The ‘Shit Nigerians Say’ video

EDITED: I promised myself we won’t post any of the “Shit People Say” videos–the best ones I’ve seen: Shit Girls SayShit Sri Lankan Mothers Say and Shit White Girls Say … To Black Girls. Others are too stupid, too clever or outlandish; there’s even a “Shit Birds Say.” The best takedown of the trend is here.  Anyway, yesterday I went looking to see if there any done by Africans. There’s of course a few online, but not much to like, though I found the “Shit Nigerians Say” video posted on Youtube, embedded above, quite funny.

Further Reading

Slow death by food

Illegal gold mining is poisoning Ghana’s soil and rivers, seeping into its crops and seafood, and turning the national food system into a long-term public health crisis.

A sick health system

The suspension of three doctors following the death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s son has renewed scrutiny of a health-care system plagued by impunity, underfunding, and a mass exodus of medical professionals.

Afrobeats after Fela

Wizkid’s dispute with Seun Kuti and the release of his latest EP with Asake highlight the widening gap between Afrobeats’ commercial triumph and Fela Kuti’s political inheritance

Progress is exhausting

Pedro Pinho’s latest film follows a Portuguese engineer in Guinea-Bissau, exposing how empire survives through bureaucracy, intimacy, and the language of “development.”

The rubble of empire

Built by Italian Fascists in 1928, Mogadishu Cathedral was meant to symbolize “peaceful conquest.” Today its ruins force Somalis to confront the uneasy afterlife of colonial power and religious authority.