Thread by @DavidHundeyin

Learn new things, you will not learn.
Become better at what you do no way.
Give opportunities to younger people, whossai.
OK at least stay out of their way and leave them to their own devices, you will still try to be a roadblock.

The African elder is a TERRIBLE human being.

Elsewhere, when a young talent with huge potential arises, the establishment sees its future there and invests in this person.

Here, I was left to find my own way. Which I did without anybody's help and I didn't complain.

Now see them gathering like witches on my head!

One of Nigeria's most fearless investigative journalists in decades emerged and the entire Nigerian media coughed and looked the other way, only pausing to steal and plagiarise my work until I threw a massive tantrum about it, then they stopped.

What value do elders add???

When I was doing investigative stories on Newswire as recently as 2020, I was charging N20,000 per story. Twenty thousand naira. Money that couldn't pay for 1 restaurant date.

I did not complain. I did my work wholeheartedly and used copywriting work to pay my bills.

Eventually I even stopped charging for investigative stories. The Isa Pantami and Ini Umoren stories, as whatever god you believe in is looking at me, I did them FOR FREE. I did not charge Newswire or Sahara Reporters one round penny.

Please confirm from Mercy and Yele!

Thank goodness Substack made @WestAfricaWeek a reality with a sizeable grant. Now I've done some of the most important and impactful work in the Nigerian space over the past few months, without working for peanuts/free, and without needing anyone's help.

NOW there's a problem?

If I see any of you useless,grey haired nonentities having words to say about my work, I will descend on you with the wrath of a suicide bomber, and if I meet you in person one day, you might physically cop a hard slap.

Stupid, useless dinosaurs who exist to eat, shit and die.