Once again I'll say it that I'm terrified of foreign analysts, organisations and journalists from developed countries who have NO NEED to compromise when dealing with Africa, but still choose to accept money feom African politicians to parrot their narratives.
Me that has never made $7,000 in a single calendar month, at my level I have never seen any need to compromise.
You'll now see dudes from DC and Marseille banking $146,000/annum basic, still choosing to accept money from Kagame, Tinubu, Indimi and El-Rufai.
You lot terrify me.
Capitalist or not, there is something in Economics called Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
When you make a comfortable 5 or 6-figure USD income and you come from a 1st world country, you're meant to have scaled the 1st layer of that hierarchy (food, shelter, security).
There is such a thing as "enough."
You don't ALWAYS have to chase money at any and every cost, especially when you have no kind of need that isn't already taken care of.
Excessive greed is a deadly vice.
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If I were in Nigeria, I'd only take the free vaccine.
I'd never take the one someone is selling to me because once there is a profit incentive involved in that country, you cannot say with any certainty that someone will not inject you with battery acid to make a buck.
If it's free, there is no incentive to inject you with something fake or adulterated.
If it's on sale, there is EVERY incentive. Very simple the way I see it.
Buying a pandemic vaccine that is meant to be free is irrational behaviour because it ignores the fact that vaccinating a population against a pandemic is one of the few things that CANNOT be achieved through capitalism alone.
A profit incentive at distribution level will end in
Anyone who has actually bothered to read in depth about the Great Lakes conflict in East Africa and not get their history from Hotel Rwanda or Sometimes in April would know that Paul Kagame and the RPF are the furthest thing that exist from heroes.
They are literal war criminals
And furthermore, it is extremely unhelpful to see the Rwandan Genocide as a standalone event caused by simple-minded ethnic resentment.
The Hutu psychosis that led to Tutsi slaughter in Rwanda did not in fact come out of nowhere. It doesn't excuse it, but it explains it.
The 1993 murder of Burundi's first Hutu president Melchoir Ndadaye in a coup attempt by a Tutsi faction of the military led to the slaughter of up to 150,000 Hutu civilians in Burundi.
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.
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.
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.
In case the news flew under the radar, I'm gonna amplify it here.
Dangote's proposal for banning refined petroleum importation includes a proposal that in the event that local refining doesn't satisfy consumption, he should also get the SOLE LICENSE to import petrol to Nigeria.
I repeat, while speaking to members of the National Assembly who came to visit Dangote Refinery on February 28, the company proposed that petrol import licenses should only be given to "licensed and active" refinery operators in Nigeria.
We know who that refers to.
In other words, in addition to being a government-backed monopoly making the world's most expensive cement at 45% profit per bag - more than twice that of the next most profitable cement maker on earth - Aliko Dangote also wants to become NNPC.
In September 2019, 21 year-old Itunu, a trader based in Bondoukou, Cote d'Ivoire traveled to Nigeria to visit her sick mom in Ibadan.
Unknown to her, her return to Cote d'Ivoire would mark the start of a harrowing ordeal in a notorious Ivorian prison, which is still ongoing.
Shortly before Itunu was due to travel, her flat was burgled and items worth more than N300,000 were stolen including her TV and gas cooker.
Despite the blow, she decided to travel anyway after reporting the incident to the police. She returned from her trip in October 2019.
Upon returning, she was informed by a lodger she left in her flat that the thief had been identified.
The thief turned out to be a 14 year-old boy who lived nearby. His embarrassed dad apologised and admitted that his son was a habitual thief. The items had already been sold.