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I have no dog in this fight, but it’s not the straightforward picture you paint here. Building a food delivery app, the 10 millionth fintech app etc is very different from building a “defense company for the global south”, or building the “LLM for the global south” etc. There are certain businesses that play directly into geopolitics; defense is one, information, semiconductors, energy are another. It’s sad a company as distinguished as Terra has to seek outside capital to build, more particularly seek it from the devil (you know who). But it’s stupid to blame them, they already mentioned they tried raising from local funds to no avail. That’s why I find it funny when people assume Africa could somewhat work or be built from a capitalistic angle. There’s never going to be proper industrialization (which we badly need), without government intervention. Even the very capitalistic America, works because of the government. If you’re doubting it go do a bit of reading on the lengths the government go to for the big dogs. Companies like Terra are meant to be mostly government backed. Do you even know how critical defense is? Imagine building a system which when critically needed could be rendered useless with a single call from Washington. We speak big about sovereignty but Nigeria and most of Africa are still very much as colonized as they once were just rather unofficially. Dependency on foreign capital, foreign infrastructure, with no will to break out of the mess we are. China already did the homework, we really just have to copy. Until then, let’s keep salivating at the idea of “sovereignty”