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This is my ranking of Asian countries in terms of their global influence and historical contribution.

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@sighyam We stan this unconcerned Singaporean Queen.

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I just can’t get into the whole Wakanda thing. If Wakanda really existed it would be facing endless American sanctions and constant western attempts to facilitate a coup to access vibranium freely. Instead it’s being attacked by some underwater Mayan civilization? Unrealistic.

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@bennyjohnson This has nothing on earth to do with wokeness. This song has been sung in South Africa for eons. Please Americans, if you can't even bother learning about other countries, don't comment on them.

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African heaven is where the weather is like Nairobi, the cooks are Senegalese, the music is Nigerian produced, and the urban planning is Bostwanan. African Hell is where the weather is like Djibouti, the cooks are Kenyan, the music is Namibian produced, and the planning Nigerian.

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Nowhere in the third world looks like this, this is a complete first world failing, own up to it. Nowhere in the global south do you have mass homelessness of capable adults due to drug addiction + escalating property prices. We have slums, but those are populated by families.

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This is an image from Oakland, California, a state of twice the wealth of Germany. I very much doubt you could find anywhere in Germany looking like this. The irony if being one of the wealthiest places on Earth while looking like the third world.

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Everyone hyping up Burna Boy today after he literally sexually harassed a woman in a club and shot up her boyfriend, then fled to Spain as the proud pan africanist warrior. We deserve the societies we have.

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Africa is wild. You have some countries like Ghana and Kenya that I feel have a strong shot at attaining high HDI levels and strong quality of life indicators. Then you got places like Chad where they’re literally reenacting Game Of Thrones, just in the Sahel. What a continent.

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Japan has announced today that it plans to introduce new visas that will make it easier for Indian and Southeast Asian tech workers to move to Japan. Japan is tired of lagging behind China, India, and SE Asia in terms of software. A new Japan is loading.

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Your annual reminder that Lee Kuan Yew understood your average global south country better than its average democracy loving middle class resident. And he was completely accurate, Suu Kyi turned out to be a complete disaster for Burma, and ended up a low key ethnic cleanser.

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This is my favorite Shinzo Abe moment, him literally coming to the Rio Olympic closing ceremony and jumping out as Super Mario. Best political cosplay moment ever. I didn’t always like his politics, but he was a political titan.

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The United States is keen to alienate India, It thought it was getting a South Asian Japan, a power that would just be focused purely on containing China and bend to its every will. India will never be that country. The memories of 1971 live long in its political class.

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Chabahar Port: US says sanctions possible after India-Iran port deal

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If your country is shaded red, its NGMI. This is the Global Map OF NGMI status

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Western analysts will endlessly talk of China “colonizing” Africa, but yet never mention the fact that Fourteen African countries have a monetary policy run from Paris.

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Africa is always dark on every map.

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It’s interesting that Ghana is largely in its situation due to the fact that it gorged on private sector debt from European and American capital markets, not due to bilateral debt from China. No one will call this a debt trap though.

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I barely understand what they are saying in this video at all, but it is warm and endearing. This is a Somali man somewhere in rural China and his Chinese sounds absolutely flawless. This is a huge trend on Douyin recently, integrated Africans in China showcasing the country.

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@SouthAsiaIndex Indian men need a cultural revolution. This is unacceptable.

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This is what happens when you get obsessed about a political conflict halfway around the world that doesn’t really affect you, and whose inhabitants(Arabs) largely look down on you(an Indian). Most people in life should aspire to be a normie who “grills, Netflix, and chill”.

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Riddhi Patel crying in court after being charged with 16 felony counts over threatening to murder city councillors in Bakersfield unless they voted to endorse a ceasefire in Gaza. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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The reason I support a multipolar world is because a unipolar world for Africans has been devastating, we saw in the 80s and 90s as the Soviet Union collapsed, what that meant for Africans: imposed austerity campaigns, an explosion of wars, little infrastructure financing.

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Young educated Africans are rushing to launch startups and tech ventures, while the Chinese who resettle among us launch manufacturing or Agroprocessing ventures exclusively. Do they know something we don’t?

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I literally could not imagine being from the Gambia, one of the world's poorest countries, where people are boarding boats off Senegal everyday and then drowning in the Atlantic, to make it to America, to Cornell!!! And then risk it all for Palestinians????

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I just had my disciplinary meeting with Cornell Admin regarding my temporary suspension. They have given me until 12 pm tomorrow to make a decision. They have offered “incompletes” for this spring semester (make up coursework later), which means this last semester doesn’t count

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China and Southeast Asian Countries are currently in the process of building the World's Greatest Rail Network, An extended network of High Speed Rail routes that will transform Asian Geopolitics and Business is being built. This is a 🧵 on this generational project,

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We start with SSS, China and India are planetary civilizations unto themselves, that influenced not only their homelands, but all of SE Asia, Central Asia, and the entire world. Saudi Arabia birthed Islam, it is the lone country in SS as a result. Islam has shaken our world

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The All Star Team of Scamming.

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i'm assembling a team

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Malaysia last year became the leading exporter of semiconductor chips to the United States, surpassing even Taiwan. Chinese firms are flooding into Penang(more known as a vacation destination) and triggering a real estate boom in the region.

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One of the most unreal developments the past few years has been FAANG CEOs now being treated like Head Of States when they meet national leaders. Here's Nvidia's Jensen in Malaysia with PM Anwar Ibrahim as Nvidia prepares to expand semiconductor + tech investments in Malaysia.

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India will have a very long memory on the West's behavior in regards to COVID Vaccines. Both in regards to America's decision to keep the export ban on lock and Merkel's comments here. Everyday "India is joining the quad!" "India will help us beat China!" It won't be that simple

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This is pretty depressing. India doesn’t need Germany’s permission to become a pharmaceutical giant. It’s especially rich to see Merkel criticise India for potential to disrupt supply chains given EU position on vaccine exports. If UK govt spoke like this it would be pilloried

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Mauritania is one of the most racist countries in the world, a place so racist they quit ECOWAS because they didn’t want to be in a union with black nations. A place so racist slavery still exists in mass numbers. It’s definitely one of the worst places in the world.

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I experienced it in the hotel, restaurant, fuels station and government agencies. For me, Mauritania is not a country I ever want to visit again for anything, honestly in my opinion its next to hell.

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Asian cities are completely unreal in how even if you haven’t visited the city in two years, everything will have changed. New malls, new subway lines, new landmark sprouted out of nowhere while old destinations are gone or faded. It makes it a delight to travel around the

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This data is now a decade outdated, we do have data from about two years ago though. Here’s some of the 2021 numbers, Indian Americans - $141, 906 Taiwanese - $119,022 Filipino - $101,157 Pakistani - $100,730 Chinese - $93,007 Ghanaian - $72,089 Nigerian - $71,465

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If you are a West African and actually crying over Lebanon being bombed please go jump off the nearest building, The Lebanese don’t even treat you guys as equals when they EMIGRATE to your nations. I can’t believe I actually am seeing this on the timeline.

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Wake me up when that movie is made about how Wakanda’s monarchy is constantly being gaslit in the Western press as barbaric and outdated, and it’s lack of aid to other African countries as a sign of its selfishness. All as Wakandans are scapegoated for joining WBRICS. /2

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Latin America is currently 5x as rich as Africa per capita. The Middle East 4x. India, which used to be tied with most of the continent is now 2x as rich. Make no mistake, extreme poverty is quickly going from a global south issue towards being Africanised. The central challenge.

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I don’t think there’s a country in my lifetime that’s suffered as massive a fall in perception as the United Kingdom. In the 90s and 00s it had stable governance, an overvalued pound, and American bankers running to work in London. Now it just looks poor, who would move there?

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In Africa its very easy as a young person to go "it'll get better in a year", "let me wait until after the next election", "let's see in a few years if the business atmosphere improves." Before you know it, fifteen years have passed, you're 37, and your entire youth has passed.

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India became a nuclear power fifty years ago today. It took Pakistan 24 years to catch up on this. One thing that has always struck me weirdly about the two countries relations is that everything from 1974 to until 1999 was pretty quiet. India didn't press its advantage. But

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India becomes the world’s sixth nuclear power with the successful detonation of a nuclear weapon at the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. The test intentionally took place on the ceremonial birthday of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, and the operation was code-named “Smiling Buddha.”

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Nigeria is a weird paradox. As its state declines and its society becomes ever more chaotic, its pop culture is gaining more relevance, even if the biggest stars of that scene are increasingly overseas themselves. I can't recall any other country where this has happened.

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A map of who Africa will be supporting today amid the epic Senegal - Egypt AFCON clash.

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I know this is a controversial thought and many don’t like it, and many have pushed back here even in George Weah’s comments, but this could only ever happen in an African country. Only Africans have such low self esteem to entertain this absurd situation and have pride in it.

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Just had dinner with my son Timothy Weah. Proud daddy.

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I sincerely hope this kind of kumbaya speak dies out with the next gen. Reciprocity must be the main creed of the African in this increasingly hostile world. If you don’t respect me or my people why should I care about you? Get out of your “we are citizens of the world” mode.

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That Ukrainian security are being racist towards Africans doesn’t mean Ukrainian doesn’t deserve support. Conversely, that Ukraine deserves support does not mean Ukrainian security should be racist towards Africans.

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I seriously do not understand what it is about Japan that drives certain weird Western men this way, they don't have this kind of reaction to any other Asian country, but they get traumatized at the mere thought of Japan not being 98 % Japanese or the idea of foreigners in

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This video has been going viral among Japanese Right Wing Twitter. Look at what Foreigners are doing to Kyoto's Gion district 😠

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@seeingmole I mean you’re a Thai citizen, what is Thailand but a synthesis of Indian and Chinese civilization with a few indigenous things thrown in? India’s contributions are massively understated.

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Vietnam declared today that it will seek to complete two high speed rail lines to formally not only connect Vietnam, but to also link it to China's regional network. This is a major win for China as it basically will have tied up Vietnam/Laos/Thailand into its planned China -

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Japan is now on an all out immigration binge(accepting for now 200k immigrants a year for the next five years, itself an increase from the old rate of 50 - 60k) to mostly work as a blue collar labor force for its industries that need more labor. But what does Japan's pivot

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Flutterwave is the defining African tech company of its generation, for it to be revealed today to be engaged in literal securities flaw today kills an important myth. The myth that the African tech industry alone was going to lead to some African nirvana.

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Why is India, a subcontinent larger in size and population than West Africa, and just as wildly diverse, able to be a cohesive country and a budding superpower while West Africa is a bereft mess of sixteen failing states?

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Yes this aligns with my thinking as well. This is an attempt at an Indonesian color revolution to sabotage Indonesia’s progress. Joko Widodo has been stunningly popular in Indonesia the past decade. Now all of a sudden due to a few procedural changes that are designed so he can

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It looks like another CIA coup is underway in Indonesia today. Widodo is pro-Palestinian and pro-China. That's more than enough for the USA. Kit Klarenberg covered the NED's role in Indonesia late last year. The writing has been on wall for a while now.

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This man gets hate, but he does investigative journalism in a way few do on a continent starving for good homegrown content and narrative. You can take issues with his style, but if I could clone him to get a hundred more of him and litter him throughout the continent, I would.

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Some people in Nigeria get six-figure dollar grants to do journalism. But it's David and his $30k annual newsletter that are shaking those people like this. You'd go to that length to avoid crediting me. Frankly, it's a bit flattering. Means I'm definitely on the right track.

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Did it hurt you? When you realized that as the rest of the world is debating vaccines and space travel and high speed trains that you are forced to discuss cattle every day?

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The question has to be asked why are Asians so much better at autocracy and family dynasties than Africans? Countries in SE Asia currently run by family dynasties, - Brunei (Completely run by Monarchy) - Philippines (Second Generation Family Dynasty in both the presidency and

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FTX’s collapse is going to live long in the memories. I was around for Mt Gox in 2012 and that was before the industry really penetrated the mainstream. This is such a disaster for crypto that FTX seems destined to become a synonym just like Enron did a generation ago.

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I had to give a talk at the @FTX_Africa event about two weeks ago and someone asked me if crypto was safe? I thought it was an Opsec question and assured him that exchanges were safe as long as he didn't give his credentials away. Today, 13 days later, FTX files for bankruptcy.

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One thing that we don’t discuss enough is this new breed of inter African migrant. A type of migrant far more common than Africans who leave the continent. Togolese carpenters in Lagos, South Sudanese mechanics in Nairobi, Ethiopian merchants in JoBurg. It’s an understated trend.

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@Cobratate I can’t believe I’m saying this, But Andrew Tate just delivered in one sentence, The key difference between Modern Africa and Asia. Both colonized continents, but one makes excuses, and the other doesn’t.

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And people wonder why the Chinese are investing less than ever in Africa, and just prefer Asia and Latin America now. Long story short, A Chinese SOE(State owned enterprise) and Ogun State in Nigeria agreed a joint venture deal to set up a special economic zone in Ogun State,

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Chinese Cinema is getting ever more cosmopolitan and global in its scope, This is an upcoming film about an Ivorian woman who following her fiance's infidelity escapes for a new start and love in Guangzhou, China's African mecca. Chinese cinema is being slept on at the moment.

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There are four Asias. Sinic Asia Vedic Asia Turkic Asic Levantine/Gulf Asia It could be argued that Vedic Asia has historically had the greatest impact, as it even influenced religious traditions in Sinic Asia These days though India is a shell of what it used to be.

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This wasn’t supposed to happen. Russia was supposed to economically collapse. Instead it’s experiencing record wage growth and investment. Vladimir Putin has done it again.

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The World Bank + IMF to African Governments.

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It’s disgusting to use Mayan culture and civilization and pretend that would be a threat to an African power. And you all are cheering this? What on earth has a Mayan ever done to an African? Nothing. /5

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Your yearly reminder that DR Congo is absolutely massive. It would stretch from France to Belarus in continental Europe, and in an American context can stretch from NYC to Dallas. Africa's sleeping giant, both in population and size. 905,600 miles.

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Spoken like an American diasporan. Most Africans don't associate Queen Elizabeth as some horrific imperial figure. The royal family is at best soft entertainment and there isn't going to be some massive celebration that an old woman who was dedicated to her job dies.

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Black and brown people around the world who were subject to horrendous cruelties and economic deprivation under British colonialism are allowed to have feelings about Queen Elizabeth. After all, they were her "subjects" too.

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You all really think Wakanda would be tolerated and accepted in the real world? I’m not surprised given Disney is making these movies, just disappointed that the black public globally loves these simple childish films as much as they do. /3

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Diddygate reveals yet again why most ancient civilizations did not hold entertainers in a state of thrall or immense respect. It doesn’t matter if the location is Hollywood, Bollywood, or Nollywood, the global entertainment industry is a cesspool of couching casts and brazen

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@balajis This is a strong test case for the UAE to demonstrate the value of its citizenship purchase programs, If they don’t go to bat for Durov or can’t secure his release from a marginal middle class nation like France, It really calls into question the utility of their program.

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APC over the next year will pretend this Twitter ban never happened, don’t let them forget when the likes of Tolu and the rest return here.

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It’s still a shame that when Haiti applied to join the AU, it was rejected by the useless bunch in Addis Ababa. Meanwhile countries like Israel and China have observer status at the AU. All the Black Caribbean countries should have ambassadors + voting powers at the AU.

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Its not enough to have an ecosystem with a lot of talent. Nairobi and Lagos both have tons of talent. You also need regulatory heft, and the fact that Kenya has a revenue authority investigating flutterwave while Nigeria did nothing says a lot about the future of African tech.

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JUST IN: Kenya seizes $56.7 million from Flutterwave as corruption, money laundering trial begins in Nairobi

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Wakanda in the real world would be a force for African regional integration, a keen ally of the broader non aligned world, and would be immeasurably rich and seen as a threat to the “rules based world order”. That’s the Wakanda I want to see, not this fake shit. /4

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@spectatorindex Why did Sudan have a biorisk lab in the first place? Why was this allowed? What “virus samples” are here?

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The Americans are not well I fear.

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A beautiful video the BBC produced in tribute of the 2022 World Cup. Brings all the memories rushing back.

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There was a kind of bizarre belief in the 2000s and 2010s that countries like South Korea and Japan would just use mass robotics to deal with depopulation, No, they’ll import poorer labor and in wider large scopes to delay the inevitable. Being a migrant laborer everywhere

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The human rights catastrophe that is South Korea’s use of migrant workers to fill labor shortages: a🧵

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There’s a class of young African activists that’s obsessed with global climate summits and the “global fight against climate change” but yet silent on the fact their country has had the same president since the 80s. You should fix your country before trying to save the world.

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I know white nationalists will cope and seethe over this, 😂😂😂

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Imagine being a black man, your country’s most famous entertainer, and openly pleading to have a chat with Elon Musk. A man who makes no claims of plausible deniability that he does not like you, your community, or your country. Weakest links indeed.

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@elonmusk please let’s have a a in- depth talk about haiti when your time permits Wyclef Jean blessings !

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Last week the US Intelligence Community published its latest global trends assessment, a report that it publishes every ten years that incorporates a variety of scenarios on how it sees geopolitical competition evolving. To sum it shortly, they have no faith in Africa. /1

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The vast majority of Asians no longer think America's political model is worth any respect or an example. India stands out as the outlier.

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Part of what makes the PayStack exit even sweeter, in a way that Sendwave, Jumia, and DPO Group didn't cause this much jubilation, is the fact that PayStack had pretty much a completely local born and local rooted team. It feels like an actual victory for African founders.

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As I said before, the world will be Indianized and Africanized to a large degree this century. I don’t see this as a scenario of India being a massive disaster case or a wretched country. Emigration peaks for most countries around the 3K to 10k per capita income zone, India

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India feels like it's at a point of reckoning. I've seen a surge of people DM me asking about US immigration. Young citizens are losing faith in the country as police, government, infrastructure and judiciary constantly fail.

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Seeing how many African intellectuals are so invested in this conflict from a pro western angle, the overt emotionalism they feel, I cannot see how Africa can become a force in this world. You cannot modernize with an elite that has a subaltern complex. I pray this changes.

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Say whatever you want about these men. Love them, hate them. But they’ve all defined their countries generationally in a way that politicians of a prior era wouldn’t have even thought to imagine. This is what being a generational political talent looks like.

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what is a ‘generational talent’

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What defines NGMI status? Simple, the inability of the country to reach its own expectations + lofty goals over the next two generation. Sure Germany will be a rich society even in 2060, but its citizens won't be as hyped as Kenyans or Indians or Indonesians in that year

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If France had opted for mass Chinese and Vietnamese immigration rather than Malian and Algerian would it’s streets be on fire? Before you get angry at me for asking this question, be aware that states from the UAE to Malaysia have all asked this question and are answering it.

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2 years

Ethiopia and Liberia both like to tout that they were never colonized, but yet both in 2022 are poorer than most of the continent and still have plenty of ethnic feuds. Both have their own local imperialism they never bothered to sort out. A lesson to other Africans in that.

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"Over the past five years, only three of the 54 African economies have grown at an annual rate of more than 6 per cent: Ethiopia, Benin and Rwanda... Not a single African economy has seen a transformative gain in average per capita income.... Africa is adding workers but not

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7 months

@allhailJeffreyD Allah is bigger than Anime. 2 billion Muslims Pray to Mecca.

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2 years

The country that I am most disappointed with in Africa is Equatorial Guinea, only 1.4 million people and endless barrels of oil. Malabo should be Africa's Dubai, there should be tons of flights daily between Lagos and Malabo. Instead abject poverty and just insane kleptocracy.

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Popular political and economic views of the 2000 that now look dumb, - China was just destined to be a massive assembly line, because it wasn’t democratic it could never be innovative lmao. India was actually China’s real peer competitor, not the US. - The EU was destined to

Phryne Astynome

@PAstynome

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I remember the prevailing view was that India would move up the value chain and would do the hard hitting R&D/services and China would continue to do assembly work. I know we mock this but to be fair, this view was due to Western firms outsourcing R&D to India back in the 2000s.

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3 years

I seriously can't believe there's somehow a Chinese businessman in Somalia with a harem and a seemingly thriving business, this is truly going to be a very very weird century.

Duke of Qin

@qin_duke

3 years

Chinese Douyin is more sanitized than Western Tik Tok in many ways but in others it is completely mad. One of the more popular accounts is a middle aged Beijing man living in Somalia with a literal harem of Kushitic beauties who apparently made his fortune as an arms dealer.

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8 months

This is my ranking of African countries in terms of their global cultural influence.

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2 years

The biggest sign you’re a developing country is when western ambassadors to your country are local celebrities. It’s embarrassing. In normal countries, no one knows the name of any ambassador. Meanwhile any Karen or Bob diplomat can step in Africa and feel like a god.

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2 years

I honestly need African presidents to just start expressing no comment to this question when asked. Ruto has far more immediate priorities, and while this may be a culture war issue in America it’s not a salient issue to most Kenyans. Just ignore their media baiting.

Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

2 years

Gay sex is illegal in Kenya and President-elect @WilliamsRuto previously said “we have no room for gays.” Ruto tells me “we respect everybody,” but adds “this is not a big issue for the people of Kenya” and President Kenyatta was “spot on” to say homosexuality “is not agreeable.”

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2 years

Clara is quite a well known operator in the space, so I don’t take her accusations here lightly. If . @theflutterwave behaved in this manner, it is a giant black mark on the African tech landscape and raises questions on founder accountability and standards in this space.

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2 years

I’m entranced by geopolitics because I’m entranced by time and space. How spaces are transformed over the span of a fragile human life. My grandmother died today and I’m just stunned at how the Togo she knew 94 years ago; the people, the places, and behaviors no longer exists.

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3 years

If we could bottle up whatever mad spirit is inside David Hundyein and sell it, Africa would be in a much improved state all around. The man is a fucking legend.

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2 years

Post Nigerian election I'm even more convinced that African countries will never economically reach their potential under democracy. African elections mostly encourage ethnic balkanization, completely illegal electoral practices, and often lead to the worst candidates winning.

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2 years

I truly think Africa has a lot of serial killers or a far greater rate than reported, but because most police departments suck on the continent they’re just out there getting away with frequent murder. Wouldn’t be surprised if some are linked to organ trafficking schemes.

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