Thread by @DefenseNigeria

The Western media is where African stories are caricatured, twisted and contorted to fit into the atavistic narratives of those who once held the continent by the neck. When Ngozi Okonkjo Iweala was elected as DG of the WTO,

three Swiss newspapers Luzerner Zeitung, Aargauer Zeitung and St. Galler Tagblatt...shovelled away all her accomplishments and described her as a ‘’66 year old Nigerian grandmother.

"This grandmother will become the new boss of WTO,” the headline of Luzerner Zeitung read.

A distinguished woman, former minister of Africa’s most powerful nation, former World Bank vice-president, and the first woman and first African to be elected as the DG of the WTO. But these European newspapers minimised her with the sexist/racist title "Nigerian grandmother"

The truth is in the eyes of the Western media, a Nigerian or African remains subhuman; destined to settle within the general phylum and cursed to remain at the shallow end of the gene pool. They exhibit the accustomed pigeonhole mentation on its reports on Africa.

Poverty, war, insecurity dominate the Western media’s reports on the continent. In May 2021, The Economist reported that ‘Nigeria’s economy is stuck in a rut’, this while the UK had been witnessing negative growth owing to the COVID pandemic.

The economy of many countries was devastated by the pandemic, but the newspaper beamed its laser on Nigeria. In its recent article published on October 23, the Economist said "Nigeria has been corrupt and turbulent for decades. What has changed of late, though, is that jihadism

organised crime and political violence have grown so intense and widespread that most of the country is sliding towards ungovernability. Army generals now steal weapons and sell to insurgents as the country descends into chaos. This is shameful and disposable journalism.

The Economist also said "When violence erupts, the government does nothing or cracks heads almost indiscriminately. Nigeria’s army is mighty on paper. But many of its soldiers are ghosts who exist only on the payroll, and much of its equipment is stolen and sold to insurgents.

The Nigerian military has been battling Boko Haram for only 12 years now, with a relatively meagre budget and covert saboteuring. In contrast, the US military spent 20 years and $6 trillion battling the Taliban in Afghanistan. What was the result? Taliban is back in power in the

country even as the Americans escaped with their tails behind their backs. The British Army wasn’t any better in that respect. The British Army wasn’t any better in that respect. In twenty years until 1992, it proved wholly unable to defeat the IRA,

It took the signing of the Good Friday Accord in 1992 to end the British Army’s agony.