Multiformat Journalist || Comms & Partnerships at @The_CCIJ • Founder at @TheRadioClassNG • @_Africatalks Opinions and views expressed here are mine only.
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We're used to saying, "Kids don't read anymore." But after talking to @Lanre_Lawal, it's clear that the bigger problem is that many just never had access.
That's why he's spending his own money restoring public school libraries across Nigeria.
Lanre's work is clear evidence that some of the most important nation-building work doesn't always make the headlines.
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Dear women, tell your stories more.
Dear Nigerian women, tell your stories more.
Dear accomplished women, tell your stories, YOUR story not the marriage story, your OWN story.
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Only where such cards are accepted.
Unfortunately, another reminder of why payments are a critical and urgent #AfCTA issue as there is no full filment of trade without payments.
Lots of sales lost by Nigerian SMES this week, and that is a revenue loss to Nigeria.
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Maybe one of the reasons charlatans are everywhere is because the people actually doing the work are too exhausted/traumatized/measured and are therefore too hesitant to talk.
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This morning, @Spearhead_Af's TikTok account was finally suspended after months of receiving nonsensical strikes for things like mentioning "Niger" (which TikTok insists is a racial slur, instead of the name of a country in West Africa).
Our new TikTok handle is @SpearheadAfrica
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The Food stuffs East, Central and Southern Africa can export to West Africa are endless under the AfCFTA.
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I didn’t even know there was a scandal on the timeline when I wrote this, people you’ve had a history with and their first reaction to a disagreement (known/unknown) quick to pen down a long blog to disparage your character aren’t your friends!!!
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I constantly harp on Nigerians/Africans, who lack minds of their own.
You are a Nigerian. You are not a White Southern Baptist in America.
Your environment is different, your context is different.
Have enough self-awareness to appreciate that fact. Stop acting and sounding, like a fool.
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Rwanda refused to become a dumping ground for second-hand clothing and other used goods from the United States.
President Paul Kagame stood firm on protecting Rwanda’s textile industry by restricting second-hand clothing imports from the US, despite the trade consequences under AGOA.
Africa must stop being a dumping ground and start producing for itself.
#thisisafrica
Innocent Idibia made a timeless classic when he made this.
I've played this video an unhealthy number of times and it fills me with such nostalgia.
The purity of the words, the creativity in the writing, the beauty of the music.
This was an era of Nigerian music I don't think we're going to get back..
Please who is this man that sang this and make me to understand the lyrics clearly? Who is the senior man???
Some people are so gifted.
This song can never go into extinction. 2baba cooked!!
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Actually the driver of the misconception that democracy is anti-African is the tendency to universalize liberal democracy, which is anti-African.
Liberal democracy is merely a form of democracy.
The idea that all other forms are not democracy is problematic.
In fact, it is anti democracy to call other forms of democracy the derogatory names that crusaders of liberal democracy refer to them as.
“We must counter the misconception that democracy is anti-African”. - Historian Achille Mbembe
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Nigerians will see exploitation and convince themselves that they're witnessing progress.
They're taking your shit, repackaging it with their faces on it because they don't want to see yours, and you're here shouting "Afrobeats to the world!"
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The Colonial Clock: Who Designed Africa's Retirement Models?
We talk about colonialism’s obvious legacies in Africa: IMF structural adjustment programmes, debt traps, "aid" tied to economically-crippling policy changes, externally-fueled conflicts and t*rror...
But what about those colonial legacies which we have normalized so much, we barely even notice or question them?
What if we told you that even the age at which you are allowed to retire as an African is just another Western colonial weapon fashioned against you?
@sannario_ reports for The Spearhead.
These are the issues 🤷🏾♀️
At about 9:19 am on Monday, FIJ simulated the experience of a concerned citizen who may have spotted symptoms of the Ebola disease and needed to contact @NCDCgov.
The response was — silence.
No Toll-Free
No WhatsApp
No SMS response
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One category of professional on this continent that I am truly terrified of is the Kenyan Development Expert.
He/She is always the FIRST African to adopt and rationalise anything that comes from the wazungu in suits, no matter how extractive or dystopian.
If the European slave trade resumed today, you can bet your house that there will be a Kenyan Development Expert overseeing the barracoons, using terms like "Supervised Human Talent Relocation" and "Involuntary Personnel Transshipment".
Like his cousins the Nigerian tech founder and the Senegalese NGO director, he has no concept whatsoever of general or localised African interest, and his mental environment is one of the most selfishly, abominably capitalist places on earth.
These guys fill my soul with actual terror. I'm genuinely scared of them.
"Non Revenue Water" fucking hell...
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South Africa fighting against genocide in Gaza.
Rwanda fighting to keep genociddaires away from their borders.
U.S. remains CHOOSING genociddaires, pedophiles, mercenaries, murderers, scammers…name it! You’re Fooling NO ONE‼️
AGOA : Washington va exclure le Rwanda et l'Afrique du Sud dès le 1er janvier 2027
Le président Donald Trump a notifié ce lundi au Congrès ainsi qu'aux gouvernements rwandais et sud-africain son intention d'exclure les deux pays de l'AGOA, le programme de préférences commerciales américain, à compter du 1er janvier 2027.
Selon le représentant américain au Commerce, Jamieson Greer, Kigali et Pretoria se livrent à des pratiques incompatibles avec les critères d'éligibilité du programme. Il cite notamment des barrières au commerce et aux investissements américains et des menaces pour la sécurité nationale et la politique étrangère des États-Unis dans la région.
Concernant le Rwanda, l'administration Trump se dit en outre profondément préoccupée par l'État de droit, le pluralisme politique, les droits des travailleurs et les droits humains.
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They’d do everything for the elites but for the average Nigerians who really need help. Never seen a people so obsessed with patronage, hospitals are falling apart, terrible roads, Abuja barely has its own water infrastructure - low budget operations all around
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