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[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The part that hit me in the stomach was the mention that Tanzania is a threat to the western narrative that capitalism is the model for Africa to develop. For those who knows how viciously the West has treated Haiti and Cuba, just to prove a point, that's no small thing. I hope Tanzanians understand the implications and are up to the challenge.

[KING ELOM👑🌕 @iamNeare]

Ai Data centres are the real threat to our climate but they won't talk about it.

The climate change activists won't talk about it cos the Billionaires fund them.

[Rakeem Shabazz | Wise The Dome TV @RakeemShabazz]

When people like Thomas Sowell say that more Europeans were brought to North Africa than West and Central Africans were brought to the colonies, he is trying to frame a narrative. He is downplaying our MAAFA and presenting slavery as a universal human endeavor. White nationalists often do this by bringing up the indentured servitude of the Irish or slavery in Ancient Rome and Greece. They ignore the uniqueness of chattel slavery by neglecting the fact that it was hereditary and permanent. They also ignore that, under chattel slavery, race became the organizing principle. It is also one reason Sowell limits his count to Africans brought to the colonies. Historians generally agree that roughly 12.5 million Africans were transported to the Americas, with more than 2 million dying during the voyage and never reaching their destination. Under chattel slavery, people were treated as movable capital, and insurance policies were often taken out on them. Even after slavery was abolished, it simply changed forms through systemic oppression that maintained the structural position of Black people at the bottom of society through Black Codes, convict leasing, sharecropping, segregation, and other discriminatory systems. Would Sowell ever make the false equivalence of saying that, because concentration camps existed before the Holocaust, any instance of people being placed in camps is comparable to what happened in Nazi Germany? I highly doubt it. Sowell is a clown and a tool for white nationalists.

[Mercy @Frankhavemercy]

One of the most overlooked forms of wealth is having complete ownership of your time.

Waking up and knowing nothing about your day will be decided by someone else is priceless.

[Zion 🇸🇩 @afroanalytic]

White Americans would still be attending lynchings with their kids on their shoulders like barbarians were it not for black people’s civilizing force. Let’s be very clear.

[dru. squatch @hurtch]

I hope you people [talking to Nigerians] realize that at the end of the day, Trevor Noah is still a South African and has probably not evolved beyond the xenophobia/bigotry that have engulfed the psyche of his people.

No one should be laughing at the silly scam tag.

[sopuruchi @sopuruchn]

@themmyleke On the contrary, nobody designs anything serious or any global product without considering the worse case scenario, which in many cases is countries like Nigeria. Facebook is such a great example of this https://t.co/AIG0aoLMo2

[Wendigo @RomanGod333]

@Electrarythm Yup

[IGBO History & Facts @IgboHistoFacts]

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[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The most telling thing about American political culture is what both parties agree on without discussing it.

Not healthcare. Not taxes. Not immigration.

The military budget.

Every year, regardless of which party controls Congress, regardless of the state of the economy, regardless of whether any war is being fought or won, the military budget grows.

No debate. No real scrutiny. No politician who wants a future in national office questions it fundamentally.

Five hundred billion. Six hundred billion. Eight hundred billion. Past a trillion.

For what? Against whom? Toward what strategic goal?

These questions are not asked in any serious way.

Because the military budget is not really a security policy.

It is a theology.

And you don't audit a theology.

You fund it.

And you thank God you live under its protection.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“capitalism created phones” No, people created phones. Capitalism created phones that are designed to break after a year so you keep buying.

[🧡Lulu🌾; @ItsLulu_7]

Capitalism is the best economic system, so they say

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

African Proverb Of The Week

When the European colonizer first stepped foot in Africa, he did not meet a “poor”, “starving”, “corrupt” continent. Otherwise, he and his descendants would not have gone on to plunder this continent for 500 years. He met a beautiful, bountiful land inhabited by curious, hospitable, and relatively peaceful people who organized their affairs according to their unique, indigenous context, and who welcomed him into their homes believing him, though odd-looking, to be ultimately as human as them.

But there was nothing human about him. And in the centuries that would follow, he and his descendants would inject the cultural, political and spiritual illnesses of their own societies into Africa, disrupting the continent’s indigenous development, and erasing its indigenous memory.

That historical truth is encoded in this North African proverb.

But throughout the history of cultural erasure, there were Africans who fought back, great thinkers like Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke and Marimba Ani, who peered into the past to recover what was lost and remind the people of Africa who they truly were. Their works are more accessible than ever in this digital age, and it is up to the African, who wishes to rediscover the beauty in who they are, to explore these works.

[Sukuna @SukunaMbuzi]

Deliberately lying to men about your body count to secure a relationship or sexual access is coercion and predatory.

[Upcoming rich girl💰 @Favour_Kammie]

Dyslexia is very far na
You’ve gone too far

Left handed kids

[🧡Lulu🌾; @ItsLulu_7]

The ones who hate socialism the most know the least about it

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

@thekhemistlives The slogan positions racism as a distraction that can be bypassed by focusing on class when in reality we have to deconstruct the racial hierarchy, which requires intentionality. Saying it “should be” no war but class war is different from saying there is no war but class war

[. @YoungCluckkk]

Born in Blackness by @hofrench was an amazing read. I learned about how Europeans created the first sugar plantations off the coast of Africa in São Tomé, and how the dual mechanization of land and labor lead to Americas dominance

[Technical Ben @TechnicalBben]

I've seen this play out firsthand on Upwork.

I studied for a freelancer on how she wins job as a VA freelancer. Instead of quitting, she teamed up with a few people from her country and started an agency.

The agency ended up winning more work than their individual profiles ever did, and eventually every member benefited from the growth.

That's the power of agencies. One person opens the door, others walk through it too.

This is one thing Indians have figured out. They build agencies, create opportunities, and many of those people later go on to start agencies of their own.

Meanwhile, many of us prefer the solo route. And flaunting how much we earn like myself included. When we can dominate and be known for something.

Out of every 50 agency on Upwork 0.5 is probably African and most likely Nigeria.

and majority is Indian, Pakistan & USA.

If you're skilled, reliable, and interested in building something bigger than yourself, reach out. I've already started an agency and I'm open to partnering with people who want to grow together.