If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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This is something I used to ask myself until I realised that we live in a low-trust society.
It's often easier to scam Westerners precisely because they come from high-trust societies, and we mistake that trust for stupidity.
Take the US, for example. You can print your own check, deposit a check by simply taking a picture with your banking app, and even start using some of the money before the check has fully cleared. You don't even have to visit a bank.
Compare that with most parts of Africa, where something as simple as forgetting your banking app password can mean physically visiting a bank branch with all your identification documents.
We have become so accustomed to suspicion and distrust that we mistake our cunningness for intelligence and other people's trust for foolishness.
We think we are smarter because we are harder to fool, without realising that we have built societies where nobody trusts anybody.
At first, I thought this was an AI-generated image.
Lorry carrying crates of soda overturns at notorious black spot near Dedan Kimathi University.
Read the full story here: tinyurl.com/dr24zupu
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Look at the comments, their biggest concern is that the maid does not have a fancy dress but not that she's an underage maid. Nigeria is not a real place
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Ujanja culture. The fraudster mistakes dishonesty for intelligence, while the society he exploits makes the equally foolish mistake of assuming its own decency is universal
One mistakes dishonesty for intelligence. The other mistakes its own decency for a universal human trait
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Wdym maid? Those kids are LITERALLY the same age. Nigerians are literally evil, how can you find a problem with the dress and not the fact that you’re making a child work.
In most of the quote tweets, it's only non-Nigerians questioning how a girl under ten years old can be a maid. Most Nigerians, on the other hand, are arguing about the difference in how the girls are dressed.
That tells you how normalised the practice of using children as domestic workers is in Nigeria. And it is.
People are dragging this woman for saying it’s easy to spot a maid, but I actually understand her point. 😂
Let’s be honest, must everybody wear expensive clothes to look presentable? The maid’s dress might not have had the same finishing as the children’s clothes, but that doesn’t mean she looked bad.
Some of you have allowed class consciousness to enter your brain so deeply that you can no longer appreciate simplicity.
A person can wear an ordinary dress and still look decent. Not everybody has to wear clothes with fancy designs, expensive fabrics, or perfect finishing before they can appear in public.
And let’s not forget that the woman is a maid, not a fashion model attending a runway show. Why are people suddenly acting as if her outfit is a crime?
There is absolutely nothing shameful about wearing simple clothes. Poverty is not a character flaw, and simplicity is not a crime.
Take it or leave it.
Kenya Prisons Service faces public outrage after a viral video allegedly shows inmates at Manyani Prison being served porridge like ugali using a spade, with the food loaded into torn metal buckets.
This footage has raised serious concerns about food hygiene, sanitation and the dignity of prisoners. Manyani Maximum Security Prison, located in Taita-Taveta County, is among Kenya’s established correctional facilities.
Nigeria is one of the few countries where employing minors as domestic maids is still widely accepted, and society seems to see nothing wrong with it.
Take this post, for example. The outrage is over the girl being excluded from the other children's matching clothing designs, not the fact that a girl who looks barely 8 or 10 years old is working as a maid in the first place.
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And ladies and gentlemen, the average African is proud to be a consumer of US, Russian or Chinese technology. He/she isn't interested in developing anything of his own, but takes pride in consumption of what others produce.
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If someone posts a video and prefaces it with, “watch until the end,” skip it immediately.
Arab political parties in Israel could soon become a serious thorn in the flesh of Israeli politics.
The thing about democracy is that it can either build a country or slowly undermine it. Democracy gives people the power to shape the future of their country, but there is no guarantee that everyone exercising that power shares the same vision for its future.
Arab Israelis will naturally vote according to their own interests, and their political priorities are increasingly shaped by events in the wider Middle East, particularly the conflict in Gaza.
As their political influence grows, Israel may find itself confronting a difficult question: What happens when the democratic process increasingly empowers political movements whose priorities conflict with the state's existing national identity and direction?
This is the dilemma I see Israel heading towards. It may eventually face a hard choice between preserving its democratic principles and preserving the kind of state it was established to be.
That's the uncomfortable paradox of democracy. The very system that gives a nation its political legitimacy can also provide the means through which its character is fundamentally transformed.
Even if Ilhan Omar is found guilty, I doubt she will ever be deported or spend a day in jail.
The problem with Republicans is that they care too much about what Democrats think of them. They are so afraid of being called racist, fascist, or authoritarian that they hesitate to do the very things they were elected to do.
If Democrats had their way, Trump would be sitting in a prison cell right now. They don't lose sleep worrying about what Republicans think of them. They believe in their ideology, they pursue their political objectives aggressively, and they are willing to use every legal and political tool available to achieve them. I respect that level of conviction, even when I disagree with their politics.
Republicans, on the other hand, seem more interested in appearing reasonable to people who will never vote for them than in delivering on their own promises.
And that is the fundamental difference I see between the two parties. Democrats are willing to fight for what they believe in, while Republicans seem more concerned about how the fight will make them look.
So I'm not holding my breath. Even if there is sufficient evidence against Ilhan Omar, I doubt Republicans will follow through with serious consequences.
I could be wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it.
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They never fail to hit you with that “ you worship white people” or “slave”
Pan-Africanist: Africa is poor because Europeans spent centuries exploiting our resources.
Normal African: Colonialism was exploitative. But who controls those resources today?
Pan-Africanist: African governments, technically. But Western corporations still benefit.
Normal African: Who signs the contracts with those corporations?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: And who receives the money?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: So why is your revolution always directed at London and Paris instead of the presidential palace down the road?
Pan-Africanist: Because you don't understand how neocolonialism works.
Normal African: Apparently, it works by making African presidents steal money and buy mansions in the countries they claim are oppressing us.
Pan-Africanist: You're oversimplifying centuries of systemic exploitation.
Normal African: Fair enough. Let's talk about solutions. How do we become economically independent?
Pan-Africanist: We must reject Western dependency and build African institutions.
Normal African: Excellent. Where should we start?
Pan-Africanist: Education, technology, infrastructure, manufacturing.
Normal African: Agreed. Why haven't we done that?
Pan-Africanist: Because Western powers deliberately keep Africa underdeveloped.
Normal African: So the West is powerful enough to prevent 54 African countries from developing, but somehow powerless to stop China, South Korea, Singapore and other former poor countries from industrializing?
Pan-Africanist: Their historical circumstances were different.
Normal African: Exactly. So perhaps we should study what they did differently instead of treating history as a permanent excuse.
Pan-Africanist: You sound like someone who worships white people.
Normal African: I thought we were discussing economics.
Pan-Africanist: Economics cannot be separated from colonial history.
Normal African: Neither can it be separated from present-day leadership, corruption, productivity, education and institutions.
Pan-Africanist: Africa needs leaders like Thomas Sankara.
Normal African: Sankara received formal education and military training through institutions established under French colonial rule. Should we acknowledge that too?
Pan-Africanist: That's colonial mentality. He used their knowledge against them.
Normal African: Wonderful. So we agree that knowledge is useful regardless of who introduced it?
Pan-Africanist: You're missing the point.
Normal African: I'm beginning to suspect the point is that everything good is African resistance and everything bad is European influence.
Pan-Africanist: We must decolonize the African mind!
Normal African: Can we first fix the public hospital?
Pan-Africanist: You cannot fix institutions without first liberating the African mind.
Normal African: The hospital has had no medicine for three weeks.
Pan-Africanist: That's the legacy of colonialism.
Normal African: The health minister just bought himself a new Range Rover.
Pan-Africanist: You really need to read more African history.
Normal African: And you need to read the Auditor-General's report.
Cogito, Ergo Sum retweeted
So brilliantly put!
Pan-Africanist: Africa is poor because Europeans spent centuries exploiting our resources.
Normal African: Colonialism was exploitative. But who controls those resources today?
Pan-Africanist: African governments, technically. But Western corporations still benefit.
Normal African: Who signs the contracts with those corporations?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: And who receives the money?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: So why is your revolution always directed at London and Paris instead of the presidential palace down the road?
Pan-Africanist: Because you don't understand how neocolonialism works.
Normal African: Apparently, it works by making African presidents steal money and buy mansions in the countries they claim are oppressing us.
Pan-Africanist: You're oversimplifying centuries of systemic exploitation.
Normal African: Fair enough. Let's talk about solutions. How do we become economically independent?
Pan-Africanist: We must reject Western dependency and build African institutions.
Normal African: Excellent. Where should we start?
Pan-Africanist: Education, technology, infrastructure, manufacturing.
Normal African: Agreed. Why haven't we done that?
Pan-Africanist: Because Western powers deliberately keep Africa underdeveloped.
Normal African: So the West is powerful enough to prevent 54 African countries from developing, but somehow powerless to stop China, South Korea, Singapore and other former poor countries from industrializing?
Pan-Africanist: Their historical circumstances were different.
Normal African: Exactly. So perhaps we should study what they did differently instead of treating history as a permanent excuse.
Pan-Africanist: You sound like someone who worships white people.
Normal African: I thought we were discussing economics.
Pan-Africanist: Economics cannot be separated from colonial history.
Normal African: Neither can it be separated from present-day leadership, corruption, productivity, education and institutions.
Pan-Africanist: Africa needs leaders like Thomas Sankara.
Normal African: Sankara received formal education and military training through institutions established under French colonial rule. Should we acknowledge that too?
Pan-Africanist: That's colonial mentality. He used their knowledge against them.
Normal African: Wonderful. So we agree that knowledge is useful regardless of who introduced it?
Pan-Africanist: You're missing the point.
Normal African: I'm beginning to suspect the point is that everything good is African resistance and everything bad is European influence.
Pan-Africanist: We must decolonize the African mind!
Normal African: Can we first fix the public hospital?
Pan-Africanist: You cannot fix institutions without first liberating the African mind.
Normal African: The hospital has had no medicine for three weeks.
Pan-Africanist: That's the legacy of colonialism.
Normal African: The health minister just bought himself a new Range Rover.
Pan-Africanist: You really need to read more African history.
Normal African: And you need to read the Auditor-General's report.
Cogito, Ergo Sum retweeted
That is exactly what made the beginning of colonialism in Africa easier & the ending worse than the rest of the world. Always argue that the very reason Africa was weak back then & poor now is that we had been highly fragmented into small tribal bands for most of our past history
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いやー素晴らしい。面白い
日本（いや先進国全般か）で、社会の改善について普通の人が指摘する現実的問題点に対して机上のドグマを繰り返すだけの左翼の会話そっくり！
Pan-Africanist: Africa is poor because Europeans spent centuries exploiting our resources.
Normal African: Colonialism was exploitative. But who controls those resources today?
Pan-Africanist: African governments, technically. But Western corporations still benefit.
Normal African: Who signs the contracts with those corporations?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: And who receives the money?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: So why is your revolution always directed at London and Paris instead of the presidential palace down the road?
Pan-Africanist: Because you don't understand how neocolonialism works.
Normal African: Apparently, it works by making African presidents steal money and buy mansions in the countries they claim are oppressing us.
Pan-Africanist: You're oversimplifying centuries of systemic exploitation.
Normal African: Fair enough. Let's talk about solutions. How do we become economically independent?
Pan-Africanist: We must reject Western dependency and build African institutions.
Normal African: Excellent. Where should we start?
Pan-Africanist: Education, technology, infrastructure, manufacturing.
Normal African: Agreed. Why haven't we done that?
Pan-Africanist: Because Western powers deliberately keep Africa underdeveloped.
Normal African: So the West is powerful enough to prevent 54 African countries from developing, but somehow powerless to stop China, South Korea, Singapore and other former poor countries from industrializing?
Pan-Africanist: Their historical circumstances were different.
Normal African: Exactly. So perhaps we should study what they did differently instead of treating history as a permanent excuse.
Pan-Africanist: You sound like someone who worships white people.
Normal African: I thought we were discussing economics.
Pan-Africanist: Economics cannot be separated from colonial history.
Normal African: Neither can it be separated from present-day leadership, corruption, productivity, education and institutions.
Pan-Africanist: Africa needs leaders like Thomas Sankara.
Normal African: Sankara received formal education and military training through institutions established under French colonial rule. Should we acknowledge that too?
Pan-Africanist: That's colonial mentality. He used their knowledge against them.
Normal African: Wonderful. So we agree that knowledge is useful regardless of who introduced it?
Pan-Africanist: You're missing the point.
Normal African: I'm beginning to suspect the point is that everything good is African resistance and everything bad is European influence.
Pan-Africanist: We must decolonize the African mind!
Normal African: Can we first fix the public hospital?
Pan-Africanist: You cannot fix institutions without first liberating the African mind.
Normal African: The hospital has had no medicine for three weeks.
Pan-Africanist: That's the legacy of colonialism.
Normal African: The health minister just bought himself a new Range Rover.
Pan-Africanist: You really need to read more African history.
Normal African: And you need to read the Auditor-General's report.
Cogito, Ergo Sum retweeted
Couldn't have said it any better.
Pan-Africanist: Africa is poor because Europeans spent centuries exploiting our resources.
Normal African: Colonialism was exploitative. But who controls those resources today?
Pan-Africanist: African governments, technically. But Western corporations still benefit.
Normal African: Who signs the contracts with those corporations?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: And who receives the money?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: So why is your revolution always directed at London and Paris instead of the presidential palace down the road?
Pan-Africanist: Because you don't understand how neocolonialism works.
Normal African: Apparently, it works by making African presidents steal money and buy mansions in the countries they claim are oppressing us.
Pan-Africanist: You're oversimplifying centuries of systemic exploitation.
Normal African: Fair enough. Let's talk about solutions. How do we become economically independent?
Pan-Africanist: We must reject Western dependency and build African institutions.
Normal African: Excellent. Where should we start?
Pan-Africanist: Education, technology, infrastructure, manufacturing.
Normal African: Agreed. Why haven't we done that?
Pan-Africanist: Because Western powers deliberately keep Africa underdeveloped.
Normal African: So the West is powerful enough to prevent 54 African countries from developing, but somehow powerless to stop China, South Korea, Singapore and other former poor countries from industrializing?
Pan-Africanist: Their historical circumstances were different.
Normal African: Exactly. So perhaps we should study what they did differently instead of treating history as a permanent excuse.
Pan-Africanist: You sound like someone who worships white people.
Normal African: I thought we were discussing economics.
Pan-Africanist: Economics cannot be separated from colonial history.
Normal African: Neither can it be separated from present-day leadership, corruption, productivity, education and institutions.
Pan-Africanist: Africa needs leaders like Thomas Sankara.
Normal African: Sankara received formal education and military training through institutions established under French colonial rule. Should we acknowledge that too?
Pan-Africanist: That's colonial mentality. He used their knowledge against them.
Normal African: Wonderful. So we agree that knowledge is useful regardless of who introduced it?
Pan-Africanist: You're missing the point.
Normal African: I'm beginning to suspect the point is that everything good is African resistance and everything bad is European influence.
Pan-Africanist: We must decolonize the African mind!
Normal African: Can we first fix the public hospital?
Pan-Africanist: You cannot fix institutions without first liberating the African mind.
Normal African: The hospital has had no medicine for three weeks.
Pan-Africanist: That's the legacy of colonialism.
Normal African: The health minister just bought himself a new Range Rover.
Pan-Africanist: You really need to read more African history.
Normal African: And you need to read the Auditor-General's report.
Cogito, Ergo Sum retweeted
😂🙌
Pan-Africanist: Africa is poor because Europeans spent centuries exploiting our resources.
Normal African: Colonialism was exploitative. But who controls those resources today?
Pan-Africanist: African governments, technically. But Western corporations still benefit.
Normal African: Who signs the contracts with those corporations?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: And who receives the money?
Pan-Africanist: Our corrupt leaders.
Normal African: So why is your revolution always directed at London and Paris instead of the presidential palace down the road?
Pan-Africanist: Because you don't understand how neocolonialism works.
Normal African: Apparently, it works by making African presidents steal money and buy mansions in the countries they claim are oppressing us.
Pan-Africanist: You're oversimplifying centuries of systemic exploitation.
Normal African: Fair enough. Let's talk about solutions. How do we become economically independent?
Pan-Africanist: We must reject Western dependency and build African institutions.
Normal African: Excellent. Where should we start?
Pan-Africanist: Education, technology, infrastructure, manufacturing.
Normal African: Agreed. Why haven't we done that?
Pan-Africanist: Because Western powers deliberately keep Africa underdeveloped.
Normal African: So the West is powerful enough to prevent 54 African countries from developing, but somehow powerless to stop China, South Korea, Singapore and other former poor countries from industrializing?
Pan-Africanist: Their historical circumstances were different.
Normal African: Exactly. So perhaps we should study what they did differently instead of treating history as a permanent excuse.
Pan-Africanist: You sound like someone who worships white people.
Normal African: I thought we were discussing economics.
Pan-Africanist: Economics cannot be separated from colonial history.
Normal African: Neither can it be separated from present-day leadership, corruption, productivity, education and institutions.
Pan-Africanist: Africa needs leaders like Thomas Sankara.
Normal African: Sankara received formal education and military training through institutions established under French colonial rule. Should we acknowledge that too?
Pan-Africanist: That's colonial mentality. He used their knowledge against them.
Normal African: Wonderful. So we agree that knowledge is useful regardless of who introduced it?
Pan-Africanist: You're missing the point.
Normal African: I'm beginning to suspect the point is that everything good is African resistance and everything bad is European influence.
Pan-Africanist: We must decolonize the African mind!
Normal African: Can we first fix the public hospital?
Pan-Africanist: You cannot fix institutions without first liberating the African mind.
Normal African: The hospital has had no medicine for three weeks.
Pan-Africanist: That's the legacy of colonialism.
Normal African: The health minister just bought himself a new Range Rover.
Pan-Africanist: You really need to read more African history.
Normal African: And you need to read the Auditor-General's report.