Just know that a long time ago, I too was on that "Exterminate capitalism" train. I was part of a global Black Socialist society called Field Afrikan Refuge.
I fell out with my friend @AztecccZ during #OccupyNigeria because I insisted that fuel subsidies must remain.
I fell out with my friend @AztecccZ during #OccupyNigeria because I insisted that fuel subsidies must remain.
On a module called "Power and Resistance in a Globalising World" at uni, I once submitted a polemic that was so stinging in its assessment of capitalism that my (left wing) lecturer rejected it for not meeting academic writing standards.
Where you are now, I was there too.
Where you are now, I was there too.
Whatever lifelong unbreakable conviction you think you have now, I had it too. In fact that was 60% of the reason I came back to Nigeria filled with patriotic zeal to right colonialist and neo-colonialist wrongs.
Africa Rising, etc etc. It's not new.
Africa Rising, etc etc. It's not new.
One thing I learned very hard between age 23 and 28 is how tremendously possible it is to be completely and hopelessly wrong about something.
For me, the realisation motivated me to want to learn more about the world and cure my ignorance.
For some, their ego will never agree🙏🏾
For me, the realisation motivated me to want to learn more about the world and cure my ignorance.
For some, their ego will never agree🙏🏾
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