₦airaland Forum

I don't know what to say but it is mind-blowing how humans became technologically advanced in such a short period of time when we've been around for "millions" of years. A slow journey of science exploration that has been around for ages caught more fire in the last 200 years.

One of the foolish mistakes I made is getting only MTN SIM cards, I hope to get other products too. MTN's "monopoly" in that aspect of my life is absurd and crazier because I never noticed. I developed a phobia for glo after I mistakenly blocked my mom's phone as a kid and GLO customer service couldn't help, I also began to stay away from Airtel after I used Gionee P4 and I had to stay at a particular spot to browse the internet .

This woman looks so much like my mother, I remember telling my mom this when I first saw Genevieve on TV as a kid. Damn.

nurd:
I have only tried automatic ads. I tried up and down and it was money sucking. Down only is slow but give consistent sales at low ACOS. Note: I've already talked about this previously.

Aaaah, my bad. I appreciate you, sir. Guess I have to go with the automatic ads.

Tomman:
I could not agree more with the bolded statement, and it is precisely what I have been advocating for a long time for black people collectively to be doing - BUT WHICH THEY HAVE NO INTEREST IN DOING (partly because of their tendency to see so-called "white" people as gods - which they are not). There is no bigger advocate of (genuine) black independence than me, and that necessarily includes financial and economic independence.

And, incidentally, it is not an either or thing, as most black people strangely tend to talk as if it is. One can work for true independence as a people while at the same time acknowledging the realities of the hostile nature of certain other groups towards them and any attempt by them to be collectively free. In fact, such recognition of reality is a necessity, without which you can't really have true independence.

I was aware that evb2000 had starting making some money in Nigeria through KDP before he moved to Canada. I was only referring to the extent of it. Even then I may have made a mistake in my reading or characterization of the whole thing. But that does not change the overall point I had been making, I never said that one is not allowed to make any amount whatsoever even within Nigeria or Africa as a whole. But there is a certain level of income that seems to trigger the alarm bells of Amazon and causes a shutdown action with respect to black authors, especially those in Africa, regardless of whether they are working honestly or not. And that is in addition to the fact that the algorithms seem to be very much rigged against them in the first place. In fact, most of the evidence I have seen for this is actually based on the experiences of black American authors.

Like I said towards the end of my previous post, I am very much open to being corrected and proved wrong. I would be happy to be wrong on this. I like to think that, in spite of how things may look, we are nevertheless in a fair system. The problem is that I just have not seen any actual evidence that that is the case.

I'm not expecting anybody to like us "black" folks, I don't care about that. However, the war did not start today — there's a reason China is avoiding a direct conflict with the West. The Chinese are focused on building their own system which will in turn create a multipolar world where they can stand up to their enemies' aggression. How many African countries are willing to pay the price for this?

Look, you can not keep begging for respect — you take it! It was the America's hostility with the USSR that brought about the rise of China and even when the Americans kept sourcing for cheap labor in China, these Chinese weren't all about screaming "Chinese people matter," they laid low, kept their eyes on their long-term goals and now look at China.

Like I said, instead of blacks complaining about how rigged the system is, they can simply create their own system. We have a whole continent full of black people — AFRICA! We got the population but how are we taking advantage of that like China did? Do you know how much has been embezzled by the same black folks in power in just Nigeria??

To attain power, you study how those that came before you did that and in today's world, you can not do that through violence like Hamas; all you have to do is lay low and keep working because surely no empire in history stays at the top forever — our time will come if we WORK! Where's the Roman empire today?

nurd:
From my experience, that $40 can give you back $100 from ads excluding organic sales. You just need to be patient when running the ads.

I've not tried giving out books for free. I don't see the point but it works for others so that's that.

Thanks a lot for the response. I want to build a brand and with what you've just said, I'm even more convinced that it's possible.

Sir, when running ads, do you manually target keywords or just do it automatically? I'm asking because a lot of us do not have these keyword research softwares. Thank you.

@Tomman, I lost interest in reading your comment when you said the reason he might have made that amount was because of his location — Canada. If you're really great observant, you'd understand kdp played a vital role in evb2000's 'relocation' to Canada — he clearly stated that. Matter of fact, we all witnessed that.

I've been ignoring your comments because I do not want to discredit your claims because I'm no expert on this topic and I understand how powerful racism, tribalism, and other isms that exist can be — which means there MIGHT be some truths in wst you're saying.

However, I think it's about time black people start becoming victors instead of victims. I don't care if Europeans or their cousins in America like me — like heck, even in Nigeria, there are Igbos and Yorubas here on Nairaland who believe a person's ethnicity is enough reason to judge them.

So, rather than screaming "them whites don't like us," start working SMARTLY to build a system that will favor you and your people — besides, that's what the Chinese did and are still working on. Compare that with what African countries are doing — tragic comedy!

nurd:
Amazon isn't rascist as far as I can tell. They give us the opportunity but trust Nigerians and shortcuts and ruining everything for others.

Guys should go to Twitter and see Nigerians -- living in Nigeria -- doing $5k+ monthly conveniently. Check ife of ifeva group. In fact, they are plenty.

Africans, and Nigerians in particular, are doing okay on kdp. There are many white authors who can't even boast of 10k monthly. Evidence dey.

And before you come for me, I just started like the rest here and I've already crossed $500. That may be a pittance but it supplements my other income streams nicely...

Good response, boss.


I'm done with that travel guide but decided to postpone my children's book plan. My next plan is to focus on self help niche and drop like 7 well-written books per series. I'm wondering if $40 will be enough to start advertising on Amazon. I'm tired of giving out my book for free. I might give out just one to help people but I plan to stop doing that.

What do you think?

EreluRoz:
Igbos in Rivers state are visitors turned citizens, they are originally from Imo state. No Igbo is from Rivers, Rivers is strictly an Ijaw state but somehow due to carelessness the Igbo visitors from Ikwere are ruling the state. I love history and have read about this here on nairaland in culture section

Some of your comments are just so weird, who created Rivers state? The people known as Ikwerre (whose relatives are in Rivers and Imo) have existed way before Nigeria or even Rivers state existed. You Nigerians must stop defining people's border with this artificial borders created by Nigeria and Europeans.

How's Rivers an Ijaw state when the Ijaw people are older than the state and even Nigeria?

evb2000:
I don't understand the angle you are coming from. People have different publishing goals and they are doing great. Ofcourse, as Nigerians, living in Nigeria, we can't compete with most American Authors, but there are Nigerian authors in the US doing well by virtue of the fact that they can walk into any media house and advertise their books. However, you don't expect an author in Nigeria to compete with the likes J.K Rowlings or Dan Brown? Because we don't have the budget and exposure to market your books like they do. Besides, they are brand names and building a brand takes years of hardwork.

Now, let's bring it back home. Success is relative, what you feel is sucess may not be success to the other person. Some authors just need book royalties to put food on their table, while others want to build a brand. However, there are many "successful" self-publishers that I know and others that I know are Nigerians but not close to doing $1k, $2k, $6k, $7k and $10k a month. Like, I said, success is relative. But don't expect to churn out poor quality books with AI and be successful. Don't expect to be successful without a good budget for marketing your books.

Bring it back to the question on how well i am doing? I am not a guru neither will i claim to be so successful because I am still a work-in-progress. But the little i have gotten from publishing, i have documented in my diary. If not for anything, I can afford to fund my MSc program and take care of my living expensis while schooling in the west, which I give all the glory to God.

https://www.nairaland.com/6884099/sponsoring-myself-study-canada-sept

I'm so glad you answered his question, I don't know if it's the same guy writing about how Amazon is "racist" to African writers.

iLegendd:
I get it, but I still won't forget 2012 when I wanted to buy something from an Igbo clothe hawker and I tried to use Igbo to start a conversation before I'll switch to English so that he won't notice I can't speak it.

To my surprise, the guy just humiliated me and said, "What are you saying? You're speaking rubbish." Instead of correcting me, he abused me.

Since then, I have never made an attempt to speak Igbo to an Igbo person EVER. I speak English straight. If he wants to cheat me, let him cheat me.

I went to a shop last year to buy an electronic and the sales girl there started speaking Igbo to me. I understood what she was saying, but I was upset that she just assumed I was Igbo.

I cautioned her and told her I don't understand the language. She apologized and we continued our transaction in English.

I'm so sorry for that bad experience, I understand how badly that can hurt a man's ego. Most Nigerians are rude and stupidly ignorant, what the f ool failed to understand is that there are also Igbos who cannot speak central Igbo language except their dialect. Is he going to say they are speaking rubbish too?

Their ignorance is so provocative because they're not even ready to learn. When I quote historical events, my Igbo cousin with R & L tongue twist (no disrespect to him) starts talking down on me that I don't even know my village's history. Talking about how I didn't grow up in Igboland, I'm like "bro, how's that connected to the discussion we having?"

iLegendd:
See, we love Igbos, but there is something that upsets we Rivers people. The Igbos adamantly say we're Igbos and when we can't win the argument, we agree, and boom, they turn and say we're fake Igbos. They begin to act like our master and trust me, we hate it, hence we vehemently deny any association with Igbos.

But, when we see Igbos and others in a fight, we secretly side the Igbos. In my case, I love being neutral.

If I see an Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba in a fight or argument, I tend to listen to everyone and make judgements based on who is right, but deep down, I want the Igbo to win and at the same time, I want the truth to prevail, hence I tend to be neutral.

I support one Nigeria and at the same time, I support disintegration. Whichever comes, I'm cool with it as long as I don't pay light bill till the day I die.

As I said, I love all tribes, except Fulani men and I don't hide it.

I also love everybody, I don't judge people based on their ethnicity but from the content of their character (except maybe it has been confirmed they preach hate to their kids then I'd be more cautious but can't hate first).

I grew up around different people, my closest friends back then were all Moslem — the one that taught a lot of bad stuffs was Mustapha . That's why my cousin from Igboland is always mad I defend "Awusa" and Yoruba when he come at them — typical Nigerian mentality. If only he knows the North has more ethnicities than the South.


Sorry for derailing the thread, sir 🙏🏿 .

iLegendd:
See, we love Igbos, but there is something that upsets we Rivers people. The Igbos adamantly say we're Igbos and when we can't win the argument, we agree, and boom, they turn and say we're fake Igbos. They begin to act like our master and trust me, we hate it, hence we vehemently deny any association with Igbos.

But, when we see Igbos and others in a fight, we secretly side the Igbos. In my case, I love being neutral.

If I see an Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba in a fight or argument, I tend to listen to everyone and make judgements based on who is right, but deep down, I want the Igbo to win and at the same time, I want the truth to prevail, hence I tend to be neutral.

I support one Nigeria and at the same time, I support disintegration. Whichever comes, I'm cool with it as long as I don't pay light bill till the day I die.

As I said, I love all tribes, except Fulani men and I don't hide it.

I perfectly understand you sir. Please don't take that "fake Igbo" tag serious, most people who use it on others are very ignorant and dumb — most fall under the first category and the rest fall under the latter willingly and unwillingly.

Most of the dumb ones can not engage me in a debate on this issue because they're just like an average Nigerian. These people do not know the origin of the concept of today's Igbo identity, these are the idiots who believe they are superior to other Igbos — pathetic! Typical black people. I'm talking about the Anambra vs Enugu and so on e-warriors.

You know what makes them so dumb and foolish? Old Anambra was created from the northern half of East-Central state in 1976 , then in 1991, it was divided into two states — Enugu state and Anambra state . You see why these guys are dumb? Even the rest of the states known as Igbo states were all calved from the same region as the first two. There are a lot of them on Nairaland creating threads to belittle others — that's why Ojukwu said we must "denigerianize" in his speech (Ahiara Declaration).

Most of these guys scream "Biafra" at the tip of their voice but are just like the average Nigerian.

Boss, although some of them might be dumbos; however it is important to understand some are just genuinely curious. I'm not gonna lie, when I first learned about those Igbo relatives in other states — I was fascinated. This must be one of the reasons Bro Onyema could do no wrong in my eyes back then .

They're just like theists who just found out there are thousands of religions in the world . I'm 100% sure my Igbo mother would be one of those that would get flabbergasted when someone from that side says he's not Igbo .

iLegendd:
My dear, we Rivers people love to be identified as Rivers or Niger Deltans.

If I'm with a gun and someone calls me Igbo, your chances of surviving is slim cuz I find it offensive and insulting.

We just love to be neutral. Some Rivers people don't mind if you call them Igbo, but I mind and I dislike being misidentified.

I like Igbos, Hausas, Yorubas, etc. Na only Fulani I no like, but I like their women.

So, don't think I hate Igbos. I'm just NOT Igbo. I like the fact that Igbos are the smartest technologically in Nigeria, but I hate their desperation for money. If they can make it legally, I'll be so proud of them. I just don't like fraud or crime.

It's not only Igbos that do this, but they're first class in fake consumables, drugs, etc. and they're so fearless about it. I hate their desperation, but love their confidence.

My boss, the percentage of Igbos who have no time dragging uninterested people into the Igbo identity is higher although we can all agree that the Igbos are more related to you guys than those you mentioned. I never knew much about some of Igboid groups until I came on Nairaland and was quite surprised about how they felt about the people known as Igbos today.

So, I'm sure we can also agree that the today's concept of the Igbo identity is a recent creation... An "Igbo" person from the communities bordering Rivers is more related to you than another Igbo from Nsukka. There's this man (Bro Onyema) I respect so much (you remind me of him ) as a kid, he would say he's not Igbo but looked like the stereotypical Igbo man and easily fit in with Igbos -- we all believed him but whenever he was speaking in his kwale dialect I understood everything more than I understood people from Nsukka .

Tohmey:
So Etche, Oyigbo and even Ikwerre no be Igbo? Keep on deceiving yourself

Yes, they are not Igbos! Even if Onitsha say that they're not Igbos, when Biafra is established I will gladly vote in support of that because we don't want anyone sabotage our efforts. Sometimes I wonder if those of you who claim to be Igbo on Nairaland are actually Igbos, absolutely no Igbo man has time for this shi.t. I've never seen my mother telling people who do not want to be identified as Igbos that they are, what's so special about these guys that y'all keep making them feel like the great Igbo nation is trying to force an identity on them?

If you understand history or ethnicity, you will understand that regardless of what these guys say, we are all closely related but it's obvious most of them and the Igbo identity enforcers do not know sh.it about history. There is a reason why Europeans are closely related to one another even if they claim to be different people, that's why English is a Germanic language.

An Aro man is more related to efik people than Nsukka people that share more with Igala people, that's the beauty of our people yet when we are all still related somehow (that's why Ashkenazi Jews are more related to Europeans than other Jews from other parts of the world), when you understand that today's concept of the "Igbo ethnicity" wasn't the same thing 300 years ago then you'd understand why you must let them identify as whatever they want and why our ancestors never tried to build an empire. And yes, whether the Igboid groups like it or not, they are related to Igbos but let them be!

THEY ARE NOT IGBOS! Do not create another Nigeria in the Igbo Nation. RESPECT THEIR DECISION AND LEAVE THEM ALONE!

Lucky you! It's very unfortunate the youths have chosen to become a menace to the same society that raised them but who do we blame? I detest cultism with every drop of blood in me!

nairalanda1:
In a way, every tribe was guilty of what the aro confederacy was doing

Hell, every race in the earth. The ancestors of the English people for example kept slaves who were white people long before they enslaved black and native Americans .So did the Romans, who enslaved people that we would regard as white. The Germans, even people living in the middle east enslaved people who came from the same tribe and race

Infact, the concept of slavery except in the Americas was not related to race. People could go to a village and enslave someone that spoke the same language with them. No one cared.

Infact the concept of an Igbo nation and a yoruba nation and hausa nation is something that developed in the wake of colonialism. Before white people came there were no such entities. A hausa person could in say the 16th century invade another hausa speaking polity, enslave people and sell them to North African traders. Ditto igbos and yourbas. Nothing like ' why are you doing this to me, we are the same tribe '

Slavery has a colorful historia

It's pathetic how these tribal e-warriors are just so ignorant and proudly dumb. It's so difficult for them to understand that the concept of the Igbo or Yoruba ethnicity we proudly hang around our neck today is just a few centuries old (if not less). They think it was all "rosey" back then.

The English people enslaved the Irish people and believed they were inferior, even today, most Irish people hate those guys because of what their (English) ancestors did to their ancestors. And these Irish are one of the "whitest" people today!

At one point, they weren't even accepted as "whites" in the U.S. just like most groups today that identify as "white."

abba190:
superonyi i dont even have an android phone to roam the thread. I comment once in a while

I come to the thread for some comic relief after letting the comments pile up for weeks or months.

abba190:
I have peace of mind.

Abba , why you keep roaming all over the thread?

Fighttillvictory:
Igbo or no igbo you're in a biafra territory

Stop tripping and let them be, I'm tired of people like you making these folks feel like we're after their land or something — they are not more important than any other igboid group that make up the Igbo nation. The united "Igbo" ethnicity we know today is barely 200 years. They can be whatever they want, nobody cares... You just keep creating enemies for us!

SuperOnyi:




I've been on the grind...

Dang, I forgot to take a photo yesterday — I was at work all day. I just snapped one right now to replace the one for yesterday . I think this means I will be shaving my beards.

okomile:

Something asked me to check out your profile and when I did, I saw that today was your birthday. So before the remaining two minutes of today fades away, I say a happy birthday to you.

SuperOnyi:


I'll live a fulfilled life.

I've been on the grind...

Makunahatata:
see your mouth like fowl yansh...is that barbaric act something to be proud of ?.
And u be 30 years old, your mates and Juniors dey do unimaginable advanced techs around the world...u dey do yan yan yan yan for Benin den go use block scatter hin head......shame on u ,mtcheew!

On God, I lose brain cells reading some of these Nairalanders' comments — typical barbaric homoerectus! Pathetic!

efembaba:
I was just telling my brother now that even if the guy had just taken like most of the money and left like 10k or 20k, it will still be ok. He wiped everything off.

This is why I just find it difficult to convince myself to make new Nigerian friends, our people are very heartless and barbaric. And believe me, this monster sees himself as smart and doesn't believe he did anything wrong. He will spend it on hard drugs, cigarettes, and women.

Jesus Christ! This is devastating and scary! I'm beginning to hate all of these banks.


Modified: Nigerians are evil, the definition of wickedness.

AngelicBeing:
l have not published any of my books online but l publish them in hard copys but meanwhile l will start publishing online as soon as I can but my books are doing well in different bookshelves outside Nigeria

One thing I discovered from the good feedbacks and response of several readers to me is the contents of your book, does your book carry messages / informations that is relevant in solving people's needs?

People buy my books and recommend it to others, l once published a book and before they accepted the book in a VIP BOOKSHOP abroad, it took about one month of physical examination of the contents of the book because the bookshop receives books from different parts of the world, from best sellers, renowned authors etc and they take their time to screen your book and if they are not satisfied, they will call you to pick your book and tell you that they are not accepting it

So you can are the challenge for my book (an unknown author)to be accepted in that kind of VIP BOOKSHOP, and finally my book was approved and accepted because of what they read in the book, one of the senior officers in the bookshop was the one telling other managers that my book is / was good 😊

The book you publish or write, if you are not the author, would you see that same book and buy it?

One good book properly cooked 🍚 and is feeding different people in different parts of the world is better than 100 books that does not impacts the lives of people


Your book should be addressing different issues in the lives of people not just in your country but in different parts of the world

Remember that, that same niche or topic or title that you are writing or have written about, millions of other authors have done justice to such niche, so you have to find your way to atleast write something unique so that if someone can't find a known authors book but once they scroll up and down, see yours and it carries a message or solution to what they are looking for, they will purchase your book(s)

This is amazing! If you don't mind, can you tell us the niche you're focused on and if this method pays better than kdp.

My internet subscription are been sucked recklessly that I'm forced to ask myself what exactly I saw in MTN that all my sim cards are their products. The 5.5 gigabyte I transferred to my router got sucked in less than 24 hours, I was so shocked I had to confirm if someone was using it to watch videos of nàaked men and women on the internet.

helinues:
For almost 2 weeks now, it has been raining so heavily.

It also rained so heavily in China that the flood issue there currently is a big mess.

Hope all this global heavy raining is not the effect of UAE cloud seeding?

Just curious

And we've been begging for rainfall over here? The only thing I have noticed is how I fall asleep easily since I started working overnight again.

I used to see this man almost every week but the last time I saw him, he was on a motorcycle (okada) instead of his Jeep and looked thin. Goodnight sir, death will come when it will come. My regards to Saint Obi — I wonder what happens when we die.