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Le « Village Vert » a reçu une visite surprise de marque ! Le Président du Sénat, Monsieur @PatriceTalonPR , s’est rendu sur cet espace de 10.000 m² aménagé sur l’esplanade du Palais des Congrès de Cotonou.
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When Zidane left Juventus for Real Madrid in 2001, Juventus replaced him with Pavel Nedved from Lazio. Everyone laughed. You cannot replace Zidane.
Nedved was not elegant. He was a furious, tireless Czech midfielder who ran like a machine and shot with both feet. Juventus did not need another artist. They needed an engine.
In 2002-03, that engine became the best player in the world.
Juventus won Serie A, and Nedved was the system. In the Champions League, he knocked out Barcelona, then outplayed Real Madrid's Galacticos in the semi-final. He scored the rocket that sent Juventus to the final at Old Trafford.
Then, in the 82nd minute, he was booked for a tackle on Steve McManaman. Suspended for the final. He watched in a suit as Juventus lost to Milan on penalties. He later called it the worst night of his career.
Two months later, he still won the Ballon d'Or. 190 points. First Czech since Josef Masopust in 1962.
People say Thierry Henry was robbed. He was not.
Henry was brilliant in 2003. He scored 32 goals for Arsenal and was the most talented forward in England. But the Ballon d'Or is not a Golden Boot for the Premier League.
Arsenal won nothing that season. They finished second in the league, lost the FA Cup, and were knocked out of the Champions League in the quarter-finals by Valencia. Henry disappeared when it mattered most in Europe.
Nedved did the opposite. He won the league. He carried Juventus to a Champions League final. He beat Zidane, Figo, and Ronaldo head-to-head to get there. He decided the biggest games of the season.
Henry was the better goalscorer. Nedved was the better player that year. Goals do not make you the best if your team wins nothing and you go missing in the knockout rounds.
Nedved won the Ballon d'Or without even playing the final. That is not luck. That is proof of how much he mattered.
If he had played that final, Juventus probably win it. His story would be perfect. Instead, it is bittersweet. Which is why we still talk about it 23 years later.
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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.
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EKUNDAYO 🇳🇬🇧🇯 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.
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[ Ligue des Nations ⚽️ 🇸🇷 ]
À l’occasion de la Ligue des Nations de la zone CONCACAF, les joueurs de l’équipe de football de la Guadeloupe 🇸🇷 sont entrés sur le terrain avec les maillots de la collaboration GWADA BOYS X DAÖMEY Brand pour leur match contre la Barbade🇧🇧
EKUNDAYO 🇳🇬🇧🇯 retweeted
Manchester United need a good fitness coach and sports scientist especially with Poch playing a high intensity game, minutes needs to be properly managed and players needs to be fitter to play the system
EKUNDAYO 🇳🇬🇧🇯 retweeted
3 things are certain in life.
Death, Taxes and Tolu Arokodare scoring for Nigeria😅
3 things are certain in life.
Death, Taxes and Tolu Arokodare scoring for Ajax.
Another goal today against Twente. He scored in the 3rd minute.
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🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗟 ! 𝗗𝗘́𝗦𝗜𝗥𝗘́ 𝗔𝗭𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗣𝗢 🇧🇯 𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘́ 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗨𝗥 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗙 𝗗𝗨 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗖 ! ✍🏾👔
Au lendemain de l’annonce de sa retraite du football professionnel à 33 ans, l’ancien international béninois entame sa reconversion en devenant directeur sportif du Bourges FC, club français dont Sadio Mané 🇸🇳 est l’actionnaire majoritaire.
Désiré Azankpo a récemment obtenu le UEFA Certificate in Football Management (UEFA CFM), une certification spécialisée dans la gestion des organisations footballistiques. Il est également titulaire d’un diplôme de consultant sportif obtenu dans le cadre d’un programme de l’UNFP.
Le Bourges FC évolue cette saison en National 1, quatrième division française. Azankpo y retrouvera son compatriote, le gardien béninois David Agossa 🇧🇯, qui tente de s’imposer comme titulaire cette saison.
👏🏾 Une belle reconversion et un nouveau défi pour l’ancien international béninois ! 🇧🇯
