@Ko_Sa_Ra_Chi_

Writing the stories I wish I had read. Tech by day. Creator by heart. Believer in beautiful endings.

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Joined May 2018
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A thread for the quiet creators: The ones building slowly, showing up softly, and choosing depth over noise. ✨🧵
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Don’t know what I’d have done if mum wasn’t around to massage me. The pain was out of this world 😣😣😣
In the name of keeping fit, I’ve shifted my waist. Waist pain of a 70yr old😣😣😣😣
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“Use absence to increase respect & honor.”
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This child is after my life 😹😹😭😭😭 Because how do I say no after this 😂😂
Last born discovered a new billing process 😹😹😹😹😹
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Last born discovered a new billing process 😹😹😹😹😹
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A friend’s dad was a civil servant who died and left over 30 houses. They have all been sold and the kids no longer live in Benin City except for the eldest in their ancestral home. They are all hustling like us today. It made me see the ephemeral nature of value and existence.
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Let’s not punish those who are deserving because of those…
Replying to @asemota
What prompted me was reading that story of Steve Jobs at the university. There are people who deserve help and there are others who take it for granted. Let’s not punish those who are deserving because of those who have taken advantage of us. Life is simple yet random.
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…life isn’t bad at all 😍😍😍
34, and I'm living plan B. I wake up, pay my bills, and don't wait for anyone's messages or calls. I have made peace with the fact that I am not anyone's favourite person. I take Thangamayil out for walks, and I feed strays. I work out, I eat, and I sleep. Life isn't bad at all.
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Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug. You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form. You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages. You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution. You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis. You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from. Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
How did school teach us about the Amazon so much & never once mention the Congo Basin? It's the world's largest tropical carbon sink. The planet is literally breathing through it & nobody thought we should know 😳
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“Always try to understand the other person’s psychology. The shortest and best way to make fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their best interest to promote yourself.”
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"Victor, you are worse than a salary earner. Your source of income is from one customer, and it is not stable." - Theo Amadi, 1995. Those words proved true: the business failed some years later, not only due to overreliance on a single customer and a lack of scale, but also due to inexperience. Three decades later, I am seeing the same mistake repeated by others, and I still sometimes default to the same pattern myself out of habit. You must sell and sell to many regularly. No single customer is big enough for a business to stop selling to others. Getting large clients and focussing too much on them always seems pragmatic, but it is the most dangerous thing to do when you are small and replaceable. The modern-day version of one customer is also focused on using a single sales or marketing channel. Millions of people are fighting for attention on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter; your small venture doesn't have to join in the noise unless it has a unique message and following. This is where so many people (myself included) typically get it wrong. My cousin, who sells bedsheets and household goods, once told me that even though he has millions of followers on other platforms, his highest conversion and sales come from LinkedIn. It is a cringy place that we all dump on all the time, but most of my inbound private consulting bookings have surprisingly come from there. What I do these days is test things and perfect them here before I take them to LinkedIn. This is a million dollars in consulting advice given for zero cents.
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I thought to do this today and ended up forgetting them outside. Rain has dealt with them My mum calm down beat me fess😭😭😭😭
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In the name of keeping fit, I’ve shifted my waist. Waist pain of a 70yr old😣😣😣😣
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“Every person you deal with is like another culture, an alien land with a past that has nothing to do with yours. Yet you can bypass the differences between you and him by appealing to his self-interest. Do not be subtle: you have a valuable knowledge to share, you will fill his coffers with gold, you will make him live longer and happier. This is a language that all of us speak and understand.”
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Omo, this new week wey start like this. God abeg
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The best time to start was yesterday. The second-best time is now.
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I stopped watching inventing Ann when she spoke to the lawyers kid. Oh that scene pissed me off so bad
My dad used to completely lose interest in a movie if something stupidly unbelievable happened in it. But understand, this meant that if he was watching a werewolf movie and a character went to the post office on Sunday when they’re closed, he’s stop watching.
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Never show a fool your work until it is complete.
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Heart is coming!
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she had a swell time Ghana is next💃🏽💃🏽
Guys, my mum is in Lagos for the first time 🤭🤭🤭 Her joy knows no bounds Taking her to her first beach experience todayyyyy💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
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My mom has told me a million thank yous today alone🥹🥹🥹
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