Xpirit

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[Xpirit @X_pirit]

If you can make an impact on one person, you've had a hand in changing the world. Now, imagine doing that on a larger scale every day.

Wouldn't the world be a better place?

[Izik @Kwasen_MB]

I was mugged on the 31st of May on my way home in Abuja.

At around 8 p.m., I was using the pedestrian bridge opposite Shoprite on Airport Road, Lugbe, when I was hit on the back of the head with a stick by some Fulani boys. I fell face-first and was in a daze while my belongings

[Xpirit @X_pirit]

@Caeserra @TSpursfan @cagiago_ Tell us more, bro. Lawyers are broke fellas

[Oluwaseunfunmi_ Akins @bidemi_akins]

Please, I am begging you in the name of God, help me. I don’t want to die. I have suffered so much because of cancer. It has taken so much from me already. I need help to continue my treatment. Pls have mercy on me. 8146203234 moniepoint

[Anti Tinubu @AntiTinubu]

Pray for them, they are going for transplant in Zenith Hospital Abuja. May God bless @Okwuluorandigbo .

Your pray is enough now. Money completed for their transplant

[Xpirit @X_pirit]

@Papaking234 @MikaelCBernard You're not making any sense. The inability to condemn evil is evil.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Many Africans are proud of Ethiopia for being the only African nation that was never colonised.

However, they rarely say anything about how when Ethiopia defeated European colonial invaders at the Battle of Adwa in 1896, the Ethiopian army was actually marching under the banner of the Christian Orthodox Church.

This was not even a result of modern European colonisation either, as Ethiopia converted to Christianity 1200 years before transatlantic slavery and 1500 years before Africa’s colonisation, around the same time the Roman Empire was only just beginning to tolerate the faith.
In fact, Coptic Christianity in Ethiopia and ancient Egypt developed entirely independently of European colonial influence.

The Nubian kingdoms of Sudan converted to Christianity in the 6th century AD, influenced by Egyptian Coptic and Ethiopian Christian missionaries. The resulting Nubian Christianity persisted for nearly 1000 years, only gradually giving way to Islam after the 13th-14th centuries.

It was actually Islam that prevented Ethiopia and Egypt from spreading Christianity across the Sahel and into West Africa.

It’s true that Western/Protestant Christianity spread through colonial missionary activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, the modern religious landscape was shaped by European missionaries and colonial institutions. But that doesn’t take away from 1500 years of indigenous African Christianity.

So, while Christianity is not originally African, it’s also not originally European, having originated in the Levant in West Asia. In fact, large parts of Africa were Christian before many parts of northern and eastern Europe were.

So, when we focus on just one screenshot of Christianity’s spread by European colonisers as the whole story, it erases a rich chapter of African history while attempting to defend it.

The bigger picture is that there was a continuous tradition of African Christianity that existed for centuries as an African phenomenon, completely independent of Europe.

[Xpirit @X_pirit]

@Anathenumberone Never look down on people except when admiring their shoes

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@drkslyexcel @BRICSinfo The war just began

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@mickoly You two own the internet today. Lovely

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor.

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..."

This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo).

Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure.

As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on.

@magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy.

But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.

[Xpirit @X_pirit]

@ChuksEricE You run or you no run? 😂

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@tbang96 @UchePOkoye Jonathan oversaw Africa's fastest-growing economy during his reign.

Do you need further evidence?

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@NigeriaStories Mumu mamas

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@Morris_Monye So they can't fire the bandits?

[Aji Bussu Onye Mpiawa azụ 🇨🇮 @AfamDeluxo]

Fifteen soldiers were reportedly beheaded in Nigeria yesterday, yet the silence is deafening. Meanwhile, the media remains obsessed with Peter Obi this and Peter Obi that.

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@VivianIfeomaOj To Igbo haters;

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@Chibuleni Take the white guy to be a guy from Zimbabwe or Nigeria

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@i_am_myloking @GeneralSnow_ Stop trying to be politically correct, it is visible even to the blind that the Igbos are endangered in Nigeria

[𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑬𝑹𝑨𝑳 𝑺𝑵𝑶𝑾 🇨🇮 @GeneralSnow_]

IT WILL COST YOU ZERO NAIRA TO RETWEET THIS 🙏

Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu’s spokesperson, announced the sudden arrest of Ifechukwu Dennis as the originator of the fake AI voice note impersonating Tinubu.
He and authorities relied solely on a tech investigator’s video without contacting the investigator.
The investigator, Femi Unfiltered, has now publicly stated: Dennis is innocent.
He was not the creator, and authorities should have consulted him first.
This rushed arrest, with due process completely abandoned, is a clear case of ethnic profiling.
Dennis is Igbo.
In Nigeria, young Igbo men are too often presumed guilty before trial,
especially in politically sensitive matters.
Nigerian authorities and Presidency: Release Ifechukwu Dennis Now!.

#FreeIfechukwuDennis

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