Ethiopia was never colonized.
For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.
Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.
If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.
Can we please retire this excuse?
I understand the desire to praise those who do good
But This should have been planned for when she is retired
Also better if the individual that benefited isn't still in office
If you want to know how odd it is, picture Tinubu doing it for the INEC chairman
In May 2013, a Cleveland neighbor named Charles Ramsey became an overnight sensation after helping rescue Amanda Berry, a young woman who had been missing for nearly a decade.
His live interview right after the rescue became one of the most unforgettable moments in television history.
Charles starts by setting the scene in the most Charles Ramsey way possible:
"Heard screaming. I was eating my McDonald's, I come outside, I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of a house."
He thought it was a regular domestic dispute.
So he walked up to help.
"I open the door and we can't get in that way because of how the door is, it's so much that a body can't fit through, only your hand. So we kick the bottom and she comes out with a little girl and she says, 'Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry'."
That name didn't hit him right away.
"When she told me, it didn't register until I got to call the 911 and I'm like, 'I'm calling the 911 for Amanda Berry?' I thought this girl was dead, you know what I mean?"
Then the detective on the scene asked him a question that made the whole thing sink in:
"Charles, do you know who you rescued?"
What makes the interview unforgettable is that Charles had been living next door to the kidnapper the entire time.
He had no idea.
"I've been here a year. I barbecue with this dude, we eat ribs and whatnot and listen to salsa music."
He describes the neighbor as someone completely unremarkable:
"He just comes out to his backyard, plays with the dogs, tinkers with his cars and motorcycles, and goes back in the house. So he's somebody that you look and you look away because he's not doing nothing but the average stuff. Nothing exciting about him... well, until today."
When more officers went into the house and rescued two other women, Charles couldn't believe what he was seeing:
"They went up there, you know, 30 or 40 deep, and when they came out it was just astonishing because I thought they were going to come up with nothing."
And then he delivered the line that the entire internet would quote for years:
"I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here, dead giveaway. Either she's homeless or she's got problems, that's the only reason why she runs to a black man."
@theonyinye_a It’s not an update. The LGBTQQIA+ community within the Indigenous peoples are also experiencing this genocide. The Two-Spirit people are also part of the queer community.
The National Inquiry/Calls to Action has always included the queer community.
i can’t believe i used to look up to this man.
you’re also part of nigeria’s problem if you still attend this church. you can’t be online calling out the government and dragging celebrities affiliated with tinubu while your general overseer is dining and laughing with that incømpetent man…bfr please.
I owe nobody. If it's Senator Natasha that said I'm chasing her, my face would be bolder, not anyhow person that'll accuse this handsome man of chasing her for 12 years. It's just for social media, but I think we can turn our attention to the war in Iran and allow Umahi to rest
- Minister of Works, David Umahi, responds to critics who called him out for allegedly refusing to pay a woman who did a job for him because she refused his sexual advances
Nigerian men buying PS5 and abandoning it after 1 week is peak "nostalgia" moment.
You're not a true gamer. You just wanted to make up for something you lacked as a child.
Insane moment when Courtois who was a loan GK at Atletico Madrid from Chelsea denied Chelsea a Champions League final spot with his incredible saves.
The following season, he moved back to Chelsea and Mourinho had to make him no 1 GK ahead of Cech.