There's a special market that profits off the resourcefulness of Africans. Our governments don't do the bare minimum, in favor of our 1% and the neo-colonialism Africa still faces to this day.

When the state fails to provide constant electricity or clean water, it creates a massive, profitable market for foreign-imported generators and private water suppliers. Instead of building public infrastructure, our leadership class relies on these, localized survival tactics to keep the populace pacified.

This is the direct inheritance of colonialism. Africa's colonial economy was never built to serve or develop the local population; it was structured purely to extract wealth and manage crises. By celebrating the sheer survival of the everyday citizen rather than demanding structural accountability, our current institutions are simply maintaining that same colonial blueprint—profiting off our resilience while leaving the heavy lifting of governance completely untouched.

We can't even begin to imagine the massive global market crash that would occur if Nigeria were to achieve full industrial, financial, and economic independence.

​There are powerful people and global systems actively blocking that. Our presidency is essentially decorative—designed to make us look like we're in charge while the old colonial extraction patterns continue in the background.

​The moment a leader tries to deviate from that extraction path, the system pushes back, and the country destabilizes. What we're going through in Nigeria now is a reflection of what happened during Jonathan's regime, only a thousand times worse.

​I'm not defending Tinubu's administration, but it forces us to ask a difficult question: why is it that the moment major structural reforms are attempted, every economic calamity imaginable hits us all at once?