Emeka O.G

maverick.

[Abdulsamad @richtosho]

Ngozi Ibe got $75,000. Hired 22 staff. Signed contracts with three major wholesale distributors.

A shoe factory. Not an app. Not a startup. A shoe factory.

Abdul Sani Adeyemi built CleanMove to deliver solar lanterns, improved cookstoves, and clean energy products to off-grid communities using technology and a fleet of electric tricycles.

They won the Green Africa Innovation Prize. $220,000. Then raised millions more in venture capital.

Thousands of families now have access to clean and affordable energy because of it.

Amara Obi founded FutureSkills in Enugu to equip young people with digital literacy, coding, and vocational skills for the modern job market.

They secured funding from the Ford Foundation, USAID, and the MacArthur Foundation.

An NGO. Built in Enugu. Funded by the world.

A shoe manufacturer. A cleantech founder. A skills development NGO director.

Three different industries. Three different funding sources. One continent.

None of them waited until they felt ready.

They built the thing and found the money to scale it.

That is the only story that matters.

Repost so every African entrepreneur who needs to see it does. And get motivated to keep going.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

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[Emeka O.G @EmekaChuckBazz]

about freaking time!!

[Emeka O.G @EmekaChuckBazz]

MICHAEL B!!!

[blue @bluewmist]

dear algorithm, please show this tweet only to people who are going to win by the end of the year no matter what

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

Sometimes I feel like something glitched around 2019 and nobody talks about it.
Like the world didn’t end, it just… hardened.
Conversations feel shorter. Friendships feel thinner. Everyone is “connected” but no one is really here. We scroll through tragedies the way we used to scroll through memes. A disaster happens, we react with an emoji, and five minutes later we’re back to arguing about something irrelevant.
It’s like empathy got nerfed.
People film everything now. Fights. Accidents. Someone crying in public. The first instinct isn’t “help,” it’s “record.” We turned real life into content and content into personality.
Even time feels off. Weeks blur together. Years feel both fast and empty. You look up and it’s February again but you can’t remember living January.
And maybe I sound dramatic. Maybe this is just adulthood. But sometimes it feels like we crossed into a quieter, colder timeline and just agreed not to question it.
Like we survived something.
But we didn’t come back the same.

[The Fall-Off @thefalloff26]

The Fall-Off: Trunk Sale Pt. 2 💿

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain literally processes text differently after age 25.

The prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully myelinate until your mid-twenties. That’s the region responsible for abstract reasoning, long-term consequence modeling, and emotional regulation. When your English teacher assigned you The Great Gatsby at 16, you were reading it with a brain that couldn’t yet simulate regret.

This is why rereading hits so differently. You’re running the same input through fundamentally different neural architecture.

At 16, your brain processes Gatsby’s obsession as plot. At 35, your amygdala fires because you’ve lived through your own version of chasing something that was already gone. The text stays identical. Your pattern-matching library has 20 more years of emotional data to draw from.

There’s a compounding effect here. Every major life experience you’ve had (grief, love, failure, parenthood) creates new associative networks that literature can activate. A teenager reading King Lear has zero reference frames for watching a parent lose their mind. A 45-year-old who’s watched a parent decline reads it and their entire autobiographical memory network lights up.

The smartest readers I know reread more than they read new books. The ROI on rereading increases every year you’re alive because you are the variable that changed, and the returns compound with experience.

[J. Cole @JColeNC]

Mannnnn. Thank yall for the love. For real!!!

Yesterday I had daddy duties that came before album release celebrations. Today I got my old civic (with the brand new engine) a tour bus and some sprinters. In the trunk of my car is boxes of The Fall-Off CD’s. As a teenager I had copies of the Fayettenam Bommuh’s album that Nervous gave me to sell. I used to go up to the gas stations trying to sell the album to strangers “yo you like hip hop??” Was the beginning of the sales pitch.

When I was working on this album I had the desire to go feel that feeling again, and that’s what I’m about to do. Trunk Sale Tour 26!! I don’t know where we bout to drive to, but catch me outside! Cop a CD from me or just show love. I truly appreciate all the love and the reaction to the music.

[Emeka O.G @EmekaChuckBazz]

😂😂😭

[Mark Phillips @SupremeDreams_1]

When it’s your first day in Jujutsu Kaisen 😂😭🤦🏾‍♂️

[Casey Lawrence @LeanandCuisine]

The first black person to dap a nigga up 🫱🏿‍🫲🏾

[Bring Back Banjo @BringBackBanjoK]

The older I get the more I realise that video games are easily one of the healthiest hobbies you could possibly have

[Strong Black Lead @strongblacklead]

- isiah whitlock jr. 🕊️

[Timo Tjahjanto @Timobros]

Isiah Whitlock Jr , The OG .
His Signature “Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit”
Became a regular- staple-quote in our Beekeeper 2 set whenever something unexpected came up.

Running out of time ? Sheeeeeiiiit
Budgetary issues ? Sheeeeeeiiit
Location issues ? Sheeeeeiiiit..
Cold ass set ? Sheeeeiiitt.

RIP 🕊️🕊️

[Lj Priest (Trader Jill) @RealTraderJill]

The Bethlehem manger wasn't random; it was prophetic.

A lot of folks don't realize that when the Bible talks about Jesus being laid in a manger, the Greek word for it is "phatne," which just means a feeding trough. In Bethlehem back then, these were often carved from stone.

What's really striking about this is the shepherds around there. They raised lambs specifically for Temple sacrifices. Right after birth, they'd check each lamb for any flaws and put the perfect ones in a manger to keep them safe from getting hurt, since only spotless lambs could be used in offerings to God.

So here comes the Lamb of God himself, placed in the exact spot where those sacrificial lambs were protected.

And who do the angels tell about his birth? Not rulers or religious leaders, but these shepherds, guys who knew all about sacrifice, blood, purity, and flawless lambs.

When the angels said, "You'll find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger" (Luke 2:12), it clicked for them right away.

This wasn't some ordinary child. He was the ultimate Lamb, the one who'd remove the world's sin. From day one, Jesus was set apart for sacrifice, not by people, but by God.

"Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." (John 1:29)

*Jesus is the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas!

[🪽 @martymauser]

ITS MARTY SUPREME https://t.co/l24b0U7oyX

[robyn☦️ @RRR0BYN]

I get why this is a thing bc the vibe during this time was absolutely unmatched, miss it all the time. Cafes were still cozy, nightlife was fun and mostly wholesome, going to the mall to hang out and shop with ur friends was a great time, social media and dating apps hadn’t taken over human interactions, I hadn’t even owned my first smart phone yet in 2012. We were unselfconscious and free in a way gen z has never been.

This was the last moment in time anyone can remember before everything in life started to be recorded and uploaded as “content.” It was the last time we were just people without constantly curating a digital avatar.

[pikachu @____testimony]

This is why every man want a son , another nigga that understands 😭😭

[Pan African (Igbos are from Rivers State too) @IzunnaDike]

Everybody just dey delete 😂😂