SIEFFRE

Just trying to make a difference...

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

There's enough abundance in the world...

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

@AduAgyeiSamuel2 @BBSimons Okay, they need Capex and what better to raise capital than through an IPO. If their analyst feel they couldn't get all from Ghana, I'm sure they could get majority of that from GSE. And Ghanaians love long term assets, see how they hold onto land, bonds etc.

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

@BBSimons MTN in 2019 raised around $230 million. Is it really a far fetched idea that the GSE (granted not only Ghanaians would buy) could raise something close to that amount?

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

Being in a third world country whiles everyone is ushering in the era of AI leaves me with such dystopian feelings.

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

CHAMPIONS!!!!! 🏆 🟡🔵

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

@s_mevz @readJerome The nice thing about EVs is you can literally charge anywhere... Even your friends home socket. Say you visit someone in Sunyani or Techiman, you can have charge overnight and get to Kumasi to charge fully there. (There are 2 fast chargers in Kumasi)

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

@s_mevz @readJerome From Accra in most EVs, you can get to almost anywhere except past Brong Ahafo.

[Gye Nyame-The African Warrior @kbd_warrior_su]

One may wonder why a Ghanaian like me is so interested in Nigerian matters. But look at this. With mega projects at this scale and a strong, authoritarian (because democracy has failed) anti-imperialist government that is capable of nationalizing their resources, all they would have to do is fix their electricity and Nigeria will turn around so fast that not only would Nigerians rush back to set up global-scale business, but the prospects and benefits will spread across the entire region and continent. But they first need to get rid of the current leadership, and get rid of democracy because that's the only way they can ensure dullards don't find their way into leadership positions through foreign exploits.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Since I started reading at 4, I've got used to being the "oversabi" whose existence offends people because why does he think he knows everything, and why is actually right about the things he says?

People are more bothered by the tin, 1-inch barrier that is the temporary loss of ego that comes with submitting before superior information or thinking, than by the terrible consequences of being proudly wrong. They don't mind suffering lifelong fallout of wrong decisions as long as they don't have to admit that the "oversabi" might be right.

It's an experience I've grown so accustomed to that it doesn't even bother me anymore. I've had it in Nigeria. I've had it in the UK. I've had it in the Netherlands. I've had it in Dubai. I've had it in Kenya. I've had it in Ghana. I've had it in Tanzania. 7 countries, 3 continents, multiple nationalities, ethnicities and racial groups, but the same experience remains constant.

People would rather be proudly wrong than tolerate the minor inconvenience of surmounting their own ego long enough to take correction.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I know I'm not a USD centimillionaire like P.O., but that's exactly what I did at my own level.

The COS and 5-year UK work visa with pathway to ILR that you people spend years killing yourselves over is what I voluntarily gave up. My nice 2-bedroom terraced house in Cowgate, Newcastle with my manicured lawn in front, my beautiful garden at the back, and my little Fiat 500 parked on my driveway is what I gave up. The person who took the property after I left is also a Nigerian and he's here on Twitter. My comfortable £40,000/year Project Management role at an electric vehicle startup, with my office window directly facing St James' Park is what I gave up. Free tickets to watch Newcastle beat PSG in the Champions League is what I gave up.

I had a life that many of you would consider to be the dream, and I gave it all up and came back to Africa for one simple reason - I cannot believe in 2 contradictory things at the same time. I cannot serve and exist inside the imperial system that I hate, then come here everyday to tell Africans to rebel against that system. That would make me a hypocrite. As soon as I understood the full ugliness of the empire I was always criticising, remaining there would have been the same thing as cosigning it with my labour, my money and my participation.

If you believe in something, you should be willing to sacrifice for it and even take pain for it. And if I can hold myself to that standard, then I can definitely hold my would-be political leaders to that same standard. And if it's not "fair" to expect any sacrifice from them, then they should go buy an island villa in the Maldives and sip sherries for the rest of their days. Nobody is forcing anybody to be in politics and Peter Obi is not a deity that is above criticism.

Mao Zedong once led his Red Army on a 6,000km foot trek during winter without food supplies. He used to go to sleep cold and hungry like his men. That's what it can take to be a revolutionary leader. Nobody is asking Peter Obi to do even 2% of that, so why do you people always get so defensive whenever his name is mentioned in any context except blind adulation? Why aren't we allowed to ask why the Nigerian political leader whose entire platform is built on revolutionary ideas does not want to do what it takes to bring those ideas to reality? And if he's too cool to lead poor bastards like us, then what is he doing there? Why do we need him?

Is he a greater or more important leader than Chairman Mao?

[Cam Harless @camharless]

.@BobMurphyEcon I thought you’d appreciate this

[Nana Kwame Asimeni @nka_gha]

If your old boy build house for Accra you don’t know what the lord has done for you

[illustrarch • Architecture & Design @illustrarch]

Accra Studio by Adjaye Associates

#illustrarch #ghanaarchitecture #rammedearth #officedesign

[Softboy☄️ @softboywin]

We cannot all be trying to head home at 5:00PM. We have to start going home in groups

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

Genuinely speaking, would more people, who actually understand game theory, still choosing blue knowing there's an actual risk of dying or this experiment is unreal considering there are no real consequences.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

[SIEFFRE @__sieffrey]

Are Ghanaian policy makers really buying AI as the future? We still haven't figured out agriculture and industrialization

[CITI FM 97.3 @Citi973]

WATCH: Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, interacts with AI assistant “AKU,” which responds in different Ghanaian dialects, during the National AI Strategy launch at Labadi Beach Hotel.

Watch live here: https://t.co/tvJ45zPjpE

#CitiNewsroom #NationalAIStrategy #DigitalGhana #Innovation #GhanaNews

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every discipline taught in the African university, law, political science, sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, arrives pre-structured by the civilization that created the current world order.

Law arrives as English common law or French civil law, not as a tradition rooted in the actual governance practices of the societies it is supposed to serve.

History arrives with the periodization of European history, ancient, medieval, modern, grafted onto societies for which none of these categories make sense and all of which imply that African history only becomes legible when it intersects with European history.

Psychology arrives as a set of theories developed by studying largely white, educated, Western populations and declared universal.

Philosophy arrives as a tradition that begins in Greece, passes through Rome, arrives in the European Enlightenment, and occasionally, generously, includes a footnote about African philosophy.

The student who completes this education is not educated about their own world.

They are educated into someone else's world.

They graduate literate in the assumptions of their dispossession.

And then they are asked to develop their country using these tools.

The tools were built to explain a different house.

They do not fit the door.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There are Ghanaian engineers at NASA.

Ghanaian surgeons running hospital departments in London.

Ghanaian economists at the IMF and World Bank, some of them administering the very programs that have failed their home country.

Ghanaian mathematicians. Ghanaian architects. Ghanaian writers who have won international literary prizes.

Ghanaian tech entrepreneurs building companies that work.

When given access to resources, institutions, and an enabling environment, Ghanaians perform at the highest levels of every field.

This is not an argument that individual talent solves structural problems.

It is a refutation of the claim that the problem is the people.

The problem is never the people.

The people are everywhere.

The talent is everywhere.

The ambition is everywhere.

The capacity is everywhere.

What is not everywhere is the policy space, the institutional support, the geopolitical backing, the market access, and the freedom from externally imposed economic programs that systematically prevent the conversion of human capacity into collective industrial development.

The difference between a Ghanaian running a department at a London hospital and Ghana having a functioning public health system is not the Ghanaian.

It is everything around the Ghanaian.

[𝓔𝔀𝓾𝓻𝓪𝓫𝓮𝓷𝓪 @AbenaAnders]

I’ve curated the full list of all DCEs and MCEs in Ghana. No more anonymity. No more excuses. If development is missing, we now know exactly who to ask.
Check them out here👇👇👇
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[miss forson @lydiaforson]

Too many of us reduce Ghana to Accra or the cities we live in, and because of that, we remain completely ignorant to the poverty that exists across this country.

I know this because I used to be that ignorant too, until I started travelling more often with charities.

I have seen people fight over 1 cedi I casually gave out. I have seen people with no access to clean water fight over a chilled bottle of water because it was considered a luxury. I have seen children learning in classrooms under trees.

Do not limit your view of this country to your own standard of living, your personal experiences, or the environment you live in.