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Written by David Njoku on 2025-01-22 at 11:41

When I think of the great scientific achievements - putting a man on the moon, coming up with the covid vaccine - I think of it as something we've done. I think, "we put a man on the moon." Even tho I had fuck all to do with it.

Back when I lived in Nigeria, I would think, "they've put a man on the moon."

As an African, I felt outside of the world of mankind's successes - and I don't think it was just me.

I can't quite explain why.

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Written by ·J Mopp on 2025-01-22 at 12:18

@davidnjoku For a long time Africa has been excluded from the global community. The Africans who were enslaved and taken through the new world had their cultures erased and had to establish their own, new culture based on their history and experience. This disconnect further isolated Africa, while immigrants from other parts of the world maintained ties with their homelands. The net result is that as the world slowly got more connected, Africa maintained its aura as the land of huts and safaris

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Written by cuan_knaggs on 2025-01-22 at 12:23

@jmopp @davidnjoku and even as an african of colonial origin there's a strange disconnect. i get both the we've/they've at the same time

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Written by Resting Facebitch on 2025-01-22 at 12:31

@mensrea @jmopp @davidnjoku Same here.

Back in SA "them" used to mean Americans to me.

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Written by David Njoku on 2025-01-22 at 12:48

@monsoonrains @mensrea @jmopp I feel like the whole world is poorer because of this feeling that Africans have. A billion people - mostly young and ambitious - aren't contributing to their full capacity (unless they emigrate).

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Toot

Written by Resting Facebitch on 2025-01-22 at 14:09

@davidnjoku @mensrea @jmopp The world is so much poorer for it. It is not just skill, but the energy, the perspective, the optimism. It's not something I've ever experienced in Europe. I mean you do have that here, but it doesn't have the same sparkle.

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