Comments by "" (@orboakin8074) on "Sub-Saharan Africa, After America || Peter Zeihan" video.

Yes! Finally, you talk about us in Africa. I know there will be many problems here but it is nice to see your expert opinion on our countries (Nigeria, in my case) You absolutely nailed it on the point of lack of unity in the past but the things like socioeconomic development, infrastructure, and even holdovers from British colonialism like a national language and political system, this is what has led to more unity. It is absolutely true that what we are looking to do is establish more diplomatic and economic ties to more foreign partners, especially the west. Yes, we have deals with China and India but we are more allied with the west than most would expect.
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@atheistbushman Great question, friend. Based on my own knowledge and experiences, education is improving but, sadly, economic opportunities have not kept pace as well. The issue of brain drain is still present here. As for energy infrastructure, our power grid is severely mismanaged, even after a decade of largely privatizing a good chunk of our electricity generating sector. Much of our current issues stem from political ineptitude and economic mismanagement, especially since we removed our previous ruling government (PDP) that was more economically right-leaning and federalist, in favour of our current party (APC) that are left-leaning and prone to excessive deficit spending and their rolling back of many policies the previous government did to improve our country. But some recent policy changes are likely to lead to improvements. A big one was the removal of a longstanding fuel subsidy that was a huge drain on our government budget but it came way too late and led to increased inflation and stalling of many business.
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@atheistbushman Hi friend. Sorry for the late reply. As to your questions, ethnic relations here are far from perfect but they are much better than in the past and, especially, compared to some other countries in Africa. The socioeconomic rifts between the north and south still exists and even within both regions, inter-tribal schisms can linger but over the decades, civic nationalism and a more conscious National identity has been taking root here. Hausas and Fulani have their issues. Same with Igbos and Yoruba but for the most part, most people get along well. The main things causing tribalism to flare up are the economic problems brought on by poor policies and decisions of our current ruling party since 2015 and this leads to other secondary issues being brought due to this. Regarding our military, yes, northerners who are mainly Hausa and some Fulani (Fulani are not nearly a large segment of our population as people think) do constitute a large portion of it--followed by Yoruba and Igbo people--but this is mainly due to demographics, not some tribalism issue. The same reason why the US army is made up of largely white people since they are the largest segment of America's population. For the longest time, our armed forces have been established as secular and national, not regional/tribal. Even our constitution and various military edicts forbid any religion or singular tribe from using our military as a proxy. Finally, on the Biafran war, it is not forgotten but it is also not as majorly focused on these days. The fact that Igbo people still emigrate and settle successfully in other regions/states in Nigeria in the north and south-west, is proof of this. There are still secessionists elements in the south-east (as they are in other parts of Nigeria like Yoruba separatists and Haus/Fulani separatists) and while they call for separation and frequently use the civil war as a rallying cry, they are a loud minority and not supported by the majority of Igbo people on that topic. The fact that some of these groups like IPOB and ESN tend to use extortion and criminal/terrorists acts against their own people in the region, sours many against them. They are basically like the radical Sikh separatists of the Punjab. There are still legitimate issues facing the south east, especially economic ones but these are due to political inaction and ineptitude within their own region rather than discrimination from the federal government.
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@ugwuanyicollins6136 um, I never wrote this in my comments, friend.
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