Comment on Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud

AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m going to suggest you to reword your comment. Because I’m pretty sure it will be interpreted as racist and offensive by some, and I would agree with them. Calling someone’s homeland a “shithole” sucks.

  But anyways, regarding your question, I guess there are a lot of “richer” African countries (Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana etc.) Nigeria is not necessarily the richest.

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• alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isnt nigeria basically the only african country right now that isnt a shithole right now?

  Nigeria probably has the most theoretical wealth available to it because it’s super rich in oil, but there are definitely other countries that have it better than Nigeria (South Africa, Cape Verde, maybe Namibia or Kenya if you want some deeper cuts). Nigeria also has a metric fuck ton of problems (religious tension and sectarianism, terrorism, an openly corrupt political system which likely stole the last presidential election, and constant economic turmoil) that severely rob its capability to exploit its riches. and yes colonialism is a big part of that, it has fairly bad deals with major corporations to exploit that oil

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmm interesting. I just commented from the view of someone who has african friends and the only ones who can afford to move here to study and just for the quality of life are the ones from nigeria and south africa. But being a white south african is cheating because of the basically segregation that happens there.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  shell…

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• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That Nigerian prince must have figured out a way to access his money at long last. Now I don’t need to give him my bank account and routing information.

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