fewa @fewagod

VC + healthcare. currently building an accelerator for African startups. work: @contrary_res @vp_fund @rainigeria @insidethecabal @armnigeria. nextcapital.substack.com Joined January 2019

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fewa @fewagod

2 days ago

Lmao. These guys are going to run out of letters at some point.

Katie Roof @Katie_Roof

3 days ago

Scoop: Databricks in early talks to raise capital at a valuation between $165B to $175B. This would be their Series M! 😆 theinformation.com/articles/datab… w/ @coryweinberg

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Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this. First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself. Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (premiumtimesng.com/opinion/708279…) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation. Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind. Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: warontherocks.com/the-other-insu… As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency. Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.

Abiodun @bin_gbada

4 days ago

You can draw a straight line from Almajiri to terrorism and banditry.

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fewa @fewagod

3 days ago

The answer is “between 5 and 7”. It’s pretty obvious.

Sehrish 🧢 @SqSehrish

4 days ago

Don't answer too fast... you'll regret it 😏 What am i?

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fewa @fewagod

4 days ago

@tmfromdeep Lmaoo 😂😂

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Your Last 5 Merchant!!!! @draggingortrump

5 days ago

I will never understand the point of this thought-process. You clearly weren't attracted to this man and you wouldn't be happy if you were currently married to him, so why do you care how his life is playing out?

Her. @Fiances_

6 days ago

Rejected a man because he seemed too boring. Now he's married, owns a house, and goes to bed before 10 while l'm emotionally attached to a situationship that replies every 3-5 business days.

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fewa @fewagod

a week ago

@OoTheNigerian This is what I was alluding to here x.com/fewagod/status…

fewa @fewagod

a week ago

Feels like Meta is trying so hard to fight the fact that they’re basically IBM now.

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fewa @fewagod

a week ago

Feels like Meta is trying so hard to fight the fact that they’re basically IBM now.

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fewa @fewagod

a week ago

@Abiodun0x Working on something of the sort

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ike @ikeonic

a week ago

Not having a wife or kids to worry about and being able to throw my life savings into Anthropic >>>>>>>>>>

The New York Times @nytimes

a week ago

Breaking News: Anthropic, the A.I. company behind Claude, filed to go public, setting the stage for a massive IPO. nyti.ms/4vlQ7yz

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fewa @fewagod

2 weeks ago

Biscuit

Boluwatife @TEEPHTREND

2 weeks ago

Gun to your president's head, name a bone.

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Kayode @K_Basharr

2 weeks ago

Why must Tunde say something about it? Why are you not demanding that I speak on it as well?

Olusegun Bakare𓃵 @theboyisgreat

2 weeks ago

Has Tunde Onakoya the master of chess in the slum said anything about the kidnapped children?

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fewa @fewagod

2 weeks ago

I think most people are so focused on the AI boom that they’re missing the pharma boom.

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fewa @fewagod

2 weeks ago

@_AYO234 @Viva_asubz @Rxbremen @BlehisBack FG couldn’t get a refinery to work for decades. He did it in 13 years.

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GIANT @tomiwalker_

3 weeks ago

This is a perfect example of the limiting belief I was referring to The thought of a company in 50 countries starting in Nigeria is so out-of-this-world for the average Nigerian

Anna Arrey @arranowanna

3 weeks ago

@tomiwalker_ @celestocalculus Olam is in over 50 countries so how was it founded in Nigeria??? 🤣🤣🤣

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fewa @fewagod

3 weeks ago

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fewa @fewagod

3 weeks ago

Masha Allah Drakespeare!

Drizzy @Drake

16 years ago

Anytime you're afraid to try some new shit...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

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fewa @fewagod

3 weeks ago

@Viva_asubz @Rxbremen @BlehisBack It can’t all happen at once. Dangote also announced he’s doing a steel mill next.

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Hush @shushwave

3 weeks ago

Adolf Hitler shot himself the moment he knew he couldn't win his war. The Boys has several issues writing wise but they portrayed what happens when a narcissist loses all power pretty well.

Wesker @WeskerIsRight

3 weeks ago

Biggest downgrade in television history

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fewa @fewagod

3 weeks ago

@_rxrz 😂😂

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fewa @fewagod

3 weeks ago

What are you on, bro? 😂

Dvorstone @dvorstone

3 weeks ago

The humiliation of the villain is a sign of sadism from the culture that savors it. Homelander is truly a villain but he was used to pain and suffering and was filled with rage. He would not have begged and pleaded for life. The show's portrayal is utterly inconsistent with how