Comments by "Ayodeji Olowokere" (@ayodejiolowokere1076) on "BBC News Africa" channel.

  1. I suppose we Southerners tend to be pretty shocked at what we see exists in parts of the North and sometimes the South.
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  2.  @rushnande3731  99 percent? A two second search will reveal it to be less than 40.
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  3. Break up your own home.
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  4. Paid for their food, paid for their education, worked under terms of a paid for visa and fled when an issue that didn't concern them materialized. Something is wrong with you.
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  5.  @nuruddeenkabirbulkachuwa6454  the South has the biggest city in Africa and the largest city by Sq area in Nigeria. And indeed Sanusi said the poverty in pockets of the North was worse than the likes of Niger and Mali. No Nigerian takes delight in either of that at the expense of any other part of the country.
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  6. You're full of crap. These people were students, and who would want to be citizens of poverty stricken Ukraine to begin with? And aren't you Armenian? You people flock to Europe to escape poverty.
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  7.  @riaa8689  here we go. Indian indentured servants were coerced and weren't paid. European indentured servants were whipped and compelled to even produce children for labour by force. They weren't legally slaves but were compelled to work for the duration of their contracts. And funny how you ignore Indonesian slaves and Barbary pirate slaves and Slavs. I did not realize you were a kid before typing this but use your head.
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  8.  @riaa8689  white slaves were used in North Africa, the Middle East and Siberia and as indentured servants throughout the Americas. Indian indentured servants which were functionally slaves were used in the Carribean and Africa. Indonesian slaves were used in South Africa by the Dutch. What's your point?
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  9.  @riaa8689  if you want to be a dick at least don't be stupid. I know what the difference is, my point is they were used for labor with it often extracted forcibly. Now go be dense elsewhere.
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  10.  @riaa8689  I'm responding to your comment. Use your brain.
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  11. @Lorenzo Williams Jr. The Chinese state is pretty indifferent towards it's diaspora. And that diaspora as present in Africa are pretty down on their luck types. Not exactly settler colonists, more akin to the diaspora across SE Asia. As for if the Chinese state attempts to upend the sovereignty of states, Chinese immigrants working in restaurants, retail and in import-export can't aid or hinder that, so why treat other people differently because they happen to be a different race?
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  12.  @kumbua  that wasn't my question.
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  13.  @kumbua  still not my question.
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  14.  Angela Bronckhurst  the premise of your scenario is self invented nonsense. Sailors went there with the intention and tools to trade for tools by arming chiefdoms with the means to subdue rivals and victim populations. Implying Africans initiated the trade is an deliberate attempt on your part to invent a history you prefer. The trade was instigated and facilitated by Europeans who had encountered a labour shortage in the Americas. Mentioning random African descended peoples who participated in this trade is pretty irrelevant.
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  15.  Angela Bronckhurst  you didn't have any data to refute you just made a claim. Here's commonsense being used; how could Africans sell their own if there was no united concept of Africa? Did Europeans sell their own people? The actual history is European colonists in the Americas encountered a labour shortage in the subtropics and tropics. Indians had a high mortality rate and couldn't be reliably exploited, and so Africans were considered because they could tolerate the conditions. Hence, the triangular trade. Everything else you said is just YouTube nonsense.
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  16.  Angela Bronckhurst  to your bit about the weapons you admit they received from European slave traders. They used them to capture slaves in exchange for more weapons. You pretty much just proved my point for me.
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  17.  Angela Bronckhurst  where are you from even?
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  18.  @africanstoryteller  I'm not saying he's lying but I was thinking the same as you. If you dig too deep you'll get saltwater. So I'm surprised he's talking about wells.
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  19.  @cultusgti  Moors were North African not black. European slave owners attempted to enslave native Americans before Africans but their mortality rate was too high for feasibility. White didn't end global slavery, the UK did. Africans didn't enslave amd sell their own people as Slavs didn't enslave and sell their own people. Slavery is going on still globally, not in whatever the hell 'Africa' is supposed to be. And finally 'there' and 'their' are different words and 'debt' are different. And to everyone that upvoted your comment: use your brains.
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  20.  @eternaljunker8300  what's wrong with you? Serbs and other Balkan people still lament what Turks did to their ancestors. Go whine elsewhere.
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  21.  @nightslasher9384  what?
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  22.  @ubp9669  racial politics are inherently toxic.
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  23. African countries have never visited harm upon South Africans. South Africans have done it several times. And look at your dishonesty. Look how you've flipped it around.
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  24. ​ @jacobaction3665 whether or not there was a victim has nothing to do with the fact the crux of this issue is black South Africa's hate of black people.
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  25. ​ @lindanilee7441 that's nonsense. Anyone with Nigerian heritage can lawfully represent Nigeria.
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  26. I realize you're far right but as a Nigerian I really wouldn't mind.
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  27. Keep your liberal thinking out of Africa.
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  28. Like I told your compatriot, she's fully Nigerian and won the pageant. Ghana must go happened only once and in response to Nigerians being deported along with other Africans from Ghana.
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  29.  @benegmond6584  yeah Moldova is more developed than Saudi Arabia. Albania is wealthier than the UAE.
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  30.  @benegmond6584  pretty irrelevant.
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  31. These people will make it home. Rhodesia stays dead though.
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  32.  @fionasmith6868  Rhodesia is in fact dead. But don't worry old woman, you're not too far from your beloved Rhodesia.
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  33. Lydia Balogun is fully Nigerian and won the pageant.
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  34.  @kumbua  did your ancestors sell themselves?
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  35.  Angela Bronckhurst  one, you are a repulsive woman. Two, you just made all that up. There was no Benin in pre colonial times for example. And the primary export of the Sahelian empires was gold. Secondly every culture sold slaves the fact that slaves were sold in some of these empires is irrelevant. And one more thing, there weren't millions of people in African chiefdoms. Try harder but please try, I'm enjoying the spectacle you're making of yourself.
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  36.  @462-x5n  you're pretty stupid. They paid Ukrainian universities for spots. What generosity?
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  37.  @iuk4280  do you stay near Ogun State, like Abule Egba?
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  38. More like if you go out of your way to offend people you'll get a response.
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  39. ​ @User.777.1 Fulani people don't own most major corporations in Nigeria, or have Fulani only towns.
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  40. Use your brain, these are exchange students.
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  41. ​ @twiggy-x5v so you believe whites are the only reason South Africa works?
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