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Changing Africa's Narrative.

[UGAMAN @Ugaman01]

Congratulations Rwanda, this is another big step in the right direction. Africa is proud of your efforts.

[SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 @SIKAOFFICIAL1]

An aerial view of the ongoing expansion of the Kasoa–Winneba Road, featuring the construction of the Budumburam Interchange as part of efforts to improve traffic flow and ease congestion along the stretch.

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[Trevor Ncube @TrevorNcube]

My friend James Manyika has been awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard's highest honour in African and African American studies.

On Thursday night at Sanders Theatre, Strive Masiyiwa, himself a 2024 medallist, presented it to him. One Zimbabwean honouring another.

James is Senior Vice President at Google-Alphabet, leading research in AI, computing and science. I remember him in my office in Harare over coffee, talking AI and autonomous vehicles.

It all began with a first-class engineering degree at the University of Zimbabwe, then Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

He now stands with Muhammad Ali, John Lewis, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte and Wole Soyinka.

Zimbabwe has never been short of talent.

Congratulations, my friend. You make us proud.

[CURVE. @Creativ_Curve]

Amazing Afrocentric pieces by Xest!🤍

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

In South Africa's Kalahari, a bird built a skyscraper on a telephone pole. That same bird inspired one of Africa's most famous designs: The Nest at Sossus, in Namibia's Namib Tsaris Conservancy.

The sociable weaver builds enormous communal nests on telephone poles and trees. They build permanent nests on trees and other tall structures. One nest holds hundreds of birds, each breeding pair in its own chamber, and some are used for generations. Inside, the rooms are used according to temperature.

Designer Porky Hefer took that idea and built it for people. It took eight years, including a three-year build. It is made almost entirely of thatch, clad onto a steel inner structure. Like the weaver's nest, it swells at different points into bulging forms, and it runs off-grid. Hefer says everything was built on site by local artisans, with local materials, in the area's traditional style.

It won the 2019 Wallpaper Design Award for best private house in the world.

Notice what he didn't do. He didn't import a solution. He read the landscape in front of him: the bird, the grass, the heat, and the craft of the people around him.

Our best ideas are already in our nests, our thatch and our mud walls. We don't need to borrow solutions. We need to look.

📍 The Nest at Sossus, Namib Tsaris Conservancy, Namibia.
Design: Porky Hefer Design
Photography: Katinka Bester

[Emmanuel Tapsoba @emmanutapsoba]

Du chocolat 🍫 burkinabè
Produit transformé & consommer au Burkina🇧🇫

Le 9 oct2026 à l'occasion des Journées nationales d'engagement patriotique et de participation citoyenne

André Bayala ou #ChefAndré artisan chocolatier Sacré champion d'Afrique du chocolat 2016 à Abidjan

[𝕏 Ghana 🇬🇭 @xghana_]

Bird view of the city’s beautiful layout

📍Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭

[nat ♥️ @khaj_nat]

Beautiful Art….🖤🖤🖤✊🏾

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

They didn't civilize, they interrupted civilization!

[Black History Month 2026 @bhmuk]

Nine more stories of service, leadership and community.

Watch our latest Honouring Black Britain 2026 video, celebrating contribution and remembering Lord Ouseley.
https://t.co/aaVP3HiYtR
#BlackHistoryMonth #HonouringOurCommunities

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Zimbabwean woman Pummy Hadebe has won a major UK transport award after helping deliver a baby on her bus in Glasgow.

She was driving a Service 23 bus for McGill’s Buses on 29 November 2025 when a pregnant passenger went into labour on the way to hospital with her partner.

Realising the baby was about to come, Pummy stopped, called emergency services and helped with the delivery before paramedics got there. She then put the newborn on the mother’s stomach and used a towel from her own bag to keep the baby warm.

Mother and baby were later taken to hospital and said to be fine. On 1 October 2026, Pummy was named Frontline Employee/Community Champion of the Year at the UK National Transport Awards in London.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

They assassinate and overthrow progressive governments in Africa, install puppet regimes, and then blame Africans for being poor.

[MacJordan 👨🏾‍💻🇨🇦🇬🇭 @MacJordaN]

Benin doesn’t have Ghana’s gold, cocoa or oil wealth, yet look at what they’re doing with their public spaces. 🇧🇯

Some people might think, this is ai-generated. 🤣😝

[CheckoutAfrica @CheckoutAfrica]

Egypt’s $88m exploration deal is a starting point, not a guaranteed oil boom. Success should mean local jobs, skills and stronger energy security. The question is not just what comes out of the ground, but how much value stays in the economy.

[Africa Updates @africaupdates]

Africa’s second-largest economy secures $88 million from U.S. energy giant Chevron for massive offshore oil and gas exploration https://t.co/6UBSBE7PIk

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨🇧🇫 They hate Captain Traoré because the bar is stamped in Ouagadougou.

First refinery. 164 tonnes a year. Gold no longer leaves raw.

Paris lost the mine. The headline became junta. The contract stays home.

To every African leader: this is the step. Follow it.

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇬🇭🇨🇳 Ghana launches cedi-to-yuan payment system for imports from China, reducing reliance the US dollar.

• Stanbic Bank Ghana is piloting the cedi-to-yuan payment system, with Ghana Commercial Bank developing a similar service.

• Payments are processed through China's Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), enabling direct yuan payments from cedi accounts.

• This system reduces the need for US correspondent banks, cutting costs and processing times for China-related transactions.

[CheckoutAfrica @CheckoutAfrica]

Explore Black history beyond Britain—from Kush and Aksum to the global African diaspora—and discover how Africa shaped the modern world. https://t.co/C8SxjGNbAB via @checkoutafrica

[WSKM @WISKIMMUSIC]

Chokwe Mwana Pwo, Angola or Congo 🇦🇴 🇨🇩

[CheckoutAfrica @CheckoutAfrica]

@SankaraDispatch The power!!

[The Tech Prophet (Amospikins) @Amospikins]

What Switzerland Just Did Should Make Africa Think