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As a Nigerian, my opinion on colonialism will be more nuanced than that of most westerners. On one hand, it was brutal in some ways but on the other it did play a huge role in bringing much of Africa into the modern age via introduction of modern tech, medicine, western education, and nation building. My country and many others would literally not exist without it and most of us are happy with that. Even many people who actually lived through British colonialism in Nigeria, like my grandmother and great grandmother (before she passed away in the early 2000s) don't look at it with horror or anger. They saw so many improvements like modern medicine and better food production and they even saw their children and families rise from poverty because of the effects.
Also, one major good it did was abolish slavery. I cannot be more thankful for the British using their naval power and economic might to suppress the slave trade in Africa. Oh, I know they partook in it for a time, themselves, but it existed here long before whites ever came to Africa. Even my own ancestors of the Edo kingdom were slavers. Same with the Arabs who had a longer and more brutal slave trade here. What makes the British different is that unlike other regional African and Arab powers, they had the cultural & religious framework, wisdom, humanity and courage to actually stop the evil of slavery even at huge cost to their economy. God bless them.
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When I watch your videos, I get partly black-pilled, frightened and a little white-pilled at the end. I have no doubt the world is in for some turbulent (or as the Chinese say, "interesting") times but I have a good feeling most of us will make it and it will be grueling and hard but necessary. Heck! My grandparents and my great-grandmother, along with my parents and their respective families, made it through the colonial era of Nigeria, our civil war, military juntas, the cold war, and even I made it through the 2000s, the great recession, the SARS, Ebola, Avian flu pandemics, and much more. We humans are a stubborn and resilient species and many of us have experienced so serious stuff and I am damn sure we will survive what's coming, Amen.😊😊
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@ladybernkastel5696 None taken. I can understand why it boggles people's minds why I would emigrate to a foreign country and face challenges rather than stay in my country. But the honest answer is I, like most immigrants, want better opportunities but more so, in my case, it's the only way I can actually improve my own life and improve my country. I have seen how many Ghanaians, Indians, Filipinos, and Israelis emigrated legally to better countries and established themselves, contributed to those countries via their work and paying taxes and setting up businesses and later used their wealth to help improve their own countries via things like remittance payments and setting up joint ventures or businesses back home to help bring jobs to their countries. That is my main goal and that is partly why I emigrated here. I want to change my country and the best way I can do so is to get enough personal capital and wealth in the land of opportunity to do so. Believe me, I still feel some sense of shame and guilt like I ran away but then I remember that I am also giving back to my parents to manage their farm business. I cannot do a whole lot now but I aim to do so much more and the only way for me is to establish myself here. That is honestly one of the ways I feel much of Africa will be fixed and developed via the expats who return with the know-how, the connections and the resources to impact real change.
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@feliz2892 Finally, to address the demographic issue you raised, yes, the Muslim population is looking to become slightly higher than us Christians but that is not really as dire as you would think. Thankfully, islam here is not nearly as regressive as Arabic Islam. You will find more Muslims here who support democracy, nationalism, capitalism, education, and abhor regressive practices. They have to in order to maintain our nationak unity with Christians. Here, culture and tribe factors more than religion. A southern Muslim is more secular and open minded than a rural northern Muslim. Also, structure of our politics and judiciary has secularism enshrined in our public affairs. For example, our military is mostly composed of Northerners and Muslims but it is barred from letting anybfaith or tribe influence it. Civic Nationalism has become more dominant over time here. So the notion of Nigeria becoming a Sharia state or another Sudan is not likely.
Also, though our largely Muslim north is still underdeveloped in terms of economics, infrastructure and education, this is changing gradually and with this change comes a more moderate culture. Look at Kano, Abuja and Kaduna. They are northern and largely Muslim but also modernized and more urban. This is making them more on par with some southern states in terms of culture and perspective.
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@tomatop6754 Pal, I am not white but I can assure you that the white population in North America will never become a minority, despite what weirdos say. This is because in North America, unlike Europe, there is a high and vibrant white population that has not being undermined by leftists and their destructive ideology. Plus, they still have the highest birth-rates in their part of the world. Europe will still have a high white population but the declining birth rates in western Europe are an issue. Eastern Europe will be fine, however. Also, the majority of Hispanic immigrants tend to identify as white and intermarry with the existing white population.
If anything, it's us in the black population that will suffer thanks to a combination of factors, courtesy of the left: promotion of abortion, destroying the nuclear family, illegal immigration that actually hurts black communities, the cancerous welfare state that has eroded any incentive for cultural and demographic improvements, the crime rates and recidivism.
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@Luid101Clips My guy, I see some of the points you are making but let me offer some counters:
1) One the issue of colonialism never happening, the two countries in Africa that were never colonised (Ethiopia and Liberia) didn't end up better than most of the colonized ones. both have been plagued with tribal conflicts and civil wars. Ethiopia has one currently ongoing and has no strong national unity, despite no colonialism and both their economies lag behind ours. A lack of colonialism doesn't automatically equal prosperity.
2) Regarding our country, is it as bad as you imagine? In the south, we are more tribally and culturally different than the north where they are more culturally and religiously homogenous. Yet, the south is more stable and economically rich and more developed with infrastructure than the north. Clearly we have shown that our diverse country can work if we have done it well in teh south. It's a matter of political leadership, not just tribe.
3) Even if the Europeans had never colonized us, it would have happened with another power; most likely teh Arabs in the Sahel region. They were an encroaching force in west Africa before the Europeans and had they gained more inroads, we would probably be a country like Sudan. Power imbalances and differences in economic strength and development always leads to colonialism. It would have happened to our region regardless. I am just glad it was by a better group like the British.
4) Finally, on the issue of technology and modernity, it would have been nice for us in Africa to get all those things via trade or diplomacy but in reality, this is not how it happens. Even in western Europe, the ancestors of the French and British got development and modernity and their identity after being conquered by Romans and adopting stuff from them. Same thing in Singapore where their own founder said the British were teh reason their civilization became established. This is the sad but true basis of human history.
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@lupusalbus3795 Yeah, the Rhodesia stuff is one of those bitter ironies of African history. Yes, the government was pretty oppressive in some ways but under them, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was the bread basket of Africa with mechanized farming and increasing economic output and development. All that was destroyed when mugabe and his ilk ruined the economy and went on to brutally subjugate his own people and also stole the farmlands from the people who were actually good at farming and feeding the nation (the white farmers, of whom one's son was a friend of mine in the UK. great guy👍) I will not pretend that the Rhodesian government had no faults but compared to mugabe and his group, they were the better devils. Also, the "rice from the sky" program, is that the foreign aid food you are referring to? If so, I agree. Many of the famines here in Africa are largely due to government incompetence, rather than solely drought, and most of the food aid the international community sends to Africa usually ends up being used by those bastards as leverage to control their populations and further. Fortunately, more and more African countries are improving gradually. We are working to embrace the positives brought by the colonialists like liberalism, industrialization, democracy, capitalism, and national unity. For example, Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, and even my own flawed country of Nigeria.
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