El Che ♡

Writer • Beloved • Free

[El Che ♡ @ChecheNgollo]

Sharpen the blades of your pen observantly. These are the times.

[9-FO Tha Negus @Malkur_Negus]

My favorite artist of all time.

[akila. @becka1icious]

english teachers recognizing ur potential is the kind of validation that stays w u forever

[rnbmusic @rnbmusic]

Joe performs “I Wanna Know” alongside his daughter Kayla Thomas for Tiny Desk

[Fetty Waf 🪼 @Wafunya]

The World Cup is about to expose just how a shithole of a country the USA is.

[Stereo Williams @BeyondTheMemes]

Peabo Bryson, James Ingram, Luther Vandross, Freddie Jackson etc represent a certain kind of polished 80s R&B that it feels like we’ve lost in the years since. Rest in peace to a king of the quiet storm.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Boilers32 It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs.

[BET @BET]

Tonight we remember Peabo Bryson, the legendary Grammy Award winning singer whose timeless ballads helped define R&B romance for generations.

From "If Ever You're In My Arms Again" to unforgettable duets like "Beauty and the Beast," and "A Whole New World," his voice carried love, hope, and emotion in a way few artists ever could.

Across five decades, Peabo Bryson gave us the kind of music that became the soundtrack to weddings, first dances, quiet nights, and unforgettable moments. His legacy will continue to live on through every note.

Rest in power, Peabo Bryson. 🕊️🎶

[2PAC @2PAC]

“I used to sit outside by the streetlights and read the Autobiography of Malcolm X. And it made it so real to me that I didn’t have any lights at home and was sitting outside on the benches reading this book.”
- Tupac

[The History of Socialism @TheHistoryOfSo1]

Vietnamese revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh was born May 19, 1890, Asian-American revolutionary Yuri Kochiyama was born May 19, 1921, revolutionary Black nationalist Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925, and Black lesbian communist playwright Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930. #OTD

[El Che ♡ @ChecheNgollo]

Glory to the Party born from struggle and carried by the people!
Glory to the red banner of the workers, peasants, and oppressed!
Glory, glory @CommunistsKe!

We remain unbowed before imperial power, for history belongs to the masses; and their verdict shall absolve us. ✊🏾

[For A Marxism Without Guarantees @phethani4]

As a matter of record, we reject that French-Africa summit happening in Nairobi now... and Ruto must go!

[delonix regia @abasimaenyinn]

Nigeria makes my job as a novelist incredibly difficult because it is always seven steps ahead of my imagination and so immune to satire, irony, or farce by the sheer ridiculousness of its inventions.

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i didn’t respect authority figures

[Tobi Marshall @CoededMarshall]

April 21, 2003, We lost one of The Greatest Artistes to ever live, The Legendary Nina Simone, Rest In Peace Queen 🙏🏾

[KTN News @KTNNewsKE]

OPINION: Kenya is Africa's betrayer; it is always eager to please the West
https://t.co/RQO2sobfSf

[Bassman @aa_damilola]

“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it”

— Chinua Achebe

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

She oversaw the death of over 2 million Kenyans between 1951-1960.
You genocided a generation and looted our land into oblivion.
We remember Elizabeth and her reign of terror, we always shall.

[clitasaurus rex ⋆˚꩜｡ ☽ @sumimasorry_]

im against sex work not in a “sex workers are sluts and degenerates” way but in a “we should live in a society in which exploiting our bodies is not necessary for survival” type of way

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

You cannot simultaneously insist that Africa is not a monolith and then aggregate a continent of 1.4 billion people across 54 countries into a single pro-Trump sentiment because men in markets and church courtyards told you what you wanted to hear.

And let us be precise about what "conservative values" means in the African contexts you are describing. The enthusiasm for Trump that you are encountering in significant portions of the continent is not an independent political philosophy that Africans arrived at through their own historical and intellectual traditions.

It is, in very large part, the inheritance of decades of American evangelical missionary expansion across sub-Saharan Africa, which exported a very specific brand of social conservatism, anti-abortion politics and patriarchal authority dressed as scripture, long before Trump existed. When a man in rural Uganda or coastal Kenya tells you he loves Trump, he is often telling you what three generations of American church money have taught him to value. That is not African conservatism but American cultural imperialism .

The "elite Africans with big English" you are dismissing are historians, economists, anthropologists and political analysts who have spent careers studying the structural conditions that produce poverty, authoritarianism, and dependency on the continent. The expertise accumulated through that work, through decades of fieldwork, peer-reviewed scholarship, and lived political engagement, is not something a CNN microphone can approximate, no matter how confidently you hold it.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

It is 2026, and people are still telling us to move on from colonialism as though the system packed its bags and left when they handed us a flag and an anthem. You have to be either profoundly shallow, spectacularly ignorant, or deliberately dishonest to look at a system still running on full wheels under a different name and tell the people living under it that discussing it is an obsession with the past.

You really think those of us who analyse colonialism have no interest in the future? That we are archaeologists who enjoy the ruins for the aesthetic? We do this because what you call the past is the operating system of the present. The capital flight is present. The rigged trade rules are present. The weapons used to repress citizens demanding accountability were manufactured last year and delivered last month. None of this is the past. It is current state of our affairs.
And then comes the other argument: blame the corrupt African leaders. Fine! Let us talk about the leaders. But first tell us who put them there. Patrice Lumumba wanted Congo’s mineral wealth to serve Congolese people and was murdered with Belgian and American coordination. Thomas Sankara refused to pay odious debts and was assassinated by a man France then protected for 27 years. Kwame Nkrumah was toppled in a CIA-backed coup while he was on a plane. Every African leader who looked at the extraction machine and decided his people deserved better was removed, exiled, imprisoned or killed, and replaced with someone more willing to sign whatever was put in front of him and call it governance.

My own country has been ruled for 59 years by a father and then a son. It began when an illiterate man, captured from his village and conscripted by force into the French colonial army, trained to beat and torture and assassinate other Africans who challenged colonial rule, was handed a weapon and the equivalent of a few hundred dollars to kill a highly educated economist who spoke six languages and was building a national currency to free his people from French monetary control.
France recognised the junta that replaced him within days and nobody was ever tried. The killer eventually seized total power and ruled until his death, when his son inherited the country like a family business. For 59 years we have been fighting to remove that regime thousands were martyred in the process. The regime remains in power and every single decade since 1967, the Togolese tried uprisings and they were massacred. The regime held in place by French diplomatic protection and Israeli surveillance technology rented to monitor, trace and silence anyone who organises against it.

So when you say blame the African leaders, I am asking you to follow the chain of command. Those are not African leaders. They are local administrators with black faces placed at the top of a structure designed by others, for others, serving others. We were given an anthem, a flag, a useless seat at the United Nations, and told that was independence. Well it is mot! It was a franchise arrangement, and the franchisor has never loosened its grip.

Who hides the money they loot? In whose banks does it sit? On whose streets do they buy their properties? London, Washington, Paris, Dubai, Zurich. The looted wealth of African nations is not hidden under mattresses in Lomé, Kinshasa or Libreville. It moves through financial systems in capitals that simultaneously lecture us about governance. Who supplies the weapons used to crush us when we protest? Who send “international observers” that look the other way during stolen elections and sends congratulations to the “winner” that claims 94% while the head of the opposition is either jailed or exiled? Who buys our minerals at a fraction of their actual value and writes the contracts that ensure the numbers never add up in Africa’s favour?
You want us to move on? Show us the way to dignity and sovereignty that does not require dismantling this system and we will gladly follow