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Doesn't Russia ever get tired of making empty threats that they never do anything about? They've been doing this since 2022 ever since the war started, issuing all kinds of empty threats to the west who of course ignore them and continue doing what they are doing. They have only revealed themselves to be a paper tiger and a laughing stock to the west.

Bigkoko:
Now that Scottish first Minister have secured the mandate to ask for a second Independence referendum...what will United Kingdom say...agree with shame while supporting the killing and strangulation of those asking for the same thing in Nigeria?

Every other tribe can stay and keep Nigeria as is. But the Igbos should be allowed out!

I don't mind allowing Bola to be the returning officer of the Referendum...lol

Stop making it about one group. It applies to ANY ethnic group in Africa regardless of who it is. They will not want to allow, much less celebrate, independence for any African nation (in the ethnic sense), because it is how they are keeping us in slavery. And yet the reality is that most African people - including the igbos - have no inclination or desire to be free or independent because they are used to the status quo. The only time such a demand was made was 60 years ago when there was mass oppression of igbos in the north. And ever since then, no such desire to be independent has ever been expressed again.

Leepeak:
However, on the ground, Iran's physical infrastructure and industrial base are vastly different from Nigeria's:

Key Physical & Economic Contrasts
Power Generation & Grid Capacity: Iran produces roughly 90,000 MW+ of electricity for a population of ~88 million people, compared to Nigeria's grid output which historically hovers around 4,000–5,000 MW for over 220 million people.

Fuel & Gas Subsidies: Iran holds some of the world's largest natural gas reserves and heavily subsidizes energy, making domestic gas and electricity among the cheapest on
earth for its citizens.

Refining & Industrial Base: Iran refines almost all its fuel domestically, maintaining an extensive network of domestic manufacturing, industrial plants, rail networks, and public transport systems despite sanctions.

Standard of Living Metrics: Iran's Human Development Index (HDI) ranks in the "High" category (approx. 0.73-0.78 range), whereas Nigeria ranks lower (approx. 0.53-0.55 range), reflecting differences in life expectancy, literacy, and baseline urban infrastructure.

While Iran faces major long-term structural economic pressures, its industrial and physical infrastructure provides a baseline for daily domestic utilities (like electricity and domestic energy supply) that remains significantly more developed than Nigeria's current power grid.

IbrahimSola:
Even under bombardment from the US, their economic indices are still far better than ours in Nigeria. Is that not telling us of the kinds of leaders that we have?

Their Minimum wage is about $88 while ours is approximately $53.

Their govt is still paying citizens support. Which one are we getting?

Such comparisons are always apples and oranges. Iran, unlike Nigeria and most African so-called "countries", is a true nation made up primarily of the Perisan people with their native language as their national language. Iran shares this characteristic with the vast majority of non-African countries all over the world from Europe to Asia. It's a culturally homogenous nation state. This is why it is able to strong and functional even in times of war.

Nigeria, on the other hand, is not an actual nation but merely a geographical zone in which numerous independent ethnic nations of people were arbitrarily delineated and trapped, and is ruled over with iron fist by Islamic overloads on behalf of western interests.

Thus, making economic comparisons between true nation states like Iran and occupied zones like Nigeria is silly at best.

Stoplying:
This is why I don't really like black sportsmen and black entertainers, unless they prove themselves to not be uncle toms.

The problem is that they all have to be uncle toms otherwise they will not be allowed to remain in their positions for much longer. And very few of them are willing to make that sacrifice.

Stoplying:
DEI is a policy in the USA, not in the UK. But the racists don't understand this. The thing is that whenever a black person makes it intellectually, the racists automatically believe he was offered the success for being black. They discredit every black person in this way. From what I've experienced, a black person needs to be twice as good as a white person in order to get the job they are both competing for. That's what I see in France, I don't think it's different in the UK.

This is precisely what is so insidious and outrageous about this dialectic of "DEI" that has been perpetuated against black people for years. Because the reality is, if anything, actually the exact opposite!! Contrary to the nonsense racists constantly promote about black people getting "affirmative action", it is actually white people themselves that have been benefiting from it heavily. It's just that they don't legislate it on paper. They simply perpetuate it in practice. I know this to be especially true in the US. A white person who is far less qualified will routinely get a job or promotion over a far more qualified black person. This has been well documented and I've even seen this happen in real life. And, like you pointed out, a black person has to be more than TWICE as good to have any hope of getting the same opportunity. That, in effect, is also affirmative action for whites. And all this is very common and widespread but goes on in secret. Meanwhile they continue playing this sick public game of constantly painting black people as "DEI recipients".

In France there is a policy to try and get more women into high positions, no policy whatsoever about putting black people in high positions, I'm guessing it's the same in the UK.

That is very common in the UK and, maybe even more so, in US. They are constantly putting white women and non-black ethnic or racial minorities in high positions of power both in government and in the corporate world, sometimes with disastrous consequences especially in the case of white women. It is very much a "woke" trend that has been going on. But people of African descent are conspicuously left out of it even while they continue to be used as the poster child for "DEI" in public rhetoric. Meanwhile, nothing is ever said about all this DEI placements done with these other groups, even by those who call themselves "race realists". Somehow they never broach the issue of "gender realism" because they know it won't be popular or encouraged. And they never bother with "race realism" when it comes to other minority groups who they only like to use as a wedge against black people. They are only obsessed with "black people" because that is the only group they are socialised to hate and go after.

Stoplying:
Jason did no plagiarism.

This only reinforces the point. If he didn't even do any plagiarism, it only begs the question why on earth the white media would heavily promote such accusations against him in the first place without even waiting to see if investigation verifies it to be true or not. It's because this is what they love to do to black people - smear and demean them at every turn.

Btw, so-called "DEI" is a widespread practice that is benefited to many different minority races as well as white women, often times even in ways that are questionable or outrageous. Yet you NEVER hear these racists talk about it when it is been given to other groups. Never. They only like to talk about it in the context of a black person, basically pretending as if DEI is something that only happens with respect to them when it is completely far from the case.

nairalanda1:
You guys should also stop making this about racism. The man paid the price for lying. If you don't lie, maybe you won't die. Saying that does not mean there is no racism

And no one is bringing down black academics.

Racism was not involved in this Are you serious?? Did you even bother to read the article at all?? And did you even bother to read any of the follow up responses on this very thread that even gave links to further sources showing how the campaign against him was begun and driven by racists, and how white professors who have engaged in even worse acts of plagiarism did not suffer any consequences? Did you actually read any of these things or are you just here to further the agenda of gaslighting and misdirection?

nairalanda1:
There are DEI Hires who also did serious work, and those who were black and hired on the strength of their abilites. No racist, jew, neo nazi, even the Illuminati can bring them down. No one.

They've already been brought down. And this is what most people commenting here fail to see. The real target of the racists who went after him was not actually this man himself. Rather it was black people as a whole, including the other '70 or so' black professors in Cambridge who are in their positions legitimately. This was ultimately yet another calculated smear campaign against people of African descent, and this man was simply the person that was used to serve that purpose. Of course it is extremely dishonest given that not only do the vast majority black scholars all over the world have no issues with plagiarism (including the rest of the black professors at Cambridge - a fact that the media doesn't mention), but tons of white academics have been guilty of plagiarism - a fact also never mentioned.

What makes this even more galling and insidious is the fact that this man was NOT even given his diversity appointment because of being black. Rather, it was because he is an LGBTQ person and looks very much the part! In fact, looking at him, one tends to wonder at first if it is a man or a woman, which explains why some people even in this thread got his gender confused. This is what astonishes me about this whole conversation here. Everyone is just talking about the case as if this was simply a case of the liberal establishment in Cambridge going out of their way to elevate some black guy because they somehow like black people. That is nonsense! Rather, this was clearly motivated by trans promotion interests on the part of the university. Of course the fact that he was also black also played into the calculation, especially given that blacks have been exploitatively used in promoting it for years.

So, in effect, was has basically happened is that the Cambridge establishment used a queer black man to advance LGBTQ in a very questionable way and then when the same man is later accused of plagiarism of some parts of his PhD years earleir, that accusation is then used to wholesale smear the entire black population, the vast majority of whom have never committed any plagiarism in their entire lives nor would they ever do so. And it is being used as a non-sequitur to promote so-called 'black intellectual inferiority' which has been a staple of anti black racism for decades despite having no actual basis in reality. It's a truly outrageous situation.

ayufun:
Don't be sentimental or develop auto perception of things when it's related to relationships between blacks and whites.



PayPal not accepting Nigeria is not about hate or cyber crime that's synonymous to Nigerians. Cyber crime is a global issue and threat.



The fact is about Nigeria monetary policy, instability in exchange rate and fair value of the naira.




I've spoken with one of their staff members before and the point is, when something things are being put right about our currency exchange, they will approve Nigeria to accept payment and she said, if things go wrong with our monetary policy that they feel it's not in compliance with their policies and operation, they can put it on hold and this is applicable to any other country.



I write for TechPally.com Business

It never ceases to amaze me the fact that most African people continue to refuse to wake up and see these so-called "white people" for what they really are and the ill-will and negative agenda they have towards them. In spite of all the horrible things they have being doing to them for centuries and are still doing to them.

First of all, do you think Nigeria is the only African country whose residents PayPal prevents from being able to receive funds? PayPal has placed the same prohibitions on MOST sub-saharan African countries, including the smaller, relatively stable and peaceful countries where there is no such culture as 'Yahoo boys' or any of that nonsense. Paypal STILL prevents them from being able to receive funds or do any kind of transaction. (Of course there are the obvious exceptions of countries like South Africa with significant populations of their fellow "whites" who they of course would not want to shut out of the global economy. But when it comes to other African countries, the MO is different.) There are many many countries in other continents, from Eastern Europe to Asia to South America, that are engaged in FAR MORE online and financial crime and fraud than most African countries combined. YET, you don't see Paypal banning any of them except the ones that the US government has placed sanctions on for purely political reasons (such as North Korea or Iran) but not because of fraud. And think about it for a second. Just think about it. How the hell does it make any sense to ban ENTIRE COUNTRIES of millions of enterprising people who do legitimate work simply because of the activities of a few hoodlums? Where else do you see that kind of logic being applied other than to black people?

And it is not only PayPal that is doing this to African people. Other US based online companies have placed similar restrictions or outright bans on black African countries, preventing most of their citizens from being able to engage in any international transactions by which they can earn an income. And it is not just financial companies. Many US based online stores such as ebook platforms like Smashwords and D2D have also placed similar bans on black countries, thus preventing their citizens from competing in the e-market.

And regarding that nonsensical excuse that that so-called "white lady" staffer of PayPal bamboozled you with, are you really that gullible as to buy that nonsense? Do you really believe that it is because of "instability of exchange rate" that made them place a permanent ban (which has been going on for more than two decades now, from the moment Paypal became international) upon Nigerian citizens? Is that also the same excuse by which they have also banned other African countries? Or will she make up a different fancy-sounding excuse for each one to bamboozle someone from that country with? By the way, are you aware that African banks have dollar accounts as well as the regular accounts in their national currencies? Did it never occur to you that someone can always just pay or receive money in dollars regardless of what country they are in?

And speaking of unstable currencies and inflation, who is largely responsible for that? Are you unaware of all the horrible shenanigans that the IMF and other western institutions have been perpetrating on African countries, effectively destroying their economies and forcing them to be in debt and perpetual financial slavery? Of course, they've always had their collaborators in the countries themselves, who are always supported by them and placed in positions of political power. But that is an issue for another topic.

Listen, the reality at the end of the day is that Paypal and other US online trade/transactional institutions shutting out African countries the way they are doing is simply one of the many ways in which the US and its western collaborators shut African people out of the global economy and prevent them from engaging in legitimate competition regarding exchange of goods and skills. It is the same reason why they NEVER offshore any jobs or industries to Africa regardless of cheap labor and skilled workforce, while they will offshore tons of jobs and industries to Asian and South American countries where there are comparable (or even worse) levels of poverty and corruption. It is the same reason why they ban African farmers from exporting their produces to their countries even while bribing or forcing African governments to let them dump their own produces on Africans at exorbitant prices, and that is after deliberately enhancing them so that their seeds cannot be grown in African climates.

These are the same people who constantly put out propaganda in the media presenting themselves as angels who care about African people and are willing to sacrifice billions of "aid" to help those "poor helpless Africans". Yet, at the same time, they are the ones doing everything in their power to cripple any ability of African populations to compete or thrive economically, which the media never reports. And not to mention that the so-called "aid" money they give African countries is actually predatory loans, which the western media also deceives the uninformed public about.

If you are simply unable to, or refuse to see, that this is just part of a larger pattern of western countries, particularly the US, subjugating and frustrating black people (not even just in Africa but the larger world in general) from competing and thriving like the rest of the world, and constantly kicking the rug out from under them in every respect, then that is your problem.

mrvitalis:
Nigeria is a tripod state
Two other majority group feels 8 years of presidency is to risky to give to an igbo man

Yet they fear that letting the igbo man go would lead to breaking up of nigeria because South South n middle belt would never stay in a Nigeria without igbos

Yorubas are terrified of self rule, the last two attempt one before the white man came and two after independent both ended with them killing themselves in large number

North feels it can't survive without Nigeria

Minority feels that the idea of Nigeria give them sense of being part of something big

Igbo man feels he can do better either leading Nigeria or on his own, feels Nigeria is holding it back unnecessarily

There you have it

Really? People keep saying this nonsense. But if this were truly the case, then why is it that, other than that one single isolated cry for secession almost 60 years ago due to igbos being massacred in the north, there has never since then been any attempt whatsoever by them to even ask for, much less demand, seperation from Nigeria?

SuperOnyi:





@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!

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.

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

To give you a clearer picture of what I was talking about, let me quote a post that I made in a different thread that was based on a similar topic:

The challenges that Africans - particularly Nigerians - and even black people in general, face publishing books on KDP, are not the same as the challenges that a white person living in America or UK, for example, faces. And it is extremely misleading to talk as though it is exactly the same, as several people here have been doing.

Of course, normally, a self-publishing author faces the basic challenges of competition (given the tons of books published everyday by other authors), and the need to market his/her books. And that is assuming the written work itself is good enough to interest readers (which is the first challenge that any author has). But if you think that these are the only problems a black/African self-publishing author faces in trying to make money on this platform, you are extremely naive.

As a black person (particularly a black African) you would mostly be wasting your time trying to independently publish books and make money on Amazon or any other American owned online platform for that matter. In fact, platforms like D2D and Smashwords don't even hide the fact that they ban books by Nigerians and other Africans. Amazon is just less open about it.

The truth is that the KDP system algorithm is rigged and it's rigged heavily in favour of white people particularly in America, and next the west in general. And it has nothing to do with talent or how interesting one's books are. Amazon will not allow any black author - particularly in Africa - to make any significant amount of money independently on their platform. They may let you make a tiny amount. But the moment your books start to get any popularity and real money starts coming in, they immediately ban your account and seize (i.e. steal) all your proceeds. This is exactly what has happened to countless black authors including those who are US citizens. Their accounts were suddenly banned and their money seized just as they started making substantial income. And their attempts to get any sort of explanation from Amazon as to their sudden baffling and bewildering banning were met with no real or meaningful response, or no response at all.

The case of Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki who was an award winning Nigerian Sci-Fi writer is just one example of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/s0phie/publishing_news_amazon_shuts_down_account_of/

For a long time now, I have been challenging people to show me a single example of any black/African author who has actually been successful publishing independently on Amazon Kdp platform (i.e. has lots of ratings and reviews for their books), and nobody has been able to name or point at any example, despite all the incredibly talented writers in Nigeria/Africa or the black world in general. Not a single example. Does that fact alone not strike you as really strange or suspicious?

Incidentally, here is another example of Amazon's anti-black racism within their own organisation: https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/26/22297554/amazon-race-black-diversity-inclusion

I provided those same two links in my previous comments on this very thread, but apparently the people here who saw the post did not bother to check them out (one person even sneered at my statement that Amazon is racist towards black people at all - which is absolutely astonishing given that the very first link clearly documents this very fact extensively). But this is the problem a lot of black people have; they just do not ever want to believe that white people can possibly hate them and be against their interests. Even while evidence abounds that this is the case, they ignore it.

For the record, I am not by any means trying to discourage anyone from experimenting with KDP publishing, especially if writing is your passion. That is not my point. All I want is for us to not be deceived about what our chances really are and what the game really is that we are playing here. Are we playing a truly fair game in which everyone, regardless of race, region or nationality, have the same chances of being successful as long as they work hard and do all the right things? Or are we playing a rigged game?

My problem is that I have very strong reasons to believe the game is rigged. Not just against Nigerians/Africans, but against black people in general - including African Americans. Though it is even more so the case with Africans, especially Nigerians. Saying that it is just a matter of doing the usual stuff like having good covers and doing marketing and so on, is silly. It assumes that you are on an equal playing field where the game is not rigged. I guarantee you that there are thousands of highly talented black writers in Nigeria and around the world doing all that stuff and yet barely making anything worthwhile in spite of it. And this is true even if their stories are set in western/American setting. I have constantly challenged people over the years to show me a single example of a black person, even within America, who has been very successful publishing their own books on KDP (with hundreds or thousands of reviews and ratings), without going through traditional publishing companies where their books would be vetted by the gatekeepers and they get paid token royalties, and nobody has been able to point at a single example of one despite all the black talent around the world. Even in American forums where I have posted the question, they will typically whine and lash out for daring to ask such a question, but fail to provide any example.

Even in your diary thread (which I checked out), there was a place where you actually said that you know many talented Nigerian writers working hard publishing their books on KDP, but none of them make anything even close to $1000 a month, And you don't see how strange that is. That makes absolutely ZERO sense if this were really a fair game that we were playing here - where books sink or swim simply based on quality of the stories and marketing/word-of-mouth, and nothing else. There are tons of hack white authors in the US and other countries making much more than $1000 a month on KDP from publishing recyclable garbage - some without even much or any marketing.

As I said in the quote above, as a black person - and most especially a Nigerian/African - Amazon will only let you make chump change on their platform. But the moment you somehow manage to overcome their unfair algorithms and start making any really significant money, their axe will come down on you. This has happened countless times to black authors (even those who are US citizens) who till this day do not know what they did, get no answers from Amazon, and have had their proceeds robbed from them. I also believe that the reason why you were even able to make the amount you made - a few hundred here and there per month, eventually accumulating to about $1500 - is because you were in Canada. That almost certainly would not have happened if your geographical location at the time had been Nigeria. Platforms like D2D have even banned Nigerians and other Africans blatantly.

You may dismiss this merely as "conspiracy theory". But in the end, I keep going back to evidence. I am an observant person, and I am very familiar with the indie publishing business. And the fact remains that what I have observed does not in any way look as if the system is a fair game where everyone regardless of race, region or nationality is on an equal playing field. Instead all indications point in the exact opposite direction. (And, as pointed out earlier, that is the case even if you are all writing books based on western settings.) You may ask why Amazon, or any other US corporation for that matter, would want to engage in such behavior given that business and profit should be the only thing that matters. Well, part of it is the simple fact that profit is not the only thing that matters to the American elites - racial subjugation (controlling and keeping a certain group of people in their place) also matters to them - and it matters far more than most black people dare to think. Furthermore, there isn't much reason to think that the dynamics of the market, if they did not do that, would lean much in terms of non-ebook products losing out over ebooks as opposed to merely some authors books losing or winning out over others. Besides, they're swimming in so much money that it doesn't make any difference - what do they care?

Ultimately, do I hope I am wrong about all this and that you guys are right, and that the only reason we have not seen even a single renowned independent black/African/Nigerian author on KDP, much less dozens, is simply because black/African/Nigerian authors just aren't talented at writing, or they are all too lazy or poor to use fine covers and promote their ebooks? Yes, I totally wish that were true. But, if I am to be really honest with myself, that is a bit like wishing for the easter bunny to show up at my wedding and be my best man.

evb2000:
Who is advising you guys to do a free promotion for your books? It is a recipe for disaster. The only reason you should give out any of your book(s) free of charge, is when you are using it as a lead magnet. That is, you are either using it to promote another book(s) in a series (or have the link to the other book within the one you are giving out free) or you are exchanging it for their email address to build your email list.

This is all you get, when you guys keep listening or buying all these mushroom courses online that repeat this non-sense. Never give any of your book(s) out for free not for a day. The algorithm has since left that style of promotion. I have stopped putting my books to on select. If the topic is good, the serious ones will buy.

In response to the bolded part, how well exactly do you actually do on KDP? I continue to be amazed at the fact that, despite all the endless conversation going on in this thread, nobody has been able to provide a single example of a black/Nigerian person actually making significant income on the platform (or any other American-owned online platform for that matter).

The challenges that Africans - particularly Nigerians - and even black people in general, face publishing books on KDP, are not the same as the challenges that a white person living in America or UK, for example, faces. And it is extremely misleading to talk as though it is exactly the same, as several people here have been doing.

Of course, normally, a self-publishing author faces the basic challenges of competition (given the tons of books published everyday by other authors), and the need to market his/her books. And that is assuming the written work itself is good enough to interest readers (which is the first challenge that any author has). But if you think that these are the only problems a black/African self-publishing author faces in trying to make money on this platform, you are extremely naive.

As a black person (particularly a black African) you would mostly be wasting your time trying to independently publish books and make money on Amazon or any other American owned online platform for that matter. In fact, platforms like D2D and Smashwords don't even hide the fact that they ban books by Nigerians and other Africans. Amazon is just less open about it.

The truth is that the KDP system algorithm is rigged and it's rigged heavily in favour of white people particularly in America, and next the west in general. And it has nothing to do with talent or how interesting one's books are. Amazon will not allow any black author - particularly in Africa - to make any significant amount of money independently on their platform. They may let you make a tiny amount. But the moment your books start to get any popularity and real money starts coming in, they immediately ban your account and seize (i.e. steal) all your proceeds. This is exactly what has happened to countless black authors including those who are US citizens. Their accounts were suddenly banned and their money seized just as they started making substantial income. And their attempts to get any sort of explanation from Amazon as to their sudden baffling and bewildering banning were met with no real or meaningful response, or no response at all.

The case of Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki who was an award winning Nigerian Sci-Fi writer is just one example of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/s0phie/publishing_news_amazon_shuts_down_account_of/

For a long time now, I have been challenging people to show me a single example of any black/African author who has actually been successful publishing independently on Amazon Kdp platform (i.e. has lots of ratings and reviews for their books), and nobody has been able to name or point at any example, despite all the incredibly talented writers in Nigeria/Africa or the black world in general. Not a single example. Does that fact alone not strike you as really strange or suspicious?

Incidentally, here is another example of Amazon's anti-black racism within their own organisation: https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/26/22297554/amazon-race-black-diversity-inclusion

Btw, just to add: Here are examples of Amazon's anti-black racism:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/26/22297554/amazon-race-black-diversity-inclusion

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/s0phie/publishing_news_amazon_shuts_down_account_of/

Note that Amazon is by no means unique in this behavior. In fact, this is very much the norm in America.

I find this entire thread very strange. Do any of you actually know of a single independent black African author (particularly a Nigerian) who has actually had any kind of success whatsoever publishing books on Amazon? Can you point at a single black/African person who actually has large numbers of ratings and reviews for their books when you go to their page on Amazon? Are you guys not aware that Amazon is racist against Africans and their system is heavily rigged against them?

There are tons of extremely talented writers in Nigeria. Remember the old Pacesetter series in the 80s and 90s, for example? Far more interesting and enjoyable to read than a lot of the garbage put out by these indie white authors who get make tons of money from their crap. Africa has a lot of writing talent. And I mean a lot. Yet, for some reason, nobody can point to a single case of any African (or black) author independently publishing books on KDP and having any kind of success whatsoever on it. Do you people ever bother to wonder why?

Is there any particular reason why people are so silent on this question? (So, despite all the loudmouths on this forum who act like they are experts on Nigerian politics and history, not a single person can say anything about this.)

The following astonishing quote is from a post in another thread called "Why Nigeria must break up":

Zik, Awo and TB corroborated this below:

Nigeria as a british expression not a nation made by God? Please read from Awo, Zik and TB!

“Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite … Nigerian unity is only a British invention” – Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, 1948.

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French,’ The word ‘Nigeria’ is a mere distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not” - Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 1947.

“It is better for us and many admirers abroad that we should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed the warning, then I will venture the prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of Congo will be a child’s play if it ever comes to our turn to play such a tragic role” - Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1964.

These are statements made by the three men largely responsible for Nigeria's so-called independence as a 'country'. Men who are more accurately called "founding receivers" since they simply received the iron baton of Nigeria rulership from the British.

This is what astonishes the hell out of me. And it amazed me that nobody else in that thread noticed it: If these men felt that way about the Nigerian geographical expression that the British created, if these men KNEW that it made far more sense for the expression to be split up into its respective ethnic national countries and that its current British-created setup is a fraud, then WHY THE HELL did these same men continue the 'fraud'? Why did they choose to maintain something they knew was a fraud and a joke instead of breaking it up into its proper nation States?? And there was no attempt whatsoever by them to even do that, as far as I know. None at all.

For God's sake, why am I the only one who is astonished and baffled by this?

Isn't anybody going to reply that question? Is there no one here that has knowledge of Nigeria's political history?

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Zik, Awo and TB corroborated this below:

Nigeria as a british expression not a nation made by God? Please read from Awo, Zik and TB!

“Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite … Nigerian unity is only a British invention” – Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, 1948.

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French,’ The word ‘Nigeria’ is a mere distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not” - Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 1947.

“It is better for us and many admirers abroad that we should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed the warning, then I will venture the prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of Congo will be a child’s play if it ever comes to our turn to play such a tragic role” - Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1964.

But, wait a second.... If this is what these men said, if they were well aware that the Luggardian contraption called Nigeria was a joke that had to be broken up into the proper ethnic nations, then WHY IN HEAVEN'S NAME did these same men agree to go along with the contraption Why did they not break up the country into proper independent nation states

I have suspected this ever since the beginning of this crises. And my suspicions are becoming more and more confirmed.

I have been suspecting that this is really a planned genocide by the West to severely depopulate Africa by exterminating native African people. The initial 'global' aspect of the virus pandemic is merely meant to provide an alibi for them so as to make it look as if it wasn't a deliberate covert genocide on Africa. They have to sacrifice a few thousand dispensable western people in order to provide this alibi.

These suspicions are getting confirmed. The Western media has been claiming for days that the mass deaths will be far worse in Africa despite the fact that Africa has few cases and its governments have been taking measures (like other countries) to prevent rises. They even said 'Ours is child's play compared to what will happen to Africa'. They did not say a single word about other poor third-world regions like in Asia and South America. They only kept saying such horrible things towards Africa.

And now I have learned that these western countries are now shipping all their citizens out of Africa despite the relative lack of cases. They are NOT doing this with other poor regions in Asia and Latin America.

It seems pretty evident that this is clearly the beginning of a deliberate planned genocide by these wicked people. A genocide targeted deliberately on black African people.

Has anyone else noticed this trend during the past two decades. Have you noticed that local Nigerian film producers seem to be always going out of their way to hire handsome men for acting roles, but when it comes to the women they usually hire ordinary looking or ugly ones? They clearly do not apply the same criterion of good/gorgeous looks when it comes to hiring female actors. They only apply it to males. Why the hell are they doing this?

This angers the hell out of me. Is the Nigerian movie industry now being run by homosexual men nowadays? As a man, I prefer to see beautiful Nigerian women on screen. I am not interested in seeing beautiful men; I am not gay.

I noticed that this behavior started during the 2000's. Before 2000, Nigerian films usually focused on hiring beautiful women for acting roles, as is normal around the world. They began this ridiculous behavior of focusing on hiring handsome men and deliberately hiring plain or ugly women during the 2000s after Nigeria started to become mentally colonized by America and they began to absorb, internalize and replicate American media racism against black people. And they're doing it against themselves. How do I know this? The American media constantly glorifies white women by promoting their most beautiful ones as much as possible while, at the same time, denigrating black women by usually portraying them in the opposite way. In fact, the American media would much rather show a handsome black guy than show a beautiful black woman because they know that beauty is far more important for females. Male value is mostly measured by social status, not beauty.

Now Nigerians have internalized this racism against themselves without even knowing it and the Nigerian film industry is busy promoting ugly women in their movies instead of showing the world our most beautiful women. They are more concerned with showing handsome men as if it has any relevance to anything, and as if the men running the industry are gay.

If anyone knows how to get in touch with these people, could you please ask them to stop this nonsense and go back to the natural thing that they used to do of hiring beautiful actresses? Please tell these idiots that people are more interested in seeing beautiful women than beautiful men. If they like, they can show both. But, for god's sake, return back to giving us gorgeous Nigerian actresses.