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19 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If people migrated to Lagos centuries before countries known as "Nigeria", "Benin Republic", "Togo" and "Ghana" existed, why do you refer to them in 2021 as "Ghanaians" and "Togolese"?

Why don't you apply this standard to Muhammadu Buhari? Isn't he "Nigerien" by that standard?
Or why didn't you call General Sani Abacha a "Chadian"? Why don't you call Godswill Akpabio a "Cameroonian"? Why do you reserve this casual form of bigotry for indigenous Lagosians who have been there centuries before uplanders like your forebears started migrating to Lagos?
Because my family has been in Lagos long enough for my direct ancestor's name to be on the documents establishing the British Colony of Lagos in 1861, which was many decades before people from Ijebu-Ode and Ilishan-Remo started migrating to Lagos, but somehow I am "Beninois"
If we want to start using indigency to measure pricks in a place like Lagos, like 9.6 out of 10 of you will hear the village your ancestors came from. Instead of you to sit down and mind your business, you'll now start calling indigenous Lagosians "immigrants." Must be crack.

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22 Dec
Random app idea I'm shooting into the wind:

A decentralised Africa-focused music streaming platform that doubles as a one-stop solution for talent discovery, career management, bookings & publicity management, and audience engagement.

Emphasis on "decentralised":
Problems it solves: 1. Getting music to the ears of a larger audience is an expensive, corrupt, exploitative and woefully inefficient process involving several middlemen who add nothing to the content but take as much as 95% of revenues it eventually generates.
2. Artist management is often a carryover from Problem 1, with powerless upcoming acts forced to enter management contracts with talentless middlemen whose only goal is to exploit them.

3. There are simply too many middlemen in music, which makes it inefficient and expensive.
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22 Dec
Always funny when a victim of injustice voices out, only to later reverse themselves, as if that apology will change anything with their oppressors.

Someone has stolen the streaming rights for what could be the only hit record you will ever make, and you're apologising lol🌚
People - Nigerians especially - seem not to understand that when you go to war, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything. You don't start a war on the side of justice, then pull out midway through. That makes you a joke.

Stand up for yourself or cower. You have to choose one
This is what 15 million streams is worth on each of these platforms. Maybe because it's Africa, you can divide these figures by 3 or 4, but for someone coming from the trenches of Ifo, imagine how life changing these amounts are.

Poco Lee has stolen this from oni apology😭 Image
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21 Dec
A big takeaway from all this is that upcoming creative talents should lean more on the internet creative ecosystem and less on these parasitic middlemen.

There are artists like Chance The Rapper and Ahmir who have made millions of dollars without a record deal or a "helper."
Using just YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and social media, these guys built themselves into multimillion dollar brands without signing themselves into slavery in the name of "A&R" this and "record label" that.

The internet is coming for middlemen in the creative space!
Creatives (Painters, musicians, designers, writers etc) are the lifeblood of the creative industry, and nobody should tell you any different.

The job of these middlemen is to convince creatives that they need them. This is no longer true. The internet has changed the game.
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21 Dec
If you're as big as you claim to be, you shouldn't need to rip off upcomers in the name of "helping" them. If you want to help, help and be reasonable about it. If you don't want to help, free them. Don't be an agbaya.

How I hate this Portable vs Poco Lee story.
Once you're in a creative space in Nigeria, everyone is just hovering around you like a tsetse fly hoping to take a bite out of you.

The concept of noblesse oblige is completely nonexistent. Just a bunch of agbayas sitting on people's heads. Disgusting and tiresome.
Start making a name as a musician and someone will try to sign you to a slavery contract and steal all your IP.

Start making a name as a writer and one "senior colleague" will steal your work and put their name on it in the name of "helping you" (I experienced this)

Agbayas😤
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21 Dec
I remember when "Africans have natural immunity" was rubbish pseudoscience on par with claiming the earth is flat.

Now, because of the "be afraid of Omicron" scare campaign, this is now apparently an accurate scientific statement.

Very interesting.
"The only reliable data on Omicron comes from South Africa and it shows that it is significantly less dangerous than prior variants, which doesn't suit the narrative we want.

What shall we do?

I know!
Let's revisit the idea from last year that Africans have natural immunity to this virus due to genetic and demographic factors. You know, the idea that we savagely shot down and dismissed as rubbish pseudoscience.

Now let's rebrand it as self evident fact. Job done."
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20 Dec
A lot of modern Africans have this weird need to derive their self esteem from the alleged greatness of their ancestors instead of from their own achievements.

That's why anything that they feel presents said ancestors in an unflattering way feels like a personal attack on them.
That's why to date, even though Badagry literally exists and you can stroll in and observe the very well preserved relics of the trans Atlantic slave trade anytime, some people on this website are ready to detonate suicide belts if you tell them that our ancestors sold slaves.
The ones in the North who have mistaken Arabism (a cultural ideology) with Islam (a religion), and have subsequently had their own cultures displaced by Arabism, can stone you if you show them what their ancestors were doing just 250 years ago.

Very unhealthy IMO
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