AFONJACOW: why should I be in tears when I will be wishing and blaming my ancestors for denying me opportunity to be an American by birth.. why they no allow slave masters catch them
Worry not because the Chinese are coming.Your wish to be a slave shall be granted
AkataWoman: A better system that didn’t build itself. Why don’t Nigerians live in a better system?
The fact that we were forced to America as slaves but emerged with hard-fought for civil rights and equality IN A FOREIGN LAND WHERE WE REMAIN OUTNUMBERED is the first thing that makes us better.
Nigerians have remained the majority in your land, had whites come in to civilize you and you still don’t have a working system in place ALTHOUGH THE WHITES LEFT YOU WITH ONE.
Yeah, you guys do not need to worry about black Americans. Get some electricity. Schools. Jobs. A data system.
AkataWoman: This site is filled with posts about Biden & Kamala’s election. Nigerians are OBSESSED with America and wish they had the American roots and privilege black Americans are born with.
It’s all Jealousy. There’s no other reason to spend so much time tweeting and posting about a group you consider “wayward” and “bitter”. Especially when the so called “bitter” don’t waste their time posting about you.
AkataWoman: No they’re talking because they’re JEALOUS. Nigerians are known throughout the world for your horrible scamming and bad attitudes. It’s the reason you’re banned from the US and unwanted throughout Europe. Still, black Americans don’t pay you any mind. Then again, you’re so lowly that you don’t rate anyone’s attention.
Everyone has ROOTS dumb ass. Just because ours aren’t as backwards and primitive as yours doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Only a dumb ass would begin a conversation with insults and expect a mature discussion to follow. Perhaps you should’ve started from a MATURE place. You wanted negative energy, you got it.
Don’t throw the first punch them cry fouls when you get pummeled.
Anybody would be bitter about people shitting outdoors like dogs! Are white people bitter too? They find you equally disgusting. Why didn’t you call on white Americans to help you end SARS? They saw you get shot at Lekki bridge and said “Good.”
Don’t think you get to throw stones then play victim when they’re hurled right back, dog lady.
AkataWoman: Yet we’re still 1000 times better off than you.
Why is it that NIGERIANS are the only people who say this? Sounds like JEALOUSY to the rest of the world.
That’s why NOBODY-black Americans, white Americans, Europeans, Asians or ANYBODY-stood with you to EndSARS. Because Nigerians come across as angry, bitter and wayward with VERY low self-esteem.
People with low self-esteem sit around trying to insult people who are better than them.
I won’t even get started on your wayward primitive ways of jungle justice, burning tires, runs girls, scamming yahoo boys, women sleeping with anybody for a dollar and running after married men so you can get money to eat at least once a day. You guys are a MESS.
Future generations will have to deal with the integration issue, right now nna I don't support it. Maybe at SADC region for now - I can swallow that. The thought of West Africans swamping us is a horror movie
I'm good.
Hopethey won't have to.
We already share many cultural similarities with the SADC countries so the integration won't be much of a problem.
TMKsouth: I've noticed they're the most afro-pessimist in all of Africa. Ironically, SA is very positive about Africa, which is why we always ask people to go back to their countries to develop them instead of running away.
And this is why South Africa will have more to lose should we integrate with the rest of Africa (as Malema suggests) because people like that idiot you responded will set us back with their whitewashed ideologies.
TMKsouth: No one knows and colonisation has had all of Africa believing it would've been failures without white intervention.
Please bear with me.
Firstly, if the whites didn't colonise South Africa there wouldn't be a country called the Union of South Africa. It would definitely had been smaller neighbouring nations with different levels of development - some successful and others not perhaps. Or it could have spanned a larger area than what it is today because as you know Shaka Zulu, for example, was on an expansionist mission at the time of colonisation, hence acquiring more wealth.
Secondly, considering that the SA economy was largely built on mineral resources, with some of the largest deposits in the world, those smaller hypothetical nations or the super-state would've been in full charge of those assets without the colonial hangover of low self-esteem and individualism (which is the root of the corruption and inefficiency now prevalent throughout the continent). Compare this possibility with Ethiopia which was never colonised but unfortunately lacks significant natural resources such as gold and diamonds as in SA, perhaps that's what has held them back for so long, but are finally finding their feet.
So basically, it's all just speculation, no one knows. There definitely wouldn't have been a Cape Town or Johannesburg, or maybe there would have been far better cities modelled on Southern African principles of Ubuntu, which are by nature socialist, which are fairer, maybe with or without skyscrapers. Or it couldve been scorched earth as a result of tribal feuds resulting from Shaka's violent antics.
I'm hesitant to paint a rosy picture but also that of doom and pathetic black people. No one knows the level of development "South Africa" would've have had without colonisation and apartheid because apart from the Western type way of thinking the whites also messed us up in a big way and derailed us from our own destined path.
There are many possibilities that should be explored instead of sheepingly accepting the indoctrination that Africa and especially South Africa would've sucked without white influence. Its the lazy option.
Checkout the pictures below.
Sorry for the essay but you did ask a complex question.
It's not every day that one comes to Nairaland and read well thought out responses.Very articulate and straight to the point,my brother.
If this doesn't prove that South Africans are more rational and intelligent than Nigerians then I don't know what will.
Yoh this is not good for a country that tops the list of poorest countries in the world.How do they expect fellas from Las Gidi,Kirikiri and Makoko to pay for sex?
OmoAkin85: are you from SA..man ur girls are beautiful and well endowed..
VERY well endowed and that's why we have one of the highest divorce rate because no matter how "happily married" you may claim to be you will always crave something better out there