A funny moment unfolded on the canopy walkway at Kintampo Water Falls when a teacher accompanying a group of basic school pupils for an educational excursion became visibly frightened midway through the crossing while leading the students.
A group of white men attacked a black dock worker after he asked them to move their boat. In response, a group of black men intervened to defend the worker.
Benjamin Mendy was charged with eight counts of rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault involving around six women. He was arrested, suspended by Manchester City, and held in custody for months.
After a lengthy trial and retrial, he was acquitted on all charges. He lost key years of his career at his peak, while his accusers faced no consequences.
The Thomas Partey case shows why the presumption of innocence is essential: no oneβs livelihood should be destroyed by allegations alone, only by a proven guilty verdict in court.ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
Hello British press, allow the man to play his football π‘
βThere is no man on this earth who has completely stopped womanizing. Some have only paused because of certain circumstances.β
β Pastor Badu Kyenkyenhene.
THE WORLD GOES TO SCHOOL DIFFERENTLY:
1. Finland: No major exams until the final year of high school. Teachers are highly educated and respected. Consistently one of the best education systems in the world.
2. Japan: Students clean their own classrooms daily. Respect and responsibility are taught before academics. Character comes first.
3. South Korea: Students study until midnight. The university entrance exam is so critical that flights are rerouted on exam day. Burnout among young people is a serious national crisis.
4. United States: Standardized testing dominates everything. School quality depends on neighborhood wealth. Rich areas get better schools. Poor areas get what is left.
5. Germany: At age 10 students are placed into different school paths. Vocational training is taken as seriously as university. Youth unemployment stays low because of it.
6. India: The system runs on memorization and high-stakes exams. 1.5 million students compete for just 17,000 IIT seats. Pressure begins long before a child is ready.
7. Singapore: Ranked number one globally for math, science, and reading in 2022. Extremely competitive. Even the government admits student pressure has gone too far.
8. France: Philosophy is a required subject and counts toward the national exam. Students are trained to think critically and argue clearly from a young age.
9. Cuba: Education is completely free at every level. Literacy rate sits above 99 percent according to UNESCO. One of the most educated populations in Latin America.
10. Netherlands: Students are assessed at age 12 and placed into paths that suit their strengths. Academic and vocational routes are treated equally. No path is seen as lesser.
11. China: The Gaokao exam determines almost everything about a student's future. Pressure starts in early childhood and is carried by the entire family, not just the student.
12. Kenya: Primary school became free in 2003. Secondary school fees still push many families to breaking point. Dropout rates in rural areas remain high.
13. Russia: Historically strong in mathematics, science, and engineering. The system valued compliance over curiosity. That tension still shapes education today.
14. Brazil: Private schools are well funded and deliver strong results. Public schools are severely underfunded. Where you are born almost entirely determines the education you receive.
15. Denmark: University is free for Danish and EU citizens. Students also receive a monthly government stipend just for attending. Education is treated as a public good, not a personal expense.
16. Canada: Each province runs its own education system independently. Quality varies across the country. Indigenous history inclusion in the curriculum is real but still inconsistent.
17. Australia: Universities are strong and globally respected. Indigenous history is now formally part of the national curriculum. The debate over equal funding between public and private schools remains unresolved.
18. Sweden: No formal grades until age 12 or 13. Early pressure is believed to kill curiosity before it grows. Research consistently supports this approach.
19. New Zealand: MΔori language and culture are officially part of the national curriculum. Legally protected but depth of teaching varies greatly between schools.
20. Switzerland: Two thirds of students enter vocational apprenticeships rather than university. Both paths are equally respected. Both lead to strong careers.
21. Norway: Public university is free for everyone including international students. Teachers must hold a master's degree. Teaching is one of the most respected professions in the country.
22. Israel: Schools emphasize critical thinking and entrepreneurship from an early age. Combined with technical military training, this directly feeds one of the most active startup ecosystems in the world.
Who Abolished Slavery?
You think there is no correlation between how we Africans have been engineered to look down on ourselves and to genuflect before those who oppressed us?ββββββββββββββββ
Who abolished slavery? Ask any fourth grader in Togo, and the answer comes without hesitation: Victor Schoelcher. Wake me from a deep sleep with that question, and my subconscious will answer before my eyes are open: Victor Schoelcher. Twenty-five years after leaving primary school, the colonial curriculum still lives in me like a reflex.
That is what was planted, and that is how thoroughly it took root. It is only the adult brain, the one lucky enough to stumble upon other literatures, other histories, other archives, that comes afterward to contest the first answer. But the first answer is always his name.ββββββββββββββββ
That is what colonial schools taught. That is what post-colonial schools taught. That is what is still being taught today, by people placed in power precisely to ensure that the curriculum of self-erasure continues undisturbed.
Because in Francophone Africa, the abolition of slavery has one face, and it is this French man. And in twenty years of academic formation on this continent, from primary school through university, including my own years as a history major at the University of Lome, not once, not in a single classroom, not in a single textbook, was the Haitian Revolution mentioned.
Not once were we told that enslaved Black people organized, fought, and defeated the French army, that HaΓ―ti became the first Black nation in colonial Americas and the first nation in modern history to defeat a European power that practiced slavery through the resistance of the very people it had enslaved. Twenty years of βschoolingβ: not one mention of that historical fact. And this is just one example, on just one subject.
Because not once throughout my entire education in Togo was I introduced to a Black mathematician, a Black physicist, a Black inventor, a Black philosopher. Not once. But for those of us who were cursed with France, the French apparently discovered more than 70% of world knowledge and wrote more than 80% of the worldβs books, because our curriculum was designed to make us believe that the smartest, most resourceful, most intellectually gifted humans to have ever walked the surface of this earth were French. When the data actually tells you that France contributes approximately 2% of the worldβs scientific innovation. Two percent. And we were built, from childhood, to worship that two percent as the totality of human genius. I imagine the same arithmetic applied to British, or Portuguese colonies, just with a different flag. This just one subject. There are decades of damage underneath it, layered and compounding.
Which is why it is genuinely exhausting to wake up every single day and be expected to debate, with patience and good faith, people who were produced by these laboratories of engineered ignorance and who are entirely convinced that what was done to their minds was an education.
Sir John Glubb, a British Lieutenant General, spent 36 years commanding armies in the Middle East.
He studied every major empire in recorded history and found something he didn't expect.
Every single empire (Assyria, Persia, Rome, the Arabs, the Ottomans, Spain, Britain) lasted about the same length of time.
250 years.
And they all died the same way. (thread) π§΅