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[Bush Scientist 🇹🇿 @MaedaBiotech]

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[Kristie Leong M.D. @DrKristieLeong]

"Natural" does not always mean safe. 🛑

Herb-induced liver injury (HILI)—from herbal medicines, dietary supplements, or traditional remedies—is rising globally [EASL 2026].

The scariest part? It is hiding in plain sight.

Here is what you need to know:

Over 50% of US adults take dietary supplements.

A staggering population study showed that more than 18% of acute liver failure cases were linked to these products, with half resulting in death or needing a transplant.

I’ve seen this blind spot too often:

People share their prescriptions but they forget the powders, capsules, teas, and “wellness” blends they're taking every morning.

But your liver sees all of it.

Herbal and dietary supplements are increasingly linked to drug-induced liver injury.

Some cases resolve after stopping the product. Others can progress to liver failure, transplant, or death.

Turmeric is an example.

Food-level turmeric? Usually fine.

High-dose curcumin capsules + piperine? Different story. Piperine can dramatically increase absorption.

Black cohosh, often used for menopause symptoms, has also been linked to clinically apparent liver injury.

The takeaway:

1. Read labels.
2. Choose brands that undergo third party testing.
3. Avoid mega-dosing.
4. Tell your clinician everything you take, including the powders and teas.
5. Stop assuming “plant-based” means harmless. 🌿

Your liver deserves informed choices.

Do you tell your doctor about every supplement you take?

#LiverHealth
#LifestyleMedicine
#Supplements

Reference:

Roli Omamuli. EASL 2026: “Natural” Wellness Supplements Linked to Liver Injury. European Medical Journal. Published May 28, 2026. Accessed May 29, 2026.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

If every study that disagrees with you is “funded by Big Pharma” and every scientist who disagrees is “corrupt,” you’re not following the evidence.

You’re building a belief system that cannot be challenged.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

For the umpteenth time:

Vaccines work.
Chemtrails do not exist.
mRNA is in everything you eat.
Everything is made of chemicals.
Natural is not a synonym for safe.
It’s the dose that makes the poison.

Most internet health scares collapse the moment you learn basic chemistry.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Corporate Colonialism Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Global corporations like Nestlé have spent decades selling themselves as brands that care about nutrition and children’s health, but their actions in African markets tell a different story.

From sugar-filled baby cereals sold to African children to stronger cigarettes, ultra-sugary drinks, and unethical pharmaceutical trials, products and practices that would face serious scrutiny in Europe are marketed and normalized in Africa. This is corporate colonialism in practice: global companies extracting profit from African markets while giving African consumers lower standards than they give the West.

It is a global corporate system that treats African consumers as less deserving of safety, regulation, and protection. Our continent cannot continue to be the dumping ground for lower standards. If a product is unhealthy for children in Europe, then African children deserve the same protection.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Counterinsurgency of 1950s.

The British organized us so tightly that Kenya was very limited in its ability to politically innovate. The leaders and civil servants who took over at independence were the 30-year olds the British had trained in the schools and civil service. With their young age, they had a good 20 years to lay the ground work for looting and messing up the country before they retired. Meanwhile, they believed they were civilizing the rest of Kenyans in the wonderful ways of capitalist enterprise (yes, civil servants like Duncan Ndegwa said that).

We have not uprooted that mindset because the school system still teaches it, up to CBC. Educated Kenyans still worship at the altar of "international standards." They look at our poverty not as their failure and the failure of the system they're propping up, but as Kenyans' fault for not embracing the western rules the ruling class go abroad to collect and bring to bless us with. That's why they keep benchmarking, breaking things to fix them (like breaking NHIF to replace with SHA), and using the police and bureaucratic blackmail to make us obey even ideas that don't add up (like CBC). Kasongo was trained in that mindset, like everybody else since 1963. He's not unique. He's just the most tactless.

It's a deep philosophical sickness that Kenyans need to train themselves to see in order to remove it. People have to put in the time and effort to understand it. They cant understand based on short X posts and Tik Tok videos alone. Those are important for inspiration, but they're not enough for content.

https://t.co/pFHwRo6EGN

[Crystal Kizor @crystal_kizor]

Children should not have to learn in spaces that strip them of dignity.

This is the Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso, built in 2001 by Francis Kéré using local materials.

More than 25 years later, it still shows what is possible when communities decide to build with care.

I believe there are Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora willing to build better schools for their communities.

Not every community can build million dollar schools today, but every child deserves a space built with dignity.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

In this extensive deconstruction of France's "Pivot to Anglophone Africa" strategy, @Big_Mck teamed up with @wmnjoya to deliver the most comprehensive analysis I have ever seen regarding what France is trying to get at in Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, and why.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Typical #githerimedia, what they report first is the money, second wazungu, and finally, the actual science. They can't be bothered to actually name the advancement.

And usually, an award is for conducting the research. It's not prize money. If you report like this, KRA will be knocking on the professor's door tomorrow.

But this is how anti-intellectual our institutions are. 🚮

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

It is tragic that those of us here in Africa who are victims of imperialism, who still carry the physical and psychological scars of colonial looting, are comfortably celebrating the rise of imperial monopolies like Netflix, Uber, and Temu or Shein, just because we want to deliver a cheap punchline for a few brainless retweets, to chase worthless online clout, or to sound intellectually superior while cheering on our own economic destruction.

Netflix did not "out-innovate" DStv, and DStv was not sleeping. The fundamental, unaddressed difference is that one is a local African broadcaster working with meager, heavily taxed local funding, while the other sits on a mountain of subsidized Western capital, an endless money-printing machine backed by Wall Street, and the geopolitical muscle of the US government.

Netflix gets about $17B in effectively interest-free capital and tax-subsidized benefits every year, which allows them to run their operations at a massive loss while aggressively capturing sovereign markets. On the other hand, DStv is treated as a value stock, meaning public markets ruthlessly demand immediate dividends, strict fiscal discipline, and quarter-by-quarter profitability. If DStv spent ten billion dollars on a single year's content, its share price would crash into oblivion overnight, its board would be wiped out by panicking investors, and its credit lines would be cut.

And just in case you are wondering, the South African government cannot step in to rescue DStv with interest-free loans, thanks to the predatory, highly restrictive treaties enforced by the ruthless World Trade Organisation. If the South African government dared to offer DStv a simple one hundred million dollar grant, they would immediately face brutal litigation at the WTO, because African nations foolishly signed suicidal trade agreements which dictate that if a sovereign state subsidizes its own local industry, it is legally obligated to offer the exact same financial welfare to the foreign predators invading their market.

And this is just the WTO. We have not even discussed the financial hitmen at the IMF or the World Bank, who view any form of state support for local industries as fiscal irresponsibility, a violation of free-market dogmas, or an outright sin. If the government gave DStv a massive loan, the IMF would immediately downgrade the country's credit rating into junk status. This engineered downgrade would make it punishingly expensive for the South African government to build clinics, fund schools, or repair highways, because the interest rates on their national debt would skyrocket to line the pockets of Western lenders.

But brainwashed Africans, who are the primary victims of this neo-colonial economic castration, will happily log onto Western platforms to tell you that Netflix was innovative while DStv was just sleeping.

The absolute worst part of this farce is the brain-dead comparison between Uber and local taxi drivers. A local driver must make an immediate profit today to buy maize meal, bread, and petrol tomorrow. He cannot compete with a multinational behemoth that has an explicit mandate from Wall Street to burn five billion dollars a year in predatory pricing, artificially subsidizing rides just to starve local operators into bankruptcy and clear the field.

The local taxi driver is the most visible, highly vulnerable target of his own state's predatory municipal machinery. He is hunted daily by corrupt traffic officers for compliance, like an expired permit, a slightly worn tire, a missing fire extinguisher, or an arbitrary traffic offense. For him, a single fifty-dollar ticket is not just a minor inconvenience; it is a catastrophic blow, the difference between his children sleeping with a full stomach or going to bed hungry.

But Uber does not even recognize these drivers as human beings with labor rights. They see no need to protect the dignity of work, the right to a living wage, or the basic sovereignty of the citizen. Instead, Uber smugly informs the courts that local labor laws do not apply to them, because they are just an app, and their drivers are merely independent contractors.

With this legal sleight of hand, they have effectively deleted the Bill of Rights for millions of working-class men and women. They have engineered a lawless corporate territory where they can terminate a breadwinner's account via a heartless algorithm with zero human review, pay him slave wages after stealing 30% in service fees, and refuse him a single cent of medical coverage for the crashes he suffers while lining their pockets.
Worse, they offer their rides at a 50% discount because they are heavily subsidized by Silicon Valley venture capitalists playing a global game of market conquest, and local governments are too terrified to intervene, knowing that any attempt to regulate these giants will result in immediate economic retaliation, diplomatic bullying, or Washington threatening to sanction them into oblivion.

Newspapers did not lose because they were lazy. There is no physical way a local newspaper can compete with Facebook or Instagram, which sit on massive surveillance networks, endless pools of free user data, and algorithmic monopolies designed to capture human attention for profit.
This is exactly why China banned these digital parasites and built their own sovereign ecosystems to allow local industries to develop.

How do you expect African manufacturing to ever survive when Shein and Temu are allowed to flood our markets with heavily subsidized, ultra-cheap fast fashion and low-quality equipment?
Do you honestly think China would have transformed into an industrial superpower if they had allowed their territory to be used as a digital and physical dumping ground, a massive cesspool where the West discarded their second-hand clothes, their obsolete laptops, their toxic e-waste, and their plastic garbage under the fraudulent banner of free trade?

This is the core problem I have with motivational speakers, with their brainless "grindset" rhetoric, and with how they completely erase the structures of global capital to blame the victim, because in their world, your poverty is a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an international economic system designed to keep you subjugated.

Let me conclude by saying that we must stop applauding the very chains designed to bind us, we must stop worshipping the corporations that are asset-stripping our continent, and we must realize that true innovation cannot exist without economic sovereignty.

[Nwa Afara @Kelvin2059876]

You'll have more chances fighting for access to electricity,tap water,good roads, clean drainage systems,proper waste disposal in your local government and villages,than actually making it big aka "blowing" to go and live in lekki or fct,this applies to ass kissing rich people too, they'll simply use you and discard you,the only way a poor man can move up in a country like Nigeria where the wealth disparity between the rich and the poor is astronomically wide is for the said poor people to focus on what they can control, while eliminating wishful thinking, daydreaming and hoping that one day they'll blow and be among the top 1 percent,most of what they pray for or hope for are just basic things a sane society should have eg public housing within walking distance closer to a green park, steady electricity and a well planned urban city with efficient public transportation.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.

The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.

At. All.

The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.

So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.

Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.

That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.

If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.

Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.

Them no really send any part of your papa at all.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

We're finally having the conversation about how most "modern" African construction materials and methods for everything including roads make no sense in our local context.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Africa's "Modern" Constructions Are Climate Disasters

Africa needs buildings that make sense for Africa.

Too many of our cities are filled with glass, concrete, and steel structures that trap heat, block airflow, and force people to depend on expensive air conditioning just to survive indoors. That is the opposite of "development." It is actually spectacularly poor planning.

Our ancestors understood climate before it became a conference topic. They built with the land, used local materials, created shade, allowed air to move, and designed homes that worked with the environment.

Unfortunately, we keep copying people who never designed for our climate in the first place. Construction in Africa needs to be decolonized, and that must start with a mindset change and re-education.

[MOgada @m_ogada]

"You want to give us independence, but retain ownership of our resources?? Lete kitu ya macho". It disturbs me that in 2026, some Kenyans STILL believe that the brokers who went to Lancaster house were agitatung for our freedom 🙄🙄

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

A bilateral state visit between two sovereign nations is categorically different from a former colonial power summoning the heads of an entire continent to a single meeting to conduct what amounts to a collective audience. Trump visiting China is two states conducting diplomacy as equals. Macron convening his rebranded France-Africa summit is one European nation gathering 30+ African countries into a room as though the continent were a single client to be managed.

You never see France convening all Arab heads of state to announce what France has decided is good for the Arab world. You never see a France-Latin America summit where Macron summons every South American president simultaneously to receive his 20 billion euros investment pledges and his vision for their continent.

China does not convene all of Europe. The United States does not gather every Asian head of state into one room for a US-Asia summit. These formats, France-Africa, US-Africa, Russia-Africa, Israel-Africa, exist exclusively in relation to Africa. Only Africa gets summoned. Only Africa gets managed collectively.

So no, it is not that Pan-Africanists cannot say anything about Trump in China. It is that we are not sufficiently intellectually impaired to fail to distinguish between a bilateral state visit and a colonial power staging a continental audience.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

@Farida_N In Kenya, our elites won't get the sarcasm. They sincerely feel honored to play the role assigned to them. They compare fake compliments to the hateful brutality of the British settlers, and because they feel we can't do without wazungu, they'd rather we have patronizing ones.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

It is not just trying to rebrand itself. France is actively in search of new colonies. This is not speculation or Pan-Africanist conspiracy theory. Two years ago, Macron presented a plan to his own parliament explicitly identifying anglophone and lusophone African countries as France’s new strategic frontier, the next territory to be brought into the orbit of French influence now that francophone Africa has had the dignity to show it the door. The methodology might be different because we are not 1946. The vocabulary will be partnership, investment, security cooperation, cultural exchange. But the result will be identical because the logic has never changed.

So to our “anglophone and lusophone” brothers and sisters across the continent, congratulations on your new status as France’s next strategic frontier. That status earned our countries labelled as “francophone” 7 places out of the top 10 poorest countries in Africa.

It really pays to speak fluent “comment allez vous?”.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I teach that in my classes to the few students who dare to take them. If you think history and the arts are irrelevant to the market, you will marvel at your own history when you learn it not from your own people, because that's irrelevant, but from Jamaica thanks to an influencer.

[Ngabo y’Isonga 🇷🇼 @ARutabana]

If we are trying to model ourselves after Singapore's growth in Rwanda we have to be aware that there are realities like this we simply can't let fester in our country. We can't mistake the social mobility of a few on the backs of many for progress.

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

Affordable housing locations really kill me. You can be driving in the middle of nowhere and look to your right, deep in bushes, right next to maize shambas there is a cluster of 6 10-storey buildings, closely packed together with only a slither of carbro separating them