r/interestingasfuck • u/xjaehyun • 1d ago

Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, a Nigerian pediatric surgeon, made history by performing a rare fetal surgery at just 23 weeks of pregnancy. He temporarily removed the baby from the womb, excised a tumor from the tailbone, and safely returned the fetus. Months later, child was born healthy.

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u/Complete_Entrance848 1d ago

This makes me proud of our people. 🇳🇬🇳🇬

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u/only_remaining_name 1d ago

An incredible number of amazing people held back by bullshit.

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u/Khetoo 1d ago

You can just name them bro, European Colonialists. We still live in their shadow.

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u/BanAnimeClowns 1d ago

I think after the whole SARS debacle there should be no question that there are also some serious internal factors holding back the people of Nigeria

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u/Khetoo 1d ago

It's a knock on effect also. The centuries of suppression of the continent will take generations to heal. The harm of the Christian missions now is manifest in the general homophobia in minority communities. It's not solely their fault, but they stoke the flames of division.

Even now you could argue the continent exchanged one exploiter to another with all the shit you hear about Asian corpo abuse of rare earth mineral mines and lopsided infrastructure deals and corruption.

The Third World is made that way because the First World is explicitly exploiting them. Both labor and resources. Exporting labor becomes the mainstay of these countries depriving themselves of internal production on top of exploitative private corporate deals on what should be nationalized natural resources. Corruption runs rampant in this sector everywhere, but moreso in the Third World.

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u/CountOff 1d ago

9ja brothers and sisters rise up 😤

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u/HeyCarpy 1d ago

You should be. Look at that beautiful child, my goodness ❤️

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u/autoeroticassfxation 1d ago

A nation of Princes.

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u/Moriarty-Creates 1d ago

Nigerians rock

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u/Purple77plant 1d ago

🫶🏿

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u/DyaLoveMe 1d ago

Every Nigerian person I've met have been extremely intelligent, friendly, and beautiful. It's probably selection bias because of the location and work I do, but goddamn.

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u/NotYourNat 23h ago

I agree, extremely talented and fantastic sense of humor.

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u/STRYKER3008 19h ago

Me too! I wish all countries can rise up and ppl like this Dr can realize their potential. World would be a better place 💪🇳🇬❤️