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Showreel Update - 3rd Edition
This is a reflection of my growth in this creative field. With every creation, my obsession with motion design increases. Let us do great work together this year. Cheers.
Chizzy James retweeted
Those flaming the podcast host should give him a bit of grace. He's not intentionally being obtuse or dumb - it's his education talking. And I'm a product of the same education why is why the things he said sound so familiar to me.
The (western) education we receive in West Africa deliberately conflates "capitalism" and "market economics". We are taught that the 2 terms mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably. We are also taught that there are only 2 economic models called "Capitalism/Market Economy" and "Communism/Socialism/Centrally Planned Economy".
We are taught that "Capitalism" = "freedom to buy and sell using the market price equilibrium mechanism", and "Communism" = "having everything you work for seized by the tyrannical state and redistributed". These things, which are STILL being taught in an African school near you are so completely false that they are the economic equivalent of teaching kids that diseases are caused by evil spirits instead of microorganisms, and that the earth is 6,000 years old.
It is precisely because of this rubbish education teaching us falsehoods that if you ask most Africans why rich people exist in China (which is a Communist country run by a Communist government and its central Politburo), they will either not be able to give you an explanation, or they will give you that stupid Magatte-Wade explanation ("China is not really Communist but capitalist because people own private property and people buy and sell according to market forces").
For the avoidance of doubt, the so-called "Market System" where people own private property which they buy and sell at prices agreed on through the forces of demand and supply is NOT "capitalism". It is just the market system that has existed for as long as humans have traded with each other, which is about 300,000 years. "Capitalism" =\= "market system". A market system can be used under Capitalism like it is in the US, and it can also be used under Communism like it is in China, or under a mixed system like it is in Vietnam and across most of the planet. There is nothing inherently "Capitalist" about buying, selling and agreeing on prices through the demand and supply mechanism.
"Capitalism" is a system of Economics that is less than 600 years old, where a group of European men took that market mechanism which the whole world has always used, and added slave labour, international finance, and stock ownership to it, turning sugar plantations into the engine of a new global machine that turned everything including human life into commodities for the sole purpose of extracting as much profit as possible and ensuring as little value as possible was created for everyone but the profit taker.
The system started on sugar plantations in Madeira, Portugal in the 1400s, and expanded over the next 600 years to consume Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas, turning them into instruments of profit maximisation for the same tiny group of European men. It is the force behind colonialism, the genocide of the entire native population on both American continents, the European slave trade, US chattel slavery, and basically every war between then and now.
To obfuscate this, they have cleverly ensured that the education we get deliberately muddles up "capitalism" with "market economics" so that we think that capitalism is somehow inherent to humans or native to us. In fact I was a victim of this intellectual deceit until as recently as 2022, when I used to read and take seriously the works of that great intellectual vagabond called George Ayittey. This dude (funded by the Heritage Foundation, shock gasp) had me in an intellectual headlock with the argument that since Africans historically owned land personally, by family and by clan instead of collectively in large groups, and since the products of that land were bought and sold in open markets with the proceeds going into private pockets instead of mass redistribution, that meant Africa was "capitalist".
It wasn't until I learned the distinction between "capitalism" and "market system" that I understood that game being played on the world by capitalists. China is Communist - because "Communism" does not necessarily entail Mao-style collectivisation of everything. "Communism" is simply a system of economics where the state ensures that the profits from production benefit as much of the society as possible - instead of capitalism which exists to ensure that as few people as possible make as much of the profit as possible at the expense of everyone else involved in the production chain. In other words, markets can and do exist in Communist systems.
That's why people buy and sell in China. That's why even though rich people exist in China, extreme poverty has been completely eradicated. It was never this cartoonish binary choice between "do everything Milton Friedman said and prepare for the warm, capitalist prosperity bukkake to land on your face" and "work 13 hours on the state owned farm and report to the food distribution bureau afterward to be issued one carrot for you and your family to eat for dinner in front of the Dear Leader's portrait in your state-issued cottage."
In reality, what this podcast host thought he was defending was the market system, which he has been taught to conflate with the word "capitalism". That's why he thinks there is "your capitalism in your country" and "US capitalism" - he doesn't know that under capitalism, there is no "your country", there is just a system that turns your ancestral homeland into a number on a spreadsheet that indicates whether enough manganese or columbite or timber or cashew has been extracted to hit Mr White Man's Q3 EBITDA forecast. He doesn't know that under capitalism, there is no "Nigeria" just like there was no "Africa" during capitalism's slave trade - there is just a resource-bearing area to be mentioned to investors on the quarterly earnings call.
This by the way, is the superpower of Europeans - the ability to wield words like armour piercing bullets. So that you will defend your own enslavement, all the while thinking you were defending something else entirely. In the poscaster's mind, he thought Seun Kuti was criticising the ability to buy and sell and calculate prices by finding the equilibrium point of the supply and demand curve, like they taught us in SS1 Economics, and he thought he was entitled to make that point. Meanwhile both men were talking about completely different things that have nothing to do with each other.
The fact that so many African adults are walking around today with this giant misconception inside their heads is proof of how disastrously successful this miseducation has been. And it's why I maintain that Burkina Faso, by changing its educational curriculum, is the only country in Africa that is on its way to freedom. Even the other 2 AES member states aren't on the road to freedom yet until they also completely overhaul what is taught to their children as "knowledge".
Because we've all been intellectually poisoned from childhood and made artificially stupid.
Chizzy James retweeted
“Capitalism works for the United States”
Why can't it work for you in Africa?
Well, you have your answer here.
To start with, how many military bases does your country have overseas?
Also, the host of this podcast deserves some flogging.
Chizzy James retweeted
For motion designer and art director @thechizzyjames, animation began with a childhood curiosity about moving graphics on television.
Today, he transforms ideas into compelling visual experiences through 3D animation, motion graphics, and brand design.
Chizzy James retweeted
Be like say Yankee dey use jazz on some Africans o, especially Nigerians 😂 because hold up. We are still in 2026, the same year the United States abducted the sitting president of an oil-rich country on charges whose legal basis and jurisdiction have been virtually nonexistent.
And then they moved their capitalists in to share the spoils. But the same Africans saying shit about China today applauded the US for being so cool and powerful. The entire episode was like sports to them; it didn’t even generate any moral outrage.
Venezuelan lives were lost in that operation, with little public accountability for those killed. We don’t even know all their names. They abducted the man and his wife and are now attempting to prosecute them despite serious questions about the legality of the operation and the jurisdiction of American courts.
They have also blockaded Cuba and severely restricted its access to oil supplies, worsening an already desperate electricity crisis. People are dying in Cuban hospitals amid power shortages. And which country has stepped forward with food, oil and solar panels to help cushion the effects of this crisis? Fucking China.
As if that weren’t enough, this same country has bombed Iran, killed its Supreme Leader, and carried out strikes, double-tapped a girls’ school, killing 168 children.
And that’s before we get into the treatment of people from certain countries during the World Cup, the humiliation and discrimination some visitors have experienced just for the country they come from, or the people who have faced punishment, professional consequences and financial exclusion for speaking out against what is happening in Gaza. These are all apparently minor inconveniences, right?
Now, after all of this, what exactly has China done to earn its place as the ultimate global monster that Africans, in particular, must be terrified of?
Its companies withdrew commercial arrangements involving Kylian Mbappé and La Liga after he unwittingly referred to China’s founding leader as a dictator.
They didn’t abduct him, imprison him or threaten his life. They withdrew their own commercial partnerships. That’s essentially what happened.
And somehow, this is the great moral emergency that has sent sections of the African internet into a frenzy.
Meanwhile, you have Africans whose standard of living would be considerably worse without Chinese investment, infrastructure, affordable technology and manufacturing. Some of you would be struggling to keep hospitals, businesses and homes powered without those relatively affordable Chinese solar products. Do you people ever stop to think about the contradictions in your own arguments?
Why are you so eager to enlist in a propaganda campaign against countries whose economic partnerships are helping address some of your most basic developmental challenges?
Why are you so willing to adopt the anxieties and geopolitical priorities of a country that has historically and contemporarily treated much of your continent as nothing but just an arena for its own strategic interests?🤦🏾♂️
We were designed to focus on the earth. Whatever afterlife exists is as much my business as my coming here was.
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Chizzy James retweeted
They always show themselves.
Every single time.
Like clockwork.
No matter how long the performance, inevitably, they will mark attendance.
Las las, we all know exactly what we are doing in this space.
Make I continue my revolutionary work.
It's just too many productive hands unplugged from our collective progress for a nation such as ours.
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The best slave is the one armed with the tools to keep himself a slave. Very efficient, very cost effective. There is the door. No, it is a wall. There is the wall, no it is a door. Then he runs into the wall and dies. The end.
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Everything within my control, I will do. But there's always that driver, that builder, that vendor, that somebody whose entire world is in a freefall and cares little of bashing into you on their way to the end.
Nigeria makes me take my health and diet seriously because I have zero faith in the healthcare system if anything goes wrong
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Give up on your billionaire dreams or get ready to walk up a mountain of bodies to make that happen, that is if you don't eventually join the landfill yourself.
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To be born and immediately accused of an original sin is the first religious debt that would launch a lifetime of cleansing and all the fees that come with the service.
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Chizzy James retweeted
This is the kind of "opposition" Nigerians love. Sue the presidency in a court that is under the authority of the Chief Justice who is appointed by the presidency.
1,000 motion, 0 movement.
If you tell them that they'd get a much bigger result if they came out in numbers and blockaded the US embassy in Abuja like the Nigeriens did the French embassy in Niamey 3 years ago, they'll tell you "Why don't you come to Nigeria and do it yourself? CIA man!"
Make una continue to dey whine una selves. Continue to "hold your leaders accountable" by suing them in Kekere-Ekun's court, and "voting them out" with an INEC that receives funding from the US government under a commissioner that is an APC member.
And when it doesn't work, do it again. If it didn't work the first 569,000 times you already did it, try it another 697,000,000 times. When you're reaching the end of the 55 years you are statically likely to survive as a Nigerian and you're finally realising nothing has changed, instead of telling your kids to do the opposite of what you did, tell them "nIgEriA iS cUrSed, dO aNythInG yOu cAn tO mOvE tO cAnaDa".
Very wise people, Nigerians. 🥲
The ants in the bottle that got shook only know how to hold each other accountable but not the hand. The hand gets a free pass.
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We always have something to say about churches because they always have something to say about everything. The power they wield permeates everything from your sleeping arrangement to refusing blood donations that would have kept your mother alive.
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Perhaps we are the ones wrestling with good and evil while the entity responsible for everything just wants you fully engaged with the business of existence.
If religion didn't make large populations docile and predictable, we would treat good and evil as the assets that they are in ruthlessly chasing after our collective interests.
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I used to have short bursts of visions where a large wet blanket falls slowly across Nigeria. Thick and heavy, it descends on our heads. We adapt, crouch and move forward under the weight till the blanket finally rests on us, spreading us flat in the gutters so we squirm and navigate like maggots.
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