grandstar:
I laugh in Yoruba

The article you wrote about Libya is preposterous in all ramifications.

Libya wasn't rich. It was stuck in tbe middle income trap forever.

Gaddafi was a tyrant and ruled with an iron fist. The majority of his people were glad to see him go.
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The only problem was the West did not foresee the sectarian crisis his overthrow would bring. They probably assumed that because all Arabs speak the same language and share the same religion, it would be plain sailing.

Arabs are divided by religious sects and tribal clans.

Just imagine Yoruba land was a country and an Ijebu wanted to stay perpetually in power?

Sirheny007:
Lol.. In what capacity would Nigeria kick France out? As the giants of Africa? In economy? Resources?? Superior Military power?? Abi population only? we all know who makes up 20% the so called 160Million Nigerians.
@ Op dont make me laugh. You mean fulani cows make up 20% of the population of Nigeria?. lol

lebete3000:


Lmao! The dude doesn't know Independence was given to most Africans on a platter of gild as an act of Mercy. What this means is that we'll forever be at the mercy of the Caucasians cos they're miles ahead of us.

We would have even had hope if we were a serious continent, but instead we'll rather prefer to embezzled money and end up depositing it in foreign countries we are hoping to compete with only for those ones to seize it again and dictate to us how to spend our money, with the conditions on returned loot in mind...

Forget Africa jarey, we'll remain slaves until God delivers us.

Habyz:

We (the reasonable Africans) care. Stop embarrassing your country.

grandstar:
I laugh in Yoruba

The article you wrote about Libya is preposterous in all ramifications.

Libya wasn't rich. It was stuck in tbe middle income trap forever.

Gaddafi was a tyrant and ruled with an iron fist. The majority of his people were glad to see him go.
.
The only problem was the West did not foresee the sectarian crisis his overthrow would bring. They probably assumed that because all Arabs speak the same language and share the same religion, it would be plain sailing.

Arabs are divided by religious sects and tribal clans.

Just imagine Yoruba land was a country and an Ijebu wanted to stay perpetually in power?

palearab:


The funny thing is the same money that's was return will still be stolen and keep in that same Country!

ooshinibos:
lets be honest , Nigeria is disgrace to the black race , we put all our hope in Nigeria until now , you have disappointed beyond expectation , the plan was that Nigeria will be a template for development but you have not delivered hence the hate towards Nigeria ,its your lack of development, so much have been endowed to Nigeria but you deliver nothing ( hence most Nigerians migrated via Libya ,this is utter disgrace and mayhem ) , look your infrastructures , am not going to start , even ordinary electricity you refused to generate even though you are blessed with oil and gas , please don't blame corruption , its your mentality that have crippled you , we don't regard you as a leader in Africa and you have nothing to offer ...

Igboid:
Delusional thread.

Nigeria is a poor third world country, still under colonial British and now USA imperialist control.

She can't help herself, let alone any one else.

Falzdbadtguy:


You mean, minding their pockets...Before you can be benevolent for the whole of Africa, u have to first be a selfless, tribeless Patroit....How many Nigerians are non-tribalistic, we've never been more divided. And everytime u make Ibadan or Ibo jokes, u r only reinforcing that tribalism....Una never see anything

Jesse01:
wat da f*ck is ur problem must u quote me

romme2u:


The Germans, Chinese and even India have joined the scramble. But it looks like the Chinese are having upper hand because of their greek gifts.

musicwriter:
That vision can't be realized unless we discard the colonial education we inherited from Europeans. Just look at how many people on here who thinks this's an impossible task!.

As long as our education was invented by white man, our God invented by white man, our legal framework invented by white man, our cars and phones imported from white man, for so long shall we worship white people, for so long shall Ghadaffi's dream not be realized.

Only a system of education invented by us will create a mass of African elites who will seek Ghadaffi's dream by ourselves as a people. This's really the BIGGEST threat to the west.

Haiti was the first country in the world to imagine something like Ghadaffi's vission during the days of plantation slavery in st, Doming, Haiti in the mid 1700's. When black slaves began protesting demanding their freedom, the then French leader Napoleon Bonarepat made it clear that anything that would lead black masses to think outside of the colonial box must be stopped by all means, because if allowed it would create black population who can think outside the box.

romme2u:


The Arabs are struggling with the Europeans who controls black Africa and its resources. The Arabs who came first subjugated blacks for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. The Europeans conquer and colonize Middle East and North Africa (whom the Arabs had overrun centuries earlier) culminating in the fall of ottoman empire during WW1.

NOTE: Even in the middle east there is an eternal struggle for supremacy between the Turks, Persians (Iran), Arabs and recently the Jews.

The Arabs have lost the struggle to the Europeans and are trying to lure black Africans into alliance to fight Europeans. The Arabs will keep telling the black man that Europeans are the problem of Africa BUT throughout North Africa where they are in power, they are minorities exception of Egypt which they overrun the locals.

None of them are our friends, we (including our governments) are simply pawns in their big power games.

saibop:
You are sick and someone need to tell you sir

SADC - Southern African Development Community and EAC – East African Community are more successful. I say ECOWAS is 3rd.

LordAdam16:


Thankfully, the Chinese and Indians are not imperialistic. They only care for our resources on the cheap to better their economies and don't give a flying f*ck how we manage our affairs, as long as nothing happens to deals made.

And the West is careful about allowing Germany to gain too much an influence outside Europe (a country that started two world wars and even rose to become the current largest economy in Europe must always be scrutinized).

The interesting thing tho' is that the industrialized countries treat Africa like a room shared by sibs. Everyone has their own sphere of influence and they all respect each other's boundaries. Apparently, the Berlin Conference never ended with the independence of African countries.

All former British colonies belong to the commonwealth. And no other world power interferes in the affairs of a Commonwealth nation without getting the nod from Britain. For example, during the civil war, the Americans preferred for Nigeria to be divvied up, but Britain wanted the opposite and the US capitulated.

Another recent example is the Gbagbo incident. While the AU was seeking soft landing for Gbagbo, the West sensed the reluctance of the AU/ECOWAS to storm the Presidential Palace, but resolved to let the French do as they deem fit with full backing since Ivory Coast is within their sphere of influence. French special forces led the assault.

Even the very recent Zimbabwe coup more allied with China. Mnanganwa went to China to get their blessings. And after China got reassurance that it wouldn't be bloody, they shared the coup plan with the US, UK, and Russia before giving the go ahead.

All of this is why we'd remain the most underdeveloped continent for as long as the world exists. Because after the Arabs had their fill, the Europeans continued from where they stopped, China and India are now having their turn. In the near future, it'd be Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia. Maybe by the time we come to our senses, mankind would have already started colonizing other planets and wouldn't need Africa's resources that much any more.

I wonder what that'd mean for the dark continent. If the developed world would be more likely then than now to send aid that's always misused.

-Lord

Mariangeles:
After all we did for an African country like South Africa in the fight against apartheid, how did they pay us back...? with xenophobic attacks I tell you, treating us with no respect, its the Same with the other African countries...they forget so easily what We do for them

Mariangeles:
After all we did for an African country like South Africa in the fight against apartheid, how did they pay us back...? with xenophobic attacks I tell you, treating us with no respect, its the Same with the other African countries...they forget so easily what We do for them

mickeymimi:
Op do you mean Nigeria alone ......
We cannot even stop the Fulani herds men from killing people in Nigeria ..... Libya from enslaving other Africans ... no vision ..because of bad government

Profusamah:


Get your facts right bro. Take for example the xenophobia case in SA ; most business owned by Nigerians were the target. The feel we like dominating them but when the have a problem, the remember us. Since the are so strong to attack us, let them fend for themselves.

SPOPOVICH:

Stop open shitting & exporting criminals joor..

MduZA:


They pay u back by allowing their modern world class companies to operate in your hostile dusty environment for your modern world class shopping experience..they go as far as absorbing your young students in their world class universities...hence you pay them back by sending your drug Lords who are diluting their beautiful country!

Western education is not the problem. Nobody is stopping us from "Africanizing" western education. The Asians did, why can't we.

Why discard the baby with the baby water.

The problem is that we have no plan. Everyone has ideas, but there is no concrete Marshall plan. The idiots at the AU and ECOWAS are a bunch of mofos who couldn't care less how Africa fared as long they are able to rule for life and the Western banks open their doors to the corrupt loots.

And more importantly, the population doesn't mind. We are all too bothered trying to survive to even begin to think of how to build, maintain, and exert influence.

You know you've got problems when electricity is interrupted regularly and you're planning on how to rescue Africa from the chains of the imperialists. There's a governor building statues, another having 18 special assistants for gender, another donating goats as empowerment package, and yet another donating wheelbarrows as an empowerment package.

We can't even afford to pay N18,000 ($50) minimum monthly wage without borrowing. It's sickening.

Yet our best minds are becoming MDs of the World Bank, Dep. Sec Gen of the UN, Sec Gen of the UN (Koffi), getting appointed in cabinets around the world, and becoming the most educated people on the planet elsewhere.

It is completely bewildering that we've got 1.3b Africans, yet all our best minds happen to be outside the shore of the continent. ALL OF THEM. Apparently the only way for an African to reach his/her true potential is to leave Africa.

Nigerians in the diaspora sent back $25+b last year. That's roughly our entire budget. Just take a minute to digest that. Imagine what this country would have been like if that amount of money wasn't entering Nigeria every year.

Stay and a SARS operative may kill you (and nothing will happen). You have to generate your own electricity, get your own water, protect yourself, yet you have to pay taxes to a government.

The best we can offer as leaders are Buhari, Zuma and El Sisi. Yet someone would say we aren't cursed. What can one expect from those bastards. In fact, I give up.

#rantover

-Lord

Profusamah:


Get your facts right bro. Take for example the xenophobia case in SA ; most business owned by Nigerians were the target. The feel we like dominating them but when the have a problem, the remember us. Since the are so strong to attack us, let them fend for themselves.