@iyefuu

Founder, curious cat & mythmaker @thezeitgeistnow

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Joined April 2024
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Iyefu
@iyefuuJul 6
After 5 long years, I’m officially an engineering graduate. BSc Mechatronics & Robotics Engineering, in the bag 🥳
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Your uncle is retarded. He landed at the airport in the city, and instead of going to the nearest industrial pig farm and working out an business contract, he drove 200km into the wilderness to try to rope villagers into animal husbandry. Is that how your country industrialized?
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕒𝕜 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕨
@Hank_BraakOct 27
My uncle did a mission trip to Africa to teach a village how to raise pigs for food. They flew in with a bunch of pigs, built pens for them, Food and water troughs, and taught them how to breed them so they could always have meat. Two weeks of work and teaching. They went back a year later to check on the village. They had thrown a giant party the night after my uncle left, slaughtered and ate all the pigs, sold the feeders and fencing, and were really pissed off that the mission didn't bring them more pigs.
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Iyefu
@iyefuuOct 27
Screenshots from my piece, “The Primacy of Ideas”, for @thezeitgeistnow’s Praxians. Read the full piece here: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
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“Crucial elements that made them successful” 🫩
Møøn6eam 🎧@moon6eam_22h
This doesn't negate the fact, though. We can't keep comparing ourselves to these countries and overlook the crucial elements that made them successful. And yes, high-trust is one of the elements.
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Europeans get taxed because the taxes fund welfare states and extremely strong public services. Can you say the Nigerian state esp in this current iteration has been able to make proper use of what it currently has? Higher taxes in Nigeria is like giving money to a drug addict.
Møøn6eam 🎧@moon6eam_Oct 27
You guys conveniently compare Nigeria to European countries when it comes to free stuff, but you never extend that comparison to taxation, which is just as important to the discussion.
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And by the way there’s no Nigerian that’s demanding rich country standards. 24/7 electricity, at least in urban areas is something that has since been solved in comparable countries. Decent road infrastructure, basic healthcare. Life expectancy. These are things that are achievable in our current iteration. For our size and potential, we are way behind our peers. It is not acceptable
Møøn6eam 🎧@moon6eam_17h
Well, true to this too.
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A poor country should not be creating the richest politicians on the planet. Untenable. Simple as that.
Møøn6eam 🎧@moon6eam_19h
You can be against the current administration and still understand that Nigeria is a poor country. Those are not conflicting positions.
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Why some comparative advantages put a ceiling on what a country can earn. From Unfair Comparative Advantage, on Zeitgeist Now. Read the full article: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
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ohi|2d|@_bigSnekOct 27
Mounted men show am something 💔
Gazetory
@gazetoryOct 26
Köpeğinin agresif davranışlarını düzeltemeyen bir eğitmen, eğitimli köpeklerinden yardım aldı.
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Screenshots from my piece, “The Primacy of Ideas”, for @thezeitgeistnow’s Praxians. Read the full piece here: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
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Iyefu
@iyefuuOct 26
My first article for Praxians, our philosophy column at Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow. “If we Africans care about progress at a foundational level, we cannot hope to leapfrog into prosperity without first building and sustaining the intellectual cradles of our societies, testing and improving the ideas they spread, and aiming those ideas squarely at the advancement of our people. In developing nations, investing heavily in ideas and the knowledge economy cannot be an aristocratic luxury because ideas are quite literally the golden tickets out of poverty.” Read more 🫶⬇️
Zeitgeist Now
@thezeitgeistnowOct 26
Iyefu Okwoli introduces her column, Praxians, with the article "The Primacy of Ideas". In it she outlines the philosophy that animates our work, which is the recognition of the primacy of ideas.
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My first article for Praxians, our philosophy column at Zeitgeist Now @thezeitgeistnow. “If we Africans care about progress at a foundational level, we cannot hope to leapfrog into prosperity without first building and sustaining the intellectual cradles of our societies, testing and improving the ideas they spread, and aiming those ideas squarely at the advancement of our people. In developing nations, investing heavily in ideas and the knowledge economy cannot be an aristocratic luxury because ideas are quite literally the golden tickets out of poverty.” Read more 🫶⬇️
Zeitgeist Now
@thezeitgeistnowOct 26
Iyefu Okwoli introduces her column, Praxians, with the article "The Primacy of Ideas". In it she outlines the philosophy that animates our work, which is the recognition of the primacy of ideas.
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thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…

The Primacy of Ideas | Zeitgeist Now

Ideas are the forces that animate societies and shape history. Africa must embrace ideas worthy of its ambitions, and will them into existence.

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Iyefu Okwoli introduces her column, Praxians, with the article "The Primacy of Ideas". In it she outlines the philosophy that animates our work, which is the recognition of the primacy of ideas.
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To underestimate an opponent, or to cast them, gratuitously, into some contumely and indiscriminate taxonomy of foolishness, or whatever other convenient species the vocabulary of contempt supplies, is a Wittgensteinian ruler, against you.
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COCAO@abulaforeverOct 26
take care, ❤️
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I'm still taking in yesterday. Friends, mutuals and complete strangers amplified my story. I don't take it for granted. Because of you, we're at $3,900+. The road ahead is still long, with $25K due Dec 14 and every share gets me closer gofund.me/5a7dcc6ce
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Inioluwa@_marvie___Oct 25
Hi everyone, I’m Marvellous, some of you know me as Ini. I’m a few months from finishing my MPH at NYU. I planned for this year with a student loan and a summer internship but it didn’t come through. Then this month, MPOWER shut down. I was on their waitlist. #FundDrMarvellous
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Iyefu
@iyefuuOct 26
Cornrows on an Idoma woman 🤗
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The “fight against anti-intellectualism” on this app is just a bunch of word salad chefs trying to enforce authoritarianism while forgetting the very principles of intellectualism: nuance, critical analysis, context, and individualism. A clear case of “you no go school reach me”
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New piece on my substack about the spatial and socioeconomic ramifications of Banana island and a marginal allusion to Henri Lefebvre. indefinitejest.substack.com/…
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Allow me to reintroduce myself. Engr. Munirat Favour Abdullahi, GMNIMechE,GMNSE, I Am A Mechanical and Production Engineer and the first female (SUG) President of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Nigeria. A cybersecurity analyst and an advocate for women in STEM.
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