Posted on 05/06/2008 6:04:19 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Musa Mogadi says he is better off since "the whites" came. He's got a new job, learned new farming skills, and he can chat on a mobile phone while zipping around the countryside on a motorbike.
Three years ago, Mr. Mogadi got by as a subsistence farmer. But he now earns a regular wage as a supervisor on one of this town's new commercial farms.
He's applied skills he learned from some of the two dozen white Zimbabwean farmers who moved to Nigeria in 2005, after being kicked off their land by President Robert Mugabe and later attracted by large parcels of land on offer under 25-year leases and commitments of support from the Nigerian government.
Production on his farm is now up.
"We are starting to use fertilizers," says Mogadi, explaining that he was encouraged to buy fertilizer after seeing yield benefits on the commercial farm. He's also started planting his maize in a more compact formation, like the Zimbabweans, increasing production from each field planted.
Before the Zimbabweans arrived, there was no mobile phone network in the area and so no reason to have a mobile phone. Now he and most of the other workers have snazzy cellphones, and many have bought motorbikes imported from China, often with a loan from their employer.
In the future, when the national power network reaches the Shonga farms, Mogadi is looking forward to having electricity in his home and village for the first time.
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A good (older) friend has been a Christian missionary in Nigeria for several years, and has no plans ever to return to the U.S. again. Nigeria has its problems, but nothing like the leftist paradise of Zimbabwe.
Very intresting.
Not guaranteed. There’s a strong Christian (and Anglican) ethos in Nigeria that didn’t take root in Zimbabwe.
What is sad are the simple things we’re told these white farmers introduced. Nigerians are just learning that now??? Oh wait, they had decades of UN “help.” Now I understand. Nevermind.
Nice, selling the motor bikes is a nice touch as instead of somewhat worthless currency in exchange for work, they have a means of transportation and a reason to work.
White Colonials improving lives one motor scooter at a time in Africa...
“I guess at least in Nigeria they aren’t horrible, racist, land stealers huh?”
Not yet.
Exactly. Once the white transplants raise crops of golden geese, the locals will slaughter them.
“Oh wait, they had decades of UN “help.”
Why are we still a member of that moronic anti-American organization? I guess that we like to be the UN’s punching bag.
In fact, Nigeria has gotten the idea from those countries.
The common thread is that the Zimbabwe commercial farmers were the most successful agrarians in the whole of southern Africa. Until the "land reform" insanity started in 2000, Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of southern Africa.
25-year leases
Zambia and Mozambique were offering renewable 50 uear leases.
The talented always bring up the fortunes of others.
And now maybe the Nigerians will stop sending me those annoying emails.
If the government starts agitating against “white interlopers stealing YOUR land and taking YOUR heritage”, I have little doubt many would be swayed to go tribal and start in with the zimbabwe style “land reforms” up to and including raping and killing the farmers and their families.
zimbabwe isn't an anomaly, it's the template for afro-socialism. Even South Africa, if the stories I have heard are correct, is heading down the road of the mugabeast.
Three years ago, Mr. Mogadi got by as a subsistence farmer. But he now earns a regular wage as a supervisor on one of this town's new commercial farms.Oh, see, now, Mr. Mogadi's being exploited by the capitalist Euro-pigs and doesn't realize it yet. /sarc Thanks geo. Good news for Nigeria, and good news for these Zimbabwean expatriates.
You got that right!
Take him from a subsistence farm life, and addict him to cell phones, fertilizer, gasoline, rubber, and regular oil changes.
Next, bring in electricity, and hook him on TV, computers, and light bulbs.
And wait until he trades his oxen in on a tractor; that'll be the real end of him and all his traditional cultural values!
Those exploiting white capitalist Euro pigs'll make a killing off this guy!
Save the Natives for the Anthropologists---Expel the White Devils NOW!
Alas, I don’t think I can ever visit Nigeria. According to the e-mails you mentioned, too many of my relatives have been killed there!
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