I wish Africans in the diaspora would stop building specifically for Africa. Why limit your ambitions to a small market with almost zero ability to pay?
Build for the world, and Africa will use your product too.
I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.
Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...
The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.
That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.
Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.
Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.
While the highest number of black billionaires live on the African continent. The highest number of black USD millionaires live in the U.S. and other developed economies. This goes to further buttress the inequality gap on the African continent.
The wealth distribution gap is very wide. For a bit of context there are 1.5 million black USD millionaires in the U.S. vs only <30,000 USD millionaires in Nigeria.
World Cup 2026 starts on 11 June.
So let's do another Bad Predictions Amnesty.
Tell me your BOLDEST prediction for the World Cup. xVibes, rather than researched analysis.
We stick them in the vault, then have a look over the results towards the end of the tournament.
So many ops fans were at the parade because they wanted to know what it felt like to be a part of history. The vibes at Arsenal past 2 weeks has been so good they had to partake
Twitter really messed up by ending Communities. There were many people who created an account people specifically. People are now migrating Communities off the app to Reddit and WhatsApp away from Twitter, still doesn't make sense to me
Am sure Arteta can accept not getting the rub of the green as he realised “how difficult and big is the referee’s job” when the decision went Arsenal’s way against West Ham 😉
In Alien, Sigourney Weaver said she was criticized for this scene.
“People have said, ‘Aw, how could you demean yourself by doing this?’ And I say, ‘Are you kidding? After five days of blood and guts, sweat and urine, do you think Ripley wouldn’t take off her clothes?’