HGIC

‘Palm Wine Patrician’ | Pan-African Son of the Soil. An interest in Geo Politics | Blockchain | FinTech | Foreign Policy | Bitcoin | Sports

[HGIC @HGIC_]

It’s absurd to call me a Champagne socialist because one can only be champagne socialist if one is from the champagne region of France. A more accurate term would be a “Pan African Palm Wine” socialist.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The ever great cinematographer Ousmane Sembene captured the event in his film Camp de Thiaroye. I learned about it as a student when I watched the movie.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham just torched SpaceX on 'Diary of a CEO', calling it a “fabulous BS story” that will fail to deliver on its wild prospectus promises — including mining asteroids.

BARTLETT: “You think SpaceX will fail?”

GRANTHAM: “I think it would fail to deliver anything like its promises in the perspectives. Yes, absolutely.”

“SpaceX is such a fabulous BS story. Mining asteroids… It’s the classic description of a market peak. It’s what you look for at the top of a terrific bubble.”

“He [Elon] is so good at BS that he took Tesla stock up to four or five times what it was worth on paper. Sold a ton at those inflated prices to build the gigafactory. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now SpaceX requires him to do the same again.”

“That’s what he says about the asteroids and everything. Going to Mars is not within the laws of physics. It’s a one-way ticket… You have to protect yourself against cosmic rays and gravity issues. We’ve never built a sustainable dome here on Earth — they all fail. We’re destroying this planet, yet we think we can colonize one that’s infinitely more hostile.”

“That’s the really bad news embedded in your stock — pure fantasy at the exact time our own planet is under threat.”

BARTLETT: “Would you ever invest in SpaceX?”

GRANTHAM: “Yeah, of course… if it came down to 10 cents on the dollar.”

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Marc Botenga: Europe Fears Losing Access To Sahel Resources After Expulsion From The Region

If it were ever needed, this is confirmation from the metaphorical horse's mouth. In this clip, Belgian EU Parliament member Marc Botemga says the quiet part out loud: that the EU invests heavily in military equipment specifically intended for waging warning the Sahel because the Sahel's solid mineral wealth is seen by Europe as its sole lifeline.

Perhaps the significant but shrinking number of misguided Africans who continue to insist that Europe's modern day colonialism in the Sahel is a "conspiracy theory" can take that argument up with Mr Botenga himself.

For the rest of us who do not concern ourselves with self-defeating, non-sequitur arguments that waste vast amounts of energy and ultimately lead nowhere, Botenga's words are a timely reminder that the Sahel and the rest of Africa are on a timer to develop the necessary military deterrence to stop Europe from repeating the only actions Europe is known for on the continent.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

BREAKING NEWS: China is set to surpass the United States in its contribution to the global effort to eradicate poverty and create a clean, sustainable world, the United Nations said today.

Researchers released the latest details of nations’ work in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs.

“Owing to its faster pace of SDG progress over the period, China surpassed Russia in 2021, and based on current rates of progress it is on track to surpass the United States in the coming years,” the report said.

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U.S. CAME LAST
On the measure of the 2026 index of countries’ support for UN-based multilateralism, the United States came last out of all countries in the world.

This is for several reasons, including the fact that in January 2026, the United States withdrew from more than 60 international organizations, the study said.

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AGREED TARGETS
The 17 goals are a globally agreed list of targets for all countries to share. They aim to encourage all nations to eradicate poverty, ensure no one goes hungry, give all children access to education, reduce inequalities, and create environmentally positive economies.

Researchers also looked at how countries voted in alignment with each other—and again noticed that the United States was a statistical outlier.

“There has been a sharp drop across all world regions in the share of member states’ UNGA [United Nations General Assembly ] votes that align with the United States,” the report said.

“The United States voted with the international majority in just 5 percent of UNGA resolutions where a vote was recorded in 2025.”

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TOP OF THE CLASS
Finland is the top performer on the 17 goals, researchers said. But since it is so tiny—it has 5.6 million people, the size of a single city in China—it has limited impact.

[Herrn Jung @Herrn_Jung]

Please Ghana 🇬🇭 there are solutions, just simply invest in them. Don’t just be wasting money on yourselves.

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

Ghana and Tanzania are the only countries in Africa that have integrated Traditional Medicine into its mainstream Primary Healthcare System.

That means you can walk into selected Government Hospitals and opt for traditional medicine for the treatment of your illness.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Money before stopping genocide: The British government received intelligence that the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia were supporting a genocidal militia in Sudan’s civil war in 2024 but did not go public with the news for fear of upsetting the UAE. https://t.co/Rk7ukTjdKB

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

Israel 🇮🇱 is being accused of funding March March t

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/GFVOhORkzk

[Maitreya Bhakal @MaitreyaBhakal]

One of my favorites

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said https://t.co/61poVhRzmR

[Headless Investor @HeadlessInvest]

This is bad news for MTNGH. The aggressive price undercuts that Mukesh did with Reliance Jio to become a market leader in India is one for the history books.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

CHIEF PROSECUTOR AT THE ICC??

Is this a sick joke?

[Olaoluwa David Daramola @__Laolu]

Backstabbing is part of British culture

[Bloomberg @business]

Hyro Exchange, the first Ghanaian-founded cryptocurrency exchange, is considering additional equity issuance following the completion of a recent seed capital raise https://t.co/3lzMtxJmbk

[Polling Africa @pollingafrica]

Across the continent, 16% of Africans identity only/more with their ethnic identity over their national identity or both equally.

South Africa (26%), Nigeria (24%), and Mozambique (23%) are amongst countries where this sentiment is most pronounced.

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

Love Island for me is a live study in sexual economics of hetero dynamics; how bodies, race, skin tone, personality, trauma, insecurities, fears and attractiveness interact and are weaponised in competition, and how the public’s voting choices reveal our biases and pecking order.

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

Some great books for anyone who is interested in the history of the European slave trade in Africa.

[Samantha Asumadu @SamanthaAsumadu]

This is very... stark