Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About

[Bawon Samedi]

Expect Russian interference with the South African election next year

Whats going on?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Whats going on?

RAMAPHOSA is going cancel a nuclear power plant deal which would've made Putin, Zuma and the Guptas really rich

 

[Bawon Samedi]

RAMAPHOSA is going cancel a nuclear power plant deal which would've made Putin, Zuma and the Guptas really rich

Wouldn't a Nuclear Power Plant deal be GOOD for SA?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Wouldn't a Nuclear Power Plant deal be GOOD for SA?

They now have an excess of power. They don't need THAT many power plants (6, I believe were going to be built). I'd be built 1-2, tbh

 

[get these nets]

Here's Chimamanda Adichie's epic clapback when asked if Nigeria has bookshops
By Stephanie Busari, CNN

Updated 5:02 AM ET, Sat January 27, 2018

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie was asked during an interview in France if there were any bookshops in her country -- and her clapback was epic.

"I think it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask me that question," she responded.
The audience erupted in applause as the incredulous "Americanah," author added: "I think surely... I mean it's 2018," she said in the video of the event posted by French news channel Loopsider.
It's 2018 and Chimamanda Adichie was asked if there are libraries in Nigeria. Her response, as always, was . Lord this Woman!! #LaNuitDesIdees pic.twitter.com/DVAKuuFSzW

— Asmau (@theladyamy_) January 26, 2018
Adichie was the star guest at a global ideas event hosted by the French government called "La Nuit Des Idees" (A Night of Ideas).
Midway through the chat, she was asked if her books are read in Nigeria.
"You'll be shocked to know that they are, yes... They are read and studied, not just in Nigeria but across the continent of Africa," she said.
The interviewer then followed up by asking if there were bookshops in the country. The audience gasped and the visibly embarrassed journalist tried to back up, explaining that "not much is said about Nigeria in France."
"We speak very little about Nigeria in France, certainly not enough, and when we do it's about Boko Haram and the problems of violence and security," the interviewer said. "I would like to take advantage of your presence for us to talk about other things and things that we don't know about your country."
Many Nigerians on social media mistakenly thought the interviewer was asking if there were libraries in the country because of the use of the French word "librairie," which means bookstore.
Watch the full video from the event
And to think the journalist doubled down on this ridiculous question with: Oh in France, we don't know very much about Nigeria. When we hear Nigeria we think about boko haram and violence and security. Tell us something different.

Girl really? #Bye

— Yvonne Mburu (@ymscientist) 25 January 2018
Another posted that the interviewer made a "lazy and prejudiced insinuation."
Of course, that was not a question. It was a lazy and prejudiced insinuation.

But then, even though we have libraries, the culture around the use of library here is a lot different from that of Europe. And it's not because we do not like to read.

— ADEKANMBI JAMIU (@hadekneeyi) 26 January 2018
One French commentator said the line of questioning was a "cocktail of racism and mediocrity" that was typical of French journalism.
Demander à Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie si il y'a des librairies au Nigeria: Check!
Ce cocktail racisme et médiocrité et très journalisme Fr #lanuitdesidees https://t.co/2HkjMju4h0

— Nicky Lars (@nickylars) 25 January 2018
Adichie later posted a response on her Facebook page defending the journalist Caroline Broue as "Intelligent, thoughtful and well prepared," during their wide-ranging conversation at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris.
She added that she was taken aback when the question was asked as it was "far below the intellectual register of her previous questions."
"I know now that she was trying to be ironic... it was a genuine, if flat, attempt at irony and I wish she would not be publicly pilloried," Adichie said.
The novelist also wrote in the same post: "To be asked to 'tell French people that you have bookshops in Nigeria because they don't know' is to cater to a wilfully retrograde idea - that Africa is so apart, so pathologically 'different,' that a non-African cannot make reasonable assumptions about life there."
Ahead of the event, the novelist had posted a picture of her meeting first lady Brigitte Macron in Paris on the steps of the Elysee Palace, the official residence of the French president.

 

[Apollo Creed]

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

I don't trust anything that terrorist supporter, Buhari, initiates

 

[Frangala]

The AU is useless. A syndicate of dictators unable to address the pressing problems on the continent not even statements on atrocities and political crises. Why does it take CNN to expose the madness in Libya going on with migrants and yet never hear a peep from the AU the whole time.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Stay silent while dictators kill thousands but jump up and down when Trump calls Africa a "shythole"
These leaders are more anti-Black than the Republicans

The AU is useless. A syndicate of dictators unable to address the pressing problems on the continent not even statements on atrocities and political crises. Why does it take CNN to expose the madness in Libya going on with migrants and yet never hear a peep from the AU the whole time.

 

[Frangala]

Stay silent while dictators kill thousands but jump up and down when Trump calls Africa a "shythole"
These leaders are more anti-Black than the Republicans

These guys never comment on rigged elections or fraud. Not a word on the Kenyan situation. No comment on Africans dying in the Mediterranean. Most of the expenses are actually administrative. i have a friend who interned there in Addis. Over 70% of the budget is financed by the EU, most of that money goes toward admin. expenses (inflated salaries for bureaucrats, travel to useless conferences).

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

These guys never comment on rigged elections or fraud. Not a word on the Kenyan situation. No comment on Africans dying in the Mediterranean. Most of the expenses are actually administrative. i have a friend who interned there in Addis. Over 70% of the budget is financed by the EU, most of that money goes toward admin. expenses (inflated salaries for bureaucrats, travel to useless conferences).

I was thinking of doing a legal internship at the AU next year. fukk that shyt.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

@Frangala - Btw, what's the end game in the RDC? Will Kabila go?

 

[Frangala]

@Frangala - Btw, what's the end game in the RDC? Will Kabila go?

Yea he is gone it's a matter of time unfortunately people will die because protestors have been heavy since the end of last year. He took on an opponent bigger than the opposition in that country which is the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is everywhere in that country from big cities to the most remote of villages and the #1 Catholic (Cardinal Mosengwo) is a one of Pope Francis' closest advisers. The Catholic Church has created a momentum that the opposition was not able to do it. People are getting more radical and starting to be fearless on the ground.

With continued protests which will come with heavy repression, he won't stand Kinshasa is 11 million people 10% of that in the streets it's over. The other parts of the country are not as militarized and the Church is heavy everywhere so it's only a matter of time.

 

[Frangala]

Dbl

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Yea he is gone it's a matter of time unfortunately people will die because protestors have been heavy since the end of last year. He took on an opponent bigger than the opposition in that country which is the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is everywhere in that country from big cities to the most remote of villages and the #1 Catholic (Cardinal Mosengwo) is a one of Pope Francis' closest advisers. The Catholic Church has created a momentum that the opposition was not able to do it. People are getting more radical and starting to be fearless on the ground.

With continued protests which will come with heavy repression, he won't stand Kinshasa is 11 million people 10% of that in the streets it's over. The other parts of the country are not as militarized and the Church is heavy everywhere so it's only a matter of time.

DRC is like France in the pre-revolutionary days. If protests rack the capital, it's over.