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Dee Dan retweeted
Why do some Africans always jump in to talk about "victimhood" whenever it comes to discussing the injustices of the past?
Saying this with an Israeli flag in your bio is just deeply ironic.
The global Jewish community ensures the Holocaust is never relegated to a mere footnote(through Yom HaShoah, State funded museums in nearly every major Western capital, & the phrase "Never Again"), even when they are actively committing war crimes of their own.
Armenians commemorate the 1915 genocide every April. South Korea still actively erects Statues of Peace & demands diplomatic redress from Japan over historical atrocities.
Even your Japan example is probably the worst one you could've used. Japan built a global diplomatic framework around being the sole victim of atomic warfare.
They ring the peace bell annually; they lobby the UN on nuclear disarmament based entirely on that specific history.
The US uses 9/11 memory to justify global security apparatuses. The UK leverages the Blitz spirit & Remembrance Day to anchor national unity.
Memory is a tool of statecraft everywhere in the world; it is when Africans rightfully call on it that you jump and write this balderdash.
Memorialising trauma is called patriotism & honour when the West does it. It is only called "victimhood" when Africans do it.
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Dee Dan retweeted
I can't explain it, but it seems your fortune changes based on your location. That is why a moving man meets his luck. Keep moving and don't be static. When you find your place, consolidate. A word is too much for the wise.
Dee Dan retweeted
I myself am a "men". Most of my friends are also a "mens". I have no idea who African women are referring to when they say that "men" prefer women who wear wigs over their natural hair. I can use myself and my sizeable friend group across 9 countries on the continent as enough of a sample size to categorically state that African men overwhelmingly prefer their women's natural hair.
Yet everytime this conversation pops up, we hear about this mythical creature called a "men like women in wigs." On behalf of African men, allow me to say it again that if "men" prefer female wigs over female natural hair, then we must be women - that does not apply to us at all.
We grew up with you people. You are our sisters, cousins, schoolmates and friends. The first picture of the female form that we saw and fell in love with as your brothers, nephews and high school boyfriends was you in your natural state. I don't think you realise how powerful that is. The girl from the next classroom that was every African boy's first love was a girl appearing in her natural state. That is the default picture of love that stays with us for life! We did not wake up one morning at 17 and suddenly decided that female beauty = a woman wearing a Hollywood production on her head.
That is fake news!
We've always loved you as you are.
The real issue is that you are receiving commercial messaging and social engineering propaganda to convince you that your natural state is incomplete, so that you will spend money to "fix" what was never broken, and some white guy somewhere gets paid off that. We do not control any of the messaging you are receiving! We don't control any social media algorithms. We don't control your TV programming. We don't control Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ etc. We don't make TV and movie casting decisions.
We don't own any of the supply chains and factories built around manufacturing your insecurity - the most we can do is retail these products that somebody else put in your mind, manufacturer in a Chinese factory, and shipped to your country. If we were the ones in control of any of these things, we would never push such products on you. Even drug dealers don't sell drugs to their own family members.
Anyway that's precisely the problem - we're the world's least powerful men and our weakness has built a superhighway for every Tom, Sandeep and Chung to dump toxic ideas and products on our women and leave us to deal with the fallout. It is precisely because we don't control Media, Politics, War, Industry or Logistics that we haven't built a physical and psychological wall around our women, unlike every other group of men on the planet.
Our weakness as a group is what has left our women's minds and bodies defenseless and open to exploitation from anyone and everyone - to the point where they literally look at their natural form in the mirror and think there is something they need to correct about it. They know that as a group, the only thing we offer to them is penis and they have learned to discount whatever we say, even when we tell them that they're beautiful as they are.
This is a problem that the African rebellion will naturally solve.
When African men take our rightful place in the world and begin exercising power as we should, nobody will need to tell African women that their beauty is not enhanced in any way by laying a dead Indian woman's hair above their own.
Power fixes these problems.
Dee Dan retweeted
When Africans travel to Europe, the architecture tells you where you are.
Medieval cathedrals. Ottoman mosques. Haussmann boulevards. Buildings from the 13th century still standing, still defining cities.
When foreigners come to Africa, they visit zoos and the Egyptian pyramids.
The rest of our cities look like failed copies of somewhere else. Cement blocks. Zinc roofs. Buildings that could be anywhere.
We didn’t run out of materials. We didn’t run out of knowledge. We abandoned our architectural identity and replaced it with nothing that belongs to us.
That’s the conversation we’re refusing to have.
Dee Dan retweeted
We're finally having the conversation about how most "modern" African construction materials and methods for everything including roads make no sense in our local context.
Africa's "Modern" Constructions Are Climate Disasters
Africa needs buildings that make sense for Africa.
Too many of our cities are filled with glass, concrete, and steel structures that trap heat, block airflow, and force people to depend on expensive air conditioning just to survive indoors. That is the opposite of "development." It is actually spectacularly poor planning.
Our ancestors understood climate before it became a conference topic. They built with the land, used local materials, created shade, allowed air to move, and designed homes that worked with the environment.
Unfortunately, we keep copying people who never designed for our climate in the first place. Construction in Africa needs to be decolonized, and that must start with a mindset change and re-education.
Dee Dan retweeted
You could have just condemned “idol worship” without necessarily demeaning your race and feeling inferior to white people.
Here is a video made by white people depicting Trump as a Messiah, and describing him in the same manner Christians describe Jesus. Trump himself (a white man) shared it as a mark of endorsement.
White evangelicals literally worship Trump, but you have concluded you are not equal to white people because of a video of political jobbers cheering their benefactor, Wike.
White people worship Justin Bieber Taylor Switft, name them, but it's your race that's inferior.
Na waa for una.
Dee Dan retweeted
I don’t even blame the officer. I'm proud of him.
A few years ago, I was travelling from Finland to Lithuania with the Finnish work permit that, of course, allowed me to visit any Schengen country. I first took a ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. No one checked our documents. From Tallinn, I boarded a bus bound for Vilnius. Again, no checks in Tallinn or Riga. But just as we were about to enter Lithuania, a group of immigration officers stopped the bus.
I was the only Black person on board. The officers went through everyone else’s passports or ID cards, returning them to their owners while they remained seated, without asking a single question. When it was my turn, I handed over my passport and residence permit. While they examined my documents, one officer fired off a series of questions:
“Where are you from?” He was holding my passport o
“What do you do in Finland?” He was also holding my work permit, yet I still had to answer.
“What kind of work do you do in Finland?”
“How long have you lived in Finland?”
“Why are you going to Lithuania?” I was visiting someone.
“What is the name of the person, and what does this person do?”
If you live in the EU, you know how annoying these questions feel when you already have the right to travel freely within EU, when it was not even the lockdown period. I was mortified. Every eye on the bus was on me, as if I were a criminal.
As if that were not enough, the officer told me to step off the bus. I followed him, and another officer quickly checked his system before returning my documents and letting me continue my journey.
Why am I sharing this story? No matter how silly or unnecessary the questions may seem, whatever our immigration or police officers ask these caucasians, they should answer. 🙄 White officers ask far worse to immigrants who haven’t naturalised.
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Dee Dan retweeted
Since we're gushing about Benin and its amazing roads, let me inform all of you that Patrice Talon is currently in the process of approving the sale of a part of Benin to a consortium of billionaire racist bros led by Peter Thiel, for them to build a private sovereign city with its private own laws and police, which will not be subject to the laws of Benin or the African Union.
It is called Prospera Africa and it is meant to follow the template of the same project funded by the same people in Central America called Prospera Honduras. If you Google what Prospera Honduras uses its sovereignty to do, you'll see the commercial investment into it is primarily for the purpose of "Biotechnology", i.e drug testing and human experimentation that would be extremely illegal anywhere there is an actual government.
These racist billionaire bros are trying to build a sovereign colony in Benin where they can legally experiment on Africans and do whatever other Epstein Island activities that eventually got them into a dispute with the government in Honduras. It's called Prospera Africa. Google it, it's not hard to find.
Take this very seriously. It is not something a little birdie told me - I myself almost ended up working on this project a couple of years ago before I started to understand what it was and who was behind it.
When you're done congratulating Patrice Talon for his smooth roads, please beg him not to give Peter Thiel an Epstein Island in West Africa for Elon Musk's friends to legally use Africans as live experiments.
Thank you.
Dee Dan retweeted
Venezuela is one thing, but bringing Africa into this is actually very dumb.
First of all, it's 100% false that African's failed to maintain the infrastructure left by the Europeans; they did in the aggregate, and they also expanded it. Turns out not every piece of infrastructure the colonialists built was useful once the economic structure changed. The rust belt jog any memories?
Everything from roads, ports, electricity, hospitals, etc, almost every single form of infrastructure left by the Europeans was expanded by the Africans they left behind.
For example, Nigeria's roads grew by 30x post-independence, Ghana at least 10x, and Botswana, 600x. 99% of roads in almost every African country were built after independence. It's the same for air and sea ports, power plants, electricity grids, you name it.
Now, going back to why Africa is actually poor today, turns out actually resources aren't that valuable, and their prices are volatile, so Africa has been getting bitchslapped by boom and bust cycles for decades.
What this means is that when resources are in demand, you get infrastructure; when demand drops, the government runs out of money, the infrastructure decays, and the economy resets.
Remember all those "Africa rising" articles you used to see every few decades? yeah those were from boom periods. African countries consistently hit 7%+ growth rates during those periods, sometimes as high as 10%+
In the bust periods, the GDP can be cut in half, wiping out decades of economic gains.
Add to this the population explosion and debt crises, and you have a perfect storm
None of this is to excuse African leaders, as they are a bunch of failures for delaying industrialization; however, you can criticize Africa without literally lying about it.
Managing resources has never been the problem; the problem is that unless you a very specific kind of country, you cannot get rich off of resources. You must industrialize.
People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources.
The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned.
Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources!
Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all?
It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no.
All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep.
Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!"
But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful.
Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa.
Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.
Dee Dan retweeted
From all I'm reading about the experiences of Nigerians with PayPal, perhaps the way forward for PayPal is to restitute and pay back the monies they took. That will be showing good faith. You can't call me a thief by day, confiscate my goods and sneak back in at night without returning the goods you took.
Dee Dan retweeted
PayPal thinks they’re smart reopening Nigeria.
Nigerians survived without them. We lost foreign jobs and gigs for years because of their restrictions, so we adapted. We built alternatives. We moved on.
Now they’ve checked Africa’s youth stats and realized how much money they left on the table.
Too late mate we have moved on.
Dee Dan retweeted
Seriously, get married and have a dual income household on time. The longer you postpone this, the harder it is to compound the benefits. It is the greatest middle-class hack to wealth. Forget all the stupid gender extremism here. Fall in love, get married, build together.
Dee Dan retweeted
I remember the day I want to MIT in the USA. I showed them a laptop and told them that with that laptop they had access to more technology than their President had 31 years ago.
They were amazed and took a photo with me.
talked to Nigerian students today at the University of Lagos.
told them a powerful idea. with just a laptop, they have access to more technology than the President of the United States had 31 years ago.
build on @base and you will be rewarded.
Dee Dan retweeted
When a house refuses to clean its mess, outsiders will eventually invite themselves in—sometimes not to ‘just’ help, but perhaps hidden interests. Clean your home before the rodents invite themselves.
The ongoing slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria by radical Islamists and Fulani ethnic militias is both tragic and unacceptable. As @POTUS said, the United States stands ready, willing, and able to act.
Dee Dan retweeted
They said Iraq was about weapons.
It was Oil !
They said Libya was about democracy.
It was Gold and Oil !
They said Venezuela is about drugs.
It’s about Oil !
They’re saying Nigeria is about Christian genocide
It's about Rare Earth Minerals and Oil !
WAKE UP !!!
Dee Dan retweeted
"We dislike Goodluck Jonathan (and we're too lazy, dishonest, and full of ourselves to examine whether that position is valid), so let's hand over this $560bn economy to the semi-literate old fogey who literally didn't complete secondary school. ANYTHING is better than Jonathan."
"Buhari hates this region and he wants to strangulate us, so let's protest by shutting down its economy every Monday, terrorising business people and schoolchildren, driving investment away, and ultimately strangulating ourselves."
"We dislike Tinubu (but most of us are far too cowardly to actually do anything about it), so let's cheer on the internet for resource-hunting country killers to come in and destroy Nigeria entirely, which might *maybe* remove Tinubu. It will probably end up replacing him with something even worse and we might all perish along with our families in the process, but ANYTHING is better than..."
A country full of destructive cowards whose thought process is like that of a teenager on their first period.
Dee Dan retweeted
Dangote is advising you to hold less 🇺🇸 dollars because his refinery will disrupt 🇳🇬 foreign exchange market
