Here’s mine….I think the whole point of the Abu Dhabi saga was to “protect” Michael Schumacher’s legacy.
Schumacher was always the poster boy for the sport. You could ask anyone who doesn’t know a thing about F1 and they’d immediately picture Schumi in a red Ferrari. His records were so insane that the entire sport thought they’d be impossible to break. Here comes a black driver who goes on to break almost every major F1 record and becomes the face of the sport. Bernie Ecclestone who was the former F1 boss has expressed his disproval of Lewis several times. Such a powerful figure having personal grievances towards one driver makes you wonder. Even after selling his stake, his opinions of Lewis didn’t change. In 2021 during the title fight, he said he was surprised that Lewis didn’t retire to preserve Schumi’s record. He also expressed relief over how the season ended—including the controversial decisions.
The main metrics for measuring F1 success are WDCs and race wins. Imagine what the story would’ve been if Lewis wasn’t robbed of an 8th. The only black man in the history of the sport would be the undisputed greatest of all time.
I feel like that would’ve forced the sport to diversify itself more.
Luckily for us the story isn’t finished yet 🙂↕️
Mofokeng.
South Africa’s biggest talent.
Creative, dynamic, associative, technically gifted. He brings something different to the team.
Someone needs to explain to me why he has only played 45 minutes at this World Cup.
I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus.
Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same.
Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading.
This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it.
We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.
Judge Cameron wrote a very powerful book about this criminality by pharmaceuticals despite disagreeing with the route taken by Pres Mbeki at the time.
He was a judge & highly paid with full medical aid but battled to pay for his own ARVs that cost about 40% of his salary & big pharma wanted SAGov to sign an evergreen contract to be supplied ARVs for 20 million citizens per month when infection rate was less than 4% !!
They cooked the figures using dubious studies & suddenly infection rate shot to above 25% !!
Nicki Minaj says she regrets playing a role in 'demonic' music scene that drives people away from God
Says she would change some of her old lyrics if she 'could do it all over again'
'I didn't realize there are young people listening to it'
Adolf Brand's father died when he was 4. “It is not me. My name is Sentso; my father is
MoSotho.” It was his grandmother, he went on, “who gave me this
identity, so that I could have an easier passage [in life]," he told me.
As a man, normalise a boring life. Go to bed early. Read long books. Drink tea. Regulate your nervous system. Spend time alone. Go for walks without headphones. Eat simple food. Shrink your circle. Turn down the noise.
The Haya people of Tanzania were producing carbon steel in the year 100 AD, nearly 1,900 years before the process was independently developed in Europe. Their furnaces reached 1,800 degrees Celsius using preheated forced-draft technology that European metallurgists did not achieve until the Industrial Revolution. When anthropologists arrived to study it in the 1970s, the knowledge only survived because a few elderly men still remembered it. Cheap European steel had already put the Haya out of business decades earlier.
Africa did not need to be taught how to build. It needed to be left alone.
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