AnAfrican

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by AnAfrican 4y ago
>Bitcoin is used as a tool against French colonial CFA Franc in Africa. That's a new one. Sure there are some crypto enthusiasts/ scammers (those are not necessarily the same people) trying to push some convoluted argument rela
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by AnAfrican 4y ago
Also : https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1579147610962919425?s...
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by AnAfrican 4y ago
The "added" capacity is close to Storengy's total capacity. My guess is that the chart is missing pre-2012 data on those sites.
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by AnAfrican 4y ago
>Do you need an educated labor force to assemble iPhone? Yes you do. "Low-skill" workers with basic education (reading, writing, counting, some understanding of some scientific concepts) will simply perform better. And you stil
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by AnAfrican 4y ago
China's population in the 1980 was poor but was much better educated than most countries at the same GDP level. And a larger part of the population got basic education. This is important when you have to read instructions. (meanwhile I
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by AnAfrican 4y ago
>What's the difference between China, India, and the early western country vs these countries then? Why is this unique to a limited subset who have the potential become a big player in manufacturing? Mostly revenues from natural res
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by AnAfrican 4y ago
And that can happen with the same person !
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by AnAfrican 4y ago
Correlation US had been training more elite troops recently Elite troops have always been the ones succefully pulling out coups
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by AnAfrican 5y ago
Yes but it did and does spread beyond Tanzania. Lingala probably did have some government help too in Mobutu’s era but still.
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by AnAfrican 5y ago
It’s weird how the article does not give any example of languages that did spread and become dominant without any coercion. They do exist: Swahili and Lingala for instance. They mostly spread through trade and as « neutral » language used t
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by AnAfrican 5y ago
If setting up and leading a minority rule government based on race is not enough to be painted as racist, nothing and no one is.
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by AnAfrican 6y ago
no, the groups are legitimate. the real question is whever they'd have achieve so much without Russia's help.
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by AnAfrican 8y ago
Both South Sudan's and Eritrea's independance referendum happened with the agreement of Sudan and Ethiopia. => a peace treaty in the case of Sudan => a consitutionnal provision in the case of Ethiopia So they were legal. Som
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by AnAfrican 8y ago
>If those company think it’s about content libraries they’re going to lose. >All those companies think: we own a lot of media, we can just build a streaming media platform. I agree with your conclusion but it's not the technology
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by AnAfrican 8y ago
Music production costs are much much lower than TV/Movies. The argument is that differentiation (and then exclusive content) is the reason why content distributors are willing to take risks.
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
the AU is also much older than UNASUR. The OAU was established in 1963 with a very clear mandate towards unification and decolonization. However, the good intentions towards unity had to quickly face the reality of each despot desire to sta
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
Mikrotik is also as cheap as it gets.
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
And at least Cristiano Ronaldo is a EU-citizen... When you're Neymar and you get paid for a toothpaste add in Japan, you get 3 countries possibly arguing about that revenue. Hence Panama, at least until you figure it out.
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
The idea that the West removed Ben Ali and Mubarak is nuts. Those were "their" sons of bitches.
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
Nope. But it sure does prove that those things can be done.
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
I mean they actually improved delivered on major issue like education, social programs, wages and actually really improved the lives of their citizen. Bolsa Familia surely lacks the romantism of the comprehensive agrarian reform but I like
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
>30 years is not long enough for everyone involved to be dead and no longer influential... and that doesn't even touch on whether the reason it happened is structural. Context matters. With the end of the cold war, the oligarchy doe
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
While I'm sure you don't see it that way, your comment is true on many levels. Leftists got better at "not being scary" to foreign and most importantly local interests. And for the most part, they delivered. Basically th
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by AnAfrican 9y ago
All of your examples are from more than thirty years ago. In the mean time, half of South America had pretty leftist governments and nothing happened.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the US doesn't consume that much Saudi oil anyway. So may be it's more about protecting the interests of American Oil companies rather than direct consumption.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
> It would be an exceptional civil war indeed if the central government (or any other faction of significance) did not commit atrocities. It does not have to be that way. Look at what's going on in the Donbass. It is war, it is happ
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
As the parent has said, the consumer are paying and often higher prices than in Europe so they complain. A LOT.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Agreed. They don't even trust someone from their regime not to fuck them up if they retire.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Not that I disagree with your overall point but : >Recently some African countries have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court on that basis; only the weak are prosecuted Actually only two (Gambia and Burundi) has withdrawn argu
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Russia is an Empire though. Its Multiculturalism has always been about hadling Subjects who could become Citizens by Russifying.

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