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KOFI SIKA retweeted
Ghana Twitter Awards mu dancing competition
#GhanaTwitterAwards22 – at Accra, Ghana
KOFI SIKA retweeted
When anyone leaves the country for just a few minutes they realize how wicked our leaders have been for the past decades. It’s almost instant. You can’t help but talk about it.
KOFI SIKA retweeted
Y'all are so busy keeping score of YOUR sacrifices that you never stopped to ask how many dreams your husbands had to bury just to keep the family standing.
You think a husband driving a truck for 14 hours straight was living his dream?
You think a husband driving Uber and sleeping in his car dreamed of that as a boy?
You think a husband working as a security guard standing for 12 hours dreamed of holding a gate?
You think a husband who is a plumber with his hands in shit dreamed of that life?
You think a husband working in a warehouse lifting boxes until his spine gives out did that for FUN?
NO.
Men had dreams too. Bigger dreams than yours.
He wanted to be a pilot. A footballer. A businessman. A musician. He had plans.
But then life punched him in the mouth. Woman got pregnant. Rent doubled. Mother got sick. Bills piled up.
So he KILLED his dream with his own hands and went to work.
No announcement. No tears on Instagram. No TED Talk.
And when he dies at 58 from heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke from years of stress and silence
You will stand at his funeral and say "he was a good provider."
Not a dreamer.
Not a man who once wanted more.
Not a soul who sacrificed everything.
Just a provider.
That's all he will ever be to you. Shut up.
No man is expected to abandon his education, distance himself from his friends or bury his dreams just because he got married. But women are expected to sacrifice their entire identity, ambitions and freedom to become someone’s wife. Men get a partner in marriage but women are expected to give up their entire lives to become one. And society has the audacity to call it tradition
KOFI SIKA retweeted
the thing that really gets me about posts like this is that people are always laughing in the comments. what's actually funny about someone just being difficult for no reason? why is it cute? I don't understand why this has become so normalised.
KOFI SIKA retweeted
Just because it is a poor financial decision for you does not mean the other person views it from only a financial lens.
When I buy my Porsche, it will also look like bad financial judgment 😂
But for a poor boy who was born in a small village in Nigeria, grew up in the outskirts of town, graduated with a humanities degree, learned to code and was hired from Nigeria and relocated to Germany, it’s not enough that it’s a box on four wheels and can take me from point A to point B. Every time I step into the car, it should remind me of how far I have come and make me forget the pain it took to get here.
When my wife and I were moving to a new home, our requirements were strict: it must be a new build, we must be the first occupants and it must be in the city, not outskirts.
For me, ‘materialism' is rather philosophical. There are few things that excite me anyway. It is not to make a statement or impress anyone but for my own personal satisfaction. Every time I walk into my living room, the feeling is different. The numbers does not have to make sense; we only live once.
What’s the plan? To hustle and finally drive your first nice car in your 60s?
It’s interesting you’re certain that you’ll live that long and be able to finally afford it then.
I’ve just found out someone at work has got a brand new Range Rover on finance.
They paid a decent sized deposit up front.
They’re paying somewhere around £1k a month.
They’d need to pay a ballon payment of around £35k at the end of the 3 or 4 years to even own the car..
That is literally financial suicide and so many people are doing it.
KOFI SIKA retweeted
My dad once followed a hotel porter down two flights of stairs over a bottle of water. It became one of the most important money lessons of my life growing up.
Years ago, he traveled to Abuja on a business trip and lodged at a hotel. He got thirsty in his room and called downstairs for a bottle of water.
A porter brought it up, Ragolis, and handed him a bill for ₦2,500. My dad looked at it and asked why water cost that much. The man explained that the water was ₦500, and the other ₦2,000 was the flat service charge for bringing it up to the room.
My dad handed the bottle back and told him to take it away. Then he got up, put on his slippers, and followed the porter all the way down to the bar.
When they got there, he picked up the same bottle himself, dropped ₦500 on the counter, and walked back up to his room.
He wasn't broke. He just wasn't going to pay four times the price of something because someone else could carry it up a flight of stairs. That was how he taught me, through a story where he dramatized the march downstairs to the laughter of the entire family, that you don't spend money just because you have it.
Two weeks I was at the mall with my son and he wanted water. We were in front of a restaurant selling it for 10 dirhams and he pointed and said let's get it here. I told him we were going to walk to the Carrefour a few meters away in the same mall instead.
He asked why we couldn't just buy from the first shop, and I told him he would find out when we got there. We got there and he was surprised to see the same bottle going for one dirham.
I can afford the 10 dirhams. But when two shops are almost side by side, why pay ten for what costs one?
We don't waste money or spend just because. If it were an emergency or the only shop around, that's a different thing. But it wasn't.
Sometimes you just walk the extra hundred meters.
KOFI SIKA retweeted
Once again, the US proves why it is greatest country! Someone bought a small business for $48,000 on a platform called SMB Market, and now it is worth over half a billion dollars. I had no idea there was an entire marketplace just for buying and selling businesses exits.
KOFI SIKA retweeted
We need a better version of an economy that has rich people and consumers
Don't give me 20 versions of dangote
Give me 20 % of the US economy where a young girl in ado ekiti can open a food truck business in her neighbourhood and sell $100,000 in one year
Where young people can launch businesses that consumers will pay money for without knowing the president and the Governor of the central bank... an economy where accessing loans with very low interest rate is easier without being a big fish
Nigeria needs an economy where people won't find paying $20 per month for chatGpt as an expensive thing
KOFI SIKA retweeted
<<<<<<he sent money to some nigga bi uptee to get phones there so that the nigga will bring it to Ghana for him to sell it, 16.5k cedis was the amount i heard, the nigga in uptee tricked him and spent the money, so my mate had to find ways to make the 16.5k and settle his debt, and one way he took was to allegedly steal his own paddy ein money and stake it on a betting platform, as usual them chop am wey it saana added much more pressure on him to settle the debts, his parents got involved too buh couldn't help, he was being pressured to settle the debts, unfortunately it got over him and decided to release notes, suicide notes sad
