Twitter discourse is no longer appealing or even worth entertaining once you realize a lot of people here can just read and write English, but lack basic comprehension skills and majority are just simply stupid.
No one wants to see young people destroyed, it is however a teachable moment for these young people and their peers that racism has no place in South Africa, to let them continue as if nothing happened is the surest way of destroying them. Consequence is a great teacher.
"Women were given rights and chose to destroy civilisation rather than do their duty" is going to be well-remembered by those civilisations which succeed us.
My most important takeaway from the dramatic turnaround in fortunes of the Sahelian states especially Burkina Faso (which used to be a nothing-country in West Africa), is the the State is by far the most powerful and most impactful entity in the development of an impoverished postcolonial African country.
There is no "private investor" that was ever going to spend these billions on importing and funding local manufacture of the equipment needed to build the infrastructure stock of an entire country. It's not that private capital cannot afford to invest such amounts (it very easily can), but first of all, the immediate return on investment demanded by private capital makes it the wrong vehicle for the development of a poor country that may need 10-15 years for the benefits of these investments to begin compounding.
Second, private capital is not politically agnostic. Even if it could hypothetically postpone its own hunger for immediate returns long enough to invest say, $1bn in the infrastructure of Burkina Faso or Niger, the political situation where the capital is located would still make it impossible for such a deal to go ahead. No big time investor with dollar-denominated capital is going to risk going all-in on the Sahel, knowing that they might get sanctioned by the US government tomorrow for one cockamamie reason or the other. Africa is already the world's most sanctioned continent.
In this situation, the only entity that has both the motive and the capacity to raise and invest the huge amount of needed capital into infrastructure, equipment and R&D in a developing post-colonial African economy is the State. I am one of the people who spent years preaching about the need to reduct the size and power of the state at all cost, based on the neoliberal programming l received from my British education. I genuinely believed that the private sector fixes everything. The past 3 years in the Sahel have completely rubbished that notion in my head.
What no amount of private sector involvement had been able to do in 62 years is what a 36 year-old man in a red beret has done in less than 36 months since taking over in 2022. Which proves once and for all that the problem in fact had nothing to do with the "failure of African Socialism" as we were taught, and everything to do with being forced under the thumb of European and American parasites sucking out our economic lifeblood via their carefully installed puppet governments, and teaching us to accept this protracted crime as a "free market system."
In a decade or so, when Burkina Faso would have completed the basic industrialisation of its economy, with the capacity to produce its own food, maintain its own healthcare, transform its own minerals, create its own technology, defend its own borders, and take part in the global economy on its own terms, a well paid oyibo will write a gravely-worded article in The Economist informing us that this is "Communism," which is A Very Bad Thing Indeed.
But when DR Congo at that time is still a strip-mined raninforest without roads where child slaves work themselves to death so that Glencore shareholders can buy their 3rd house in Monaco, that will apparently just be the Free Market™️ in action, and it will be Africans' fault for not knowing how to gain value for themselves because their brains are smaller than oyibo brains, as God surely intended.
The more you know.
Takes a lot of experience to learn that you don’t need to get under every skirt that catches your eye.
And I fear until you lose something really significant, you never really learn😪
A lot of people say women have been the downfall of many men but it’s honestly a lack of sexual discipline that has been the downfall of men and will continue to be the downfall of many more.
Men can be sorted into two camps. The ones who get haircuts way before they need them and the ones who wait until people in their lives are complaining