RE: Can Africa ever grow wholly? A black man's story
Lol.
We really don’t need to have “our own superhero movies”! That’s being a copycat! We don’t tell stories that way! We tell stories the way Nollywood tells stories; family drama. Asking us to make our own superhero movies would be like asking a snake to walk upright.
And you talked about black kids roaming the street instead of getting an education? You think they didn’t want to get educated? Why do you think they say “if you want to hide something form a black man, put it in a book”? Who was in control of the schools? Who made the rules?
Lol. C’mon!
It’s true nobody should be dwelling on the past and wallowing in self pity but c’mon, we need to always recognize both sides of the coin.
You think South Africans are having it all good? You think their progress is solely because blacks decided to forget about the past?
Apples and Oranges man!
Glad to have you here, you made your points, I made mine. Let's go back to teasing each other with our whatsapp statuses...lol
Edit: Let's have some fun...
If we feel Nollywood does it right through village movies, let us not feel bad when we are described as a jungle (as we prefer to tell our stories) because I cannot remember seeing sky scrapers or sub way stations in the village movies.
Actually you are wrong there, it's not only black men who don't read. Because the saying is popular doesn't mean it holds true. We accepted it to be true and we felt pity for ourselves. In some countries in Europe, education is free to encourage even the white folks to go to school. In Africa, become a drop out and watch the society give up on you because they have deemed you a collosal failure. Why don't we make efforts for rehabilitation? Instead our politicians prefer to use the uneducated ones as thugs instead of pushing them forward. I guess the white man is our politician right?
South Africans are not having it all good, they prefer to suck it up, cover their asses and focus on growth. The largest telecommunication company is MTN, which happens to be a South African firm. Our leading source of entertainment and news (DSTV) is also a South African brand. When a Nigerian brand (TSTV) was about to launch, we killed it with our own mouth before it even launched.
Don't get me started on quality control protocols in Nigeria. I am using Nigeria as a reference because I reside here. Imagine a situation where the number one university (OAU) in Nigeria could not consume drugs for headache manufactured by it's graduating pharmacy students because the water was not pure. Whose fault is that.
Quick question: If you are about to board a flight and you hear this plane was built by a Nigerian and is about having it's first flight (minus testing) will you not change your mind?
The reason is because we know the truth which is: "we are the problem ourselves"
P.S. Blacks actually sold their fellow kin into slavery just to be on good terms with the white man. WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?
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Oh really? 🤔
@mosunomotunde, thank you.