Huge congratulations to PKU alumni Wang Hong and Deng Yu, recipients of the 2026 Fields Medal — mathematics’ highest honor! 🧮
Announced at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia, the pair are among four mathematicians worldwide to claim this prestigious prize, awarded every four years to outstanding scholars under 40.
The awards are historic on several levels.
—First time two mathematicians who completed undergraduate studies in mainland China win the Fields Medal in the same year.
—Both joined Peking University as undergraduates in 2007.
—Wang Hong becomes only the third female Fields Medalist ever, the first Chinese woman, and the first recipient with a bachelor’s degree from a mainland Chinese university.
We are immensely proud of their extraordinary breakthroughs and lasting contributions to global mathematics.
Everyone else has their struggle and nobody asks them to dilute it so that other people can feel included. There are West Asian struggles, South Asian struggles, Pacific Islander struggles, East Asian struggles, Latin American struggles, Balkan struggles, Australian aboriginal struggles, Native American struggles and Central Asian struggles.
They are all allowed to exist and breathe independently. Nobody ever accused those struggles of taking anything away from a wider socialist struggle.
Only when it comes to the African struggle must we be constantly lectured about why we must accommodate this or that group of virulently anti-black people in our African struggle, or else we will split this or that movement - allowances that literally nobody in the history of the planet has ever made for us.
Look, we know that there is a global anti-imperial struggle that links all our struggles, and we know the shared history we have with the likes of Cuba, Palestine, China, Russia etc. Nobody is going to make us stop collaborating with those whose partnerships have been mutually beneficial.
But nobody is going to convince me that I should not focus on creating the same moat and ringfence that everybody else enjoys. Everyone else on earth has nationalism as an intrinsic feature of their struggle without anyone making faces at them for it - why is it Africa that must dissolve itself into some formless global "working class" kumbaya fantasy that clearly nobody else subscribes to? Why must we be the test subjects for what nobody else is willing to do?
Why are black people always held to ideological standards that nobody else is held to? Why didn't Mao or Lenin organise their revolutions around this amorphous "global proletariat"? Why did they build strong nation states instead? Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan? Was it the "capitalist ruling class" that developed the bomb and flew the plane to drop it over Hiroshima, or did it use the air force of the United States Military to do that? Why does it need the apparatus of a nation state to impose its will on the world?
Why is this "capitalist ruling class" never able to impose its will anywhere except where it controls the levers of the state? Why have the only successful attempts to oppose this "capitalist ruling class" taken place through a powerful, well organised nation state acting in opposition? Why has all the world's "working class solidarity" not been able to stop innocent Palestinians from being exploded into bits with their families, but it is the IRGC and the well organised, industrial nation-state of Iran that has been able to stop a similar fate from befalling Iranian people?
If nationalism is just a bourgeiosie idea to serve local elites, then why does the "capitalist ruling class" invest billions of dollars every year on secessionist movements and rebel armies aiming to break up nation-states? If African nationalism represents a less important goal than this hypothetical global socialist utopia, then why do the powerful states controlled by the "capitalist ruling class" work so hard to kill or silence every single notable person who pushes African nationalism?
Why did they kill Patrice Lumumba? Why was Kwame Nkrumah overthrown after several failed attempts on his life? Why have there been multiple French-backed attempts on Ibrahim Traore's life? Why did they ignore Gadaffi for decades but the minute he paid for Africa's first communications satellite and put down Libyan state money to fund African replacements for the IMF and World Bank, plus gold reserves to back a continental currency - the things needed to unite Africa into a sovereign, continental nation-state - they immediately rushed every asset they had into Libya and didn't stop until they had him on video being anally raped with a knife on CNN? Why did they take down African Stream?
The STATE is the biggest asset and weapon that can be wielded by any group of people. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can go from a small island in the Atlantic to an empire covering two-thirds of the world. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can resist that empire and its successor, and prevent your people from becoming imperial roadkill. The entire reason why Africa is in its current situation is precisely because it has NO STATE, and its ability to create one is being actively sabotaged on a daily and ongoing basis, including through funding ideological subversion to convince Africans that there is an alternative to developing serious state capacity, either through Frank Zanu/Magatte Wade-style capitalism-raises-the-dead nonsense, or through woolly-headed Supermarxist trash.
Anybody who tells me as an African that I should devote my energy to chasing some formless, utopian "global proletariat revolution" instead of building a pragmatic, Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean-style political revolution that births an industrial African state with the power to feed and defend itself, is just as useless to me as Magatte Wade telling me that the solution to my problems is to sell part of my country to Peter Thiel and gratefully let the new sovereign Epstein Island douse me with its hot, steaming American capitalism.
I will focus on Pan-Africanism and sovereignism. Africa will always come first for me before any of your other -isms. Anyone who doesn't like it, that's too bad. I didn't write the rules and I'm simply doing the same thing everybody else on this planet does - looking out for me and my own first. I'm not interested in being percecived as morally 'better' than anybody. That 'better' shit is what got my ancestors colonised and that's why I'm a black West African who speaks English and answers to "David" today. We don't repeat our ancestors' mistakes here.
In the everlasting words of Fela Kuti, TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE.
We are in the 7th month of 2026 and the FG hasn't even began implementing the 2026 budget 😂!
What am I even saying?
They haven't implemented the 2024, 2025 nor 2026 budget.
But you tell me to Relax that Tinubu is fixing Nigeria?
You must be on Colos!
She’s allowed to wear a niqab yeah, but why are Muslim guys in the quotes saying anything outside this is nakedness?? I don’t get, so this is the only definition of modest dressing?
Are you people even okay at all?
With all due respect, this is an unintelligent take, but since you won’t care to look anything up, let me use my time for two reasons.
First so you don’t go around spilling this nonsense to the younger generation because you watch too much American TV, secondly because if I don’t, you never will.
Russia, more than any other superpower, has stood by Africa:
•Backed liberation movements directly, MPLA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau, plus support for ANC fighters in South Africa and independence movements in Algeria, Namibia and Zimbabwe
Signed cooperation treaties with 37 African countries and helped build around 600 factories, plants and enterprises across the continent
Built the Aswan Dam in Egypt, still central to its agriculture and power supply
Built the Capanda hydroelectric dam, which powers most of Angola today
Trained thousands of African students on scholarship, including at Lumumba University, named after the Congolese independence leader
Cancelled $20 billion in African debt in 2019
But before Russia ever supported us, they built their own house first. Across 8 industries:
Space, Sputnik in 1957 and Gagarin in 1961, the foundation of the entire satellite age
Nuclear energy, Obninsk 1954, the first nuclear plant in the world to power a civilian grid
Medicine, Pavlov’s work on physiology, the Ilizarov bone fixation method still used in orthopedic surgery worldwide
Mathematics, producing some of the sharpest minds in modern computing theory and cryptography
Education, near universal literacy and a rigorous science pipeline that still exports engineers and physicists globally
Computing, WinRAR and the RAR format came out of Russia and are still used everywhere
Energy infrastructure, one of the largest oil and gas networks on earth, supplying half of Europe for decades
Aerospace engineering, Soyuz rockets still fly astronauts to the ISS today
And saying “all they do is produce missiles” only shows you don’t understand what missile making actually requires. It takes real depth in:
Physics, chemistry, metallurgy, aerodynamics, guidance systems and control theory, materials science, thermodynamics, and advanced mathematics. You don’t stumble into that. That is a nation with serious scientific infrastructure, not a useless one.
Anyways, like I told you earlier, you are an elder, you’re not supposed to be making unintelligent statements. Don’t fall your hand, sir.
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You see how Argentina and Messi failed despite having the referees and FIFA, that's how Tinubu will fail despite having INEC and the security agencies.