware and malware baked in before the box is even opened, generating ad revenue from users who never agreed to it and can’t remove it.

Same pattern with pay-as-you-go solar kits like M-KOPA. The hardware looks affordable upfront, but it’s locked with firmware that disables the unit if you miss a payment. You don’t own the panel, you’re renting it indefinitely, and the company holds the kill switch.

Same pattern with digital lending apps like OKash, Branch, and Tala, which offer instant loans with almost no paperwork. The catch is in the permissions, contacts, SMS, sometimes location, harvested and in documented cases used to pressure or shame borrowers into repayment.

Same pattern with secondhand clothing exports. What looks like a cheap deal is often unsellable Western overstock, offloaded in volumes now overwhelming landfills and waterways in places like Ghana’s Kantamanto market.

None of this means every affordable product is a trap. It means the question is always worth asking, if the price doesn’t match the cost of making the thing, something else is covering the gap. Sometimes it’s your data, sometimes it’s your health, sometimes it’s your autonomy. Find out which one before you assume you got a good deal.

Thank you @DavidHundeyin

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

See I haven't made it o but I have seen signs that it is possible.

However, there's vast difference between my situation in both of these pictures - 12 years apart.

You know what I can tell you genuinely was the same - the joy and contentment I felt at every of my life's journey.

I have never coveted another man's - not when I was in lack, not when I was in need.

I have never looked at another man's plate and wanted his buffet, because I don't know the backstory of how he toiled for it.

I never looked up to the Heavens and screamed: "why me?"

I locked in on my cross with joy, daydreamt everyday & decided I wanted to be happy with what I found around me because what will be will be, and I cannot wait for life to pan out on my terms before I decide to be happy.

This is the greatest gift my mother gave me. Contentment.

There will always be people ahead of you, there will always be people behind you. Your life, your timing.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

There is a disastrous glitch in the just-released WAEC results, especially for those who were forced to do WAEC CBT.

WAEC, you can’t toy with our children’s destinies.

We will not allow it.

The results need to be withdrawn immediately and fixed, or we will challenge you in court.

[a @wayseir]

@WillDowden3 @Barooky111 @Math_files But technically hydrogen doesn't lose electrons. It shares.

[Universal arts & Wallpapers @Universal4karts]

The call i never want to stop seeing

[Math Files @Math_files]

Take any prime number greater than 3. Square it, then subtract 1. The result will always be divisible by 24.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Everyone else has their struggle and nobody asks them to dilute it so that other people can feel included. There are West Asian struggles, South Asian struggles, Pacific Islander struggles, East Asian struggles, Latin American struggles, Balkan struggles, Australian aboriginal struggles, Native American struggles and Central Asian struggles.

They are all allowed to exist and breathe independently. Nobody ever accused those struggles of taking anything away from a wider socialist struggle.

Only when it comes to the African struggle must we be constantly lectured about why we must accommodate this or that group of virulently anti-black people in our African struggle, or else we will split this or that movement - allowances that literally nobody in the history of the planet has ever made for us.

Look, we know that there is a global anti-imperial struggle that links all our struggles, and we know the shared history we have with the likes of Cuba, Palestine, China, Russia etc. Nobody is going to make us stop collaborating with those whose partnerships have been mutually beneficial.

But nobody is going to convince me that I should not focus on creating the same moat and ringfence that everybody else enjoys. Everyone else on earth has nationalism as an intrinsic feature of their struggle without anyone making faces at them for it - why is it Africa that must dissolve itself into some formless global "working class" kumbaya fantasy that clearly nobody else subscribes to? Why must we be the test subjects for what nobody else is willing to do?

Why are black people always held to ideological standards that nobody else is held to? Why didn't Mao or Lenin organise their revolutions around this amorphous "global proletariat"? Why did they build strong nation states instead? Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan? Was it the "capitalist ruling class" that developed the bomb and flew the plane to drop it over Hiroshima, or did it use the air force of the United States Military to do that? Why does it need the apparatus of a nation state to impose its will on the world?

Why is this "capitalist ruling class" never able to impose its will anywhere except where it controls the levers of the state? Why have the only successful attempts to oppose this "capitalist ruling class" taken place through a powerful, well organised nation state acting in opposition? Why has all the world's "working class solidarity" not been able to stop innocent Palestinians from being exploded into bits with their families, but it is the IRGC and the well organised, industrial nation-state of Iran that has been able to stop a similar fate from befalling Iranian people?

If nationalism is just a bourgeiosie idea to serve local elites, then why does the "capitalist ruling class" invest billions of dollars every year on secessionist movements and rebel armies aiming to break up nation-states? If African nationalism represents a less important goal than this hypothetical global socialist utopia, then why do the powerful states controlled by the "capitalist ruling class" work so hard to kill or silence every single notable person who pushes African nationalism?

Why did they kill Patrice Lumumba? Why was Kwame Nkrumah overthrown after several failed attempts on his life? Why have there been multiple French-backed attempts on Ibrahim Traore's life? Why did they ignore Gadaffi for decades but the minute he paid for Africa's first communications satellite and put down Libyan state money to fund African replacements for the IMF and World Bank, plus gold reserves to back a continental currency - the things needed to unite Africa into a sovereign, continental nation-state - they immediately rushed every asset they had into Libya and didn't stop until they had him on video being anally raped with a knife on CNN? Why did they take down African Stream?

The STATE is the biggest asset and weapon that can be wielded by any group of people. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can go from a small island in the Atlantic to an empire covering two-thirds of the world. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can resist that empire and its successor, and prevent your people from becoming imperial roadkill. The entire reason why Africa is in its current situation is precisely because it has NO STATE, and its ability to create one is being actively sabotaged on a daily and ongoing basis, including through funding ideological subversion to convince Africans that there is an alternative to developing serious state capacity, either through Frank Zanu/Magatte Wade-style capitalism-raises-the-dead nonsense, or through woolly-headed Supermarxist trash.

Anybody who tells me as an African that I should devote my energy to chasing some formless, utopian "global proletariat revolution" instead of building a pragmatic, Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean-style political revolution that births an industrial African state with the power to feed and defend itself, is just as useless to me as Magatte Wade telling me that the solution to my problems is to sell part of my country to Peter Thiel and gratefully let the new sovereign Epstein Island douse me with its hot, steaming American capitalism.

I will focus on Pan-Africanism and sovereignism. Africa will always come first for me before any of your other -isms. Anyone who doesn't like it, that's too bad. I didn't write the rules and I'm simply doing the same thing everybody else on this planet does - looking out for me and my own first. I'm not interested in being percecived as morally 'better' than anybody. That 'better' shit is what got my ancestors colonised and that's why I'm a black West African who speaks English and answers to "David" today. We don't repeat our ancestors' mistakes here.

In the everlasting words of Fela Kuti, TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE.

[a @wayseir]

@ojobor_kingsley @heisrichardz Na content una dey call am now?

[a @wayseir]

@Liberty8577 @Wizarab10 He's a former Chelsea player. Juan Mata.

[a @wayseir]

@margilonliy @TrollFootball They hate, loot and kill other Africans in their country. So other Africans return the hate.

[a @wayseir]

@Temidayo312 @abazwhyllzz @davido Abasifreke 😂😂😂

[a @wayseir]

@LordChrono17 @SimbaTangai @Unc1eAnt Then they won it in 2002. 😂

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The YouTube premiere of the documentary everyone is talking about is currently counting down to showtime 👇🏾
https://t.co/c3H65Y3cfZ

[Mayor Of Calabar @Uno_009]

If you can’t go out for the protest, the least you can do is to repost 😢

Please let's repost and share massively😭

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