Your NextDoor Food Scientist (PhD)🇺🇬🇿🇦🇬🇧

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[Your NextDoor Food Scientist (PhD)🇺🇬🇿🇦🇬🇧 @JGKT_L]

Four years of working two jobs, losing my mind and crying myself to sleep, horrible copping mechanisms and mental health issues. 2023 made me a Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science (Food Chemistry Specialty)
University of Pretoria
@UPTuks
#makeeducationfashionable

[Kgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits); Hon DSc (UBristol) @FabAcademic]

I was neither the smartest in the family nor the top student at school, I even failed chemistry at first year varsity, but I convinced myself that I will get a PhD one day and I worked very hard to get it. In June 2002 I did, I have never looked back since then. #MakeEducationFashionable

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Ghana has offered to send 300 teachers to The Bahamas to help tackle the shortage of teachers in public schools in the country. This is what we want for Africa and the Caribbean.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Happy Independence Day to São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹, one of Africa’s hidden gems.

[Julius Sello Malema @Julius_S_Malema]

@Palesa_EFF01 Baloi

[Duchess of Brixton ❤️🖤💚☭ @fufuisonme]

I love being a Pan-Africanist so much. Like wow what a privilege it is to be able to connect and be in community with Black peoples globally ❤️🖤💚

[Fighter Thola @Miss_Thola]

Malema's former ally, Malema’s friend's cousin, Malema’s ancestors, Malema’s neighbour's father. Yoh ha.a, SA media’s obsession has reached absurd heights. Xenophobes are falling for this narrative, but the truth is they have nothing, so they are resorting to smear tactics.

[Baron Coleman @baroncoleman]

If you’ve ever given the show a listen, thank you! Cracked the Top 25 on the Spotify News Podcast Charts!

[Kgoshigadi TT 🇿🇦 @Kgoshigadi_TT]

The smear campaign against @Julius_S_Malema and @EFFSouthAfrica continues but we all gonna vote 🗳 EFF

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

This is one of Africa’s oldest games, played across the continent. This video was taken in southern Ethiopia.

[Kgoshigadi TT 🇿🇦 @Kgoshigadi_TT]

Leave a heart if you will be voting EFF

[The Native @FedixM]

It's okay to dislike Julius Malema. But it is demonic to expect us to hate him because you hate him.

[Kgoshigadi TT 🇿🇦 @Kgoshigadi_TT]

They can write whatever they want but we are voting EFF

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Belgian peacekeeping paratroopers dangling a Somali child over an open fire during the 1993 UNOSOM II humanitarian mission.

In 1993, a shocking photograph from Somalia exposed a darker side of a mission that was originally created to protect civilians.

The image shows Belgian paratroopers serving under the United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) holding a young Somali child above a fire. The mission had been launched after years of civil war, famine, and political collapse left Somalia facing a devastating humanitarian crisis. International troops arrived with the goal of securing aid routes, protecting relief workers, and helping restore stability.

However, the reality on the ground became far more complicated. Peacekeepers operated in a country devastated by war, where distrust between foreign troops and local communities grew. Several incidents involving the mistreatment of Somali civilians began to surface, including accusations against members of the Belgian contingent.

This photograph became one of the most infamous examples. The soldiers involved said they were attempting to scare the child after accusing him of stealing, but the image caused international outrage. To many people, it represented a serious violation of the trust placed in soldiers who were supposed to protect vulnerable communities.

The controversy did not end with this photo. Other images and testimonies later emerged alleging humiliation, racism, and abuse by some Belgian troops during their deployment. Investigations followed, and the incidents contributed to broader discussions about how international forces should be monitored when operating in humanitarian missions.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

We are not inferior. We are not cursed. We are not a people without history or direction.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

"yOu nEeD tO sToP bLamInG cOlonIaLism bEcAuSe iT wAs sO lOnG aGo aND iT hAs nO bEaRiNg oN oUr LiVEs tOdAY"

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

Africa is not what you think.

[Shaun Dlanjwa @shaun_dlanjwa]

The First Lady of the Republic of South Africa. Mother of the Nation 🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹

[Lee_Ndœ @LeeNdoee]

This story is not breaking the Internet because it is not the EFF.

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

St. Michael the archangel,
defend us in this battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and the snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray.
And do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God, cast into hell Satan
And all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen. ✝️

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This post by Peter Obi is another glaring reason why you should never judge the real economic performance of any country based solely on the glowing reports manufactured by the IMF, the World Bank, and the Western media machines.

Obi made this viral post in August 2025 to ridicule and embarrass the Tinubu Administration over their disastrous economic policies that have effectively plunged over 133 million Nigerians into severe, multidimensional poverty. According to Obi: Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Javier Milei of Argentina both assumed office in the exact same period, yet while Nigeria remains tragically plagued with endless economic hardship, structural inflation, and currency collapse, Milei was supposedly able to slash Argentina's poverty rate to 38.1% from an alarming 52.9% in a short period, while extreme poverty plummeted to a meager 8.2% (from a staggering 18.1% earlier in the year), with monthly inflation successfully squeezed down to a mere 2 -3%. Obi continued his glorification by boasting that by late 2025, Argentina's urban poverty had declined even further to 31.6, supposedly lifting millions of people out of poverty, restoring international investor confidence, and putting the country on a path to rapid economic growth.

All of the above statistical figures were technically, officially true at the time Obi made his statement, and indeed, yield-hungry foreign speculators brought a massive influx of volatile "hot money" into the Argentine Stock Exchange and their overvalued real estate sector, while the corporate Western media gleefully declared Javier Milei the absolute economic genius of the modern universe. Yet, in less than a year after Obi made this post, the artificial Argentine economic bubble burst. The country was pushed to the absolute brink of a monumental economic collapse, and the entire nation would have descended into total state failure had the US Federal Reserve not intervened with an emergency $20 billion bailout fund. Naturally, this massive loan came packaged with extortionate interest rates, strict currency controls, and highly humiliating austerity measures that so violently infringed upon the sovereignty of Argentina that the deal could be described as nothing short of total economic capitulation.

The tragic Argentine collapse is further, undeniable proof that international financial institutions like the IMF and the World Bank consistently, ruthlessly prioritize sterile macroeconomic metrics such as fiscal balance, debt-to-GDP ratios, inflation curves, and foreign reserves, over the actual material survival, livelihood, and economic well-being of the citizens of that state. A sovereign country may very well be actively on fire, with starving citizens protesting in the streets, small businesses closing down, and families looking severely malnourished, yet the World Bank will literally be busy publishing glowing reports praising their government's "growth" because their balanced fiscal budgets and adjusted Gini coefficients serve as positive, profitable signals to American banks. Indeed, to achieve the low monthly inflation and the balanced budget so loudly praised in Obi's post, Milei's government implemented extreme austerity measures: they froze public pensions, halted all vital public infrastructure works, slashed public-sector wages, and completely removed necessary consumer subsidies. This is exactly what Wall Street hedge fund managers, central bankers, and American investment banks warmly refer to as "decisive fiscal discipline". In reality, the good, hardworking people of Argentina are simply being stretched beyond their absolute elastic limits just to satisfy the interest rates of greedy foreign speculators.

And just like the identical, dangerous trend we are witnessing right now in Nigeria where short-term, speculative "hot money" is flowing into the country to purchase Treasury Bills, inflate the stock market, and buy luxury real estate, this was exactly the case under Milei in Argentina. However, these international investors have absolutely zero loyalty, patriotism, or long-term commitment to the country they exploit. The very second Milei's libertarian party suffered a massive, unexpected defeat in the critical provincial elections in September 2025, these foreign speculators instantly realized his political project was extremely fragile. They panicked, liquidated their assets, and pulled their massive capital completely out of the country overnight, which almost collapsed the entire financial system of Argentina. This further exposes the fundamental, structural reality that their celebrated "economic growth" was built entirely on speculative, volatile foreign funds rather than on deep, sustainable domestic productivity, industrial manufacturing, or agricultural exports.

Nigeria, unfortunately, is trapped in an identical, highly dangerous mess today. All of a sudden, our overvalued stock market is supposedly outperforming global indices, yet there are absolutely no new manufacturing industries, technological hubs, or sustainable jobs being created anywhere in the country. Yet, we are being aggressively, shamelessly commanded by government praise-singers to applaud this artificial bubble as a monumental economic development by the Tinubu Administration. The ultimate, beautiful irony is that if a country is genuinely doing well, this real-world progress will absolutely not be hidden inside some abstract, highly massaged macroeconomic index or an IMF spreadsheet. It will be brilliantly illuminating, visible, and glowing bright in the faces, the purchasing power, and the daily survival of ordinary Nigerians. We will see new, stable jobs being created, local inflation being crushed, and massive, productive domestic industries being built.