Africa is adjusting to the new reality of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with countries on the continent facing some of the highest export charges.
Was trying to check if I read this right. Apparently this person is indeed based in Nigeria and obviously I can’t comment on anything that is happening over there without first doing some research, but it seems like there are people who are living in Africa right now who are treating it as backwards
It wouldn’t be surprising that an economics professor who learns neoliberal economics would accept the neoliberal explanation for Africa’s lack of wealth, which is just “backwards savages with extra steps.”
But it’s kind of wild how they just quote a guy to get a soundbite that says “China bad for trading with Africa” no elaboration on that point, it is taken as a given, not a part of their argument, just
Was trying to check if I read this right. Apparently this person is indeed based in Nigeria and obviously I can’t comment on anything that is happening over there without first doing some research, but it seems like there are people who are living in Africa right now who are treating it as backwards
Fanon has some great insights into the colonized intellectual in “Wretched of the Earth”
It wouldn’t be surprising that an economics professor who learns neoliberal economics would accept the neoliberal explanation for Africa’s lack of wealth, which is just “backwards savages with extra steps.”
But it’s kind of wild how they just quote a guy to get a soundbite that says “China bad for trading with Africa” no elaboration on that point, it is taken as a given, not a part of their argument, just