African brain drain: '90% of my friends want to leave'

By artappraiser on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 2:22am |

After 7 years of APC, 95% of Nigerians aged 18-24 think their country is headed in wrong
direction, worst result in ALL Africa. Most want to emigrate.

Nigeria needs a @PeterObi presidency to make its youth believe again. Seriously.

Full BBC article here: https://t.co/rjhJhEjKmu pic.twitter.com/wBk5uqrHpv
— Dr Remi Adekoya (@RemiAdekoya1) June 30, 2022

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61795026

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Muslim-on-Christian attacks over the last years, plus a precarious north-south & other regional balances on top of 7 years of incompetent leadership make the Nigerian elections very contentious.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/apc-runs-headwinds-christian-opposition-muslim-...

Note at 217 million, Nigeria has been adding at least 2.5% per year since 1974, which means 5m/year each year since 2017, 4-4.5m since 2008, a scary sustained growth with ethnic strife that undoubtedly puts current teens/college age at great disadvantage.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NGA/nigeria/population-growth-rate

The median age is a scary 18, and in 12-15 years population has gone from slight Christian majority to perhaps a 58-42 Muslim-Christian split (extrapolating 2018 numbers, with the Muslims stronger in North & Central, which is part of the concerns in not choosing the traditional alternating regional & religious patterns. Though this writer thinks Muslim-Christian co-existence & good vibes can be maintained in the Yoruba Southwest.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/why-religion-cannot-divide-the-south-west/

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 10:59am

Strange, no one in the article includes reducing population explosion, and crime doesn't appear in the charts. (Murders in South Africa are around 26,000 now, compared with 20k for the US in this last horrid year with 6 1/2 times the population. Yes, for South African girls/women rape, assault, and attempted murder are also climbing)

The world needs to wake up and invest in Africa, so that young Africans do not feel they have to move abroad to achieve their dreams at the expense of their home countries, according to the man behind the survey, Ivor Ichikowitz.

Sure, Ivor - invest into an unsustainable mess of crime and population growth. Investors aren't stupid. Show something promising.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 11:42am

Why "cultural appropriation" is such a BS concept. https://t.co/8iN0gJflyu
— Vanilla Rice Balls (@GSlackjaw) July 2, 2022

Also a reminder that Putin's culture war against "the west" has been a big loser.

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 2:25am

^ Note that's a whole thread with multiple examples (I note the reference to "rural" on this one with great interest.)

“Country themed” weddings are especially popular in rural parts of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe even adopting country line dancing pic.twitter.com/e7IUXEKZz8
— The Zimbabwean (@RisenChow) June 30, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 1:39pm

A Nigerian official fake fainted after he was grilled about missing funds. pic.twitter.com/l8kFfmmM3O
— Africa In Focus (@AfricaInFocus_) July 2, 2022

edit to add:

Cameroon's President Paul Biya's nephew and former Minister Alain Mebee arrives in Court with a glass of champagne in a case where he is accused of embezzling over 200 Billion. pic.twitter.com/QzDZFWrIvy
— Africa In Focus (@AfricaInFocus_) June 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 2:22pm

World population updates

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/un-world-population-8-billion-india-china...

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 1:50pm

In the pandemic, food shortages and malnutrition skyrocketed. Add climate disasters and war, and you have a situation where total global deaths have gone up more than 20%. Hear more about my take on the challenges facing the world with @npratc. https://t.co/V0XRu8hBoh
— Atul Gawande (@GawandeUSAID) July 12, 2022

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:18pm

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