Will The Continent Of Africa EVER Produce A Country That Can Be A "Superpower"?

[mbewane]

Whatever reason they have for not identifying as Black, is a strategic blunder. They're gonna hold that L until they wake up, or just be happy being the brokest people on the richest continent indefinitely.

Pan Africanism doesn't work because of the weakness of the African mindset.

"Whatever reason" means you indeed don't want to listen to whatever local realities are on the continent and put your own views on it. You can't impose some kind of identity to a continent as diverse as Africa, what exactly unites a Serere, a Gbaya or a Zulu? And that's not even taking into account the diversity in Northern Africa, Madagascar or Eastern Africa.

This is why I was saying that people in the diaspora need to take into account local realities and not be on some "I know what's best for you".

And what's with the whole "weakness of the African mindset" ?

 

[Entropy Fan]

"Whatever reason" means you indeed don't want to listen to whatever local realities are on the continent and put your own views on it. You can't impose some kind of identity to a continent as diverse as Africa, what exactly unites a Serere, a Gbaya or a Zulu? And that's not even taking into account the diversity in Northern Africa, Madagascar or Eastern Africa.

This is why I was saying that people in the diaspora need to take into account local realities and not be on some "I know what's best for you".

And what's with the whole "weakness of the African mindset" ?

Everyone here is missing that Europe used to be very diverse until they decided they were going to forcefully blend everyone into one identity. It didn't entirely work as you have irish in UK, Catalonia in Spain, and couple other groups. But alot of forceful consolidation was done so that euro states could have a singular identity. Germany used to be tribal. Britain used to have anglos and Saxons and they blended into Anglo Saxons.

Africa never experienced this and will be weak because of this. It's why India will always be a wanna be power, they have countless languages and ethnicities which makes it hard to rally under one flag

 

[Free White & 21]

To be honest here, you guys are the only ones caring for this concept more than most Africans(and from what i see, neither do most AAs seem to care much either)

The average African is more worried about building themselves and their own communities first rather than thinking about how to connect with the other side. What you're suggesting is basically for us to adopt your beliefs that came due to your Western upbringing and history leading back to slavery, except you just happen to have same appearance as us rather than the white man.

Thank you for explaining the weak African mindset in detail.

Still thinking the same way that got your countries raped and left you on your knees

@Poitier may be on to something when he said this shyt is genetic

I'm willing to meet him half way and say it may be a continent specific dementia

 

[Free White & 21]

"Whatever reason" means you indeed don't want to listen to whatever local realities are on the continent and put your own views on it. You can't impose some kind of identity to a continent as diverse as Africa, what exactly unites a Serere, a Gbaya or a Zulu? And that's not even taking into account the diversity in Northern Africa, Madagascar or Eastern Africa.

This is why I was saying that people in the diaspora need to take into account local realities and not be on some "I know what's best for you".

And what's with the whole "weakness of the African mindset" ?

The weakness of the African mindset is Petty Tribalism and small thinking in general

I'm an AA with 90% African DNA

I got an obvious chip on my shoulder about Africans but let's not get crazy

 

[Free White & 21]

Everyone here is missing that Europe used to be very diverse until they decided they were going to forcefully blend everyone into one identity. It didn't entirely work as you have irish in UK, Catalonia in Spain, and couple other groups. But alot of forceful consolidation was done so that euro states could have a singular identity. Germany used to be tribal. Britain used to have anglos and Saxons and they blended into Anglo Saxons.

Africa never experienced this and will be weak because of this. It's why India will always be a wanna be power, they have countless languages and ethnicities which makes it hard to rally under one flag

This guy absolutely gets it

 

[Thabo]

It probably wont the geography is just not favorable for a super-country. Some countries have the ability to reach power status equivalent to England or France.

 

[Thabo]

And how are regions going to compete with countries like the usa or china?

America is so powerful because there are 50 states that form like voltron when there's a threat.

please don't prove these crackas right, that they winning because they're more evolved than us.

Trying tell me we would rather not get to the bag, than work with other blacks...

America has one language tho so you can't compare it.

 

[Lurk_skward]

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The weakness of the African mindset is Petty Tribalism and small thinking in general

I'm an AA with 90% African DNA

I got an obvious chip on my shoulder about Africans but let's not get crazy

Igbo here, I do agree that tribalism is one of the factors that's stopping a country like Nigeria from emerging as a superpower, but i feel that tribalism isn't the root of the problem.

The root of the problem is the slave education system the brits left us with. Nigeria would need to restructure its educational system to be focused on enlightening its citizens, instead of creating retards, before the country can emerge as a superpower.

 

[SirReginald]

Yo @cook take @Poitier off my ignore list I no longer have quarrels with dude. I need to see his comments in my thread.

 

[mbewane]

Everyone here is missing that Europe used to be very diverse until they decided they were going to forcefully blend everyone into one identity. It didn't entirely work as you have irish in UK, Catalonia in Spain, and couple other groups. But alot of forceful consolidation was done so that euro states could have a singular identity. Germany used to be tribal. Britain used to have anglos and Saxons and they blended into Anglo Saxons.

Africa never experienced this and will be weak because of this. It's why India will always be a wanna be power, they have countless languages and ethnicities which makes it hard to rally under one flag

Exactly, I know first hand as a Belgian citizen. What we call tribalism in Africa is what we call nationalism/regionalism in Europe. So it's stil very much present, and there is no such thing as a "singular identity", even within nation states.

That's why it's a stretch to even consider putting all of Africa under one single identity ("Black").

And that's also why we must be careful of applying western concepts (as I said, nation-state with a single identity is a western concept...and it doesn't even exist in the West) to Africa.

 

[Mowgli]

Everyone gets s chance to be the man and nothing lasts forever.


Ever? To say no shows how beaten down you are.

 

[mbewane]

The weakness of the African mindset is Petty Tribalism and small thinking in general

I'm an AA with 90% African DNA

I got an obvious chip on my shoulder about Africans but let's not get crazy

The chip on your shoulder is indeed quite obvious in the way you are generalizing and portraying Africans as weak-minded and whatnot.

As I said, "Petty tribalism" is something you find everywhere under various forms, it's just more obvious in Africa because of the lack of an organized state. Problem is, that tribalism (which is also sometimes exagerated in the exotic view the West has of Africa, and is used to "explain" damn near everything, implying that whatever issue is strictly due to local "backwardness") is also the result of populations having been stuck together artificially and/or of this tribe having been advantaged by the colonizer for whatever reason. Most obvious example being Rwanda.

So as in everything, issues don't have one single reason, and blaming "tribalism" for everything sounds like when Westerners blame "tradition" or "African civilization" for whatever issue we may have.

 

[Apollo Creed]

i assume this "weakness" of africans is every where because there is no example on this planet of a black power so not sure why you are limiting it to the contentinent when this weakness is exhibited in every nation there are people.

Not sure why you are implying there are black people doing something right and others need to get with the program when blacks are losing everywhere they exist.

Thank you for explaining the weak African mindset in detail.

Still thinking the same way that got your countries raped and left you on your knees

@Poitier may be on to something when he said this shyt is genetic

I'm willing to meet him half way and say it may be a continent specific dementia

 

[Grano-Grano]

Somalia.

 

[Self_Born7]

They can be a super continent, if they kick out all non Afrikans, who keep raping her economy. Europe, USA,China, and all Anglo Saxons countries have been getting paper for centuries now.

Wakanda, although a fictional place, is a prime example how Afrika could've been if left alone.